This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Love is the experience in which all your impurities are washed away and you throw open all your doors.”
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
“Love is the experience in which all your impurities are washed away and you throw open all your doors, all your gates. Then whosoever stands at your door is no longer an enemy or a friend but a beloved, and you open your door to him. When you begin to feel the whole world is yours, when you begin to see the beloved in whosoever comes to your door, when you no longer see strangers or enemies, when you begin to see only friends everywhere – when this phenomenon takes place in you, know that you have found love.”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 1
Aries
Relevant Planetary Positions: Chiron in Aries. Mars in Capricorn. Moon in Aries 4th-6th.
Major Aspects for Aries: Mars trines Uranus on 8th. Moon in Aries squares Venus on 5th and Mercury and Pluto on 6th.
“You don’t have any will. The very idea of willpower is absolutely a fallacy. The will belongs to existence. You can participate in that will if you drop your personality, your separation – you will have the universal will within you. You don’t have individual wills, but it is ego-satisfying… What power have you got to force situations? Situations are coming from existence itself. The wiser course will be to be in accord with them, not in discord. In accord you can ride on those situations, but the moment you start fighting… you are so tiny and the universe is so vast, there is no possibility of any victory. Then frustration sets in.”
Osho, Satyam, Shivam Sundram, Ch 13
Taurus
Relevant Planetary Positions: Uranus in Taurus. North Node in Taurus. Venus in Capricorn. Moon in Taurus 6th-9th.
Major Aspects for Taurus: Moon in Taurus trines Venus and Mars and conjuncts Uranus on 7th, squares Saturn on 8th and trines Pluto on 9th.
“The life of growth goes beyond the mundane life of pleasures. Pleasure is just like scratching your skin – it feels pleasant but just for a little while. If you go on scratching you will bring blood, and then pleasure turns into pain… A man of intelligence searches for something that can never be turned into pain… What I call bliss is not pleasure because bliss cannot be turned into its opposite… Everybody has the capacity to experience the eternal, but the pleasures of the physical body… keep people engaged and take away the small time they have here on the earth to grow.”
Osho, Satyam, Shivam Sundram, Ch 8
Gemini
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury, retrograde in Capricorn, turns direct on 4th and re-enters Aquarius on 14th. Moon in Gemini 9th-11th.
Major Aspects for Gemini: Mercury conjuncts Pluto on 11th, and squares Uranus on 25th. Moon in Gemini squares Jupiter and trines Saturn on 10th and squares Neptune on 11th.
“Mind is a great bio-computer. You can accumulate as much knowledge as is contained in all the libraries of the world in a single mind. But knowledge is not knowing; knowledge is not wisdom; knowledge is not awakening. On the contrary, it may help you to sleep a little deeper because it will give you a false sense that you know and this is the greatest tragedy… Knowing nothing but filled with borrowed knowledge, a great ego arises… You are almost lost in a jungle of concepts, theologies, philosophies, dogmas… Knowledge is cheap; knowing is a tremendous revolution, a metamorphosis!”
Osho, Zen: the Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, Ch 5
Cancer
Relevant Planetary Positions: New Moon on 1st in Aquarius, Full Moon on 16th in Leo. Moon in Cancer 11th-14th.
Major Aspects for Cancer: Moon in Cancer opposes Venus and Mars and trines Jupiter on 12th, trines Neptune on 13th and opposes Pluto on 14th.
“Whatever personality you have is given to you by people… But beautiful or ugly, personality is false… What matters is reality. Whatever you think you are is just your portrait. When you stand before a mirror, you are standing before your portrait. Just look in the mirror and see – is this portrait you? All personality is given by society. You come into the world without any personality, without any name, without any fame. You simply come as roses bloom, as birds are born… That which is natural you can find only in deep silence. Your words, your mind, are continuously distracting you, taking you away from yourself.”
Osho, Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, Ch 12
Leo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Aquarius until 18th, then in Pisces. Moon in Leo 14th-16th.
Major Aspects for Leo: Sun opposes Moon in Leo on 16th (Full Moon). Sun conjuncts Saturn on 4th. Moon in Leo opposes Mercury on 14th, and Saturn on 15th.
“‘To err is human, to admit it is divine.’ It is absolutely human to commit mistakes. To admit without any guilt (you are simply admitting your humanity by admitting your mistakes) brings a transformation in your being. Something of the divine, something of the beyond starts opening up… People are continuously comparing themselves with others. They become happy, they become unhappy, because of the comparisons… You are yourself and there is nobody else with whom you can be compared. You are incomparable – so is the other person. Never compare!”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 8
Virgo
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury, retrograde in Capricorn, turns direct on 4th and re-enters Aquarius on 14th. Moon in Virgo 16th-19th.
Major Aspects for Virgo: Mercury conjuncts Pluto on 11th, and squares Uranus on 25th. Moon in Virgo opposes Jupiter and trines Venus, Mars and Uranus, and opposes Neptune on 17th and trines Pluto on 18th.
“The moment somebody starts trying to be perfect he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He becomes a condemner, he starts humiliating people. That’s what all your so-called saints have been doing down the ages. That’s what your religions have done to you – poisoned your being with an idea of perfection. Because you cannot be perfect you start feeling guilty, you lose respect for yourself. And the man who has lost respect for himself has lost all the dignity of being human… Unless man also experiences something of the divine, he cannot know perfection.”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 4
Libra
Relevant Planetary Positions: Venus in Capricorn. Moon in Libra 19th-21st.
Major Aspects for Libra: Moon in Libra trines Mercury on 19th, squares Mars and trines Saturn on 20th and squares Pluto on 21st.
“Knowing from the outside, knowing from scriptures or teachers or priests, is a false knowing… Knowing as your own experience – it is a taste, nobody else can do it for you – it is a deep smell of a rose flower… It is the experience of your own existence, entering into your deepest core… It is not the beginning; it is the outcome of your self-knowledge… Centered within yourself, grace arises, a beauty fills your heart – a creativity, a song, a poetry, signifying the unknowable and the unreachable by the mind… You for the first time become a creative individual. Nothing destructive can come out of you anymore.”
Osho, Zen: The Solitary Bird, Cuckoo of the Forest, Ch 5
Scorpio
Relevant Planetary Positions: Pluto in Capricorn. South Node in Scorpio. Moon in Scorpio 21st-23rd.
Major Aspects for Scorpio: Mercury conjuncts Pluto on 11th. Moon in Scorpio squares Mercury on 21st, trines Jupiter and opposes Uranus on 22nd and trines Neptune on 23rd.
“When love comes towards you, you don’t feel yourself adequate enough to receive it… You cannot believe that somebody can love you. You are accustomed to being condemned, you are accustomed to being punished, you are accustomed to being rejected, you are accustomed to not being accepted as you are – these things you can take very easily… You will have to go through a great transformation before you can receive it. First you have to accept yourself without any guilt – you are not a sinner!”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 5
Sagittarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Jupiter in Pisces. Moon in Sagittarius on 23rd-25th.
Major Aspects for Sagittarius: Moon in Sagittarius squares Jupiter on 24th and Neptune on 25th.
“You have seen the beauty of the flowers, you have seen the beauty of the stars, you have seen the beauty of a bird on the wing, you have seen beauties upon beauties of sunsets and sunrises. But the greatest beauty is to see the totality, the intensity of the mystic. That is the greatest flowering in existence of consciousness itself. It is available only to those who are humble enough to receive it, who are not living a closed life of fear, of paranoia, but who are living a life of love, with all the windows open, and are ready to go with life wherever it leads.”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 1
Capricorn
Relevant Planetary Positions: Mercury in Capricorn until 14th. Venus and Pluto in Capricorn. Saturn in Aquarius. Moon in Capricorn 25th-27th.
Major aspects for Capricorn: Sun conjuncts Saturn on 4th. Moon in Capricorn trines Uranus on 26th and conjuncts Venus, Mars and Pluto on 27th.
“You will have to drop your fear. It has been imposed on you; it is not natural. Watch every small child – he accepts himself perfectly. There is no condemnation, there is no desire to be anybody else. But everybody, as he grows, is distracted. You will have to gather courage to come back to yourself… You will be condemned, but it is far better to be condemned by the whole world than to remain miserable and phony and false… You have just to be yourself, whatever you are… From that deep acceptance and respect for yourself you will start growing, you will bring flowers… absolutely your own, a new contribution to existence.”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 8
Aquarius
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Aquarius until 18th. Uranus in Taurus. Mercury in Aquarius from 14th and Saturn in Aquarius. Moon in Aquarius 1st-2nd and 27th-28th.
Major aspects for Aquarius: Mars trines Uranus on 8th and Mercury squares Uranus on 25th. Moon in Aquarius conjuncts Saturn and squares Uranus on 1st and squares Uranus on 28th.
“Friendship is love without any biological tones to it. It is not the friendship that you understand ordinarily – the boyfriend, the girlfriend… It has become a rare phenomenon. It used to be a great thing in the past but… today friendship is understood either in biological terms or in economic terms, or in sociological terms – a kind of acquaintance. But friendship means that if the need arises you will be ready even to sacrifice yourself… Somebody else has become more precious than you… It is not a business; it is love in its purity!”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 10
Pisces
Relevant Planetary Positions: Sun in Pisces from 18th, Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces. Moon in Pisces 2nd-4th.
Major Aspects for Pisces: Moon in Pisces conjuncts Jupiter on 3rd and Neptune on 4th.
“You are frustrated, you are fed up, you are bored only if you were expecting otherwise… I am not fed up… To the very last breath I will remain with the same wondering eyes I was born with… I never expected anything, hence frustration is impossible… Women are fed up because they have been expecting too much… They make a hero out of any Tom, Dick, Harry. With their romantic eyes idiots appear to be Gautam the Buddhas! And slowly, slowly as they come closer to their great heroes… they find ordinary, poor human beings… Sooner or later you have to come to terms with reality.”
Osho, Satyam Shivam Sundram, Ch 1
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