Forecast for Saturday 22 August 2009

Saturday 22 August 2009

}Internal Resilience{

I have been sitting here helplessly for a half hour waiting for my email to load on a very slow Internet connection. This is typical of (a) the Dark Hermetic Epoch and (b) the ||retreat or difficult third of the week, and we are suffering both of them as I write on Friday. I have only a certain span of time in which to write this so will do what I can.

On Saturday the moon is void of course for a few hours before it enters Libra at 8:13a PT | 11:13a ET | 3:13p UT. We are still in the ||retreat or difficult third of the week until the time given two days ago in these reports (Sunday morning).

Even though it is hard to connect with people you may find surprising connections at times or evoke them if you want to go through the trouble involved.

The uncertainty of things is such that you ought to trust your intuition to decide momentary venues. Many of them may be private rather than public, or you may be alone more than usual. The moon in Libra, however, bespeaks a social instinct, which you will feel even if expressing it is problematic or spasmodic.

Under such circumstances, covert or sneaky ways of getting what you want could occur to you. Taking advantage of the unwary is not cool, although doing it as a sort of game with no intent to hurt anyone could break the ice or open a door.

A game, whether physical or mental, could be a way of facilitating interaction.

Your relation to the world of the sensuous, that is, erotic desires, may be somewhat cold, reserved, curious and intellectual, rather than spontaneous and passionate. You feel the latter approach would result in rebuke or hurt and so tend to avoid it. You skirt around the edges, observe people cagily and wonder what is holding everyone in check.

Part of this is Mercury square Mars, a suspicious aspect, and one which wants to use people before being used. That is one reason I suggested games, where this is an accepted procedure. However, in the ||difficult third of the week people tend to tire of games, and so some serious work you believe in could be your way of applying the mental energies which bubble out under this configuration. Such labor would be useful to the world at large and maybe to special friends.

A trend toward lethargy is evident, that is, just giving up, or casting a cold eye on all motivations and taking comfort in rest. Well, this is Saturday, the day of rest according to Hebrew law, so perhaps there is justification for the attitude.

At worst, the slew of aspects involving Mars--a Grand Square--could produce envy and a desire to either put down others who seem to have an upper hand in some way or cast aspersions on them and avoid them. You may abandon dreams and plans, and point out that others who have achieved their dreams soon find them turning to ashes. This sort of doubt has a philosophic value, showing that you need to find the real spiritual platform of your life and hopes before you can proceed on a sound basis.

The esthetic could rescue you, that is whatever makes you see that the world is beautiful and interesting. Your personal taste is your own and may not coincide with that of those around you, so either you can accommodate with them in one manner or another, or go it alone while building up internal energy and confidence for another day.

I do not do a regular report for Sunday, but shall mention that we will be out of the ||retreat third of the week early in the morning, and the moon's trines with three planets should make it a happier period.

{Saturday} {Internal Resilience}

Cosmic Piper