Forecast for Tuesday Third August Two Thousand Ten

Tuesday Third of August Two Thousand Ten

\Through the Bottleneck/

The bottleneck is where I was this morning {Monday} what with trying to get a computer which will type numbers and parentheses and the "at" key {I can't even send email to new contacts}. I still don't have one. Other problems seem innumerable and interminable. What I said in the forecast for Monday about "delays" was drastically true for me at least.

It's a slowing-down period for many. And yet many are going through big changes which require alertness and efficiency. So there is stress in trying to keep up with what is necessary, not falling behind, while also keeping one's mood and motivation going when it seems to flag.

All that continues today, of course, since these are long-term indications. I cannot repeat all of them every day; if you have been attentive to these reports you know they have to do with the Dark Hermetic Epoch {until almost the end of September} and Venus and Mars close to Saturn.

Lunar aspects, however, have been good, as I pointed out yesterday, and so it is wise to keep up with the ordinary things which need to be done and finish as many as you can. The grand trine in earth signs {when the moon is included} mentioned in Monday's report worked out, for one thing, in a remarkable more-than-two-percent rise in the American stock market as well as in China and Europe. I have mentioned already in recent weeks how Jupiter square Pluto leads to stock market speculation {not necessarily a rise in the markets, but rise and fall because "speculation" includes selling as well as buying} and now for the past couple weeks Mars is also square Pluto while opposite Jupiter. This is a classical indication of gambling in astrology. So I would guess the rise in the markets is a sort of gamble. It is paying off now but how long it will pay off is a question. Those who feel they have won the gamble will soon be selling, most likely, and then the markets will go back down.

Whether the rise will continue on Tuesday is the sort of question I refuse to entertain, except hypothetically in my own mind in order to test astrological hypotheses. However, the moon remaining in Taurus will be trining Venus and forming good aspects even to Saturn, Mars, Uranus and Jupiter later in the day and early tomorrow. So there are some helpful influences in the midst of otherwise trying circumstances. By the end of the day you should be feeling good about a few things at least and could enjoy entertainment in the evening.

As you know, I do not give simple reports of "good" or "bad" days. I try to point out all the varying tendencies which seem most important so you can navigate through them yourself. You have to think along with what I write and relate it to your own life in order to benefit or see the clues which probably no one else will see because no one else's circumstances are quite like yours.

Here is a clue: Venus in Virgo is moving toward a conjunction with both Saturn and then Mars in Libra. In simple terms this might mean: You are working out some detailed physical matters, or perhaps technical also {Virgo an earth-Mercury sign} which will prepare you for better or more interesting friendships or relationships {Libra}. There is a road to get there and that includes, now, these physical or technical matters you need to wrap up.

In general, you may be thinking about people more than usual, their habits, their characteristics, their ways of living and of dealing, their importance to you, their way of relating to you, over the coming month. Let's say that this will be interesting and instructive, and not just annoying and disruptive. The latter may be true, but is not most learning somewhat annoying and disruptive? If you work with these reports, your intuition, and your relation to the Supreme One as well as to "people," who merely reflect Him or Her in varying ways, you will come through this period happily and be the better and the wiser at the end.

Of course, there is no ultimate end but various ends of varying cycles.

{Tuesday} /Through the Bottleneck\

Cosmic Piper