Forecast for Friday 30 October 2009

Friday 30 October 2009

*Deep Stabilization*

The moon is void of course until it enters Aries at 10:57a PT | 1:57p ET | 5:57p UT. The whole day is the center of the |difficult| third of the week.

Many are pondering their deeper philosophies or ways or relating to God, the world and humanity. I have recently been pondering what I have read about certain existentialist philosophers, who insist that we each are responsible for our own lives and choices. Most of them would resist if not combat astrology. I assure you that there is no conflict between astrology and the better forms of existentialism, such as those of Kierkegaard, Mounier and Jaspers. The conflict is in appearance only. It is so evident that people reflect and act out their horoscopes that there is no doubt about it to anyone who has studied the matter, observing his friends and relatives through their horoscopes. It is indubitable. So philosophers are going to have to deal with that. Astrology does not show that people are merely their horoscopes, or puppets of the planets. It shows rather that the only way they can be free is to understand and work with their place in the universe, which is revealed by their horoscopes whether they realize this or not. The interaction between freedom (which is real) and our links with the world (often called determinism) is a perennial philosophic issue. Astrology helps to see how that interaction works out. We are still responsible for our personal decisions and choices; the stars are not. But they show where we begin, and what we have to cope with.

Sri Aurobindo expressed an existentialist viewpoint succinctly, although he certainly did not belong to that school of philosophy, in his epic poem Savitri (p. 434):
To choose his path among the many paths
Is given him, for each his difficult goal
Hewn out of infinite possibility.

But he was also an occultist, and in other sections of the poem points out how our lives are laid out along paths we have made for ourselves in past lifetimes. In my view, that is what the birth horoscope reveals. Past choices, not a cosmic dice-player, determined when we were born and therefore our horoscopes. Therefore, what we do in this life and how we employ our horoscopes determines how and when we shall be reborn, if that is indeed our destiny. Further, horoscopes are not as limiting as we think. If compared to instruments, although they look and sound very different, any instrument can play either cacophonous discord or a love-song or a hymn. Further, if we compare humanity to an orchestra, different kinds of instruments are needed. (But let's think of the orchestra as conducted by the Overmind or Supermind, in Sri Aurobindo's terms, not a limiting humanly composed score. Astrology could reveal all three of those, so flexible is it, and amenable to higher degrees of understanding, so that it becomes a different kind of astrology depending on the degree of comprehension of the astrologer.)

Articulating your way of relating to the world and people is becoming sharper and more definite, with Saturn now in Libra (the timing of this was laid out yesterday). What has been conflict, aggression or wounding can become tete-a-tete, that is, at best, mutual understanding (no matter how remote that goal).

Your link with nature and events can be inconsequential, or uplifting through rapport.

Loneliness is a natural condition at times, deriving from our suspicion of one another perhaps, yet we do need our own space in order to recover from social stress.

Mercury's (and the sun's) square with Mars can be wantonness, that is, anger and destruction when no reconciliation between divergent impulses, desires or attitudes seems possible. But when you get beyond that level of conflict you find relieving stabilization.

Cultivating more refined sensibilities is possible, when the laxly sensuous is recognized and sublimated.

The talents of someone you admire sustain your talents indirectly. Each is superior in his field of expertise or expression.

Spiritual heritage is wonderful. You have one. When you let it permeate your life and consciousness you are at peace.

{Friday} *Deep Stabilization*

Cosmic Piper