Astrology Lost and Found

Rob Brezsny is an American astrologer, writer, poet, and musician. His weekly horoscope column Free Will Astrology (formerly known as Real Astrology), has been published for more than 28 years, runs in 120 periodicals, and can be subscribed to for free via email.  Brezsny is the first well-known horoscope columnist to use first-person narrative in his column. His writing employs a more personal, optimistic and literary approach than conventional horoscopes. Utne Reader described Brezsny's column Real Astrology as breathing "new life into the tabloid mummy of zodiac advice columns". British horoscope writer Jonathan Cainer told interviewer Eric Francis that Brezsny inspired him to begin his own column in the mid-1980s, saying that Brezsny was the first person who showed him that a horoscope could be done intelligently.

It’s a month of repeats and corrections (Mercury is retrograde most of the month) and a last clean sweep of the stage before the scene changes completely. There a few big rats back stage that still need to be trapped, caged and let free into the wild. A stage manager is still calling out cues still telling you to keep your nose to the grindstone. And, (as if we all haven’t had enough of this sterile performance of Saturn in Virgo), the final scene features ghosts from the past. It will be a humbling experience. Trailers of new scenes from future episodes of "Saturn in Libra" appear as the new actors prepare to enter. Except for a few crazy backtracks, reruns and players that we thought were let off the show years ago, the new season is about to begin. The Universe’s choreographer (really Mercury in disguise) calls for a few more rehearsals, (some of you were pretty spaced out during the first run), so pay attention to the tiny details this month, otherwise you will enter the...

This is a distillation of August’s astrological events for your Sun sign without references to the Planetary Beings responsible for the relay of information from the Cosmos. It’s much easier to digest the message without a lot of astrological qualifications. As Astrologers we always tend to want to qualify our interpretations of events. A professional will know what I’m referring to, the rest of you enjoy the messages. Read the horoscopes for all 12 Zodiac signs here: August 2009 Predictions for all 12 Zodiac signs Photo: NASA.gov