This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “You are carrying a god within you, and you have to discover this god.”
‘Cancer’ © by Deva Padma, available as fine art print from devapadma-prints.com
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.
Planetary Positions
Sun in Cancer 21st June-22nd July. New Moon in Cancer 29th June. Full Moon in Capricorn 13th July. Mercury in Gemini until 5th July, then in Cancer until 19th, then in Leo. Venus in Taurus until 23rd June, then in Gemini until 18th July, then in Cancer. Mars in Aries enters Taurus on 5th July. Jupiter in Aries. Saturn retrograde in Aquarius. Chiron in Aries. Uranus in Taurus. Neptune in Pisces turns retrograde on 28th June. Pluto retrograde in Capricorn.
Mood of the Month
“All your misery is because you are so vast and you have been forced into a small body, into a small mind, into a small heart. Your love wants to expand but your heart is too small. Your clarity wants to become as clear as a sky without clouds, but your head is too small and too crowded. Your being wants to have wings and fly across the sun like an eagle, but it is encaged… You are not a miserable creature. You are carrying a god within you, and you have to discover this god. This is the only miracle I believe in, the only magic. Everything else is non-essential.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 2
Aries
“You have just to be as you are, totally relaxed, at ease with existence. Not going anywhere, no achievement, no goal. All goal-orientation is what is making people miserable. Disperse all the goals and you will start dancing this very moment, because you have so much energy involved in your process of achieving. Moving far away in your imagination, you don’t have time, you don’t have space, you don’t have energy to be here. If you can gather all your energy in this very moment, just the accumulation of that energy will become a dance in your heart. And that dance transforms everything – not your efforts!”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 17
Taurus
“Remember that your body is a very significant signal. To know about the heart is a difficult job. Your body indicates that your heart is no longer graceful, no longer loving? Listen to the body first because that is the most visible sign, and then move inwards… The body has to be graceful, the body has to be beautiful, the body has to be deeply alive, and then only can you find the grace of the heart and ultimately, the grace of your being. But start from the door and then enter into the temple.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 14
Gemini
“Lord Acton was right when he said that power is the reason why people have tried to monopolize knowledge, because knowledge is power… Only a man of silence, innocence, has no need for knowledge… To go beyond mind is to go beyond all pathology that mind creates. To be in the mind, you can be either normally mad or abnormally mad… All the branches of psychology are in the service of the normally mad… but there is a totally different kind of madness which is not of the mind, hence no psychiatry, no psychoanalysis, is needed… Meditation takes you beyond your mind into a deep innocence which has no need to know, which is absolutely blissful as it is.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 19
Cancer
“The eternal has nothing to do with science or knowledge; the eternal has something to do with the mysterious and the innocent. You be childlike – with open eyes, without any prejudices hidden behind the eyes. Just look with clarity, and small flowers or grass leaves or butterflies or a sunset will give you as much blissfulness as Gautam Buddha found in his enlightenment. The question is not dependent on things; the question is of your openness. Knowledge closes you – it becomes an enclosure, an imprisonment – and innocence opens all the doors, all the windows… Innocence is the only religiousness.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 3
Leo
“If you don’t exert your energy… it is going to become a tension, and finally it is going to become anxiety… Use your energy in the outside world in creative activities… Use your energies to make the world more beautiful, more poetic, more healthy. And when you feel that you are exhausted, tired, move withinwards. Rest, and your rest will become your meditation, because meditation does not need any exertion of energy. On the contrary it conserves, it preserves. It makes you a pool of great energy. When you feel that your serenity and your silence and your joy inside wants to dance… then sing, then dance, then create.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 13
Virgo
“I teach you the ordinary. I teach you the simple, I teach you the natural. I teach you that you are where you have been trying to reach – exactly at home. Don’t waste your time running here and there… If you cannot manage in your small things an expression of gratitude, joy, awareness, then you are bound to remain miserable… I am absolutely respectful to your ordinariness. My reverence for the mundane is absolute. I don’t want to improve on anything… Stop improving and you will be surprised to know that the energy that was involved in improving becomes your dance, your celebration.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 17
Libra
“One has to attain to freedom, and nobody has told you that love is freedom. Nobody has told you that celebration is freedom. Nobody has told you that to be alone and contented, so utterly satisfied that you can say ‘I celebrate myself’, is freedom… You don’t understand that the path that brings you to yourself… from where you have never gone away, just your mind has been projecting faraway goals… is the joy of being alone… Freedom from the other, freedom from the need of the other, freedom from the dependence on others! Aloneness is your freedom and aloneness is your home.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 26
Scorpio
“In your mind you go on dividing things into categories: this is love, this is fear, this is anger… Whatever arises in you is part of your total individuality. The division has come into existence because parts of you have been condemned and parts of you have been praised. Naturally, the condemned parts should be repressed – at least should not be allowed to surface – and only the… respectable parts of your being should become your personality. This has created such a split in you that with this split you can neither love, nor can you sing, nor can you dance. For all that celebration your whole being is needed.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 18
Sagittarius
“This is not the only life you have, you have lived many lives. The pilgrimage is long, and you have been going almost in circles, so your consciousness has not grown. People say history repeats itself. History… repeats itself because we are unconscious, so we go on making the same mistake again and again. That’s why in every life we live on the same miserable plane. We never grow up… Start working deeply on your being – searching for it – because once you have known your being then you are not going to be born again… Then you will be freed from all prisons. And this ultimate freedom is the only lesson worth learning through all these lives.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 2
Capricorn
“The teachers, the lecturers, the professors, they are the instruments, subtle instruments of conditioning people… They know how to manipulate, distort, how to give you a pseudo personality and take away your essential core. Discipline is totally different. Discipline is out of your own choice… Discipline means you start learning on your own because nobody seems to teach you the truth… Knowing perfectly well that nobody is going to support you, you have to go alone, discipline begins. Discipline is your protection against conditioning. Discipline is your effort to get rid of all conditioning. Discipline is your rebellion, your revolution.”
Osho, The Dhammapada, Vol 8, Ch 13
Aquarius
“Just be silent and you will discover an immense laughter that is going on all around the earth. Trees are laughing, birds are laughing. Except man, there seems to be nobody who is sad. This sadness is because of your clinging to the words… I am not interested in what kind of ideologies you are carrying in your head. They are all bullshit. I want you to drop them all irrespective of what they are. Let your whole being be filled with laughter. Let yourself be singing, let each fiber of your being be a part of the universal dance. To me, this is the only revolution, the only transformation.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 22
Pisces
“Man is a miniature cosmos, everything intertwined. If your love deepens, your silence will deepen, your blissfulness will deepen, your innocence will deepen, your sensitivity, your aesthetic potentiality will come to flowering. Just as your hands are not separate from your eyes neither are your feet separate from your head, you are an organic unity. The same is the situation in the inner world. Your love, your meditation, your silence, your blissfulness, they are simply waves in the same ocean of consciousness… Start with meditation because… meditation is the only bridge between you and the beyond.”
Osho, Om Mani Padme Hum, Ch 28
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