Forecast for Tuesday 11 August 2009

Tuesday 11 August 2009

*Attempts Not Worthless*

The time is Prime until the moon in Aries goes void of course after its sextile with Neptune at 1:04p PT | 4:04p ET | 8:04p UT, when things are pretty indefinite until it enters Taurus at 9:51p PT | 12:51a(W) ET | 4:51a(W) UT.

There is back-and-forth between mental activity and physical, with a felt need for both while you sort out priorities. For the most part, moods are upbeat. You could straighten out papers, books, and Internet folders or activities. You have also a desire for higher knowledge, as through astrology or esoteric-spiritual instruction. Partnership of the spirit comes into prominence.

A desire to be at the top of a pyramid could be tough on you because you are not there despite repeated efforts in that direction. But the past does not rule the future. You are developing muscle and skill through frustrated attempts, which are certain to yield results eventually.

The desire for easy money can be a vice, unless the funds acquired are used for philanthropy or noble endeavors. You care about your "bottom line" and are struggling to make sense of ways of enhancing it. Such planning is possible, especially this week or before Tuesday the 18th when we are enter the Dark Hermetic Epoch. After that you could still do well, but settling many things before then could be wise.

You feel pride in activities you can share with friends. These demonstrate skill as well as generosity. You reveal useful secrets to them, whether intending to or not.

The spiritual partnership referred to in paragraph 2 has to do, partly, with strenuous endeavors which call forth your powers of industry, used to advance the interests of others as well as yourself. That is likely to keep you busy. In order to persist, you realize you need to look past disagreements which could impede such projects, for they are stumbling blocks rather than the essence of the matter.

A friend absent from you, or hard to get at, might appreciate the merest word or contact (preferably before the void-of-course time given above). Your sharing is not without a good impact even if both are too busy for much camaraderie. Your destiny with each other stems from the past and is lasting, no matter any current turmoil.

Holding on to things, gripping your destiny, manipulating your circumstances firmly, is necessary (Mars in a square with Mercury and Saturn). At the same time, philosophy is not without value, and Venus is offering more ethereal but not useless satisfactions through symbolic knowledge imbibed at the fount of nature or nature's motions (which include those of the planets of our System).

"Inaudible to our deaf mortal ears
The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant
To which life strives to fit our rhyme-beats here,
Melting our limits in the illimitable,
Tuning the finite to infinity."

--Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, p. 30

{Tuesday} *Attempts Not Worthless*

Cosmic Piper