Forecast for Thursday 21 January 2010

Thursday 21 January 2010

*Meandering, Relaxing or Dabbling Toward an Inchoate Future*

It's dismal. You must know it, as the Haitians do. Case in point: Today as I write (Wednesday) my Internet connection is missing so I have to use dial-up, which is so slow I have already wasted an hour trying to get things going; on top of that Microsoft insists on downloading updates on this slow connection and I am unable to stop it from doing so; making it almost impossible for me to use the Internet; so I am late writing this and don't have much time. What are the delays in your life?

A natural question would be, "Well then, when will this end?" I wish I had a quick answer. Robin Fairy was right the other day when she wrote to the group that they should heed what I say, that the Dark Hermetic Epoch is as important as Mercury retrograde, because while Mercury turned direct a couple days after the earthquake, we are still in the Dark Epoch until February 5, and both the Haitians and I, and probably you, are suffering continued delays and troubles; to me they seem worse instead of better. So my quick although not complete answer is, "Things will start getting better by February 5."

There are some fairly good planetary aspects in February, and some in March, and quite a few in April although another Dark Epoch begins on April 4. At any rate, in February and March you should be able to see where you are going and be more confident about what you are doing. (Unfortunately for me, by then you will have forgotten that I said this when you were perplexed, and so I will get no credit for having predicted it.)

Today, Thursday, has a few upbeat indications although we remain in the |difficult third of the week| until Friday morning. You may be more inclined to be out and about today than yesterday.

People may be argumentative, convinced they are right and you wrong. This is hard to deal with, although appealing to reason can have some effect and is worth trying. Of course it is better not to escalate things by getting upset and angry, although your anger may be justified. On the plus side, you are learning to be constant and faithful to your principles no matter what anyone thinks or says. That has something to do with career or other projects you are working on.

Mysteries of time and space appeal to your intellect or intuition, as if you could penetrate beyond the present in some inchoate or choate way. (Why is there a word "inchoate" but no word "choate"? The English language is among the most inconsistent. Although it does have a word "consistent.") You have romantic (that is, ethereal, uplifting, dreamy, not sexual) notions about some who have passed from this world and could ponder the history of your family or a group. History is something fixed, established, and yet we have to reconstruct it in order to get a grip on it. (Old photos. Diaries. Memoirs.) That is one peculiarity of the past.

Meanwhile the moon in Aries wants to rush into the future, but now, it seems, there is no discernible future to rush to.

I am not propounding riddles; the riddles are already there; I am trying to enunciate them inchoately. (If you can enunciate them choately, please do it.)

Attending to paperwork is a good idea, in some form or other, although I would say since taxes are not due until the middle of April, waiting until February to do them might not be a bad idea at all; you will probably do them more smoothly and quickly then.

Finding ways of reconciling seeming opposites is possible, at least in your study or bedroom; whether it could be done in a meeting room, office, or the Senate or House, is another matter.

Narcissism is budding; self-love or self-attraction; it is easier than trying to make it with someone alien to you; although that Other is looking at your through your own eyes or you could not see yourself at all; the absorbed, implicit Other is what you use to see yourself.

'Tis a time for riddles.

{Thursday} *Meandering, Relaxing or Dabbling Toward an Inchoate Future*

Cosmic Piper