This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho: “Look to that pearl which nobody can snatch from you, not even death.”
Phoebe would like to point out that we all have all the twelve zodiac signs in our horoscope – some with planets in them and some are empty – meaning some of the themes addressed are in the foreground and some in the background of our lives. “I recommend readers to read all twelve quotes, not just their star sign, for a wider perspective on the themes of the month,” she says.
Mood of the Month
“What is a dream? That which begins and comes to an end – that which cannot endure for ever. So look to that pearl which nobody can snatch from you, not even death. In death the body will die, in death the thoughts will disappear, but you? You will go on and on and on. Death happens near you but never to you… You have never died, you cannot die. Mountains disappear, clouds come and go, but the sky remains the same. And you are the sky! The nature of the Self is just like space – empty, infinitely empty, formless. Everything happens within it; nothing happens to it.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 7
Aries
Relevant Planetary Positions: Chiron in Aries. Mars in Scorpio. Moon in Aries 14th-17th.
Major Aspects for Aries: Mars conjuncts Mercury and squares Saturn on 10th. Then Mars opposes Uranus on 17th and trines Neptune on 29th. Moon in Aries squares Venus on 15th and squares Pluto on 16th.
“You are always going somewhere, always going somewhere. If you are not reaching, then the mind says move fast. You are not reaching because your speed is not great enough… The goal is there. You can see it on the horizon… The more speed, the more lost you will be, because then it will be very difficult to come back home… Desire has no bottom – that’s why it cannot be fulfilled. If you try to fill a pot with water and it has no bottom, when will you be able to fill it?… You have never looked to see whether it has a bottom or not – you simply jumped!”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 13
Taurus
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus retrograde in Taurus. Venus in Sagittarius until 5th and then in Capricorn. Moon in Taurus 17th-19th.
Major Aspects for Taurus: Venus trines Uranus on 19th. Moon in Taurus squares Saturn on 17th, conjuncts Uranus on 18th and squares Jupiter and trines Pluto on 19th.
“Whenever a tree flowers, it flowers only because it is flooded with too much energy. Flowers are luxuries… Only when all the bodily needs are fulfilled does energy move higher… because the base has to be protected first, the root has to be protected first. If there is no root there cannot be any flowering… A flowering is possible only when there is useless energy, energy which cannot be used. Only then does the energy start enjoying itself. And, when energy starts enjoying itself, it begins to turn inwards. It becomes an inner turning, then it becomes meditation.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 6
Gemini
Relevant Planetary Positions: North Node in Gemini. Mercury in Libra until 5th, then in Scorpio until 24th, then in Sagittarius. Moon in Gemini 19th-22nd.
Major Aspects for Gemini: Mercury trines Jupiter on 1st and squares Pluto on 2nd. Then Mercury squares Saturn and conjuncts Mars on 10th, opposes Uranus on 13th and squares Jupiter on 21st. Moon in Gemini trines Saturn on 20th and squares Neptune and trines Jupiter on 21st.
“How can you love somebody when you hate yourself? If poison exists at the source it will poison all your relationships, so you are never able to love anybody. And remember the second thing which follows as a logical consequence… If you cannot love yourself, who is going to love you? So you know deep down that nobody is going to love you. And even if somebody tries, you never believe him. You go on suspecting that he must be deceiving you. How can anybody love you? You cannot love yourself!”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 4
Cancer
Relevant Planetary Positions: New Moon on 4th in Scorpio. Full Moon on 19th in Taurus. Moon in Cancer 22nd-24th.
Major Aspects for Cancer: Moon in Cancer opposes Venus, trines Mars and trines Neptune on 23rd and opposes Pluto on 24th.
“Don’t try to change anybody – not even your son, not even your brother. Nobody is in need of your change because you are dangerous. You can cripple, you can kill, you can maim, but you cannot help transformation. Unless you are transformed, don’t move into another’s life. When you are filled with light, you can help. Really, then there is no need to make any effort to help. Help flows from you just as light flows from a lamp, or fragrance comes out of a flower, or the moon shines in the night – no effort on the part of the moon. It just flows naturally.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 9
Leo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Scorpio until 22nd, then in Sagittarius. Moon in Leo 24th-27th.
Major Aspects for Leo: Sun conjuncts Moon in Scorpio on 4th (New Moon) and opposes Moon in Taurus on 19th (Full Moon). Sun opposes Uranus on 4th, trines Neptune on 12th and squares Jupiter on 15th. Moon in Leo trines Mercury on 24th, opposes Uranus on 25th and squares Mars and Jupiter on 26th.
“Every one of you has an image of yourself as being a good man, and life is such that without this image it will be difficult to live… An inner transformation is needed, an inner alchemy is needed, but that is long and arduous. And the mind always looks for the shortcut where the least resistance is. So mind says, why bother about becoming a good man? Just… create an image that you are beautiful, heavenly, that nobody is like you, and even this illusion of goodness gives you energy to live… This centre that happens in illusion is the ego. When you are really centred that is the Self.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 2
Virgo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury in Libra until 5th, then in Scorpio until 24th, then in Sagittarius. Moon in Virgo 1st and 27th-29th.
Major Aspects for Virgo: Mercury trines Jupiter on 1st and squares Pluto on 2nd. Then Mercury squares Saturn and conjuncts Mars on 10th, opposes Uranus on 13th and squares Jupiter on 21st. Moon in Virgo squares Venus, trines Pluto and opposes Neptune on 1st. Then Moon in Virgo squares Mercury on 27th and trines Venus, Uranus and Pluto on 28th.
“Only in the middle can you be at ease. At the extreme you will always be tense, worried. Anxiety will be there… If you are existing for sex, then sex will be the only thing in the mind, the smoke. If you are against it – an enemy – then again sex will be in the mind… how can you forget your enemy? So people who go on moving in the world of sex are filled with sex…And if something is continuously on the mind it becomes a burden… When the mind is unburdened, weightless, fresh, then intelligence happens.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 5
Libra
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury in Libra until 5th. Venus in Sagittarius until 5th and then in Capricorn. Moon in Libra 1st-4th and 29th-30th.
Major Aspects for Libra: Venus trines Uranus on 19th. Moon in Libra opposes Chiron and trines Saturn on 2nd, and conjuncts Mercury, trines Jupiter and squares Pluto on 3rd. Then Moon in Libra opposes Chiron and trines Saturn on 29th, and squares Venus and trines Jupiter on 30th.
”Postponing is not the way of transformation. Up to now you have been postponing… Each moment you have been postponing, and that’s why you have remained the same. If you understand this, transformation is this moment because it needs no effort. It is an awakening. It is not a question of modification. It is not a question of doing something with yourself. As you are you are perfect. As you are you are divine. As you are you lack nothing at all – simply awakening is needed. Just come out of your dreaming and your sleep. Just open your eyes and see the fact, and the fact transforms.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 13
Scorpio
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto in Capricorn. Sun in Scorpio until 22nd. Mercury in Scorpio from 6th to 25th. Mars in Scorpio. Moon in Scorpio 4th-6th.
Major Aspects for Scorpio: Mercury squares Pluto on 2nd. Moon in Scorpio squares Saturn on 4th, and opposes Uranus, squares Jupiter and trines Neptune on 5th.
“Sin doesn’t make any distinction between your acts and your thoughts. If you think, the seed is there whether it sprouts in the act or not… You have gone astray. But… those who go astray are always more powerful than those who remain on the path… This looks very absurd – mediocrities are sane and genius goes mad? Why does a mediocre person remain sane? No energy to move astray! …Life is energy. Only a bloodless anaemic mind will not go astray, cannot because it is difficult to afford that much energy. It is difficult to move to that extreme, to that abyss. But those who go astray, if they are ever found, they become Buddhas!”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 6
Sagittarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun enters Sagittarius on 22nd. South Node in Sagittarius. Venus in Sagittarius until 5th. Jupiter in Aquarius. Moon in Sagittarius 6th-8th.
Major Aspects for Sagittarius: Sun squares Jupiter on 15th. Mercury squares Jupiter on 20th. Moon in Sagittarius squares Neptune on 7th.
“Don’t be a judge but just an onlooker, detached, a witness. Just see the whole thing that you are, whatsoever you are. Don’t hide, don’t offend, don’t judge, ‘This is good and that is bad’. Don’t evaluate… Just see the whole thing that you are, whatsoever you are, whatsoever mess you are in. Just see it as it is. Suddenly an understanding arises which becomes the dropping. It is just as if you have been trying to enter a wall, and suddenly you become aware that this is a wall and there is no door… You need to drop the effort now. You simply move!”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 10
Capricorn
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto in Capricorn. Saturn in Aquarius. Venus in Capricorn from 5th. Moon in Capricorn 8th-10th.
Major aspects for Capricorn: Mars and Mercury square Saturn on 10th. Moon in Capricorn conjuncts Venus and trines Uranus on 8th, and conjuncts Pluto on 9th.
“If you are a stranger to yourself, even the whole world will not fulfil you. If you have not got into your own being, then all the riches will make you even poorer… Hence the paradox of the rich man – the richer he gets, the poorer he feels; the more he has, the more he feels that he is empty… The inner emptiness can be filled only when you achieve yourself – when you attain to your being. Make a clear distinction: the world outside is the world of the Many, but the One is absent there – and that One is the goal. That One is within you, so if you are searching outside you will miss.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 7
Aquarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus retrograde in Taurus. Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. Moon in Aquarius 10th-12th.
Major aspects for Aquarius: Sun opposes Uranus on 4th, Mercury opposes Uranus on 13th, Mars opposes Uranus on 17th and Venus trines Uranus on 19th. Moon in Aquarius squares Mercury and Mars and conjuncts Saturn on 10th, and then squares Uranus and conjuncts Jupiter on 11th.
“The mind will say, if you are not succeeding it means you are not making enough effort. If you are not reaching, you are not running fast enough. And if you listen to the logic of the mind – which looks logical, but it is not – then you will go on running and running and running and in the end there will be nothing except death. The Many is the realm of death; the One is the realm of the deathless. The seeker has to be sought, not in outside objects but in your subjectivity. You have to turn within. A conversion is needed, a turning, an absolute about-turn.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 7
Pisces
Relevant Planetary Positions: Neptune retrograde in Pisces. Moon in Pisces 12th-14th.
Major Aspects for Pisces: Sun trines Neptune on 12th, Mars trines Neptune on 29th. Moon in Pisces trines Mercury and Mars and conjuncts Neptune on 13th.
“We exist in the eyes of others; our identity consists of the opinion of others; others’ eyes are the mirrors, we look at our faces in others’ eyes. There is the rub, the problem, because others cannot see your inner being. Your inner being cannot be reflected in any mirror whatsoever. Only your outer can be reflected… Your identity consists of your reflection, but others can only reflect things – they cannot reflect you. Hence meditation is very, very necessary. Meditation means closing your eyes – not looking at the reflection but looking at your own being.”
Osho, The Mustard Seed, Ch 7
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