This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “Your very being has to be musical, it has to become harmony. A man can exist as a chaos or a cosmos. Music is the way from chaos to cosmos.”
Planetary Positions
Sun in Leo enters Virgo on 22nd August.
New Moon 3rd September in Virgo. Full Moon 18th September in Aquarius.
Mercury retrograde in Leo turns direct on 28th August.
Venus in Virgo enters Libra on 29th August.
Mars in Gemini enters Cancer on 4th September.
Jupiter in Gemini.
Saturn retrograde in Pisces.
Uranus in Taurus turns retrograde on 2nd September.
Neptune retrograde in Pisces.
Pluto retrograde in Aquarius re-enters Capricorn on 2nd September.
Chiron retrograde in Aries.
Mood of the Moment
“The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement. Movement there is certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving. Everything is going in a very relaxed way – no hurry, no haste, no worry and no waste – except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 8
Aries
“Just watch people and watch yourself and you will be surprised how unconscious, how drunk we are… Our eyes are clouded, our minds confused, our beings have no clarity. We are not perceptive, we are not sensitive… Before you start desiring a thing think it over thrice and you will be surprised. Out of a hundred of your desires, ninety-nine are absolutely useless. They simply keep you occupied, that is their only function – they keep you away from your Self!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Taurus
“What you call happiness is nothing but entertainment, pleasure. It is momentary, it cannot be true. Truth has to have one quality and the quality is of eternity. If something is true it is eternal. If it is untrue it is momentary. True happiness is found only when the mind completely ceases functioning. It does not come from the outside. It wells up within your own being, it starts overflowing you. You become luminous. You become a fountain of bliss!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Gemini
“Meditators are thought to be escapists – that is utter nonsense! Only the meditator is not an escapist. Everybody else is!… Meditation is not escaping from life. It is escaping into life. Mind is escaping from life… Slowly slowly it starts happening – the window opens and for the first time you see the sky as it is. And for the first time you feel the wind and the rain and the sun in their immediacy… Then life is no longer a word but a tangible reality… You feel it, you have it, you are it!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Cancer
“Your very being has to be musical, it has to become harmony. A man can exist as a chaos or a cosmos. Music is the way from chaos to cosmos. A man can exist as a disorder – a discord, just noise, a marketplace. Or a man can exist as a temple – a sacred silence where celestial music is heard on its own, uncreated music is heard on its own… You need not go anywhere to listen to it… It is the music of your own being, the hum of your own existence!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 8
Leo
“The present is the only reality, the only existence, the only dance there is. The present can be found only when mind has ceased utterly. When the past no more overpowers you and the future no more possesses you… In that moment you are a nobody… When you are a nobody there is great silence, stillness, no noise inside. Past gone, future disappeared, what is there to create noise? And the silence that is heard is celestial!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 9
Virgo
“The wise man moves deliberately, takes each step consciously. His life is a constant enquiry for truth… He remains alert in every one of his acts. Not because of others. He remains alert because it is only by being alert that he will become integrated, that he will become crystallised. The wise man cares. He cares about himself, he cares about his life, and he cares about others too… because he values life. He knows that it is very precious!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Libra
“Choose your life with awareness. You have to choose anyway. Whether you choose with awareness or not makes no difference – choice has to be made. You are not free not to choose – even not choosing will be a choosing…. The essence has to be created – it is not already there. You have to create yourself. You have to find ways and means to become, to be. You have to become a womb to your own being. You have to give birth to yourself!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Scorpio
“Passion means using the other as a means and that is the fundamental of immorality. To use somebody as a means is the most immoral act in the world because each person is an end unto himself. To use him as a means is to exploit, and that’s what we call love… It is not love! It is a strategy of the mind… It has sickened the whole soul of humanity because it is not love at all. It is passion, lust, using the other as a means!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 7
Sagittarius
“Life has no goal. Life is not going anywhere. Life is simply here… It has never been created. It has been always here and it will always be here… There is no purpose – that’s the beauty of life. If there were some purpose, then life would not be so beautiful… It is just like the song of a bird in the dark of the night, or the sound of water, or the sound of the wind passing through the pine trees… Life is a mystery. There is no why, no purpose, no reason!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 10
Capricorn
“Straighten out your thoughts! It is almost a complete jungle in your mind. All paths are lost. You don’t know what is happening. You can’t stop either, because it makes you frightened to stop. Everybody else is doing so much, everybody else is achieving, reaching, fulfilling their ambitions, how can you stop? And you don’t know where you are going, what the goal is… If you are ignorant, utterly ignorant of yourself, how is money going to help? How is being famous going to help?… Your inner darkness will remain the same!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 9
Aquarius
“Out of tune how can you be happy?… You can be happy only when you are dancing with the dance of the whole, when you are just a part of the dance, when you are just a part of this great orchestra… That’s what freedom is. It is not political, not economic, not social. Freedom is spiritual… It means the cessation of self-consciousness, utter cessation of the self, the naked state of egolessness!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 9
Pisces
“Self-consciousness becomes a bondage. The self is the bondage, and just consciousness becomes freedom… Just this moment when this silence pervades who are you?… How does it taste to be just a peace, just a silence? And out of that peace and silence a great joy starts surfacing, welling up… Suddenly you open up and then the whole beauty of existence which is infinite is yours! Then all the stars of the sky are within you. Then even the sky is not your limit!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1, Ch 9
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