Forecast for Thursday 4 November 2010

Thursday 4 November 2010

}Embarrassment Leads to Recovery and Grandeur{

Pardon me if I seem confused about this day. It looks good. It looks bad. It looks confusing.

Let's take the bad first. You could be spooked by certain individuals or circumstances. Yet they are bringing out your character. You feel adrift when you relate to them or think about them, as if they were alien, yet they have some fascinating power over you. You can look for a just way of relating to them and find it, even if not right away.

Yet there are hopeful trends which make you feel sure of your destiny and happy to keep on playing the games you have to play to be in the games . . . since sometimes it seems all there are are games.

You may look at what you have done and are doing in your career and feel quite vain about it. You have done well. Others see that and when you get praise you become a peacock. Yet all games have rules, so you are holding yourself to the rules as you have perceived them, so as to keep yourself steady. As our President, so you may feel you are struggling to give a lot to the world with little or no appreciation, at times, yet then the first three sentences of this paragraph intervene and you feel better.

Some things you have done to salvage others, or "the world," and things you have studied to ready yourself for that, are coming to fruition in subtle ways which do not get you any applause except from G*d and His angels.

Within a complex of good and interesting people, small but intensive, you are cultivating skills, often in ways which seem easy and natural because of the free interaction with those who evoke them. There is also a sensual trend, observable in others as well as yourself, which gets people into lazy self-indulgence or borderline licentiousness. The two trends can interact harmoniously.

Strategies you work out, perhaps selfish, involving communicating or influencing people, could be fatefully effective even if they rub a few the wrong way at first. Some such strategies are highly inventive, bringing out ingenuity and creativity. If you are reserved, keeping your own counsel, this could be right, for you will influence people just by being the tower of stability they subconsciously appreciate.

The more melancholy strain of the day (because the moon is in the Via Combusta) will probably not remain melancholy for long, although it urges you to go more deeply into things through meditative panache. Mysticism is wonderful when it is not mystification. Then, when you dare to be more social, you could spill out what is within you, perhaps in embarrassing ways, but embarrassment after all only reveals what is there. Deal with it! Everybody has secrets they'd rather hide. We live in a democracy of implicit embarrassment. Somehow from that we rise again toward restored confidence, even with magnificence and grandeur.

{Thursday} {Embarrassment Leads to Recovery and Grandeur}

Cosmic Piper