Forecast for Wednesday 23 June 2010

Wednesday 23 June 2010

*With Stamina, Toward Comfort*

Cosmic Piper's demise was reported prematurely, by himself---yesterday. I had a terrible day, which I blamed mostly on the moon in the Via Combusta (Burning Way), and was at a point of near-despair when I wrote my non-forecast for Tuesday. Then, in the evening, everything got better and I had a nice time. Re-reading my report for the day, I found it was mostly true, for myself, if the evening is included in the day as of course it must be, and I received a vote of confidence from one reader.

So a reminder: Do not be so sure that the forecast for a given day is wrong until you have come to the end of the day and reviewed it.

I think I was psychically, subconsciously, aware yesterday that "something was brewing" which it usually is during the monthly Via Combusta period. The Burning Way plus Scorpio, a water sign, brews a fateful cup of tea one might wish to spurn. As things turn out, it looks like General Stanley McChrystal will be drinking it.

The moon left the Via Combusta, for another 25 days or so (the circuit of the moon through the zodiacal, not the synodic, zodiac is about 26 or 27 days, and the moon stays in the Via Combusta a little more than two days; you can do the math) on Tuesday at 7:46a PT | 10:46a ET | 2:56p UT. Just before that, the Rolling Stone article quoting McChrystal and his cronies was made public, or at least the crucial excerpts, and the public brouhaha began. So you see, the Burning Way is not a fiction. The Iraq invasion was begun by the U.S. during a Burning Way period. It has a lot to do with warfare, or kicking over the traces, or trouncing someone, or destroying oneself. To many, McChrystal's approval of this damning article for publication (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236) looks like an act of self-destruction. Unless, of course, as a canny Leo, he knew exactly what he was doing. We shall see.

Obviously Wednesday will be a crucial day for two Leos at least, Obama and McChrystal. The sign of drama is certainly staging a fascinating drama for us, wittingly or unwittingly. One Leo has power over the career and future of another. Skeptics who believe that the military has usurped control of its supposed civilian commander-in-chief might ask, which has power over which?

I do not predict that. To me, astrology is for deeper understanding of what happens rather than for predicting what happens (except in a general way as I do here). I have worked out daily charts which "work" for the twelve signs of the zodiac, just as conventional sun-sign forecasts are supposed to work (but seldom do). Don't ask me how to calculate them, I shall not tell. But in that chart for Wednesday Saturn is at the top of the chart, on the very cusp of the 10th house of career and public standing, for Leo (all those born with the sun in that sign). Obviously either Obama or McChrystal, or both, are going to have a career crisis Wednesday. It is, shall we say, interesting. I make no prediction. Something tells me that Obama will find a way of keeping McChrystal on and still maintaining an image of his power over the military. I could be very much wrong, however, and this could be the firing which many are anticipating, some with glee.

You personally may be much concerned with people you have spurned or who have spurned you. There is a sadness in human relations, whether those thought of are living or "dead".

Military and other honors--badges and stickers and diplomas--are pretty artificial. What is a man or woman worth? Would you look on the wall behind his or her desk?

To play chess you need to see the board from your opponent's viewpoint as well as your own. That is going on. Thereby intelligence is increased. (Although I am not sure that chess players increase their intelligence in other areas of their lives. There is much evidence to the contrary.)

People are looking beyond warfare, beyond the two sides (or three or six or a dozen sides in Afghanistan) toward something which is better. It's about time.

Let us pray that neither the President nor his general nor anyone else involved in this imbroglio will lose his head and act rashly. That gives momentary satisfaction through vengeance; but does not promote the long-term welfare of anyone. (I am on neither side; I am on the side of whatever will end stupid warfare.)

Whatever may happen, in some hidden area of your life you are happy and feeling that things are on an even keel.

The very unpredictability of children in their growing-and-learning process accents their free individuality. You may sense and approve of that in those around you as well as yourself. We have to be free to find ourselves, and free to find ourselves in others and others in ourselves.

Those who have secure advantages sometimes seem calm and at peace even in troublous periods. That could be you, or someone to whom you look for comfort.

As I have said on recent Wednesdays, today and tonight could be better party or social times than the rest of the week (until Sunday which is not bad).

{Wednesday} *With Stamina, Toward Comfort*

Cosmic Piper