Forecast for Monday 15 June 2009

~From Discontent, Creativity~

We begin the Bright Hermetic Epoch today. However, we are still in the ||difficult third of the week until Tuesday at 5:56a PT | 8:56a ET | 12:56p UT.

As for the stock market, if you had invested when I said it would be a good time to invest, in April (check the archive and you will see that I gave that advice then) you would have gained from 20 per cent to 80 per cent on your investment in less than two months.

But now I am not so sure. These prices seem to most observers to be unsustainable for very long and there could be a downward trend, not based specifically on astrological aspects (which are complex right now) but on common sense plus the fact that "things change" at the beginning of a new Hermetic Epoch.

I am not making a prediction along those lines but suggesting that if you are an investor, examine your strategy carefully.

Monday itself is rather unpredictable; strange things may happen. You care about being relatively independent in your job area or career. This can make for unusual attempts to get behind the data you are dealing with and manipulate the future in ways you hadn't planned specifically until now, although always the present is an outcome of what you have pondered in the past.

There is a warning to beware of gross appetites, whether of the gourmand or sexually preying nature. You could lose your way, and lose in general, through such a drift toward decadence. But Mars and Venus trine Saturn give strength to control impulses. The arts are a superb sublimation of whatever urges are springing up within you. Creating beauty is a sublimated version of creating children.

There is so much you could do successfully which yet seems trivial when you consider it. Yet you can choose well. During the ||difficult third of the week the past tends to rule, that is, finishing old things is wise.

You are confronting the basic struggles of your life. We each have our karmic burden which seems to make our progress toward hopes slow. We each have our own way of coping with and understanding that. The struggle itself is productive of goodness.

Things you have wanted to purchase to thrill you may pale, as if you realized they were not what you "really" want. What do they symbolize to you? That is what you want. When you know that, then you will choose the right symbols.

Nature calls to you, if not as romanticized then as directly experienced. What does it "mean"? It is Nature, our mother.

Items for the home may seem desirable, and some may be, if you examine possibilities well through shopping. The Internet indeed makes that easier, although sometimes browsing in stores is more pleasing. Secret sexual or romantic desire is loaded into everything you think you want to purchase. When you become aware of this you may make better choices.

You may find yourself self-indulgent. Rather than spank yourself for that, you could get to the bottom of it in other ways, such as using the urge toward indulgence a little more creatively to make things. Mars and Venus are in Taurus, an esthetically creative sign. Arts and crafts, whether material or mental, are a thrilling and satisfying pursuit.

{Monday} ~From Discontent, Creativity~

Cosmic Piper