Forecast for Monday 3 May 2010

Monday 3 May 2010

\Decks Cleared for Realistic Agenda/

A fascinating article in Sunday's New York Times suggests that complexity is doing us in. The complexity of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. (Does anybody really know who is fighting whom, who is supporting whom, who is paying off whom, who is honest and who dishonest?) The complexity of the "financial instruments" used by Goldman Sachs and other investment bankers to bilk the public, other corporations and one another. The complexity of accounting, of medicine, and on and on.

Some are saying that complexity---too many peoples to rule, too many rulers and soldiers and too many rules---is what did in the Roman Empire.

So there is a great desire for simplicity amid all the complexity. Yet the Bible and other Scriptures are not simple books! Quite the contrary. But if you were to read your chosen sacred book consistently, every day, the complexity of it would resolve within your mind and comprehension into a sort of simplicity which could, at best, be the veritable Philosopher's Stone with super-magical power.

Thus we resolve the complex into the triumphant and lead into gold.

Astrology is another path to simplicity through complexity. I do not like the complexity of these daily forecasts. I am always trying to eliminate factors and make things more straightforward. Yet I think the real simplicity is what you will discover for yourself, each day, after pondering the complexities I am forced to set out in order to be honest with you.

Saturday and Sunday were the specially |worrisome or difficult| days this week, so today (Monday) could be less stressful or confusing; yet confusing it remains. Mercury remains retrograde until May 12th; the Dark Epoch until May 28th. However, with the moon in Capricorn, you will find yourself level-headed and realistic. Fuzzy solutions will appear to be no solutions. So you will clarify and make more precise your intentions and goals. Your agenda will slim until it becomes an agenda you could swallow. Bon appetit!

Appetites of the physical sort, however, may diminish while the moon is in Capricorn, or one may be indifferent to food while putting work above everything. These can be "bad hair days" and yet with the moon trine Saturn you may arrive at some solution to a hair problem.

Vindictiveness can be a tendency with the sun square Mars. This could come out, unfortunately, in military matters, but it can come out in women also---witness dear Blair of Gossip Girl. She would have the sun square Mars in her natal horoscope if she were a real person. If you have a bee in your bonnet about something, weigh the result of your approach to correcting the situation carefully. Mercury is retrograde. You may be seeing only part of the picture. So you could embarrass yourself if you make accusations which seem right to you now but turn out to be only partially correct. If you have weighed everything carefully and still feel you need to protest something, then you can do so if you avoid crassness, name-calling and violence. Mars has a right to make his claims, when he is right. That is known as police power. What are you policing? Those who police themselves earn a right to police others (sometimes).

Money? I do not predict the daily stock prices. Today is a day you could pare down financially, cut costs, evaluate what you are spending on communications, technology, or travel, and decide that less is more.

Ideas are fascinating and research could be thrilling. You feel somewhat like a detective with a promising lead. Then you may end up being led in paths you hadn't suspected.

Under Saturn's opposition with Uranus, according to Robert deLuce, "it is well to lighten cargo and throw overboard whatever hampers, delays or clutters up the decks. Property, position, social standing are frequently only chains that bind a man to a treadmill existence. These aspects of Uranus to Saturn will free him."

Now let's think about that a little. This aspect has been with us, on and off, since September 2008. Remember what happened then? One of the biggest slides in the Market ever, the beginning of a recession. Millions lost a third to a half of their amassed wealth. We are still recovering from that, and the aspect is not over. It was exact again on Friday, when the Market slid by two per cent, after drops earlier in the week. As said, I shall not predict the Market but whatever is happening within the worldwide economy (the European problems are getting much attention) would seem to be bearing out Robert DeLuce's interpretation of this aspect. (He was a mining engineer in the great Southwest as well as an astrologer who pondered the stars at night.) Of course, not all will want to be "freed from" property, position and social standing! Well, it is not quite that dire. Things are being shaken up. This aspect will not be finished with us until October of this year.

It is very good for study, research, learning, and revolution within the mind. What you thought you knew you may question, but further answers can be revealed. So it can be a thrilling process of rediscovering old things while seeing how they play into new things. (I am doing that, for example, with the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, whom I refuse to call myths. It is not well to offend them.)

Calm realism is a gift of the moon in Capricorn. May it pacify and strengthen your living.

{Monday} /Decks Cleared for Realistic Agenda\

Cosmic Piper