Forecast for Tuesday 20 July 2010

Tuesday 20 July 2010

*Competence*

The moon is in Scorpio until it enters Sagittarius at 4:50p PT | 7:50p ET | 11:50p UT.

This looks like an excellent day, perhaps the best of the week. There is virtually no void-of-course time---or one lasting about 6 minutes before the moon enters Sagittarius---and plenty of fine lunar aspects strengthening you for being up and about your business. You could strike deals, make trades, settle financial matters, make purchases, and confer with anyone involved in your work.

People are mostly well-disposed toward one another even though Mars is conjoining Saturn while opposing Uranus and Jupiter. This is a finicky and demanding aspect, as evidenced in the U.S. by all the squabbling over politics, the President, the financial reform bill, and immigration. Most of it seems to go in circles---rather than to be aimed at real solutions. However, the seriousness of the Mars-Saturn combination in Virgo means that some solutions indeed are being found (during a Bright Hermetic Epoch) even if people are not willing to acknowledge that, such as the cap on the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Interestingly enough, this has happened while Saturn is in the last degree of Virgo, an earth (oil) sign and the sign of the very sort of arduous labor and technological precision demanded in the feat of stemming the flow. She (he or it) enters Libra on Wednesday, not to return to Virgo for something like 25 or 26 years. We can celebrate that, because Saturn has been said since ancient times to be exalted in Libra. Perhaps legal and court matters will be straightened out more harmoniously (over the next two years) than we might have thought possible.

The August-September period, even though a Dark Epoch, could be good for romance since Venus and Mars will be together in Venus's sign Libra. Often in a Dark (or Backward) Epoch people return to previous loves or old friends. You may be getting glimmers of whom this might be in your intuition, even if premature. New loves are not ruled out (since they could be from past incarnations, for example).

Money matters connected with your home or efforts to improve it could work out by the end of October or early November. (This has been hinted at before.)

You might get tickets for an entertainment or sporting event coming up in the first week of August. This could be a good idea. You might feel more prosperous at that time also, and might plan now for better income then.

Matters you are researching or studying with a determined attention to details will become clearer for you over the next two years (perhaps especially by November 2011).

This is a good day, and evening, to make plans, record goals or agendas, and settle things.

{Tuesday} *Competence*

Cosmic Piper