 Horoscope with Lilith
This week communicator Mercury joins Jupiter, planet of understanding, in the sign of the Dalai Lama, world worker for peaceful co-operation between all beings. Cancerian priorities of protecting and nurturing mother, home and family could help us extend our care for the creatures and beings of this earthly world.
Aries: Wars can no longer be considered a means to reach peace. Only through kindness, understanding, gentleness, love, and spiritual means can we achieve peace and repair the vast damage done to our Mother Earth and her indigenous peoples.
Thomas Banyacya, Hopi spokesperson.
Taurus: Land is not merely inert dirt; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. Plants and animals also have a right to unfolding and self-realisation. They have the right to live.
Arne Naess, Environmental philosopher.
Gemini: Air is precious. All things share it – beasts, trees, human beings. If all the beasts were gone, humans would die of loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to beasts, soon happens to humans. All things are connected – whatever befalls the earth befalls earth's peoples.
Chief Seattle, Duwarnish Elder.
Cancer: The statement that the earth is our mother is more than a sentimental platitude: the environment in which we develop shapes every quality of our biological and mental being. Even if only for selfish reasons, we must maintain variety and harmony in nature.
Rene Dubos, microbiologist
Leo: Humans are the only fellow-voyager's in the Earth's odyssey of evolution. This knowledge should give us a kinship with fellow creatures: a wish to live and let live; a sense of wonder at the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise.
Aldo Leopold, Ecologist.
Virgo: Earth is the birthplace of our species, and so far as we know our only home. We are close to committing – many would argue are already committing – what in our language is called Crimes against Creation.
Combined Statement of Scientists and Biologists, including Astronomer Carl Sagan.
Libra: Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend – You don't cherish their right hand and cut off their left. You can't love game and hate predators, conserve water and waste rainforests, build gardens and mine farms. The land is one organism.
Aldo Leopold, Ecologist.
Scorpio: The elimination of indigenous peoples has continued since the dawn of Industrial Development. Why? Because our philosophies run counter to rampant, unsustainable development – we could never allow stripping the land's resources at a cost to future generations and life itself.
Ruby Dunstan – Lytton Indian, British Colombia.
Sagittarius: The turning earth brings the biosphere sunlight, and a great breath; tons upon tons of oxygen from green plants being charged food storages by the onrush of solar photons. And with nightfall, a giant exhalation of carbon dioxide – the activity of living machinery.
Howard Odum, ecologist.
Capricorn: The ignorance of ecological principals that are causing the destruction of tropical rainforests during our lifetime promises to drive to extinction somewhere near a quarter of the world's bio-diversity before our grandchildren have the chance to learn about it.
Peter Raven, botanist.
Aquarius: How can we express our horror and repulsion at the policies of industry and government designed to destroy all life? Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the conscious effort to maintain all harmonious existence between all peoples and beings of the planet.
Iroquois Indian Confederacy.
Pisces: From the perspective that all things on Earth harbour a divine ember, indigenous people feel spiritually connected to their surroundings. Everything in the natural world – fish, flesh, or flower, stone, star, or rain shower – continuously bears witness to a shared past.
Peter Knudson, biologist and David Suzuki, geneticist.
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