THE DAILY TRAVESTY for February 18,
2000
Volume 1, Issue 34
At the time of the fourth festival,
The night sky is cold and clear, brilliant and
dry.
This is when we become what we are,
We are light beings, just like stars,
The stars where we came from long ago.
Those who are ready--the ones who have
Journeyed through the caves to dark
places
The ones who moved the souls to the next
realm--
They come forward like marathon runners,
Strengthened for their journey...
No one speaks during this festival, and
No one who journeys speaks when they
return...
We do not know where we went, but
After we return, we know where we are
going.
The journey to the stars defines for all of
us
Our place in the universe
And the quietest place in our hearts.
Barbara
Hand-Clow/Aspasia
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From Chuck Shephard's NEWS OF THE
WEIRD
Born-again Christian David Strein, 44, announced in
November that he would appeal his 1998 dismissal from a New Mexico state
government job for misusing his computer because he was actually powerless to
stay away from Internet pornography. Strein contended that after he first
discovered online porn, "Satan told me to check it out some more." Also, said
Strein, once at a porn site, he was trapped on a virtually endless loop of sex
sites that had taken over his computer. (The administrative law judge had ruled
that Strein had visited too many sites and given them his credit-card number too
many times to have been blameless.)
PLANET WAVES for the week of February 18,
2000
by Eric Francis
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
The operative cycle is
two years. Consider your life in early March 1998. What was happening in
your inner realities and the world of your relationships? Changes you embarked
on then are likely to be coming to some kind of crux point now, or, at least,
all the loose ends from those far-off, nearby days are right where you can see
them and snip them nicely. What's available to you now is something much wider,
a point of contact with the world that promises many opportunities to spread
your wings, to speak to a larger audience and to relate your ideas in ways that
are less practical and more poetic. Poetic would work well, conveying your
message in much more subtle tones and colors.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Long-delayed ambitions are right
within sight, though if you canıt see them, then look in some other direction,
or better still, maintain watch on all directions. You will not need to grasp or
push to make your desires develop; a process of unfoldment, combined with vigilance, would yield the best results at this point, and small delays will
probably prove to be helpful by making you mindful of options you had not
considered. Indeed, what you see now will only get better, though there may come
moments when you have to opt for one opportunity and out of another. But
remember this, perhaps write it on your desk: the choice will be obvious. Thatıs
how youıll know itıs real.
GEMINI (May
21-June 20)
Make sure people are prepared to keep their promises to you,
especially where professional matters are concerned. And make sure you can keep
your commitments; indeed, every move you make would best be aimed at
fulfilling that to which you have already committed, and not taking on any new
burdens or projects for about another month. Use that time to plan and consider
your options, and, to the greatest extent possible, to retreat. It would be
wise to pull yourself out of the spotlight, principally to avoid
misunderstandings about what you are really saying, doing, creating or
intending. You have plenty to do and think through without getting other people
and their opinions involved.
CANCER (June
21-July 22)
These days, most people who work with mystical ideas would
consider themselves to be spiritual rather than religious. It was Planet Waves
writer Christopher Grosso who clued me into the idea that religion is, in truth,
about forming a conscious reconnection between the idea of human and that of the
divine, from the Latin root "ligios," to connect, as in the English word
"ligament." Most of what we strive for is a sense of reconnection of something
that was lost, rather than experiencing that which already is. Which is your
practice or belief? Is it effective for you? Coming shifts in consciousness and
in your relationship to what some traditions call your Higher Power will be
centered on just such questions.
LEO (July
23-Aug. 22)
The laws of give and take are all being recreated in your life
now. Itıs not going to happen quickly, and I doubt it will be simple -- but it
will be easier if you focus on the question at hand: what mediates the balance
of power and of exchange in your relationships? Is it a sense of need, or is
it a sense of plenty? Do you really go into your relationships with a tangible
idea of what you have to offer, or do you go in feeling a lack that you hope
will be compensated for in the meeting? How, especially, would this work once
both sex and money enter the same relationship? You are less needy than you
think. You have far more going for you than youıve dared to imagine.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
If you spend most of your
time listening for the next few weeks, but particularly for the next few days,
youıll get enough information to work with regarding several close personal
relationships, and indeed, all facets of communication. Mercury going retrograde
in your opposite sign Pisces is enough to make any astrologer light up a big
SLIPPERY WHEN WET sign outside their office. But much as you may feel that itıs
everyone else who is being slippery, you are the real fish these weeks, so perk
up your little fishy ears, figure out where people are coming from, and give
them just the information they need to be wildly successful without involving
you any more than is necessary.
LIBRA (Sep. 23-Oct. 22)
Lots of Libra
horoscopes these weeks are likely to begin with the phrase, "Colleagues and
coworkers..." but let me finish the sentence: Colleagues and coworkers will very
likely behave in utterly incomprehensible ways. The important thing is to
maintain a sense of humor. Donıt forget to laugh when people say bizarre-o
things to you, make claims they could never substantiate or show up at work
obsessed with the fact that the Earth is flat or reporting having had
several alien abductions over the weekend. Well, who knows, maybe they really
did spend time on the mothership. In any event, this is a fine time to practice
the ancient wisdom, "If you want a job done right, do it yourself."
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
I doubt youıll
have any problem being a master of illusion during the very interesting Mercury
retrograde phase ahead. I would be tempted to warn you not to become a master of
delusion, but in fact, you seem to be unerringly beamed into the frequency of
necessity and bottom-line reality quite adequately enough to ensure that your
perceptions of the world are dependably real, even as so much around you slides,
warps, bends and bubbles. And let it all bubble and slide until you find you
have to take a no-nonsense approach to specific circumstances that other people
may feel depend upon "belief," but you know depend on the
facts.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
Remember that
the purpose of small accomplishments is to add up to big ones. In fact, many
fairly major situations may disguise themselves as pure pettiness in these
weeks, and you will need to use your sixth and seventh senses to determine
whatıs what. While it wonıt always work out this way, anyone putting on a
big show is likely to be doing just that. The important stuff will likely
manifest in the way people feel about themselves, or their subtle insecurities
getting the best of them. And while youıre watching their insecurities, keep an
eye on your own. Bursts of confusion, fear and instability may entice you to
believe youıre not quite cut of leadership cloth. It isnıt so.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Run like the
wind. Go where you will. The blessing of travel and the God of blessing are with
you, whether it be travel across the physical plane or movement in conscience
and consciousness, or of faith, or answering callings from faraway lands. There
will be some among you who feel now called to pursue higher academic
aspirations, and others beckoned serious into artistic careers. Itıs all good,
itıs all true, but for your purposes, just one rule of thumb would serve to
benefit you: make sure that you make your decision on the basis of what would be
the most fun. All other things being equal, or some choices even seeming far
superior, do what, or as the case may be, who, is the most fun.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 19-Feb. 18)
Developments of
this week will, I am rather certain, serve to lighten your spirits, to float you
like a sailboat on dry land that suddenly finds itself flooded all around by
rising water. This is no fleeting phase, but rather the beginning of a major
stage of growth designed to reorient your course in life. Remember that your
navigation skills will no longer be terrestrial in nature -- needing to go over
or around obstacles, for example. You are now governed by the laws and physics
of the sea. Speaking of which: a few thunderheads blowing in from the southeast
represent a little financial storm, but this one can be easily weathered with
the use of playful imagination.
PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)
Recent bumping,
burning and sizzling of the planets has been rapping and wrapping you in recent
weeks, perhaps dating back to late last year. And the weeks ahead are not
exactly set up with elegant simplicity; you might call it elegant complexity.
But even as Mercury slides backwards in your cove of the sea for the next three
weeks, itıs clear that youıll be seeing many signs of the changing times,
obvious indications of progress, many places to connect preparation and
opportunity -- and have a few choice opportunities to connect with people you
hardly suspected youıd connect with, in ways you had not quite imagined. Just
remember, everyone is closer than you think, and there is no
rush.
For the Faithful
Planet Waves weekly
horoscope wraps up its first 79-week run across the galaxy next Friday, just a
few days after Mercury turns retrograde. The monthly horoscope, published
since 1995, will continue at Planet Waves online and keyword MYSTIC on AOL.
Before I take a bow, I want to acknowledge the contributions of my teacher and
mentor, Joseph Trusso -- who is not an astrologer -- for patiently helping
me unravel the mysteries and iron out the wrinkles of my own existence, and
serving as a role model of no-bullshit, clear-headed process work. He has also
turned me onto the most important reference points Iıve found in the field of
humanistic therapy, including the great wisdom of Fritz and Lora Perls and the
Gestalt movement. And he taught me to take myself seriously, or rather --
just seriously enough. Thank you, Joe, for this lifetime and all the
others.
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