Forecast for Monday 5 April 2010

Monday 5 April 2010

\From Conflict to Resolution to Pleasure/

The Dark Hermetic Epoch, lasting until May 28, began on Sunday at 8:14 a.m. Universal Time. Those of you who have been reading these forecasts for years know something of what that means, through experience. To new readers I will try to explain as we go along. In general it is a time for more internal, suggestive, indirect, reflective ways of doing things than for outward, ambitious, straightforward or aggressive ways of proceeding. It does not mean nothing can be done, obviously, but that the more ordinary or routine procedures are likely to be best, while radical changes of any kind are undesirable. Unusual and new ideas will come, but it is better to toy with them or work them out gradually than to try to implement them precipitately. It is a good time for "the inner life" of dreams, musings, meditation, insight and poetry. So if you are in a creative field, it could be a good time to create, or foster creations, but probably not so good for selling or promoting your efforts.

Sunday and Monday make up the |difficult third of the week| this time. It clears by early Tuesday morning. This is usually on the emotional plane, a fit of depression or the like, but can have unhappy physical results also.

The gloominess today is likely to lift somewhat by evening. You may feel an intensity in your work, a need to face or rise above disagreements, perhaps with one particular opponent. Why are there opponents? To teach you something, but it is hard to see that in the heat of the conflict. I might say that "crimes of passion" are likely today but that is not to frighten you. You might be on the alert though for such lurking passions in either the workplace or the family. Those in military positions are not likely to have an easy time of it. Police departments will be busy with the unexpected (which, for them, is pretty much the expected, but thicker today).

You can handle ordinary business transactions or deals well, with an emphasis on "ordinary." If you keep your nose to your business at headquarters, it can be a productive day.

Even entertainment or light conversation could have a dark side. Why do people hurt themselves, or each other? When there is a subconscious motivation toward that, it is highly important to become aware of it and root it out. Sometimes I think the violence in popular entertainment is a way we try to do that, however inadequate such informal "therapy" may be. When you hear of or suspect abusive behavior, it could be important to report it or otherwise intervene.

Seeing two opposing viewpoints is part of the "dialectic" so famed in philosophy, as in the work of Plato and Hegel. Not just seeing how they oppose each other in detail, but then proceeding to perceive what that means at a deeper level, which leads on to further insight. This may be important today whenever you run into conflicts which could have legal implications and need to be understood or mediated intelligently. The subtlety of advanced perceptions helps you get behind the immediate imbroglio and undermine whatever would be hurtful in it.

There are some indications of prosperity, or of pleasures enjoyed because of prosperity. There could even be a luxurious trend, sharing a meal or party with a workmate, even if the mood is touchy. Contentment through indulgence is normal as a reward for your work. This can remove some of the gloom pondered in previous paragraphs.

{Monday} /From Conflict to Resolution to Pleasure\

Cosmic Piper