Forecast for Friday 14 May 2010

Friday 14 May 2010

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At this turning point of a fresh lunar cycle plus the early beginnings of a fresh Mercury cycle, let's take a longer-term look at prevailing aspects:

The New Moon of last evening helps get things moving a little, but much remains indefinite. The opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, increasing daily, is somewhat morose. (It lasts for a long time, through September 27.) You and others are restless and discontented. To attain inner peace it may be necessary to give up certain things. Realizing that one does not need something one had set one's hopes on is hard. Sometimes it merely needs to be postponed. Other times is needs to be dropped completely in favor of something else which is more in accord with one's destiny, and therefore better even if it doesn't seem so at first.

Qualities of genius within you, what you are able to do which no one else seems able to do or understand, are pressured by the Saturn-Uranus opposition to find outlets "acceptable" to the world at large and this could make you feel partially defeated. "They" don't see your skills and plans the way you do. As I elucidated last week, this aspect lasts two whole years until October this year. It began in September 2008. It has a lot to do with the continuing economic turmoil. By now you are probably finding your place within all that, but that "place" requires a great deal of patience until your fortunes eventually stabilize.

You may have been tracking, recently, someone who is or has been dishonest, tricky or evasive. Under-the-table deals come to light, at some point, to the discomfort of the one fingered. So there is shame, or else blame toward one who feels no shame. Or this might just be the evasive behavior of someone you thought was a friend. You may wish he or she would state what is on his mind rather than hide it.

The square of Venus and Saturn (May 10-25) is somber and serious. It does not deny love or pleasure but makes them more self-conscious and concern-ridden. It is a "Whom do you trust?" aspect. You tend to rely on and believe in long-term trusted friends, unless you feel they have deserted you. Sometimes it is hard to know. It is well to be aware that other people will be feeling this and doubting everyone and everything, including you, so if they are abrupt or moody or touchy you can give them some slack. They probably think you are the touchy one.

Details of learning or study are accented as something you have been struggling to set in order. You can do it even if the process is tedious.

Your feelings may have been directed toward someone at a distance who seems to clash with you, yet fascinate you. You wonder if this person is really an enemy, or friend in disguise, or neither. So you drop him or her, but then find that he or she keeps coming back into your consciousness. Something can be learned here which is contrary to your predilections.

The trine of Mercury and Pluto, long-continuing (March 30 through May 29), is an investigative tendency or flair. It makes you the detective. We see this in the Congressional investigations into Wall Street shenanigans and the oil spill fiasco, for example. In your own life it may be a continuous process of finding out fresh things about people or issues you care about. This should be getting easier and more productive at this point, so that by the beginning of the two-month Bright Hermetic Epoch on May 28 you will be set up for a more practical approach.

The sun's trine with Saturn reinforces the good parts of what has been said, for it gives a patient desire to ordinate or control all factors with which you are dealing. It does not give luck. It gives rather an ability to think clearly, plan soundly, and shape the destiny of your business, company, community, or project with common sense and intelligent awareness of all pertinent factors. It will be exact early next week and then last a couple more weeks, so it helps us prepare for the Bright Hermetic Epoch from May 28 through July 31.

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Cosmic Piper

P. S. It might help to read this several times on different days, or save or copy it. You will probably not see all that it means in your life from one reading. [And, I must say, all thanks to C. E. O. Carter whose book on the aspects helped me write this, though, if you look at the book, you will see that I did not plagiarize. I added his knowledge to mine, plus my observation and experience.]