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