This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “A fearless consciousness knows no enemies. And when one has no enemies everyone is a friend.”
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 Libra enters Scorpio on 23rd October.
Full Moon 28th October in Taurus, New Moon 13th November in Scorpio.
Mercury in Scorpio enters Sagittarius on 17th November.
Venus in Virgo enters Libra on 8th November.
Mars in Scorpio.
Jupiter retrograde in Taurus.
Saturn retrograde in Pisces turns direct on 4th November.
Uranus retrograde in Taurus.
Neptune retrograde in Pisces.
Pluto in Capricorn.
Chiron retrograde in Aries.
Mood of the Month
“Fear is one of the doors from where one enters into one’s being. It is one of the most repressed things. The whole of humanity, all the world over, can be divided into two types: one is sex-repressive, the other is death-repressive… Whenever a society expresses sex, it immediately starts to suppress death… and whenever death becomes the taboo, fear becomes the suppressed thing. When sex is taboo, love becomes the suppressed thing. If you move deeply in meditation… if death has been suppressed, then fear will be the door.”
Osho, Above All, Don’t Wobble, Ch 4
Aries
“There is one kind of youth that is dependent on the body. It carries a certain intoxication with it because youth is a novel thing. Old age, on the other hand, is like a river when the tide has gone out… The youth of the body is transitory. The man who puts his trust in it is heading for disappointment because the death of the body is a certainty… Close your eyes and try to be silent… Set all your restlessness aside. The man who is restless remains on the surface. Take a dive into that inner peace and you will be able to glimpse, to experience, a new kind of youth… that can never be extinguished… that is not followed by death.”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 3
Taurus
“Never stop looking to see whether or not your heart has become filled with love yet. Time is fleeting. You cannot stop it. No one has ever succeeded in reversing the clock… Every moment life slips through your hands, every moment you move closer and closer to death. Death may come at any moment, and death shows no one forgiveness… So keep on searching your heart… and if you find that it is still not filled with love, that it is still a desert where the rain has not yet fallen, be quick to get rid of your head, to get rid of your ego!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 1
Gemini
“Whether they are relevant or irrelevant, your head is a collection of thoughts. Your mind is nothing but a vast crowd of thoughts, and it is a very busy and active crowd indeed. Because of it your whole energy is wasted and you have no energy left for love… It drains you to such an extent that the flow of energy is unable to reach your heart. It is all expended in thinking… Your heart will remain as dry as a desert until the supply of energy that goes to your ego and to your thoughts is cut off… Then there is a possibility for love. Then love will be able to bloom.”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 1
Cancer
“Among yourselves you beg love from each other all the time. You clamor after it. And bear in mind that those from whom you are begging are as empty of love as you. They can only give you consolation; they cannot give you love… You are beggars standing before other beggars with your begging-bowls. Every beggar is an egoist. Every beggar thinks he is an emperor, but inside he is still a beggar – he speaks of giving only so he can get. You give a little love to someone else, but you only do so because you want love in return… Everyone is a beggar, and everyone will remain so as long as he has a heart dry of love!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 1
Leo
“The man who does not know death will not be able to know what love is, and the man who has experienced love knows no death… Love is the deepest of deaths. The bud of love will not open, will not flower, until you are no more. How can love exist as long as you are there? There is no love as long as the lover exists. Your ego is the impediment; your I-ness stands like a dam in between. And so love’s spring will not well up in you. It will not be able to spill forth. The only barrier that stands in the way of love is you yourself!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 1
Virgo
“We all think we are aware; that is one of our unawarenesses. We are only functionally aware. We have learned to do things – to go to bed, to get up early in the morning, to go to the job… Even a robot can do the whole process; you are not needed… You have learned everything that is necessary and given it to your robot mind who goes on doing things on your behalf. And giving the charge to the mind you have gone to sleep. The whole effort of the buddhas is… to make you clearly aware of the distinction between functioning consciousness and a pure consciousness which has no function.”
Osho, Isan: No Footprints in the Blue Sky, Ch 6
Libra
“You live as if you are groping about in the darkness. Your life has not become an art. That is why… you do not know what beauty is, what truth is, what bliss is. You do not experience any of these things… because your life has not become a work of art. If it had, you could have made your life into a beautiful sculpture. You could have given your life a definite shape. You could have cleaned it and polished it and brought out its intrinsic brilliance. If you had burned all the rubbish in your life you would have achieved the purity of gold by now… What is the secret to the art of life? The secret is this – live in full awareness!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 4
Scorpio
“Learn to die. And when you have learned this you will find, at the time of your death, that there is something within you which does not die. Your consciousness does not die… The person who tries to run away from death without knowing it only becomes more and more afraid of it… How can you run away from your shadow? Where will you run? It is your own shadow; it can never be avoided… Just stand there and look at it… Death is not there! It only seems to be solid because you are running away from it… But if you stand still, it will also stand still. Look at it attentively – it will be no more!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 9
Sagittarius
“You think you will find happiness by running hither and thither, but in the end all this running only makes you miserable… Happiness is that moment of rest when there is no more running, when you are just at rest, when you are simply there where you are. The extent to which you run is the extent to which you are deprived of happiness. And the more you keep on running, the more and more unhappy you become. Happiness is to be found by stopping. And stopping is meditation, prayer, worship… As long as you remain attached to the future your running will continue. The present moment is everything!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 9
Capricorn
“Nobody has ever died; nobody can ever die. Death has no existence. It cannot have. Whatever is will remain forever. How can that which is be destroyed? To be destroyed means that existence becomes nonexistence, that whatever existed became nonexistent, yet scientists say we cannot even destroy a particle of sand… What we call creating is only rearranging things, and what we call destroying is only a scattering here and there… Only unions and scatterings take place. Union is life and scattering is death… You remain afraid of death because you think it will obliterate you completely? You have not yet looked at it in full consciousness!”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 9
Aquarius
“There can only be an enemy as long as there is fear. A fearless consciousness knows no enemies. And when one has no enemies everyone is a friend. Your friends are not true friends – your friendship is a political device. Your friends are friends because of some self-interest, because of some selfishness. When you die they will not accompany you; when you are in misery they will be nowhere to be found… As soon as your fear leaves you the whole world becomes your friend. As soon as you cease to fear death the whole world becomes friendly, and until this happens there is no such person as a real friend.”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 9
Pisces
“You do not know that life is a perpetual stream that can never be exhausted… Even if you give away your all, you will remain as full as you were before. The Upanishads say that if you take the whole away from the whole, the whole will remain, that it will not make the slightest difference at all… Your stream will receive fresh water. New sources will keep opening to you and you will never be empty. As soon as water is drawn from a well the place from which it was drawn is immediately filled up with water. The well is linked with the boundless ocean; the small streams are linked with hidden springs. In the same way, you are linked with the infinite, with the whole.”
Osho, The Great Secret, Ch 9
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