Forecast for Thursday 29 July 2010

Thursday 29 July 2010

~Separations Promoting Perspective~

To an astrologer the major thing to look at in current charts is the quadruple opposition of Jupiter-Uranus with Mars-Saturn, exact now, with Mars within a degree of conjoining Saturn and within a degree of opposing Uranus. This is intense. I am glad that so far there have been no major outbreaks of violence (that I am aware of) other than the usual violence (which ought not to be usual) of warfare, terrorism and the like. There was a plane crash in Pakistan killing 152 people---Uranus often involves airline disasters when it is heavily badly aspected. I hesitate to say that because some people may think I mean they should cancel all their air travel. I didn't say that. Astrology is statistical and difficult, not pat and simple-minded. To me, this combination of oppositions is coming out in simple everyday ways, such as this morning. I went to a meeting of like-minded people working on a common problem. We meet every week. Today the leader of the group sat doing a crossword puzzle. He hardly looked up. He did say a few words about a few topics and went back to his puzzle while the rest of us talked. Then he dismissed the meeting abruptly, when we had done almost nothing. To me, this is Mars conjoined to Saturn and opposing Uranus---disruption, rupture, breaks in normal relations with people, covert harshness or resentment (or, if not covert, then semi-violent).

But of course all that is just because we do not know how to respond to these aspects yet. If we are in a school devised by the gods, they are teaching us how to react and live under all kinds of astrological conditions. Now they are trying to teach us how to behave under difficult Mars-Saturn-Uranus aspects. It is hard not to be impatient, frustrated, and upset or even angry. Yet we can learn how to traverse these rocky and rushing waters. I am not even going to try to tell you exactly how. Each of us is learning in her or his own way. Here is one way, which I read in my Gospel chapter for the day this morning: "And so angry was the master [at the man's unforgiving attitude toward his debtor] that he condemned the man to torture until he should pay the debt in full. And that is how my heavenly Father will deal with you, unless you each forgive your brother [or sister] from your hearts." (Matthew 18, end of chapter) A hard saying and hard teaching, but perhaps one we need to ponder at this point.

Combined with this is, for today, the moon's opposition with Venus as well as (later) Mars and Saturn while it moves toward Uranus. The moon-Venus opposition can be separation. You may be feeling separated from someone or more than one in a mournful manner. Perhaps they are feeling the same about you.

The helpful aspect is the sun's position trining one pair of the opposed pairs and sextiling the other pair. This is a cushioning aspect which makes things somewhat easier. The trick it to "tune in to it." Since the sun is in Leo, a Leo individual might help you, such as a great spiritual teacher such as Sri Aurobindo (or H. P. Blavatsky, also a Leo, or perhaps Max Heindel). Or maybe even a temporal leader such as Barack Obama.

Truth is in us; let it shine.

We can master painful moods and separations. Things and people separate, it seems, in order to come together again in a better way, wiser and more understanding of one another. If this process seems slow, well . . .

{Thursday} ~Separations Promoting Perspective~

Cosmic Piper