Tuesday 27 July 2010

Tuesday 27 July 2010

*Surveying and Consolidating Achievements*

Most of what was said yesterday remains pertinent. Yet you may face a desire to be "elsewhere." The moon conjunct Neptune dreams of the Elysian fields.

But you have responsibilities at home. These may involve study and research as well as ordinary household chores. There could be a need to reconstruct or reorganize some features of your home. Your work "out in the world" is shaping up also in a strong way while the sun is trine Uranus and Jupiter, and sextile Mars and Saturn. Whatever you have been working on during the past month is reaching a natural culmination and you could either "wrap it up" or note carefully what you have achieved, because you might be at a peak with it. By noting that and "saving it" as it were, you prevent yourself from losing what you have gained after we enter the Dark Epoch beginning Sunday. It's like salting something away, or freezing or canning it, before it goes bad. If you are realizing, "This is the best way to do these things I am always trying to do," write that down or record it and remember it, because you may slip away from these best guidelines in August-September.

Mercury trine Pluto now is savvy at business, deals, and purchases. You could negotiate with someone. Settling a deal now, before August, could be very smart.

I reported yesterday (Monday's forecast) on relationships and how they might go in August. I will add to that: Although August may be good for toying with a relationship or friendship, real and more basic progress in that area, or with a partner, could come in October. This is a clue for you to consider, even if you have no idea what it means yet.

While we are looking ahead, it is likely that in January 2011 you may achieve more in terms of business, career, and monetary gain than you are capable of right now. This is a signpost to keep in mind even if there is nothing you can do about it at present. It could help you get over the rough places on the way.

Meanwhile, today you may sense something striking and fortifying about your true powers and skills. They come from the past, where you learned them, and will not abandon you. Reviewing and fortifying them during the Dark Epoch (August-September) may be a natural and salutary procedure. But today and tomorrow you can use them more actively.

When it comes to money and investments---and anyone who has a decent income probably ought to be investing in some manner or other---you may be sowing the seeds of gains which will be more definite and useful by the summer of 2012, two years from now.

We discussed travel in August, and its potentials, yesterday (which you ought to re-read if you want an August vacation). A more helpful and useful time for travel, perhaps involving a partner, could be October (perhaps leading into November), as mentioned in recent forecasts more than once. (If you are a student, however, this would be studies, most likely, rather than travel.)

The peculiarities of people close to you are likely to come out in either difficult or interesting ways while Venus and Mars are close to Saturn over the next three weeks. But since Venus will move into her own sign Libra (on August 7), and Saturn is exalted in that sign, these issues could contain happy surprises. You and a partner or friend may come to understand each other at a deeper level. The outer problems are the stimuli which awaken such deeper understanding or commitment.

Today is a time to act and achieve as well as to dream great visions of where you want your life to be headed.

{Tuesday} *Surveying and Consolidating Achievements*

Cosmic Piper