Forecast for Weekend of July 31-August 1, 2010

Weekend of July 31-August 1, 2010

*Self and Other Tangle, Tango, Wrestle*

[Lest you misunderstand this title, I hope you will read on to the P. S. where I explain it. Perhaps the final sentences of the P. S. are the most important in this forecast.]

The moon had just gone void of course last night (Thursday) when I wrote Friday's forecast. If you read it you know that my computer stopped typing numbers. That is the first time that has ever happened to me in my 11 years of using computers. Very odd. Now here is the astrological clue: The moon had just gone void of course. As a wise and brilliant astrologer, Al Morrison, told me many years ago, that means "unpredictable." Things are unpredictable.

Now the numbers are working. Then they weren't. Now the moon is still void of course. Go figure (with the numbers). It's an odd time, when the moon is void. I try to point it out most times it happens, as I did in Friday's report. I shall not repeat the time that the moon enters Aries, it is there already for you.

We are considering Saturday and Sunday in this report.

However, yesterday I was reading in In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky, a highly seminal book which has influenced thousands, hundreds of thousands, and probably millions of people directly or indirectly through those who have been influenced by it, including many founders of schools, systems, teachings, and trainings. Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, the former the teacher of the latter but the latter more readable, have been an enormous covert and usually unsuspected influence in the formation of most all New Age disciplines and trainings. Now I want to quote from page 24 (emphases in original):

'Somewhere about this time I was very much struck by a talk about the sun, the planets, and the moon. I do not remember how this talk began. But I remember that G. drew a small diagram and tried to explain what he called the "correlation of forces in different worlds." This was in connection with the influences acting on humanity. The idea was roughly this: humanity, or more correctly organic life on earth, is acted upon simultaneously by influences proceeding from various sources and different worlds: influences from the planets, influences from the moon, influences from the sun, influences from the stars. All these influences act simultaneously; one influence predominates and one moment and another influence at another moment. And for man there is a certain possibility of making a choice of influences; in other words, of passing from one influence to another.'

That is exactly what we are trying to do here.

Back to Ouspensky: '"To explain how, would need a very long talk," said G. "So we will talk about this some other time."'

Yes, we are having a very long talk.

In response to what G. said, I would say, there are at least two ways of modifying planetary "influences" or correspondences (the latter word being preferred by astrologers such as Marc Edmund Jones to avoid any implication that the planets influence us through material or efficient cause): 1. By advancing spiritually, as well as mentally and emotionally, so that a hard aspect such as Venus conjoined with Saturn (it is beginning now and lasts until August 19) is experienced differently by the individual because that individual has advanced to be able to handle it with equanimity. 2. By "making a choice of influences, that is, by passing from one influence to another" as G. put it. This would mean, for example, instead of relating to and getting riled by Venus conjoined to Saturn, tuning in (now) to the sun's trine with Jupiter or Mercury's trine with Pluto. How does one "tune in" to a better aspect?

"To explain how would need a very long talk," said G.

This weekend Mars has made his conjunction with Saturn, both in Libra (Venus lags behind in Virgo), and this could be a very interesting aspect. While Mars was in Virgo---I tried to tell you last night when it went into Libra, but my computer was not typing numbers---it went into that sign Thursday at 4:47p PT | 7:47p ET | 11:47p UT---back when Mars was in Virgo (June 7 until Thursday) most of us were struggling with a lot of physical, technical, therapeutic or trouble-shooting issues. That no doubt will continue in some ways, since there are always such issues as long as we are living in the physical set-up we are living in (and you are living in it if you are reading these words). However, Mars and Saturn both now in Libra spell a different tale. (And perhaps "tail" since Libra is supposed to rule that part of the body.) Watch and see. Clue: More about relationships, about interactions with people, and learning how you are dependent on people and they on you. Mars in Libra is a coupling or pairing position. People with it in their birth-charts are drawn to others as their sources of inspiration or impellation (impellment?) the word processor does not like either word but there should be such a word. Mars is impulse or impulsion (that's the word) so when it is in the sign of "the other" (Libra) one's impulsions come from others to a large degree. (The word processor does not like "impulsions" in the plural, but I do.) You will notice such people latching on, temporarily (because Libra is an air sign) to anyone who "gets them going" and often they want guidance or direction from people (directly or indirectly). It's as if they want to know which way the wind is blowing (Libra rules weather-vanes) and to do that look toward anyone who is close to them or anyone whom they choose, often subconsciously.

However, both these planets are opposed to Jupiter and Uranus in Aries, the most decisive sign of the zodiac, the most male sign, the one that says "I determine things and you follow or else get lost." So this opposition should prove most interesting. Rather than give "a long talk" about it I suggest you ponder it in this way: On part of you (Aries) wants to be the supreme director of your life and others to follow along. Another part (Libra) wants to know how the wind is blowing by observing and interacting with other people and even submitting to their impulsion or guidance. At this interesting point in time, you are making choices in both directions. You are adjusting your own internal guidance mechanism (Aries) to the internal guidance mechanisms of others (Libra). And they are adjusting to you. Well, that goes on all the time, perhaps, but at this point we should become much more aware of it and how it is functioning in our lives. It would probably take a deep psychologist or psychological philosopher to explain all this (Jean-Paul Sartre tried, though he was following in the footsteps of Hegel, who had Venus in Libra in his birth-chart). (Venus will enter that sign on August 7, something to anticipate.)

Ultimately perhaps it gets down to "Who is the self and who is the other?" and then perhaps "Is there any difference?" or "What is the difference?" It gets down to "If two men in a war both pull the trigger at the same time and both are killed, who killed whom, or was it mutual suicide?" and on and on. It gets down to MAD or "mutually assured destruction," one of the most insidious notions the human mind has ever come up with. (I see right now in the Wall Street journal, "Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, making July the deadliest month ever for U.S. troops since the Afghan war began".)

It can also be, "If two individuals look at each other, smile, talk, and soon fall into bed together, who seduced whom?" and on and on.

The moon will be in Aries both days of the weekend (the time it went into that sign on Friday has already been given) but is opposed to Saturn and Mars on Saturday, separating from that aspect and moving toward a sextile with Neptune on Sunday. Saturday is the heavier day of the weekend, Sunday lighter.

{Weekend of July 31-August 1, 2010} *Self and Other Tangle, Tango, Wrestle*

Cosmic Piper

P. S. That cute or catchy caption for the weekend is not intended to imply that it is a good time for relationships. (When is a good time?) It could be a dreadful time for them. It could be both good, in some cases, and dreadful in others. It could be a very good time for understanding the "tangle, tango, wrestle" by observing it in a detached way, not in a way which could get you hurt because your emotions are too involved. Even if you choose to be out of the "wrestle" you will be able to perceive and "grok" it somehow. There is a spiritual side to interactions which has very little of personal attraction-repulsion in it, or rises beyond those. You could be learning that.