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