Forecast for Wednesday 12 January 2011

Wednesday 12 January 2011

*Be a Good Sport, Old Chap*

There is a lot of strength in the day, especially for those who have successfully handled the stress of Monday and Tuesday. The |difficult or worrisome third of this week|continues until early Thursday but is winding down.

You are able to hold on and wait for things you have set in motion to be fulfilled. What might have seemed silly dreams a year ago are beginning to be realistic possibilities, even this week. You get recognition for what you have accomplished. Some of that required much sacrifice, and it was worth it. There is some danger today that you will relax too much and spill out something which ought to be kept private or withheld. People too easily see things as foolish when they really are not. If you choose to play the fool, make it evident that you are playing.

There is a writer who is good for you, someone established and probably famous. The color and brilliance of his or her work stimulates your thinking. The writing may be about someone who has been arrested or imprisoned, or perhaps persecuted or misunderstood, whether fact or fiction. People keep on learning how to be themselves no matter what consequences they have brought upon themselves.

You may feel handsomely entertained by someone hospitable and generous. This could be in a home or a restaurant. Charitableness helps people be more of themselves.

People who seem insane may be obstacles, yet they may be showing you indirectly how to balance your own temperament so as to cope with them. To be angelic toward someone a little nutty always brings out unsuspected talent or awareness. Community potentials require adroitness if they are to be actualized. Someone with a sure sense of direction, a sort of magician, could interact with you in a way to enhance perceptions magnificently.

The mysterious remains mysterious no matter how we parse it. Analysis cannot invade it. Uri Geller calls himself a "mystifier" and yet there is no doubt some of his powers are real. It is easier for him to pretend they are not than to struggle to prove them. So it was with Houdini, according to Arthur Conan Doyle.

Whether one thinks oneself more charming than others do, or less, is an interesting question; the minute one veers in one direction something happens to push one in the other. Vanity can even be a charming quality if it gives someone exuberant confidence. Others get such confidence by playing games according to strict rules and demonstrating their competence in a morass of quick activity. When the sport winds down nothing has been accomplished but a strengthening of will and skill. Others build machines or create systems which benefit the world but no one notices or repays them.

{Wednesday} *Be a Good Sport, Old Chap*

Cosmic Piper