Forecast for Friday 11 June 2010

Friday 11 June 2010

}Hope Springs from Pandora's Box{

[I didn't post a message for Thursday because Wednesday was a very busy day for me.]

So much going on! The summers over the past several and future quite-a-few years are full of the quincunx aspect, because the slow-moving planets Pluto and Neptune are off in the winter portion of the sky so that if they are not opposed by the summer planets (sun, Venus, Mercury and usually Mars) they are "quincunxed" to use a barbarian word. This is a transitional aspect, requiring readjustment. Oh boy! you must be thinking. More of that. Okay, maybe with astrology everything is readjustment. I struggle to find words. I take account of these usually subliminally and do not mention them directly. There are more of them now than ever before this year. When two of them hit on one planet, it is called a Yod. There is a Yod now with Venus and Saturn hitting on Neptune. This accentuates psychic awareness. You may be alert to coincidences, involving both the living and the so-called dead, who are more alive than we imagine.

Another focus is study and learning, which can be demanding but also deeply satisfying and even thrilling. You are not content with the superficial.

Today is the day of the "dying moon" approaching the sun in Gemini for Saturday's New Moon. It may be good to slow down, keep to yourself or get extra rest.

And yet, with Venus moving closer and closer to her sweet trine with Uranus and Jupiter, there can be a happy social atmosphere. There is something at least which every person is feeling high about. So you will find people more smiley and friendly than one might expect with all the other pressurizing aspects going on, such as Mars square Mercury, which is controversy. Really this can be a constructive aspect if used to sharpen one's perception, awareness and skill. Learning, and expressing learning, are an investment in the unknown for the sake of the known.

Sometimes there is a feeling of "too much" to do or organize; yet with Mars in Virgo you have a will-to-organize and so can put things in order, both materially in house or office and mentally in thinking and planning. What you can't do can be on the side palate, what you can do on the workbench.

The sense of overwhelming potentiality, with Uranus and Jupiter in the first degree of the zodiac (of Aries), is an asset. Everything is possible! So you choose, because everything is really not a possibility, only something chosen out of it. Voila!

Then Saturn in Virgo opposing these two says, "In choosing you need to consider the past, what you have failed at, what you have learned, what you can avoid, and how you can try in a better way to do the same old thing you did in a worse way before." This is the Saturn-Jupiter mutation: You review, you see a better way, and you go ahead.

Mars trine Pluto in earth signs, and Venus sextile Saturn, suggest that the business world is with you. Resources are available, no matter what the employment, debt, and equity picture. Somehow or other the economy, and yours, is picking up, no matter what the statistics.

Side issues are like something caught on your pantleg, or untied shoelaces. You ignore them when you can; fix them quickly when you must.

I hope the sense of happy potentialities sustains your mood even through the |difficult or touchy third of the week| which begins in late afternoon today and ends late afternoon Sunday. It need not be a total downer. It makes us more circumspect and sober, which is not a bad thing; but the Venus aspects make us hopeful and, let's hope, happy.

{Friday} {Hope Springs from Pandora's Box}

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