Friday 9 July 2010

Friday 9 July 2010

}Individual Dreaming and Consensual Disillusion; Or the Reverse{

Frankly, it looks somewhat blase`. If you do not have a boring day, that is to your credit. It is okay, however, to stick to relatively unexciting but necessary tasks. Mars and Saturn in Virgo keep us assigned to material or technological duties.

Yes, it is the |difficult or boring or soul-searching or touchy| third of the week, today and Saturday. This period will move back to earlier in the week and away from the weekend gradually, later in the summer.

There could be some excitement, however, in human relations, especially in the evening when the moon approaches a sextile with Venus. This is a potentiality to be brought out. Oh, maybe it's sitting at home watching a movie while chumping on munchies (you chumpy). How thrilling. Maybe that is what I will do. But if you go out for the evening or are with someone thrilling there is at least the potential of something nice happening, but be aware of the |difficult third| when people are moody and likely to (a) dump on you or (b) jilt you. Just sing "That's life."

The intense aspect now might be Venus opposite Neptune, exact today. Sue Tompkins does not add anything really new to what previous astrologers have said, but some of her words are helpful. She is speaking of the aspect in natal horoscopes but it is applicable now to all of us: "These people are reluctant to commit themselves to any one partnership for they do not want to give up the dream of a relationship that is wonderful, romantic and surely made in heaven." She mentions how they (we now) are romantic and idealistic about relationships, not realistic. We are in love with love. "There can be great difficulty in maintaining interest in, and commitment to, an ordinary person and the rigours and unromanticism of everyday domestic and habitual living with someone." Oh, is that your excuse? I'll buy it for myself.

"Eventually we discover the real other person, warts and all. But Venus-Neptune aspects do not want to discover the warts. . . . . Sometimes the Venus-Neptune person will withdraw from the scene, retiring to suffer and lick wounds. Sometimes they will insure that the partner does. [That looks like an important warning to me--Cosmic Piper] And many will keep up a pretence of a relationship while pursuing romantic liaisons elsewhere. One can associate this aspect with clandestine relationships." Or, I might add, with totally imaginary ones. However, that is not necessarily bad. It could be good. Hope springs eternal. To take away someone's fantasy life in connection with love would be cruel. If life does that to some people, movies, novels and dreams can heal the wounds. And if all that sounds chick-y and not guy-y, well, it is a Venus aspect after all; but guys suffer the same kinds of stuff silently.

Enough to chew on today, or to get stuck on (Neptune is the planet of glue, as in old silent movies when Laurel or Hardy could not get something off his fingers, somewhat like many pseudo-relationships).

Happy dreaming. And if you dream with someone else, even for a while, maybe that is better---or maybe not.

{Friday} {Consensual Dreaming and Individual Disillusion; Or the Reverse}

Cosmic Piper