m-pyrical horoscopes

Mikaela says:
Brian/Eric Francis of Planet Waves matches our m-pyrical need for silliness with deep intellectual resonance. His horoscopes, while admittedly horoscopes, are also just wise, sage, good, fun advise. We offer you the planetary perspective on what's in store this month for the m-pyre girls...

Aries (March 20-April 19)
You seem to be struggling pleasantly enough with your quest to reconcile your private insecurities with those surrounding your role in the community. At first they may seem to have nothing in common, like a knife and a sharpening stone. But when you put the two together, you will see that they not only fit precisely, but each allows the other to be what it is. This is to say, your most private needs, desires and fears are intimately linked with your quest to be an individual in the world around you at the same time you honor that you are part of that world. It is true, you may feel you're a long way from agreeing to the compromise you think you need to make. I suggest, though, that rather than striving for compromise, you work to explore the maximum tension between your inner and outer worlds; that is, go deeper into both. There is a factor developing that you have not considered, which will take you far beyond the limiting concepts that currently define your life.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
What you express to yourself is what you have available to express in relationships. I suggest, therefore, that you be abundantly open with yourself and within yourself; keep absolutely no secrets about what you want, who you want, what you need and who you need. As you do this, you will obviously stumble into inner pockets where revealing your own feelings to yourself will have a daunting quality, as if the world might end if you admit some urgent necessity to yourself. You may feel self-righteous if you dare to claim your identity or your desire to be a certain way in the world. I would add that you may feel it's unethical to concentrate so deeply on self-knowledge, because somehow that negates the existence or reality of others. I promise you, it does no such thing. The more you know yourself, the more you will know, love and appreciate others. The freer you are with yourself, the more others around you will feel free, and the wider and brighter space they will have to love you.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
Events this month will point you to how much you're working with, in both tangible resources and the ones that can't be seen: intelligence and ideas. The important thing to remember is that you have options for how you think of those resources, and how you apply them. There may be a number of occasions to reallocate money, concepts and people to different tasks or situations than you had originally thought of, and events early in the month (around when Mercury stations direct Nov. 1) will provide you with ample opportunity to change your mind. Don't make a drama out of this; simply make decisions. Remember that what you're working with is indeed yours to work with, and I mean that in the most personal sense of the word. The process you're in now is one of taking ownership of yourself. Commitments to others are not only a bit foggy at the moment, they are not what they seem. Focus on your own goals for a while and the ones that involve others will come into focus when they need to.