Sunday, October 31, 2010

Forecast for Monday 1 November 2010

Monday 1 November 2010

\Happy Orientation Gets a Foothold/

It's a good day to sort through things and arrive at choices. We are still in the Bright Hermetic Epoch until November 22. What I said a week ago about this being a good time to figure out basic plans, choices, and methods is still true. This has been happening for me in a big way, and I hope for you also. If not, there is still time to make it happen. None of us can probably see to the end of our lives, or into future lives, but at times like this we can see as far ahead as we need, and plan accordingly. The moon's sextiles with the sun and then Mercury (way into the evening and past midnight) make this even more feasible.

Action at home or at headquarters which seems imperative is being almost forced on you, and that it good because it is imperative for your true well-being even if it seems like extra work. You may be slow at first to arm yourself and get going but you can do it in a prudent way which shows in fact you are prepared. You are learning to do something about which you have doubts, but once you get started you do it well, with your individual accent.

Sensual tendencies, an inclination toward easy pleasures, would be your escape, but you think better of them in time. A small place which cultivated people inhabit could be your venue for something both useful and pleasant. Then you feel you are using powers you have which are little understood but which invisibly lift and aid important people or projects.

Someone might make off-color jokes, or pretend to be malicious or caustic, while merely playing with you. This could inspire you to think in a different way which brings out your understanding through reawakening. Then you are ready to enjoy a good time with people around you, perhaps through shared food and drink which arouses the slumbering fraternity-sorority of humanity. Meanwhile you are not incognizant of better ways to direct your life, some of them already known but experienced in a fresh way through intuitive orientation (paragraph 1).

You could appreciate the arts wherever you encounter them. They have a touch of the romantic, the perils of love welcomed gladly because one feels their rewards stronger wine than the briars in which those grapes of passion must be picked.

You find higher meaning in challenging situations, so you can rely on gifts of grace which filter through them. Innocence may be protective. Someone who is a magician, truly or figuratively, has a love-potion indeed, of which you could partake, or you may slip it into the drink of an object of your amours (figuratively, please!). This is not black magic, if it is implicitly true love seeking an entrance in ways which appear devious to the sullen ethicist.

{Monday} /Happy Orientation Gets a Foothold\

Cosmic Piper

Friday, October 29, 2010

Forecast for Week of October 31-November 6

Weekend of October 30-31, 2010

Toward Solid Fulfillment

Of the weekend itself it could be said that Saturday is more direct and straightforward, while Sunday nebulous or confusing, maybe really a time to relax and recover.

Good, youthful spirits are in evidence both days, with the moon in Leo, though on Sunday tempered by a more mystical and remote disposition.

The serious as opposed to social side of both days is focused on career matters, which are circulating in the back toward the front of your mind in a healthy way.

I said last week that I would attempt to delineate, on the weekends, the difference between the week ending and that beginning. I have become quite convinced that the seven-day week devised by the ancients, or offered to them from on high, has a reality in human experience and that it indeed begins on Sunday, although since Saturday is the intercalary day it partakes of the week ahead as well as the week ending. This time I will try to outline what the week of Sunday October 31 (or Saturday) through Friday November 5 (or Saturday November 6) may hold for us.

One can be initiated into the eternal verities at any time, though it might be there is a special opportunity now. There is a school of thought which insists that illumination is individual, acquired through solitary meditation, and a school of thought which maintains that one must act socially with one's neighbors, family, friends and associates in a harmonious way in order to be initiated, as in Freemasonry and the groups derived from it. That is your choice; it seems you will be impelled toward the latter against your will if you choose the former; the latter is a necessary supplement. This is difficult for the one who has trouble getting along with people. Cultivating what is beautiful or appealing to one's tastes is a help. Someone is sure to appreciate what you enjoy and then there is a rapport.

It is good to be careful of connections which could hurt you or lead you into a pit of ruin. This can be done if you measure and limit your activities with efficiency. You feel that you have some secrets no one else will "get," and that is true. They are securely yours even if in terms of your public persona they seem an obstacle, or lock you out from certain contacts with possibly important people because you are focused on your hidden agenda. Perhaps that cannot be avoided.

Freedom comes to you through very deep studies, even the secret of liberating oneself from death itself. This can happen if you follow your heart as it directs serious choices. Liberty comes also through material prosperity and this is available in perhaps greater measure than recently. You can liberate yourself also from false notions if you are strict in observing what you believe, subconsciously, which is hindering you; I have called these entities "fixed wrong notions" and most people have one or more of them at the root of their failure. It is hard to see them even, then hard to eradicate them. Spiritual study can uproot them.

It seems you are determined to overcome a frivolous side of you, vain and self-centered. The better part of you knows when you are focused too much on attempts to impress people through appearance or personality. You might come to realize that those who are most beloved think very little of how they appear.

You have been laboring at something difficult, as if mining treasure from the earth. In some ways you are escaping from the hardest of the labor, even if it might be necessary again. You have arrived at some secure foundations for your financial fortunes. There are times, however, when you feel this avails little, because you fail to take up opportunities which present themselves.

There is much luck in business, living conditions, and possibly travel plans. It is wise to refrain from drifting with the luck into sensuous, lazy, decadent ways which would deplete your energy and drive. When things are easy one is likely to take the too-easy path.

There could be snobbery and exclusiveness. Of course it is all right to enjoy the fruits which come to you so long as that does not stop you from whatever is your mission in this life. That you may be impelled to carry out with wonderful success if you realize, first, what it is and what it could really mean to people and the human race, as well as to G*d the author of all. Then you will realize also how to implement such unclassifiable skills in a way which brings healing or fulfillment to those touched by them.

{Week of October 31 through November 6, 2010} Toward Solid Fulfillment

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Forecast for Friday 29 October 2010

Friday 29 October 2010

~Interpersonal Exploration~

There is an urge to be out and about. You want to be out in nature, whatever the seasonal appearance or weather.

I could see people hiking or trekking or just on a "color tour" (better environmentally to do that on a bike) or something more adventurous such as an extreme or semi-extreme sport. There is a lot of irrepressible energy.

It is not necessary to be angry or an agitator although such impulses may arise.

There seems to be relief concerning jobs and income. Although still results are not what one would wish, people are thinking about things other than money.

Disappointment in leaders is everywhere. Probably we expect too much from them. If we judge them, then we should be able to do what we think they should. No?

Some such leaders are learning to be strong, to stick to their plans even when losing popular support. That could be you also. You needn't expect most people to "get" what you are trying to accomplish. Still, you can do it.

A period in the afternoon from 12:49p PT to 5:40p PT, 3:49p ET to 8:40p ET, 7:49p UT to 12:40a(Sa)UT, about five hours, could capsize your plans. It is while the moon is void of course in Cancer before entering Leo at the latter time. It might be good to be free-form at that time and let things pan out as they will, because it would be hard to be certain exactly how you will spend your evening. However, it is well worth waiting, fiddling, meddling or re-beginning and temporizing, because good things are in store after the moon enters Leo. It could be a good party evening, as shall Saturday.

People could be in a costume mood, so there is no need to wait a day or two for Halloween festivities. You want to mingle with large numbers of people; this can be exhilarating. Yet you maintain native innocence and childlike glory. You involve yourself in people's lives to just the degree you wish. Luck is with you while you locate the things, entertainments, resources and people you want, or find them serendipitously.

Idealism in people makes them basically trusting. Maybe they actually even care about each other and the human race (!). Some trick-or-treaters work for good causes or charities. Stabilizing energies will calm you if you get over-agitated, so you can go where you will be comfortable, or just determine to find a comfort zone no matter where you are.

Another tendency, linked perhaps with paragraphs 1 through 3, is more excitable and intense, wanting to knock things over, make a scene, be somebody through action which gets attention, or just sweep through the world like a frenzied wind. If you don't feel that way yourself you could see it in others and it could be contagious. No worries; this is a day for adventurous exploration and interpersonal discovery.

{Friday} ~Interpersonal Exploration~

Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Forecast for Thursday 28 October 2010

Thursday 28 October 2010

~Toward Gain and Cooperation~

This is the second day of the |more stressful third of the week| according to a carefully studied formula which has worked precisely over the years. It does not mean the day is good for nothing, of course. In fact it could be very good for proceeding with wise plans. Less stress beginning Friday around noon coincides happily with the weekend, for now and in recent weeks.

The evening of Thursday tends to be more congenial and less disturbing.

On Wednesday just as I started to realize I needed to prepare and do laundry, I found a male neighbor was in the same process. (Not a guy thing?) That coincided with the moon in Cancer squaring Saturn, no doubt a good time for laundry (Cancer is a domestic sign and water sign). That continues Thursday so it could be a smart laundry day.

A detective tendency does not mean you are spying on your neighbors, or they on you, yet is good for subtle awareness of all around you including some possible job or money moves.

As the Halloween weekend approaches, people are remembering past celebrations and the links with people they formed in peculiar ways. You can re-establish such ties in memory.

Sometimes it seems the simple path is the best, even if it results in less income and luxury. Whether this is lazy or spiritually sane depends on the individual's dharma, or inborn tendency and destiny.

Perhaps your recent feelings that you are making little headway will be somewhat relieved, at least by late in the day, when it feels the world is starting to cooperate with you a little better.

When you see how some have been selfish and self-centered, not living up to the standards they are supposed to represent, your discomfort can lead to higher standards for yourself as well as subtle ways of making clear to someone that he or she needs to shape up. One who has been a partner from old times is assisting you, visibly or invisibly.

Those who might say something negative about you are probably in the minority. When you get wind of such, you can trust that falsehoods will never last long enough to hurt you seriously. People sometimes prance and strut, thinking that by saying something against someone else they are exalting themselves, but sooner or later they realize this does not work.

The continuity of your efforts is leading to wealth. Small but important things you do add to your credit, which means a better supply of all you need. You are ambitious in a healthy way, that is, when it seems natural to be so, not forced.

{Thursday} ~Toward Gain and Cooperation~

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Forecast for Wednesday 27 October 2010

Wednesday 27 October 2010

~Sub Rosa Gain Ameliorates Gloom~

It's not a particularly easy day and we are in the |difficult third of this week| today and tomorrow.

You may feel like a warrior. I do not like the "warrior" image but it implies fighting to keep yourself focused on what is important for you.

Halloween plans are interesting. You ponder being in a public place and "exposing yourself." You are clever and will fascinate people even when you don't realize it.

Something missing could cause consternation, yet it can be found. You work at home for something significant and can keep up despite lack of progress.

People are critical of each other when it comes to pretenses. Who is the one who is trying to reform everyone, including you? Reformation is essential; it is re-formation. Part of you resists it and part of you welcomes it. A false reformer does not understand the one of whom he is critical.

You are trying to retain you throne, as it were, your position of security, and can do it when you know you are right.

Plans you keep hidden, involving learning and gain, are flourishing. You become stabilized when you intuit the broad patterns of your life and of G*d's plans as they unfold gradually.

What would frustrate that process would be wanton rage directed against whatever seems to be in your way or is worthless in your eyes. Fortunately it seems you have enough common sense and patience to scotch such impulses.

Simplicity and innocence in your work for income will pay off. What you need to be, and therefore are, is both useful and attractive.

Escapism can be a danger, but when you involve yourself in achievements they become your true escape route.

Yesterday I mentioned material gain, as from gems of the earth, and am not sure what that may have meant to you on Tuesday, but the trend continues today so perhaps you are benefiting from surprising gains in certain directions. If you organize at home you may find treasure. You are finding what you need, or can unearth it, and this overcomes temporary moods of despair.

{Wednesday} ~Sub Rosa Gain Ameliorates Gloom~

Cosmic Piper

Monday, October 25, 2010

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Tuesday 26 October 2010

}A Path through Luck and Beauty{

There is a stabilization of thinking, greater certainty about what you believe.

Personal charm and magnetism consolidate friendships, even when there has been confusion about loyalty. Someone you like falls under your influence.

A spontaneous mood can surface even while you work. People feel secure enough, even financially, to joke and play a bit.

You feel certain you can win over any opponent. This does not make you foolhardy but confident enough so that you are unwavering in your plans, not daunted by what would appear to be threats if you were timorous.

The Part of Fortune in the 8th makes you feel that change is in the air, and can be a little unsettling, yet it can help you realize the value of your past, your parentage and ancestry, while you move forward into fresh situations warily.

You don't lose prestige, because you hold on tightly to what you know to be your secret powers and abilities, and they manifest, without your planning, at the right time to show people that you are strong and in control. At the same time, you have a tendency to see through hypocrisy in religious leaders or followers, or the non-religious atheists who think they are the wave of the future (as the proponents of the so-called Enlightenment thought 250 years ago). "There is none righteous, no not one" says the Lord through the voice of the Psalmist. Idols have clay feet and it is not wise to elevate them beyond their stature, though when they exercise a proper teaching or leading role they can be superb as long as they don't overstep their bounds.

Laboring for fewer results than you wish is normal now, so there is no reason to feel resentment. The best have had to do that. Some of that trend will improve beginning Monday November 1.

You might want to lock certain individuals who seem false or trivial out of your life, yet they stick with you until you learn what you have to learn from them, and teach them what you have to teach, all unconsciously, most likely. This is a process of patience which brings rewards eventually.

The fine arts, and drama or music, are emphasized in a happy way, to the point that you encounter them in your work even, or use them there. Someone in authority has stunning good taste in music or the arts which you may be unaware of, because he or she does not announce this.

Someone young but wise gets your attention and draws your interest or libido. Innocence is an amazing quality, invoking the blessings of the gods as well as freshness and creativity from onlookers.

What you have decided at some deep level is coming to pass. This is magic.

Love-attractions are mixed somehow with thinking and planning. They happen in the workplace as well as secretly. Likewise, monetary fortunes can improve dramatically. There is luck with gems, metals, investments, or other boons, some unexpected. You find what you need to find, get what you need to get.

A side of you which has been unsocial or timid opens and closes, clams up and releases its glory for the world to see. Involved in yourself, you can't help being that, so people notice and appreciate. Then by being a treasure you find more treasure.

Someone attractive to you carries the day, shows you how wonderful it is to be innocent and brave, true and youthful, idealistic and beautiful. Then you see that these qualities are not missing in yourself.

{Tuesday} {A Path through Luck and Beauty}

Cosmic Piper



Sunday, October 24, 2010

Forecast for Monday 25 October 2010

Forecast for Monday 25 October 2010

}Effortless Effort Bringing Success{

An inventive faculty is strong, with a desire to explore and consolidate factors in your business, profession or job in an almost mathematical or exact manner.

There is a jesting proclivity or desire to shock or awaken, or shake things up so people will try something new rather than be stuck in dullness.

Certain types of individual are focused on what they want to get from life and persist in that in more than one venue, driven by their inner urge to win, yet kindly and humane.

Winning in a game could happen, or seeing that if someone else wins you partake of the glory.

You are hard on others and yourself because you expect more than superficial hypocrisy, yet your attempts to reform yourself and them might succeed through a judicious dose of humor.

People are seeing that when immediate gains are inadequate, faith and persistence are sure to multiply them.

A philosophic attitude toward your work gives you great relief. You see how the mighty fall, though finding ways to rise again, and you develop a detached perspective which makes you care less for "success" and more for peaceful wisdom which nothing can take from you. Then this internal solitude or detachment can find employment in social or business situations where jumping in and helping is better than holding back and deferring. Such cooperative work does not detract from your philosophic perspective but enriches it. Then you gain respect from those who see that you are unassuming and modest, willing to join in the common enterprise.

A careless or nonchalant attitude can make work joyful, or at worst could make things dissolve in inconsequence. It is fun to pursue a lot of things at once, including love-attractions, yet this tends to dilute them eventually. However, just about everyone gets certain satisfactions and cooperations from Nature and humanity as if the wish for them evoked them. They come surprisingly like comets or meteors. Even your eccentric qualities get appreciation from those to whom they are refreshing. You develop a rapport with all which makes your serious work (a major focus of the day) easier.

{Monday} {Effortless Effort Bringing Success}

Cosmic Piper

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Weekend of October 23-24, 2010

Important Research Accomplished

Unexpectedly, I was thrown, by a request for some astrological help, into a "research mode" as has been characteristic of my life for many years. This took up almost every waking minute from Friday afternoon, when ordinarily I would have written the weekend forecast, until now, Saturday mid-afternoon. It has been an enormously fruitful day of reviewing and testing all my basic procedures for the forecasts, especially for weekly forecasts, which I have not been using here very much. The daily forecasts have been researched and re-researched and re-re-researched to a point where I feel I know pretty much how to do them, that is, on the technical side, although putting what I see into words is the hard part. The weekly forecasts, which I have not been writing here but hoped to write, and tried for a while, have been a bigger problem, using a longer-term arrangement of the planetary motions and interrelations than the daily charts. It seems I have arrived at something quite definite as of today, based on past research re-studied. It was a matter of selecting out from the methods I had tested and found to work---I threw out dozens which failed in test---the ones which work best in the most cases, using of course past events in others' lives and my own to test them.

I am pretty much exhausted by this non-stop effort. It was exhilarating yet eventually tiring. In the process I tested one method which has had good and yet spotty success in the past, and finally, after spending hours on it, decided that although it does work to some degree it does not work as well as other methods and probably ought to be dropped, either permanently or for the time being. I try to use Occam's Razor, the notion that one should not multiply factors beyond what is necessary. A great deal is necessary, however!

So, the upshot is that although I will not write a weekend report this time, I hope that I will be armed with tools to write an even better one next weekend, perhaps focusing on the difference between the week ending and the one beginning. It does appear that the ancients were right to make Sunday the first day of the week and Saturday the final day. It appears to be a transition day between the two weeks, partaking somewhat of the nature of both, which might be an esoteric reason for it being the Hebrew Sabbath.

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Forecast for Friday 22 October 2010

Friday 22 October 2010

*A Little Lightening Up, Let's Hope*

Some of the gloom some or all of us have experienced during Wednesday and Thursday may be with us for a while yet, but technically the |difficult or demanding third of the week| is with us today until
2:27p PT | 5:27p ET | 9:27p UT. It is nice that the weekend will be free of it, though of course challenges never end in our "sublunar world."

An emphasis on money continues, but whether that is lucky for you or seemingly unlucky is hard to tell. Perhaps you are reorganizing and rethinking your personal finances. It might be a good shopping day for some purposes.

You might be aware of some who are quite notable in the financial sphere or who have been successful, and get clues from them. You may be intrepid in pursuing your particular goals and the business techniques which accompany them.

You may have the power of persuasion when you are moved by deep principles within you, so that you can state what others are afraid to say but long to hear.

Group work can be frustrating when it seems people are working with no visible result. Some things have to be slow at this point in the evolution of the human race. There is needed reformation of all who put themselves in positions of authority (except for those very few who have the personal meekness of Moses). Unswerving faith is needed, so that you sort out those to whom you wish to be loyal from those to whom your loyalty is no longer alive or relevant. You can be loyal to these latter also in spirit, that is, in higher aspiration, though not necessarily in material or time-consuming relationship.

The Full Moon arrives at 6:38p PT | 9:38p ET | 1:38a(Sa) UT.

Some morose individuality is possible. You may feel angry at the world for being so inane. Of course you are not; none of us feel we are. It is hard to get out of resenting and rebuking the world or people when one feels bitterly disappointed. Some philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche or Wittgenstein have the reputation of being melancholic individualists, not socially "nice" or competent. Sometimes genius needs inchoate solitude rather than social finesse. Beyond that, today there could also be some self-indulgence when you feel aloof and just want to please yourself. Whether this is dangerous or not depends on what you are neglecting, perhaps.

Through all the disaffection, you can still find your way through the maze of life with quite wonderful success. You can trust your inner compass.

There can be some shared contacts such as while eating together (or drinking with moderation). These exalt the sorority-fraternity of humanity.

Sometimes you want to parry with people mentally or otherwise, not meaning anything except "We are all different and when we compete we are playing." That is a relief, and one factor behind the popularity of games of all sorts.

{Friday} *A Little Lightening Up, Let's Hope*

Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Forecast for Thursday 21 October 2010

Thursday 21 October 2010

*Deliberate Gain through Self-Chosen Focus*

Although we remain in the |difficult or challenging third of the week|, there are lucky positions and aspects so you are likely to feel by the end of the day that you have gained something.
The gains will help you face the challenges with patience and even enthusiasm.

One side of you is reserved; wants to focus on your own needs and goals; and will resist friendly overtures when you feel they are not going to help you or would interfere with your timing, which is all-important. "Going it alone" is the name of this trend. You are alert to things around you which you can use and benefit from and so extemporize brilliantly. You can set up camp in any wilderness. Further, you sacrifice some personal desires for the sake of your mission, which weighs heavily but which you would not forsake.

When results of your endeavors seem skimpy, you can rely on other workers in the same domain. Together, you at least keep the project going. You are reforming yourself, cognizant of your weaknesses, failures, and hindering habits. You would not want to announce to the world the weaknesses you are correcting but correct them you shall. You are serving those whom you regard as equals and with whom you can communicate when necessary but not when unnecessary. So because you all care about the project in hand it will be victorious.

Perhaps a woman who is clever, almost scheming, subtle and effective in her persuasions will benefit you or hint at such benefits because at some level she is in your own camp. Together you pursue knowledge which can be effective for good. Your solitary endeavors also can be effective although you need to overcome a tendency to gloomy seclusion or indifference. That you can do because of factors already mentioned.

You divine information through intuitive gifts which can direct you along profitable paths. Your divining rod leads to the mother lode.

Despite the "go it alone" trend, you could at times enjoy the fraternity-sorority of humanity, perhaps when sharing a meal.

Someone who is drawn to you might pretend to be what he or she is not, as a sarcastic joke, meaning no harm, and that enlivens the contact for as long as it lasts and pleases you.

{Thursday} *Deliberate Gain through Self-Chosen Focus*

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Forecast for Wednesday 20 October 2010

Wednesday 20 October 2010

*Curing Anxiety through Courage and Enthusiasm*

Noble intentions are emphasized. You feel you could do more for the world, as well as yourself, if you were better off financially, and this might be true if those good intentions should indeed translate themselves into good deeds after getting your windfall.

You could worry too much about some matters, whether financial or otherwise, yet your insight, booted up by such worry, could penetrate deeply and brilliantly.

People tend to grab what they want, selfishly, not always aware how their callous greed looks to the objective observer. You may note this, castigating it in some and winking at it in others. "Humanity" is not necessarily an excuse. Probably those who have eliminated greed in themselves are least likely to rail against it in others. "You want it? Take it" was almost the attitude Jesus recommended. But what that means in reality for the individual can be learned only through long and deep study of the Gospels.

Some of your endeavors require much patience with those who are supposed to be cooperating with you but seem weak cooperators or shirkers. Perhaps they are incompetent along some lines and you are left to pick up the pieces.

People rail against the stupidity and arrogance of some religious followers, cultists, priests, sheiks or would-be rulers of their fellow men with pseudo-religious excuses. This is hardly a new theme in the history of the world. Your own dauntlessness and justice procure security against those who excuse their injustices with phony ideology.

Something valorous and dignified in you is winning the day in your career, leading to better income as well. People appreciate your decency, honesty and idealism (unless of ocurse those qualities are notably lacking). You can be responsive to others' hopes and needs in such a way that they trust you. They feel you brighten their lives. Then you could even be willing to work arduously at tasks for which there is little appreciation or obvious reward. Your reward is contained within the effort itself.

We are in the |difficult third of the week| until Friday at 2:27p PT | 5:27p ET | 9:27p UT. That could mean extra worry, or, if you face the worry straightforwardly, simply concentrated action to get done the things which will improve your situation.

Some of your internal distress has to do with being weaned. That of course means symbolically, yet even a subconscious longing for parents or parental affection could be making itself felt. Most adults fulfill such needs through some authority, teacher, spiritual guide or comforter. I find that only the very highest spiritual guides such as Avatars are worthy of one's unqualified trust as spiritual parents.

Friends who are missing are another perplexity. Loneliness leads some to drink. Screwing up your courage and enthusiasm is a cure. You are safe when you rely on what is reliable. That is not artificial highs, although moderate drinking could be all right; the problem while Mars squares Neptune is that moderation in seeking a high tends to be cast to the winds. The low is what follows.

You may note that people seem insecure, and likely to be grouchy or unfairly critical as a result. One might call this mild paranoia. It is well to excuse it in people because if you look into yourself you will find it there also. Unfortunately when people get paranoid their mutual paranoia feeds on itself, as in endless feuds such as the (ended) Cold War and now, for example, Muslim-Christian strife. When I am suspicious of you, you are suspicious of me, and vice versa, and . . . Well, apart from politics, it is time for that to stop in your own life and consciousness.

{Wednesday} *Curing Anxiety through Courage and Enthusiasm*

Cosmic Piper

Monday, October 18, 2010

Forecast for Tuesday 19 October 2010

Tuesday 19 October 2010

~Gains, with Liberation from Anxiety~

Luck is with us, as it was yesterday. You might want to make the most of that because the |difficult or challenging third of the week| will begin very late this evening, lasting through Thursday and the early part of Friday.

The moon in Pisces trine Mars (and conjoined with Jupiter) gives a somewhat more active cast to the day than yesterday's trine with Venus. That is neither better nor worse, just a different coloring. You could achieve a lot and enjoy the attempt.

You may gain through investment or making use of resources at home. There is a feeling of "seeding" as well as seizing, or reduplicating gains through reinvesting some.

People are seeing into one another, sometimes through perceiving something about one another's ancestral roots or the way they function within their families and communities. Investigations by secret agencies continue, as they always do, and you may get wind of some of them. Or this might be merely gossip.

Suffering you have endured has made you better and stronger, especially when you reject bitterness or resentment and rejoice in your moral or material victories. These are all the better when recognized by others, but if not you can be certain they will get such recognition in time. Meanwhile your immortal soul knows what it has done and won.

You see into the mistaken motives or desires of those who are predatory whether financially or sexually. Sometimes the desire for power requires reformation so that it is a desire to make things really better for others or "the world" rather than whip the world into obeying the self.

High aspirations are their own reward even when they get little response from others who might have helped you actualize them.

It's nice to be at home where you are the master, and dispense favors to those who win your favor or to strangers. Keeping your pleasant domicile in order enables you to share its warmth. People always have more to share than they realize until they begin the process.

Much which you imbibe as information, through the media, online, or word of mouth, reflects your immediate world so you can make better use of it. You might find bargains, other gains, or unexpected ways of enjoying yourself with little cost. Just to observe the passing show is a form of entertainment. Choosing what you really want and sticking with it will gain your desire.

This is a time for many of your fears to dissolve. You might notice whatever tightness you feel in your shoulders, arms, fingers, toes and feet, and relax them deliberately. What is keeping you tense? Is it not largely fears of things which will never come to pass? The wise ones tell us to dissolve fear into perfect love and trust. Safety comes from the inner soul's flexible yet omniscient presence, which warns you in time to shift or move to avoid any distress or trouble. Then you are free to put your conscious attention on happier things.

Mars's approaching square with Neptune warns against wrong or immoderate use of alcohol or drugs, perhaps even more on Wednesday and Thursday.

People look toward one another longingly. They are not sure what the "other," whether stranger or acquaintance, has to offer but they suspect it is something they are missing. This is poignant. Yet today all that is necessary is trust and freedom from anxiety. You cannot be rejected when your heart is pure, for then you would not even notice the rejection. Further, your innocence will call forth acceptance in one form or another.

{Tuesday} ~Gains, with Liberation from Anxiety~

Cosmic Piper

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Forecast for Monday 18 October 2010

Monday 18 October 2010

~Subtle Melancholy Turning to Genial Reassurance~

There's a lot of inner harmony which can develop into outer harmony. Bells within your mind chime along with the music of the spheres. There is a semi-erotic trend as well, while the moon in Pisces trines Venus in Scorpio, combining the spiritually uplifting with the genially sensuous. This is exact before and after the sunset hours.

Efforts you've been making to get your home or headquarters in order could proceed with gusto. Now is the time to sense and know just where everything should be, "a place for everything" as the old adage goes.

You might listen to a talk or peruse a missive which inspires you and those around you in an unusual way. It appeals to your innate sense of what is right, natural and ethically symmetrical. You may find yourself spouting such wisdom so that it gets a welcome.

A subtler and sadder strain emanates from Mars's square with Neptune, a desire to remember those who have passed from this world in a way worthy of them, to link yourself with advanced souls no longer embodied. There could be mild grief or merely heightened sentimental sensitivity concerning them.

Some with whom you are acquainted are warning against injustices, trying to defend themselves and all from what they regard as threats to liberty imposed by governments. Uncertainty about what to do in this regard arises from the fact that you need to watch and acquire more information. There is an endless struggle between forces of individual freedom and those of socially (governmentally) imposed order. The right balance between them is never perceived by the extremists on either side. Yet to hear both sides, even the extremists, is an aid to arriving at a reasonable middle.

Courage in your attack helps you sort out what is most beneficial for you financially. You may look into hidden or little-known potentials along such lines. (Not get-rich-quick schemes posted on the Internet, please.) You are adept in choosing what is reasonably selfish but not stupidly or immorally so. Therefore you can mediate between extremes by looking toward what is immediately possible and desirable.

Some fears are foolish--we call them paranoid--and you can drop those which would upset you pointlessly. There is comfort and ease within your home or within the personal space of your job. You need not exaggerate or imagine threats to it. You find safety not by being hysterical but by trusting the calm creative center within you.

You are aware of needing someone. You may know who it is, or imagine; you may be partly wrong in your surmise, but whatever happens you will be fortunate in connecting with someone who reassures you you are valued and enjoyed, perhaps especially before and after the sunset hours already recommended.

{Monday} ~Subtle Melancholy Turning to Genial Reassurance~

Cosmic Piper

Friday, October 15, 2010

Forecast for Weekend of October 16-17, 2010

Weekend of October 16-17, 2010

}Choices and Plans Confirmed{

This looks like a promising and memorable weekend. In accord with what has been said repeatedly here, we are in the center of the Bright Hermetic Epoch; Mercury is exactly conjoined to the sun, Saturday afternoon-evening. This is the time to write down, list or map out your plans, your agenda, your major priorities. What is most important to you? Who is most important? Who are your teachers, both practically and spiritually? You can answer these questions now for yourself, up until the moon goes void of course Sunday at 11:50a PT | 2:50p ET | 6:50p UT. Those who attend religious or spiritual services in the morning may arrive, while there, at revelations or impulsions from on high. Those who are alone might do the same if they focus seriously and ritualistically upon their highest ideals and pray or aspire for aid in realizing them.

The same could be done Saturday. If so, then you may realize even further and deeper facets of your agenda Sunday before the time given.

You sense definite procedures, even if you don't see their details as clearly as you would wish. You know where you need to be physically, and where you need to be mentally, that is, on what you need to focus. Some of your aspirations might seem too sanguine or optimistic to a "realist" or skeptic, but skepticism is inbuilt failure. You can hold to those hopes and they will actualize eventually. You are making a transition which pulls the real and the ideal together. Your necessary daily activities are being blended with your fondest dreams.

You know the flag you follow. You have chosen it or are choosing it now and it will not fail you if you keep it in view. You have suffered the results of mistaken judgment in the past, and so you are protected against dangers if you remember what you know. You have been hedging on some things, some commitments. Now you are ready to take the plunge, because your judgment has been refined by doubt to the point that it is ready to choose.

You struggle on both days toward a harmony which appears to escape you at first but then resonates through the ethers. Now you hear the music of the spheres ringing through your consciousness as it outlines the contours of your life. You may feel somewhat more alone and challenged Saturday than Sunday but this is an illusion if you keep your mind and heart focused on your ideals. Something about autumn sharpens the mind, for the coming winter inspires you to put your emphasis on what will sustain you through it and through all time. That can only be the eternal.

Where there is lack of harmony, or a perceived need to defend yourself, you can proceed with confidence in the Good as working things out for you and eliminating any interference. This could be now or soon; faith brings it nearer. Further, you may positively rejoice in surroundings bursting into celebration, display, and luxury. People hide some aspects of themselves, coyly, but release others for approval or applause. Mutual admiration of a sort, with those close to your or strangers, multiplies itself through these days.

{Weekend of October 16-17, 2010} {Choices and Plans Confirmed}

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Forecast for Friday 15 October 2010

Friday 15 October 2010

~Tower of Strength~

Injustices are always hard to understand for those who believe in G*d yet feel they do not understand all His ways. It may be you will become aware of some such today, affecting your home living as well as your understanding of events at a distance. There are compulsions in people which compel them toward self-hurtful acts, it seems, unless they are exceptionally self-aware through Yoga or some other form of spiritual training.

You may become enterprising, and yesterday's report shows that this is a good time for being just that. We all want freedom. Your way to that could be callous of others' feelings, yet perhaps direct and effective.

Those involved in politics may be harsh or radical. They want changes in a hurry, while the World Spirit, not in a hurry, troubles them by its deliberate and sometimes backtracking methods.

If you are honest and just, you have earned goodwill which gives you about the best security anyone can have. You can make choices with astute finesse, so that you multitask without suffering pangs of uncertainty.

There is a restlessness which impels you to be in more than one place, so you may desire to wander. While you do that your mind delves into mysteries, and you may look at the sky, clouds and stars also as a way of "wandering" even further in the cosmos. Observation is helpful. It makes you a scientist within your world, able to discern laws and patterns; perhaps to intuit what old and new friends or strangers are likely to do.

You can sing out your inner hopes, needs and aspirations in a way which evokes cooperative or sympathetic response. The fervor of your convictions and hopes is a magic.

Strategies are far-reaching, yet have an immediate impact on what you decide to do in your community. You are selfish, let's hope in an enlightened way, scheming how to make things better for yourself and others at the same time. At times loneliness may afflict you, yet you are able to stand alone when need be. In fact, one part of you wants friendship while another wants to be alone to be the tower of strength you can only be when you keep your own affairs in order in the way no one else can. While doing that you experiment a bit, because each new situation in which you find yourself calls forth fresh abilities.

{Friday} ~Tower of Strength~

Cosmic Piper



Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Forecast for Thursday 14 October 2010

Thursday 14 October 2010

\Business, Career, Home: Firm Direction/

The fact that the Chilean miners are being rescued---one of the most inspiring stories in a long time---during the |difficult third of the week| shows that good things can be done at such a time. Notice I said "can be done" as opposed to "happen." If you just wait for good things to happen during such a time you probably will be disappointed. Patience and intelligent activity are required.

The wives of the miners and the miners themselves, of course, had to be very patient during the slow process of pulling them up from the bowels of the earth. That is something always required during the |difficult or more painful| third of the week. Then after the husbands rejoined their wives, which had to be in public, they had to be taken
immediately to the hospital on stretchers after brief hugs. You see how everyone has to endure delays and has to summon patience during these times. I point this out so you can adjust your attitude during that period, which I try to point out faithfully every week. Of course, the miners and their families were exhilarated that they were safe and returned. That had to do with other things to be mentioned soon.

The |difficult or more stressful and patience-requiring third of the week| will end today (Thursday) at 8:27p PT | 11:27p ET | 3:27a(F) UT. It seems longer this time because the moon is slower and also it happens to end in a late evening rather than early morning as it has been doing recently. So Thursday is still a serious day, but we shall see what it is good for.

On the topic of the miners, they were imprisoned on August 5 (the first day of a |difficult third of the week|) and their rescue started on October 12. The former was during a Dark Hermetic Epoch (which began August 1), the latter toward the center of a Bright Hermetic Epoch. Also, the Gulf oil spill happened during a Dark Epoch and was fixed finally during a Bright Epoch. Such incidents dramatize exactly why I make so much of these periods.

Thursday is quite remarkable. It seems like an "all business" day, and a "go ahead" day. You care about your home as well as your career. Much in your career is undergoing strong development. (I am trying to use words carefully.) "Undergoing strong development" means you are in a position to take a solid, accurate overview of where you are and what you are doing. I recommend during Bright Epochs, just before Mercury conjoins the sun, which is the center of that Epoch (October 16, Saturday, this time) that we sit down and write down our basic plans and strategies. It is likely that you will have a clear vision of them and doing that will help solidify them in your mind. These will have to do with your career basically, but also with your household situation or your headquarters. You can see what is happening and how to take advantage of all factors during the coming period until at least November 22 (and probably somewhat longer). Today might be the best day to do that, although Friday and Saturday are good also.

You want to be a "real mensch" today, a real human being, and could be honest and accurate in self-evaluation. You see the handwriting on the wall as to your business, job, and home. You "get the picture" as to your current limitations (which are not eternal) and your current possibilities. Some are new, most are old, but you can combine new and old in an intelligent pattern as this is revealed to you through the outworking of circumstances as well as flashes of intuition.

If there are immediate business or job decisions, or decisions about your home, you want to make, this could be the day to do it, whether early or in the evening. If all that seems on track, you can discern and pin down what is good about it, what put you in your good position, and how you can stay there.

The day has a social and friendly side also, but it seems subordinate to the major emphases just discussed. Like a child, or with childlike individuals, you may at certain moments discard responsibilities and have some spontaneous fun. You want to be and feel free. Actually the serious stuff we have already discussed, when you face it wisely and well, will give you more rather than less freedom. A friendly and kindly side of people is in evidence, perhaps more in the evening--tinged with the gruffness of the goat (moon in Capricorn). You are a lonely strategist at one level, yet human warmth, even if craggy and humorous, is within reach.

{Thursday} /Business, Career, Home: Firm Direction\

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Forecast for Wednesday 13 October 2010

Wednesday 13 October 2010

\Gritty Stability and Determination plus Surprising Friendship/

A tough day in many ways until the |hard third of the week| ends late Thursday evening.

Some may feel they have to be on the offensive or defensive, even with people they like. They feel they are indomitable. There is daring in the air, and a desire to show off one's personality or appearance. There can be discovery and illumination when you trust the process of meeting up with people whether friends or strangers.

You may stand up for your political or social convictions. You want to take a stand for something. You can be tentative in how you go about it, if need be. You know you have earned respect and support among various groups of people and that protects you from insult or injury.

You are defending your home or family in some way. You have the ability to do this almost magically, when you know you are in the right. The foundations you have built for yourself or labored at are secure because you defend them by the very power of your integrity along with your inherent right to them. You are positive about your home and how it should be. So you make progress in setting it right. Then you become exhilarated by people in the community who share a locale with you, whether at home or near by. If some plans or hopes seem to collapse, this could be because you chose or scheduled them unwisely. Still it is possible to find satisfaction in community togetherness.

Strategies in love and friendship are in fact strategies, it seems, which is all right. Sometimes you need to plan how to get people to do as you wish. There could be beautiful results of this, especially in the evening when the moon will be sextile Venus. Your cleverness about how to relate to people or joke with them could lead to interpersonal discoveries. Yet with the moon in Capricorn squared to Saturn, people will be lonely at some level no matter how much they interact through muted harmony or sardonic humor. You feel that you are inscrutable, a mystery which others enjoy savoring, and you feel that your plans are headed to certain success. The stability of this inner assurance makes you irresistible to those drawn to you. Still, there is a solitude or taciturnity in all. So you will keep thinking about plans for your job and your home or headquarters even while relating to interesting companions.

{Wednesday} /Gritty Stability and Determination Plus Surprising Friendship\

Cosmic Piper

Monday, October 11, 2010

Forecast for Tuesday 12 October 2010

Forecast for Tuesday 12 October 2010

*Letting Harmony Percolate into Tensions; plus Sharp Organization*

To refresh ourselves on general conditions: We are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (good for forward motion and decision) until November 22. Mercury approaches the sun and conjoins it 6 days from now (the 18th). That means this is a good time to organize your life. You can settle things decisively in regard to home, finances, learning, and career, at least for the immediate future. You are on a roll, as it were, and the value of knowing this is that you do not have to postpone or delay your choices and well-thought-out plans. You are likely to be "on" when you think, "This is the way to do it, and this is the time."

Also we are in the first half of the lunar month, of the increasing or waxing moon, until October 23 which confirms that this is a good time to get things in motion or under way or under weigh. (Check that saying and you might be surprised that many consider "under weigh" to be more correct.) So, I am sorry to say, there is no room for excuses or complaints. You can do it.

Today (Tuesday) looks good for organizing at home, getting things in shape, often with a sense of some other place where you have been, or might be, while you organize your current domicile. That will strengthen you.

Also something about your income as derived from work, career or position could be arriving near a pinnacle of success. Further, a personal relationship could be smooth and satisfying no matter how many X factors it contains.

At 5:09p PT | 8:09p ET | 12:09a(W) UT the moon hits its twice-monthly square with Uranus and immediately is void of course. A few hours before that time, and maybe after, could be intense in regard to communication, local travel, and possibly misunderstandings. However, this is a stimulating aspect, so you could, rather than get upset with someone or something, be flexible with this person's attitudes, with traffic (since it is the rush hour) and any misunderstanding from people being in such a hurry that they blurt out things they don't mean. Then, during the void-of-course period which lasts the rest of the evening (morning in the Eastern Hemisphere), you could relax a bit, giving yourself a break from hurry and worry, although we are (on Tuesday for the first time in a long time) in the |difficult or brooding or karmically wraught third of the week| until late Thursday evening. (This period keeps moving slowly forward in the weekly rhythm.)

Wednesday may be quite intense and challenging, so your evening today ought to be a relaxed preparation for that, letting yourself unwind so you can wind yourself up Wednesday morning and complete important things during the day.

Your environment and local travels, your home and the organization or improvement of it, gain through your career and through discovering more about it, and personal relations in an entertaining setting are emphasized. Letting people be their quirky selves, as they let you, could be the solution to worries or tensions.

{Tuesday} *Letting Harmony Percolate into Tensions; plus Sharp Organization*

Cosmic Piper

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Forecast for Monday 11 October 2010

Monday 11 October 2010

*Prosperity through Self-Reliance and Self-Expressive Skill*

You have the self-definition to be avid in pursuing what is most important, in career areas and at home. You know your goals and abilities, and are determined to use the latter, and have chosen the friends with and for whom you will work. You can do certain portions of your job with a sort of mimicry of someone you admire from whom you have learned. It is good to be conventional along some lines so you can be original along others. You may frighten some who do not understand your approach. You in turn may be frightened by certain individuals who seem threatening in mysterious ways, and you could decide to pull back from them. This does not affect your success because you are independently thorough and strong in pursuing it.

You are secure in your business and finances because you outwit the machinations of any who would oppose you. This is not so much through mere cleverness as through being true to yourself and your sterling purposes, which outwits those whose only purposes are selfish. Your finesse is based upon sudden intuitive choices, when two ways present themselves. You choose the better instinctively and should not let reservations interfere. If what you do seems radical to some, to others it will seem the natural outworking of your particular mission to the world. It is necessary to represent values firmly.

You rule, and sway people by your pleasant way of expressing your convictions. Where there is such firmness based on understanding, the world submits gladly. On the other hand, if you were to diverge from your values and try to gain something through perverse or dishonest means you would have to be corrected. It is better to stay at ordinary work, even if it seems drudgery, for you are lifting it toward something better.

If you seem taciturn to some, it is because you rely on your own counsel, standing alone. They will respect you and like you even if they say nothing. You are making a niche for yourself in your area of clever expertise. Much that you have seen and could express you retain within yourself when that seems better, yet people sense your confidence and respect it. Your strategies involve your talents, which you know how to use in the way which will gain the most for you and at the same time prevent you from suffering from the results of using them prematurely or in the wrong way or place or time. So you are deploying skills which will triumph and secure prosperity.

{Monday} *Prosperity through Self-Reliance and Self-Expressive Skill*

Cosmic Piper

Friday, October 8, 2010

Forecast for Weekend of October 9-10, 2010

Weekend of October 9-10, 2010

~Willingness to Trust the Beloved~

It seems like a social weekend, with people-energies merging. Wherever you go people are looking for something deeper and finding it partially through the "shocks" (in Ouspensky's sense) they get from one another. Shocks in this designation can be thrilling rather than upsetting; that depends on one's reaction to them. What is other than one's expectation can be thrilling rather than upsetting.

Mercury's conjunction with Saturn seems to play into a concern about your appearance, personality, and manner of self-presentation, so that you feel better after grooming yourself and putting on fresh clothing. Then you can forget about all that and focus on others rather than yourself, for that is what they want from you; then they will return the favor.

Your career seems mysterious. If someone asks you what you do, you may give a guarded, mysterious, or fantastic reply. You want the freedom to be what you want to be rather than someone's boxed concept of you.

Poisoned love thrives on jealousy and you may note the green monster in yourself or others. How you would like to manipulate someone's feelings in your favor! You may also judge someone harshly and feel you have a right to interfere, intervene, or punish. You may delight in the fact that finite loves and passions are temporary and look forward to someone falling out of love with someone. Not nice: the green monster. On the other hand, seeing that things change can be healthy, as in enjoying the autumn coloring of the leaves soon to fall.

What others want to eliminate may disturb you, as someone taking away a vine, plant, tree, or other favorite gem of nature. You may also feel that certain friends reverse their feelings toward you, seeming to become enemies. It is well to be philosophic and detached about that, not expecting too much from anyone, and trusting in G*d more than in man. You have your own occult powers, or spirits or entities who like you and will help. What they do can be surprising and often unknown to you. You have created a place for them in your living and consciousness, so they want you to be well and happy. (The only danger in such knowledge could be trusting to such entities more than to the Supreme Lord, which would be a complete misplacement of loyalty.) Some of the gifts with which you are blessed could make you a little complacent, or lost in the gifts rather than taking your part in sustaining and sharing them, but this need not be so when you realize that the sharing is part of the blessing.

You don't need to argue too much with the nature of things or fight people needlessly. You may see that especially on Sunday, when a feeling of hospitality and community wealth and togetherness brings fulfillment. Sincerity leads to prosperity. There is some danger, on Saturday, of letting anger, irascibility or impatience take over. You could prevent that, however. By Sunday you see into people more deeply and understand them better and so feel better about their behavior. You will see that the consequences of your acts are unavoidable, and so will choose to be responsible and bring the best possible results into view by sharing your life with others, rather than trying to go it alone, even when that seems difficult at first.

Comradeship, jovial and sympathetic, is good both days. People are more than they seem; and when they "let their hair down" and "spill it out" they discover unsuspected depths of sympathy and affection in each other. Innocence is a beautiful quality, and a true friend seems innocent, acting from the heart. Then wherever you go together you find yourselves at home. Attachments which form naturally are reminiscent of the past and prophetic of happy futures.

{Weekend of October 9-10, 2010} ~Willingness to Trust the Beloved~

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Forecast for Friday 8 October 2010

Friday 8 October 2010

~Despite Wise Wariness, Release and Fulfillment~

This day could be considerably smoother than yesterday. There is a fair amount of erotic energy in the air, appropriate for a Friday or party day. Someone who feels abandoned and wrecked by life's tumults and disappointments could be important to you, or befriending such a person could work out to your benefit. A single mother may come into your life or interest you.

The occult world of spirits of the departed or more exalted entities such as angels or lower but harmless ones such as fairies and elves may come into your consciousness. Far from threatening, it gives your life color and interest. However, other influences are less helpful and could threaten disaster, of which you have been aware for several days. It is important to pray in all humility because only humility can be open to the prayer's answer. This could be a benediction surpassing your expectation.

Those involved in military service should be alert to danger and choose their assignments as carefully as they can. Interesting studies reveal much about the earth's magnetic currents, electromagnetic phenomena and light itself, or perhaps laser technology. More mundane factors point to a need to prevent danger. You could feel you have been laid up in a place from which there is no easy escape. So it is important to be prepared, or if not, to be resourceful and pray for Heaven's illumination and blessing.

Someone loving and natural, who acts from the heart, could befriend you. It is liberating to let down defenses together, so that each feels free to reveal and discuss matters not usually mentioned. Your comradeship reaches to the skies, releases tensions, and opens the heart further to an unexpected beloved. Attachments such as this, even if transitory, wing the spirit and make the world wonderful.

{Friday} ~Despite Wise Wariness, Release and Fufillment~

Cosmic Piper

Forecast for Thursday 7 October 2010

Thursday 7 October 2010

}Delays and Work; a New Hopeful Friendly Moon{

I write this Wednesday evening, without Internet connection. The wireless service for which I am paying is “unavailable” until tomorrow morning. (“DNS server is not responding," thank you. So while I am writing this on time, it may be posted too late for your morning reading. Later: The hookup was reconstituted just after 8 a.m. PT | 11a ET | 3p UT and I am posting as soon as possible.) I note that Mercury is sailing along to its conjunction with Saturn. Often this produces the same kinds of delays which the Mercury Retrograde period is famous for. That conjunction is in full force Thursday, which is also the second day of the |specially difficult or demanding third of the week|. I hope it will not be too stressful for you. You may have to deal with delays and tie-ups in your work especially, or with individuals who are important to you or “over” you in some organization. What can you do? Be patient, and work out the details slowly but conscientiously. Saturn sometimes delays or ties up the surface factors in a situation in order to force us to go deeper into something more soulful or deeply purposeful. We complain about it, while it serves a purpose obscure to us.

The New Moon of Libra begins at 11:46a PT | 2:46p ET | 6:46p UT. You might re-read what I posted in yesterday’s report about relationships for it is equally valid today. Relations with someone important in your work are intense, disturbing or disappointing, yet looking slowly better as of now. It is up to you, not the stars, to push toward the positive a little. However, don’t worry if some of the delays are insuperable.

Venus and Mars remain together in Scorpio, a heftily lascivious or sensuous situation among the planets, hinting at “star-crossed lovers.” This could be picking up steam because while these two have been unaspected for a couple weeks, now Mars is moving toward good aspects with Jupiter and Uranus while Venus as of today is moving backward (retrograde) toward a good aspect with Pluto. Hints of love or erotic stimulation are suffusing the atmosphere. (I use words carefully. “Hint” means hint, not necessarily more, although if you want more it is well to be alert to the hints.)

Friends who have been absent or away may be slightly nearer. Yet there are still obscure factors confusing the matter.

The New Moon brings fresh inspiration and confidence, so after it begins (time above) you could explore, in your thinking, paths toward what you would like during the next month. A pleasant contemplative approach could yield an outlook both happy and workable.

{Thursday} {Delays and Work; a New Hopeful Friendly Moon}

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Forecast for Wednesday 6 October 2010

Wednesday 6 October 2010

}Facing Otherness Meekly and Honestly{

I did not post a forecast here for Monday or Tuesday and nobody seemed to mind. I am writing them for myself; it would be nice if a few others read them also and benefit from them but I do it for myself. So I will neither give excuses nor apologize.

But it is true that the charts for those two days were dramatically correct in pointing out what I was going through, and I saw also how they applied to the lives of some others around me.

Wednesday and Thursday, up to somewhere near sunrise Friday (in the Eastern Hemisphere, near noon in the Eastern) comprise the |difficult or stressful or moody or karmically burdened third of the week|. Today the moon, Mercury, Saturn and the sun are all quite close together in the first half of Libra. This means a striving for and perhaps attainment of depth in relationships. Does depth mean it will be easy? Of course not. But it could be wonderfully rewarding despite the difficulties. You adjust to people and they adjust to you.

There is an emphasis also on career. You want to be doing what will give you self-respect. You want to "serve" if you realize that only through some kind of service can you be a real person. This does not mean servility. The CEO also serves. He is bound to his task just as the lowest-paid worker. For that he was born, perhaps.

And in the service there is a meeting of one's opposites or one's "enemies" even, that is, those who differ in their perspective and life-experience. Thank heaven for the difference, as the French say, because without it you would be poorer and weaker. You become yourself by facing your opposite.

That process contains mysteries. You learn, some things consciously, most unconsciously; you are expanded by the process of meeting and adjusting to others. They would not be "others" if the process was always simple or easy.

There is an international flavor to some of this. It takes you beyond yourself, yet is focused on the practical, as in business. There is some intrigue, there is wonderment about how people can be what they are, especially when that thwarts or blocks your plans or habits. There is material here for a spy novel.

You can be meek when you realize there is so much beyond yourself you do not understand. You live for a service, a mission, a task to which you were born. Then you no longer care about yourself or your personality or image but about the work you are doing.

Paradoxically, that brings you more human relationships than you can handle. People then relate to you on the basis of what is most real in you, and that makes everything highlighted and vivid.

The mysterious side of things is involved with finance and with international relations, also with religious differences and ways of overcoming them. All this is going on throughout the planet and also in your life. If you are not aware of it, you must be a pot-smoker.

{Wednesday} {Facing Otherness Meekly and Honestly}

Cosmic Piper

Friday, October 1, 2010

Forecast for Weekend of October 2-3, 2010

Weekend of October 2-3, 2010

*Deep Satisfaction Through Strategy, Awareness, and Honest Sharing*

Not only are we in a Bright Hermetic Epoch until November 22, this weekend the moon in Leo has escaped the |stressful third of the week| syndrome; so you may feel quite chipper. Things are looking up, are they not?

If you don't quite feel that way, it could be the fact of Mercury at the end of Virgo opposing Jupiter and Uranus while beginning to conjoin Saturn in Libra. This is kind of like drinking up the dregs of the same aspect by the sun which went on for the past two weeks. It feels that we are coming out of the woods, but there are still branches and maybe some snakes in the way. Much better, however.

Stuff you have been trying to clear away, old stuff you need to finish before you can enter fully into fresh living, is symbolized by Jupiter and Uranus retrograde while they are opposed by Mercury, and by Saturn (always significant of old stuff to finish, or of delays). Yet this is easier than it has been for weeks.

Today there is a touch of romance, with the moon in Leo. It moves toward a square with Mars conjoined to Venus in Scorpio, late in the evening or early Sunday morning. This could be hot eroticism. Perhaps it is dangerous for me to suggest that on a Saturday night. Normal precautions need to be taken, most certainly. People "fall for each other" at times like this. So if I were writing for a lurid men's magazine I would be suggesting this as a night to be out on the prowl in pursuit of whatever men are in pursuit of when on the prowl. Since I am writing for a more genteel readership, I shall avoid the more lurid suggestions, but I think you get the picture. It is interesting how paying attention to the esthetics of erotic arousal, the set and setting as well as clothing and grooming, can lift everything toward a less dangerous and more satisfying level. All of this carries over into Sunday, even more intense in the morning, but gets murkier and more inward or spiritual later that day. After the party comes the reassessment.

This could be a good time for realistic financial strategies. Perhaps you will look over your savings and investments and decide on better procedures. You are up for being selfish in a sensible way, thinking about your position in the world and how to better it cleverly. For some, this will be more important than the sensual proclivities just hinted at.

At other moments you go deeply into what it means to be yourself, and deeply into what it means that your identity seems inextricably connected with others' identities in mysterious ways. Who is your alter ego? What are the invisible, ever-present influences in your life? These can be salutary, if of the best, or dangerous if of the worst. When you find your true "invisible fellowship" of good influences, you receive a benediction extending into your material prosperity and career as well as emotional health.

[This just in: on Friday there were "gusty storms" on the East Coast, composed of driving rain and harsh winds. Subway tracks were flooded, as well as expressways, with air travel snarled and the rush hour horrendous. The moon was in Cancer, a water sign. Last week I reported that while the moon was in Pisces, the previous water sign, such a storm hit Michigan (and maybe adjacent areas). I am not so simple-minded as to assert that rainstorms always come when the moon is in a water sign. But I think that if weather statisticians would do their work with astrology, they would find some statistical correlations. We will probably have to wait a very long time for that, for they are deathly afraid of anything which might challenge their assumption that they already know all there is to know about the weather. Astrology threatens the presumed basis of physical science in material and efficient causes alone, for it introduces Formal Cause, which physical science neither knows nor wants to know.]

It is interesting how lovely and delicate scenes you might run into, or seek out, flowery with the glories of late summer, have their downside, that is, characters wandering around in them who are unsavory or less than honest or even criminal. Now that is not to make you paranoid, please. It is possible to see dangers, perhaps, everywhere or anywhere. The point is to steer your way through them, which is not so difficult when you have the subtle technique of inner equipoise which detects just what to do and where to go in every situation.

By late Sunday you should feel you have settled some things in a way which gives you greater inward, as well as outward, security. This is clever strategy but at the same time it is deep awareness of the guiding influences in your life which keep you spiritually sound and anchored, no matter what social pleasures you are moved to appreciate and enjoy. These could be considerable.

{Weekend of October 2-3} *Deep Satisfaction Through Strategy, Awareness, and Honest Sharing*

Cosmic Piper