This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Start living as if you are not and immediately you will feel a tremendous relief because the burden, the tension, the anxiety of being simply becomes irrelevant.”
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 Leo enters Virgo on 23rd August.
Full Moon 31st August in Pisces, New Moon 15th September in Virgo.
Mercury retrograde in Virgo turns direct on 15th September.
Venus retrograde in Virgo turns direct on 4th September.
Mars in Virgo enters Libra on 27th August.
Jupiter in Taurus turns retrograde on 4th September.
Saturn retrograde in Pisces.
Uranus in Taurus turns retrograde on 28th August.
Neptune retrograde in Pisces.
Pluto retrograde in Capricorn.
Chiron retrograde in Aries.
Mood of the Month
“Start living as if you are not and immediately you will feel a tremendous relief because the burden, the tension, the anxiety of being simply becomes irrelevant. We are tense because we are trying to be – to be somebody, to be somewhere, to do something. We are carrying a whole load of anxieties but the basic anxiety is how to be. To be or not to be that is the question. And if you decide to be you will always remain empty. If you decide not to be, suddenly you are empty but that emptiness has a fullness of its own. It is profound presence!”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 10
Aries
“Even the fear of going in a wrong direction is an ego trip. Why are you so afraid of being in a wrong situation? Because the wrong situation is very ego shattering and the right situation is very ego enhancing. In fact to think of the future is to think in terms of the ego. So remain with the moment… Avoiding it will be avoiding your own growth… Whatsoever is available enjoy it to your total capacity. Respond to it totally. Let this moment give all that it can give to you and the next moment is going to be born out of this moment.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 21
Taurus
“To live rightly means to live totally. It is not being virtuous; it is just being whole. The right is not against wrong or against sin. The right is only against being partial. Don’t be partial; don’t be fragmentary. And the right has nothing to do with any goal, any perfectionist’s ideal. The right has something to do with the feel of this moment. If you feel good it is right. Easy is right. Happiness is right. So celebrate this moment, enjoy this moment, delight in this moment and the tomorrow will take care of itself.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 21
Gemini
“The head is always happy with effort, because when you are making an effort there is a possibility for the ego to grow. When you are simply following your feeling the ego has no way to survive. It starts feeling suffocated. Fight, and the ego can exist. Float, surrender, and the ego has no way there… So just follow the feeling. If your head says it is the easy way, let it be easy but follow it. The easy is the difficult because the natural has become the very distant. The obvious is completely forgotten. Far away seems to be close. Man tries to reach the moon and is not worried about reaching within himself. The moon seems to be closer than your own being!”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 16
Cancer
“Start moving into dance, music, more and more, and forget about the mind. Start feeling more and more. Sit by the trees and feel for them. Sometimes cry, sometimes laugh… Sometimes shake hands with a tree, hug the tree, embrace the tree. Go to the river, be with the river, with people, but one thing – feel! Thinking has not to be used too much. Put the mind aside… Gossip with friends and enjoy, and that is prayer. Prayer is not a particular thing to be done. It is a quality to be brought to every ordinary activity that one is doing. A man of prayer can touch anything and that thing becomes sacred.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 10
Leo
“A real man of knowing never comes to a point where he can say I know… Whether it is love or it is knowledge or anything else, always remember that life should not be confined and one should never demark. And any time that you come to a limit, you have to take a jump. You have to go beyond… Remain in a process and you are always available for the unknown, the unfamiliar, the strange, the mysterious, and you never become closed… The day a man stops transcending himself, he is below human. This is the glory of man, and the danger, and the poetry and the struggle – that man is a transcending, a self-transcending animal.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 14
Virgo
“Once you are obsessed too much with the idea that you should be loved, that you need love, you are holding a wrong concept… It is not a question of your worth – everybody is worthy… Start loving people, take the risk. Start sharing with people. Find people, and don’t be bothered much about whether they are worthy or not… Perfect persons never happen, they don’t exist. So you will have to love imperfect people. And, if you love an imperfect person, even in your imperfect love relationship perfection starts arising. You make a person perfect by loving him. Nobody is perfect – perfection comes out of love.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 10
Libra
“True love is based on the reality. It is very down to earth. It knows that there are flaws in human beings. No human being is perfect so how can love be perfect? Your love is bound to have all the imperfections that you have… Never hide your faults and never try to pretend the ideal. That destroys everything. Be real. In a real person there is anger, in a real person there is sadness, in a real person there is unhappiness. The real person has bad moods, good moods. The real person has many changing climates. Love is bigger, vast – can contain all contradictions!”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 12
Scorpio
“Make love only when there is tremendous desire and passion. Otherwise simply say, ‘Excuse me, it is not there, so what is the point?’ Pretending is not good. And, if you stop pretending, you will find that your depth of love-making has increased very much. Then there is another problem – people are making love too much. They have made it almost a routine… Love is not that much of necessity. It is a luxury and it should be used as a luxury. It should be a rare thing, a feast. It should not be made routine. It should not be everyday food… Let love be something special – it is special! And wait for right moments.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 22
Sagittarius
“To me life is a wandering, and I would like you to become a wanderer. Not a wayfarer but a wanderer, a gypsy of the soul. Then each moment is beautiful. When you are not going anywhere there is no tension… The tension comes because you have to reach somewhere… Maybe the path that you have chosen is the wrong path. Maybe it does not lead to the goal that you would like to reach. It leads somewhere else, or maybe it leads nowhere… Don’t think of reaching anywhere. Drop the achieving mind and start celebrating. Wherever you find yourself that is the place for you – at least for that moment!”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 15
Capricorn
“That’s the only barrier – the subtle ego. It comes everywhere, and it is so subtle that unless you are very, very aware of it, it will go on deceiving you. It can take many garbs. It can play many games, it is very inventive. It can even become humbleness, it can become simplicity. It can become sannyas. So only watchfulness is the key… Never fight with it; never escape from it. No need to condemn it. Just watch it whatsoever it is. Don’t be in a hurry… You have to see what it is in its various forms. In its different disguises, different names, you have to see it. And, whenever you see it, just remember one thing – laugh!”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 13
Aquarius
“You are a solo player – you like to play your flute alone. There is a beauty in solo playing and when there is a group it is a totally different experience. The solo players feel difficulties because they have to adjust to other people… By and by that sets the trend in a certain direction… You will start receding from relationships because that too is a compromise. One feels responsible for the other, one has to consider the other, and it is not always according to you… You should be capable of going to the interior-most core of your being, and also capable in that same way to reach to others… Then one is richer, more complete, more whole.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 11
Pisces
“Ordinarily we are always seeking, thinking that something is going to happen from the outside. We are waiting for something to come and enter us and fulfil us… Just the reverse is the reality. Something is waiting inside you, imprisoned inside you, and wants to be released… It is already there. You have to learn how to share it. You have to learn how to bring it into your life so it does not remain hidden in the core but comes to the surface… Just like a flower it opens and the fragrance is released. It does not come from somewhere else. It was always there hiding inside.”
Osho, God Is Not For Sale, Ch 24
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