Free will astrology for the week of February 21, 2018.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re playing poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you gorge on 10 pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II, British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing, and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus — a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s T-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel The Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

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We are under the light, love and influence of the Lords of Pisces, sign of two fishes held together by a silken cord, one looking toward heaven, the other looking down into form and matter. The fishes are unable to be loosed, not until the personality (the duality of the two fishes seeing two realities) is strong enough to accept the care and tending of the Soul. The two fishes gaze in all directions, longing for their release, longing for the Soul. Pisces understands these things. Pisces understands imprisonment, captivity, being confined, being abandoned, not having freedom, being caught in illusions and glamours, cults, drugs and sex. Pisces, the last of the zodiacal signs, and containing impressions from all of them, understands sadness, sorrow, grief, melancholy, woe, and most of all, being misunderstood. All of which makes Pisces, after many lifetimes, able to offer understanding, compassion and care, which “saves the world.”

Pisces, when building the personality, experiences drugs, alcohol, dramatic emotions, drowning in a world of the senses. On the Soul/Spiritual level, Pisces is the “Light of the World … the light that reveals the Light of Life itself. Pisces’ light ends forever the darkness of matter.” Those words “light of the world” sound familiar. Many of the Saviors who came to Earth were born in Pisces. They appear to help humanity as we struggle toward the light. Jesus, the Christ, was One (savior). So was Buddha, Zarathustra and all of the many religious teachers that have appeared on Earth since the beginning of time. In these dark times of the Kali Yuga Age (our present time, where the darkness is allowed to manifest so humanity can make a choice), we await the Reappearance of the Christ, the new Savior and World Teacher of the Aquarius Age.  They say He will come soon.

ARIES: While busy with professional shifts, changes and rebalancings, turn more toward forgiveness, friends and the future—where the true reality is. Set goals with friends, helping them be stable and successful. Don’t demand too much from others. It creates disappointments. You’re in a time of great creative potential. Why do I see greenhouses and natural warm pools when I enter your world?

TAURUS: The past weeks have been more like an internal retreat, inner solitude, where something very important has been taking place. Now you consider new goals and plants, tending to their manifestation. This is “white magic.” Magic is the ancient word for bringing a thought-form into the world, helping it appear in form and matter. Call forth the Holy Spirit (Ray 3) to overshadow you. Divine Intelligence leading to Divine Action. This is esoteric.

GEMINI: You become more practical with resources because you know a change, new experiences and education are coming that reorient your beliefs. That is, if you have the courage to step into a new reality, enter into a group of like-minded others, plan your travels ahead of time and know the rest of your world will be cared for. You have a bit more time to prepare. Education in the New Aquarian Age calls to you. It’s never too late.

CANCER: It’s tax time, yes? Sometimes that creates anxiety. This year with Neptune and Chiron in Pisces, it can be even more confusing. The feeling is everything’s just too complex. Like Pisces, you may feel you’re on uncharted waters, in a boat with no captain, no shore in sight, and rumors that pirates are just around the bend. Life feels like that now. Be sure to rest. And find soothing warm calm waters (or arms) to lay in.

LEO: You’re sensitive, more than usual. Here you are in your reality and it seems that something, over there somewhere, opposes you. What this means is an integration (of things and thoughts, new and unusual) is attempting to occur. An absorbing and balancing of new realities. One reality may be that creating more companionship and alliances would assist you. Assist your heart, actually.

VIRGO: There’s always so much to accomplish, so many people to contact, so many ideas to jot down and create goals with. It’s good that Virgo has a developed and orderly work ethic. Virgo is responsible and intelligent. Creativity is to be practical and purposeful this month. You remember something. It makes you sad, glad, wondering, concerned, happy, joyful. All those things together.

LIBRA: You want to play a little more. Some Libran’s are very serious, they don’t play much. They feel injustices in the world and seek to alleviate them. You do this. However, now’s the time for a bit of lightness, for friends, entertaining, communicating with loved ones, interacting with children. In the coming weeks and months, tend carefully to health. See a natural doctor, dentist, care provider, and a deeply listening therapist. Get new shoes. A new endeavor may appear.

SCORPIO: Tend to family with extra care, touching in, making contact with all of the family, even those not often seen. There’s a pull between home and work, family and the world, internal and external realities. Try to meet personal needs first. Stay at home a bit more. Let outer realities fall away. This gives you time to consider a different course of action concerning your gifts, talents and work. What needs tending concerning your own self?

SAGITTARIUS: New thoughts and/or ideas, very new, very future, should be streaming through your mind, creating a Tesla-like electricity in your body. People can sense you’ve become a bit different. You need a close companion. Tesla’s closest companion was a dove? They communicated daily. Which you must do with heart, with those around you. Focus on them more. Soon a strange new spirit of adventure arrives. Where will you go? What/who will call?

CAPRICORN: Capricorn identities (who am I, really?) continue to shift, change and be transformed, like fluid Earth. Saturn and Pluto are in your sign, creating a great transforming field around you. People respond to you differently now. They see something—a light perhaps, a sense of focus, a power, a beauty. Stay close to loved ones. And should you require it, call forth the resources needed in your life. They will arrive at just the right time.

AQUARIUS: Careful with money, assets, facts and figures. Know what you have, know what is coming in and going out. Be orderly about this. Don’t allow a lack of time or attention to take you away from this task. Train yourself to have a clear idea of all financial transactions. Have a book where you jot down finances, facts and figures. This calls for a bit of discipline, more practicality, and it allows you to have a firm idea of all that you’re worth.

PISCES: So, happy birthday, Pisces … yesterday, today, this week, next week. When our birthday month arrives, the Sun’s golden light shines through us. We are beautiful. Our angels stand close by during our birthday month, waiting to hear our needs for the coming new year. A birthday celebration only really occurs when we talk to our angels. Their task is to help us in our needs. They stand around us … waiting, listening, tending, patient as ever. They offer their gift of loving protection.