Forecast for Friday 21 August 2009

Friday 21 August 2009

\Orientation Upward and Downward/

It may not be fun to hear that the ||retreat third of the week is heavily upon us when the weekend is beginning. However, that word "retreat" can mean a spiritual retreat, or even a retreat with a special friend or friends when internal processes and discoveries assume greater importance than outward "progress." None of this probably will be easy because the Grand Square remains with us, pushing us to discover something basic about potentials we have been overlooking. (The exact times of the ||retreat were given yesterday; it ends early Sunday morning.) Astrology shows us that the universe will not let us stop growing and learning unless we opt out from that universe itself. Some spiritual paths recommend just that. Sri Aurobindo, Jesus, and many other teachers recommend instead finding the inner peace some call Nirvana while remaining connected and active in the consensual universe.

It is possible to find uplifting states of consciousness within yourself and share them with your neighborhood or community. This can be done silently rather than through misunderstood verbiage. It could also be done through menial service, although this is not easy while the moon and Saturn are together in Virgo. A sort of convalescence concerning health matters could go on in private.

Self-reliance is a virtue when it is Self-reliance, depending on the Supreme One to guide you even if people around you misunderstand what you are doing.

The sun's aspects have been developing something in you which is now emerging as sagely comprehension of mysteries you had previously failed to grasp. Sol's opposition with Jupiter and Neptune, while trining Uranus and sextile Mars, has been stirring you to reach for deeper understanding, and now you are happy to know that even if problems remain, the solving of them is a thrilling adventure you wouldn't want to miss.

Someone who has become a world teacher has shown you methods which are bearing fruit. You have engaged in deep study in order to be ready for this. You may despair that younger or less mature people are unable to see what you have seen.

Such impatience is understandable. It is hard to wait for people to mature, but the finest whiskies require nine or twelve years or more to become potable in the way their artificers envisage. We need to be at least as patient with human beings, whatever their age.

You have been patient with yourself, and now amazing insights are coming to you while Mercury opposes Uranus. This is enlightenment of an unusual nature. It may see strange that each person has his or her own science of the universe, yet this is almost true under the rays of Uranus the discoverer. What you discover no one else has dis-covered or uncovered.

Young people who seem arrogant may be realizing somewhere subconsciously that they can do just that, but not yet, and so they feel frustrated, or resentful, when older individuals display their own earned wisdom. Yet today everyone, whatever the level of maturation, can appreciate a long calm road ahead which leads on toward fulfillment; provided of course that they are patient, which is what the ||retreat third of the week demands from us.

Appreciating beauty or charm in others enhances your ability to appreciate it in yourself. The same applies to nature, and you may enjoy being out where the glories of the season are at their peak (at least in the northern hemisphere). Someone you meet or observe on a large tract of land or in a park may be disturbing yet hauntingly memorable. You remain separate except at a level of soul-telepathy.

So the maturing realizations within yourself orient you to the natural, human, and divine worlds in a way which makes you a silent blessing beyond what even you or others perceive.

{Friday} /Orientation Upward and Downward\

Cosmic Piper