In early spring, some of our forebears made love in newly seeded fields, hoping to magically propitiate the growth of the crops. Right now would be an excellent time for you to perform a similar ritual on behalf of what you love. If you’re game, find a secluded outdoor spot on a warm day. Bring a partner if one’s available, or take the earth or sky as your lover. Then carry out a rite of pleasure in which you offer up the spiritual essence of your bliss to the health and success of a beloved person or creature or situation that you want to thrive in the coming months.

Uhm. Hm. I should look around for someone to help me with this.

Rob says: It will be a rather animalistic week, Virgo–or at least it should be. I suggest that you learn to feel more trust in your primal instincts; find out more about the part of you that doesn’t use words. If you’ve got the luxury to experiment, see what it’s like when you give your inner beast permission to express all of its creativity. The coming days will also be prime time to befriend lone wolves, horse around with wise old owls, welcome back lost sheep, play possum with jackasses, and flirt with sacred cows.

Hmmmm.

Rob says for this week:

“The elegant, shimmering fabric known as silk is obtained from the cocoon of a worm larva. Typically the cocoon is dunked in boiling water to kill the pupa inside before it can chew its way out. Another precious material with gross origins is ambergris. It’s a foul-smelling excrement that sperm whales vomit. After years of exposure to the sun while floating on the ocean, it transforms
into an aromatic, waxy substance that’s used as a major ingredient in perfume. Silk and ambergris are your personal power symbols in the coming weeks, Virgo. I predict that you’ll turn crap into treasure.”

He is an odd man, but we’ll see.

In 2006, you will have greatest success if you approach every experience as a student. Your ability to experience happiness will expand if you re-ignite your love of learning and become perpetually ablaze with curiosity. You know that old expression, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”? I suggest you make yourself ready, because a crucial teacher is or will soon be in your vicinity. Here’s another key piece of advice, courtesy of J. Bronowski: “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

Funny considering I just decided to continue school for all of 2006. And didn’t I use the exact phrase, “love of learning”?!?!!?

I wonder who the teacher will be….