:: Quote of The Week
June 28 – July 4 ::
“Whatever you do in your life will be insignificant but you have to do it anyway because no one else will.”
Mahatma Ghandi
June 1 – 13 ::
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
May 24 – 31 ::
And life told me this secret: “Behold I am that which must overcome itself again and again.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra
May 17 – 23 ::
“We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.”
Anais Nin, writer
May 10 – 16 ::
“Earth means that which is stable, thick, and has a great capacity for embracing.”
Kshitgarbba Sutra
May 3 – 9 ::
April 26 – May 2 ::
April 19 – 25 ::
“Wisdom is knowing in depth the great metaphors of meaning.”
C.G. Jung
April 12 – 18 ::
“First and last, man is alone.
He is born alone, and alone he dies
and alone he is while he lives, in his deepest self.”
D.H. Lawrence, Deeper than Love
April 5 – 11 ::
“Eternal life is given to those who live in the present.”
Wittgenstein
March 29 – April 4 ::
“Art is a collaboration between The Great Creator and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
André Gide
March 22 – 28 ::
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who flame your fire.”
Rumi
March 15 – 21 ::
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
Rumi
March 8 – 14 ::
March 1 – 7 ::
“Whenever we penetrate the heart of things we find a mystery.”
Albert Schweitzer, Alsacian German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician
February 22 - 28 ::
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of its separation.”
Kahlil Gibran, ” The Prophet”
February 15 -21 ::
“In a time of lies, truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian lyricist and novelist
February 8 – 14 ::
“The Limit of your freedom is yourself”
Oguz Öztuzcu, Turkish Architect, photographer, artist
February 1 – 7 ::
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”
Socrates, classic Greek philosopher 469 BC – 399 BC
January 25 – January 31 ::
“We read the world wrong, and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore, poet, playwright, philosopher, composer, artist
January 18 – January 24 ::
“This our worldly life is an activity of nirvana itself, not the slightest distinction exists between them.”
Nagarjuna, Indian Buddhist teacher and saint
January 11 – January 17 ::
“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
January 04 – January 10 ::
“Art offers the possibility of love with strangers.”
Walter Hopps
December 28 – January – 03 ::
“Origin here means that from and by which something is what it is and as it is. What something is, as it is, we call it essence or nature. The origin of something is the source of its nature.”
Martin Heidegger Poetry, Language, Thought
November 23 – November 29 ::
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein, 20th century scientist
November 16 – November 22 ::
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
Albert Einstein, 20th century scientist
November 9 – November 15 ::
“Leap beyond your shadow”
Nietzsche, 19th century writer and philosopher
November 2 – November 8 ::
“Not without a wound in the spirit shall i leave this city. Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret?”
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese – American artist, poet, writer, 1883 – 1931
October 26 – November 1 ::
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
October 19 – October 25 ::
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology
October 12 – October 18
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology
October 5 – October 11 ::
“Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: There have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
George Elliot, Silas Marner, circa 1861.
September 21 – September 27 ::
“Wisdom is knowing in depth the great metaphors of meaning.”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology
August 17 – August 23 ::
“You are prone to love as the Sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the joy of man.”
Thomas Traherne, 1637-1674, English poet and religious writer
August 10 – August 16 ::
“All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”
Pearl S. Buck, Author
August 3 – August 9 ::
“The One, the Life that is not knowable in itself, reveals itself in us human beings by means of an all pervasive life-force and life-impulse.”
Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Jungian psychological astrologer
July 27 – August 2 ::
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher central figure in Taoism
July 20 – July 26 ::
“Cultivate the seeds of new ideas to become great oaks of your thinking.”
Bernadett Brady, British astrologer
July 13 – July 19 ::
“Just as the whole of nature and the whole of life is one great movement, so the psychic system of man, as an integral part of nature and life, is in constant movement.”
Karen Hamaker-Zondag, Jungian Astrologer
July 6 – July 12 ::
June 29 -July 5 ::
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist
June 23 – June 28 ::
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”*
Jim Morrison, poet and musician
June 15 – June 22 ::
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein, 20th century scientist
June 8 – June14 ::
“Authority is the weakest source of proof.”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th century
June 1 – June 7 ::
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( First Folio)
May 25 – May 31 ::
“And life itself told me this secret: “Behold” it said, “I am that which must overcome itself again and again.”
Friedrich Nietzsche , Thus Spoke Zarathustra
May 18 – May 24 ::
“One may indeed say that it is not the event which happens to the person, but the person that happens to the event.”
Dane Rudhyar, author, modernist composer, humanistic astrologer, and pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology.
May 11 – May 17 ::
” Evening Star, you bring all things which the bright dawn has scattered….”
Sappho, Ancient Greek lyric poet, died 570 BC, born on the Island of Lesbos
May 4 – May 10 ::
“The stars are like letters which inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky….Everything in the world is full of signs….All events are coordinated…..All things depend on each other; as has been said, “Everything breaths together.” Ennead II
Plotinus, Greek philosopher, 204 -270 AD, founder of Neoplatonism
April 27 – May 3 ::
“It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.”
Joseph Cambell, author and scholar
April 20 – April 26 ::
“Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
Chief Seattle, Native American 1855
April 13 – April 19 ::
“An eye is meant to see things.The Soul is here for its own joy.”
Rumi, Sufi mystic poet
April 6 – April 12 ::
“Birth was the death of him”
Samuel Beckett, author
March 30 – April 5 ::
“to be nobody but yourself- in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
e.e. cummings, poet
March 23 – March 29 ::
“Love is the pursuit of the whole”
Plato
March 16 -March 22 ::
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass”.
Maya Angalou, poet, writer, journalist, activist, performer, actress, director, dancer
March 9 – March 15 ::
March 2 – March 8 ::
“We are not gathered here today to change the world, we are here with a more modest proposal, to create a new world.”
Comandanta Ramona, officer of the Zapatista Army of national Liberation (EZLN) died January 6 2006
February 23 – March 1 ::
“Our destiny, our being’s heart and home is with infinitude, and only there.”
Wordsworth, American poet
February 16 – February 22 ::
“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside wakes”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology
February 9 – February 15 ::
“Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside wakes”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology
February 2 – February 8 ::
“In the heaven of Indra there is said to be a network of pearls, so arranged, that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it.“
Hindu Sutra
January 26 – February 1 ::
“A truth once seen, even by a single mind, always ends by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness.”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest, paleontologist, philosopher
January 19 – January 25 ::
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician.
January 12 – January 18 ::
“The disastrous idea that everything comes to the human psyche from outside and that it is born a tabula rasa is responsible for the erroneous belief that under normal circumstances the individual is in perfect order.”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology
January 5 – January 11 ::
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions….”
Rainer Maria Rilke
December 29 – January 4 ::
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Bertolt Brecht, playwright
December 22 – December 28 ::
“Saturn gifts are a truly serene acceptance of reality, a compassionate recognition of one’s limits and a capacity to contain one’s difficult experiences without being torn apart by them.”
Janet Kane, Jungian astrologer
December 15 – Decembr21 ::
“I’ve been outside myself for so long any feeling I had is close to gone.”
K.D Lang, singer and song writer
December 8 – December 14 ::
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
Leonardo da Vinci, artist
December 1 – December 7 ::
“Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life-perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it. It has no technique and therefore no authority…….”
J. Khrishnamurti, spiritual philosopher
November 24 – November 30 ::
“Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”
John Pierpont Morgan, billionaire
November 17 – November 23 ::
“We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Yeats, Irish poet.
November 10 – November 16 ::
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”.
Milan Kundera, writer
November 3 – November 9 ::
“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet
October 27 – November 2 ::
“That he not busy being born is busy dying“
Bob Dylan, poet and musician, lyrics from It’s Alright Ma (I’m only bleeding)
October 20 – October 26 ::
“There is nothing more scary than ignorance in action.”
Tommy Smothers, comedian
October 13 – October 19 ::
“In a higher world it is otherwise; but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to change often.”
John Henry Newman, Catholic Cardinal 1801 -1890
October 6 – October 12 ::
“Everything that is transitory is but a reference.”
Goethe, German writer and philosopher
September 29 – October 5 ::
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein, scientist
September 22 – September 28 ::
“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., writer
September 16 – September 21 ::
“It is in vaine to goe about to make the shadowe straite, if the bodie which giveth the shadowe bee crooked.”
Stefano Guazzo, English Renaissance, 1575-1675
September 8 – September 15 ::
“Astrology is astronomy brought down to earth and applied to the affairs of men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet
September 1 – September 7 ::
“perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.”
Plato, Classical Greek Philosopher
August 25 – August31 ::
“The world and thought are only the spumes; of menacing cosmic images; blood pulsates with their flight; thoughts are lit by their fires; and these images are – myths.”
Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic
August 18 – August 24 ::
“We are born at a given moment in a given place and like vintage years of wine we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything else.”
C.G. Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology
August 11 – August 17 ::
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”
Kahlil Gibran, author, mystic
August 4 – August 10 ::
“life goes on within you and without you”
George Harrison, musician
July 28 – August 3 ::
“First and last, man is alone. He is born alone, and alone he dies and alone he is while he lives, in his deepest self”.
D.H.Lawrence, Deeper than Love, writer
July 21 – July 27 ::
“there is no way to peace peace is the way”
Mahatma Gandhi, social activist, spiritual leader
July 14 – July 20 ::
“What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”
Rabindranath Tagore, poet, mystic
July 7 – July 13 ::
“If we tear off these masks, if we open ourselves up, if – in brief – we face our own selves, then we can truly begin to live and to think.”
Octavio Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude, writer
June 30 – July 6 ::
“our heart is what drives us and determines our fate”
Isabel Allende, writer, feminist, activist
June 32 – June 29 ::
“I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric. Phrases such as ‘bring them on’ or ‘dead of alive’ indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace.”
George W. Busch Jr., President of the United States
June 16 – June 22 ::
“That we come to this earth to live is untrue. We come but to sleep, to dream.”
Aztec Poem, anonymous
June9 – June 15 ::
“When we dream that we are dreaming the moment of awakening is at hand.”
Novalis, author and philosopher of German Romanticism
June 2 – June 8 ::
“Your pain is but the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
Kahlil Gibran, poet, mystic
May 26 – June 1 ::
“So long as you do not die and rise again, you are a stranger to the dark earth.”
Goethe, poetry, drama, literature,theology, humanism, science.
May 19 – May 25 ::
“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen.”
Maya Angelou, literature, poetry, drama, diplomat
May 12 – May 18 ::
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu , 600 B.C. Chinese philosopher, attributed author of Daodejing
May 5 – May 11 ::
“That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet
April 28 – May 4 ::
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
Albert Einstein , scientist
April 21-27 ::
“We really are, astrologically speaking, like spiritual snowflakes, all made of the same materials, all unique, and it takes a practiced sensibility to recognize that individuality as patterned in the stars, and then to interpret those natal conditions in light of current events in the most illuminating way possible.”
Julie Demboski, astrologer, author
