Saturday 1 January 2011
*Insight as Foundation of Freedom*
People with strong ideas are influencing you. You feel that you are friends with those who think solidly and understand a few things. Otherwise they would bore you. You want to administer your life and career in swift, free, strong intellectual style. You separate ideas and information which have worth from those which would merely bog you in life-wasting irrelevancies.
Mastery, you feel, comes from study first, then rulership. You see things through others' eyes, even those of animals, or perhaps of extra-terrestrials or imagined higher beings or angels; maybe of the "little folk" who inhabit caves, trees, and woodlands even in winter. Neighbors and others around you wherever you go hint at ways of examining life which had not occurred to you. It is well to learn from all rather than suspect or feel queasily worried about them. Trust in the Supreme comes first, then relative trust in those the Supreme has given you for experience and development.
Yet you may spend a lot of time at home, as if in hiding. Your crafty plans may be linked to the will of the Supreme, if so you link them. What is the explanation of your life? Its purpose and meaning? Maybe putting that in words is impossible, or maybe trying would be helpful on the first day of a new year. Even if impossible, the attempt is instructive. Could you express it more freely or fully in poetry, painting, dancing, a video? A setting of natural and architectural beauty could be good for this. You connect with ancestors in mind and spirit.
Reversals you have experienced have taught you a great deal, including humility. To "kick against the pricks" brings bleeding and sores. You actually have much luck at this point. It is your mind which may be struggling in vain to understand "what it's all about" and how to adjust or conquer "it." If you're a philosopher or mystic, just pondering that "it" might help. What IS "it"? Including the "pricks"?
Much consummation is available, even pressed upon you, a benediction from on high. Who are your 'spirit guides'? Even if you don't believe in such entities, it might be helpful to visualize or imagine them. Make them what you want, not what you don't want. They are, of course, subordinate to the Highest. How do you visualize Him/Her? Your visualization will be less than adequate, obviously, since G*d is infinite, but it can be a channel through which blessings arrive.
Indeed, such attempts can ascend even to worship, which few understand. The holiness of the Supreme must be maintained in our minds if we are to be whole and healthy. If we are to reflect G*d fully, we need to understand Him fully; which of course is impossible, yet there is always more which can be grasped or assimilated. It may seem that in most lives an understanding of Him comes only toward the very end. Lucky and wise are those who attempt it in their earlier years while winding through the coils of Time.
Selfishness and egoism are not to be overcome in a day. Even seeing that they are faults is not easy for the young or immature. Rather than try to see that, it might be better to investigate, investigate, investigate things, life, hopes, plans, information, systems,--reality. Eventually, penetrating insight extends not only into "things" but through and past them into what lasts longer than one lifetime. Intentions become purer when based upon X-ray vision into what is really going on. Since the only one who knows what is really going on is G*d, that means becoming more like Him or Her in consciousness, which comes at a price. May we pay more of it gladly during the coming year, and enjoy the happiness it purchases.
{Saturday} *Insight as Foundation of Freedom*
Cosmic Piper
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Forecast for Friday 31 December 2010
Friday 31 December 2010
~Deep Review and Peaceful Hope~
A reasonable, detached, and calm attitude toward life will help you prepare for the New Year. There is warmth, creativity and justice within friendship. A period to watch out for is the void-of-course time, 11:58a-5:22p PT | 2:58p-8:22p ET | 7:58p-1:22a(Sa) UT, a little more than five hours. Your plans might mutate or be confused then. It is probably better to stick with a prior plan, or recover and reconnoiter just after that period ends.
Those who would like to be reformers come into your purview. They may be superficial or plain wrong. If right, they mellow into something more inviting and attractive. You procure your icy right of way to the place where you want to spend New Year's Eve, which could be home, or more than one place; then you feel more settled and secure.
You might have business with a government office or a corporation to take care of. This can be done in a way which does not disturb your holiday--if before the time given in paragraph 1. The illimitability of human life takes on color when you let yourself be one of the multitude of humanity welcoming a new year, symbol of fresh hope.
Worries about money or career could get out of hand. One ought to remain calm and wait, for the Bright Hermetic Epoch does not start until January 18. Things will not change suddenly with a new leaf of the calendar. Further, protests against business and government injustices, while needed, ought to be balanced carefully so they are completely believable. People will accept such complaints if they are backed up firmly by data. What is the new scheme proposed to replace the old one? Will it fly? In the U. S., let's look back at two administrations, one Republican and one Democratic, those of Eisenhower and Clinton. They were remarkably successful on both economic and international levels, keeping us out of war while balancing the budget. We could learn from them in the current morass caused by too many adherents of extremist ideologies.
There are times to take it slow. This is one of them. Maintenance is not the same as rebuilding; maintenance and not rebuilding is what is needed now. It's the art of the possible. Solid security comes through facing facts and even enjoying them. In entertainment, you may appreciate the story of someone (either fictional or factual) strong and rock-like who triumphs over all adversities. What you hope for is thrilling and your expectations valid so long as you balance them with lessons learned from the past.
There could be a mournful side to this New Year's Eve. You ponder those who are missing from your life. Such melancholy might color even your determined efforts to improve things on a practical level. It is sad that tragedies are so often the proximate cause of mass movements toward the better. You and your neighbors may be ready to hear the voice of someone with a vision which could lead us closer to what we deeply desire in 2011.
{Friday} ~Deep Review and Peaceful Hope~
Cosmic Piper
~Deep Review and Peaceful Hope~
A reasonable, detached, and calm attitude toward life will help you prepare for the New Year. There is warmth, creativity and justice within friendship. A period to watch out for is the void-of-course time, 11:58a-5:22p PT | 2:58p-8:22p ET | 7:58p-1:22a(Sa) UT, a little more than five hours. Your plans might mutate or be confused then. It is probably better to stick with a prior plan, or recover and reconnoiter just after that period ends.
Those who would like to be reformers come into your purview. They may be superficial or plain wrong. If right, they mellow into something more inviting and attractive. You procure your icy right of way to the place where you want to spend New Year's Eve, which could be home, or more than one place; then you feel more settled and secure.
You might have business with a government office or a corporation to take care of. This can be done in a way which does not disturb your holiday--if before the time given in paragraph 1. The illimitability of human life takes on color when you let yourself be one of the multitude of humanity welcoming a new year, symbol of fresh hope.
Worries about money or career could get out of hand. One ought to remain calm and wait, for the Bright Hermetic Epoch does not start until January 18. Things will not change suddenly with a new leaf of the calendar. Further, protests against business and government injustices, while needed, ought to be balanced carefully so they are completely believable. People will accept such complaints if they are backed up firmly by data. What is the new scheme proposed to replace the old one? Will it fly? In the U. S., let's look back at two administrations, one Republican and one Democratic, those of Eisenhower and Clinton. They were remarkably successful on both economic and international levels, keeping us out of war while balancing the budget. We could learn from them in the current morass caused by too many adherents of extremist ideologies.
There are times to take it slow. This is one of them. Maintenance is not the same as rebuilding; maintenance and not rebuilding is what is needed now. It's the art of the possible. Solid security comes through facing facts and even enjoying them. In entertainment, you may appreciate the story of someone (either fictional or factual) strong and rock-like who triumphs over all adversities. What you hope for is thrilling and your expectations valid so long as you balance them with lessons learned from the past.
There could be a mournful side to this New Year's Eve. You ponder those who are missing from your life. Such melancholy might color even your determined efforts to improve things on a practical level. It is sad that tragedies are so often the proximate cause of mass movements toward the better. You and your neighbors may be ready to hear the voice of someone with a vision which could lead us closer to what we deeply desire in 2011.
{Friday} ~Deep Review and Peaceful Hope~
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 30 December 2010
Thursday 30 December 2010
~Surprising Paths to Friendly Satisfaction~
The moon finally leaves the Via Combusta where it has been for more than two days, in late afternoon. I could give the exact time but no one would pay much attention. (More like late evening if you live in Europe.)
So for most of the day don't be surprised if people including yourself don't seem to know what they are doing. Yet they are striving to be highly self-controlled. By evening when the moon gets closer to Venus and sextile Mars, romantic potentials will be coming out.
We approach the end of the year and people are feeling that. Someone who thinks and writes, even if superficially, will be on your mind and his ideas influence your view of the year past and year ahead. Intelligent, well-constructed speculations or mental schemes are beautiful in their own right. Sometimes it feels that you are cutting your way through icy obstacles to get to the point of realizing what you need to realize. Mercury turns direct, finally, at 11:22p(W) PT | 2:22a ET | 7:22a UT. This does not mean things are suddenly totally easy. It should mean that you start to have a clearer view of what is important and how to get to it. The Dark Hermetic Epoch continues until January 18. In theory we may be over the hardest part of it, at least by Thursday evening, but in practice this is not true. There will be ups and downs until the middle of January.
You may enjoy some kind of work with those who need help, such as the elderly, disabled, or abandoned children. "Enjoy" because although done from a sense of duty it has strong rewards. In high flights of thought or reverie you penetrate into occult or philosophic mysteries. This is specially possible during any Dark Hermetic Epoch and especially today while Mercury is virtually motionless. A still mind allows higher realizations to open it and enter. Then, by nurturing those who need it you link yourself with the Supreme Nurturer who nurtures you.
When you worry about money or career you could commit acts of folly, without realizing it, either by attacking those who seem to block your way or running off in hapless escape. It would be better to make your peace with everything. Impatience does not profit during a Dark Epoch. Relaxed contemplation of the past and potential future is far better.
There is a definite gambling urge. This could be harmless if a mere pastime. It could be dangerous if you get mixed up with those who are looking for a fight. Propositions made to you could be fishy. You can supervise the situation if things get peculiar. If done in a way which makes people feel you know what you are doing, they will come around.
The gambling trend could be disastrous if it goes too far. This need not mean literal casino gambling but anything where the rewards are unlikely or preposterous and you are attempting what seems impossible. The pleasure derived from sowing wild oats can be intense, but then the price must be paid.
More happily, you are making a transition from the boring to the thrilling in a sane and satisfying way. Only you know exactly what that means. The animal in you and the fairy, beast and daimon, brute and angel co-exist and cooperate in ways no one can predict. From self-indulgence arises purification when the soul become conscious, overseeing amazing events.
{Thursday} ~Surprising Paths to Friendly Satisfaction~
Cosmic Piper
~Surprising Paths to Friendly Satisfaction~
The moon finally leaves the Via Combusta where it has been for more than two days, in late afternoon. I could give the exact time but no one would pay much attention. (More like late evening if you live in Europe.)
So for most of the day don't be surprised if people including yourself don't seem to know what they are doing. Yet they are striving to be highly self-controlled. By evening when the moon gets closer to Venus and sextile Mars, romantic potentials will be coming out.
We approach the end of the year and people are feeling that. Someone who thinks and writes, even if superficially, will be on your mind and his ideas influence your view of the year past and year ahead. Intelligent, well-constructed speculations or mental schemes are beautiful in their own right. Sometimes it feels that you are cutting your way through icy obstacles to get to the point of realizing what you need to realize. Mercury turns direct, finally, at 11:22p(W) PT | 2:22a ET | 7:22a UT. This does not mean things are suddenly totally easy. It should mean that you start to have a clearer view of what is important and how to get to it. The Dark Hermetic Epoch continues until January 18. In theory we may be over the hardest part of it, at least by Thursday evening, but in practice this is not true. There will be ups and downs until the middle of January.
You may enjoy some kind of work with those who need help, such as the elderly, disabled, or abandoned children. "Enjoy" because although done from a sense of duty it has strong rewards. In high flights of thought or reverie you penetrate into occult or philosophic mysteries. This is specially possible during any Dark Hermetic Epoch and especially today while Mercury is virtually motionless. A still mind allows higher realizations to open it and enter. Then, by nurturing those who need it you link yourself with the Supreme Nurturer who nurtures you.
When you worry about money or career you could commit acts of folly, without realizing it, either by attacking those who seem to block your way or running off in hapless escape. It would be better to make your peace with everything. Impatience does not profit during a Dark Epoch. Relaxed contemplation of the past and potential future is far better.
There is a definite gambling urge. This could be harmless if a mere pastime. It could be dangerous if you get mixed up with those who are looking for a fight. Propositions made to you could be fishy. You can supervise the situation if things get peculiar. If done in a way which makes people feel you know what you are doing, they will come around.
The gambling trend could be disastrous if it goes too far. This need not mean literal casino gambling but anything where the rewards are unlikely or preposterous and you are attempting what seems impossible. The pleasure derived from sowing wild oats can be intense, but then the price must be paid.
More happily, you are making a transition from the boring to the thrilling in a sane and satisfying way. Only you know exactly what that means. The animal in you and the fairy, beast and daimon, brute and angel co-exist and cooperate in ways no one can predict. From self-indulgence arises purification when the soul become conscious, overseeing amazing events.
{Thursday} ~Surprising Paths to Friendly Satisfaction~
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 29 December 2010
Wednesday 29 December 2010
~From Tangles Toward Definition~
We are slowly climbing out of the worst phase of this week, Monday through Wednesday. Things should be discernibly better by late evening. The blizzard affecting large portions of the country came predictably during the |difficult third of the week| and now we are in the Via Combusta or Burning Way through Thursday. But Thursday should be easier to handle than today.
In addition to other problems, the moon will be void of course from 7:06a-12:51p PT | 10:06a-3:51p ET | 3:06p-8:51p UT. Those six hours might be good for taking a break, letting yourself ponder, meditate or pray, at least part of that time, to regain your bearings.
Melancholy could lead you to discover better or smoother ways of doing your work. Secrets may be revealed. These could be others' or your own. Strength of mind will aid you especially after the void-of-course time in the previous paragraph (when the moon enters Scorpio).
Geniality and kindliness are not absent. You will find them a wonderful resource. When people are overcoming intense problems they can still be considerate, perhaps because they realize others are suffering as they are. Sometimes they may try to get you interested in something in which you have no interest. You go back to the essentials on which you are working, which require organized effort rather than loose interests meandering everywhere.
If there are reversals, they can be met with equanimity. You care about your image, your reputation, and do not want it to be shaken. Some of your ways are determined by inner, even occult, influences, of which you are only partially aware, although you have "contracted for them" in a karmic sense. By using things you replace them, that is, make them part of the human economy-ecology. You welcome the happier trends of late afternoon-evening.
Abortive enterprises have their lessons. They do not have to be repeated. As the sun approaches its biannual square with Saturn, you will become aware of what does not work, and then can turn to what does work. At this point, until the middle of January, what works is likely to be what has been working in the past. New hare-brained schemes are to be avoided. When you get a vision of what you want to achieve, you can labor at it without intense suffering, only the ordinary suffering accompanying intelligent effort. Over-all harmony is with you, attuning you to pleasures which do not interfere with your endeavors.
The ways of persuasion are other than the ways of force. You convince people by your integrity and by sticking with self-assigned tasks. You can finish up things requiring definite measures. You are intimate with places or activities which make your body feel it is linked gayly with the natural world.
Compulsions you feel while at home or in a private space at work could push you in directions you hadn't anticipated. This can be all right so long as there is no cruelty in it. It is hard to see, at the time, when one is being cruel; it seems just when it is unjust. You want to be free to pursue whatever enterprise you choose, preferably among friends who understand your impulses. This is more likely possible after the time in paragraph 2.
{Wednesday} ~From Tangles Toward Definition~
Cosmic Piper
~From Tangles Toward Definition~
We are slowly climbing out of the worst phase of this week, Monday through Wednesday. Things should be discernibly better by late evening. The blizzard affecting large portions of the country came predictably during the |difficult third of the week| and now we are in the Via Combusta or Burning Way through Thursday. But Thursday should be easier to handle than today.
In addition to other problems, the moon will be void of course from 7:06a-12:51p PT | 10:06a-3:51p ET | 3:06p-8:51p UT. Those six hours might be good for taking a break, letting yourself ponder, meditate or pray, at least part of that time, to regain your bearings.
Melancholy could lead you to discover better or smoother ways of doing your work. Secrets may be revealed. These could be others' or your own. Strength of mind will aid you especially after the void-of-course time in the previous paragraph (when the moon enters Scorpio).
Geniality and kindliness are not absent. You will find them a wonderful resource. When people are overcoming intense problems they can still be considerate, perhaps because they realize others are suffering as they are. Sometimes they may try to get you interested in something in which you have no interest. You go back to the essentials on which you are working, which require organized effort rather than loose interests meandering everywhere.
If there are reversals, they can be met with equanimity. You care about your image, your reputation, and do not want it to be shaken. Some of your ways are determined by inner, even occult, influences, of which you are only partially aware, although you have "contracted for them" in a karmic sense. By using things you replace them, that is, make them part of the human economy-ecology. You welcome the happier trends of late afternoon-evening.
Abortive enterprises have their lessons. They do not have to be repeated. As the sun approaches its biannual square with Saturn, you will become aware of what does not work, and then can turn to what does work. At this point, until the middle of January, what works is likely to be what has been working in the past. New hare-brained schemes are to be avoided. When you get a vision of what you want to achieve, you can labor at it without intense suffering, only the ordinary suffering accompanying intelligent effort. Over-all harmony is with you, attuning you to pleasures which do not interfere with your endeavors.
The ways of persuasion are other than the ways of force. You convince people by your integrity and by sticking with self-assigned tasks. You can finish up things requiring definite measures. You are intimate with places or activities which make your body feel it is linked gayly with the natural world.
Compulsions you feel while at home or in a private space at work could push you in directions you hadn't anticipated. This can be all right so long as there is no cruelty in it. It is hard to see, at the time, when one is being cruel; it seems just when it is unjust. You want to be free to pursue whatever enterprise you choose, preferably among friends who understand your impulses. This is more likely possible after the time in paragraph 2.
{Wednesday} ~From Tangles Toward Definition~
Cosmic Piper
Forecast for Tuesday 28 December 2010
Tuesday 28 December 2010
}Making the Best of It{
Some who have forged identities or financial instruments might be arrested today. Others who want to be hospitable in inhospitable circumstances will get a go-ahead from the cosmos no matter how hard it might be to maintain their faith in human goodness.
I shouldn't have to say it is not an easy day because you already know that.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, three days this week, make up the |difficult or stressful third of the week|. It is really about two and a half days most weeks but can be longer and it looks longer when the way it slices up the days includes more awaketime than asleeptime hours.
The East Coast blizzard is a symbol of what is going on. Anyone who does not know that Mars square Saturn exactly (as it is now) in the winter means difficult inclement weather just does not know anything about astrology. I saw it coming but did not emphasize it because where I am in the West we have beautiful weather. It would take more than the kind of astrology I usually do to pick out just which sections of a country or continent would be hit by certain kinds of weather which are definitely "in the stars" or rather the planets. We have meteorologists to do that anyway. The period of Mars and the sun squaring Saturn lasts until approximately January 18, which, oddly enough, happens to be also the beginning of the Bright Hermetic Epoch. So we might expect the worst weather of this winter to happen during that period, in most places. However, the second half of February might be more wintry once again.
This time is good for mental activities, learning, teaching and writing. What seems superficial communication can become more important or profound. Cutting through ice (literally in some regions) is essential, that is, procuring the reality of things by facing their details. Then they become more beautiful or graceful because they are understood more comprehensively.
Escapism is tempting when things are tough. "Why should I bother with this since it is not working anyway?" The question is understandable. One good form of escape is recalling the past, or those sections of it which interest or refresh you. I recommend that as a form of daydreaming or internal reconstitution. Then when you return to the demanding present you will not only be more relaxed but have better perspective for dealing with pressures. You do not have to attack what seems wrong with established systems or businesses or governments directly, but can reform them more slowly through savvy thoughts, words or actions.
When things seem monotonous and hopeless, you could realize that you are in a period which requires you to maintain your faith. There are cozy places where you can recover your poise. Lofty thoughts and internal musings which absorb your experiences and transform them within yourself are reassuring at a deep level.
Measuring and weighing details precisely is also helpful. You can do this in private. You immerse yourself in possible relationships more than in immediately alive or thrilling ones. Such internal pondering of possibilities could be erotic at times (Venus aspects include an octile with Pluto). Even more exaltedly they could rise into philosophic insight which makes the world more tolerable, one of the benefits of philosophy. Seeing into divine purpose, or Final Cause in Aristotle's terms, is a cure for many human maladies.
Children attract your attention or interest. Their direct and guileless approach to their feelings and reactions is refreshing. Their deviations from what adults expect of them are instructive and perhaps honest criticism of adults' too-rigid expectations. There has to be room for individual initiative. Independence in children and adults will come out somehow no matter how they manage to adjust to social requirements.
{Tuesday} {Making the Best of It}
Cosmic Piper
}Making the Best of It{
Some who have forged identities or financial instruments might be arrested today. Others who want to be hospitable in inhospitable circumstances will get a go-ahead from the cosmos no matter how hard it might be to maintain their faith in human goodness.
I shouldn't have to say it is not an easy day because you already know that.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, three days this week, make up the |difficult or stressful third of the week|. It is really about two and a half days most weeks but can be longer and it looks longer when the way it slices up the days includes more awaketime than asleeptime hours.
The East Coast blizzard is a symbol of what is going on. Anyone who does not know that Mars square Saturn exactly (as it is now) in the winter means difficult inclement weather just does not know anything about astrology. I saw it coming but did not emphasize it because where I am in the West we have beautiful weather. It would take more than the kind of astrology I usually do to pick out just which sections of a country or continent would be hit by certain kinds of weather which are definitely "in the stars" or rather the planets. We have meteorologists to do that anyway. The period of Mars and the sun squaring Saturn lasts until approximately January 18, which, oddly enough, happens to be also the beginning of the Bright Hermetic Epoch. So we might expect the worst weather of this winter to happen during that period, in most places. However, the second half of February might be more wintry once again.
This time is good for mental activities, learning, teaching and writing. What seems superficial communication can become more important or profound. Cutting through ice (literally in some regions) is essential, that is, procuring the reality of things by facing their details. Then they become more beautiful or graceful because they are understood more comprehensively.
Escapism is tempting when things are tough. "Why should I bother with this since it is not working anyway?" The question is understandable. One good form of escape is recalling the past, or those sections of it which interest or refresh you. I recommend that as a form of daydreaming or internal reconstitution. Then when you return to the demanding present you will not only be more relaxed but have better perspective for dealing with pressures. You do not have to attack what seems wrong with established systems or businesses or governments directly, but can reform them more slowly through savvy thoughts, words or actions.
When things seem monotonous and hopeless, you could realize that you are in a period which requires you to maintain your faith. There are cozy places where you can recover your poise. Lofty thoughts and internal musings which absorb your experiences and transform them within yourself are reassuring at a deep level.
Measuring and weighing details precisely is also helpful. You can do this in private. You immerse yourself in possible relationships more than in immediately alive or thrilling ones. Such internal pondering of possibilities could be erotic at times (Venus aspects include an octile with Pluto). Even more exaltedly they could rise into philosophic insight which makes the world more tolerable, one of the benefits of philosophy. Seeing into divine purpose, or Final Cause in Aristotle's terms, is a cure for many human maladies.
Children attract your attention or interest. Their direct and guileless approach to their feelings and reactions is refreshing. Their deviations from what adults expect of them are instructive and perhaps honest criticism of adults' too-rigid expectations. There has to be room for individual initiative. Independence in children and adults will come out somehow no matter how they manage to adjust to social requirements.
{Tuesday} {Making the Best of It}
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Forecast for Monday 27 December 2010
Monday 27 December 2010
}Persistence through the Maze{
This is the Third Day of Christmas.
Things are rather intense. The end of the Mercury Retrograde period is Thursday the 30th (the last day of it, it having ended by the 31st) but as any of you know who have read these reports for years, that does not end the symptoms of Mercury Retrograde because the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasts at least two weeks longer, in this case exactly until January 18 (that means exactly through the 17th). It only lessens those symptoms; it does not end them.
The symptoms are: listlessness, uncertainty, moaning, groaning, things being late, things delayed, backward decisions, a longing for the past, a confusion about the future, mixed up communications, people missing appointments or being late, machines not doing what they are supposed to do (electronic instruments such as computers and phones are machines), mainly because there has been human error somewhere along the way, daydreaming, and so on. It includes making bad decisions, longing for other worlds and other dimensions, powerful dreams. It can be at its best high idealism and convincing mysticism. We can contact higher planes awake or asleep. The quick and the dead mingle.
Today, Monday, there could be communal work, cutting through red tape, getting things cleared away, so long as it has something to do with your basic work or profession. You need not expect perfect or convincing returns from such work yet but that should not thwart your faith in continued effort.
It is better not to distrust people too much. They are hard to figure, because they are going through the toils of the retrograde period as you are, and are unsure about many things. It is better to trust and wait than to lose faith in them. You can examine things through the lens of your intuition and insight, and know what to do in your job, which is after all your reason for being in the eyes of the world---"what do you do" means "what are you good for." Mastery on higher planes usually precedes mastery on lower ones, that is, mastery of oneself, swaraj, precedes mastery of the world, samraj. (Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga)
People you deal with or talk with are likely to be saying things which come from the Invisible. What does that mean? Maybe from discarnate spirits, maybe from telepathic invasion from someone, a relative or friend, or whatever the Invisible might mean in a specific case. We do not live in hermetically sealed containers; we are permeated by all the invisible planes of reality. This can be a benediction if we are open to the very highest planes, that is, levels of consciousness, beyond worry, hate, fear, and similar absences of faith. When you hear fear-mongering, you do not have to0 heed it. Of course you should use reasonable precautions, and listen to real warnings from the Invisible if they are real warnings and not fake warnings designed to make you miserable. Socrates had a Daemon which warned him when he was about to make a serious mistake. But that divine entity did not make him a paranoid, afraid of things which will never happen.
Life is not entirely a maze, though it seem like one during the Dark Epoch. There are limits to what you have to untangle, although you need to untangle your shoe laces if they are tied together. Deciding quickly what needs to be done, versus what ought better be consigned to Benign Neglect for a while, is a sine qua non for getting through the Dark Epoch happily. At best you might tap into a prophetic gift which allows you to do that more effectively. You will see into power and the power structure and know which people are doomed to fall and which are on the rise. Those doomed to fall are not doomed arbitrarily, but because they do not have the vision which could hold them to an upward course. Those rising are rising because they have some at least of that vision. Too-personal loyalties cannot last if they are not based on something evolutionary and progressive in both individuals.
At times the pressure of life and its confusing mazes leads one to drop everything for the sake of momentary enjoyment. "Let's have some fun while we can" is the temporary motto. There is animated activity, whether sports or dancing. There is speed and skill, which need not end in an accident but could if injudicious. Naturally it is well to be careful if pushing ahead into uncharted territory.
There is a sort of pugnaciousness which is antagonistic but only in play, that is, for the sake of the game. A pastime of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is fencing. One can be indomitable psychologically as well as physically, as in daring to reveal more of oneself than one had before. This is erotic and restless, exploratory. You are making discoveries which open a path to better friendships and more lasting success. Seeing the path occurs long before walking to its destination. Such illumination fosters hope, needed while facing everyday duties.
{Monday} {Persistence through the Maze}
Cosmic Piper
}Persistence through the Maze{
This is the Third Day of Christmas.
Things are rather intense. The end of the Mercury Retrograde period is Thursday the 30th (the last day of it, it having ended by the 31st) but as any of you know who have read these reports for years, that does not end the symptoms of Mercury Retrograde because the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasts at least two weeks longer, in this case exactly until January 18 (that means exactly through the 17th). It only lessens those symptoms; it does not end them.
The symptoms are: listlessness, uncertainty, moaning, groaning, things being late, things delayed, backward decisions, a longing for the past, a confusion about the future, mixed up communications, people missing appointments or being late, machines not doing what they are supposed to do (electronic instruments such as computers and phones are machines), mainly because there has been human error somewhere along the way, daydreaming, and so on. It includes making bad decisions, longing for other worlds and other dimensions, powerful dreams. It can be at its best high idealism and convincing mysticism. We can contact higher planes awake or asleep. The quick and the dead mingle.
Today, Monday, there could be communal work, cutting through red tape, getting things cleared away, so long as it has something to do with your basic work or profession. You need not expect perfect or convincing returns from such work yet but that should not thwart your faith in continued effort.
It is better not to distrust people too much. They are hard to figure, because they are going through the toils of the retrograde period as you are, and are unsure about many things. It is better to trust and wait than to lose faith in them. You can examine things through the lens of your intuition and insight, and know what to do in your job, which is after all your reason for being in the eyes of the world---"what do you do" means "what are you good for." Mastery on higher planes usually precedes mastery on lower ones, that is, mastery of oneself, swaraj, precedes mastery of the world, samraj. (Sri Aurobindo's Synthesis of Yoga)
People you deal with or talk with are likely to be saying things which come from the Invisible. What does that mean? Maybe from discarnate spirits, maybe from telepathic invasion from someone, a relative or friend, or whatever the Invisible might mean in a specific case. We do not live in hermetically sealed containers; we are permeated by all the invisible planes of reality. This can be a benediction if we are open to the very highest planes, that is, levels of consciousness, beyond worry, hate, fear, and similar absences of faith. When you hear fear-mongering, you do not have to0 heed it. Of course you should use reasonable precautions, and listen to real warnings from the Invisible if they are real warnings and not fake warnings designed to make you miserable. Socrates had a Daemon which warned him when he was about to make a serious mistake. But that divine entity did not make him a paranoid, afraid of things which will never happen.
Life is not entirely a maze, though it seem like one during the Dark Epoch. There are limits to what you have to untangle, although you need to untangle your shoe laces if they are tied together. Deciding quickly what needs to be done, versus what ought better be consigned to Benign Neglect for a while, is a sine qua non for getting through the Dark Epoch happily. At best you might tap into a prophetic gift which allows you to do that more effectively. You will see into power and the power structure and know which people are doomed to fall and which are on the rise. Those doomed to fall are not doomed arbitrarily, but because they do not have the vision which could hold them to an upward course. Those rising are rising because they have some at least of that vision. Too-personal loyalties cannot last if they are not based on something evolutionary and progressive in both individuals.
At times the pressure of life and its confusing mazes leads one to drop everything for the sake of momentary enjoyment. "Let's have some fun while we can" is the temporary motto. There is animated activity, whether sports or dancing. There is speed and skill, which need not end in an accident but could if injudicious. Naturally it is well to be careful if pushing ahead into uncharted territory.
There is a sort of pugnaciousness which is antagonistic but only in play, that is, for the sake of the game. A pastime of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, is fencing. One can be indomitable psychologically as well as physically, as in daring to reveal more of oneself than one had before. This is erotic and restless, exploratory. You are making discoveries which open a path to better friendships and more lasting success. Seeing the path occurs long before walking to its destination. Such illumination fosters hope, needed while facing everyday duties.
{Monday} {Persistence through the Maze}
Cosmic Piper
Friday, December 24, 2010
Forecast for Saturday 25 December 2010
Saturday 25 December 2010
\The Human Comedy/
Giving up to the process of things can be such a relief. Then the stress and strife are over. This would appear to be a day for that.
I remember when as a kid I got a chemistry set for Christmas and it was a thrill. I was a promising experimentalist. I wonder how many kids are like that today, with the moon in Virgo trine Capricorn planets--wanting not just to play but to learn, discover and experiment. There is also the endless diversion of turning things upside down and around, looking at life from fresh angles, which is something kids (and adults) love about Christmas. There are plentiful cheer and animal spirits. (It is somehow appropriate that the deeper spiritual side of Christmas comes on the 24th, the more secular and pagan on the 25th.)
There is always a bit of contention when people get together, symbolized today by Mercury retrograde still in square with Jupiter and Uranus, so that differing opinions will out. What's a little genial argument among friends? Some will settle down to more humble labors, and find that in seclusion they are serving the world (or, preferably, G*d, since the two do not always coincide). Everyone wants to be popular, so all perform stunts for the humanistic angels (borderline devils).
Those who are faithful and just in their work tend to be faithful and just to friends. A tentative approach to fulfillment is glorified, a willingness to try this and that and wait for the ultimate choice or program, happily undetermined. Rebellious urges wanting to change the government are present in many, for the government always needs to be changed (!) as history would indicate, so changed it shall be---but not yet! The flag of revolution blows in the wind powerless but riveting.
Hospitality implies being hospitable to the weaknesses and foibles of those enjoying the hospitality. So it has an element of pragmatic fellow-feeling. Then, at times, there is a need to mobilize dramatically, to cut out nonsense for the sake of the group's welfare. People get up and straighten things out. Then, when alone again in mind, brilliant insights arrive which each cherishes without speaking.
But the pugnacious side of the day: Many have been thinking critically about sundry things and want to express their dissatisfaction. Without dissatisfaction there would be no urge toward improvement. So, out with the criticism. If taken in the right spirit, such bitching or kvetching is constructive. If there were not an apprehension that things could be better, why complain? So if there is complaint (by modus tollens or some such logical trick) there is an apprehension that things could be better. The Rock of the Ages, whose birth we purportedly celebrate, knows how to make them better. So from complaint submitted to Truth emerges an idealistic vision of glorious potentials.
There are jealousies in people, and secret desires for revenge. They could be harmlessly mischievous, as in children, or calculatedly malicious as in teenagers and too many adults. Maybe it is time to look toward the elderly who at least in theory have had time to develop wisdom. Children sometimes instinctively do this, even the dreaded teenagers. Grandpa and Grandma seem secure and easy because they understand even if they mildly disapprove. Yet the younger want their version of justice immediately so tend to be more severe in their whims.
And the human comedy goes on.
{Saturday} /The Human Comedy\
Cosmic Piper
\The Human Comedy/
Giving up to the process of things can be such a relief. Then the stress and strife are over. This would appear to be a day for that.
I remember when as a kid I got a chemistry set for Christmas and it was a thrill. I was a promising experimentalist. I wonder how many kids are like that today, with the moon in Virgo trine Capricorn planets--wanting not just to play but to learn, discover and experiment. There is also the endless diversion of turning things upside down and around, looking at life from fresh angles, which is something kids (and adults) love about Christmas. There are plentiful cheer and animal spirits. (It is somehow appropriate that the deeper spiritual side of Christmas comes on the 24th, the more secular and pagan on the 25th.)
There is always a bit of contention when people get together, symbolized today by Mercury retrograde still in square with Jupiter and Uranus, so that differing opinions will out. What's a little genial argument among friends? Some will settle down to more humble labors, and find that in seclusion they are serving the world (or, preferably, G*d, since the two do not always coincide). Everyone wants to be popular, so all perform stunts for the humanistic angels (borderline devils).
Those who are faithful and just in their work tend to be faithful and just to friends. A tentative approach to fulfillment is glorified, a willingness to try this and that and wait for the ultimate choice or program, happily undetermined. Rebellious urges wanting to change the government are present in many, for the government always needs to be changed (!) as history would indicate, so changed it shall be---but not yet! The flag of revolution blows in the wind powerless but riveting.
Hospitality implies being hospitable to the weaknesses and foibles of those enjoying the hospitality. So it has an element of pragmatic fellow-feeling. Then, at times, there is a need to mobilize dramatically, to cut out nonsense for the sake of the group's welfare. People get up and straighten things out. Then, when alone again in mind, brilliant insights arrive which each cherishes without speaking.
But the pugnacious side of the day: Many have been thinking critically about sundry things and want to express their dissatisfaction. Without dissatisfaction there would be no urge toward improvement. So, out with the criticism. If taken in the right spirit, such bitching or kvetching is constructive. If there were not an apprehension that things could be better, why complain? So if there is complaint (by modus tollens or some such logical trick) there is an apprehension that things could be better. The Rock of the Ages, whose birth we purportedly celebrate, knows how to make them better. So from complaint submitted to Truth emerges an idealistic vision of glorious potentials.
There are jealousies in people, and secret desires for revenge. They could be harmlessly mischievous, as in children, or calculatedly malicious as in teenagers and too many adults. Maybe it is time to look toward the elderly who at least in theory have had time to develop wisdom. Children sometimes instinctively do this, even the dreaded teenagers. Grandpa and Grandma seem secure and easy because they understand even if they mildly disapprove. Yet the younger want their version of justice immediately so tend to be more severe in their whims.
And the human comedy goes on.
{Saturday} /The Human Comedy\
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Forecast for Friday 24 December 2010
Friday 24 December 2010
*Worshipful Fulfillment*
This to many feels like the most sacred day of the year. I have never hidden my faith in the Lord, Christ Jesus. He has done more for me than any embodied human being, not only directly and invisibly but indirectly through His followers who have helped me. And that is all the proof I need that He is real and the Lord.
At the same time, these forecasts are written for anyone, Christian or non-Christian. But unlike the paid writers for the standard media, I do not have to hide my faith or my knowledge because, by those who do not know, it is labeled "religious" or "sectarian." The New York Times, perhaps the best newspaper in the world in terms of accurate and complete reporting on politics and international affairs and many other topics, fails dismally with religion, frightened to death of the subject and publishing only timid articles by unbelievers timidly admitting that believers might not be totally crazy. That is the Achilles heel of the New York Times, and of most other standard media---its refusal even to report on or publish the views of theists, for fear of offending their atheist-agnostic-humanist base.
Even Moses was forbidden to enter the Promised Land because of his failure (which hardly looks like failure to us) to uphold the holiness of the Supreme Lord at a critical moment.
Today, Friday, looks fairly smooth, although we ought not to forget that we are in the center of the Dark Hermetic Epoch, with Mercury retrograde, and therefore so many things are uncertain. I always point out at such times that irrevocable decisions are unwise. You can decide whether to wear this pair of shoes or that, obviously, but to quit a job, move (unless the move was thoroughly planned before the period), lash out in anger at a partner and separate, or, at worst, commit suicide (as pitiable Mark Madoff did on December 11), is forbidden by this astrologer.
Daily devotions are essential, whatever your religion or non-religion. That is, if you believe in nothing but nothing (as the Buddhists do, deifying Nothing), even then you probably have some spiritual or semi-spiritual practice which holds your psyche to its center of living purpose. (Although one Buddhist told me that purpose was a mistake.) (A serious and devout Christian might agree, if the purpose is not of G*d, so in that case the sine qua non is to divine God's will.) (Which would be foolishness to the atheists and humanists.) (As would be these reports.)
Are you still here? Foresight and insight into others gives you commanding power. You get into their minds, as it were, and then perceive that they have their own balance which needs to be preserved for their equilibrium. Not material but spiritual intoxication accentuates happy response to the inner equality which invokes real bliss.
There are depths in this day, as well as restrictions, which you "grok" when you feel the spiritual heaviness in the atmosphere as the angels pick up their trumpets and harps. Human affections can disappoint, repeatedly, but divine love is constant. You are in touch with people, through correspondence, phoning, texting or whatever, who are entering into new-yet-old phases of their lives. You might be instrumental in aiding the crossing of a frontier.
Rebellion against one's job or position, boss or administrator, government or spiritual teacher, has its place, as a way of finding out who you are and how you need to relate to these "superior" influences. Such kvetching and rebellion can only go so far, and could be dangerous at this time (paragraph 4). You might know someone who is retired, or mature and secure in a position you admire, or even gone from this world but strong in memory or in a book written, whose poise is a constant lesson and inspiration, reawakening you to potentials.
The ornamental and beautiful are everywhere at this season. There is hospitality, often in surprising ways, the more welcome the more unexpected. A large group of people may get together, even if there are confusions and backtracking in the way they do it.
We look to the East toward the Star of the Saviour. There is adventure in the purity of hazardous service, reawakening us to self-offering. Ideality is magic when living and alive, the fire of love bringing peace and salvation to humanity.
There is also justice, the inevitability of changes not in accord with one's desires. This can happen through what appears to be jealousy in people, or suspicion or desire for revenge. At a time like this, joking about all that could be the right response, evoking the healing astringency of laughter.
Order and beauty secure fulfillment. There is glad repetition of G*d's assurance to humanity through the glorious announcements of the angels, the quiet adoration of the Madonna, and the meekness of the beasts worshiping at the manger.
{Friday} *Worshipful Fulfillment*
Cosmic Piper
*Worshipful Fulfillment*
This to many feels like the most sacred day of the year. I have never hidden my faith in the Lord, Christ Jesus. He has done more for me than any embodied human being, not only directly and invisibly but indirectly through His followers who have helped me. And that is all the proof I need that He is real and the Lord.
At the same time, these forecasts are written for anyone, Christian or non-Christian. But unlike the paid writers for the standard media, I do not have to hide my faith or my knowledge because, by those who do not know, it is labeled "religious" or "sectarian." The New York Times, perhaps the best newspaper in the world in terms of accurate and complete reporting on politics and international affairs and many other topics, fails dismally with religion, frightened to death of the subject and publishing only timid articles by unbelievers timidly admitting that believers might not be totally crazy. That is the Achilles heel of the New York Times, and of most other standard media---its refusal even to report on or publish the views of theists, for fear of offending their atheist-agnostic-humanist base.
Even Moses was forbidden to enter the Promised Land because of his failure (which hardly looks like failure to us) to uphold the holiness of the Supreme Lord at a critical moment.
Today, Friday, looks fairly smooth, although we ought not to forget that we are in the center of the Dark Hermetic Epoch, with Mercury retrograde, and therefore so many things are uncertain. I always point out at such times that irrevocable decisions are unwise. You can decide whether to wear this pair of shoes or that, obviously, but to quit a job, move (unless the move was thoroughly planned before the period), lash out in anger at a partner and separate, or, at worst, commit suicide (as pitiable Mark Madoff did on December 11), is forbidden by this astrologer.
Daily devotions are essential, whatever your religion or non-religion. That is, if you believe in nothing but nothing (as the Buddhists do, deifying Nothing), even then you probably have some spiritual or semi-spiritual practice which holds your psyche to its center of living purpose. (Although one Buddhist told me that purpose was a mistake.) (A serious and devout Christian might agree, if the purpose is not of G*d, so in that case the sine qua non is to divine God's will.) (Which would be foolishness to the atheists and humanists.) (As would be these reports.)
Are you still here? Foresight and insight into others gives you commanding power. You get into their minds, as it were, and then perceive that they have their own balance which needs to be preserved for their equilibrium. Not material but spiritual intoxication accentuates happy response to the inner equality which invokes real bliss.
There are depths in this day, as well as restrictions, which you "grok" when you feel the spiritual heaviness in the atmosphere as the angels pick up their trumpets and harps. Human affections can disappoint, repeatedly, but divine love is constant. You are in touch with people, through correspondence, phoning, texting or whatever, who are entering into new-yet-old phases of their lives. You might be instrumental in aiding the crossing of a frontier.
Rebellion against one's job or position, boss or administrator, government or spiritual teacher, has its place, as a way of finding out who you are and how you need to relate to these "superior" influences. Such kvetching and rebellion can only go so far, and could be dangerous at this time (paragraph 4). You might know someone who is retired, or mature and secure in a position you admire, or even gone from this world but strong in memory or in a book written, whose poise is a constant lesson and inspiration, reawakening you to potentials.
The ornamental and beautiful are everywhere at this season. There is hospitality, often in surprising ways, the more welcome the more unexpected. A large group of people may get together, even if there are confusions and backtracking in the way they do it.
We look to the East toward the Star of the Saviour. There is adventure in the purity of hazardous service, reawakening us to self-offering. Ideality is magic when living and alive, the fire of love bringing peace and salvation to humanity.
There is also justice, the inevitability of changes not in accord with one's desires. This can happen through what appears to be jealousy in people, or suspicion or desire for revenge. At a time like this, joking about all that could be the right response, evoking the healing astringency of laughter.
Order and beauty secure fulfillment. There is glad repetition of G*d's assurance to humanity through the glorious announcements of the angels, the quiet adoration of the Madonna, and the meekness of the beasts worshiping at the manger.
{Friday} *Worshipful Fulfillment*
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 23 December 2010
Thursday 23 December 2010
*Balance and Liberty Within Unaccountable Change*
Change is in the air in a larger way than usual, as if all the indecision and desire for change of this month of December were reaching a point of culmination. Things hang in the balance.
Glory and sublimity throb through your ambitions and associations. Large things or groups give you surety because they reflect certainties you can rely on. You assume a foremost position, partly by appreciating the superiority of others with whom you assemble.
Your fortunes are in flux, and you almost enjoy that, as if seeking your fortune were more interesting than attaining it. If some prospects seem mysteriously to come to an end, when you had hoped in them, there is no reason to despair. Everywhere you look, someone, a little bird or other clue, sings to you of what is possible.
People have been struggling mentally to encompass revolutionary change, or bring it about. The START treaty and the end of "don't ask don't tell" are examples. People want safety but realize that security requires constant readjustment to changing realities. There are delays (Mercury retrograde) but hesitation allows one to go deeper before choosing. Then there is finesse in the way relevant interests are balanced.
Vitality belongs to you in surprising ways because you have researched ways of enhancing it (I would say more through action and exercise than through diet, although that plays a role). What you have found through study and observation is something others rely on. You are avid in experimenting with life. The resources you need turn up.
Many think about traveling East. There is question about the advisability of this and the answer is not evident. Your aspirations are high and you want to be in the right place to realize them. You are independent of all, in a spiritual sense, yet to embody the Divine you need to shape your hopes and actions in accord with social and economic realities, which you can certainly do. That in itself is a form of magic.
There is an erotic or sexual side to the day, with Venus prominent and well-aspected. Indeed her sextile with Mars continues, although starting to fade--that does not mean it cannot be strong at times. There is a voluptuous or sensuously inviting factor afoot. Whether that leads to something good or to wrecked hopes and abandoned inclinations remains to be seen. Women are likely to feel self-sufficient and so resist the very tide just pointed out, though using it to their advantage. Men are well-acquainted with that stratagem. When both sexes feel self-sufficient they may increase their allure for each other, yet part in good will.
{Thursday} *Balance and Liberty Within Unaccountable Change*
Cosmic Piper
*Balance and Liberty Within Unaccountable Change*
Change is in the air in a larger way than usual, as if all the indecision and desire for change of this month of December were reaching a point of culmination. Things hang in the balance.
Glory and sublimity throb through your ambitions and associations. Large things or groups give you surety because they reflect certainties you can rely on. You assume a foremost position, partly by appreciating the superiority of others with whom you assemble.
Your fortunes are in flux, and you almost enjoy that, as if seeking your fortune were more interesting than attaining it. If some prospects seem mysteriously to come to an end, when you had hoped in them, there is no reason to despair. Everywhere you look, someone, a little bird or other clue, sings to you of what is possible.
People have been struggling mentally to encompass revolutionary change, or bring it about. The START treaty and the end of "don't ask don't tell" are examples. People want safety but realize that security requires constant readjustment to changing realities. There are delays (Mercury retrograde) but hesitation allows one to go deeper before choosing. Then there is finesse in the way relevant interests are balanced.
Vitality belongs to you in surprising ways because you have researched ways of enhancing it (I would say more through action and exercise than through diet, although that plays a role). What you have found through study and observation is something others rely on. You are avid in experimenting with life. The resources you need turn up.
Many think about traveling East. There is question about the advisability of this and the answer is not evident. Your aspirations are high and you want to be in the right place to realize them. You are independent of all, in a spiritual sense, yet to embody the Divine you need to shape your hopes and actions in accord with social and economic realities, which you can certainly do. That in itself is a form of magic.
There is an erotic or sexual side to the day, with Venus prominent and well-aspected. Indeed her sextile with Mars continues, although starting to fade--that does not mean it cannot be strong at times. There is a voluptuous or sensuously inviting factor afoot. Whether that leads to something good or to wrecked hopes and abandoned inclinations remains to be seen. Women are likely to feel self-sufficient and so resist the very tide just pointed out, though using it to their advantage. Men are well-acquainted with that stratagem. When both sexes feel self-sufficient they may increase their allure for each other, yet part in good will.
{Thursday} *Balance and Liberty Within Unaccountable Change*
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 22 December 2010
Wednesday 22 December 2010
~Circling Around Toward a Tete-a-Tete~
Although today (and yesterday, Tuesday) are technically the |difficult or stressful third of this week|, good lunar aspects with Venus and Jupiter suggest that things could be better than usual during such times.
You might dine out. There could be much discussion: about reading, information, insights, people; gossipy or literary; mind-expanding. People are climbing toward peaks they had never before visited.
You could try to figure out a lot of things which will not yield to probing prematurely. So you try more than you can achieve. You emulate some who are ahead of your in one area or another, feeling that you are catching up with them. There could be exhilaration through intoxication, whether literal or metaphoric, the thrill of anticipating potentials to be realized.
Honing skills is appropriate, while Mars is square Saturn (for another ten days or more). You could get carried away with a project which needs more work before you know the exact manner of proceeding; so it is good to shape it before running with it. Learning from experience will help you avoid overly hasty action and its pitfalls. Quarreling with existing systems is less effective than improving them from within or, if that be impossible, constructing alternatives.
An impressive building is fascinating. You may spend time there. You meet a traveler. Commemorating past glories of the human race is uplifting, even if along with it comes sadness over past tragedies. People in their travels go now this way, now that, as if vacillating to the point of being everywhere or nowhere.
A spacious place, luxurious and heavy with historic meaning, brings ancestors near in thought (or in superphysical reality). Natural factors surrounding it yield insight through investigation and resulting explanation. Crafty individuals, however, do not want to reveal what would compromise their plans, which involve using people through stratagems.
Others are ardent, filled with a desire to espouse a cause or befriend someone they like. Their honesty is contrary to what was suggested two sentences ago. It is wonderful to be close to such an one. He or she is ingratiating and acquiescent, pleasing even if coy. Her or his humane qualities extend to all, and today you are a beneficiary of them in an intimate manner.
{Wednesday} ~Circling Around Toward a Tete-a-Tete~
Cosmic Piper
~Circling Around Toward a Tete-a-Tete~
Although today (and yesterday, Tuesday) are technically the |difficult or stressful third of this week|, good lunar aspects with Venus and Jupiter suggest that things could be better than usual during such times.
You might dine out. There could be much discussion: about reading, information, insights, people; gossipy or literary; mind-expanding. People are climbing toward peaks they had never before visited.
You could try to figure out a lot of things which will not yield to probing prematurely. So you try more than you can achieve. You emulate some who are ahead of your in one area or another, feeling that you are catching up with them. There could be exhilaration through intoxication, whether literal or metaphoric, the thrill of anticipating potentials to be realized.
Honing skills is appropriate, while Mars is square Saturn (for another ten days or more). You could get carried away with a project which needs more work before you know the exact manner of proceeding; so it is good to shape it before running with it. Learning from experience will help you avoid overly hasty action and its pitfalls. Quarreling with existing systems is less effective than improving them from within or, if that be impossible, constructing alternatives.
An impressive building is fascinating. You may spend time there. You meet a traveler. Commemorating past glories of the human race is uplifting, even if along with it comes sadness over past tragedies. People in their travels go now this way, now that, as if vacillating to the point of being everywhere or nowhere.
A spacious place, luxurious and heavy with historic meaning, brings ancestors near in thought (or in superphysical reality). Natural factors surrounding it yield insight through investigation and resulting explanation. Crafty individuals, however, do not want to reveal what would compromise their plans, which involve using people through stratagems.
Others are ardent, filled with a desire to espouse a cause or befriend someone they like. Their honesty is contrary to what was suggested two sentences ago. It is wonderful to be close to such an one. He or she is ingratiating and acquiescent, pleasing even if coy. Her or his humane qualities extend to all, and today you are a beneficiary of them in an intimate manner.
{Wednesday} ~Circling Around Toward a Tete-a-Tete~
Cosmic Piper
Monday, December 20, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 21 December 2010
Tuesday 21 December 2010
~Dark Day of Dark Epoch: Stalemate, Poise, Nonchalance~
It's the solstice day; the sun enters Capricorn at 3:40p PT | 6:40p ET | 11:40p UT. Darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The good part of it is that balance begins to return; we do not fall into the abyss though we skirt it. Maybe that is why Capricorn people can be so frisky and cheerful (even if their humor has a dark side).
You can use detective powers to study people or figure out what they are up to. You are curious in a harmless way. Your inclinations may be more definite in the evening hours when you gravitate toward whatever or whomever pleases you. Contentment is a wonderful blessing coming to you unexpectedly.
You have gigantic ambitions to understand things. You take the whole world for your field of study. You want to represent something worthy at an international level. Someone you like may be traveling: actor-like, friendly, deeper than appears on the surface.
Those who get agitated over politics or conspiracy theories sometimes appear pitiable. More likely than not if they refrained from getting upset and protesting, things would work out the same as they do after their agitation and upset. They are lacking in the finesse that can see both or all sides of given issues or developments. The excitement of the frenzied debate and argument is what they want, not the justice they claim they represent. No matter what happens they will continue to be frenzied. It is well to be worldly-wise about politics, so as to be secure and safe from harm, rather than to be a partisan in any extreme manner.
A lot of talk, communication or writing could try to settle into poise and security, represented by nonchalance. When people feel they have made it along some line, they become inflexible about certain matters because the position they have assumed in relation to them has already made them successful. So why worry or change? Alternations have more to do with the dualities of sex or sexual proclivities or male-female stereotypes. The youthful or foolish seem unaware of such stereotypes although living them guilelessly.
When people give up they can fall into a party mood. Yet they don't want to give up because, today, they are ambitious. They are evaluating everything like a gambler his bets. What is going to pay; what deal will work out? There are so many possibilities, virtually illimitable, but I must choose something. Don't want to choose. So I will shoot at whatever comes up first. However, I have responsibilities to my boss, country, ruler, family; must keep certain things secret so as to protect them. So I am not sure what to do. Yet action is forced upon me.
There is a fair amount of luck in all that, although we are technically in the |more difficult or stressful third of this week| today and tomorrow. If you pass a church, synagogue or mosque you might contemplate its proportioned beauty as a symbol of human aspiration toward something always-better. Another side of you wants to take that trust in the trustworthy as a basis for naive play or easy-going flirtation with the world's attractions. That is fun up to the point where you are stung on a sensitive spot by the bees swarming around sweets and realize you need to pull back.
The Mercury-retrograde cycle up to the 31st is not always fun or easy, partly because of circumambient and internal uncertainties. I tried to dramatize some of that in the preceding paragraphs, in accord with the specific aspects and positions of the day, and that is why they seem confusing or contradictory. We are in a confusing and contradictory time, so a forecast which is confusing may be more helpful than one which is incorrectly straightforward. It allows you to find your own way among dips and curves.
{Tuesday} ~Dark Day of Dark Epoch: Stalemate, Poise, Nonchalance~
Cosmic Piper
~Dark Day of Dark Epoch: Stalemate, Poise, Nonchalance~
It's the solstice day; the sun enters Capricorn at 3:40p PT | 6:40p ET | 11:40p UT. Darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The good part of it is that balance begins to return; we do not fall into the abyss though we skirt it. Maybe that is why Capricorn people can be so frisky and cheerful (even if their humor has a dark side).
You can use detective powers to study people or figure out what they are up to. You are curious in a harmless way. Your inclinations may be more definite in the evening hours when you gravitate toward whatever or whomever pleases you. Contentment is a wonderful blessing coming to you unexpectedly.
You have gigantic ambitions to understand things. You take the whole world for your field of study. You want to represent something worthy at an international level. Someone you like may be traveling: actor-like, friendly, deeper than appears on the surface.
Those who get agitated over politics or conspiracy theories sometimes appear pitiable. More likely than not if they refrained from getting upset and protesting, things would work out the same as they do after their agitation and upset. They are lacking in the finesse that can see both or all sides of given issues or developments. The excitement of the frenzied debate and argument is what they want, not the justice they claim they represent. No matter what happens they will continue to be frenzied. It is well to be worldly-wise about politics, so as to be secure and safe from harm, rather than to be a partisan in any extreme manner.
A lot of talk, communication or writing could try to settle into poise and security, represented by nonchalance. When people feel they have made it along some line, they become inflexible about certain matters because the position they have assumed in relation to them has already made them successful. So why worry or change? Alternations have more to do with the dualities of sex or sexual proclivities or male-female stereotypes. The youthful or foolish seem unaware of such stereotypes although living them guilelessly.
When people give up they can fall into a party mood. Yet they don't want to give up because, today, they are ambitious. They are evaluating everything like a gambler his bets. What is going to pay; what deal will work out? There are so many possibilities, virtually illimitable, but I must choose something. Don't want to choose. So I will shoot at whatever comes up first. However, I have responsibilities to my boss, country, ruler, family; must keep certain things secret so as to protect them. So I am not sure what to do. Yet action is forced upon me.
There is a fair amount of luck in all that, although we are technically in the |more difficult or stressful third of this week| today and tomorrow. If you pass a church, synagogue or mosque you might contemplate its proportioned beauty as a symbol of human aspiration toward something always-better. Another side of you wants to take that trust in the trustworthy as a basis for naive play or easy-going flirtation with the world's attractions. That is fun up to the point where you are stung on a sensitive spot by the bees swarming around sweets and realize you need to pull back.
The Mercury-retrograde cycle up to the 31st is not always fun or easy, partly because of circumambient and internal uncertainties. I tried to dramatize some of that in the preceding paragraphs, in accord with the specific aspects and positions of the day, and that is why they seem confusing or contradictory. We are in a confusing and contradictory time, so a forecast which is confusing may be more helpful than one which is incorrectly straightforward. It allows you to find your own way among dips and curves.
{Tuesday} ~Dark Day of Dark Epoch: Stalemate, Poise, Nonchalance~
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Forecast for Monday 20 December 2010
Monday 20 December 2010
}Solidarity with the Saintly{
This is the Full moon day-evening, culminating at 12:15a(T) PT | 3:15a(T) ET | 8:15a(T) UT.
Patient study at home could be important. Consciousness is heightened at the Full Moon; more is graspable in a single view than at other times. You sense also what to eliminate, thereby to accentuate what is more significant. There is so much you could do, but selection has to be made.
Household matters may be such that one individual feels intimidated by another who has power over him or her. Horizons are enlarged through building hard-to-fathom yet immortal values into daily awareness. Christmas decorations are temporary and so ought to be enjoyed more fully while they last.
There are those who mock or taunt others who have a different take on reality. Sometimes it is inter-generational conflict, with no guarantee whether the older or newer perspective is better. It is well to relax sometimes, even during work, to recover inner poise which makes one more rather than less efficient; the break for meditation or prayer actually increases productivity. Contemplating highlights of the past is healthy. That could calm you so that you are not overly impatient, running off in all directions and so damaging your plans.
It is well to remember your deepest convictions and translate them into action, for you would regret not doing so. We need to participate with others in life rather than get bound up and entangled in too-personal desires. Looking at past failures and their lessons would be wise. You can do mental surgery on yourself to find out what needs to be improved.
Vision comes through little things others would find meaningless, as a student of the clouds might predict the weather. You could nurture animals or immature humans, any who need succor physically or emotionally. Sacrifice is a gain, not a loss, when done consciously to defend those who need defense, or be a benefactor to those homebound or otherwise hampered.
The joys of the season include relaxing with a friend or two over a meal, snack or drink while sharing or discussing whatever comes to mind in a free and frank manner revitalizing everyone. The attachments and connections which form between people are exhilarating. Some who are innocent and loving are truly saintly, constant in their affection or kindness, easy on you; gifts from the gods.
{Monday} {Solidarity with the Saintly}
Cosmic Piper
}Solidarity with the Saintly{
This is the Full moon day-evening, culminating at 12:15a(T) PT | 3:15a(T) ET | 8:15a(T) UT.
Patient study at home could be important. Consciousness is heightened at the Full Moon; more is graspable in a single view than at other times. You sense also what to eliminate, thereby to accentuate what is more significant. There is so much you could do, but selection has to be made.
Household matters may be such that one individual feels intimidated by another who has power over him or her. Horizons are enlarged through building hard-to-fathom yet immortal values into daily awareness. Christmas decorations are temporary and so ought to be enjoyed more fully while they last.
There are those who mock or taunt others who have a different take on reality. Sometimes it is inter-generational conflict, with no guarantee whether the older or newer perspective is better. It is well to relax sometimes, even during work, to recover inner poise which makes one more rather than less efficient; the break for meditation or prayer actually increases productivity. Contemplating highlights of the past is healthy. That could calm you so that you are not overly impatient, running off in all directions and so damaging your plans.
It is well to remember your deepest convictions and translate them into action, for you would regret not doing so. We need to participate with others in life rather than get bound up and entangled in too-personal desires. Looking at past failures and their lessons would be wise. You can do mental surgery on yourself to find out what needs to be improved.
Vision comes through little things others would find meaningless, as a student of the clouds might predict the weather. You could nurture animals or immature humans, any who need succor physically or emotionally. Sacrifice is a gain, not a loss, when done consciously to defend those who need defense, or be a benefactor to those homebound or otherwise hampered.
The joys of the season include relaxing with a friend or two over a meal, snack or drink while sharing or discussing whatever comes to mind in a free and frank manner revitalizing everyone. The attachments and connections which form between people are exhilarating. Some who are innocent and loving are truly saintly, constant in their affection or kindness, easy on you; gifts from the gods.
{Monday} {Solidarity with the Saintly}
Cosmic Piper
Friday, December 17, 2010
Forecast for Saturday 18 December 2010
Saturday 18 December 2010
\Hidden Love Glints through the Season/
This day has wonderful potentials and could be highly satisfying, within the lineaments to be pointed out. However, the momentum may be stronger earlier, up until 10:23a PT | 1:23p ET | 6:23p UT. After that things can still be good but less clear and more confusing until the moon leaves Taurus entering Gemini at 7:38p PT | 10:38p ET | 3:38a(Su) UT.
Wonderful links with people could be forming. At times you revel in power exercised over others, a human tendency after all; some enjoy being subjected to the strong will of one admirable and capable. You are seeing how to balance all factors with the help of those who disagree as well as those who agree. You may need to care about those who are exploited, abused, imprisoned or otherwise tormented. We need to eliminate such happenings from human consciousness and living. Those who imprison others unfairly or torture them shall be imprisoned or tortured themselves by the laws of karma.
I have, in past years, pointed out the 18th of December as beginning a stronger surge of the Christmas spirit, for esoteric reasons, and this year that trend is accentuated by Mercury's retrograde re-entrance into Sagittarius, a more Christmas-like sign than Capricorn in some ways (although the actual date of the holiday falls within Capricorn, inspiring the old song that goes "Now Jesus was a Capricorn" but of course we don't know when He was really born, it may have been in the sign Pisces [pre-Spring] according to some serious researchers).
There is a thrill of being ahead of things by being behind them, that is, by discovering for yourself the wisdom of the ancients which too many contemporaries ignore. Spiritual leaders possess a mysterium and even a sanctity unknown to those who spurn them. The secrets are in the Scriptures, as the treasure is in the earth, but only those who dig find them.
There is love in this day. Yet it may be buried beneath necessary disciplines. Your reserve forces and intense thought link you with someone remarkable, worthy of idealization. When one support, human or natural, fails, you retreat, and then, eventually, discover another of more current value.
Beauty and glory in friendship need to be seized before they fade into inaccessibility. (The time in paragraph 1 may be pertinent.) It is well to keep fresh and alive links with important people in your life, so as not to fall out of favor with them. When we subject the naturally given materials of our lives to sculptural skill, we bring immortality to the relationships which mean the most to us.
Goals shared with others seem remote of attainment, yet there is angelic guidance toward them. The path cannot be forced when a natural wall or barrier blocks the way; rather wisdom must be sought as to the proper way to surmount it. Someone male or female (or perchance one of each) holds a hidden key to harmony in your living, and so is either working with angels or is an embodied one.
Angers and resentments, and a perceived need for self-defense, are present, but need not get the ascendancy. Enemies may look like friends, or friends like enemies, until we rise above enmity. For such a purpose the Christmas season exists. There is safety for those who cling to the Saviour, and especially for those who struggle to understand His instructions.
{Saturday} /Hidden Love Glints through the Season\
Cosmic Piper
\Hidden Love Glints through the Season/
This day has wonderful potentials and could be highly satisfying, within the lineaments to be pointed out. However, the momentum may be stronger earlier, up until 10:23a PT | 1:23p ET | 6:23p UT. After that things can still be good but less clear and more confusing until the moon leaves Taurus entering Gemini at 7:38p PT | 10:38p ET | 3:38a(Su) UT.
Wonderful links with people could be forming. At times you revel in power exercised over others, a human tendency after all; some enjoy being subjected to the strong will of one admirable and capable. You are seeing how to balance all factors with the help of those who disagree as well as those who agree. You may need to care about those who are exploited, abused, imprisoned or otherwise tormented. We need to eliminate such happenings from human consciousness and living. Those who imprison others unfairly or torture them shall be imprisoned or tortured themselves by the laws of karma.
I have, in past years, pointed out the 18th of December as beginning a stronger surge of the Christmas spirit, for esoteric reasons, and this year that trend is accentuated by Mercury's retrograde re-entrance into Sagittarius, a more Christmas-like sign than Capricorn in some ways (although the actual date of the holiday falls within Capricorn, inspiring the old song that goes "Now Jesus was a Capricorn" but of course we don't know when He was really born, it may have been in the sign Pisces [pre-Spring] according to some serious researchers).
There is a thrill of being ahead of things by being behind them, that is, by discovering for yourself the wisdom of the ancients which too many contemporaries ignore. Spiritual leaders possess a mysterium and even a sanctity unknown to those who spurn them. The secrets are in the Scriptures, as the treasure is in the earth, but only those who dig find them.
There is love in this day. Yet it may be buried beneath necessary disciplines. Your reserve forces and intense thought link you with someone remarkable, worthy of idealization. When one support, human or natural, fails, you retreat, and then, eventually, discover another of more current value.
Beauty and glory in friendship need to be seized before they fade into inaccessibility. (The time in paragraph 1 may be pertinent.) It is well to keep fresh and alive links with important people in your life, so as not to fall out of favor with them. When we subject the naturally given materials of our lives to sculptural skill, we bring immortality to the relationships which mean the most to us.
Goals shared with others seem remote of attainment, yet there is angelic guidance toward them. The path cannot be forced when a natural wall or barrier blocks the way; rather wisdom must be sought as to the proper way to surmount it. Someone male or female (or perchance one of each) holds a hidden key to harmony in your living, and so is either working with angels or is an embodied one.
Angers and resentments, and a perceived need for self-defense, are present, but need not get the ascendancy. Enemies may look like friends, or friends like enemies, until we rise above enmity. For such a purpose the Christmas season exists. There is safety for those who cling to the Saviour, and especially for those who struggle to understand His instructions.
{Saturday} /Hidden Love Glints through the Season\
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Forecast for Friday 17 December 2010
Friday 17 December 2010
\Releasing Unease through Contemplation and Self-Display/
Some feel always wary of good fortune, for fear it may end. Others feel they should keep their mouths closed at all times because no one understands what they say anyway. It might be well to voice what you feel to be true and important even if people don't "get it." They may get it later and your simple statement could help them. Problems of communication are rife. Consider how that must be to an autistic individual. Yet all of us have a flavor of autism somewhere in our repertoire.
At a deep level you contemplate your situation, what it has been, and where it may go. You are linking the past and future in your mind. You are aware of people who have been important to you now gone or unavailable, yet could revive old friendship if that feels right. The arms of lovers or friends twine and disentwine. The need for security in personal living leads to inflexible positions and these seem to take the priority over friendship.
There could be uncertainty over where your home is. Where you are now, where you were, or somewhere else? You want to avoid unnecessary conflict, and should, but want to be strong, radiant and free wherever you are, therefore to choose places to be where you can be just that. Can anybody "go home again"? Temporarily doing it as at the holidays is one way of facing the issue. Yet sometimes it is better to let the past go (though throwing it a kiss).
There is a gigantic need for straightening out communications. They seem complex but you can simplify them. It is all right to assume a kind of mask when dealing with certain individuals if you are faithful to what you sense as their best interests. This is not dishonest, just nice. Things you care about, and want to be noble about, are intense and require choices.
So many things seem futile while Mercury is retrograde (up to the 31st). Sometimes gloom and defeat can be almost a relief because you feel you can't go any lower, at least. Then you modify a few things, and feel a response of vitality from within yourself. Lofty musings are the "consolations of philosophy" as Boethius called them. They take you to a place where the sufferings of your life become food for exalted realization. Then you may establish even outer things on a happier basis.
Certain individuals, whether at home or work, seem to have a lasting anger or burning resentment. They feel they are right so definitely that they scorn those who seem to oppose that rightness. If feeling you need to defend yourself from one of them, consider the nature of the defense and make sure it is not worse then leaving yourself a little vulnerable. You can find a space where you let yourself display your real self in a style socially acceptable and pleasing.
{Friday} /Releasing Unease through Contemplation and Self-Display\
Cosmic Piper
\Releasing Unease through Contemplation and Self-Display/
Some feel always wary of good fortune, for fear it may end. Others feel they should keep their mouths closed at all times because no one understands what they say anyway. It might be well to voice what you feel to be true and important even if people don't "get it." They may get it later and your simple statement could help them. Problems of communication are rife. Consider how that must be to an autistic individual. Yet all of us have a flavor of autism somewhere in our repertoire.
At a deep level you contemplate your situation, what it has been, and where it may go. You are linking the past and future in your mind. You are aware of people who have been important to you now gone or unavailable, yet could revive old friendship if that feels right. The arms of lovers or friends twine and disentwine. The need for security in personal living leads to inflexible positions and these seem to take the priority over friendship.
There could be uncertainty over where your home is. Where you are now, where you were, or somewhere else? You want to avoid unnecessary conflict, and should, but want to be strong, radiant and free wherever you are, therefore to choose places to be where you can be just that. Can anybody "go home again"? Temporarily doing it as at the holidays is one way of facing the issue. Yet sometimes it is better to let the past go (though throwing it a kiss).
There is a gigantic need for straightening out communications. They seem complex but you can simplify them. It is all right to assume a kind of mask when dealing with certain individuals if you are faithful to what you sense as their best interests. This is not dishonest, just nice. Things you care about, and want to be noble about, are intense and require choices.
So many things seem futile while Mercury is retrograde (up to the 31st). Sometimes gloom and defeat can be almost a relief because you feel you can't go any lower, at least. Then you modify a few things, and feel a response of vitality from within yourself. Lofty musings are the "consolations of philosophy" as Boethius called them. They take you to a place where the sufferings of your life become food for exalted realization. Then you may establish even outer things on a happier basis.
Certain individuals, whether at home or work, seem to have a lasting anger or burning resentment. They feel they are right so definitely that they scorn those who seem to oppose that rightness. If feeling you need to defend yourself from one of them, consider the nature of the defense and make sure it is not worse then leaving yourself a little vulnerable. You can find a space where you let yourself display your real self in a style socially acceptable and pleasing.
{Friday} /Releasing Unease through Contemplation and Self-Display\
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 16 December 2010
Thursday 16 December 2010
\Coasting Toward Security/
Something good should be happening in your finances, at least signals that things are better; you can gather together gains in a hopeful manner. You are likely to sense things before you think them, mediumistically, especially when it comes to relations between the sexes.
You may be surprised that some are looking to you for clues or guidance. You may think you are stumbling as they, but they sense that you are vital and alive, and so likely to be worth emulating. You are avid for kaleidoscopic varieties of life which come as surprises into your soulful awareness.
Those who assume they are privileged get bumps in the road fate has put them on. Something in their selfish calculations was incomplete. When you fight for what you know is right you will win even if this takes more time than you would have thought. You see into those who have been hypocritical and determine that you won't be like them.
The intoxication of the gamble holds many to unwise courses. They love the entertainments and pleasures strewn along the path of loss. Nevertheless they may be onto something, a grand experiment, which will pan out eventually. If their first attempts are childish, they hold their vision toward someone else's success and may emulate it in time.
Some may view you as scheming against them, sensing you as an enemy, or be suspicious or resentful for no good reason. These are lonely individuals striving to arrive, who imagine that you have claimed unfair privileges. They are in a maze of calculations toward better fortune, whether accurate or not. You may have a prophetic gift, sensing what their destiny is or able to indicate helpful clues to them, if they would accept your supremacy.
You do not have to be insecure about your profession, job, or fortune. There are good signals, although some things need to decay before others grow up in their place. You may cling to a mother-figure, and there is nothing wrong with that. Mothers are superb guidance counselors; even when wrong their support makes the difference between success and failure. If you are looking to someone not physically present, still you get help, someone or something carrying you to safety.
{Thursday} /Coasting Toward Security\
Cosmic Piper
\Coasting Toward Security/
Something good should be happening in your finances, at least signals that things are better; you can gather together gains in a hopeful manner. You are likely to sense things before you think them, mediumistically, especially when it comes to relations between the sexes.
You may be surprised that some are looking to you for clues or guidance. You may think you are stumbling as they, but they sense that you are vital and alive, and so likely to be worth emulating. You are avid for kaleidoscopic varieties of life which come as surprises into your soulful awareness.
Those who assume they are privileged get bumps in the road fate has put them on. Something in their selfish calculations was incomplete. When you fight for what you know is right you will win even if this takes more time than you would have thought. You see into those who have been hypocritical and determine that you won't be like them.
The intoxication of the gamble holds many to unwise courses. They love the entertainments and pleasures strewn along the path of loss. Nevertheless they may be onto something, a grand experiment, which will pan out eventually. If their first attempts are childish, they hold their vision toward someone else's success and may emulate it in time.
Some may view you as scheming against them, sensing you as an enemy, or be suspicious or resentful for no good reason. These are lonely individuals striving to arrive, who imagine that you have claimed unfair privileges. They are in a maze of calculations toward better fortune, whether accurate or not. You may have a prophetic gift, sensing what their destiny is or able to indicate helpful clues to them, if they would accept your supremacy.
You do not have to be insecure about your profession, job, or fortune. There are good signals, although some things need to decay before others grow up in their place. You may cling to a mother-figure, and there is nothing wrong with that. Mothers are superb guidance counselors; even when wrong their support makes the difference between success and failure. If you are looking to someone not physically present, still you get help, someone or something carrying you to safety.
{Thursday} /Coasting Toward Security\
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 15 December 2010
Wednesday 15 December 2010
*Toward Calm Confidence*
The |emotionally strained third of the week| is with us until Thursday afternoon. Today it gets somewhat better in late afternoon and evening, when the moon moves toward a trine with the sun (Aries to Sagittarius).
You may feel generous by then, and happy to be held in respect by those who appreciate your generous and confident attitude. You have been exerting yourself admirably and deserve rewards. It might be good to think of someone from your past, such as father, grandfather, or male relative (perhaps female but I suggest male because of the moon's position in Aries). Then he or she will join your pastimes, invisibly.
There is a trend toward the beautiful, a recognition that beauty in the home, office or headquarters has an ameliorating influence in countless ways. It helps you order your life because you feel better about ordinary things you have to move around every day. Holiday lighting casts holiness from within, even when seemingly secular in origin. Studying uplifting teachings by a vestal light of the spirit could be a peak of the day.
Military tendencies are the bane of our world yet survive until their time has been fulfilled, that is, until the karma of those who find it necessary to fight has been worn through, frazzled and snapped. Sooner rather than later, let us hope, and then the words of the spiritual, "Ain't gonna study war no more," will come true. There is respite from career matters which are not panning out and need to be dropped. This is loss only of impedimenta. Your reserve forces are potent and can turn up when you need them to push you past a slack point toward honor.
The life of a wanderer might appeal to you at certain moments, yet you return to home center. There, or anywhere, you find clues, the cosmos speaking to you through signals of opportunity right at hand, the bluebird on the doorstep. Peculiar happenings which spell loss or disillusionment are only signals to keep your faith strong so you can resist undercurrents of despair and see your way past tangles to a more secure foundation.
Overly complicated strategies may appeal to you until you realize they can be simplified. There is supremacy in hidden sources of knowledge which avail when you are peacefully focused. It is important to modify overly self-centered tendencies which might lead you to despise the world out of envy or jealousy, for there could be no end but endless despair to such a path. Knowledge you have is superior to some others'. You can use that wisely rather than bash people out of an assumed sense of superiority.
Much points to hidden knowledge discovered. Wherever you look you may find it. It makes your life easier. There is a fraternal basis for some of your hopes, that is, you gain and learn from those you may as well call brothers or sisters because otherwise you might be displaying ingratitude or unawareness of your dependencies. You could enjoy those who play roles, consciously or unconsciously, the world being a stage. By evening let us hope the tragedy will be off and the comedy on.
{Wednesday} *Toward Calm Confidence*
Cosmic Piper
*Toward Calm Confidence*
The |emotionally strained third of the week| is with us until Thursday afternoon. Today it gets somewhat better in late afternoon and evening, when the moon moves toward a trine with the sun (Aries to Sagittarius).
You may feel generous by then, and happy to be held in respect by those who appreciate your generous and confident attitude. You have been exerting yourself admirably and deserve rewards. It might be good to think of someone from your past, such as father, grandfather, or male relative (perhaps female but I suggest male because of the moon's position in Aries). Then he or she will join your pastimes, invisibly.
There is a trend toward the beautiful, a recognition that beauty in the home, office or headquarters has an ameliorating influence in countless ways. It helps you order your life because you feel better about ordinary things you have to move around every day. Holiday lighting casts holiness from within, even when seemingly secular in origin. Studying uplifting teachings by a vestal light of the spirit could be a peak of the day.
Military tendencies are the bane of our world yet survive until their time has been fulfilled, that is, until the karma of those who find it necessary to fight has been worn through, frazzled and snapped. Sooner rather than later, let us hope, and then the words of the spiritual, "Ain't gonna study war no more," will come true. There is respite from career matters which are not panning out and need to be dropped. This is loss only of impedimenta. Your reserve forces are potent and can turn up when you need them to push you past a slack point toward honor.
The life of a wanderer might appeal to you at certain moments, yet you return to home center. There, or anywhere, you find clues, the cosmos speaking to you through signals of opportunity right at hand, the bluebird on the doorstep. Peculiar happenings which spell loss or disillusionment are only signals to keep your faith strong so you can resist undercurrents of despair and see your way past tangles to a more secure foundation.
Overly complicated strategies may appeal to you until you realize they can be simplified. There is supremacy in hidden sources of knowledge which avail when you are peacefully focused. It is important to modify overly self-centered tendencies which might lead you to despise the world out of envy or jealousy, for there could be no end but endless despair to such a path. Knowledge you have is superior to some others'. You can use that wisely rather than bash people out of an assumed sense of superiority.
Much points to hidden knowledge discovered. Wherever you look you may find it. It makes your life easier. There is a fraternal basis for some of your hopes, that is, you gain and learn from those you may as well call brothers or sisters because otherwise you might be displaying ingratitude or unawareness of your dependencies. You could enjoy those who play roles, consciously or unconsciously, the world being a stage. By evening let us hope the tragedy will be off and the comedy on.
{Wednesday} *Toward Calm Confidence*
Cosmic Piper
Monday, December 13, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 14 December 2010
Tuesday 14 December 2010
*Fortitude*
Those of you reading this in the colored versions will see red because the moon is in Aries today and tomorrow. Those two days also happen to be the |difficult third of this week, the more emotionally stressful part of it| (not because of Aries but other factors).
There is pride, and with it anger, which comes from frustration. You would like to be the supreme commander but find that things change too quickly to keep up with them. So you survey them and see into their future as acutely as possible. You see others failing or falling and hope you will not be one of them. You need not be, if you stay alert and trust in your destiny.
You create, using mental powers, though your creations be invisible to the multitude. You mobilize energies to catch up with reality. The inevitable is what has already happened. The doable is what is to be. Although you enjoy being alone, you want somehow to be hospitable to those who are interesting to you.
The results of your work are an assumption, inadequate results a harassment. This makes you uneasy. You want to eliminate whatever in your character or habits has led to stalemate. Self-reformation is the hardest of all, yet the most successful at last. When attuned to the Highest, you see into the errors of enemies and can eliminate those errors (better) or the enemies (worse). By "eliminate" I do not mean "kill," of course, but remove from interference in your purposes. This is done more often with words or strategies than weapons.
Not only Mercury's backward motion but other factors make for foggy thinking--or else highly perceptive thinking when the fog alerts you to hidden factors you would not have noticed otherwise. This is investigation. You can look, search, and discover. But, within yourself, watch out for jealousy, resentment, and restricted affections because of hurt you think someone has inflicted on you. With calmer vision you might see that this was no one's fault, just the roll of the dice, or even a message from on high to help you learn something.
Mars tightly conjoined with Mercury and Pluto, all of the squared by the moon today, suggest possible cruelty to watch out for, whether in someone else or yourself. That conjunction is reminiscent of the Plutocrats Bernard Madoff and Sonja Kohn, both in serious trouble now, with one son of Madoff having committed suicide on December 11 two years to the day from his father's arrest. Those who care only for themselves can be dangerous, obviously. We should not be bound to their mystery or mystique, but investigate what is going on and protect ourselves from it. Then we will appreciate all the more those who are kind, devoted, almost saintly, some of whom you may be aware of if you look beyond the trembling surface of unease.
Despite the ominous tone of the preceding, there can be rewards, at least for those who are benefactors rather than predators and care to pursue a job or career which is of value to others. The practical side of this is evident when you get going with it. You do not have to be an interfering do-gooder to help some who feel orphaned or abandoned. That may be the furthest from your mind, yet your example or fortitude may be helping them stand up to destiny.
{Tuesday} *Fortitude*
Cosmic Piper
*Fortitude*
Those of you reading this in the colored versions will see red because the moon is in Aries today and tomorrow. Those two days also happen to be the |difficult third of this week, the more emotionally stressful part of it| (not because of Aries but other factors).
There is pride, and with it anger, which comes from frustration. You would like to be the supreme commander but find that things change too quickly to keep up with them. So you survey them and see into their future as acutely as possible. You see others failing or falling and hope you will not be one of them. You need not be, if you stay alert and trust in your destiny.
You create, using mental powers, though your creations be invisible to the multitude. You mobilize energies to catch up with reality. The inevitable is what has already happened. The doable is what is to be. Although you enjoy being alone, you want somehow to be hospitable to those who are interesting to you.
The results of your work are an assumption, inadequate results a harassment. This makes you uneasy. You want to eliminate whatever in your character or habits has led to stalemate. Self-reformation is the hardest of all, yet the most successful at last. When attuned to the Highest, you see into the errors of enemies and can eliminate those errors (better) or the enemies (worse). By "eliminate" I do not mean "kill," of course, but remove from interference in your purposes. This is done more often with words or strategies than weapons.
Not only Mercury's backward motion but other factors make for foggy thinking--or else highly perceptive thinking when the fog alerts you to hidden factors you would not have noticed otherwise. This is investigation. You can look, search, and discover. But, within yourself, watch out for jealousy, resentment, and restricted affections because of hurt you think someone has inflicted on you. With calmer vision you might see that this was no one's fault, just the roll of the dice, or even a message from on high to help you learn something.
Mars tightly conjoined with Mercury and Pluto, all of the squared by the moon today, suggest possible cruelty to watch out for, whether in someone else or yourself. That conjunction is reminiscent of the Plutocrats Bernard Madoff and Sonja Kohn, both in serious trouble now, with one son of Madoff having committed suicide on December 11 two years to the day from his father's arrest. Those who care only for themselves can be dangerous, obviously. We should not be bound to their mystery or mystique, but investigate what is going on and protect ourselves from it. Then we will appreciate all the more those who are kind, devoted, almost saintly, some of whom you may be aware of if you look beyond the trembling surface of unease.
Despite the ominous tone of the preceding, there can be rewards, at least for those who are benefactors rather than predators and care to pursue a job or career which is of value to others. The practical side of this is evident when you get going with it. You do not have to be an interfering do-gooder to help some who feel orphaned or abandoned. That may be the furthest from your mind, yet your example or fortitude may be helping them stand up to destiny.
{Tuesday} *Fortitude*
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Forecast for Monday 13 December 2010
Monday 13 December 2010
~Patient Activity at Headquarters~
Because we are in the Mercury Retrograde period, which is the center of the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasting until January 17 (the retrograde period ends on December 30), you may be feeling you are at a "cycle change" in your life. Are you reviewing the past, or certain aspects of it, and wondering what is next? Are you pondering the purpose and direction of your life? That is all to the good. The problems come when one tries to make precipitate or drastic changes during the retrograde cycle. It is better to ponder carefully, learn what you can, and go very slow with actual changes, which are usually premature even if wise. (I would recommend reading this paragraph a few times, letting it sink in, and reviewing it when needed during this month of December and early January.)
When changes are imposed from the outside, the situation is different, and you can adjust to them as best you can, not letting yourself get too far ahead of the curve. However, most changes today are likely to be benedictions. You are linked with the invisible perhaps more than you realize. You become more of yourself by working with good influences.
Hospitality is wonderful and you may want to share your home with someone no matter what your doubts about his or her temperament or habits may be. This may involve also getting things in order in your living quarters, in an aggressive way. Then you feel you can relax there and appreciate mental pursuits or the calm expression of abundant abilities. Phases of your life dovetail, so that when you let go of some things, others grow up in their place.
Force within you emanates from you and wins honors, although these be slow to come. You may be pondering a change of home, either temporary or permanent. Paragraph 1 again: probably not now, although it helps you to wonder and consider how such a change might go. A tantrum or scuffle might be brewing, if you let it, just because you feel impatient. Mental work seems important today.
Sometimes it is better to conform smoothly with social codes or rules which seem silly to you, for the sake of peace and harmony. Then you can put your attention on work in seclusion which is very important now. You want popularity, and that is normal, but can get it better through normal living in accord with your purposes than through finagled self-display.
A warmhearted approach to visitors or living companions is wonderful. You may feel they take advantage of you sometimes but still want to benefit them. You mobilize your powers in your living situation, to make it more amenable to your purposes and desires. Then you don't mind being alone, either, if that is conducive to the training or creativity of your intellect.
As for more objective choices and deals or transactions, it would be good to finish them before the moon conjoins Jupiter at 12:16p PT | 3:16p ET | 8:16p UT. After that there are greater potentials of mistakes or impatient questionable choices. However, after that you could go deeper into your internal processes perhaps through prayer, meditation or the like.
Wealth changes hands according to patterns of karma. You may feel you are orphaned, lacking parental support or direction, or, in the Retrograde period, going back in memory to what your parents taught (even if you did not appreciate it at the time). You can fend for yourself, but the invisible help of parents and others is there also. You have been working out your finances and your mode of gaining or using them. Those who work to support some facets of their society are supported in turn. What you have earned and what you deserve is coming to you. Seeing that gives you wider hope.
{Monday} ~Patient Activity at Headquarters~
Cosmic Piper
~Patient Activity at Headquarters~
Because we are in the Mercury Retrograde period, which is the center of the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasting until January 17 (the retrograde period ends on December 30), you may be feeling you are at a "cycle change" in your life. Are you reviewing the past, or certain aspects of it, and wondering what is next? Are you pondering the purpose and direction of your life? That is all to the good. The problems come when one tries to make precipitate or drastic changes during the retrograde cycle. It is better to ponder carefully, learn what you can, and go very slow with actual changes, which are usually premature even if wise. (I would recommend reading this paragraph a few times, letting it sink in, and reviewing it when needed during this month of December and early January.)
When changes are imposed from the outside, the situation is different, and you can adjust to them as best you can, not letting yourself get too far ahead of the curve. However, most changes today are likely to be benedictions. You are linked with the invisible perhaps more than you realize. You become more of yourself by working with good influences.
Hospitality is wonderful and you may want to share your home with someone no matter what your doubts about his or her temperament or habits may be. This may involve also getting things in order in your living quarters, in an aggressive way. Then you feel you can relax there and appreciate mental pursuits or the calm expression of abundant abilities. Phases of your life dovetail, so that when you let go of some things, others grow up in their place.
Force within you emanates from you and wins honors, although these be slow to come. You may be pondering a change of home, either temporary or permanent. Paragraph 1 again: probably not now, although it helps you to wonder and consider how such a change might go. A tantrum or scuffle might be brewing, if you let it, just because you feel impatient. Mental work seems important today.
Sometimes it is better to conform smoothly with social codes or rules which seem silly to you, for the sake of peace and harmony. Then you can put your attention on work in seclusion which is very important now. You want popularity, and that is normal, but can get it better through normal living in accord with your purposes than through finagled self-display.
A warmhearted approach to visitors or living companions is wonderful. You may feel they take advantage of you sometimes but still want to benefit them. You mobilize your powers in your living situation, to make it more amenable to your purposes and desires. Then you don't mind being alone, either, if that is conducive to the training or creativity of your intellect.
As for more objective choices and deals or transactions, it would be good to finish them before the moon conjoins Jupiter at 12:16p PT | 3:16p ET | 8:16p UT. After that there are greater potentials of mistakes or impatient questionable choices. However, after that you could go deeper into your internal processes perhaps through prayer, meditation or the like.
Wealth changes hands according to patterns of karma. You may feel you are orphaned, lacking parental support or direction, or, in the Retrograde period, going back in memory to what your parents taught (even if you did not appreciate it at the time). You can fend for yourself, but the invisible help of parents and others is there also. You have been working out your finances and your mode of gaining or using them. Those who work to support some facets of their society are supported in turn. What you have earned and what you deserve is coming to you. Seeing that gives you wider hope.
{Monday} ~Patient Activity at Headquarters~
Cosmic Piper
Friday, December 10, 2010
Forecast for Saturday 11 December 2010
Saturday 11 December 2010
~Supernal Satisfaction~
This looks like a strong and sweet transitional day into the Mercury Retrograde period which lasts until December 30. It began Friday at 4:05a PT | 7:05a ET | 12:05p UT. We will be discussing what it means as we go along. Those of you who have been reading these reports for years have a pretty good idea. People are wondering what is wrong and how to fix it, as for example the Wikileaks-Assange imbroglio, the tax-law mess which both parties purportedly want to fix, the demonstrations in the UK against tuition increases, the protests in Haiti over election results, and so on. Also there is a return to the past in one way or another, as today's NYTimes has an article about how people are returning to rabbit-ear antenna TV reception to escape the costs of cable! Retro in a big way. It's review, revisiting, revision, restoration, revamping, and sometimes just rest. Usually things are not completely clear until the period ends, in this case the beginning of 2011. So it is wise not to be impatient.
The old comes up before the new can be found, and carries on into the new. Today high living can be refreshing, convivial, and thrilling. You want to indulge yourself with hearty companions. Survival and continuity are keywords. Blessings are showered from above.
Someone affectionate, devoted and guileless is a solid friend, not hard to find because right at home or in the neighborhood. At the same time, your mind is on more practical matters such as balancing your income and outgo or increasing the former or diminishing the latter. That is possible through thorough analysis of all factors, probably at least ten. You may seem selfish but so long as you are not cruel you are attending to self- interest wisely so you will be in a position to be of some value to the world at large.
You have not lost your honor or prestige; they have survived a challenge. Those who thought you needed to be reformed may need reformation themselves. You find it interesting to survey all situations calmly and arrive at conclusions which defend you from loss. Maybe not enough is coming to you, you feel, yet you can enjoy what you do have without being continually nervous.
The artistic and ornamental are in evidence, as for example Christmas decorations. It is fun to balance things and give in to the holiday spirit, an echo of past Christmases remembered. At the same time, organized effort is needed to procure everything you need. Maybe Christmas cards, since we are in a retro phase, or email equivalents, or writing the annual year-end letter if that is your mode.
One can be initiated into high secrets if one has a dedication to higher study. Then, somehow, this is translated partially into activity with others, even if defensive at first. Beauty and harmony are keys, not always feminine in nature because a football game is a display of both in a more dynamic manner.
Despite concerns about the economy, many will feel prosperous. There could be gorgeous consummations, good fortune, unexpected success. For those who do Christmas shopping it could be a great time for that. Or for making good karma by giving to someone who needs help, or a charity. You are involved with others' problems, whether or no, but this can be tickling rather than depressing. What you get or find today restores the thrill of youth, innocent dignity, limitless hope.
{Saturday} ~Supernal Satisfaction~
Cosmic Piper
~Supernal Satisfaction~
This looks like a strong and sweet transitional day into the Mercury Retrograde period which lasts until December 30. It began Friday at 4:05a PT | 7:05a ET | 12:05p UT. We will be discussing what it means as we go along. Those of you who have been reading these reports for years have a pretty good idea. People are wondering what is wrong and how to fix it, as for example the Wikileaks-Assange imbroglio, the tax-law mess which both parties purportedly want to fix, the demonstrations in the UK against tuition increases, the protests in Haiti over election results, and so on. Also there is a return to the past in one way or another, as today's NYTimes has an article about how people are returning to rabbit-ear antenna TV reception to escape the costs of cable! Retro in a big way. It's review, revisiting, revision, restoration, revamping, and sometimes just rest. Usually things are not completely clear until the period ends, in this case the beginning of 2011. So it is wise not to be impatient.
The old comes up before the new can be found, and carries on into the new. Today high living can be refreshing, convivial, and thrilling. You want to indulge yourself with hearty companions. Survival and continuity are keywords. Blessings are showered from above.
Someone affectionate, devoted and guileless is a solid friend, not hard to find because right at home or in the neighborhood. At the same time, your mind is on more practical matters such as balancing your income and outgo or increasing the former or diminishing the latter. That is possible through thorough analysis of all factors, probably at least ten. You may seem selfish but so long as you are not cruel you are attending to self- interest wisely so you will be in a position to be of some value to the world at large.
You have not lost your honor or prestige; they have survived a challenge. Those who thought you needed to be reformed may need reformation themselves. You find it interesting to survey all situations calmly and arrive at conclusions which defend you from loss. Maybe not enough is coming to you, you feel, yet you can enjoy what you do have without being continually nervous.
The artistic and ornamental are in evidence, as for example Christmas decorations. It is fun to balance things and give in to the holiday spirit, an echo of past Christmases remembered. At the same time, organized effort is needed to procure everything you need. Maybe Christmas cards, since we are in a retro phase, or email equivalents, or writing the annual year-end letter if that is your mode.
One can be initiated into high secrets if one has a dedication to higher study. Then, somehow, this is translated partially into activity with others, even if defensive at first. Beauty and harmony are keys, not always feminine in nature because a football game is a display of both in a more dynamic manner.
Despite concerns about the economy, many will feel prosperous. There could be gorgeous consummations, good fortune, unexpected success. For those who do Christmas shopping it could be a great time for that. Or for making good karma by giving to someone who needs help, or a charity. You are involved with others' problems, whether or no, but this can be tickling rather than depressing. What you get or find today restores the thrill of youth, innocent dignity, limitless hope.
{Saturday} ~Supernal Satisfaction~
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Forecast for Friday 10 December 2010
Friday 10 December 2010
}Easy{
There is a trend toward being too passive or weak, as if giving up on work too soon. This is because of disappointment or disillusion, but you could recover through religious or spiritual resilience, finding higher truths to sustain your efforts.
There is craftiness and selfishness, even cruelty, in the financial world, from which you can escape if you are not foolish or resigned to injustice. In other situations you are quietly aware of those who are kind or devoted, who have given their hearts to you more than you realize. When it comes to finances, affecting home payments for example, you benefit from thorough research into a number of factors which would cost you if you did not find out how they stack up.
You are drilling yourself in competence with your talents or in responding to younger people in a way which is almost military in its demands. Forceful and brilliant energies emanate from you and from some to whom you are attracted, though you may feel timid about making advances. You renounce perverse pleasures in order to invest in longer-term benefits. Whatever has outlived its usefulness needs to be left behind.
You may gravitate toward water or a body of water if there is one in your region. You could relax with someone who feels threatened or captive yet is strong enough to stand up and face whatever needs to be faced. You are at the borders of a frontier, which includes a significant relationship. Moving to a different place may be on your mind even if not feasible.
Financial strategies are tantalizing and might be worked out in ways which prolong your prosperity into future years. Your health is strong through disciplines which you find almost easy though requiring youthful expenditure. You feel you have a mission toward future generations, who rely on you for illumination.
Youth is wonderful, granting innocent dignity and the power to rule those who cannot resist it. Something fortuitous comes to you. It might be through your work, or investment, or sheer luck. For such gain you give thanks spontaneously. Although you had been looking for it in an involved way, it is more than you expected or comes in an unlikely manner.
{Friday} {Easy}
Cosmic Piper
}Easy{
There is a trend toward being too passive or weak, as if giving up on work too soon. This is because of disappointment or disillusion, but you could recover through religious or spiritual resilience, finding higher truths to sustain your efforts.
There is craftiness and selfishness, even cruelty, in the financial world, from which you can escape if you are not foolish or resigned to injustice. In other situations you are quietly aware of those who are kind or devoted, who have given their hearts to you more than you realize. When it comes to finances, affecting home payments for example, you benefit from thorough research into a number of factors which would cost you if you did not find out how they stack up.
You are drilling yourself in competence with your talents or in responding to younger people in a way which is almost military in its demands. Forceful and brilliant energies emanate from you and from some to whom you are attracted, though you may feel timid about making advances. You renounce perverse pleasures in order to invest in longer-term benefits. Whatever has outlived its usefulness needs to be left behind.
You may gravitate toward water or a body of water if there is one in your region. You could relax with someone who feels threatened or captive yet is strong enough to stand up and face whatever needs to be faced. You are at the borders of a frontier, which includes a significant relationship. Moving to a different place may be on your mind even if not feasible.
Financial strategies are tantalizing and might be worked out in ways which prolong your prosperity into future years. Your health is strong through disciplines which you find almost easy though requiring youthful expenditure. You feel you have a mission toward future generations, who rely on you for illumination.
Youth is wonderful, granting innocent dignity and the power to rule those who cannot resist it. Something fortuitous comes to you. It might be through your work, or investment, or sheer luck. For such gain you give thanks spontaneously. Although you had been looking for it in an involved way, it is more than you expected or comes in an unlikely manner.
{Friday} {Easy}
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 9 December 2010
Forecast for Thursday 9 December 2010
}Pendulum Swinging, or Spin the Bottle{
Some things, fortunately, do not have to be changed but can chug along in a normal way; relief! Then at certain points you feel you need to dramatize where you stand, and link with those who share your viewpoint to make that point. People can be converted, change their standpoint; and many will go through that during the controversy over Assange and Wikileaks. Do you stand with the old order of lies and secrets, hidden strategies, spying and killing, or the new order of transparency, truth, honesty and openness?
Some may seem crafty and scheming (oh, could that be Visa, MasterCard, Swedish banks and prosecutors?) so that they victimize people (could that be Assange, or you?) but there are ways to overcome. (For example, stop using credit or debit cards; pay by check or cash; that takes away the invisible tax the omnipresent banking cabal imposes on your payees.) People who are confident within themselves and devoted to those to whom they give their hearts are the salt of the earth. You know at least one of them. A thorough approach to hidden assets including investments will yield superb results if you investigate all factors involved (maybe as many as ten, or eleven if you are a football coach).
Those who have been getting inadequate returns or income are seeking for ways to be victorious by avoiding foolhardiness and resisting over-manipulation for the sake of gain, while still finding paths to what they desire. Someone you like may differ with you about religion (or a spiritual leader or regime), yet it is possible to disagree peaceably.
It is possible to link innocently with several varieties of people, including the more stodgy and simple-minded who work willingly at humdrum tasks, as well as the more bohemian and artsy who are not afraid to appear grotesque.
Buildings seem to have karma, as the World Trade Center, and you may be aware of this. You may note that liars get their comeuppance eventually, as well as those who suspect you of lying when you are not. Those with greater experience can protect those with lesser. We commemorate those who have sacrificed for ourselves or a cause.
The potentials of personal relations are superb, with Venus sextile Mercury and Pluto, though often covert or not explicit. Those who would make fun of this, or slander you or your love life, are unaware of what lies deep in you. Meanwhile the continuity of your interests and activities is building a magical structure, out of natural materials such as stones, gold, or whatever is available, so that your ambitions can be fulfilled both symbolically and actually. In the mix is love of a sort no one could define, but to be trusted when you doubt.
{Thursday} {Pendulum Swinging, or Spin the Bottle}
Cosmic Piper
}Pendulum Swinging, or Spin the Bottle{
Some things, fortunately, do not have to be changed but can chug along in a normal way; relief! Then at certain points you feel you need to dramatize where you stand, and link with those who share your viewpoint to make that point. People can be converted, change their standpoint; and many will go through that during the controversy over Assange and Wikileaks. Do you stand with the old order of lies and secrets, hidden strategies, spying and killing, or the new order of transparency, truth, honesty and openness?
Some may seem crafty and scheming (oh, could that be Visa, MasterCard, Swedish banks and prosecutors?) so that they victimize people (could that be Assange, or you?) but there are ways to overcome. (For example, stop using credit or debit cards; pay by check or cash; that takes away the invisible tax the omnipresent banking cabal imposes on your payees.) People who are confident within themselves and devoted to those to whom they give their hearts are the salt of the earth. You know at least one of them. A thorough approach to hidden assets including investments will yield superb results if you investigate all factors involved (maybe as many as ten, or eleven if you are a football coach).
Those who have been getting inadequate returns or income are seeking for ways to be victorious by avoiding foolhardiness and resisting over-manipulation for the sake of gain, while still finding paths to what they desire. Someone you like may differ with you about religion (or a spiritual leader or regime), yet it is possible to disagree peaceably.
It is possible to link innocently with several varieties of people, including the more stodgy and simple-minded who work willingly at humdrum tasks, as well as the more bohemian and artsy who are not afraid to appear grotesque.
Buildings seem to have karma, as the World Trade Center, and you may be aware of this. You may note that liars get their comeuppance eventually, as well as those who suspect you of lying when you are not. Those with greater experience can protect those with lesser. We commemorate those who have sacrificed for ourselves or a cause.
The potentials of personal relations are superb, with Venus sextile Mercury and Pluto, though often covert or not explicit. Those who would make fun of this, or slander you or your love life, are unaware of what lies deep in you. Meanwhile the continuity of your interests and activities is building a magical structure, out of natural materials such as stones, gold, or whatever is available, so that your ambitions can be fulfilled both symbolically and actually. In the mix is love of a sort no one could define, but to be trusted when you doubt.
{Thursday} {Pendulum Swinging, or Spin the Bottle}
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Forecast for Wednesday 8 December 2010
Wednesday 8 December 2010
\Harsh and Controlled; Rash and Free; Gain through Experience/
There are challenges. It is the second part of the |difficult third of this week|, until Thursday morning. An older male may be important to you this week, well-intentioned but causing you to face difficult matters.
Things pick up speed and you may be running around. You need to persevere with what has deep soul-impetus. Rustic or country folk may turn up at home or in local travels.
Someone who seems selfish may be a mystery to you. He thinks of himself first and so may appear to threaten your interests. He seems to have victims who give in to him. You can investigate things thoroughly because you want to get at the bottom of them. Someone devoted and loving, honest and uplifting may converse with you as you reveal secrets to each other.
Questions of home and travel, or one versus the other, may involve something military or semi-military, the drills you have to go through to be ready for challenges. Some individuals feel they have been left "high and dry" or unable to participate in what they thought was their destiny (Julian Assange comes to mind, and my sympathies are with him for he is being unfairly persecuted). If you feel that way you may regard it as a respite from your struggles. Those living in northern regions may experience intense weather or light-phenomena such as the aurora borealis. We are at a point where some things are being liquidated so others can form. This can be adventure if taken in the right spirit.
Simple things can foster rebirth. A child's innocent pastimes may seem worthless yet something within him transcends them as he goes through them. Seemingly drifting circumstances make you feel abandoned, yet you find yourself when no one else does.
An assignment you care about makes you strong because you rely on yourself in doing it and care not for detractors. Aloneness develops an inflexible quality in you which is adamant against anyone's opposition. Yet someone of the opposite sex will link arms with you, surprisingly and casually in a way which verifies your proclivities.
Love and spirituality are linked, for example in a wedding ceremony, and love even of a casual sort requires faith and charity, which are abundant. You are poised as you let yourself tumble to kindly-affectionate influences. Where they go is impossible to predict; they blow as the wind hither and yon; so you feel wild and free, yet know you must curtail extravagant rashness.
{Wednesday} Harsh and Controlled; Rash and Free; Gain through Experience
Cosmic Piper
\Harsh and Controlled; Rash and Free; Gain through Experience/
There are challenges. It is the second part of the |difficult third of this week|, until Thursday morning. An older male may be important to you this week, well-intentioned but causing you to face difficult matters.
Things pick up speed and you may be running around. You need to persevere with what has deep soul-impetus. Rustic or country folk may turn up at home or in local travels.
Someone who seems selfish may be a mystery to you. He thinks of himself first and so may appear to threaten your interests. He seems to have victims who give in to him. You can investigate things thoroughly because you want to get at the bottom of them. Someone devoted and loving, honest and uplifting may converse with you as you reveal secrets to each other.
Questions of home and travel, or one versus the other, may involve something military or semi-military, the drills you have to go through to be ready for challenges. Some individuals feel they have been left "high and dry" or unable to participate in what they thought was their destiny (Julian Assange comes to mind, and my sympathies are with him for he is being unfairly persecuted). If you feel that way you may regard it as a respite from your struggles. Those living in northern regions may experience intense weather or light-phenomena such as the aurora borealis. We are at a point where some things are being liquidated so others can form. This can be adventure if taken in the right spirit.
Simple things can foster rebirth. A child's innocent pastimes may seem worthless yet something within him transcends them as he goes through them. Seemingly drifting circumstances make you feel abandoned, yet you find yourself when no one else does.
An assignment you care about makes you strong because you rely on yourself in doing it and care not for detractors. Aloneness develops an inflexible quality in you which is adamant against anyone's opposition. Yet someone of the opposite sex will link arms with you, surprisingly and casually in a way which verifies your proclivities.
Love and spirituality are linked, for example in a wedding ceremony, and love even of a casual sort requires faith and charity, which are abundant. You are poised as you let yourself tumble to kindly-affectionate influences. Where they go is impossible to predict; they blow as the wind hither and yon; so you feel wild and free, yet know you must curtail extravagant rashness.
{Wednesday} Harsh and Controlled; Rash and Free; Gain through Experience
Cosmic Piper
Monday, December 6, 2010
Forecast for Tuesday 7 December 2010
Monday 7 December 2010
\Harsh Realism as Peculiar Comfort/
With the moon square Saturn (from Capricorn to Libra) we have the |difficult third of this week| today and tomorrow, though better tomorrow. One focus is difficulties in your living situation or headquarters, whether involving heat, insulation, winterizing, reconstruction, remodeling, or cleaning and organizing. All that can be handled realistically, though with perhaps little enthusiasm at first.
A visual artist may be interesting or friendly. Beauty can ameliorate a glum mood. Your inner fire keeps you warm regardless of weather. There is magic in facing up to whatever seems daunting. What could be harsh criticism could instead be a useful critique of whatever is in the way of normal satisfaction.
You might be aware of cruelty and craftiness in some, whether in business or the family. Something requires thorough exploration or investigation, for there are factors blocking your way which are invisible until unearthed. Fortunately someone steadfast and kind, an exemplar of integrity, can help dislodge obstacles.
Too little result of your labor may be depressing, yet you labor on. Something is shaping up in your work methods to make things better. Knowledge you have cannot be taken from you, no matter what the biases or hypocrisies in co-workers or those who ought to serve you. High resolves are sure to bring victory later or sooner.
The darkness of the season can be depressing, or you can take it as a mere indication of a cyclic process. When there is no light in one direction one can turn to another; or eyes closed in sleep see visions. You are struggling with a dearth of information, or contrary information, working it through and waiting for opportunities to seize what is key to your problem or project. When you feel too dependent on someone else, you may think your options vacuous. You could hide and meditate. Tomorrow is another day.
You seem to know what is best for your home, and your plans for it. Changes are realistic and calmly mapped. You have made a place for yourself and can be inflexible in holding to the pattern you have seen to be right. You expect others to recognize that you know what you are doing.
You may be aware of alternating affections in fascinating scenes where a male and female are entwined, then unentwined, then wondering what exactly is happening. We have mentioned the "refranation" of Venus and Mars in their sextile aspect, occurring from now till the middle of January. Right now they are moving closest to the sextile, but that is by a few degrees, not exact, and then they separate. So they "refrain" from consummating a relationship, although it remains a semi- or demi-relationship. You can see this going on with couples around you and perhaps with yourself. They thought they would have a wonderful holiday reunion, celebration or vacation, but now it seems as cold as the ashes beneath Santa's feet in the chimney. Yet they are still together in one way or another.
Yet there is hope and faith, as well as a desire to give as the holiday spirit makes its way into our hearts. Something stabilizes you, perhaps memories of Christmases past, or your trust that something changeless supports you always. This permits you to be free as the breeze. You need to watch that that does not become wanton, harsh libertine action which hurts or upsets people. The freedom to hurt is not real freedom for it creates a need to be hurt in turn. Yet you find freedom within the harshness, cold, and doubt; and know things will be better, which is one meaning of Christmas and New Year's.
{Tuesday} /Harsh Realism as Peculiar Comfort\
Cosmic Piper
\Harsh Realism as Peculiar Comfort/
With the moon square Saturn (from Capricorn to Libra) we have the |difficult third of this week| today and tomorrow, though better tomorrow. One focus is difficulties in your living situation or headquarters, whether involving heat, insulation, winterizing, reconstruction, remodeling, or cleaning and organizing. All that can be handled realistically, though with perhaps little enthusiasm at first.
A visual artist may be interesting or friendly. Beauty can ameliorate a glum mood. Your inner fire keeps you warm regardless of weather. There is magic in facing up to whatever seems daunting. What could be harsh criticism could instead be a useful critique of whatever is in the way of normal satisfaction.
You might be aware of cruelty and craftiness in some, whether in business or the family. Something requires thorough exploration or investigation, for there are factors blocking your way which are invisible until unearthed. Fortunately someone steadfast and kind, an exemplar of integrity, can help dislodge obstacles.
Too little result of your labor may be depressing, yet you labor on. Something is shaping up in your work methods to make things better. Knowledge you have cannot be taken from you, no matter what the biases or hypocrisies in co-workers or those who ought to serve you. High resolves are sure to bring victory later or sooner.
The darkness of the season can be depressing, or you can take it as a mere indication of a cyclic process. When there is no light in one direction one can turn to another; or eyes closed in sleep see visions. You are struggling with a dearth of information, or contrary information, working it through and waiting for opportunities to seize what is key to your problem or project. When you feel too dependent on someone else, you may think your options vacuous. You could hide and meditate. Tomorrow is another day.
You seem to know what is best for your home, and your plans for it. Changes are realistic and calmly mapped. You have made a place for yourself and can be inflexible in holding to the pattern you have seen to be right. You expect others to recognize that you know what you are doing.
You may be aware of alternating affections in fascinating scenes where a male and female are entwined, then unentwined, then wondering what exactly is happening. We have mentioned the "refranation" of Venus and Mars in their sextile aspect, occurring from now till the middle of January. Right now they are moving closest to the sextile, but that is by a few degrees, not exact, and then they separate. So they "refrain" from consummating a relationship, although it remains a semi- or demi-relationship. You can see this going on with couples around you and perhaps with yourself. They thought they would have a wonderful holiday reunion, celebration or vacation, but now it seems as cold as the ashes beneath Santa's feet in the chimney. Yet they are still together in one way or another.
Yet there is hope and faith, as well as a desire to give as the holiday spirit makes its way into our hearts. Something stabilizes you, perhaps memories of Christmases past, or your trust that something changeless supports you always. This permits you to be free as the breeze. You need to watch that that does not become wanton, harsh libertine action which hurts or upsets people. The freedom to hurt is not real freedom for it creates a need to be hurt in turn. Yet you find freedom within the harshness, cold, and doubt; and know things will be better, which is one meaning of Christmas and New Year's.
{Tuesday} /Harsh Realism as Peculiar Comfort\
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Forecast for Monday 6 December 2010
Monday 6 December 2010
\Locus and Focus as Modus/
Housekeeping could be a theme of the day. Such is possible at work also where much could be re-organized. The outer basis of things for you--home, domicile, office, shop--needs some work it seems. You can survey everything calmly with arms folded and know what to do first. With the moon conjoined to Mars and Pluto, people are feeling inflexible about what they have assumed as a position for their security and fulfillment, so are not likely to compromise. Strong people come right into your presence or headquarters. A link with them could be better by evening. You derive strength from your grandfathers.
You can be happy alone, part of the time anyway. You are seeing how to mobilize your understanding and energies to meet immediate needs, with or without help. The hospitable side of you, however, wants to welcome people into your world, and this is possible especially later in the day when a softer mood invites submissive companionship.
Questions about the adequacy of your income are being answered slowly. Work which gets no reward at first lays a foundation. You are aware of the inadequacy of many who claim to be spiritual guides, and struggle to find ways to adjust tolerance with necessary criticism. Some whom you regard as true partners, whether humanly or superhumanly, are sustaining your faith, aspiration and acumen so that you can be victorious. That includes at least one woman who is super-strong or spiritually invulnerable.
You look high and low for signs or signatures of what to do next, and find them. There is the profane, and there is the sacred, and each can be a clue. One warns, the other confirms. When you find the right direction you should stick to it so that efforts don't peter out.
Who is the spiritual figure who most represents to you the future of your soul? Who is beyond time, beckoning you toward secure eternity? His value and guiding power are permanent, but your awareness of him goes and comes. Yet also you rely on yourself to unearth discoveries you need whether for work, family, or projects you know will make you remembered and honored.
There is magic in the air. It can have a romantic side, and a practical one, with material gain perhaps, though not in exactly the way expected. You are learning what and whom you can rely upon. Art, drama, and music are allies, or their masculine counterparts in bodily skills or sports, offering the indefinable or ineffable which make everything else bearable or enjoyable.
{Monday} /Locus and Focus as Modus\
Cosmic Piper
\Locus and Focus as Modus/
Housekeeping could be a theme of the day. Such is possible at work also where much could be re-organized. The outer basis of things for you--home, domicile, office, shop--needs some work it seems. You can survey everything calmly with arms folded and know what to do first. With the moon conjoined to Mars and Pluto, people are feeling inflexible about what they have assumed as a position for their security and fulfillment, so are not likely to compromise. Strong people come right into your presence or headquarters. A link with them could be better by evening. You derive strength from your grandfathers.
You can be happy alone, part of the time anyway. You are seeing how to mobilize your understanding and energies to meet immediate needs, with or without help. The hospitable side of you, however, wants to welcome people into your world, and this is possible especially later in the day when a softer mood invites submissive companionship.
Questions about the adequacy of your income are being answered slowly. Work which gets no reward at first lays a foundation. You are aware of the inadequacy of many who claim to be spiritual guides, and struggle to find ways to adjust tolerance with necessary criticism. Some whom you regard as true partners, whether humanly or superhumanly, are sustaining your faith, aspiration and acumen so that you can be victorious. That includes at least one woman who is super-strong or spiritually invulnerable.
You look high and low for signs or signatures of what to do next, and find them. There is the profane, and there is the sacred, and each can be a clue. One warns, the other confirms. When you find the right direction you should stick to it so that efforts don't peter out.
Who is the spiritual figure who most represents to you the future of your soul? Who is beyond time, beckoning you toward secure eternity? His value and guiding power are permanent, but your awareness of him goes and comes. Yet also you rely on yourself to unearth discoveries you need whether for work, family, or projects you know will make you remembered and honored.
There is magic in the air. It can have a romantic side, and a practical one, with material gain perhaps, though not in exactly the way expected. You are learning what and whom you can rely upon. Art, drama, and music are allies, or their masculine counterparts in bodily skills or sports, offering the indefinable or ineffable which make everything else bearable or enjoyable.
{Monday} /Locus and Focus as Modus\
Cosmic Piper
Friday, December 3, 2010
Forecast for Saturday 4 December 2010
Saturday 4 December 2010
*Quiescent Construction*
What has felt like a crisis or mini-crisis may feel less like that. Steadfastness and conservation are comforting. You straighten out headquarters. Going slow and trusting what has been set in motion is comforting. Yet there may be news of something disturbing.
Mysteries intrigue you. Some have a career impact. They help you order your situation in ways which prevent crisis. There is strength in solid determination, which links you with others essential to a project. There is beauty in strength, strength in beauty, experienced in a public place.
Sensual dreams and soft pleasures abound. Something in you wants to make use of them as props of magic, and so you may. Plenty of material luxurious and human is there. In a small area numerous gather. Philanthropy can be spiritual as well as material, the disinterested love of humanity, although interests shall erupt.
Those who have been imprisoned or restrained need spiritual counsel. Sorrow for past misdeeds is cauterizing. It rectifies motive. Those who have let selfishness or greed injure love pay a price. They can find a better way.
We are in the final day of the Old Moon; the New comes Sunday at 9:37a PT | 12:37p ET | 5:37p UT. The time preceding it is often good for extra rest and internal renewal. You are somewhat defensive, reserved or cautious. Yet you could take a leap into social situations if you let yourself be more childlike or impulsive.
One part of you ponders things as if a pilgrim of the spirit. Another wants to be involved in helpful projects. You gain respect and make your mark by being true to what is deep in you. Something is being built, with elements of magic in the building. Then all good things surrender to you.
{Saturday} *Quiescent Construction*
Cosmic Piper
*Quiescent Construction*
What has felt like a crisis or mini-crisis may feel less like that. Steadfastness and conservation are comforting. You straighten out headquarters. Going slow and trusting what has been set in motion is comforting. Yet there may be news of something disturbing.
Mysteries intrigue you. Some have a career impact. They help you order your situation in ways which prevent crisis. There is strength in solid determination, which links you with others essential to a project. There is beauty in strength, strength in beauty, experienced in a public place.
Sensual dreams and soft pleasures abound. Something in you wants to make use of them as props of magic, and so you may. Plenty of material luxurious and human is there. In a small area numerous gather. Philanthropy can be spiritual as well as material, the disinterested love of humanity, although interests shall erupt.
Those who have been imprisoned or restrained need spiritual counsel. Sorrow for past misdeeds is cauterizing. It rectifies motive. Those who have let selfishness or greed injure love pay a price. They can find a better way.
We are in the final day of the Old Moon; the New comes Sunday at 9:37a PT | 12:37p ET | 5:37p UT. The time preceding it is often good for extra rest and internal renewal. You are somewhat defensive, reserved or cautious. Yet you could take a leap into social situations if you let yourself be more childlike or impulsive.
One part of you ponders things as if a pilgrim of the spirit. Another wants to be involved in helpful projects. You gain respect and make your mark by being true to what is deep in you. Something is being built, with elements of magic in the building. Then all good things surrender to you.
{Saturday} *Quiescent Construction*
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Forecast for Friday 3 December 2010
Friday 3 December 2010
~Depth Manifest~
Those who create beauty are around you, though they suffer from want of recognition or recompense. Whether in the visual or other arts, they know their work is work whether seen or not. They have no choice but to give in to destiny when it seems to turn against them, yet continue to make possibly immortal contributions.
There is vitality in the work you do at headquarters, as if you had uncovered a boundless source of illumination and useful knowledge leading to skill. It might seem easy at times, then becomes difficult, then natural. It seems there is no end to the variety of what you can accomplish. It radiates its own resplendence and magnetic attraction.
Those who are lazy and eat too much may plague you at times. Also you feel annoyed by someone from another region whose affections seem fickle or duplicitous. He or she is playing the fool, trusting to a majesty which may be as fickle as his or her affections. Eventually things circle back to where they were and the aftertaste of the game is not as thrilling as its foretaste.
Venus and Mars flirt with a sextile which is not consummated! This was called "refranation" by the ancient astrologers, that is, the two planets seem to be forming an aspect but then "refrain" from doing so. The two lovers are closest to their shared happiness in the middle of December, which continues more or less until the middle of January. Since this is a Dark Hermetic Epoch we may expect that much uncertain and changeable amour will come and go whether in marriage, another relationship, or romantic intrigues. Nobody seems to know where it is going or how to direct it. It has a sensual side, amoral, and at other times or in other folk a responsible "married couple" side. Adjustments are made continually. Today they seem comfortable and pleasant.
Finances will seem to be moving in a positive direction, for many or most, although with a sense of fate or letting things be. The direction East may be significant for your fortunes. Someone near you either at work or at home is daring in exhibiting his or her libido. This could be surprising and inconsequential yet edifying for morale.
You consider deep things of enormous magnitude which come from your soul itself. You are finding out what is in you. It spills thrillingly into your possessions, home, and career, showing the world what motivates and moves you and what you are made of.
{Friday} ~Depth Manifest~
Cosmic Piper
~Depth Manifest~
Those who create beauty are around you, though they suffer from want of recognition or recompense. Whether in the visual or other arts, they know their work is work whether seen or not. They have no choice but to give in to destiny when it seems to turn against them, yet continue to make possibly immortal contributions.
There is vitality in the work you do at headquarters, as if you had uncovered a boundless source of illumination and useful knowledge leading to skill. It might seem easy at times, then becomes difficult, then natural. It seems there is no end to the variety of what you can accomplish. It radiates its own resplendence and magnetic attraction.
Those who are lazy and eat too much may plague you at times. Also you feel annoyed by someone from another region whose affections seem fickle or duplicitous. He or she is playing the fool, trusting to a majesty which may be as fickle as his or her affections. Eventually things circle back to where they were and the aftertaste of the game is not as thrilling as its foretaste.
Venus and Mars flirt with a sextile which is not consummated! This was called "refranation" by the ancient astrologers, that is, the two planets seem to be forming an aspect but then "refrain" from doing so. The two lovers are closest to their shared happiness in the middle of December, which continues more or less until the middle of January. Since this is a Dark Hermetic Epoch we may expect that much uncertain and changeable amour will come and go whether in marriage, another relationship, or romantic intrigues. Nobody seems to know where it is going or how to direct it. It has a sensual side, amoral, and at other times or in other folk a responsible "married couple" side. Adjustments are made continually. Today they seem comfortable and pleasant.
Finances will seem to be moving in a positive direction, for many or most, although with a sense of fate or letting things be. The direction East may be significant for your fortunes. Someone near you either at work or at home is daring in exhibiting his or her libido. This could be surprising and inconsequential yet edifying for morale.
You consider deep things of enormous magnitude which come from your soul itself. You are finding out what is in you. It spills thrillingly into your possessions, home, and career, showing the world what motivates and moves you and what you are made of.
{Friday} ~Depth Manifest~
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Forecast for Thursday 2 December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
~Endeavors Fortified through Substantiating Mystery~
Stability and purpose will help you rise beyond a feeling that you have failed a "ruler" or in modern terms someone above you in a hierarchy. You can keep mastering processes when they seem at a standstill. It is well to appreciate things of beauty, which can be intellectual and technological, while they last so that whatever is immortal in them may be retained.
Abandoning projects, or procrastinating, will not help you. Looking at a building which inspires lends stability to your endeavors. Those without vision would destroy what has been built, while those with vision commemorate it.
Feminine powers and graces are evident or detectable while the moon is with Venus in Scorpio. If I said "wiles" that might be sexist! Right at home there is romantic impetus and reciprocity.
Considering international matters, you hope for resolution and healing. Meeting with those from other countries is tantamount to visiting those locales. Broader vision is cultivated in a place where people rub elbows.
Women are playing a strong role. They sense the balance and justice in whatever is at issue, yet their strategies can be assertive. Someone you like is looking for answers or reconciliations, and could be open to firm direction from you. Work and friendship blend somehow.
Continuity in your endeavors pulls your home and workplace into one headquarters, as it were. Anyone who slanders has missed the boat, that is, the vessel crossing the waters of confusion to the shore of mutual understanding. The one slandered, rather than becoming infamous, may become famous and the slanderer infamous. Your own ambitions are sustained when you hold on to them, enjoy your quest for excellence and success, and realize you make your own luck.
Thinking of a parent, grandparent or other ancestor, whether gone from this world or not, could open you to penetrating insight. The past lives in you. Or this might be a friend, gone from this world or in it yet "lost."
Your present desires are not lost on some, that is, are detected or smelled. This could be momentarily embarrassing, then strengthening when you field whatever secrets spill out with strength and grace.
Transitions are inchoate, burgeoning, indefinable as yet. So you are suspended in unbelief or partial belief until things clarify. You could proceed to clarify them by invoking angelic assistance. Who the Angel is is of course a secret.
{Thursday} ~Endeavors Fortified through Substantiating Mystery~
Cosmic Piper
~Endeavors Fortified through Substantiating Mystery~
Stability and purpose will help you rise beyond a feeling that you have failed a "ruler" or in modern terms someone above you in a hierarchy. You can keep mastering processes when they seem at a standstill. It is well to appreciate things of beauty, which can be intellectual and technological, while they last so that whatever is immortal in them may be retained.
Abandoning projects, or procrastinating, will not help you. Looking at a building which inspires lends stability to your endeavors. Those without vision would destroy what has been built, while those with vision commemorate it.
Feminine powers and graces are evident or detectable while the moon is with Venus in Scorpio. If I said "wiles" that might be sexist! Right at home there is romantic impetus and reciprocity.
Considering international matters, you hope for resolution and healing. Meeting with those from other countries is tantamount to visiting those locales. Broader vision is cultivated in a place where people rub elbows.
Women are playing a strong role. They sense the balance and justice in whatever is at issue, yet their strategies can be assertive. Someone you like is looking for answers or reconciliations, and could be open to firm direction from you. Work and friendship blend somehow.
Continuity in your endeavors pulls your home and workplace into one headquarters, as it were. Anyone who slanders has missed the boat, that is, the vessel crossing the waters of confusion to the shore of mutual understanding. The one slandered, rather than becoming infamous, may become famous and the slanderer infamous. Your own ambitions are sustained when you hold on to them, enjoy your quest for excellence and success, and realize you make your own luck.
Thinking of a parent, grandparent or other ancestor, whether gone from this world or not, could open you to penetrating insight. The past lives in you. Or this might be a friend, gone from this world or in it yet "lost."
Your present desires are not lost on some, that is, are detected or smelled. This could be momentarily embarrassing, then strengthening when you field whatever secrets spill out with strength and grace.
Transitions are inchoate, burgeoning, indefinable as yet. So you are suspended in unbelief or partial belief until things clarify. You could proceed to clarify them by invoking angelic assistance. Who the Angel is is of course a secret.
{Thursday} ~Endeavors Fortified through Substantiating Mystery~
Cosmic Piper
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