Forecast for Thursday 1 April 2010

Thursday 1 April 2010

~The Drama of Self- and Other-Evaluation~

Although Aries (wherein the sun wanders this time of year) is red, what sprouts through the soil or on the branches is generally green (sometimes reddish!). I go for the green.

I wonder if the moon in Scorpio, a money sign, but at the end of it so no longer in the Halloween portion of the zodiac (the Via Combusta), and trine Jupiter and Uranus, suggests that this is a day some will tackle taxes if they haven't already. The new page on the calendar is also a spur. But no Fool's Day jokes this time.

In the forecast for Wednesday I said: Depravity and sociopathy are a factor in humanity---and it must be said almost entirely in male humanity---which baffle all decent people. Adventure can turn into total disregard of others' rights in order to advance one's own. Then there is catastrophe. Some individuals are merely drawn into the sociopathology of others by being passive in their presence, or getting a thrill out of participating in their immoral or evil adventures. (Even those who spend too much time reading about serial killers or warfare may fall in this category.) This was a pretty sharp forecast for my home town at least, because at lunch hour at the high school next door a Vietnam vet who seemed intoxicated started yelling at boys in the schoolyard, across the fence, calling them "punks" and so on, and there was some verbal altercation but fortunately nothing physical. This was a little signature of what is going on astrologically while Venus and Mars are square. Mars in Leo is boys or young men; Venus in Taurus is "punk" only in the sense that the original meaning of that word was sexual, implying that boys are girls (Taurus the sign of Venus)---"punk" meaning a potential object of homosexual anal intercourse. So this rather humorous (fortunately) altercation was "in the stars." Also in the schoolyard. (Unfortunately, such humor is no longer so humorous with the lurking presence of AIDS. The moon in Scorpio and the Via Combusta is not a good time for any kind of sexual or military or fisticuffic adventure. The ridiculously idiotic invasion of Iraq by the U.S. in March 2003 began while the moon was in the Via Combusta, the dangerous Halloween portion of the zodiac. You are still paying for that, by April 15 if not already. No doubt some day veterans of that war will be taunting schoolboys.)

Now for Thursday:

Story 1: You are on the lookout for potential changes in your home; possibly for a travel agenda. You enjoy being on the move locally. You get a thrill of energy from watching out for your own advantages and taking them. You could sell, buy or trade. The TV series Heroes has a message for the day: to sum up, the young people who have strange abilities have to face all kinds of trials, derision, and persecution before they find out how to use their powers (which is work even if it doesn't seem like that to others) and survive with poise in a strange world seeming too often inimical. Something like that is going on with you or with someone you know. Such individuals feel alone; isolated; looking for someone who understands or at least appreciates them for what they are.

Story 2: Some kind of entertainment or pastime is giving you a wider, broader view of life, so that you can apportion your interests more magnificently. What you learn is yours, emphatically; it heightens your morale so that you feel you can meet any situation with poise while evoking applause. Isn't it fun to be applauded, or winked at or smiled at by someone? There is an impetuous streak, which could make you insult people or mock at them or pretend to hurt them, and get away with it. Of course this is a waste of time if carried too far. You have work to finish, and don't mind doing it; but also you want to impact things and transform them. So you could be overly dramatic. Or just dramatic enough.

Story 3: Someone foreign or at a distance has transgressed certain limits and hurt himself or herself. It was not necessary to go so far, as if riding a horse too fast in the wrong place and suffering upset. You feel you could take advantage of the situation; overriding your more kindly side. You are cautious but keenly observant and willing to wait to use whatever you can from the remains of a quarrel you are witnessing. This can be thrilling. Within yourself, you are the judge of what is best, and so you contemplate how the later years of your life will go, the time of self-judgment when you will have to evaluate what you have accomplished in this life. Will you be bitterly disappointed with yourself, or will you bask in the setting sunlight of the rewards you have earned through consistent attention to what your soul wanted to achieve?

As before, you can choose the story that fits; or elements from all three.

{Thursday} ~The Drama of Self- and Other-Evaluation~

Cosmic Piper