Friday 1 October 2010
~Learned Skills, Improvisation, Gain and Applause~
This looks like a fairly smooth conclusion to the work-week. The conjunction of the sun with Saturn, in the sign of the sun's fall but Saturn's exaltation, has coincided with a number of personal tragedies and even suicides, as one reader pointed out. One of them even was a jump from a bridge, tragic but in accord with the "fall" indicated by the sun in Libra. The purpose of astrology is not to validate these kinds of mistakes, such as the unkindly actions which led to suicides or the act of suicide itself, but to warn against them.
That conjunction is still with us but hopefully will be less stressful now that the moon is no longer square it from the sign Cancer. Anger which has been expressed, or just felt strongly, may still be with you but perhaps you can release it in humorous ways. Dramatizing yourself in a social scene can be thrilling. It is well to have the confidence to do so, because you will not make a fool of yourself, or if you seem to do so, will recover quickly. You might be too defensive or worried about people's reactions.
Your misapprehensions of your true place in life or your way of communicating about it may be a problem, yet others too have such misapprehensions about themselves and it is always possible to do the best you can and get by, perhaps learning something in the process. That need not be embarrassing. Wonderful gains are possible today, or else the assurance that they are coming, which can put you more at ease in conversation or self-display. Your powers are more intense than you realize and you can penetrate toward truths which help or inspire people.
A discerning critic may help you get your bearings mentally or in a field of study. You can learn something while at home or in your headquarters which protects from misadventures which could hurt you. You are inspired in a more positive way by great works of the past, whether in the arts, painting, music, or performance. It is not necessary to hurt, injure or despise people in order to have a corrective effect on them. Your sharp wit or intense criticism can be tempered toward their ability to deal with it.
Your strategies in public can be mapped out ahead of time, yet you are able to improvise them quickly when needed. As said before, you will not make a fool of yourself. Your cleverness is unique and will be recognized as fascinating. Improvisation, whether socially or in your field of expertise, will be "right on." It will add rather than subtract from your reputation as a person of stability and character. You are a tower of strength, and therefore will be appreciated and applauded.
{Friday} ~Learned Skills, Improvisation, Gain and Applause~
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 30 September 2010
Thursday 30 September 2010
~Internal Strength Leading to Outward Fulfillment~
The |more difficult or touchy or emotionally painful third of the week| is upon us and was with us Wednesday also . . . it snuck up on me. Actually I do not think it is as bad now as it was during the Dark Epoch and so we can deal with it more peacefully. You may have had your issues to deal with in prayer . . . your worries about someone in authority and about your living situation. Today that may seem critical, as well as your job and status, but the good signals outweigh the difficulties and by evening you should feel quite pleased with some things at least. It could be an evening of relief from stress, and welcome pleasures. Friends will enjoy sharing such a time with you. Playtimes are essential to sanity.
You think of someone with filial affection, that is, of the family; your mother, father or other relative who means a lot to you. That is healthy. This is someone who has helped you toward safety from your primitive impulses when you needed that help, so that now you are more mature and have learned some of those parenting lessons even if unconsciously. You can enjoy life, but do not need to cling to some particular thing like a child "bawling" because it has to go home or can't have candy. You may still feel insecurities which are not realistic, that is, not based in reality but in some imagination of danger or loss, so it is well to "screw up your courage" and faith.
If perfection in your studies eludes you, that is perhaps normal, since our minds are imperfect and no two individuals ever see things exactly alike, and no two teachers perceive their subject matter in the same way. Therefore communication also is imperfect and we have to deal with that, although striving toward perfection as we conceive it. Still, there are material gains which you can enjoy and appreciate, and they make possible the leisure for intellectual interests. Investment in or gain from foreign sources is possible. Deep secrets are attainable by one who persists in searching for them, whether in the sciences or in gifts of healing and comfort. Jesus said that He would send the Comforter to those who believe. This is a promise which apparently not everyone can avail himself of, since the right attitude, squared to eternity, does not come naturally to many.
Mature love is a miracle, and you have it. It is being offered to you and it is arising from within you. It has passed the test of the absence of love and the frustration of anger at the loved one. So it is ready to be a foundation of your living. You guard your home from loss by being responsible, and you are establishing a deeper home or community consciousness through your passion for life in all its forms, even when some of them are trying. You are sensitive to what you have lost, including people gone from this world, among them family members, but from secret tears flows renewed strength to be loyal to all who have sustained you in the past.
A more practical and selfish side of you is intent on your own well-being, appropriately enough. You see how to use people for your purposes, but this is not destructive to them if ordinary decency is preserved. Cleverness in relating to people gets its reward, as well as scientific or managerial cleverness. Then you see that you are independent, in a sense, though none is independent from the Supreme One. You tower up to the heights of personal stability because you have, impersonally, understood how to found your life on what is real.
This earns you credit and applause, as well as a happy time this evening in accord with intimations above.
{Thursday} ~Internal Strength Leading to Outward Fulfillment~
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 29 September 2010
Wednesday 29 September 2010
}People Being Themselves Firmly{
It's an active day. A lot can be done in record time, but you need not fall over yourself. There seem to be problems with mail, email, phoning or other methods of communication, and since we live in a "communications culture" that means a lot. You may resent the way someone in authority handles such matters and be torn between complaining and keeping your peace.
You could make friends of those with whom you have an issue regarding your home. This takes some tact. People nearby or in the family are planning a celebration which calls for self-display. In that you can participate with good spirits. Something is missing, it seems, and that is someone who might be more intimate with you yet is remote.
You are looking for secrets, in books (if anyone still reads books) or on the Internet (not a good place to look except in Cosmic Piper's blog) or in people and Nature. To find secrets in people you have to see past their conscious minds, which are flurries of inconsequence, into their hearts or souls. Ultimate gain seems yours in some form. Because of it you could change your home, or travel nearer to some portion or venue of your heart's desire. You can be amiable with people even when you find them foolishly in error about important matters.
Someone with whom you work may be teetering on the brink of an injudicious or embarrassing love-affair or indiscretion. This could even be the boss or someone "over you" in some hierarchy or other. Yet you can be shrewd in protecting yourself from any of the embarrassment or bitterness, by keeping your mouth shut most likely. Every word uttered at a time like this is likely to be recorded or remembered.
In a different way, almost the opposite, there is someone with whom you have work or business relations who is wonderful and loving, although you may not be completely aware of this because he or she has to cover over tender feelings with a businesslike attitude. That is sad because the affection (toward you) is genuine.
Do love and work mix? For you, that question will have to answer itself.
You may feel you are defending yourself from people. Yet part of that defense is unnecessary except within your own mind. Be sure you are not over-reacting or being "defensive" in the wrong spirit. People need some breaks, a party atmosphere, a bit of intoxication or at least intoxicating interaction. Then they need to make sure this does not go too far, of course. There is safety in your home or living situation and in your work headquarters, if you retreat to it in the right way. You can be definite and firm about situations when you are convinced you are right, but it is wise to add diplomacy to the firmness.
{Wednesday} {People Being Themselves Firmly}
Cosmic Piper
}People Being Themselves Firmly{
It's an active day. A lot can be done in record time, but you need not fall over yourself. There seem to be problems with mail, email, phoning or other methods of communication, and since we live in a "communications culture" that means a lot. You may resent the way someone in authority handles such matters and be torn between complaining and keeping your peace.
You could make friends of those with whom you have an issue regarding your home. This takes some tact. People nearby or in the family are planning a celebration which calls for self-display. In that you can participate with good spirits. Something is missing, it seems, and that is someone who might be more intimate with you yet is remote.
You are looking for secrets, in books (if anyone still reads books) or on the Internet (not a good place to look except in Cosmic Piper's blog) or in people and Nature. To find secrets in people you have to see past their conscious minds, which are flurries of inconsequence, into their hearts or souls. Ultimate gain seems yours in some form. Because of it you could change your home, or travel nearer to some portion or venue of your heart's desire. You can be amiable with people even when you find them foolishly in error about important matters.
Someone with whom you work may be teetering on the brink of an injudicious or embarrassing love-affair or indiscretion. This could even be the boss or someone "over you" in some hierarchy or other. Yet you can be shrewd in protecting yourself from any of the embarrassment or bitterness, by keeping your mouth shut most likely. Every word uttered at a time like this is likely to be recorded or remembered.
In a different way, almost the opposite, there is someone with whom you have work or business relations who is wonderful and loving, although you may not be completely aware of this because he or she has to cover over tender feelings with a businesslike attitude. That is sad because the affection (toward you) is genuine.
Do love and work mix? For you, that question will have to answer itself.
You may feel you are defending yourself from people. Yet part of that defense is unnecessary except within your own mind. Be sure you are not over-reacting or being "defensive" in the wrong spirit. People need some breaks, a party atmosphere, a bit of intoxication or at least intoxicating interaction. Then they need to make sure this does not go too far, of course. There is safety in your home or living situation and in your work headquarters, if you retreat to it in the right way. You can be definite and firm about situations when you are convinced you are right, but it is wise to add diplomacy to the firmness.
{Wednesday} {People Being Themselves Firmly}
Cosmic Piper
Monday, September 27, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 28 September 2010
Tuesday 28 September 2010
}Firmness{
"Something" is burgeoning upward, coming into the light, making you feel you are setting yourself forth before the world, taking a stand or having some standing. "The world" is something we all seem to believe in even if we have radically different understandings of what it is
People hide a little. They simulate what they are even if they don't know what they are. This can look like play or like foolishness. It gets somewhat better if it is shared in a setting such as a fellowship or group of brothers, sisters or acquaintances. People wonder why they are where they are. But they are there and stay. Then they figure out why, or where they will be in the future, or when they will come back, and why the world is round and time is round.
People seek spiritual knowledge in a big way. They are willing to fight for it, even. "Don't get in my way, I am pressing into the inner worlds!" At the same time, they want ultimate material rewards, in the form of security to continue their seeking wherever it takes them (inwardly more than outwardly).
You may note that some people have secret notions which are wrong. That blocks them from fulfillment. They need to see their faults and failures for what they are. (So do all of us, without being neurotic or obsessive-compulsive about it.)
Humility to do ordinary labor, what might seem boring labor, is essential. There is no reason to complain; everybody has to do it, and the notion that some are free of it is false. So you can pick up the complex or tiresome details of effort or communication in your work and just proceed.
Some individuals personify qualities or skills you are striving to develop, and that is wonderful. You can emulate them, even though your achievement will not be the same as theirs; imitation is not bad because it leads to more original developments when it has fulfilled itself.
The ancients are here with us. We can emulate the better in them. The worse we will not even notice, most likely. History is kind in forgetting the worst in cultures, nations and outstanding individuals. So we are free to idealize their best, most congenial traits and manifest them a little better.
The way you try to defend yourself from people, or their influence or their annoyance, is important because it tends to define you. It is well to be secure within yourself, which you can be if you have a secure relation with the Supreme One. Then you do not "sweat" so many things which are trivial.
We display ourselves to the world first in our minds, yet the way the real display happens is always different than we had imagined. That keeps us alive and young. Feeling royal within ourselves helps us to be worthy of royalty in social realms. We cannot fool ourselves, so then we become genuine to others. We also feel we know what is best for ourselves, and will not give in to others' notions. There is a way to do this which is firm yet peaceable. Then those who would block our path know better, and fall away from us.
{Tuesday} {Firmness}
Cosmic Piper
}Firmness{
"Something" is burgeoning upward, coming into the light, making you feel you are setting yourself forth before the world, taking a stand or having some standing. "The world" is something we all seem to believe in even if we have radically different understandings of what it is
People hide a little. They simulate what they are even if they don't know what they are. This can look like play or like foolishness. It gets somewhat better if it is shared in a setting such as a fellowship or group of brothers, sisters or acquaintances. People wonder why they are where they are. But they are there and stay. Then they figure out why, or where they will be in the future, or when they will come back, and why the world is round and time is round.
People seek spiritual knowledge in a big way. They are willing to fight for it, even. "Don't get in my way, I am pressing into the inner worlds!" At the same time, they want ultimate material rewards, in the form of security to continue their seeking wherever it takes them (inwardly more than outwardly).
You may note that some people have secret notions which are wrong. That blocks them from fulfillment. They need to see their faults and failures for what they are. (So do all of us, without being neurotic or obsessive-compulsive about it.)
Humility to do ordinary labor, what might seem boring labor, is essential. There is no reason to complain; everybody has to do it, and the notion that some are free of it is false. So you can pick up the complex or tiresome details of effort or communication in your work and just proceed.
Some individuals personify qualities or skills you are striving to develop, and that is wonderful. You can emulate them, even though your achievement will not be the same as theirs; imitation is not bad because it leads to more original developments when it has fulfilled itself.
The ancients are here with us. We can emulate the better in them. The worse we will not even notice, most likely. History is kind in forgetting the worst in cultures, nations and outstanding individuals. So we are free to idealize their best, most congenial traits and manifest them a little better.
The way you try to defend yourself from people, or their influence or their annoyance, is important because it tends to define you. It is well to be secure within yourself, which you can be if you have a secure relation with the Supreme One. Then you do not "sweat" so many things which are trivial.
We display ourselves to the world first in our minds, yet the way the real display happens is always different than we had imagined. That keeps us alive and young. Feeling royal within ourselves helps us to be worthy of royalty in social realms. We cannot fool ourselves, so then we become genuine to others. We also feel we know what is best for ourselves, and will not give in to others' notions. There is a way to do this which is firm yet peaceable. Then those who would block our path know better, and fall away from us.
{Tuesday} {Firmness}
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Forecast for Monday 27 September 2010
Monday 27 September 2010
\Wisdom and Skill Cultivated; Eventually Displayed/
Very early in the morning, the Bright Hermetic Epoch begins (about 1:40 a.m. ET). At last we can make plans more confidently, with more assurance that our brains are grasping all pertinent details and that nothing will intervene to gum them up or overturn them.
Finding a way to help those who feel lost or abandoned should be easier. You can do this close to home. Even though people are hiding their feelings and worries, you can be persistent in helping them find practical answers to whatever is troubling them. Also, by putting order in your possessions at headquarters, you put order in your plans for the next two months (the Bright Hermetic Epoch lasts until November 22).
When considering gambles, you sort out what is likely to work and, even if unsure, go ahead. It is always wise to keep examining one's presuppositions. Still, definite direction is necessary, even when there are no guarantees. You could be sowing the seeds of fruitful gain to ripen ere long.
Impulses toward what you want are very strong. They meet with some resistance, so that you need to slow down although not changing course. You are becoming more sure-footed. Your affinity with a true teacher lends gravity to your efforts, although it can slow things, but this is the slowness of deliberate wisdom. It is well to heed the teacher whose experience and knowledge are trustworthy, even if the speed of your approach to goals is reduced. The tortoise, patient and methodic, can win over the hare.
There is something you hold on to for dear life. It is close to home, or within your domicile or headquarters, and an investment you will not sacrifice. It brings social advancement while displaying your glories and powers. People tend to settle into cliques or special-interest groups, and yet there is a sharing or communion among them. You are cultivating private powers and gains while finding ways to celebrate them within larger groups or venues.
{Monday} /Wisdom and Skill Cultivated; Eventually Displayed\
Cosmic Piper
\Wisdom and Skill Cultivated; Eventually Displayed/
Very early in the morning, the Bright Hermetic Epoch begins (about 1:40 a.m. ET). At last we can make plans more confidently, with more assurance that our brains are grasping all pertinent details and that nothing will intervene to gum them up or overturn them.
Finding a way to help those who feel lost or abandoned should be easier. You can do this close to home. Even though people are hiding their feelings and worries, you can be persistent in helping them find practical answers to whatever is troubling them. Also, by putting order in your possessions at headquarters, you put order in your plans for the next two months (the Bright Hermetic Epoch lasts until November 22).
When considering gambles, you sort out what is likely to work and, even if unsure, go ahead. It is always wise to keep examining one's presuppositions. Still, definite direction is necessary, even when there are no guarantees. You could be sowing the seeds of fruitful gain to ripen ere long.
Impulses toward what you want are very strong. They meet with some resistance, so that you need to slow down although not changing course. You are becoming more sure-footed. Your affinity with a true teacher lends gravity to your efforts, although it can slow things, but this is the slowness of deliberate wisdom. It is well to heed the teacher whose experience and knowledge are trustworthy, even if the speed of your approach to goals is reduced. The tortoise, patient and methodic, can win over the hare.
There is something you hold on to for dear life. It is close to home, or within your domicile or headquarters, and an investment you will not sacrifice. It brings social advancement while displaying your glories and powers. People tend to settle into cliques or special-interest groups, and yet there is a sharing or communion among them. You are cultivating private powers and gains while finding ways to celebrate them within larger groups or venues.
{Monday} /Wisdom and Skill Cultivated; Eventually Displayed\
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Forecast for Friday 24 September 2010
Friday 24 September 2010
*Seeking and Securing Salvation*
What is simple and honest is convincing, so you can state what you want straightforwardly and get it. This might involve giving something in return which is not so difficult. Good fortune comes through friends as well as more businesslike forms of increase. You might even be on the track of something momentous in terms of lucrative returns.
It is well to test the methods you use and the information you have. Is it accurate and will it work? Perhaps, if you are careful and honest about everything. In fact, ultimate fulfillment could be coming to you through a form of magic, that is, by using factors and laws others consider fallacies or illusions. This will be especially true if you are attempting to salvage, heal, or redeem others who are lost or ill. Christian magic is real, and other faiths have their own versions of it.
It is almost astounding what talents some possess, and the refinement of their judgment and character. You are fortunate to come in contact with such. Music or festivity is uplifting. People are on a threshold of something wonderful, and sense this, expanding their potentials through faith in a more congenial future. Some of them will turn toward mysterious and deeper scientific or mystical understandings and the research which secures them.
Personal love also can be intense, even if at a distance, that is, if you love someone in absentia. Courage is needed to bridge over the intervals in which all seems lost or danger in command. Safety is obtainable through courage and a willingness to accept whatever small bits of help the universe tosses in your direction. You may be fearful of losing life or love or value, yet grasping what will save you is the best course.
The |difficult or demanding third of the week| continues all day and evening (contrary to what I said carelessly a few days ago) but will be gone by Saturday sunrise. So a sense of mission and of need may keep you serious-minded even in a festive ambiance. This too shall pass, and meanwhile you are learning much in a calm centered way if you trust the deeper processes of the universe and humanity.
{Friday} *Seeking and Securing Salvation*
Cosmic Piper
*Seeking and Securing Salvation*
What is simple and honest is convincing, so you can state what you want straightforwardly and get it. This might involve giving something in return which is not so difficult. Good fortune comes through friends as well as more businesslike forms of increase. You might even be on the track of something momentous in terms of lucrative returns.
It is well to test the methods you use and the information you have. Is it accurate and will it work? Perhaps, if you are careful and honest about everything. In fact, ultimate fulfillment could be coming to you through a form of magic, that is, by using factors and laws others consider fallacies or illusions. This will be especially true if you are attempting to salvage, heal, or redeem others who are lost or ill. Christian magic is real, and other faiths have their own versions of it.
It is almost astounding what talents some possess, and the refinement of their judgment and character. You are fortunate to come in contact with such. Music or festivity is uplifting. People are on a threshold of something wonderful, and sense this, expanding their potentials through faith in a more congenial future. Some of them will turn toward mysterious and deeper scientific or mystical understandings and the research which secures them.
Personal love also can be intense, even if at a distance, that is, if you love someone in absentia. Courage is needed to bridge over the intervals in which all seems lost or danger in command. Safety is obtainable through courage and a willingness to accept whatever small bits of help the universe tosses in your direction. You may be fearful of losing life or love or value, yet grasping what will save you is the best course.
The |difficult or demanding third of the week| continues all day and evening (contrary to what I said carelessly a few days ago) but will be gone by Saturday sunrise. So a sense of mission and of need may keep you serious-minded even in a festive ambiance. This too shall pass, and meanwhile you are learning much in a calm centered way if you trust the deeper processes of the universe and humanity.
{Friday} *Seeking and Securing Salvation*
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 23 September 2010
Thursday 23 September 2010
*Turmoil Leads to Rectification*
Red today for the moon in Aries, just after the Full Moon of early this morning.
By the way, I predicted Monday that when the moon went in Pisces there could be wet weather. I was early, but the moon was still in Pisces on Tuesday and a Michigan friend said she was encompassed by severe rainstorms which were to continue into Wednesday, while the moon is still in Pisces (as I write), and now the sky where I am is getting cloudy and the winds suggest some rain, which we badly need. Also, there is more precipitation near New and Full Moons (either before or after) and during the |difficult or demanding third of the week| which is happening right now and actually began Wednesday although I did not report it in Wednesday's report. That continues until about noon of Friday. The weekend shall be free of it. The Full Moon is early Thursday at 2:18a PT | 5:18a ET | 9:18a UT.
Whether the "stress" shall be more or less on Thursday than on Wednesday is an open question, but with the moon in Aries and the sun newly entered into Libra---we also had the Autumnal Equinox Wednesday evening---probably Thursday will be the day to get things cleared away, some of the difficult ones. If moods are difficult, let that be a stimulus to action and you will feel better.
The innocent are dignified, as one can see in young children. They perhaps sense "who they are" better than we do and so their lives are a sort of meditation. Determining who you are in a childlike way is appropriate. Then you will not fear or shrink from involvement in business or job activities. And then fortune will smile upon you. There is potential gain in this day in perhaps a stunning way, or else the path to gain is laid bare before you even if you have to swing a pickaxe to mine it.
Definite habits you have developed are helping you. It doesn't matter if they don't fit exactly with some others' habits, if they serve you. People rarely understand one another's ways of doing things. Factors that are reliable are convenient, and they reduce the amount of confusion in your agenda. When much seems lost, faith can make you hold on until there is a favoring wind.
When mysterious circumstances frustrate you, you can insist on justice and honesty, and before long things will change for the better. They will be rectified. Rectitude is an old-fashioned but powerful word. Passing through uncertainties, you learn to articulate who you are. Nothing childlike is lost when it becomes socially competent. Then, rather than succumbing to anger and releasing it in a wounding act or word, you exercise executive strength in patient ways.
What you study or divine in secret is leading you. You do not have to hide it, but it is secret because no one else would find it just the way you do. Yet it leads to friendly interaction, and you may find that people are congenial in family-style settings or when sharing a meal or conversation. The fraternity-sorority of humanity is upon us. Someone taciturn and cynical in appearance may have a worse bark than bite, testing you or probing you, so there is no need to over-react.
{Thursday} *Turmoil Leads to Rectification*
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 22 September 2010
Wednesday 22 September 2010
~Guidance Toward Security~
Resources and wealth are considered from multiple angles. You give and receive, invest and profit.
Continuity of your efforts in your community and home is giving you strength and building something notable.
You are challenged to make good on the promise of gain through intelligent ambition.
It does not matter what people say about you; it matters what you think about yourself and about them. Trust that being true to yourself will bring them around to understand and respect you.
Waiting for good fortune is hard; but while waiting you are actively bringing it toward you in several ways, based on past endeavors and what you have learned through them. You validate your procedures in securing income by going ahead and using them. Some of them have a regular, almost mechanical way of proceeding which is successful because you don't have to mess with it once you get it started.
Some reclusive activities or studies are reclusive partly because you need to preserve your well-being and health by staying away from crowds part of the time. You safeguard your contribution to the world by ignoring false calls which would waste your time. You know the difference between light and darkness and can hold to truths you have discerned.
Someone attracted to you is full of a mischievous play-acting proclivity which can be entertaining as long as you understand it rather than shrink from it. You could join in a group which shares a meal or happy time together, and find the fellowship exalting. At the same time you are getting inside information through your intuition about the way things are going so you can better direct the course of events.
{Wednesday} ~Guidance Toward Security~
Cosmic Piper
Monday, September 20, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 21 September 2010
Tuesday 21 September 2010~Intense Interests Pursued~
Organizing one's mind and studying are important. Many things will come to light if you search for them. Getting over an illness or a dis-ease of a more emotional sort is possible if you focus on whatever is your true purpose.
Where there has been disorder, you see the possibility of a better order which will benefit all, through cooperating with people at a professional level.
Isolation is a result of perhaps so many possible connections with people of varying nationalities or backgrounds that you cannot handle them all and drift into indifference. It would be better to measure each by the other so as to arrive at a validation of your more useful insights. Then you can follow rules which you make up yourself. That gives you peace of mind and confidence.
Someone of an ecclesiastical temperament may be within your orbit. He or she wants to gain secret knowledge by delving more deeply into perhaps ancient or else contemporary but obscure records. Such an individual can give you hope. You know that a fresh day is here if you welcome it like a bird welcoming the sunrise.
People who have left or lost their homes, or perhaps never had a secure family, can become very practical through the necessity to do so. Then they are lauded as honest and helpful to all, with no trace of prejudice or bias. You yourself may be sought out by some as one who knows how to provide what is needed and good, whether materially, or socially as an uplifting soul.
{Tuesday} ~Intense Interests Pursued~
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday 20 September 2010
Monday 20 September 2010
~Patient Endeavor and Friendly Contacts~
We have not had a lot of void-of-course times lately, or else they have been short ones, because several planets are near the ends of signs and prevent the moon from going "void." Today we have one for seven hours from 6:10a PT | 9:10a ET | 1:10p UT until 1:16p PT | 4:16p ET | 8:16p UT. You can continue with routine activities but take delays and interruptions with a grain of salt. If you can make major choices before or after that time, so much the better. At the latter time the moon enters Pisces. I have noted over the years that the moon in hard aspect with Neptune (this time the conjunction, about ten hours before) or in Pisces often correlates with cloudy or damp weather. But "often" is not a statistical guarantee.
Emotionally, however, the day should be upbeat. Luna trines both Mars and, later, Venus, as well as forming a closer (that is, earlier) sextile with Pluto. Pleasures, friendship and social contacts could go swimmingly.
Work is not to be ignored, and you have a lot of it which is routine catch-up work.
Studies also are emphasized, of the sort which seem ruminative, rehearsing what you have studied before.
You head in directions you had not anticipated and could be wanton in ignoring immediate duties for the sake of stabilizing inner realizations. You anticipate wonderful developments and don't want pressing immediacies to interfere with them.
When you seem adrift, you need further deep reflection in order to get your bearings. You validate an intuitive sense of direction in strange ways which might work. Or you can adhere to a semi-mechanical method of keeping up with things, when all else fails, and this may be adequate.
In order to pick the fruit of your labors you need to be patient, while the sun moves toward a conjunction with Saturn over the next ten days (exact on the 30th). This is good for achievement. It delays the fruits so that you will continue to work for them and thereby gain more than you would have otherwise. You are not inclined to be easy on yourself or others. You keep at regular tasks which you know will yield solid results eventually (and maybe every day if the truth were known).
Someone who attracts or interests you may feel she or he is an orphan, neglected, without sustaining or directing parentage, and so you might fill that gap. You might assist this person to get at some problems which have been eating away at his or her peace of mind. Your aid is practical and direct, most likely, but might be more indirect and subtle. Or you might get such support from someone else, or observe two third parties in such a process. There are a tremendous number of abused or neglected young people in the world who could benefit from kindness.
{Monday} ~Patient Endeavor and Friendly Contacts~
Cosmic Piper
~Patient Endeavor and Friendly Contacts~
We have not had a lot of void-of-course times lately, or else they have been short ones, because several planets are near the ends of signs and prevent the moon from going "void." Today we have one for seven hours from 6:10a PT | 9:10a ET | 1:10p UT until 1:16p PT | 4:16p ET | 8:16p UT. You can continue with routine activities but take delays and interruptions with a grain of salt. If you can make major choices before or after that time, so much the better. At the latter time the moon enters Pisces. I have noted over the years that the moon in hard aspect with Neptune (this time the conjunction, about ten hours before) or in Pisces often correlates with cloudy or damp weather. But "often" is not a statistical guarantee.
Emotionally, however, the day should be upbeat. Luna trines both Mars and, later, Venus, as well as forming a closer (that is, earlier) sextile with Pluto. Pleasures, friendship and social contacts could go swimmingly.
Work is not to be ignored, and you have a lot of it which is routine catch-up work.
Studies also are emphasized, of the sort which seem ruminative, rehearsing what you have studied before.
You head in directions you had not anticipated and could be wanton in ignoring immediate duties for the sake of stabilizing inner realizations. You anticipate wonderful developments and don't want pressing immediacies to interfere with them.
When you seem adrift, you need further deep reflection in order to get your bearings. You validate an intuitive sense of direction in strange ways which might work. Or you can adhere to a semi-mechanical method of keeping up with things, when all else fails, and this may be adequate.
In order to pick the fruit of your labors you need to be patient, while the sun moves toward a conjunction with Saturn over the next ten days (exact on the 30th). This is good for achievement. It delays the fruits so that you will continue to work for them and thereby gain more than you would have otherwise. You are not inclined to be easy on yourself or others. You keep at regular tasks which you know will yield solid results eventually (and maybe every day if the truth were known).
Someone who attracts or interests you may feel she or he is an orphan, neglected, without sustaining or directing parentage, and so you might fill that gap. You might assist this person to get at some problems which have been eating away at his or her peace of mind. Your aid is practical and direct, most likely, but might be more indirect and subtle. Or you might get such support from someone else, or observe two third parties in such a process. There are a tremendous number of abused or neglected young people in the world who could benefit from kindness.
{Monday} ~Patient Endeavor and Friendly Contacts~
Cosmic Piper
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Forecast for Weekend of September 18-19, 2010
Weekend of September 18-19, 2010
}Depth of Emotion and Knowledge{
[I hope to get back to writing and posting the weekend reports on Fridays but am still under the necessity to organize my new place and keep up with a dozen other matters at the same time.]
The weekend looks quite smooth, in terms of lunar aspects, not extremely stressful, though there is a serious undertone. You may be feeling the onset of autumn, not a bad thing and even welcome to many. With that goes a mysterious undertone, with Mars and Venus both in the early degrees of Scorpio, a sign of the occult and invisible. They are in good aspect with Mercury on one side and Pluto on the other. This has a romantic feel to it, with love of a deep and mysterious order making its presence felt no matter what you may be doing. People are looking for their soul-mates, and perhaps finding them, or recognizing that some with whom their lot has already been cast are at least soul-companions.
The sun approaching Saturn while opposing Jupiter and Uranus accentuates the "mutation" of Saturn and Jupiter of which we have spoken at length. Some of you wrote telling what it meant or might mean to you. It is a major life-change which most are going through now in one way or another. It continues, while Jupiter retrogrades and then re-advances, through April of 2011. This shall be an autumn-winter-spring of deep realignment for all. Y0u may already know much of what it means, but there is more to be found out. Your days are filled with the mystery of reconsideration, readjustment and reconstruction. This ought to be even clearer in the last four days of September and thereon.
Household matters are being readjusted for all (not just for one like myself who has moved). You are putting fresh order into your home and aligning it to your community. This means moving things around until they are in just the right disposition. You feel esthetic satisfaction when y0ur possessions are in the right places, linked together invisibly by the Anima Mundi in patterns which the eye beholds with joy.
For some there are also thoughts of travel, or of international linkages to the broader world-community.
It might be said that Saturday this time is more secular and Sunday more spiritual, since the moon in Aquarius both days will be in aspect with Saturn and Venus Saturday and with Neptune Sunday. Saturday contains a desire for deep unions with someone, or with more than one, even with strangers. Yet the desire is partly frustrated, partly fulfilled, as if one were tantalized by love partly given and partly withheld.
Sunday then, almost in accord with traditional Christian ideas, becomes the day for a closer link with the Supreme One, designated often in astrology by Neptune (although of course He or She manifests through all the planets).
At a more practical level there seems the potential of straightening out finances, studying them or making them more serviceable through whatever modes of analysis are pertinent in your case (either day).
Study and learning are important not only to students, in the throes of a new semester, but to all of us. Organizing your reading material or your approach to new, old or broader knowledge is well worth your time. Whether or not this is directly spiritual knowledge, it has a healing effect, for opening one's consciousness to what is more complete makes for wholeness, to which the words health and healing are related.
{Weekend of September 18-19, 2010} {Depth of Emotion and Knowledge}
Cosmic Piper
}Depth of Emotion and Knowledge{
[I hope to get back to writing and posting the weekend reports on Fridays but am still under the necessity to organize my new place and keep up with a dozen other matters at the same time.]
The weekend looks quite smooth, in terms of lunar aspects, not extremely stressful, though there is a serious undertone. You may be feeling the onset of autumn, not a bad thing and even welcome to many. With that goes a mysterious undertone, with Mars and Venus both in the early degrees of Scorpio, a sign of the occult and invisible. They are in good aspect with Mercury on one side and Pluto on the other. This has a romantic feel to it, with love of a deep and mysterious order making its presence felt no matter what you may be doing. People are looking for their soul-mates, and perhaps finding them, or recognizing that some with whom their lot has already been cast are at least soul-companions.
The sun approaching Saturn while opposing Jupiter and Uranus accentuates the "mutation" of Saturn and Jupiter of which we have spoken at length. Some of you wrote telling what it meant or might mean to you. It is a major life-change which most are going through now in one way or another. It continues, while Jupiter retrogrades and then re-advances, through April of 2011. This shall be an autumn-winter-spring of deep realignment for all. Y0u may already know much of what it means, but there is more to be found out. Your days are filled with the mystery of reconsideration, readjustment and reconstruction. This ought to be even clearer in the last four days of September and thereon.
Household matters are being readjusted for all (not just for one like myself who has moved). You are putting fresh order into your home and aligning it to your community. This means moving things around until they are in just the right disposition. You feel esthetic satisfaction when y0ur possessions are in the right places, linked together invisibly by the Anima Mundi in patterns which the eye beholds with joy.
For some there are also thoughts of travel, or of international linkages to the broader world-community.
It might be said that Saturday this time is more secular and Sunday more spiritual, since the moon in Aquarius both days will be in aspect with Saturn and Venus Saturday and with Neptune Sunday. Saturday contains a desire for deep unions with someone, or with more than one, even with strangers. Yet the desire is partly frustrated, partly fulfilled, as if one were tantalized by love partly given and partly withheld.
Sunday then, almost in accord with traditional Christian ideas, becomes the day for a closer link with the Supreme One, designated often in astrology by Neptune (although of course He or She manifests through all the planets).
At a more practical level there seems the potential of straightening out finances, studying them or making them more serviceable through whatever modes of analysis are pertinent in your case (either day).
Study and learning are important not only to students, in the throes of a new semester, but to all of us. Organizing your reading material or your approach to new, old or broader knowledge is well worth your time. Whether or not this is directly spiritual knowledge, it has a healing effect, for opening one's consciousness to what is more complete makes for wholeness, to which the words health and healing are related.
{Weekend of September 18-19, 2010} {Depth of Emotion and Knowledge}
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Forecast for Friday 17 September 2010
Friday 17 September 2010
\Brighter Prospects/
Things veer back and forth from some embarrassment connected with your living situation to mutual helpfulness among those with whom you share it. In the past two days you have consummated something in connection with your home which feels right. Today you are able to enjoy it at a new level. You see into the depths of what "home" means and meditate within your domicile like the tortoise within its shell.
Systematic study intrigues you and gives you a reliable focus in the past of the human race. You validate your assumptions, or someone else's, through testing them out at least in your thinking. If you feel isolated during deep musing, still you recover poise therein.
The mystical and mysterious is beautiful and enjoyable. You want it to be useful or serviceable to yourself and anyone who is fascinated by it. You respect those who have taught you and so engender respect for yourself. Those who have used, or now use, aggressive methods are somehow a part of your consciousness even if you think there are better ways aborning.
Innocence and beauty are all around you wherever you go, even with the moon in the practical goat-like Capricorn. Perhaps the Centaur is afoot. You care about conveying important ideas to people and can do it with childlike winning candor. You are involved in what can be practical on many levels yet is first of all fascinating. Both at home and in your travels, within your mind and in human relations, prosperity comes to you, even luxury. Perhaps you have discovered a treasure trove.
{Friday} /Brighter Prospects\
Cosmic Piper
\Brighter Prospects/
Things veer back and forth from some embarrassment connected with your living situation to mutual helpfulness among those with whom you share it. In the past two days you have consummated something in connection with your home which feels right. Today you are able to enjoy it at a new level. You see into the depths of what "home" means and meditate within your domicile like the tortoise within its shell.
Systematic study intrigues you and gives you a reliable focus in the past of the human race. You validate your assumptions, or someone else's, through testing them out at least in your thinking. If you feel isolated during deep musing, still you recover poise therein.
The mystical and mysterious is beautiful and enjoyable. You want it to be useful or serviceable to yourself and anyone who is fascinated by it. You respect those who have taught you and so engender respect for yourself. Those who have used, or now use, aggressive methods are somehow a part of your consciousness even if you think there are better ways aborning.
Innocence and beauty are all around you wherever you go, even with the moon in the practical goat-like Capricorn. Perhaps the Centaur is afoot. You care about conveying important ideas to people and can do it with childlike winning candor. You are involved in what can be practical on many levels yet is first of all fascinating. Both at home and in your travels, within your mind and in human relations, prosperity comes to you, even luxury. Perhaps you have discovered a treasure trove.
{Friday} /Brighter Prospects\
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 16 September 2010
Thursday 16 September 2010\Control is Satisfying/
This is the second day of the |difficult or stressful third of the week| which will lift early Friday. One might regard these as times to focus on the less desirable aspects of life which yet need attention.
There are possibilities of slander or arrogance in people, so that you get wind of someone having said something unkind about you behind your back. This is never an easy thing for any of us to face. I was thinking yesterday of someone whom I would delight in making fun of because her "mechanical" (in Ouspensky's sense) style of conversation can be so grating on my nerves. I held my tongue. Chances are she might say something equally cutting about me when I'm not around.
We may hear of "wars and rumors of war" in Jesus's words, and indeed the wars "we" (the U. S.) are fighting do not get much play in the public consciousness. Many observers have noted that we are being blithely blind and deaf to the killing. This of course gives the "mechanical" war-forces plenty of leeway to wreak their havoc. If nobody who could change things cares, they continue their senseless course.
Those who are involved in family or sex-related kinds of lawsuits may get interesting news today or deal with a lawyer or judge who seems to be wise or favorable.
When you get too morose---philosophic in a bad sense (and I say that sadly because I love and believe in good positive philosophy, of which the world has too little)---you could be inclined to give up, tossed away from your soul's course by winds of fatalism or a belief in chaotic chance.
Then you would be inclined to dissipate yourself---looking for a thrill in sensation to make up for the lack of concerted idealism manifest in wise and enjoyable action. Such a course leads to shame which cannot be completely hidden.
Despite concerns about your home, and thoughts of how to improve it as long as you do not leave it, you feel abundance around you and know you can tap into it whenever you wish.
Continuity in your endeavors is satisfying. Sticking with a schedule is not "mechanical" in Ouspensky's sense: rather the opposite, when the "mechanical" forces in your personality, body, and desire-nature would lead you away from a scheduled endeavor. Then the strict adherence to the schedule is not mechanical or robot-like but quite the reverse---you are controlling the "mechanical" forces of your desire-nature which would lead you away from what is really good for you.
{Thursday} /Control is Satisfying\
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 15 September 2010
Wednesday 15 September 2010
\Facing and Untangling Realities Afresh/
I wonder how you have fared with the two days (Monday and Tuesday) since Mercury turned direct? I myself feel that, although things are still slow, some remarkable developments occurred on those two days. Five separate matters have been clarified and improved for me. All of them took a lot of time, trouble and worry but the effort to straighten them out has been very rewarding. I hope something like that has happened for you also. It is not that everything is perfectly on track yet, but that the changes required are at least evident and I feel so much better about the immediate future, which before had been under a cloud.
Some of this has to do with Mercury's position in Virgo. That is the sign not only of its rulership but of its exaltation. So while things are always troubling while Mercury is retrograde (and to a lesser degree until the 27th), this time at least that planet was in a sign which allowed for careful and reasonable consideration of matters needing resolution. (It remains in Virgo until October 3).
Wednesday and Thursday comprise the |difficult or stressful| third of the week, which will be gone by early Friday morning. It no longer afflicts the weekends as it did most of the summer. Your daily routines may be suffering a great deal of stress in terms of difficult tangles to untangle, yet doing it will make you feel you are strong and on top of things. Communication and even thinking are attempting to grasp or encompass so many factors, some of them contradictory, that the complexities may seem like fever dreams while they last. It is good to be patient with this process because it is rectifying so many factors in your consciousness and your planning which need rectification. In a way, while Mercury has been retrograde the clutch has been out. Now the clutch is gradually being re-engaged but you need to make sure the gears are meshing at every stage. This is not uninteresting and certainly not profitless.
{Wednesday} /Facing and Untangling Realities Afresh\
Cosmic Piper
\Facing and Untangling Realities Afresh/
I wonder how you have fared with the two days (Monday and Tuesday) since Mercury turned direct? I myself feel that, although things are still slow, some remarkable developments occurred on those two days. Five separate matters have been clarified and improved for me. All of them took a lot of time, trouble and worry but the effort to straighten them out has been very rewarding. I hope something like that has happened for you also. It is not that everything is perfectly on track yet, but that the changes required are at least evident and I feel so much better about the immediate future, which before had been under a cloud.
Some of this has to do with Mercury's position in Virgo. That is the sign not only of its rulership but of its exaltation. So while things are always troubling while Mercury is retrograde (and to a lesser degree until the 27th), this time at least that planet was in a sign which allowed for careful and reasonable consideration of matters needing resolution. (It remains in Virgo until October 3).
Wednesday and Thursday comprise the |difficult or stressful| third of the week, which will be gone by early Friday morning. It no longer afflicts the weekends as it did most of the summer. Your daily routines may be suffering a great deal of stress in terms of difficult tangles to untangle, yet doing it will make you feel you are strong and on top of things. Communication and even thinking are attempting to grasp or encompass so many factors, some of them contradictory, that the complexities may seem like fever dreams while they last. It is good to be patient with this process because it is rectifying so many factors in your consciousness and your planning which need rectification. In a way, while Mercury has been retrograde the clutch has been out. Now the clutch is gradually being re-engaged but you need to make sure the gears are meshing at every stage. This is not uninteresting and certainly not profitless.
{Wednesday} /Facing and Untangling Realities Afresh\
Cosmic Piper
Forecast for Tuesday 14 September 2010
Tuesday 14 September 2010
*Retaining Values*
"Fallen idols and desolated temples" stood out from an astrological book delineating the position of one planet today. What does that mean to you?
Going "elsewhere" could be on your agenda, for realistic as well as ideal purposes. Yet the elsewhere is intimately connected with your career. You rove toward something more satisfying.
From desolated temples arise fresh icons of hope.
You experiment in your own way and will not have someone else direct you. You know that that would defeat your very purpose.
Professions requiring study are controversial, the very studies controversial, the past meeting the present as if they were enemies even when they need to face what each reveals as lacking in the other.
People express themselves in interesting and friendly ways. The depth at which they are striving to arrive is there even when they miss it consciously; it is there subliminally.
You procure what you need in a practical way: materials, food, and so on. This requires some time and strategy but is not impossibly exacting.
When you and others sweep away what has served its purpose, you need to retain whatever essence within it remains of value. Charitableness is important in human relations, as well as in philosophy, and the multiple perspectives differing personalities bring to living.
{Tuesday} *Retaining Values*
Cosmic Piper
*Retaining Values*
"Fallen idols and desolated temples" stood out from an astrological book delineating the position of one planet today. What does that mean to you?
Going "elsewhere" could be on your agenda, for realistic as well as ideal purposes. Yet the elsewhere is intimately connected with your career. You rove toward something more satisfying.
From desolated temples arise fresh icons of hope.
You experiment in your own way and will not have someone else direct you. You know that that would defeat your very purpose.
Professions requiring study are controversial, the very studies controversial, the past meeting the present as if they were enemies even when they need to face what each reveals as lacking in the other.
People express themselves in interesting and friendly ways. The depth at which they are striving to arrive is there even when they miss it consciously; it is there subliminally.
You procure what you need in a practical way: materials, food, and so on. This requires some time and strategy but is not impossibly exacting.
When you and others sweep away what has served its purpose, you need to retain whatever essence within it remains of value. Charitableness is important in human relations, as well as in philosophy, and the multiple perspectives differing personalities bring to living.
{Tuesday} *Retaining Values*
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Forecast for Monday 13 September 2010
Monday 13 September 2010
*Friendly Persuasion*
Mercury turned direct Sunday at 4:10p PT | 7:10p ET | 11:10p UT. This is a help, although we are still in the Dark Hermetic Epoch until September 27. In the weekend report I gave the time of the moon's entrance (this morning) into Sagittarius. Today could be a time for reorganization, with a better sense of your plans for the immediate future.
You may have a gift for convincing or persuading people in whatever way you choose. There is much "animal magnetism" or personality-power, perhaps with an erotic coloring. Wherever you go you encounter those who are seductive either passively or actively. Yet they are pulled toward so many attractions all at once that it may be hard for them to settle down to one interest or person at a time.
You take an almost scientific attitude toward conversations and encounters, sensing accurately what people are thinking and how best to interact with or speak to them. Some of this happens subconsciously or intuitively, some of it consciously.
Someone who has a strong influence on your career is adamant about certain things, from motives you may not understand. It may seem futile to argue, yet you can have a modifying or even restraining influence.
Some who are direct and straightforward about their feelings, attitudes and opinions seem one step ahead of things. You could be among them, that is, could trust your insight into people and pleasures, thereby knowing ahead of time what to expect.
Those who allure you or are allured by you may be assistants or those you are assisting, part of the time. Then there are those who are involved in art, drama or music. They awaken your interest and you need not hold back from intimate interaction with them.
{Monday} *Friendly Persuasion*
Cosmic Piper
*Friendly Persuasion*
Mercury turned direct Sunday at 4:10p PT | 7:10p ET | 11:10p UT. This is a help, although we are still in the Dark Hermetic Epoch until September 27. In the weekend report I gave the time of the moon's entrance (this morning) into Sagittarius. Today could be a time for reorganization, with a better sense of your plans for the immediate future.
You may have a gift for convincing or persuading people in whatever way you choose. There is much "animal magnetism" or personality-power, perhaps with an erotic coloring. Wherever you go you encounter those who are seductive either passively or actively. Yet they are pulled toward so many attractions all at once that it may be hard for them to settle down to one interest or person at a time.
You take an almost scientific attitude toward conversations and encounters, sensing accurately what people are thinking and how best to interact with or speak to them. Some of this happens subconsciously or intuitively, some of it consciously.
Someone who has a strong influence on your career is adamant about certain things, from motives you may not understand. It may seem futile to argue, yet you can have a modifying or even restraining influence.
Some who are direct and straightforward about their feelings, attitudes and opinions seem one step ahead of things. You could be among them, that is, could trust your insight into people and pleasures, thereby knowing ahead of time what to expect.
Those who allure you or are allured by you may be assistants or those you are assisting, part of the time. Then there are those who are involved in art, drama or music. They awaken your interest and you need not hold back from intimate interaction with them.
{Monday} *Friendly Persuasion*
Cosmic Piper
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Forecast for Weekend of September 11-12, 2010
Weekend of September 11-12, 2010
~Toward a Turning Point~
The confusions surrounding the Dark and Bright Hermetic Epochs require a book, or more than one, to explain, and yet I wonder if that would help because I bend over backward to explain them here and get almost no indications from any readers that anyone understands what I am trying to say. Oh, a few, that's right, I just remembered a few. Of course, it is a complex matter and yet in some ways as simple as night and day, which is why I denominated them the Dark and Bright Epochs, finding that that was the simplest analogy to use. They have nothing to do with actual brightness or darkness in the sky or brightness as related to the motions of the planet Mercury. Nothing at all. I mention that to remove any misconceptions. They have to do with an exact mathematical way of measuring Mercury's orbital motions in exact relationship with the orbital motions of the earth. That is what it is all about, astronomically. Astrologically, the Bright and Dark Epochs are the quickest ways I found to get into language what these cycles mean in human experience.
Within the Dark Epoch (about two months, a little less than that, the Bright Epoch being a little more than two months) is the Mercury Retrograde phase which lasts about three weeks. It is at the center or core of the Dark Hermetic Epoch; and of course you must know that Hermes and Mercury are the same god, the Greek and Roman names for him respectively.
As of Sunday the 12th, Mercury turns direct, at 4:10p PT | 07:10p ET | 11:10p UT, but as I have repeated ad nauseum in past posts, you will not notice things immediately changing. That is why I was forced to research and discover the Bright and Dark Epochs. The period of backwardness or confusion (negative) or review and deeper introspective understanding (positive) which characterize the Mercury Retrograde period continue until the end of the Dark Epoch (September 27 this time). That is two more weeks. Meanwhile, yes, there is a somewhat noticeable difference, things start to get less confusing or "night-like" or "dream-like." But, in my experience and observation, full awakening does not come until the beginning of the Bright Hermetic Epoch (September 27 this time).
There, I have tried to spill it all out in as few words as I could. I hope you will re-read the above until you get it because if this were not probably the most important astrological cycle of all---more important than the seasons of the year, except of course in a purely climatic sense---I would not spend as much time harping on it as I do. I hope the harp-sounds are helpful as well as somewhat comforting. Mercury is said to have originated the 9-stringed lyre with the help of a tortoise shell.
I shall not blame Mercury for the fact that I am writing this weekend report Saturday morning and many of you further east of me will not get it until Saturday afternoon or evening. We do have to hop to keep up with ordinary schedules while that planet moves backward. Or, if we are a certain kind of yogi or meditator, we may opt out and hop out of the routine schedules for a while. Usually the other planets, which keep moving ahead (although four of them are now retrograde) prevent us from such escape.
On Saturday (the 11th) the moon is in the Via Combusta, the Burning Way. It is quite fascinating that Terry Jones the Florida "pastor" (I put the word in quotes) who wanted to burn Korans chose a day when the moon would be in the Burning Way! I have not heard any news reports yet today. Even if no burning takes place, the symbolic significance of the Via Combusta has been confirmed once more. It was confirmed more tragically when U. S. forces invaded Iraq during a Via Combusta period in March, 2003.
For you personally, you might review Friday and Saturday to figure the meaning of the Burning Way for you this time. It seldom has anything to do with literal burning or fire, but seems to correspond with a period of discomfort about goals, purposes, and directions. It is as if one were running to get off hot coals, perhaps, feeling in a way that nothing satisfies and nothing is reliable. For example, this morning in a group situation, people were ill-at-ease over a coffee pot. Quite fascinating. Someone pulled the pot off to pour coffee while it was still brewing and spewed coffee over the hot plate of the coffee-maker. Others looked on in angry silence. Another followed his example, and later was castigated for doing it again when he had not done it again but the critic assumed he had. This was not the beginning of a war, nor the burning of a sacred book by a fanatic, but a peculiarly frustrating tempest in a teapot or, this time, coffeepot.
What I suspect is that all those involved in this little drama were actually going through all kinds of inner turmoils which had nothing to do with coffee or the coffeepot. It was impatience, hurry, and frustration concerning a lot of things in their lives, and it translated into the coffeepot opera. And the ancient astrologers knew something when they discovered (not invented) the Burning Way.
I have tried countless ways of helping us get through this 2.5-day monthly occurrence with less suffering. Marc Edmund Jones said the period corresponded to "a loss of morale" and indeed that is usually the case. He also called it a "reshuffling" period. So it seems. If you keep those two phrases in mind, it may help you deal with your inner feelings and your frustration or impatience. It is not usually a good time for beginning completely new things. (Was the Iraq invasion a good idea? There is disagreement but probably a negative consensus.) People might "cut and run" during such a time; then suffer the consequences later. Circumspection and patience are recommended. You are reshuffling your cards, not yet dealing them for a new game.
The moon will be out of this section of the zodiac by Sunday morning but still in Scorpio, and as I have noted, this can still be a difficult phase. It would appear that Sunday and Sunday evening will be times of refocus. By Monday we may feel some relief about the difficulties of the past few weeks, when the moon has entered Sagittarius (5:53a PT | 8:53a ET | 12:53p UT).
Incidentally, the moon in Scorpio on Saturday and Sunday might correspond to some detective work or an interest in it, or in dramas which have a suspense, gangster, or mysterious-adventure motif. I saw that the second movie in the Swedish series, The Girl who Played with Fire (?) was playing at a theater here, then decided to watch the first one online, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I started it but other needs intervened and I hope to finish viewing it today. This is a very much moon-in-Scorpio movie, entertaining perchance at such times.
I think that is enough for this weekend. I hope that pondering these cycles is helping you navigate your way through them more peacefully.
{Weekend of September 11-12} ~Toward a Turning Point~
Cosmic Piper
~Toward a Turning Point~
The confusions surrounding the Dark and Bright Hermetic Epochs require a book, or more than one, to explain, and yet I wonder if that would help because I bend over backward to explain them here and get almost no indications from any readers that anyone understands what I am trying to say. Oh, a few, that's right, I just remembered a few. Of course, it is a complex matter and yet in some ways as simple as night and day, which is why I denominated them the Dark and Bright Epochs, finding that that was the simplest analogy to use. They have nothing to do with actual brightness or darkness in the sky or brightness as related to the motions of the planet Mercury. Nothing at all. I mention that to remove any misconceptions. They have to do with an exact mathematical way of measuring Mercury's orbital motions in exact relationship with the orbital motions of the earth. That is what it is all about, astronomically. Astrologically, the Bright and Dark Epochs are the quickest ways I found to get into language what these cycles mean in human experience.
Within the Dark Epoch (about two months, a little less than that, the Bright Epoch being a little more than two months) is the Mercury Retrograde phase which lasts about three weeks. It is at the center or core of the Dark Hermetic Epoch; and of course you must know that Hermes and Mercury are the same god, the Greek and Roman names for him respectively.
As of Sunday the 12th, Mercury turns direct, at 4:10p PT | 07:10p ET | 11:10p UT, but as I have repeated ad nauseum in past posts, you will not notice things immediately changing. That is why I was forced to research and discover the Bright and Dark Epochs. The period of backwardness or confusion (negative) or review and deeper introspective understanding (positive) which characterize the Mercury Retrograde period continue until the end of the Dark Epoch (September 27 this time). That is two more weeks. Meanwhile, yes, there is a somewhat noticeable difference, things start to get less confusing or "night-like" or "dream-like." But, in my experience and observation, full awakening does not come until the beginning of the Bright Hermetic Epoch (September 27 this time).
There, I have tried to spill it all out in as few words as I could. I hope you will re-read the above until you get it because if this were not probably the most important astrological cycle of all---more important than the seasons of the year, except of course in a purely climatic sense---I would not spend as much time harping on it as I do. I hope the harp-sounds are helpful as well as somewhat comforting. Mercury is said to have originated the 9-stringed lyre with the help of a tortoise shell.
I shall not blame Mercury for the fact that I am writing this weekend report Saturday morning and many of you further east of me will not get it until Saturday afternoon or evening. We do have to hop to keep up with ordinary schedules while that planet moves backward. Or, if we are a certain kind of yogi or meditator, we may opt out and hop out of the routine schedules for a while. Usually the other planets, which keep moving ahead (although four of them are now retrograde) prevent us from such escape.
On Saturday (the 11th) the moon is in the Via Combusta, the Burning Way. It is quite fascinating that Terry Jones the Florida "pastor" (I put the word in quotes) who wanted to burn Korans chose a day when the moon would be in the Burning Way! I have not heard any news reports yet today. Even if no burning takes place, the symbolic significance of the Via Combusta has been confirmed once more. It was confirmed more tragically when U. S. forces invaded Iraq during a Via Combusta period in March, 2003.
For you personally, you might review Friday and Saturday to figure the meaning of the Burning Way for you this time. It seldom has anything to do with literal burning or fire, but seems to correspond with a period of discomfort about goals, purposes, and directions. It is as if one were running to get off hot coals, perhaps, feeling in a way that nothing satisfies and nothing is reliable. For example, this morning in a group situation, people were ill-at-ease over a coffee pot. Quite fascinating. Someone pulled the pot off to pour coffee while it was still brewing and spewed coffee over the hot plate of the coffee-maker. Others looked on in angry silence. Another followed his example, and later was castigated for doing it again when he had not done it again but the critic assumed he had. This was not the beginning of a war, nor the burning of a sacred book by a fanatic, but a peculiarly frustrating tempest in a teapot or, this time, coffeepot.
What I suspect is that all those involved in this little drama were actually going through all kinds of inner turmoils which had nothing to do with coffee or the coffeepot. It was impatience, hurry, and frustration concerning a lot of things in their lives, and it translated into the coffeepot opera. And the ancient astrologers knew something when they discovered (not invented) the Burning Way.
I have tried countless ways of helping us get through this 2.5-day monthly occurrence with less suffering. Marc Edmund Jones said the period corresponded to "a loss of morale" and indeed that is usually the case. He also called it a "reshuffling" period. So it seems. If you keep those two phrases in mind, it may help you deal with your inner feelings and your frustration or impatience. It is not usually a good time for beginning completely new things. (Was the Iraq invasion a good idea? There is disagreement but probably a negative consensus.) People might "cut and run" during such a time; then suffer the consequences later. Circumspection and patience are recommended. You are reshuffling your cards, not yet dealing them for a new game.
The moon will be out of this section of the zodiac by Sunday morning but still in Scorpio, and as I have noted, this can still be a difficult phase. It would appear that Sunday and Sunday evening will be times of refocus. By Monday we may feel some relief about the difficulties of the past few weeks, when the moon has entered Sagittarius (5:53a PT | 8:53a ET | 12:53p UT).
Incidentally, the moon in Scorpio on Saturday and Sunday might correspond to some detective work or an interest in it, or in dramas which have a suspense, gangster, or mysterious-adventure motif. I saw that the second movie in the Swedish series, The Girl who Played with Fire (?) was playing at a theater here, then decided to watch the first one online, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I started it but other needs intervened and I hope to finish viewing it today. This is a very much moon-in-Scorpio movie, entertaining perchance at such times.
I think that is enough for this weekend. I hope that pondering these cycles is helping you navigate your way through them more peacefully.
{Weekend of September 11-12} ~Toward a Turning Point~
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Forecast for Friday 10 September 2010
Forecast for Friday 10 September 2010
}Evoking One Another's Puissances{
We have escaped the |touchy third of the week| as of about 1p PT | 4p ET | 8p UT, but are in the Via Combusta twelfth of the lunar month. That lasts until early Sunday morning; but need not ruin the weekend. It calls for patience, depth, resilience, faith. There can be more questioning than usual, and melancholy. There is a need to probe into issues too often taken lightly.
Robust confidence can be called forth; then you take charge of the more immature in a decisive way they respect. Expertise in chemical, therapeutic, dietary or mechanical matters can make you popular or draw someone you like into your orbit.
Someone egotistical yet sincere may be a friend whom you have doubts about; yet he or she is interesting at least. Together you probe controversial matters.
You respond well to stimulating factors in home or community, some of them requiring practical adjustments, others purely social and cooperative. They enhance or color moods, mostly of a brightening sort. People want to interact even when they have doubts about you or themselves.
While the season moves toward autumn, you are tactful with people and the changes they go through in the same way trees change color. Let us hope they will be tactful with you too, while you divine one another's vulnerabilities.
Wonderful things can happen. There is depth of feeling plus a magnitude of high aspiration. People play while they aspire and aspire while they play. Pleasures contain hidden recesses of hope guiding you toward what you want to evoke, almost forcefully, from those who interest you.
{Friday} {Evoking One Another's Puissances}
Cosmic Piper
}Evoking One Another's Puissances{
We have escaped the |touchy third of the week| as of about 1p PT | 4p ET | 8p UT, but are in the Via Combusta twelfth of the lunar month. That lasts until early Sunday morning; but need not ruin the weekend. It calls for patience, depth, resilience, faith. There can be more questioning than usual, and melancholy. There is a need to probe into issues too often taken lightly.
Robust confidence can be called forth; then you take charge of the more immature in a decisive way they respect. Expertise in chemical, therapeutic, dietary or mechanical matters can make you popular or draw someone you like into your orbit.
Someone egotistical yet sincere may be a friend whom you have doubts about; yet he or she is interesting at least. Together you probe controversial matters.
You respond well to stimulating factors in home or community, some of them requiring practical adjustments, others purely social and cooperative. They enhance or color moods, mostly of a brightening sort. People want to interact even when they have doubts about you or themselves.
While the season moves toward autumn, you are tactful with people and the changes they go through in the same way trees change color. Let us hope they will be tactful with you too, while you divine one another's vulnerabilities.
Wonderful things can happen. There is depth of feeling plus a magnitude of high aspiration. People play while they aspire and aspire while they play. Pleasures contain hidden recesses of hope guiding you toward what you want to evoke, almost forcefully, from those who interest you.
{Friday} {Evoking One Another's Puissances}
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 9 September 2010
Thursday 9 September 2010
}Unambitious Yet Adept Adjustments{
A sign of Mercury retrograde: I do not have anything in my inbox, nothing new for hours, and I feel bereft! Nobody likes me! On the other hand, I have had so many meaningless emails during this period that another part of me ought to be glad no one is bothering me with trivia. People go on strange tangents or mind-trips while Mercury is going backward. An example is the pastor in Florida who wants to burn Korans (or Qurans, apparently the newly approved spelling) on Saturday. As almost anyone can see, this is absurd, offensive, and dangerous, yet he is unable to see that while Hermes pulls a veil over his perceptions. Hermes is a gracious and good god to those who are gracious and good.
I failed to mention in Wednesday's report that that day and today are the |difficult or more touchy third of the week|. That ends sometime during Friday afternoon (I did not calculate the exact minute). So the weekend will be free of it, as it was not for many weeks of the summer. For me this indication, on Wednesday, was more like bringing difficult matters to the surface in a way which ultimately will be helpful. It was stressful part of the time, but the stress seemed to have a positive meaning and direction---perhaps because a New Moon began Wednesday morning and we are more likely to be optimistic.
On Thursday you may work on some issues connected with home, landlords, neighbors, moves or travel. Making yourself comfortable in your living space becomes important.
Conversations and relationships or potential relationships are interesting even if touchy. You are able to see the limits of each one of them. Each friend or potential friend has only so much to offer. This is revelatory, but does not destroy the fun or pleasure of momentary contacts with any one of them. You sense when to pull away, with no sense of fracture or loss.
You are both meticulous and social in y0ur approach to career, so that the partnership aspect of your work becomes significant in a non-threatening manner.
A backdrop of disagreements may seem so normal that you are able to "walk on eggshells" without seriously offending anyone. This has to do with Jupiter's hard aspects, which are culturing in us a realization that we have to agree to disagree on point after point with individual after individual, without letting that upset us.
The moon in Libra is elegant and socially adept. It is with Saturn, exalted in Libra, so you may sense how to interact with people who are somewhat dull in one way or another yet good for you in other ways. Those who bore you in one or two directions may please you in one or two others.
{Thursday} {Unambitious Yet Adept Adjustments}
Cosmic Piper
}Unambitious Yet Adept Adjustments{
A sign of Mercury retrograde: I do not have anything in my inbox, nothing new for hours, and I feel bereft! Nobody likes me! On the other hand, I have had so many meaningless emails during this period that another part of me ought to be glad no one is bothering me with trivia. People go on strange tangents or mind-trips while Mercury is going backward. An example is the pastor in Florida who wants to burn Korans (or Qurans, apparently the newly approved spelling) on Saturday. As almost anyone can see, this is absurd, offensive, and dangerous, yet he is unable to see that while Hermes pulls a veil over his perceptions. Hermes is a gracious and good god to those who are gracious and good.
I failed to mention in Wednesday's report that that day and today are the |difficult or more touchy third of the week|. That ends sometime during Friday afternoon (I did not calculate the exact minute). So the weekend will be free of it, as it was not for many weeks of the summer. For me this indication, on Wednesday, was more like bringing difficult matters to the surface in a way which ultimately will be helpful. It was stressful part of the time, but the stress seemed to have a positive meaning and direction---perhaps because a New Moon began Wednesday morning and we are more likely to be optimistic.
On Thursday you may work on some issues connected with home, landlords, neighbors, moves or travel. Making yourself comfortable in your living space becomes important.
Conversations and relationships or potential relationships are interesting even if touchy. You are able to see the limits of each one of them. Each friend or potential friend has only so much to offer. This is revelatory, but does not destroy the fun or pleasure of momentary contacts with any one of them. You sense when to pull away, with no sense of fracture or loss.
You are both meticulous and social in y0ur approach to career, so that the partnership aspect of your work becomes significant in a non-threatening manner.
A backdrop of disagreements may seem so normal that you are able to "walk on eggshells" without seriously offending anyone. This has to do with Jupiter's hard aspects, which are culturing in us a realization that we have to agree to disagree on point after point with individual after individual, without letting that upset us.
The moon in Libra is elegant and socially adept. It is with Saturn, exalted in Libra, so you may sense how to interact with people who are somewhat dull in one way or another yet good for you in other ways. Those who bore you in one or two directions may please you in one or two others.
{Thursday} {Unambitious Yet Adept Adjustments}
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 8 September 2010
Wednesday 8 September 2010
\Continuing Investigation/
The New Moon begins very early today---while you are asleep most likely---so why do you need the exact time? It might be interesting. You could look it up.
And then forget it, because Mercury is retrograde.
Actually, I have gotten quite a few good things done during that period (since August 20). It's a matter of feeling and understanding what it means. I don't know if I have succeeded in conveying that to a single human being in all the years I have been writing about it. People tend to say "Oh yes it has been a terrible time for me" etc. Okay, but that is really missing the point---we need to understand why it seems terrible sometimes, and figure out how to meet it so it is not terrible. That is what I have been trying to work out here for all of us, including myself, and put it in words---I hope some of you at least have been trying to get it.
It is a GOOD time for rehashing things, figuring old things out, understanding "where you came from" and reminiscing or letting your subconscious mind offer up to you its desires, its realizations, its hopes, in ways you would not have expected---your subconscious mind is trying to tell you a lot of things and you could listen and get them rather than fight them. Let's try to do that especially during the next week. Mercury will turn direct on the 12th but that does not end the Dark Hermetic Epoch (lasting through the 26th). Darkness is good. It allows you to rest, sleep, recover, readjust. The night is welcome, because we know it is respite; and the day will return.
It is not necessarily a good time for working things out with other people or organizations. They too are going through their internal processes and so may not be alert to what you are trying to convey to them and will probably misunderstand it. Just as it is not smart to call your doctor, lawyer or boss at 2 in the morning (unless there is a real emergency about which they could really do something) so it is not smart to press external matters of a legal or business nature during the Dark Epoch---unless you absolutely must.
What I said in the last two paragraphs is retroactive, back to the beginning of the Dark Epoch on August 1, and especially since August 20, and could help you to understand what has been "going wrong" during that time. It is not that things must go wrong but that we need to learn how to focus on the things we can do rather than the things we can't do during those particular periods.
It is true also that things can go quite seriously wrong---in my town there has been a fire, that is outside of town in a mountainous region, and 92 homes at least have been destroyed. I just saw TV coverage which was very moving---grown men as well as women moved to tears over the loss of their homes. Of course, similar things have been going on in Pakistan with the horrendous floods there. Those of us more fortunate at this time ought to give thanks to the Supreme One. We might also pray to be worthy of such protection.
Wednesday has its travails in the realm of mysteries to be solved, requiring utmost patience and inquiry. Scientists or theorists or thinkers might get revelations, yet be unsure how accurate, in terms of certainty, such revelations may prove to be in the long term. It is a learning process. If you are studying or researching something you may make slow progress and be willing to labor for good results.
On the emotional level, Venus enters Scorpio today (at 8:46a PT | 11:46a ET | 3:46p UT). Her position in Libra is considered more fortunate but is now ended. However, Mars in Libra is in mutual reception with Venus in Scorpio---that means they rule each other. What this means for sexual politics and marriages and relationships I would be shocked to say. Kidding. But Gore Vidal, who had this combination in his birth-chart, wrote a novel about a woman who was a man or a man who was a woman (I forget which), Myra Breckenridge. It could be interesting. Watch for kinkiness around you.
That is nothing, of course, in comparison with the serious life-changes many are going through under the aegis of the long-lasting oppositions we have discussed several times and shall discuss again.
{Wednesday} /Continuing Investigation\
Cosmic Piper
\Continuing Investigation/
The New Moon begins very early today---while you are asleep most likely---so why do you need the exact time? It might be interesting. You could look it up.
And then forget it, because Mercury is retrograde.
Actually, I have gotten quite a few good things done during that period (since August 20). It's a matter of feeling and understanding what it means. I don't know if I have succeeded in conveying that to a single human being in all the years I have been writing about it. People tend to say "Oh yes it has been a terrible time for me" etc. Okay, but that is really missing the point---we need to understand why it seems terrible sometimes, and figure out how to meet it so it is not terrible. That is what I have been trying to work out here for all of us, including myself, and put it in words---I hope some of you at least have been trying to get it.
It is a GOOD time for rehashing things, figuring old things out, understanding "where you came from" and reminiscing or letting your subconscious mind offer up to you its desires, its realizations, its hopes, in ways you would not have expected---your subconscious mind is trying to tell you a lot of things and you could listen and get them rather than fight them. Let's try to do that especially during the next week. Mercury will turn direct on the 12th but that does not end the Dark Hermetic Epoch (lasting through the 26th). Darkness is good. It allows you to rest, sleep, recover, readjust. The night is welcome, because we know it is respite; and the day will return.
It is not necessarily a good time for working things out with other people or organizations. They too are going through their internal processes and so may not be alert to what you are trying to convey to them and will probably misunderstand it. Just as it is not smart to call your doctor, lawyer or boss at 2 in the morning (unless there is a real emergency about which they could really do something) so it is not smart to press external matters of a legal or business nature during the Dark Epoch---unless you absolutely must.
What I said in the last two paragraphs is retroactive, back to the beginning of the Dark Epoch on August 1, and especially since August 20, and could help you to understand what has been "going wrong" during that time. It is not that things must go wrong but that we need to learn how to focus on the things we can do rather than the things we can't do during those particular periods.
It is true also that things can go quite seriously wrong---in my town there has been a fire, that is outside of town in a mountainous region, and 92 homes at least have been destroyed. I just saw TV coverage which was very moving---grown men as well as women moved to tears over the loss of their homes. Of course, similar things have been going on in Pakistan with the horrendous floods there. Those of us more fortunate at this time ought to give thanks to the Supreme One. We might also pray to be worthy of such protection.
Wednesday has its travails in the realm of mysteries to be solved, requiring utmost patience and inquiry. Scientists or theorists or thinkers might get revelations, yet be unsure how accurate, in terms of certainty, such revelations may prove to be in the long term. It is a learning process. If you are studying or researching something you may make slow progress and be willing to labor for good results.
On the emotional level, Venus enters Scorpio today (at 8:46a PT | 11:46a ET | 3:46p UT). Her position in Libra is considered more fortunate but is now ended. However, Mars in Libra is in mutual reception with Venus in Scorpio---that means they rule each other. What this means for sexual politics and marriages and relationships I would be shocked to say. Kidding. But Gore Vidal, who had this combination in his birth-chart, wrote a novel about a woman who was a man or a man who was a woman (I forget which), Myra Breckenridge. It could be interesting. Watch for kinkiness around you.
That is nothing, of course, in comparison with the serious life-changes many are going through under the aegis of the long-lasting oppositions we have discussed several times and shall discuss again.
{Wednesday} /Continuing Investigation\
Cosmic Piper
Monday, September 6, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 7 September 2010
Tuesday 7 September 2010
\Letting Things Coalesce and Re-Emerge/
While Monday seemed a day for socializing, today seems for thinking.
Think! No, that is not a command, merely a suggestion, and a prediction of what you will be inclined to do. The moon conjoined to Mercury retrograde in Virgo, the sign of Mercury's exaltation, suggests clear and useful thinking and planning, although since Mercury is retrograde this will be somewhat difficult, confused, or backtracking. You can review what is wrong or what needs to be fixed or organized or resettled. Then you can take action on some of it. This could also be important study.
The fact of the moon slimming down toward the end of the Old Moon, which will become the New Moon Wednesday morning, suggests taking it easy with some things when there is no clear need for intense activity. Rather, routines and necessities can be handled simply and effectively.
You care about your work or your official status, standing, or career, or your personal volunteer projects, and can proceed with those, even if some of the "procedure" is clearing up the past, with five other planets besides Mercury also retrograde. You are catching up with some things. Completely new things would be in limbo; unfruitful.
Mars and Venus together in Libra while in good aspect with Neptune and Pluto give us a backdrop of harmony. This is something soft, gentle, sweet and easygoing which we can tune in with whenever we please. It can be entertainment when you feel that to be beneficent. Not everything is hurry and worry. These aspects reduce the stress of the T square on which I commented yesterday. Kindness and charitableness have their immediate rewards in absence of worry; peacefulness.
Letting things come together, while observing all closely, rather than forcing them to come together from a preconceived plan, is a key.
{Tuesday} /Letting Things Coalesce and Re-Emerge\
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\Letting Things Coalesce and Re-Emerge/
While Monday seemed a day for socializing, today seems for thinking.
Think! No, that is not a command, merely a suggestion, and a prediction of what you will be inclined to do. The moon conjoined to Mercury retrograde in Virgo, the sign of Mercury's exaltation, suggests clear and useful thinking and planning, although since Mercury is retrograde this will be somewhat difficult, confused, or backtracking. You can review what is wrong or what needs to be fixed or organized or resettled. Then you can take action on some of it. This could also be important study.
The fact of the moon slimming down toward the end of the Old Moon, which will become the New Moon Wednesday morning, suggests taking it easy with some things when there is no clear need for intense activity. Rather, routines and necessities can be handled simply and effectively.
You care about your work or your official status, standing, or career, or your personal volunteer projects, and can proceed with those, even if some of the "procedure" is clearing up the past, with five other planets besides Mercury also retrograde. You are catching up with some things. Completely new things would be in limbo; unfruitful.
Mars and Venus together in Libra while in good aspect with Neptune and Pluto give us a backdrop of harmony. This is something soft, gentle, sweet and easygoing which we can tune in with whenever we please. It can be entertainment when you feel that to be beneficent. Not everything is hurry and worry. These aspects reduce the stress of the T square on which I commented yesterday. Kindness and charitableness have their immediate rewards in absence of worry; peacefulness.
Letting things come together, while observing all closely, rather than forcing them to come together from a preconceived plan, is a key.
{Tuesday} /Letting Things Coalesce and Re-Emerge\
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Forecast for Monday 6 September 2010
Monday 6 September 2010
*Restful and Romantic Fun*
(I tried to make this gold, for the moon in Leo, sign of gold, but maybe it looks brownish gold. Burnished gold.)
Yes, I have been away more than a week and that is probably the longest time I have not published a forecast in years. The reason was that I moved, and it was probably the hardest move of my life---not a long distance but I had to get rid of half my possessions (and probably should do the same with half of the remainder). I was exhausted. This holiday weekend is helping me recover.
Mercury has been retrograde, as you must know, since August 20 until September 12. Maybe not a good time to move, but I have observed for decades that more people move during those times than during the Bright Hermetic Epoch. Either we are stupid or it is the right time to move, at least sometimes. It is interesting that moving usually means reconsidering every item of your life. You have to get rid of things, sell or give them away or throw them out or recycle them, which is all a "re" process. There is resignation---sigh---I will not be in this house or neighborhood again. There is a recapture of your life by putting it in a fresh setting. All this may be why people tend to move at these times, even though many astrologers do not re-commend it.
For Monday, the moon is in its last phase, getting smaller by the hour to our geocentric observation. This goes along with a need for extra rest, usually, or more meditative and less strenuous pursuits. I saw several groups of people start to play sports on a playing field outside my new window (Sunday) and then give up after a short twenty-minute interval. It seems they were "bushed." A sign of this time, until the New Moon arriving Wednesday morning. Nice that we (in America) have Monday off.
That day has nice lunar aspects, a sextile from Leo to Mars and Venus in Libra, archetypically romantic. So it might be the best social day of the three-day weekend. Parties are mandatory! Or, at least, hang out with people with whom you are comfortable or whom you wish to court.
You might be re-thinking and working out matters connected with your career or research. It is important to find answers and you are onto them, no matter how lackadaisically. Within lackadaisy is a daisy. Maybe it will pop out when you don't expect it.
Yes, let's just call this a holi-day (even for you readers in Europe or Asia), which really means holy day, but the more secular varieties of pleasure and entertainment are likely to be paramount with the lunar aspects already mentioned. Love is in the air. Let it happen.
{Monday} *Restful and Romantic Fun*
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*Restful and Romantic Fun*
(I tried to make this gold, for the moon in Leo, sign of gold, but maybe it looks brownish gold. Burnished gold.)
Yes, I have been away more than a week and that is probably the longest time I have not published a forecast in years. The reason was that I moved, and it was probably the hardest move of my life---not a long distance but I had to get rid of half my possessions (and probably should do the same with half of the remainder). I was exhausted. This holiday weekend is helping me recover.
Mercury has been retrograde, as you must know, since August 20 until September 12. Maybe not a good time to move, but I have observed for decades that more people move during those times than during the Bright Hermetic Epoch. Either we are stupid or it is the right time to move, at least sometimes. It is interesting that moving usually means reconsidering every item of your life. You have to get rid of things, sell or give them away or throw them out or recycle them, which is all a "re" process. There is resignation---sigh---I will not be in this house or neighborhood again. There is a recapture of your life by putting it in a fresh setting. All this may be why people tend to move at these times, even though many astrologers do not re-commend it.
For Monday, the moon is in its last phase, getting smaller by the hour to our geocentric observation. This goes along with a need for extra rest, usually, or more meditative and less strenuous pursuits. I saw several groups of people start to play sports on a playing field outside my new window (Sunday) and then give up after a short twenty-minute interval. It seems they were "bushed." A sign of this time, until the New Moon arriving Wednesday morning. Nice that we (in America) have Monday off.
That day has nice lunar aspects, a sextile from Leo to Mars and Venus in Libra, archetypically romantic. So it might be the best social day of the three-day weekend. Parties are mandatory! Or, at least, hang out with people with whom you are comfortable or whom you wish to court.
You might be re-thinking and working out matters connected with your career or research. It is important to find answers and you are onto them, no matter how lackadaisically. Within lackadaisy is a daisy. Maybe it will pop out when you don't expect it.
Yes, let's just call this a holi-day (even for you readers in Europe or Asia), which really means holy day, but the more secular varieties of pleasure and entertainment are likely to be paramount with the lunar aspects already mentioned. Love is in the air. Let it happen.
{Monday} *Restful and Romantic Fun*
Cosmic Piper
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