This month’s horoscope by Phoebe with quotes by Osho; “The greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core! Don’t be stagnant, don’t remain in one inner space. Move!”
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 Scorpio enters Sagittarius on 21st November.
New Moon 1st December in Sagittarius. Full Moon 15th December in Gemini.
Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio on 26th November and turns direct on 15th December.
Venus in Capricorn enters Aquarius on 7th December.
Mars in Leo turns retrograde on 6th December.
Jupiter retrograde in Gemini.
Saturn in Pisces.
Uranus retrograde in Taurus.
Neptune in Pisces turns direct on 7th December.
Pluto in Aquarius.
Chiron retrograde in Aries.
Mood of the Moment
“Don’t think in terms of comfort, think in terms of freedom. Don’t think in terms of safety, think in terms of being more alive! And the only way to be more alive is to live dangerously, is to risk, is to go on an adventure. And the greatest adventure is not going to the moon. The greatest adventure is going to your own innermost core! Don’t be stagnant, don’t remain in one inner space. Move!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 5
Aries
“Misery is not a reality. It is a by-product of desire. Nobody wants to be miserable… Everybody wants to destroy misery, but everybody goes on desiring, and by desiring one goes on creating more and more misery. You cannot destroy misery directly. You have to cut the very roots… Mind remains eternally in discontent. Nothing satisfies it… You may attain to whatsoever you wanted to attain, but the moment you attain it… your mind is no longer interested in it. Watch and see the tricky mind!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 3
Taurus
“Buddha says: want nothing. That means: be contented. That means: whatsoever is is more than you need, whatsoever is is already so profound, so beautiful… You are living in such a tremendously beautiful world with all the stars and the planets and the sun and the moon… with the flowers and the mountains and the rivers and the rocks and the animals, the birds and the people. This is the most perfect world possible!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 3
Gemini
“Drop knowledge. Become a knowing awareness, alertness, watchfulness, witnessing – all verbs remember. Forget the past and remain available to the present, and don’t project the future and you will remain empty. And to remain empty is the way of the free man… Unless you also become a master – master of your own inner being, of your consciousness – unless you also become empty, you cannot go with the buddhas, you cannot fly with the swans!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 5
Cancer
“Leaving the home that means leaving all security, going into the insecure, dropping the known, moving into the unknown, forgetting the comforts of the shore and going… into the uncharted sea… If you are ready to drop all armour of security and comfort, if you are ready to drop all calculative mind, clever mind, cunning mind, if you are ready to drop the mind itself, all dark parts of your heart will disappear.”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 3
Leo
“Even the greatest experiences of the past are junk. They were great when they were present. Once they are past they are useless… The past stored becomes your ego. The past creates the ego and the ego fills you so much that it leaves no space for God to enter in or truth to enter in or bliss to flow in or beauty to penetrate you… because you are too full of yourself. You are the only barrier between yourself and God. You have to disappear!” 1
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 5
Virgo
“Mind is compulsively perfectionist. Nothing can be left unknown, nothing can be allowed to remain unknown and mysterious… Unless mind knows everything it remains afraid because knowledge gives power. If there is something mysterious, you are bound to remain afraid because the mysterious cannot be controlled, and who knows what is hidden in the mysterious? Maybe the enemy, maybe a danger… It has to be known. Nothing can be left as mysterious!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 3
Libra
“Love is not a learning but a growth. All that is needed on your part is, not how to learn the ways of love but how to unlearn the ways of unlove! The hindrances have to be removed, the obstacles have to be destroyed. Then love is your natural, spontaneous being. Once the obstacles are removed, the rocks thrown away, the flow starts. It is already there hidden behind many rocks, but the spring is already there. It is your very being!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 4
Scorpio
“The ego feeds on ‘no’, it is its nourishment. The ego avoids saying ‘yes’ as far as it can avoid… because when you say ‘no’ you assert your power. ‘No’ means you are somebody. When you say ‘yes’ you are no more powerful, you have surrendered. ‘Yes’ means surrender… It is by hurting the other’s ego that your ego feels good. The ego is violent. The more you hurt others’ egos the better you feel – you are higher, you are superior. With ‘yes’ all superiority disappears. With ‘yes’ you simply dissolve.”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 2
Sagittarius
“Knowledge satisfies the ego; wisdom destroys the ego completely. Hence people seek knowledge… Knowledge means theories about truth; wisdom means truth itself. Knowledge means second-hand, wisdom means first-hand. Knowledge means belief – others say and you believe… Truth cannot be believed, either you know or you don’t know… Wisdom is a totally different phenomenon. It is experience not belief. It is existential experience!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 1
Capricorn
“Whatsoever your work on the material plane, it is going to be benefited, tremendously benefited, if you become more spiritually rooted, centered, calm, quiet, cool, because then your whole quality of the work would be changed. Then you will be able to think in a more cool manner and you will be able to act more gracefully. And your understanding of your own inner being will be of tremendous help to help others.”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 2
Aquarius
“Do not divide existence into these old dichotomies – the materialistic plane and the spiritual plane. There is only one reality. Matter is its visible form and spirit its invisible form. Just like your body and your soul, your body cannot be without your soul and your soul cannot be without your body… Man is a miniature universe. If you divide the universe the man is divided. If you divide the man the universe is divided, and I believe in the undivided, organic unity of existence!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 2
Pisces
“To clear the mind is a psychological work: to drop the mind is a spiritual revolution. Clearing the mind you remain attached to the mind… The clear mind will give you great insights, great visions of light, of love, of the beyond, and you may start thinking that you are having spiritual experiences. No experience is ever spiritual. All experiences are psychological… The moment mind is dropped, the moment you know you are not the mind, a mutation has taken place… You have entered into the world of consciousness!”
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 3, Ch 4
1) Osho often uses the word ‘God’ in his early discourses rather than ‘Existence’. Later it is used more rarely. See this month’s Aquarius quote in which the new paradigm concept of oneness as organic unity is referred to.
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