Forecast for Tuesday 12 January 2010

Tuesday 12 January 2010

*A Little Persistence*

Things seem mellow and relaxed while the moon wanes; a peaceful unruffled approach is best. Today begins the |difficult third of the week|, extending through Wednesday and ending Thursday in late morning. However, the moon's approach to a sextile with Neptune and Jupiter is heartening or at least ameliorative, until Luna goes void of course at 6:44p PT | 9:44p ET | 2:44a(W) UT.

People who are gruff and outspoken have their issues to work out. They resent injustices and hold grudges until they are convinced someone is their friend. Issues with foreigners are likely, or with those who seem foreign to you.

Costs of travel and of career plans, or of educational ventures, are weighed. You can take your time with all that; decisions will be clearer late this week or next, or else by early February. Considering options is fine, but not forcing choices when the time is not ripe.

Those who are convivial and enjoyable as companions are not always wise. That does not mean they are not good companions, but that one ought to be on guard to make sure they don't lead one down the garden path toward the snake pit. Enjoying simple pleasures is fine so long as decorum and equilibrium are maintained.

Certain opportunities for satisfaction seem locked up. Either the door doesn't open or it opens on something you didn't want. The good Jupiter aspect already mentioned could lead to deeper philosophic-spiritual satisfaction, not dependent on momentary highs.

Sometimes those who do well in the world's eyes, executing successful plans admirably, still have one major desire unfulfilled, and live out their lives with the world's approval masking secret gnawing despair. These are the kinds who take their own lives unexpectedly, or, like Howard Hughes, retreat into solipsism. The spiritual answer to this is the same as the spiritual answer to everything; I shall neither lecture nor preach, for you can summon up what I would say.

Oh, considering the chart further, I see that I had better lecture and preach: Console yourself, first, with the thought that no one else, wealthy or famous or powerful or beloved, is really more secure in happiness than you, if you decide to be secure. Secondly, resolve to keep on with the hopes and plans which make the most sense to you, even if, at times like this, you spend no more than five or twenty minutes on them on a given day. A little is better than nothing. Keeping the lamp lit during the dark times, and doing that knitting or engine-tinkering or accounting or writing or painting or networking, is better than giving up. Even if it's just a little.

{Tuesday} *A Little Persistence*

Cosmic Piper