Forecast for Saturday 3 April 2010

Saturday 3 April 2010

*Cultural Agenda*

Vista 1: Your morale is what keeps you going. It is highly important. It is dangerous only in the case of a sociopath who does not understand basic goodness or care at all about other human beings except in pretense. In all other cases, the society itself corrects whatever is excessive, such as egotism. So you can let your morale or basic confidence hold you up on the paths you have chosen. Your strategies may involve surveillance of the "enemy" who is such only in the game-like scenario of human life, not in reality. At times you may feel gloomy, even more in the evening, as if everything were pointless and life a cheat. (This, of course, spiritually, could be connected with the fact that this is Holy Saturday when Jesus is said, symbolically, to have descended into Hell before his resurrection tomorrow, Hell being the domain of Saturn [Saturn-day] and the resurrection the prerogative of the sun [Sun-day, in this case Easter]. But I derived the preceding statements from planetary positions, not from Christian tradition.) Still, there is a desire for an outing today, and that is good. You want to be in your neighborhood or community among others who are refreshing themselves through changeful adventure. Your morale contributes to this and is boosted by it.

Vista 2: You may be apportioning all the things you want to study. We all have a desire to know more and to be more cultured or conversant with the world's treasures of music, art, and poetry. Each does this in his or her own way but today you might sit down and ponder what you want to read, study, listen to, view, or experience. There is so much to choose from that making some plan or other might help, although such plans are always subject to revision or else they wouldn't be much fun. You might visit a library, unless you are allergic to paper and ink, preferring virtual books in metal, plastic and electricity. A three-dimensional art gallery might be as interesting as one on the Internet, maybe?

You have set up certain patterns which function automatically in your life, and they delight you. They are your habit-substratum. With these as a basis you adventure into the world of other human beings. Such settled patterns also give you a basis for skills, which you develop through the diligence which produces something of which you are proud.

Even non-Christians might be subconsciously aware of the mood of grief, or sadness, which anciently and properly accents the two days preceding Easter. The mother of Savitri in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem says that the sufferings of others are harder to bear than her own. Such suffering leads to internal spiritual reorientation. Then it does not result in loss of aplomb.

Vista 3: It is well to prevent catastrophes resulting from impulse. One can become headstrong, argumentative and angry before one realizes what has happened, and precipitate more painful experiences than one needs to go through. "Don't go there" is a true admonition to many of our burgeoning desires to interfere where we don't belong. On the other hand, pusillanimous timidity is not smart either. Watchful self-restraint can lead to thrilling results when you wait for the right moment to encounter or embrace someone or something which excites you. Consciousness of others, of their inward thoughts and motives so far as you can sense them, is not invasion of privacy when it is needed to protect you from treacherous instincts they may not even know they harbor. This is not paranoia when based on aplomb. It can lead you on to better experiences with those who are genuine, kindly, full of heart, content with their position in the world and friendly with Nature and humanity. We need that sort of restored confidence in basic goodness.

{Saturday} *Cultural Agenda*

[As usual, no report for Sunday. I hope you have a happy Easter and one brimming over with the spiritual meaning of the day, at least at certain moments.]

Cosmic Piper