Tuesday 1 March 2011
}Muddy Opportunities Clarified and Structured{
This should be an easier, more relaxed or smoother day than Monday, with a feeling that some of your hopes are nearer fulfillment. It might be better for outward purposes, human contacts, friendships, negotiations or agreements than tomorrow (Wednesday), so I would recommend attending to such matters (unless you intend to postpone them until next week or later).
Ambitions are favored. You may feel that in some respect you have failed to attain the position you had anticipated earlier in your life, yet there are strong realistic influences showing the next steps for arriving at a position which contents you. One value of astrology and cyclic thinking (there are non-astrological cycles, studied by naturalists and geologists) is that it reassures us that when things are down, they are getting ready to go up again. You have qualified yourself for certain activities, and are qualifying yourself further, and will be appreciated insofar as you make these activities useful to someone. Values are measured in far more than monetary terms.
Rash individuals may quarrel with you, yet think you are the rash one. They harbor secrets, perhaps, which they do not wish to divulge, whereas you are asking them for a higher spiritual orientation. The lack of energy or vigor often felt in the last stages of a lunar cycle (the New Moon comes on Friday) may be evident and yet you can gear up your optimism and finish some important matters. Living in the moment, so that things become exciting or interesting, could help.
Aspects of your life which seem like ruins, as if you had gotten yourself into something pointless, can be regenerated in quiet ways through calm persistent effort. You see a better target and aim at it or approach it by climbing out of the ruins. A military-style discipline, imposed by yourself as officer on yourself as doughboy, lifts morale.
Freedom seems so near, yet so far. Something at a distance is impossible to get to at present, but study is always possible. If you are relying too much on your past, your antecedents or parentage, your start in life, you can instead use all that as a springboard. Even a position of authority, granted gladly to you, is possible within your community. Yet you are aware of how deeply people are hurting about many things and see that you need to be a healer as well as guide; or a humanitarian persuader. If some old, unconsciously selfish interests are blocking your path, or the path of associates, you can penetrate into the intricacies of their ungenerous muddiness and turn such awareness into opportunity. Foundations can either be abandoned for new ones, or restructured. It is not as hard as it looks.
{Tuesday} {Muddy Opportunities Clarified and Structured}
Cosmic Piper
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Forecast for Monday 28 February 2011
Monday 28 February 2011
\Friendship as Mutual Liberation/
This would appear to be a "success" day as well as a "friendship" day, but not without reservations, because Sunday and Monday are the |emotionally stressful or worrisome third of this week|. The good things said in this forecast should be colored by that factor so you won't be disappointed.
Your determination is strong and you are working things out carefully in your thinking. However, there is a fair amount of gloom and doubt to face. Things are better than they seem; you may feel under a cloud. Therefor you seek illumination, to overcome doubts and be sure of a secure path. When you do feel sure in that way, nothing can stop you because you have an inkling of adventurous liberty which will express itself in one way or another.
Desires for friendship or erotic stimulation could be overwhelming at times, yet not fulfilled exactly as you hope. Such fulfillment is more likely the more relaxed you are. You can look back over past friendships or affairs and realize something deep and satisfying about them, about the pattern they have played in your life, and therefore find that current friendships or affairs are easier to comprehend and manage smoothly.
People are worried more than you may realize, and that colors their reactions to you, so you should not take seeming rejection personally. There could even be mocking or taunting, when people feel out of sorts and get back at you as an easy target when the real target is something or someone else.
Darkness and doubt should evoke courage, if you can muster it, and then they turn into light and freedom. Religious people or philanthropists are good for you, perhaps in surprising ways, so it is well to trust in benefits they might shower. Your own philanthropy will bring forth good karma. The minor sufferings people are going through make them humble, open to friendly contacts, so you should not be shy in approaching them. Concord and affinity spring up unsought.
Someone you care about appreciates your kindness, which makes her or him feel liberated from a burden. There is a longing for home, whether the current home or one dreamed of. You get clues as to where security and prosperity lie, and love is wrapped in the clues. Contemplation goes deep, in lonely spells or places, making you more fit for human company, able to relate to all from a position of peace and authority.
{Monday} /Friendship as Mutual Liberation\
Cosmic Piper
\Friendship as Mutual Liberation/
This would appear to be a "success" day as well as a "friendship" day, but not without reservations, because Sunday and Monday are the |emotionally stressful or worrisome third of this week|. The good things said in this forecast should be colored by that factor so you won't be disappointed.
Your determination is strong and you are working things out carefully in your thinking. However, there is a fair amount of gloom and doubt to face. Things are better than they seem; you may feel under a cloud. Therefor you seek illumination, to overcome doubts and be sure of a secure path. When you do feel sure in that way, nothing can stop you because you have an inkling of adventurous liberty which will express itself in one way or another.
Desires for friendship or erotic stimulation could be overwhelming at times, yet not fulfilled exactly as you hope. Such fulfillment is more likely the more relaxed you are. You can look back over past friendships or affairs and realize something deep and satisfying about them, about the pattern they have played in your life, and therefore find that current friendships or affairs are easier to comprehend and manage smoothly.
People are worried more than you may realize, and that colors their reactions to you, so you should not take seeming rejection personally. There could even be mocking or taunting, when people feel out of sorts and get back at you as an easy target when the real target is something or someone else.
Darkness and doubt should evoke courage, if you can muster it, and then they turn into light and freedom. Religious people or philanthropists are good for you, perhaps in surprising ways, so it is well to trust in benefits they might shower. Your own philanthropy will bring forth good karma. The minor sufferings people are going through make them humble, open to friendly contacts, so you should not be shy in approaching them. Concord and affinity spring up unsought.
Someone you care about appreciates your kindness, which makes her or him feel liberated from a burden. There is a longing for home, whether the current home or one dreamed of. You get clues as to where security and prosperity lie, and love is wrapped in the clues. Contemplation goes deep, in lonely spells or places, making you more fit for human company, able to relate to all from a position of peace and authority.
{Monday} /Friendship as Mutual Liberation\
Cosmic Piper
Friday, February 25, 2011
Windows Closed
As reported, computer and other problems are slowing me down and there are only certain windows of opportunity on a given day when I could write forecasts. Those windows have been closed for two days. Perhaps the Cosmos has fired Cosmic Piper. At any rate, I will post what I can when I can.
Cosmic Piper (unless I have been replaced)
Hugh
Cosmic Piper (unless I have been replaced)
Hugh
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Forecast for Thursday 24 February 2011
Thursday 24 February 2011
*Land Ahead*
Things look considerably better; as I have pointed out all week, Thursday and Friday are the peak of this particular week. Predicting the stock market is always hard, and probably impossible, yet I would say that gains which have been postponed all week may surge today. As for the Libyan and other Arab-states imbroglios, I shall not attempt predictions at all. I believe they have a lot to do with the "mutation" of Saturn and Jupiter, that is, in this case the opposition, which we have already experienced as of a year or more ago but which is "hitting" again for the next few months. It is a major life-change for most of us, and it appears to be a major government-change in some places. Are you not at a point where your life is undergoing major changes?
More about that in later reports. (I am operating under major handicaps with computer and other problems, typing this in a public place. I do not have as much time as usual to dither over stylistic matters so the writing may appear choppy.)
Developments which have been delayed all week may flower today.
You are seeking illumination in whatever way that is possible for you through interests you pursue in your private space. Your conscience is pointing out to you what is important, what needs to be done now, and what can be postponed. As suggested in Monday's forecast, today and Friday could be the best days in the current two-month Bright Hermetic Epoch for getting a solid view of where you are going in the near future, let's say up to the middle of the summer. So it could be well to write down or otherwise solidify your thinking and planning. You may put the spiritual ahead of the material (with four planets in Pisces) yet find that then you know what to do about the material also.
There is wise caution to show you your direction: what you want to do about your living situation or possible travel, and how you want to divide your time between gainful endeavors and pleasures. You want a place to "hide out" and avoid unnecessary conflicts. You are versatile and have more than one iron in the fire, and should be able to do this successfully. You are finding places to be or go where you have essential freedom: spaciousness which makes you feel liberated from constraints.
Carelessness or drifting are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. What looks like lassitude to some may be internal concentration in reality. You view the every-varying external world as material for meditation. You have enough caution to avoid obvious dangers and enough intuition to avoid not-so-obvious ones. Ambition, inspiration, and speculation are leading you toward what is important to you for the long term.
A sincere attitude sets you up for benefits and good luck because you are appreciated and favored. You may even go deeper and consecrate yourself to what is of lasting value. Some individuals who appear improvident or careless and always ready to "to under" may be good for you or bring out your abilities when you attempt to help them. The moon's squares from Sagittarius to the Pisces planets are good for intelligent activity, and its trine with Jupiter (all day but especially in late afternoon and evening) are good for liberal enjoyment of whatever attracts your interest.
{Thursday} *Land Ahead*
Cosmic Piper
*Land Ahead*
Things look considerably better; as I have pointed out all week, Thursday and Friday are the peak of this particular week. Predicting the stock market is always hard, and probably impossible, yet I would say that gains which have been postponed all week may surge today. As for the Libyan and other Arab-states imbroglios, I shall not attempt predictions at all. I believe they have a lot to do with the "mutation" of Saturn and Jupiter, that is, in this case the opposition, which we have already experienced as of a year or more ago but which is "hitting" again for the next few months. It is a major life-change for most of us, and it appears to be a major government-change in some places. Are you not at a point where your life is undergoing major changes?
More about that in later reports. (I am operating under major handicaps with computer and other problems, typing this in a public place. I do not have as much time as usual to dither over stylistic matters so the writing may appear choppy.)
Developments which have been delayed all week may flower today.
You are seeking illumination in whatever way that is possible for you through interests you pursue in your private space. Your conscience is pointing out to you what is important, what needs to be done now, and what can be postponed. As suggested in Monday's forecast, today and Friday could be the best days in the current two-month Bright Hermetic Epoch for getting a solid view of where you are going in the near future, let's say up to the middle of the summer. So it could be well to write down or otherwise solidify your thinking and planning. You may put the spiritual ahead of the material (with four planets in Pisces) yet find that then you know what to do about the material also.
There is wise caution to show you your direction: what you want to do about your living situation or possible travel, and how you want to divide your time between gainful endeavors and pleasures. You want a place to "hide out" and avoid unnecessary conflicts. You are versatile and have more than one iron in the fire, and should be able to do this successfully. You are finding places to be or go where you have essential freedom: spaciousness which makes you feel liberated from constraints.
Carelessness or drifting are sometimes in the eye of the beholder. What looks like lassitude to some may be internal concentration in reality. You view the every-varying external world as material for meditation. You have enough caution to avoid obvious dangers and enough intuition to avoid not-so-obvious ones. Ambition, inspiration, and speculation are leading you toward what is important to you for the long term.
A sincere attitude sets you up for benefits and good luck because you are appreciated and favored. You may even go deeper and consecrate yourself to what is of lasting value. Some individuals who appear improvident or careless and always ready to "to under" may be good for you or bring out your abilities when you attempt to help them. The moon's squares from Sagittarius to the Pisces planets are good for intelligent activity, and its trine with Jupiter (all day but especially in late afternoon and evening) are good for liberal enjoyment of whatever attracts your interest.
{Thursday} *Land Ahead*
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Forecast for Wednesday 23 February 2011
Wednesday 23 February 2011
~Well-Aimed Efforts and Pleasurable Rewards~
[Using a 'borrowed' computer these days, I am unable to get the typeface here any larger or clearer than this.]
The stresses of this week may continue in peculiar unexpected ways. However, the moon is out of the Via Combusta, which affords some relief. While it was there, there was an earthquake in New Zealand, four Americans were killed by pirates, and a revolution rocked Libya (and most likely still does). Other more "normal" problems in the Burning Way are confusion, uncertainty and loss of morale. Today there should be at least partial recovery from that.
It might be easier now, and also Thursday and Friday, to organize your thinking and planning, and see where your life is going, as suggested in Monday's report. This is a good time for such activity, while Mercury moves to its conjunction with the sun at the center of this Bright Epoch.
Crucial and difficult factors are blended with happy ones so it is a peculiar day. You aim at things which require marksmanship, figuratively; let us disparage actual marksmanship if the targets are human beings; we have had enough of that for centuries and ought to be grown out of it. You can salvage what seems lost, gradually, by staying with your routine work at headquarters. Whether the military forces in Libya and elsewhere will be rampant or restrained is an open question which I shall not attempt to answer, but the moon still in Scorpio often signifies crisis situations. Trouble-shooting, appropriate at such a time, is the opposite of shooting human beings.
Running away from things is not the same as facing them, so being responsible requires honesty about what you intend to be doing. At the same time it is not necessary to be quarrelsome, even when opposing injustice, which is something going on everywhere now while Saturn is in Libra retrograde---rectifying old offenses through karmic law. Lessons you have learned prepare you for the future, maybe especially those learned through "hard knocks." When opposing old established government or administration, it is well to be as clear as you can about what you propose to replace it.
Documents or papers you work with can be put in perfect order. I have mentioned before that for most, getting taxes done by March 18 would be wise. Details such as that can be handled more quickly and with less chance of error during the Bright Epoch.
Today there is a potential of friendly, smooth relations between the sexes, with the moon sextile Venus, although other factors seem to interfere. Love transcends difficulties in magical ways. Union even with difficult individuals may be possible in various temporary ways in work or business as well. Commerce is blocked when people worry too much but there are ways of facing worries and getting past them.
The pleasurable part of the day could go too far. Because pleasure is such a great relief when things are hard, you could upset yourself by going too far, as in overeating, overdrinking or other overindulgence. You can be a little more circumspect than that, and thereby gain self-respect. Then the pleasures are rewards for what you are accomplishing rather than overweening ends in themselves.
{Wednesday} ~Well-Aimed Efforts and Pleasurable Rewards~
Cosmic Piper
~Well-Aimed Efforts and Pleasurable Rewards~
[Using a 'borrowed' computer these days, I am unable to get the typeface here any larger or clearer than this.]
The stresses of this week may continue in peculiar unexpected ways. However, the moon is out of the Via Combusta, which affords some relief. While it was there, there was an earthquake in New Zealand, four Americans were killed by pirates, and a revolution rocked Libya (and most likely still does). Other more "normal" problems in the Burning Way are confusion, uncertainty and loss of morale. Today there should be at least partial recovery from that.
It might be easier now, and also Thursday and Friday, to organize your thinking and planning, and see where your life is going, as suggested in Monday's report. This is a good time for such activity, while Mercury moves to its conjunction with the sun at the center of this Bright Epoch.
Crucial and difficult factors are blended with happy ones so it is a peculiar day. You aim at things which require marksmanship, figuratively; let us disparage actual marksmanship if the targets are human beings; we have had enough of that for centuries and ought to be grown out of it. You can salvage what seems lost, gradually, by staying with your routine work at headquarters. Whether the military forces in Libya and elsewhere will be rampant or restrained is an open question which I shall not attempt to answer, but the moon still in Scorpio often signifies crisis situations. Trouble-shooting, appropriate at such a time, is the opposite of shooting human beings.
Running away from things is not the same as facing them, so being responsible requires honesty about what you intend to be doing. At the same time it is not necessary to be quarrelsome, even when opposing injustice, which is something going on everywhere now while Saturn is in Libra retrograde---rectifying old offenses through karmic law. Lessons you have learned prepare you for the future, maybe especially those learned through "hard knocks." When opposing old established government or administration, it is well to be as clear as you can about what you propose to replace it.
Documents or papers you work with can be put in perfect order. I have mentioned before that for most, getting taxes done by March 18 would be wise. Details such as that can be handled more quickly and with less chance of error during the Bright Epoch.
Today there is a potential of friendly, smooth relations between the sexes, with the moon sextile Venus, although other factors seem to interfere. Love transcends difficulties in magical ways. Union even with difficult individuals may be possible in various temporary ways in work or business as well. Commerce is blocked when people worry too much but there are ways of facing worries and getting past them.
The pleasurable part of the day could go too far. Because pleasure is such a great relief when things are hard, you could upset yourself by going too far, as in overeating, overdrinking or other overindulgence. You can be a little more circumspect than that, and thereby gain self-respect. Then the pleasures are rewards for what you are accomplishing rather than overweening ends in themselves.
{Wednesday} ~Well-Aimed Efforts and Pleasurable Rewards~
Cosmic Piper
Monday, February 21, 2011
Forecast for Tuesday 22 February 2011
Tuesday 22 February 2011
~Strategic Effort and the Golden Mean~
Yesterday I suggested that Thursday and Friday might be the "best'" days of this week, to which I might add tomorrow, Wednesday; but today is still in the suspicious category. I would be careful about any transaction, and probably postpone it. There is a nicer, smoother emotional tone today than Monday, but for practical decisions I would be wary.
Financial matters may look "up" by the end of the week but might look somewhat dismal today.
There is a pleasure-seeking motif. It seems sad to me that the world we have been put in requires us to modify or subdue our pleasures in order to protect ourselves from suffering, as the ancient Stoics and even the Epicureans understood. The Golden Mean of Aristotle was one attempt to reconcile these contraries. It may be germane to today's proceedings in a big way. "Enough but not too much." Many difficulties require patience while we are still in the fading |stressful third of the week| and the moon is in the Via Combusta. A semi-religious attitude, or religious people, could be good for you, with hints of philanthropy and mutual benefits through small sacrifices which improve things for all.
A cunning sort of caution will help in dealing with people or relationships. You do not have to be sneaky, but can arrive at canny conclusions and strategies. This might be more considerate than stepping on toes by overlooking diplomacy or discretion. There is a strong desire for freedom in anyone close to you or whom you encounter. So there is a desire to avoid any changes which seem to threaten roaming-at-will liberty. You are proficient in anything you try to do if you consider everything from two viewpoints and balance them as well as you can. Then you gain better cooperation.
A high or foremost position could be yours, through work which actually pleases you, for your pleasure in it makes it all the more effective and appreciated. Somehow, your efforts are paying off, whether finances look better or worse. Probably the rest of the week will show they are better than they appear. Being reliable, as consistently as possible, is magically good karma.
Defining purposes, as well as you can, makes you more determined to carry through. There is a wonderful artistry around you, in which you bask, which infiltrates your thinking so that what you do seems talented and interesting. Working hard does not seem hard. Something at home you have put on your wall reminds you of ancient or older traditions or individuals who inspire you. Anyone who has opposed some of your plans, positions or intentions may be reconsidering, and willing to give up some unreasonable position for the sake of peace and the greater good.
{Tuesday} ~Strategic Effort and the Golden Mean~
Cosmic Piper
~Strategic Effort and the Golden Mean~
Yesterday I suggested that Thursday and Friday might be the "best'" days of this week, to which I might add tomorrow, Wednesday; but today is still in the suspicious category. I would be careful about any transaction, and probably postpone it. There is a nicer, smoother emotional tone today than Monday, but for practical decisions I would be wary.
Financial matters may look "up" by the end of the week but might look somewhat dismal today.
There is a pleasure-seeking motif. It seems sad to me that the world we have been put in requires us to modify or subdue our pleasures in order to protect ourselves from suffering, as the ancient Stoics and even the Epicureans understood. The Golden Mean of Aristotle was one attempt to reconcile these contraries. It may be germane to today's proceedings in a big way. "Enough but not too much." Many difficulties require patience while we are still in the fading |stressful third of the week| and the moon is in the Via Combusta. A semi-religious attitude, or religious people, could be good for you, with hints of philanthropy and mutual benefits through small sacrifices which improve things for all.
A cunning sort of caution will help in dealing with people or relationships. You do not have to be sneaky, but can arrive at canny conclusions and strategies. This might be more considerate than stepping on toes by overlooking diplomacy or discretion. There is a strong desire for freedom in anyone close to you or whom you encounter. So there is a desire to avoid any changes which seem to threaten roaming-at-will liberty. You are proficient in anything you try to do if you consider everything from two viewpoints and balance them as well as you can. Then you gain better cooperation.
A high or foremost position could be yours, through work which actually pleases you, for your pleasure in it makes it all the more effective and appreciated. Somehow, your efforts are paying off, whether finances look better or worse. Probably the rest of the week will show they are better than they appear. Being reliable, as consistently as possible, is magically good karma.
Defining purposes, as well as you can, makes you more determined to carry through. There is a wonderful artistry around you, in which you bask, which infiltrates your thinking so that what you do seems talented and interesting. Working hard does not seem hard. Something at home you have put on your wall reminds you of ancient or older traditions or individuals who inspire you. Anyone who has opposed some of your plans, positions or intentions may be reconsidering, and willing to give up some unreasonable position for the sake of peace and the greater good.
{Tuesday} ~Strategic Effort and the Golden Mean~
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Forecast for Monday 21 February 2011
Monday 21 February 2011
}Quest Continues through Mild Doubts{
While Mercury is moving up to conjoin the sun, we remind ourselves that we are in the Bright Hermetic Epoch, near the very center of it when that conjunction is exact on Thursday and Friday. It then continues until March 18, when a Dark Epoch begins until the next Bright starts up on May11. I usually suggest at this point in the cycle that you examine your plans and sense what they really are, what your best scenario is for the month ahead and on into the summer. It is possible to organize things more firmly and securely at these times, with less likelihood of error or misjudgment. You might want to write down what you expect to be doing through the middle of July, examine it, revise it, and improve it until you feel you are close to the right game plan. It doesn't matter if you change some of it later; the attempt will make everything clearer and easier.
Only those who have observed these two-month periods closely will be aware how confusing and upsetting the Dark Epochs can be in terms of ordinary planning. (They can be excellent for internal development and spiritual insight.) That is why I emphasize the above paragraph.
However, if you do some of this planning overview today it might be well to look it over and revise it on Thursday or Friday because today the moon is in the Via Combusta when there is a loss of morale and a feeling of uncertainty. Also, Sunday and today are the |worrisome or stressful third of this week| even though there are helpful mitigating factors, so your emotional mood may be lagging behind your mental optimism.
I see now that the sun's position is strong, in more ways than one, for seeing into the future or designing whatever you need to design with a kind of magical insight into potentials. So, despite the Via Combusta, you may have useful intuitions, to be double-checked later in the week. When you ask deeply for the truth, you will receive it.
There may be a lot of activity in close quarters, at home or at headquarters, which makes people feel crowded. Yet from that difficult circumstance you may glean shards of wisdom. When someone or something is a problem, it is unconsciously trying to help you see something. Someone like a landlord, or the overseer of property or a business, may be a strong tower of defense or aid.
A sense of frustration concerning your home, love, and personality issues could make you feel like running off, disappearing from your immediate context. This is part of the current tendency of Venus squaring Saturn, mixed with other trends. It would be better to relax about such matters, relying on experiences you have had over the years to rectify your worries. Meanwhile it would be wise to be patient with individuals whose hidden suffering causes them to be hindering influences, apparently, although you may have something to learn from them.
Mars's position, "besieged" by Neptune and Mercury, is not bad because it brings greater depth into your activities, a willingness to spiritualize your attempts at fulfillment. The conjunction of Mars and Neptune is said (by Grant Lewi anyway) to bring wealth or to be lucky for material gain. You may develop some strong insight into your creative potentials, perhaps as related to career, holding to the continuity of what you have already achieved. Integrity is a watchword, protecting you from whims which could mislead you.
The professionals of "wisdom," that is, guiders, therapists, or directors, may play a role for you, helping you get past a hard place. They have received the torch of their skill from someone who taught them and will pass it on in turn. So one of them may be fit to help you even if you have to filter his or her advice through your own wisdom-faculty. Indeed, that is active, questioning and pondering, and could lead you on in your quest for hidden truths which will be of advantage to yourself and others (the sun and Mercury have both entered Pisces and form strong aspects).
{Monday} {Quest Continues through Mild Doubts}
Cosmic Piper
}Quest Continues through Mild Doubts{
While Mercury is moving up to conjoin the sun, we remind ourselves that we are in the Bright Hermetic Epoch, near the very center of it when that conjunction is exact on Thursday and Friday. It then continues until March 18, when a Dark Epoch begins until the next Bright starts up on May11. I usually suggest at this point in the cycle that you examine your plans and sense what they really are, what your best scenario is for the month ahead and on into the summer. It is possible to organize things more firmly and securely at these times, with less likelihood of error or misjudgment. You might want to write down what you expect to be doing through the middle of July, examine it, revise it, and improve it until you feel you are close to the right game plan. It doesn't matter if you change some of it later; the attempt will make everything clearer and easier.
Only those who have observed these two-month periods closely will be aware how confusing and upsetting the Dark Epochs can be in terms of ordinary planning. (They can be excellent for internal development and spiritual insight.) That is why I emphasize the above paragraph.
However, if you do some of this planning overview today it might be well to look it over and revise it on Thursday or Friday because today the moon is in the Via Combusta when there is a loss of morale and a feeling of uncertainty. Also, Sunday and today are the |worrisome or stressful third of this week| even though there are helpful mitigating factors, so your emotional mood may be lagging behind your mental optimism.
I see now that the sun's position is strong, in more ways than one, for seeing into the future or designing whatever you need to design with a kind of magical insight into potentials. So, despite the Via Combusta, you may have useful intuitions, to be double-checked later in the week. When you ask deeply for the truth, you will receive it.
There may be a lot of activity in close quarters, at home or at headquarters, which makes people feel crowded. Yet from that difficult circumstance you may glean shards of wisdom. When someone or something is a problem, it is unconsciously trying to help you see something. Someone like a landlord, or the overseer of property or a business, may be a strong tower of defense or aid.
A sense of frustration concerning your home, love, and personality issues could make you feel like running off, disappearing from your immediate context. This is part of the current tendency of Venus squaring Saturn, mixed with other trends. It would be better to relax about such matters, relying on experiences you have had over the years to rectify your worries. Meanwhile it would be wise to be patient with individuals whose hidden suffering causes them to be hindering influences, apparently, although you may have something to learn from them.
Mars's position, "besieged" by Neptune and Mercury, is not bad because it brings greater depth into your activities, a willingness to spiritualize your attempts at fulfillment. The conjunction of Mars and Neptune is said (by Grant Lewi anyway) to bring wealth or to be lucky for material gain. You may develop some strong insight into your creative potentials, perhaps as related to career, holding to the continuity of what you have already achieved. Integrity is a watchword, protecting you from whims which could mislead you.
The professionals of "wisdom," that is, guiders, therapists, or directors, may play a role for you, helping you get past a hard place. They have received the torch of their skill from someone who taught them and will pass it on in turn. So one of them may be fit to help you even if you have to filter his or her advice through your own wisdom-faculty. Indeed, that is active, questioning and pondering, and could lead you on in your quest for hidden truths which will be of advantage to yourself and others (the sun and Mercury have both entered Pisces and form strong aspects).
{Monday} {Quest Continues through Mild Doubts}
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Forecast for Friday 18 February 2011
Friday 18 February 2011
\One-on-One Realism/
For whatever it's worth, the sun enters Pisces (the real, astrological Pisces, based on astronomical Right Ascension and the orbit of our earth around our sun) at 4:26p PT | 7:26p UT | 0:26a(Sa) UT. Its transit through Aquarius has been characterized by the revolutions or would-be revolutions in Egypt and other Arab countries, now Bahrain; as everyone knows, Aquarius is the sign of freedom, ruled by Uranus the planet of individual rights and liberty, which was discovered about the time of the American Revolution. This urge to freedom and democracy has been marked this year more intensely than usual, except in rare years, because Mars has been right with the sun in Aquarius, together with Neptune and Mercury. All these have been in a zodiacal trine with Saturn exalted in Libra, sign of justice.
Today (Friday) that group of planets is in a part of the daily chart related to relationships, or sometimes battles, that is, the fact of the Other as someone to deal with whether in friendship and partnership or in enmity and conflict. So, you may need to "confront" someone in an honest direct way. This could be painful because of the continuing square of Venus with Saturn. So the advice has to be, maintain your cool while facing differences and try to be respectful and considerate. Love might be too much to ask! However, the moon in Virgo trines Pluto and Venus in Capricorn so, especially in the evening, traditional Friday pleasures may proceed happily.
You could feel that you need to exercise your authority, no matter what oppositions you face temporarily. You have earned the right to the position you have attained. The continuity of your efforts to reside in your community as a reliable friend to it will pay off ultimately. Luck may give you much, which you may or may not share in honorable ways.
Are you superior to someone, or is that someone superior to you? The question may be moot, from the viewpoint of ultimate spiritual worth, but relevant in terms of human hierarchies, which have their place as temporary expedients. Some individuals overstep the limits they ought to observe. Your mind-set determines whether you set yourself up for fulfillment and friendly cooperation. You keep moving toward that, not tiring even though every step requires a further step. Since you do not know when or where this will end, your courage keeps you going, and your faith that all must turn out for the best.
Are you thinking of a place you would like to live, or retire to, or otherwise enjoy free of worries? There is a strong urge in that direction, and a wish that you could be alert to every opportunity for it. The aesthetics of the situation, or colorful traditions you appreciate, have a bearing on where you would like to settle down. You would like to uphold the standards you believe in while dwelling in a compatible environment.
Work and pleasure combine well. That is an ideal we all would like to attain in daily living and you may see better, today, how it is possible. Poetry, music, and subtle thoughts or feelings accompany your work somehow. There is a sensuous element in all this, as if you were immersing yourself in natural luxuries. At the same time you know you need to keep up with measured details of your work or projects crucial at this stage. Venus's square with Saturn is good for realism, bad for romance, in general, although you can combine both as the day proceeds, especially if you take a detached view of people and their reactions, which may be on the wary side. People have been hurt and are hurting. They may welcome you the more you understand that and sympathize.
{Friday} /One-on-One Realism\
Cosmic Piper
\One-on-One Realism/
For whatever it's worth, the sun enters Pisces (the real, astrological Pisces, based on astronomical Right Ascension and the orbit of our earth around our sun) at 4:26p PT | 7:26p UT | 0:26a(Sa) UT. Its transit through Aquarius has been characterized by the revolutions or would-be revolutions in Egypt and other Arab countries, now Bahrain; as everyone knows, Aquarius is the sign of freedom, ruled by Uranus the planet of individual rights and liberty, which was discovered about the time of the American Revolution. This urge to freedom and democracy has been marked this year more intensely than usual, except in rare years, because Mars has been right with the sun in Aquarius, together with Neptune and Mercury. All these have been in a zodiacal trine with Saturn exalted in Libra, sign of justice.
Today (Friday) that group of planets is in a part of the daily chart related to relationships, or sometimes battles, that is, the fact of the Other as someone to deal with whether in friendship and partnership or in enmity and conflict. So, you may need to "confront" someone in an honest direct way. This could be painful because of the continuing square of Venus with Saturn. So the advice has to be, maintain your cool while facing differences and try to be respectful and considerate. Love might be too much to ask! However, the moon in Virgo trines Pluto and Venus in Capricorn so, especially in the evening, traditional Friday pleasures may proceed happily.
You could feel that you need to exercise your authority, no matter what oppositions you face temporarily. You have earned the right to the position you have attained. The continuity of your efforts to reside in your community as a reliable friend to it will pay off ultimately. Luck may give you much, which you may or may not share in honorable ways.
Are you superior to someone, or is that someone superior to you? The question may be moot, from the viewpoint of ultimate spiritual worth, but relevant in terms of human hierarchies, which have their place as temporary expedients. Some individuals overstep the limits they ought to observe. Your mind-set determines whether you set yourself up for fulfillment and friendly cooperation. You keep moving toward that, not tiring even though every step requires a further step. Since you do not know when or where this will end, your courage keeps you going, and your faith that all must turn out for the best.
Are you thinking of a place you would like to live, or retire to, or otherwise enjoy free of worries? There is a strong urge in that direction, and a wish that you could be alert to every opportunity for it. The aesthetics of the situation, or colorful traditions you appreciate, have a bearing on where you would like to settle down. You would like to uphold the standards you believe in while dwelling in a compatible environment.
Work and pleasure combine well. That is an ideal we all would like to attain in daily living and you may see better, today, how it is possible. Poetry, music, and subtle thoughts or feelings accompany your work somehow. There is a sensuous element in all this, as if you were immersing yourself in natural luxuries. At the same time you know you need to keep up with measured details of your work or projects crucial at this stage. Venus's square with Saturn is good for realism, bad for romance, in general, although you can combine both as the day proceeds, especially if you take a detached view of people and their reactions, which may be on the wary side. People have been hurt and are hurting. They may welcome you the more you understand that and sympathize.
{Friday} /One-on-One Realism\
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Forecast for Thursday 17 February 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
*Mature Activity is Calming and Strengthening*
The square of Venus with Saturn suggests that you are trying to get past a hard place in some area of your life: in relationships, household matters, and perhaps legal or semi-legal matters. The moon in Leo approaching the Full (early Friday at 12:37a PT | 3:37a ET | 8:37a UT means you are fully aware of the details of what needs to be done and so can do them smoothly, which could be reassuring and satisfying.
Sorrow is likely to derive from a sense of futility in some of the above matters, as if you had to bear burdens for reasons you don't understand. The matters you have to execute require constant vigilance, facing things one at a time so you can execute the maneuvers required. If there is enmity or feuding, it has to be handled as calmly as possible, maintaining your peace of mind. Something satisfying is emanating from a serene response to difficulties.
Restraining raw impulses comes naturally when you have a mature sense of what will really bring fulfillment. Extreme frustration can push people toward unwise "acting out" or wild escapism. That you do not need to do. Old established individuals or institutions may be annoying but your way of fending them off does not have to be arrogant or hateful, rather, firm yet respectful. If your goal is peace, but peace based on fairness, your relaxed manner of facing issues will win.
You are upholding a standard. Others maybe don't "get" what that standard means. In the back of your mind is a goal of living in a place where you are free from interference; at ease to do what is meaningful to you. This seems more within reach than it has in recent weeks, and so you are heartened. The traditions of a place with which you are familiar would be comforting.
An impulse toward free enjoyment keeps coming up but is partly stifled in order to focus on work; however, it could be transmuted so that it becomes part of your work, as if you were dancing through everything. Learning to instruct yourself and others as you go is part of the adventure, not upsetting when felt as natural. The animation you feel arises from a desire to exercise powers and develop skills as you go.
{Thursday} *Mature Activity is Calming and Strengthening*
Cosmic Piper
*Mature Activity is Calming and Strengthening*
The square of Venus with Saturn suggests that you are trying to get past a hard place in some area of your life: in relationships, household matters, and perhaps legal or semi-legal matters. The moon in Leo approaching the Full (early Friday at 12:37a PT | 3:37a ET | 8:37a UT means you are fully aware of the details of what needs to be done and so can do them smoothly, which could be reassuring and satisfying.
Sorrow is likely to derive from a sense of futility in some of the above matters, as if you had to bear burdens for reasons you don't understand. The matters you have to execute require constant vigilance, facing things one at a time so you can execute the maneuvers required. If there is enmity or feuding, it has to be handled as calmly as possible, maintaining your peace of mind. Something satisfying is emanating from a serene response to difficulties.
Restraining raw impulses comes naturally when you have a mature sense of what will really bring fulfillment. Extreme frustration can push people toward unwise "acting out" or wild escapism. That you do not need to do. Old established individuals or institutions may be annoying but your way of fending them off does not have to be arrogant or hateful, rather, firm yet respectful. If your goal is peace, but peace based on fairness, your relaxed manner of facing issues will win.
You are upholding a standard. Others maybe don't "get" what that standard means. In the back of your mind is a goal of living in a place where you are free from interference; at ease to do what is meaningful to you. This seems more within reach than it has in recent weeks, and so you are heartened. The traditions of a place with which you are familiar would be comforting.
An impulse toward free enjoyment keeps coming up but is partly stifled in order to focus on work; however, it could be transmuted so that it becomes part of your work, as if you were dancing through everything. Learning to instruct yourself and others as you go is part of the adventure, not upsetting when felt as natural. The animation you feel arises from a desire to exercise powers and develop skills as you go.
{Thursday} *Mature Activity is Calming and Strengthening*
Cosmic Piper
Forecast for Wednesday 16 February 2011
Wednesday 16 February 2011
*Common-Sense Achievement*
How things are going for you might depend on the relation of the quadruple conjunction at the end of Aquarius (comprising Mercury, Mars, the sun and Neptune) to your own birth-chart. It has an ominous relation to mine, which is the "formal cause" of my computer problem. I am writing this forecast down the hall from my apartment with a public computer, not the best way to go about this. I couldn't sleep without writing it, so here it is, late for most of you.
Even from the aspects in the sky connected equally with all of us, Wednesday seems a somewhat formidable day. Venus's square with Saturn tends to be the "nobody loves me" aspect, so be patient with that trend in yourself. It does develop deep character strength, at best: the ability to "love without return for love" as Sri Aurobindo puts it in his epic poem. However, the |stressful or worrisome third of this week| has ended (comprising Monday and Tuesday) so it appears you will be able to deal with problems more cheerfully, with a calmer, more realistic attitude. Facing difficulties in relation to individuals important to you may be possible. It's not a breeze but can be done on a one-to-one, honest basis.
A trend toward easy living, having fun, is a response to the difficulties you don't want to deal with. It is not wrong in itself of course unless it goes on too long. Another way to deal with the pressures is to spend your time alone in a comfortable place or in a pleasant natural setting. That would bring out the sun's conjunction with Neptune, which is conducive to meditative largess and spiritual awareness. Ultimately, however, you will want to get at things, get them done. It could be a solid work day because you see what has to be done immediately and get at it without delay. Once you've completed a solid chunk you will feel like rewarding yourself a la the first two sentences of this paragraph.
People you need to deal with may be, some of them, in supervisory positions so you feel you need to tread carefully. You may also feel that you are really the supervisor and are surveying their work or activity. The natural world is active, and you as at some level part of nature are active, wondering if you will ever get things finished. Maybe we need to appreciate activity for its own sake, or for itself rather than only for what it is intended to accomplish. Your mind-set is part of the work, in fact the basis of it.
You will get more done the more alert and responsive you are to what is needed, which is not a large task if you stay "in the moment' while yet being open to clues and warnings which come intuitively as you act. Some of these could seem mysterious, so that you would not mention them to anyone else. They are your own.They increase your efficiency, which expands itself. That has been called "learning by doing."
We approach the Full Moon (early Friday morning) so awareness is high, enlarged as it were as is the appearance of the lunar orb. Yet it seems you will want to use this expanded focus to focus narrowly on immediacies which need attention. It could be an achievement day.
A softer and more subtle sense may come to you when dealing with people, to help you past the emotional distancing already discussed. There is a desire to smooth the path and make things easier in interactions. Still you need to be wary, because when others feel oppressed (as now) they are both more touchy and more dangerous than usual. Making do with what you have is a key; it is abundance if taken as such and used in the most generous way. "Take it light," usually an offensive phrase when uttered to you when upset, is beneficent now if you let it be your own advice to yourself.
{Wednesday} *Common-Sense Achievement*
Cosmic Piper
*Common-Sense Achievement*
How things are going for you might depend on the relation of the quadruple conjunction at the end of Aquarius (comprising Mercury, Mars, the sun and Neptune) to your own birth-chart. It has an ominous relation to mine, which is the "formal cause" of my computer problem. I am writing this forecast down the hall from my apartment with a public computer, not the best way to go about this. I couldn't sleep without writing it, so here it is, late for most of you.
Even from the aspects in the sky connected equally with all of us, Wednesday seems a somewhat formidable day. Venus's square with Saturn tends to be the "nobody loves me" aspect, so be patient with that trend in yourself. It does develop deep character strength, at best: the ability to "love without return for love" as Sri Aurobindo puts it in his epic poem. However, the |stressful or worrisome third of this week| has ended (comprising Monday and Tuesday) so it appears you will be able to deal with problems more cheerfully, with a calmer, more realistic attitude. Facing difficulties in relation to individuals important to you may be possible. It's not a breeze but can be done on a one-to-one, honest basis.
A trend toward easy living, having fun, is a response to the difficulties you don't want to deal with. It is not wrong in itself of course unless it goes on too long. Another way to deal with the pressures is to spend your time alone in a comfortable place or in a pleasant natural setting. That would bring out the sun's conjunction with Neptune, which is conducive to meditative largess and spiritual awareness. Ultimately, however, you will want to get at things, get them done. It could be a solid work day because you see what has to be done immediately and get at it without delay. Once you've completed a solid chunk you will feel like rewarding yourself a la the first two sentences of this paragraph.
People you need to deal with may be, some of them, in supervisory positions so you feel you need to tread carefully. You may also feel that you are really the supervisor and are surveying their work or activity. The natural world is active, and you as at some level part of nature are active, wondering if you will ever get things finished. Maybe we need to appreciate activity for its own sake, or for itself rather than only for what it is intended to accomplish. Your mind-set is part of the work, in fact the basis of it.
You will get more done the more alert and responsive you are to what is needed, which is not a large task if you stay "in the moment' while yet being open to clues and warnings which come intuitively as you act. Some of these could seem mysterious, so that you would not mention them to anyone else. They are your own.They increase your efficiency, which expands itself. That has been called "learning by doing."
We approach the Full Moon (early Friday morning) so awareness is high, enlarged as it were as is the appearance of the lunar orb. Yet it seems you will want to use this expanded focus to focus narrowly on immediacies which need attention. It could be an achievement day.
A softer and more subtle sense may come to you when dealing with people, to help you past the emotional distancing already discussed. There is a desire to smooth the path and make things easier in interactions. Still you need to be wary, because when others feel oppressed (as now) they are both more touchy and more dangerous than usual. Making do with what you have is a key; it is abundance if taken as such and used in the most generous way. "Take it light," usually an offensive phrase when uttered to you when upset, is beneficent now if you let it be your own advice to yourself.
{Wednesday} *Common-Sense Achievement*
Cosmic Piper
Monday, February 14, 2011
No forecasts for a while
Monday's forecast may be the last for a while. Computer problems continue. I hope to return with the daily forecasts as soon as possible.
Hugh
Cosmic Piper
Hugh
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Forecast for Monday 14 February 2011
Monday 14 February 2011
[My computer was not functioning Friday so I could not post a Saturday report, and Sunday is my day off.]
~Mysterious Ordeal Develops Deeper Awareness~
I can't give out pleasant Valentine's Day news. It is hardly a romantic day, or if you have one you will have to thank your own "lucky stars" and not the current set-up. Today and Tuesday are the |stressful or worrisome third of this week| and since Venus is involved in the hard aspects (forming a square to Saturn) love is, as I usually say at these times, "on the rocks." That could mean bruised or it could mean very cold. Forget the chocolates and flowers and write a sad ode to a lost love. If you want to celebrate with someone, why not postpone until Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday? Even tomorrow might be somewhat better.
The sun's conjunction with Neptune sometimes "takes the tar out of" people, that is, they feel like dreaming of another world somewhere in memory or fantasy rather than buckling down to work. All these conditions together suggest that today you should not be hard on yourself or anyone. The mysterious is trying to manifest itself and is creating mysterious conditions in which to do so.
You will struggle to be efficient, however, in investigating what holds you back, or finding how to work around it or take advantage of it. The fact that when things are specially hard they are preparing something better is hard to appreciate at the time, though easier to see afterward. Measuring things in a detached way could help. The unfamiliar could be dangerous, so I would not recommend straying out of your usual orbit. It is well to be carefully responsive to whatever you observe or learn, to avoid any pitfall.
At times it is well to just hold back and be quiet. Silence is a great blessing to those who rejoice in inward peace. That does not mean you give up your zeal for better things in your life; you develop internal calm and savvy which will bring them eventually. Career aspirations are strong, but to climb that ridge you need to prepare as carefully as successful climbers in their more limited realm.
People who observe you or are interested in you may be mysterious, as if you wondered if they were enemies or stalkers. They perhaps have not arrived at the serenity which accompanies real maturity. If you have arrived at that, you can let yourself be a calm guide to younger or less mature people who will appreciate that serenity as something they need to balance their insecurities. You have suffered the world's unkind winds and buffeting, and so have developed the grain of wisdom from which they may benefit.
When things are difficult emotionally, or friends separate, you may be drawn to other places, such as the orient, middle east, Arabic or Persian lands. The Arabian Nights can be a wonderful escape. A bit of magic in mind translates into saving magic in reality. Secrets of death and life come to those who face trials in difficult circumstances. You may be Sinbad or Aladdin, but let your adventures be homely and circumspect, and therefore safe.
{Monday} ~Mysterious Ordeal Develops Deeper Awareness~
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Forecast for Friday 11 February 2011
Friday 11 February 2011
}Peaceful Fortitude{
As I write I am waiting for the speech of Hosni Mubarak, expected to be a "step-down" or resignation speech. [Now, an hour later, it is obvious that it was not that, although it might be a step in the right direction by a stubborn Taurus who refuses to budge from power; and the moon is in Taurus as he speaks!] At the same time I have been studying mundane charts (mundane astrology is the astrology of world and political events). This has been highly valuable, so I have to thank the Egyptian people for showing me something important. I arrived at a decision about which "monthly" or return charts are most accurate in world events. I studied not only what is happening right now in Egypt but what has happened in the past, including the symbolically all-important 9/11/01 events, and quite a few others.
There can indeed be progress in astrology through careful research.
Friday's chart has a strong emphasis of the 10th house of government and so confirms the obvious fact that today much will be happening in connection with Egypt's future government. In your own life, you may see that your career is undergoing a sort of revolution in a positive direction. You seem to be working like the proverbial busy beaver at tasks or projects which you know will raise you in your own (and possibly others') estimation. Your aptitudes and excellencies are secure if you believe in and develop them. There is rivalry and there are differences among those with whom you have to work, but it is possible to work around, with or past the differences, or finesse them in one way or another.
So many people are thinking lately about travel or home change, whether temporary or "removal" as the British say. It is a desire for fresh scenes, or old scenes, or anything which offers budding promise. It could be strong today, with the Part of Fortune in the 4th sector while the moon is increasing and we remain in a Bright Hermetic Epoch. You may be in the process of deciding where you will be in future months including the summer and fall, and this may be the right time for such choices so far as feasible.
Venus has been square Jupiter and Uranus during the rebellion in Egypt, and now it is moving to the square of Saturn. We shall see what that means as it happens, but the square of these two is never pleasant. I do not see it as violence, but as wearing despair, fatigue and disappointment.
People's courage is being tested, their willingness to continue to protest, or to demonstrate their audacity and ability to climb toward the heights to which they aspire. You can see this in your own life. You feel zeal to attain to what you want to attain. Light rather than darkness is with you. Yet you may doubt this and feel gloomy at times. This would be true earlier in the day, more likely, with things improving by evening when the moon having entered Gemini will sextile Jupiter. Some issues just do not go away, and there is a question of surrender---who will surrender? That is what is going on in Egypt, and probably in some aspect of your life.
I hope my prediction that there would not be major violence is true, but today there could be a violent mood (and let's hope it will not be explosive, as crowds perhaps storm the presidential palace in Heliopolis). People's patience has limits, but of course physical violence must be avoided. A refined expression of protest is a hard thing but could be essential, also in your life when you are dealing with "authorities" whom you believe to be out of sync with what is right.
The beauty and grace in human beings is a factor we should not discountenance, and it will be in evidence especially in today's later hours.
As that becomes apparent, an ameliorating influence, I hope the protesters in Egypt will calm themselves and face their Taurus tyrant (Saddam Hussein was another one of those) with fortitude which is not impatient but able to work out the right strategies, which may take days, rather than attempt wrong ones immediately, which could have disastrous results. Let them pray, and let their women do that and be a harmonizing influence on their men. Let their astrologers (at one time there were brilliant Egyptian, Arabic and Muslim astrologers) study the horoscope of Mubarak, which is a fascinating one, to know how to deal with him at this point. Let there be music, chants and prayers. There have to be Muslim as well as Jewish and Christian angels! They are not impotent.
May your evening be peaceful and inspiring.
{Friday} {Peaceful Fortitude}
Cosmic Piper
}Peaceful Fortitude{
As I write I am waiting for the speech of Hosni Mubarak, expected to be a "step-down" or resignation speech. [Now, an hour later, it is obvious that it was not that, although it might be a step in the right direction by a stubborn Taurus who refuses to budge from power; and the moon is in Taurus as he speaks!] At the same time I have been studying mundane charts (mundane astrology is the astrology of world and political events). This has been highly valuable, so I have to thank the Egyptian people for showing me something important. I arrived at a decision about which "monthly" or return charts are most accurate in world events. I studied not only what is happening right now in Egypt but what has happened in the past, including the symbolically all-important 9/11/01 events, and quite a few others.
There can indeed be progress in astrology through careful research.
Friday's chart has a strong emphasis of the 10th house of government and so confirms the obvious fact that today much will be happening in connection with Egypt's future government. In your own life, you may see that your career is undergoing a sort of revolution in a positive direction. You seem to be working like the proverbial busy beaver at tasks or projects which you know will raise you in your own (and possibly others') estimation. Your aptitudes and excellencies are secure if you believe in and develop them. There is rivalry and there are differences among those with whom you have to work, but it is possible to work around, with or past the differences, or finesse them in one way or another.
So many people are thinking lately about travel or home change, whether temporary or "removal" as the British say. It is a desire for fresh scenes, or old scenes, or anything which offers budding promise. It could be strong today, with the Part of Fortune in the 4th sector while the moon is increasing and we remain in a Bright Hermetic Epoch. You may be in the process of deciding where you will be in future months including the summer and fall, and this may be the right time for such choices so far as feasible.
Venus has been square Jupiter and Uranus during the rebellion in Egypt, and now it is moving to the square of Saturn. We shall see what that means as it happens, but the square of these two is never pleasant. I do not see it as violence, but as wearing despair, fatigue and disappointment.
People's courage is being tested, their willingness to continue to protest, or to demonstrate their audacity and ability to climb toward the heights to which they aspire. You can see this in your own life. You feel zeal to attain to what you want to attain. Light rather than darkness is with you. Yet you may doubt this and feel gloomy at times. This would be true earlier in the day, more likely, with things improving by evening when the moon having entered Gemini will sextile Jupiter. Some issues just do not go away, and there is a question of surrender---who will surrender? That is what is going on in Egypt, and probably in some aspect of your life.
I hope my prediction that there would not be major violence is true, but today there could be a violent mood (and let's hope it will not be explosive, as crowds perhaps storm the presidential palace in Heliopolis). People's patience has limits, but of course physical violence must be avoided. A refined expression of protest is a hard thing but could be essential, also in your life when you are dealing with "authorities" whom you believe to be out of sync with what is right.
The beauty and grace in human beings is a factor we should not discountenance, and it will be in evidence especially in today's later hours.
As that becomes apparent, an ameliorating influence, I hope the protesters in Egypt will calm themselves and face their Taurus tyrant (Saddam Hussein was another one of those) with fortitude which is not impatient but able to work out the right strategies, which may take days, rather than attempt wrong ones immediately, which could have disastrous results. Let them pray, and let their women do that and be a harmonizing influence on their men. Let their astrologers (at one time there were brilliant Egyptian, Arabic and Muslim astrologers) study the horoscope of Mubarak, which is a fascinating one, to know how to deal with him at this point. Let there be music, chants and prayers. There have to be Muslim as well as Jewish and Christian angels! They are not impotent.
May your evening be peaceful and inspiring.
{Friday} {Peaceful Fortitude}
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Forecast for Thursday 10 February 2011
Thursday 10 February 2011
\Past Doubts within an Established Agenda/
Patterns unfold and develop as we let them. Hopes are high, plus strong determination to stay with the plans you feel to be right for you.
Artistic people, the arts or entertainment may be fascinating, whether or not you feel creative yourself. There is beauty in the air, and you notice beautiful people even when your mind is on other matters.
The semi-violence of the sun's conjunction with Mars is still with us although it can have happier outlets than the repression of the police (for example). Withholding some information to which you are privy may be important, just because releasing it would be a waste of time and possibly cause further waste of time in trying to explain what probably no one would get anyway.
A playful attitude allows various temperaments to get out, make fun or joke with one another, and refine themselves past egoism. Seeing the colors in people, their variations of quality, helps you appreciate them for themselves rather than offend them pointlessly. This could extend even to your internal thoughts about them. Friends getting together in meeting places and letting one another be, to learn from one another, happens too rarely. People are sensitive about things they have done which have been misunderstood or persecuted. They need to feel that someone appreciates their good intentions.
It is okay to be alone when that feels right. Males can be as spiritual in their inner thoughts as females, although the mode of spirituality tends to be more experimentative in them. Sometimes what appears to be weakness is really a form of hidden genius which does not have a way of manifesting in physical actions as much as in thoughts. As for feelings, there can be distress when one realizes one has failed in certain relationships, yet also comfort when one realizes one can carry on.
Gloom and monotony may turn up, contrary to the first two paragraphs of this forecast, so it is good to dissipate them by turning your thoughts to loftier subjects and aspirations. You are establishing something for yourself, even in your home or headquarters, which will make you and others happy no matter what the temporary state of things.
{Thursday} /Past Doubts within an Established Agenda\
Cosmic Piper
\Past Doubts within an Established Agenda/
Patterns unfold and develop as we let them. Hopes are high, plus strong determination to stay with the plans you feel to be right for you.
Artistic people, the arts or entertainment may be fascinating, whether or not you feel creative yourself. There is beauty in the air, and you notice beautiful people even when your mind is on other matters.
The semi-violence of the sun's conjunction with Mars is still with us although it can have happier outlets than the repression of the police (for example). Withholding some information to which you are privy may be important, just because releasing it would be a waste of time and possibly cause further waste of time in trying to explain what probably no one would get anyway.
A playful attitude allows various temperaments to get out, make fun or joke with one another, and refine themselves past egoism. Seeing the colors in people, their variations of quality, helps you appreciate them for themselves rather than offend them pointlessly. This could extend even to your internal thoughts about them. Friends getting together in meeting places and letting one another be, to learn from one another, happens too rarely. People are sensitive about things they have done which have been misunderstood or persecuted. They need to feel that someone appreciates their good intentions.
It is okay to be alone when that feels right. Males can be as spiritual in their inner thoughts as females, although the mode of spirituality tends to be more experimentative in them. Sometimes what appears to be weakness is really a form of hidden genius which does not have a way of manifesting in physical actions as much as in thoughts. As for feelings, there can be distress when one realizes one has failed in certain relationships, yet also comfort when one realizes one can carry on.
Gloom and monotony may turn up, contrary to the first two paragraphs of this forecast, so it is good to dissipate them by turning your thoughts to loftier subjects and aspirations. You are establishing something for yourself, even in your home or headquarters, which will make you and others happy no matter what the temporary state of things.
{Thursday} /Past Doubts within an Established Agenda\
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Forecast for Wednesday 9 February 2011
Wednesday 9 February 2011
\A Happier Level of Success/
Pressures of Monday and Tuesday are lightened. By afternoon you may be quite pleased with the way things are going.
Fixity of purpose is strong, with the sun in Aquarius and moon in Taurus, fixed signs. You could have a strong influence on important people.
Breakdowns and disassociations in relationships are possible but they are part of a process, in other words, you rise beyond them and see that they can't be helped and therefore are all right and will dissolve into nothingness ultimately. Actually, if you try, you can coax people toward what you want them to think or do.
At times you may feel apathetic or lazy, needing rest; this is all right if you make your rest a spiritual retreat. Prayer is always helpful. Your disappointments are way-stations on the spiritual path. Disillusionment is a clearance of consciousness so you can perceive what is more valuable to you in reality.
It is good to be rugged in what you are trying to do, simple of heart, straightforward. People will appreciate that and respond favorably. But if you let yourself get too involved with self-appreciation you might become vain, and then lose other-appreciation. Why not give thanks, in thought and prayer, for your good fortune, which flows abundantly. Enjoyment might be shared with someone even if there are problems in the relationship.
Patience and persistence are becoming part of you, whether you are alone or with people. You may appreciate music or the arts in a special way, and thereby rise beyond the petulance in human relations. Your deep convictions can be the springs of your action; then you know you are doing the right thing, and feel better.
Internal enemies are selfishness or calculated designs on people. It is hard sometimes to realize when one is doing this. Resistance you meet in people may be based on some attitude in yourself.
You enjoy pursuing mazes of study intended to help you in career or income.
Are you supreme, or someone you are in contact with? There seems to be a power struggle, yet the winner is the one who is closest to the truth, which impersonally confers supremacy on the one who is true. Or maybe both are winners, when the moon trines Venus and Pluto in late afternoon and evening.
{Wednesday} /A Happier Level of Success\
Cosmic Piper
\A Happier Level of Success/
Pressures of Monday and Tuesday are lightened. By afternoon you may be quite pleased with the way things are going.
Fixity of purpose is strong, with the sun in Aquarius and moon in Taurus, fixed signs. You could have a strong influence on important people.
Breakdowns and disassociations in relationships are possible but they are part of a process, in other words, you rise beyond them and see that they can't be helped and therefore are all right and will dissolve into nothingness ultimately. Actually, if you try, you can coax people toward what you want them to think or do.
At times you may feel apathetic or lazy, needing rest; this is all right if you make your rest a spiritual retreat. Prayer is always helpful. Your disappointments are way-stations on the spiritual path. Disillusionment is a clearance of consciousness so you can perceive what is more valuable to you in reality.
It is good to be rugged in what you are trying to do, simple of heart, straightforward. People will appreciate that and respond favorably. But if you let yourself get too involved with self-appreciation you might become vain, and then lose other-appreciation. Why not give thanks, in thought and prayer, for your good fortune, which flows abundantly. Enjoyment might be shared with someone even if there are problems in the relationship.
Patience and persistence are becoming part of you, whether you are alone or with people. You may appreciate music or the arts in a special way, and thereby rise beyond the petulance in human relations. Your deep convictions can be the springs of your action; then you know you are doing the right thing, and feel better.
Internal enemies are selfishness or calculated designs on people. It is hard sometimes to realize when one is doing this. Resistance you meet in people may be based on some attitude in yourself.
You enjoy pursuing mazes of study intended to help you in career or income.
Are you supreme, or someone you are in contact with? There seems to be a power struggle, yet the winner is the one who is closest to the truth, which impersonally confers supremacy on the one who is true. Or maybe both are winners, when the moon trines Venus and Pluto in late afternoon and evening.
{Wednesday} /A Happier Level of Success\
Cosmic Piper
Monday, February 7, 2011
Forecast for Tuesday 8 February 2011
Tuesday 8 February 2011
*Headed in the Right Direction*
You are probably feeling quite sure of yourself, despite the fact that yesterday and today comprise the |worrisome third of this week|. It seems the worries will dissipate today, as compared to Monday.
There are smooth potentials of communication. You sense that at a distance are some beautiful places and comforts you would like to approach. Perhaps summer travel hopes are gestating. You feel that your convictions are going to win in the long term. So perhaps you are not afraid to state them. You think of or interact with someone who has been remarkably consistent and reliable over the years.
It is tempting, when speaking or writing about some people, to degrade them or make fun of them. It is better to resist this as much as possible. Your reputation is at stake, as well as the reputation of someone whom you oppose, so there is a need to bolster mutual respect, perhaps while awaiting the outcome of a dispute. The goal could be happy sharing in a hospitable setting. That is not beyond possibility.
Accounting and investing are worthy of attention, and you may be in the right mood for that. It is easier to do when you know that tangles are being untangled and your affairs are being set straight. When there are emergencies, you win over them if you are determined to prevent calamity. Tact and skill help you to aid someone who has been lacking in them.
Cruelty is hard to understand; it has no ultimate excuse but the feeble temporary excuse is ignorance and lack of soul evolution. When facing it in others you need to be as firm as you can on the side of fairness and kindness.
A thorough approach to investment or to anything which affects your long-term personal fulfillment will help you line up targets at which you aim so that nothing is missing. Your devotion to what your heart believes and trusts will carry you beyond any stress of disagreement. Evening brings calm.
{Tuesday} *Headed in the Right Direction*
Cosmic Piper
*Headed in the Right Direction*
You are probably feeling quite sure of yourself, despite the fact that yesterday and today comprise the |worrisome third of this week|. It seems the worries will dissipate today, as compared to Monday.
There are smooth potentials of communication. You sense that at a distance are some beautiful places and comforts you would like to approach. Perhaps summer travel hopes are gestating. You feel that your convictions are going to win in the long term. So perhaps you are not afraid to state them. You think of or interact with someone who has been remarkably consistent and reliable over the years.
It is tempting, when speaking or writing about some people, to degrade them or make fun of them. It is better to resist this as much as possible. Your reputation is at stake, as well as the reputation of someone whom you oppose, so there is a need to bolster mutual respect, perhaps while awaiting the outcome of a dispute. The goal could be happy sharing in a hospitable setting. That is not beyond possibility.
Accounting and investing are worthy of attention, and you may be in the right mood for that. It is easier to do when you know that tangles are being untangled and your affairs are being set straight. When there are emergencies, you win over them if you are determined to prevent calamity. Tact and skill help you to aid someone who has been lacking in them.
Cruelty is hard to understand; it has no ultimate excuse but the feeble temporary excuse is ignorance and lack of soul evolution. When facing it in others you need to be as firm as you can on the side of fairness and kindness.
A thorough approach to investment or to anything which affects your long-term personal fulfillment will help you line up targets at which you aim so that nothing is missing. Your devotion to what your heart believes and trusts will carry you beyond any stress of disagreement. Evening brings calm.
{Tuesday} *Headed in the Right Direction*
Cosmic Piper
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Forecast for Monday 7 February 2011
Monday 7 February 2011
*Advanced Comprehension*
"Too much of a good thing" may have been Sunday's pattern, so today that needs to be curtailed. Business needs to be taken care of. Prosperity is in the air. You are concerned about your career and how to maintain your status. It is not a mistake, or at all shameful, to cling to someone who knows more than you do to help you rise higher in your field.
Good fortune is not an accident, yet smiles upon you even if you feel you haven't quite earned it. This is true both financially and in love. There is much to enjoy. Natural pleasures are natural gifts.
Study yields surprising revelations. When you feel confined or unable to move about as you might wish, your mind can be active. You see into and through people easily, so perhaps they are also seeing through you. It is humbling to realize one is "just one of the folks." That could help you avoid isolation, brooding, or misanthropy.
Intensity of desire could be overwhelming at times. If it is refined and made more beautiful, things go better. Subtlety wins where crudity would fail. Group action may be needed to manifest your desires. Then, when you retreat to your cavern or domicile, your inner thoughts will be magnified so they have both greater comprehensiveness and more effectiveness as levers to move the world.
{Monday} *Advanced Comprehension*
Cosmic Piper
*Advanced Comprehension*
"Too much of a good thing" may have been Sunday's pattern, so today that needs to be curtailed. Business needs to be taken care of. Prosperity is in the air. You are concerned about your career and how to maintain your status. It is not a mistake, or at all shameful, to cling to someone who knows more than you do to help you rise higher in your field.
Good fortune is not an accident, yet smiles upon you even if you feel you haven't quite earned it. This is true both financially and in love. There is much to enjoy. Natural pleasures are natural gifts.
Study yields surprising revelations. When you feel confined or unable to move about as you might wish, your mind can be active. You see into and through people easily, so perhaps they are also seeing through you. It is humbling to realize one is "just one of the folks." That could help you avoid isolation, brooding, or misanthropy.
Intensity of desire could be overwhelming at times. If it is refined and made more beautiful, things go better. Subtlety wins where crudity would fail. Group action may be needed to manifest your desires. Then, when you retreat to your cavern or domicile, your inner thoughts will be magnified so they have both greater comprehensiveness and more effectiveness as levers to move the world.
{Monday} *Advanced Comprehension*
Cosmic Piper
Friday, February 4, 2011
Forecast for Saturday 5 February 2011
Saturday 5 February 2011
~Developing Peaceful Security~
Yesterday's trend toward the paranormal continues. Dreams, intuitions, and hunches could be revealing. Imagination itself is harmless when not deranged, as in paranoia, and we could allow ourselves more of it as a divining rod for possibilities.
Internal or spiritual weakness, lack of character, can take form as physical weakness. It might help to separate from your life things which are of no profit, as in cleaning house and getting rid of "stuff."
In what sense are you a watchdog? You could be a strong moderating or guiding element in connection with a legal matter or something requiring further negotiation.
A sense of luxury and physical stamina could awaken licentious thoughts, erotic tendencies, self-indulgence. A consequence of this could be that you see your real life to be less adequate than your fantasy life.
There is a sense of restriction in connection with travel, or a feeling that you would like to be in some old place where you grew up or have fond memories. How and when could you be there again? Perhaps something will take you there at some indeterminate point in the future. You are "arrested," as it were, from making a move in that direction. The colorful qualities, including weaknesses and failures, of people in either direction are part of the realism involved.
Rest is good, on this (a day of rest in certain traditions), yet also exercise to keep your body in agile shape. People who have been stupidly suspicious of others, trying to control or else censure them, may feel abashed when they realize what they are doing. Something the whole community will approve, which yet preserves individual rights, is needed.
When frustration reaches a peak, one might turn to too-easy ways of "getting off" and this might have unhappy results. The virility of Mars conjoined with the sun might better be used for putting order into your living quarters, perhaps.
When it comes to affections or friendships, there is some vacillation, as if you were wary of what could go wrong, yet this is not necessary. True, there is a heightened desire for freedom and independence in people, which means they might drop one another more quickly. If you remember what is worth commemorating (or remembering) in a friend, that might help.
Awareness of architecture could be useful, or liberating, or awaken a psychic response. Pondering the shape or structure of buildings you use or see, whether daily or seldom, might lead to something.
{Saturday} ~Developing Peaceful Security~
Cosmic Piper
~Developing Peaceful Security~
Yesterday's trend toward the paranormal continues. Dreams, intuitions, and hunches could be revealing. Imagination itself is harmless when not deranged, as in paranoia, and we could allow ourselves more of it as a divining rod for possibilities.
Internal or spiritual weakness, lack of character, can take form as physical weakness. It might help to separate from your life things which are of no profit, as in cleaning house and getting rid of "stuff."
In what sense are you a watchdog? You could be a strong moderating or guiding element in connection with a legal matter or something requiring further negotiation.
A sense of luxury and physical stamina could awaken licentious thoughts, erotic tendencies, self-indulgence. A consequence of this could be that you see your real life to be less adequate than your fantasy life.
There is a sense of restriction in connection with travel, or a feeling that you would like to be in some old place where you grew up or have fond memories. How and when could you be there again? Perhaps something will take you there at some indeterminate point in the future. You are "arrested," as it were, from making a move in that direction. The colorful qualities, including weaknesses and failures, of people in either direction are part of the realism involved.
Rest is good, on this (a day of rest in certain traditions), yet also exercise to keep your body in agile shape. People who have been stupidly suspicious of others, trying to control or else censure them, may feel abashed when they realize what they are doing. Something the whole community will approve, which yet preserves individual rights, is needed.
When frustration reaches a peak, one might turn to too-easy ways of "getting off" and this might have unhappy results. The virility of Mars conjoined with the sun might better be used for putting order into your living quarters, perhaps.
When it comes to affections or friendships, there is some vacillation, as if you were wary of what could go wrong, yet this is not necessary. True, there is a heightened desire for freedom and independence in people, which means they might drop one another more quickly. If you remember what is worth commemorating (or remembering) in a friend, that might help.
Awareness of architecture could be useful, or liberating, or awaken a psychic response. Pondering the shape or structure of buildings you use or see, whether daily or seldom, might lead to something.
{Saturday} ~Developing Peaceful Security~
Cosmic Piper
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Forecast for Friday 4 February 2011
Friday 4 February 2011
~Anticipatory Excitement Mellowed by Confidence~
The mysterious is likely to erupt, and you welcome it. The paranormal seems almost normal. A fluidity of understanding grants reality to the improbable without pain or tedious examination. The improbable yet real are facts, which every investigator of the paranormal knows. Today you may be aware of some of them.
The sun's conjunction with Mars is restless impatience. I was wondering this morning why I felt that way about so many things, a generalized impatience, and then an impatient look at the day's chart awakened me to what is happening with this aspect. Yes, impatience in a big way, as in Egypt where the demonstrators feel they have to stick with their principles (the conjunction is in Aquarius, a fixed sign) no matter what happens, because "the time is now" for change. If you feel that about something in your life, you may be going through the mild agony of "How do I get this done right now?" I will not promise it can be done soon, yet since we are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (till March 18) and now in the first half of a lunar cycle (until the Full Moon of February 17), this might be the time to start acting insofar as you can. There may be forces holding you back, of a semi-legal sort, so negotiation may be needed.
Fanning a flame of inspiration can lift hopes high, perhaps with allies. Practical accomplishments are essential also, while the Mars-sun conjunction trines Saturn. Much can be done behind the scenes which feels like a response to orders from On High. Love is in the air: with uncertainty and trials, which test love, and keep you rolling to catch up with every new development. (As in Egypt, the trials of which are a symbol for what is happening with the rest of us in this synchronous solar system.)
Yet there is a desire for peace and harmony, fortunately. When men have trouble manifesting it, women can womanifest it, and that is wonderful. (Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times pointed out such an incident, when two women in Liberation Square in Cairo calmly confronted angry pro-Mubarak forces and induced them to turn away and let them be.) The exploitation of semi-criminal elements by Mubarak or his henchmen is a sad turn of events but it seems unlikely the world will be fooled by it. You may be aware of someone in your own life who pretends to represent the high values of a culture or institution yet has questionable motives. Courage is good, if combined with discretion, when meeting such elements of obstruction.
Sexual forces are being sublimated, while Mars and Venus are in an octile (semisquare), for there is no normal or easy outlet for them. When sexual proclivities are held back, higher tendencies toward universal love start to flower. At the same time, you need to attend to your fundamental interests, represented by Mars's trine with Saturn. This includes some kind of negotiation or honest bargaining with some who seem opponents. The ups and downs of the process need not deter you. The port ahead will come into closer view before long if you persist.
Today could be a day when ambassadors or diplomats manage to get some sense into the head of Mubarak or his advisers. Some kind of intertwining negotiation or compromise seems possible. If not, that will not be the first time an astrologer's hopeful prediction has failed to come true (which might be why most astrologers give dark predictions, so as not to appear foolish). But we must keep our hopes up. No one knows exactly what is going on behind the scenes. There is inflexibility, yet a realization that change is happening. This is true in connection with some issue in your life also. You can take your stand, when you are sure internally that it is right, and await events confidently.
At a more superficial social level, this could be a pleasing Friday, with smooth entertainment and shared pleasure.
{Friday} ~Anticipatory Excitement Mellowed by Confidence~
Cosmic Piper
~Anticipatory Excitement Mellowed by Confidence~
The mysterious is likely to erupt, and you welcome it. The paranormal seems almost normal. A fluidity of understanding grants reality to the improbable without pain or tedious examination. The improbable yet real are facts, which every investigator of the paranormal knows. Today you may be aware of some of them.
The sun's conjunction with Mars is restless impatience. I was wondering this morning why I felt that way about so many things, a generalized impatience, and then an impatient look at the day's chart awakened me to what is happening with this aspect. Yes, impatience in a big way, as in Egypt where the demonstrators feel they have to stick with their principles (the conjunction is in Aquarius, a fixed sign) no matter what happens, because "the time is now" for change. If you feel that about something in your life, you may be going through the mild agony of "How do I get this done right now?" I will not promise it can be done soon, yet since we are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (till March 18) and now in the first half of a lunar cycle (until the Full Moon of February 17), this might be the time to start acting insofar as you can. There may be forces holding you back, of a semi-legal sort, so negotiation may be needed.
Fanning a flame of inspiration can lift hopes high, perhaps with allies. Practical accomplishments are essential also, while the Mars-sun conjunction trines Saturn. Much can be done behind the scenes which feels like a response to orders from On High. Love is in the air: with uncertainty and trials, which test love, and keep you rolling to catch up with every new development. (As in Egypt, the trials of which are a symbol for what is happening with the rest of us in this synchronous solar system.)
Yet there is a desire for peace and harmony, fortunately. When men have trouble manifesting it, women can womanifest it, and that is wonderful. (Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times pointed out such an incident, when two women in Liberation Square in Cairo calmly confronted angry pro-Mubarak forces and induced them to turn away and let them be.) The exploitation of semi-criminal elements by Mubarak or his henchmen is a sad turn of events but it seems unlikely the world will be fooled by it. You may be aware of someone in your own life who pretends to represent the high values of a culture or institution yet has questionable motives. Courage is good, if combined with discretion, when meeting such elements of obstruction.
Sexual forces are being sublimated, while Mars and Venus are in an octile (semisquare), for there is no normal or easy outlet for them. When sexual proclivities are held back, higher tendencies toward universal love start to flower. At the same time, you need to attend to your fundamental interests, represented by Mars's trine with Saturn. This includes some kind of negotiation or honest bargaining with some who seem opponents. The ups and downs of the process need not deter you. The port ahead will come into closer view before long if you persist.
Today could be a day when ambassadors or diplomats manage to get some sense into the head of Mubarak or his advisers. Some kind of intertwining negotiation or compromise seems possible. If not, that will not be the first time an astrologer's hopeful prediction has failed to come true (which might be why most astrologers give dark predictions, so as not to appear foolish). But we must keep our hopes up. No one knows exactly what is going on behind the scenes. There is inflexibility, yet a realization that change is happening. This is true in connection with some issue in your life also. You can take your stand, when you are sure internally that it is right, and await events confidently.
At a more superficial social level, this could be a pleasing Friday, with smooth entertainment and shared pleasure.
{Friday} ~Anticipatory Excitement Mellowed by Confidence~
Cosmic Piper
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Forecast for Thursday 3 February 2011
Thursday 3 February 2011
}Realism without Boredom; and Exaltation{
It's the first day of a New Moon (time given yesterday). Since we are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (until March 18) you may feel fit as a fiddle and ready to improvise the next tune of your life.
Much that comes to you as idea-impulse is fresh and likely to succeed, even if it seems foolish to some conventional viewpoints. You perhaps have insulated yourself from elements which have the appearance of being "secret enemies" (as the old astrologers called denizens of the 12th house of the horoscope). Therefore y0u are ready to affirm your identity with others, friends, who do not feel like vampires but lend ready support to your intuitions. Realism is implicit in such alliance.
It seems that "enemies" in fact may be ready for realism also, that is, since you are not going to disappear and they are not going to disappear, why not give up pretending that is going to happen and work out a deal or compromise. (Shades of what is needed in Egypt, but also somehow in your life.) You do not have to slander each other, which continues the impasse with injury added. Rather, however difficult, you can attempt to be hospitable toward each other. There has been an arrest of useful activity because of your disagreement. How to get past that consequence of the "blame game" is a key question.
Intuition is a cardinal asset for you to work with. You feel cosmopolitan, ready to link with people anywhere in the world for social, philosophic or commercial gain. Mutual benefits could turn up ubiquitously. The romantic is a part of this, as if in recovering from past insult and resentment you were ready to be tender and gently kind toward anyone who seems a friend. Love is most definitely in the air, even more late in the day and evening.
The spiritual side of things is prominent also. You are aware of potentials which could enlighten you when you link with them intentionally. Some of this requires work, mental or otherwise, so that you can discover what is important. The conflict of opinions needs to be faced and risen above, for the truth is above opinions. Even very high and deep verities of the spirit might be attained.
{Thursday} {Realism without Boredom; and Exaltation}
Cosmic Piper
}Realism without Boredom; and Exaltation{
It's the first day of a New Moon (time given yesterday). Since we are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (until March 18) you may feel fit as a fiddle and ready to improvise the next tune of your life.
Much that comes to you as idea-impulse is fresh and likely to succeed, even if it seems foolish to some conventional viewpoints. You perhaps have insulated yourself from elements which have the appearance of being "secret enemies" (as the old astrologers called denizens of the 12th house of the horoscope). Therefore y0u are ready to affirm your identity with others, friends, who do not feel like vampires but lend ready support to your intuitions. Realism is implicit in such alliance.
It seems that "enemies" in fact may be ready for realism also, that is, since you are not going to disappear and they are not going to disappear, why not give up pretending that is going to happen and work out a deal or compromise. (Shades of what is needed in Egypt, but also somehow in your life.) You do not have to slander each other, which continues the impasse with injury added. Rather, however difficult, you can attempt to be hospitable toward each other. There has been an arrest of useful activity because of your disagreement. How to get past that consequence of the "blame game" is a key question.
Intuition is a cardinal asset for you to work with. You feel cosmopolitan, ready to link with people anywhere in the world for social, philosophic or commercial gain. Mutual benefits could turn up ubiquitously. The romantic is a part of this, as if in recovering from past insult and resentment you were ready to be tender and gently kind toward anyone who seems a friend. Love is most definitely in the air, even more late in the day and evening.
The spiritual side of things is prominent also. You are aware of potentials which could enlighten you when you link with them intentionally. Some of this requires work, mental or otherwise, so that you can discover what is important. The conflict of opinions needs to be faced and risen above, for the truth is above opinions. Even very high and deep verities of the spirit might be attained.
{Thursday} {Realism without Boredom; and Exaltation}
Cosmic Piper
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Forecast for Wednesday 2 February 2011
Wednesday 2 February 2011
}Realistic and Calm Cooperation{
We sail toward a New Moon this evening at 6:32p PT | 9:32p ET | 2:32a(Th) UT. Before that, during the waning moon (and practically speaking for quite a while afterward) things can be lackluster or slow. I usually recommend extra rest at these times.
However, there are strong momenta toward friendship and the fulfillment of ambition. This is more likely something which takes care of itself than something you have to calculate or strategize. Many things may seem chaotic (as in Egypt perhaps) and you need to struggle at times to remember where you are or what you are doing. It is both courteous and prudent sometimes to let certain things drift rather than force issues. Things may look different after the New Moon.
There is savvy intelligence (Mercury sextile Jupiter) yet wariness about differing opinions (Venus square Jupiter). It is amazing sometimes how husbands and wives can have opposite political or religious views and still remain together. That is a Venus-square-Jupiter phenomenon. They suffer along and struggle along to tolerate and perhaps weakly understand each other, because something else holds them together. Today there is a strong desire for peace and harmony, and let us hope it will prevail. Rashness would not be helpful, even in the cause of revolution, but decisiveness might be.
People are trying to define themselves in terms of the groups or nations to which they belong. Sometimes those groups are in transition or there is transfer from one to another. One can be exploited by a group loyalty, in some cases, or one could exploit one's loyalty to a group. Reaching to the Highest, which ultimately transcends reason, requiring heart and soul force, one can see how both oneself and any group must bow to That, ultimately. Then one is absolved from conflicting loyalties.
Cooperation and friendship are based, now, on realism rather than romance. The latter may seem fitful and unreal. When some supports collapse, there are others being readied, even if the transition toward them requires slow alchemy. The wisdom of God is foolishness to men, said one preacher, so if you remain intuitively alert to what speaks from within, you may align yourself with what is higher rather than lower. Affirming love even when it seems absent is one way to obey the Master's first two commandments. Going back to the first sentence of this paragraph, one finds that love indeed is realistic, because it heals, harmonizes, and points the way.
Unearthing motives, and the reasons for one's choices, may seem too introverted or philosophic, yet it could, paradoxically, lead to broader, freer, less timid, more fearless participation in the social scheme, something good for all of us when we get too self-centered or self-preoccupied. The rose of personality blooms among thorns.
{Wednesday} {Realistic and Calm Cooperation}
Cosmic Piper
}Realistic and Calm Cooperation{
We sail toward a New Moon this evening at 6:32p PT | 9:32p ET | 2:32a(Th) UT. Before that, during the waning moon (and practically speaking for quite a while afterward) things can be lackluster or slow. I usually recommend extra rest at these times.
However, there are strong momenta toward friendship and the fulfillment of ambition. This is more likely something which takes care of itself than something you have to calculate or strategize. Many things may seem chaotic (as in Egypt perhaps) and you need to struggle at times to remember where you are or what you are doing. It is both courteous and prudent sometimes to let certain things drift rather than force issues. Things may look different after the New Moon.
There is savvy intelligence (Mercury sextile Jupiter) yet wariness about differing opinions (Venus square Jupiter). It is amazing sometimes how husbands and wives can have opposite political or religious views and still remain together. That is a Venus-square-Jupiter phenomenon. They suffer along and struggle along to tolerate and perhaps weakly understand each other, because something else holds them together. Today there is a strong desire for peace and harmony, and let us hope it will prevail. Rashness would not be helpful, even in the cause of revolution, but decisiveness might be.
People are trying to define themselves in terms of the groups or nations to which they belong. Sometimes those groups are in transition or there is transfer from one to another. One can be exploited by a group loyalty, in some cases, or one could exploit one's loyalty to a group. Reaching to the Highest, which ultimately transcends reason, requiring heart and soul force, one can see how both oneself and any group must bow to That, ultimately. Then one is absolved from conflicting loyalties.
Cooperation and friendship are based, now, on realism rather than romance. The latter may seem fitful and unreal. When some supports collapse, there are others being readied, even if the transition toward them requires slow alchemy. The wisdom of God is foolishness to men, said one preacher, so if you remain intuitively alert to what speaks from within, you may align yourself with what is higher rather than lower. Affirming love even when it seems absent is one way to obey the Master's first two commandments. Going back to the first sentence of this paragraph, one finds that love indeed is realistic, because it heals, harmonizes, and points the way.
Unearthing motives, and the reasons for one's choices, may seem too introverted or philosophic, yet it could, paradoxically, lead to broader, freer, less timid, more fearless participation in the social scheme, something good for all of us when we get too self-centered or self-preoccupied. The rose of personality blooms among thorns.
{Wednesday} {Realistic and Calm Cooperation}
Cosmic Piper
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