Forecast for Friday 12 March 2010

Friday 12 March 2010

}The Winding, Fascinating Social Process{

It seems like a drifting, mostly easy day. Any generalization like that is bound to be wrong because our lives are complex and the motions of the planets and the moon are complex. But I put that down as a first sentence because it could give you clues. Likewise for the rest of this report. Not absolute statements, but clues. You are the detective in and of your own life.

It's a day for friendship, or for letting yourself be your own friend if other friends are unavailable.

This Bright Epoch (up to April 4) has been confused or slowed down by a retrograde Mars. That changed Wednesday when Mars turned direct at 9:17a PT | 12:17p ET | 5:17p UT. He is still going very slowly but his forward motion helps to pull us out of the doldrums.

Today the "doldrums" have to do with the moon forming no aspects except a conjunction with Neptune (in Aquarius) early on Saturday. So there could be lassitude. If you had been able to take this day off from your regular work, that might be ideal; or, at work, you can coast along with routine or relatively painless projects. The idealism and inspiration of Neptune are with us, but at the level of ordinary business they might seem unrealistic.

You are sensitive to your own interests as allied with those of a group, or set of associates or friends. So you can speculate on future developments in an intelligent manner. Although your interests are not identical with those of the group, perhaps, facilitating the latter facilitates the former in a natural way.

Costs are a normal focus of attention while Venus and Saturn, opposed, form a T square with Pluto. None of us like expenses we can't avoid. These include, of course, taxes for many at this time of the year. As I pointed out in January, this period of the Bright Epoch is the best time to get them done; that means by April 4.

You see how certain other big expenses are going to facilitate your goals, and your social life, in the near future, and so you can accept them with resignation.

You can guard people, whether younger or less experienced, or protect them from painful learning experiences, if they are willing to learn from you. In a way you are setting an example for them. (Likewise someone may be doing this for you, if you are humble enough to learn.)

Presence of mind makes you wily when it comes to chancy interactions. People are needing such interaction as a substitute for missing friendship, or, in some cases, a lead-up to friendship. You can trust and enjoy that social process (even if you are also guarding yourself from inappropriate or wasteful entanglement).

{Friday} {The Winding, Fascinating Social Process}

Cosmic Piper