Forecast for Tuesday 30 November 2010

Tuesday 30 November 2010

}Redeeming Yesterday through Reinstatement{

I haven't been harping on the Dark Hermetic Epoch, which some of you may appreciate since you may get bored with it, but we are definitely in one of those Dark Epochs until January 18. It starts out without fanfare; it sneaks up. Darkness is good for rest, for sleep, for dreams; it can be highly creative (even in the physical sense of procreation shall we say); yet is also a time when one might stumble and fall, or lose one's way. For all such reasons I chose Dark as the name of the Epoch of Mercury's slow and retrograde motion. The slow precedes the retrograde, which shall begin December 10 and last until December 30.

In a way that could be good for the holiday season, since the Dark or Slow or Backward Epoch brings up the past in a strong way, and Christmas is often a celebration of past ties to family and old friends. All that is coming out already in the WikiLeaks stuff which has dominated the news media for a few days. It is a revelation of the past, of secrets of the past, of covert things brought from darkness to light. The Dark Epoch sheds light on the darkness, so to speak. That is, we invade the darkness and find things there we didn't know were there. Sometimes they are wonderful and thrilling. Did that really happen? The past takes on new life. I like the novels of J. B. Priestley (now regarded as rather square and quaint) in which he makes clear that the "passed" is alive and can be visited or revisited. One of them is titled The Magicians. That sort of thing happens during the Dark Epochs. Of course when one invades the past its darkness becomes light, to dim again when one returns to what we call "now."

You might be experimental and investigative today (Tuesday). You want to know how things work and how you can use them, emulating the best of the past in a youthful way. To a child the passed, as in a story written long ago, becomes fresh youth; it is vitalizing. You might feel mentally intoxicated by things you are learning.

We judge ourselves recurrently. G*d forgives, but only when we seek forgiveness in the right way. By seeing what the future might be for you, you give up "sins," that is, mistaken directions, so as to actualize that happy prospect. A holy person or great teacher could be helping you realize this. The secrets of nature and the world, even of angels, come to those who keep on searching. What is not under one stone may be under another when turned.

While driving or commuting you might come under the influence of someone who is trying to bring peace and harmony to the world, even healing to individuals. You are seeing how to cultivate potentials in your world which redirect proclivities toward greater human warmth. The sensual and luxurious are not evil in themselves; have their place so long as not usurping more essential priorities.

You enjoy listening to someone who is a visionary genius, even if you feel his zeal for his (her) agenda is overly intense or unbalanced. Sometimes one who is unbalanced in one direction can balance you if you are unbalanced in the other direction. This is education in wider perspective.

We are in the |difficult or demanding or stressful or worrisome or moody| third of this week today and Wednesday. Yet it seems there are angelic components in whatever happens, that is, signals from On High to guide you. You can be shrewd in protecting your career and yourself from any mishaps. You sort out what helps from what hurts and discard the latter. A trend countering this is a temptation toward insemination (I am using shocking terminology), that is, toward inappropriate intercourse (shocking again) in a way which could cause you to fall from a position you have worked to attain. (The words have a psychological as well as physical meaning of course.)

The good part of the day is heartfelt and friendly, coming out even in your job or career, perhaps in connection with people above you in some implicit hierarchy. People sense what the hierarchy means, why it is there, and how to be happy and friendly within it. Still, there are those who want to impose their will. Maybe you are one of them. This could be impersonal competition, friendly in essence even though competition, if people develop the right spirit. What could be offensive, if taken more smoothly is jostling and jousting for position with no harm intended.

{Tuesday} {Redeeming Yesterday through Reinstatement}

Cosmic Piper