astrology for August 22-28
August 22-28, 2006
Welcome to my weekly Sun-Sign astrology column. If you are unfamiliar with how Sun-Sign astrology works, let me offer you a few pieces of advice. Firstly, Sun-Sign astrology is not like natal astrology, where your astrologer creates a personalized astrology chart that can be used look at anything from your family of origin, to your love life or your career. Sun-Sign astrology offers a more general field of advice. Its aim is to track general trends in the astrological weather and offer wide-ranging advice to help you navigate life’s little challenges.
To make the most of this tool, I recommend that you:
1. Look at your sun-sign
2. Look at your rising and/or moon sign for additional advice (this information can be found with the aid of an astrologer or a good astrology website)
3. Look all of the entries and apply the advice to your life, as you see fit. Each entry offers useful advice designed to assist you in living a meaningful life.
I hope that you enjoy your astrological column. If you wish to purchase a personal chart interpretations, for youself or as a gift for a friend, please contact me directly at dervish93@comcast.net or 503-241-5040.
Aries March 21-April 19
My advice to you this week, dear Aries, is for you to be yourself. I hesitate in giving you this advice because you might think it is cliché. And, it is. In its base form, we see it everywhere: from movies, to television, to advertising. It is so common that we can loose track of its deeper meanings. We think that it is permission to do what ever we want or say what ever we feel. Yet, this is not how I am using the phrase. I urge you to look deeper into the words and to understand that within their matrix there exists a deep mystery. This mystery has been specially crafted for you. It is something that you can chew on across your entire lifetime. To assist you, allow me to give you a clue. The Creator has identified itself, to groups and individuals, across time by using a number of Divine Names. These names give clues into Creator’s nature and role in our lives; which, in turn, give us clues into our own nature and purpose. One of these names means, in English, I Am. Now, think about the word “Am” and how it is related to the word “Be”. Also, think about the word “I” and the word “Yourself”. Do you see that the phrase “I Am” and the phrase “Be Yourself” have a very special relationship with one another? Do you see that you have the same relationship with the Divine Creator? So, I say again: Be Yourself, dear Aries, Be Yourself.
Taurus April 20-May 20
Watch out for unexpected fiery passions, which can grow into unpredictable aggressions, this week, Taurus. As always, this warning represents a potential, not a guarantee. That said, your emotions are unpredictable this week. To counter this tendency I have two suggestions: look deeper and step back. The first suggestion is that you spend some time in mediation on the core of you emotions and their causes. This process might be frustrating. Especially, if you are experiencing the emotion as you are trying to meditate on. This brings me to my second suggestion, that of stepping back. Give yourself some space to feel whatever you are feelings. This might mean that you tell your loved ones that you will need some time alone in order to process what you are feeling. I strongly suggest that you do this. Take a big step back and try to gain some perspective on whatever your emotions are focused on. This will allow you to fully experience the emotion and this will help the emotion to dissipate. Always remember that emotions, particularly those with a passionate or aggressive nature, are temporary. The phase will blow over very soon and life will come back to it normal trends and experiences.
Gemini May 21-June 21
People close to you might get wiggy this week, Gemini. As a result, they might need you to play the role of listener. Or they might need you remind them of some sobering truths. Or they might need you to stay out of the drama entirely and to be there for them later on, after the weather changes. In any event, I implore you to remember that their difficulty has nothing to do with you. Unless you are directly involved, what they are experiencing is about them and the choices that they have made in their lives. Therefore, I strongly recommend that you keep yourself grounded and centered this week. Let other people run around in what ever way they feel that they need to, but do not take their drama on as your own.
Cancer June 22-July 22
A new long-term emotional pattern is ready to come into being, my dear Cancer. This is so because several old emotional patterns have recently come an end, leaving you with a significant amount of energy that is ready for re-dedication. The new emotional pattern has been coming slowly into manifestation since your birthday. It is in the final test stages of manifestation now. My advice is to spend the next week meditating on how satisfying your emotional life has been of late. Pay particular attention to the requests for emotional affection between you and your primary emotional partner or community. Look at who is asking for what and the responses. Has this helped you meet your needs, or have you felt unsatisfied? There is still a few more weeks before this pattern solidifies. Therefore, if you wish to make some adjustments, I urge you to do so. After this, the pattern will become solid, and very difficult to modify. It will remain in this state for six to nine months before you will have another opportunity to make meaningful adjustments.
Leo July 23-August 22
Your emotional needs could exceed your ability to express or meet them this week, Leo. This will mean an increase in your normally high desire for self-expression, emotional connection, and instant gratification. My advice is to start a practice of moderation with your emotional body. You can do this by seeking to understand the difference between an authentic need and the “feeling” of need. This will help you to see how the emotional body is willing lie to get its way. It does this because its primary focus is getting its needs met and swiftly. If you spend some working with moderation of your emotions rather quick fixes, you will see how to observe an emotion before acting on the emotion. Often when we do this, the emotion in question will evaporate after a short time, as if the emotional body forgets what it desired. This way, we can begin to perceive the difference between a desire and actual need. Playing with this sort of observation with your emotions might be the key to helping you release your temporary desires and gain a calmer state of mind.
Virgo August 23-September 22
Your emotional needs are very real this week, Virgo. My advice is that you make time to listen to them. If you do, you will discover that they are trying to help you gain a particular sort of freedom. You see, people born under the sign of Virgo have a persistent challenge when it comes to their ability to hear and honestly work with their emotional bodies. The reason for this is that the Virgo’s mental faculties, which provide them with their logic and creativity, are their dominant trait. Left unchecked, the mind will overshadow all other qualities and features. Most of the time, this dynamic will require direct and constant effort to counter. This week, however, is not one of those times. Your emotional body will be powerful enough to outrank your mental body. Your emotions will, if you allow them to, help you cut right though your mental twisting and turnings and to clearly see some very important needs you have not been addressing of late.
Libra September 23-October 23
My suggestion for you this week, my dear Libra, is to be very careful when you go shopping. It will be very easy for you to feel very good and this might influence you to over spend. It will be very difficult to maintain any discipline and this will very likely make your life difficult in the future. Therefore, my suggestion is to seek social contact this week, but do so in a place and time that does not put you at risk of over spending. Discipline now will mean a greater mobility in November and December, a time when you will really need it.
Scorpio October 24-November 21
People in authority will be attracted to you this week, my dear Scorpio. Be aware that this will have one of two effects, depending on your relationship to the rules and laws of our society. On the one hand, if you have a difficult relationship with rules, then the people whom you attract might wish to help you balance your karma. This is often uncomfortable and can feel like punishment. If this is the case, I recommend that you use caution this week and try not to draw too much attention to yourself. On the other hand, you might have an easy relationship with rules. If this is the case, then the persons you will draw to you will be very helpful. They might assist you in your career or with any difficulties you have had with other people mistreating you. In this case, I recommend that you make an intention for assistance and that you make it loud and clear.
Sagittarius November 22-December 22
Over the next few weeks, it will be important for you to have your professional and career concerns in the forefront of your life, Sagittarius. My advice is to resist the urge to wait for a reason for this reality to come into your life. I suggest that you act now by taking a true and honest look at your professional life; the life in which you have a professional or responsible face. If you take the intuitive and examine your professional life for any ways in which you need to make adjustments or alterations, you will relieve any tensions that have building under the surface. Some of these tensions have become highly charged, and could erupt on their own soon. This would bring drama and difficulty into your life. It should be easy to avoid this by attending to any prudent matters now.
Capricorn December 23-January 19
Your sexual energies will be up this week, Capricorn. For some people in your sign, this will mean a greater physical need within their relationships. For others, it will be felt as an inner push to start a new relationship, or to go deeper into an existing one. Yet, at its core, this time is a period of deep transformation. Transformation, after all, is the essential energy behind any healthy sexual experience. This energy can help us to contact our essential self and to become more of what we have always needed to become. Because of this, I advise you use this week as a time of personal growth and inner enrichment. This can be done in a sexual or non-sexual way, with or without a partner. Just open your mind (and body) and see what happens.
Aquarius January 20-February 18
Clear thinking will be difficult this week, Aquarius. Subjectivity, and the relative confusion that comes with it, will run wild. As a result, you will have difficulty understanding where your thoughts leave and others begin. You might see your feelings play out in the people around you or you will find that you are experiencing emotions which are not your own. This will make it difficult for you to understand what is going on around you. My advice is to pull back into your self and trust the patterns you know to be functional. This period will pass soon enough and you will be able to clear up any mistakes that might have occurred. One additional piece of advice, avoid any dishonest or deceptive dealings this week. You will have enough trouble keeping your reality in order without having to keep track of falsehoods and the problems they insure.
Pisces February 19-March 20
While meditating on your sign, my dear Pisces, I was asked to deliver the following advice to you: examine they ways in which you offer work and service to your family / community. There are times when these words, Work and Service, are separate and distinct. Work: refers to what one does do to make money. Service: an act of love and devotion given to a cause, a person, or a group. However, there are times when the two words blend together, becoming one and the same. For example, one might go to work as a means of serving his or her family. Or one might work to serve a spiritual community by offering time, creativity or labor. This is the way I am using these words and it is here that I recommend you put your thoughts this week. Look at how and when you spend time working to serve those you love. As you do this, meditate on the following questions: Why you offer work and service? Whom do you work to serve? What are the results of your work and service (both for you and for the other)? What would life be like if you offered more or less work and service. The Universe has assured me that if you spend time this week thinking or meditating in this way, you will come closer to understanding why life has been so challenging recently. After this, you will come to see how you have created some of these challenges and what you can do (or stop doing) to prevent more challenges in the months to come.
© Shon Clark 2006
Welcome to my weekly Sun-Sign astrology column. If you are unfamiliar with how Sun-Sign astrology works, let me offer you a few pieces of advice. Firstly, Sun-Sign astrology is not like natal astrology, where your astrologer creates a personalized astrology chart that can be used look at anything from your family of origin, to your love life or your career. Sun-Sign astrology offers a more general field of advice. Its aim is to track general trends in the astrological weather and offer wide-ranging advice to help you navigate life’s little challenges.
To make the most of this tool, I recommend that you:
1. Look at your sun-sign
2. Look at your rising and/or moon sign for additional advice (this information can be found with the aid of an astrologer or a good astrology website)
3. Look all of the entries and apply the advice to your life, as you see fit. Each entry offers useful advice designed to assist you in living a meaningful life.
I hope that you enjoy your astrological column. If you wish to purchase a personal chart interpretations, for youself or as a gift for a friend, please contact me directly at dervish93@comcast.net or 503-241-5040.
Aries March 21-April 19
My advice to you this week, dear Aries, is for you to be yourself. I hesitate in giving you this advice because you might think it is cliché. And, it is. In its base form, we see it everywhere: from movies, to television, to advertising. It is so common that we can loose track of its deeper meanings. We think that it is permission to do what ever we want or say what ever we feel. Yet, this is not how I am using the phrase. I urge you to look deeper into the words and to understand that within their matrix there exists a deep mystery. This mystery has been specially crafted for you. It is something that you can chew on across your entire lifetime. To assist you, allow me to give you a clue. The Creator has identified itself, to groups and individuals, across time by using a number of Divine Names. These names give clues into Creator’s nature and role in our lives; which, in turn, give us clues into our own nature and purpose. One of these names means, in English, I Am. Now, think about the word “Am” and how it is related to the word “Be”. Also, think about the word “I” and the word “Yourself”. Do you see that the phrase “I Am” and the phrase “Be Yourself” have a very special relationship with one another? Do you see that you have the same relationship with the Divine Creator? So, I say again: Be Yourself, dear Aries, Be Yourself.
Taurus April 20-May 20
Watch out for unexpected fiery passions, which can grow into unpredictable aggressions, this week, Taurus. As always, this warning represents a potential, not a guarantee. That said, your emotions are unpredictable this week. To counter this tendency I have two suggestions: look deeper and step back. The first suggestion is that you spend some time in mediation on the core of you emotions and their causes. This process might be frustrating. Especially, if you are experiencing the emotion as you are trying to meditate on. This brings me to my second suggestion, that of stepping back. Give yourself some space to feel whatever you are feelings. This might mean that you tell your loved ones that you will need some time alone in order to process what you are feeling. I strongly suggest that you do this. Take a big step back and try to gain some perspective on whatever your emotions are focused on. This will allow you to fully experience the emotion and this will help the emotion to dissipate. Always remember that emotions, particularly those with a passionate or aggressive nature, are temporary. The phase will blow over very soon and life will come back to it normal trends and experiences.
Gemini May 21-June 21
People close to you might get wiggy this week, Gemini. As a result, they might need you to play the role of listener. Or they might need you remind them of some sobering truths. Or they might need you to stay out of the drama entirely and to be there for them later on, after the weather changes. In any event, I implore you to remember that their difficulty has nothing to do with you. Unless you are directly involved, what they are experiencing is about them and the choices that they have made in their lives. Therefore, I strongly recommend that you keep yourself grounded and centered this week. Let other people run around in what ever way they feel that they need to, but do not take their drama on as your own.
Cancer June 22-July 22
A new long-term emotional pattern is ready to come into being, my dear Cancer. This is so because several old emotional patterns have recently come an end, leaving you with a significant amount of energy that is ready for re-dedication. The new emotional pattern has been coming slowly into manifestation since your birthday. It is in the final test stages of manifestation now. My advice is to spend the next week meditating on how satisfying your emotional life has been of late. Pay particular attention to the requests for emotional affection between you and your primary emotional partner or community. Look at who is asking for what and the responses. Has this helped you meet your needs, or have you felt unsatisfied? There is still a few more weeks before this pattern solidifies. Therefore, if you wish to make some adjustments, I urge you to do so. After this, the pattern will become solid, and very difficult to modify. It will remain in this state for six to nine months before you will have another opportunity to make meaningful adjustments.
Leo July 23-August 22
Your emotional needs could exceed your ability to express or meet them this week, Leo. This will mean an increase in your normally high desire for self-expression, emotional connection, and instant gratification. My advice is to start a practice of moderation with your emotional body. You can do this by seeking to understand the difference between an authentic need and the “feeling” of need. This will help you to see how the emotional body is willing lie to get its way. It does this because its primary focus is getting its needs met and swiftly. If you spend some working with moderation of your emotions rather quick fixes, you will see how to observe an emotion before acting on the emotion. Often when we do this, the emotion in question will evaporate after a short time, as if the emotional body forgets what it desired. This way, we can begin to perceive the difference between a desire and actual need. Playing with this sort of observation with your emotions might be the key to helping you release your temporary desires and gain a calmer state of mind.
Virgo August 23-September 22
Your emotional needs are very real this week, Virgo. My advice is that you make time to listen to them. If you do, you will discover that they are trying to help you gain a particular sort of freedom. You see, people born under the sign of Virgo have a persistent challenge when it comes to their ability to hear and honestly work with their emotional bodies. The reason for this is that the Virgo’s mental faculties, which provide them with their logic and creativity, are their dominant trait. Left unchecked, the mind will overshadow all other qualities and features. Most of the time, this dynamic will require direct and constant effort to counter. This week, however, is not one of those times. Your emotional body will be powerful enough to outrank your mental body. Your emotions will, if you allow them to, help you cut right though your mental twisting and turnings and to clearly see some very important needs you have not been addressing of late.
Libra September 23-October 23
My suggestion for you this week, my dear Libra, is to be very careful when you go shopping. It will be very easy for you to feel very good and this might influence you to over spend. It will be very difficult to maintain any discipline and this will very likely make your life difficult in the future. Therefore, my suggestion is to seek social contact this week, but do so in a place and time that does not put you at risk of over spending. Discipline now will mean a greater mobility in November and December, a time when you will really need it.
Scorpio October 24-November 21
People in authority will be attracted to you this week, my dear Scorpio. Be aware that this will have one of two effects, depending on your relationship to the rules and laws of our society. On the one hand, if you have a difficult relationship with rules, then the people whom you attract might wish to help you balance your karma. This is often uncomfortable and can feel like punishment. If this is the case, I recommend that you use caution this week and try not to draw too much attention to yourself. On the other hand, you might have an easy relationship with rules. If this is the case, then the persons you will draw to you will be very helpful. They might assist you in your career or with any difficulties you have had with other people mistreating you. In this case, I recommend that you make an intention for assistance and that you make it loud and clear.
Sagittarius November 22-December 22
Over the next few weeks, it will be important for you to have your professional and career concerns in the forefront of your life, Sagittarius. My advice is to resist the urge to wait for a reason for this reality to come into your life. I suggest that you act now by taking a true and honest look at your professional life; the life in which you have a professional or responsible face. If you take the intuitive and examine your professional life for any ways in which you need to make adjustments or alterations, you will relieve any tensions that have building under the surface. Some of these tensions have become highly charged, and could erupt on their own soon. This would bring drama and difficulty into your life. It should be easy to avoid this by attending to any prudent matters now.
Capricorn December 23-January 19
Your sexual energies will be up this week, Capricorn. For some people in your sign, this will mean a greater physical need within their relationships. For others, it will be felt as an inner push to start a new relationship, or to go deeper into an existing one. Yet, at its core, this time is a period of deep transformation. Transformation, after all, is the essential energy behind any healthy sexual experience. This energy can help us to contact our essential self and to become more of what we have always needed to become. Because of this, I advise you use this week as a time of personal growth and inner enrichment. This can be done in a sexual or non-sexual way, with or without a partner. Just open your mind (and body) and see what happens.
Aquarius January 20-February 18
Clear thinking will be difficult this week, Aquarius. Subjectivity, and the relative confusion that comes with it, will run wild. As a result, you will have difficulty understanding where your thoughts leave and others begin. You might see your feelings play out in the people around you or you will find that you are experiencing emotions which are not your own. This will make it difficult for you to understand what is going on around you. My advice is to pull back into your self and trust the patterns you know to be functional. This period will pass soon enough and you will be able to clear up any mistakes that might have occurred. One additional piece of advice, avoid any dishonest or deceptive dealings this week. You will have enough trouble keeping your reality in order without having to keep track of falsehoods and the problems they insure.
Pisces February 19-March 20
While meditating on your sign, my dear Pisces, I was asked to deliver the following advice to you: examine they ways in which you offer work and service to your family / community. There are times when these words, Work and Service, are separate and distinct. Work: refers to what one does do to make money. Service: an act of love and devotion given to a cause, a person, or a group. However, there are times when the two words blend together, becoming one and the same. For example, one might go to work as a means of serving his or her family. Or one might work to serve a spiritual community by offering time, creativity or labor. This is the way I am using these words and it is here that I recommend you put your thoughts this week. Look at how and when you spend time working to serve those you love. As you do this, meditate on the following questions: Why you offer work and service? Whom do you work to serve? What are the results of your work and service (both for you and for the other)? What would life be like if you offered more or less work and service. The Universe has assured me that if you spend time this week thinking or meditating in this way, you will come closer to understanding why life has been so challenging recently. After this, you will come to see how you have created some of these challenges and what you can do (or stop doing) to prevent more challenges in the months to come.
© Shon Clark 2006