Forecast for Weekend of August 7-8, 2010

Saturday 7 August 2010

~Learning Humility, Deeper Love, Emotional Balance~

[Thursday for me was very much a slow-Mercury (Dark Hermetic Epoch) and Saturn time (slowness, delays) so I did not get to write a report for Friday. However I am posting this weekend report early Friday so will say a little about that day also.]

Friday could be "the pits" in some ways. If not, I commend your patience and competence. So far on Friday morning I have endured more technical glitches and backtracks in two hours than I usually experience in a week. The moon Friday forms a Grand Square (or X Cross, the same thing) with the planets (which without the moon in that position are in a T square, less difficult.) The X cross will be gone by Saturday so there might be a little relief, and Sunday could be a little easier yet---even though the moon will be void of course in Cancer before it enters Leo at 4:24p PT | 7:24p ET | 11:24p UT. During that void of course time, be sure you don't say anything to anyone you don't really mean or which you might want to take back, modify or apologize for. That is a quick rundown on the weekend.

Overall, through all three days, Venus is very close to Saturn and exactly with it on Sunday afternoon-evening. I said Sunday might be easier based on lunar aspects. If you can tune in to them, they will help, although Venus conjoined to (or square or opposite) Saturn is one of the most difficult aspects of all. As I have said, it is the "Nobody loves me" aspect. In younger people it can be a subconscious desperation: "I am young, have the world before me, and ought to be able to do what I want, and since everything feels rotten now and nothing is going right, I will do something else." And the something else is usually desperate and mistaken, which is not realized until "the day after." For example, two college students in my town are planning to go to Las Vegas before school starts. I would guess that both of them are hurting from either a lost girlfriend, money worries or a general malaise, and hoping Las Vegas will be the cure. They were drinking while discussing their plans. The desperation of Venus-Saturn can lead to semi-criminal or actual criminal activity in some cases. Of course, the more mature will bear it more nobly.

The good part of this is that both planets are in Libra (Saturn has been there since July 21; Venus enters it Saturday morning at 3:49 UT (late evening on Friday in the Western Hemisphere). Libra is the sign of Saturn's exaltation, decreed to be so by the ancients, and one of the two signs in which Venus is enthroned (in the sign she rules). I already hinted at what this could mean (does anybody remember?). It could be the return of lost love, or hints or glimmers of a renascent love which does not in fact return full-flamed but still gives some warmth. If new, it could be bittersweet but somehow comforting contacts with someone in a different age group or someone who is difficult yet essential. "Mature love" could be the keynote for this aspect. Of course, it is still difficult. There will be doubts and perhaps even remorse. In some cases there will be apology and forgiveness. This could be an aspect of painful yet ultimately successful redemption.

I have focused on the emotive or feminine side of the weekend, perhaps because Venus is under so much pressure (also opposite Uranus) and the moon in Cancer Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday (until the time already given). However, the more ordinary and the more masculine or efficient side of life goes on. The T square with Pluto can mean getting things done which need to be done, since Pluto is in an earth sign and retrograde while Mercury slows; in other words, you can finish up stuff you know you need to do but haven't gotten to yet. This could be a relief from the emotional stress already outlined.

{Weekend of August 7-8, 2010} ~Learning Humility, Deeper Love, Emotional Balance~

Cosmic Piper