~Toward Serenity~
The |difficult or emotionally strained third of this week| was from Saturday afternoon until this afternoon (Monday). (I am hampered in calculating the exact moment by the absence of my usual computer programs.) This is complicated further by the moon being in the Via Combusta from forenoon Sunday until mid-afternoon Tuesday. This happens once a month so does not have to be tragic; yet the fact is that the Iraq invasion of March 2003 occurred on a day the moon was in the Via Combusta (second half of Libra) and this time there was the military attack on Qaddafi's forces in Libya by the French and British. These both happened on the single day of a month when the moon is in the second half of Libra. As a matter of fact, the sun was either in 0 Aries or 29 Pisces (cusp of Aries) on both occasions, Aries being the sign of war in traditional astrology (Ares the Greek god). This means that the Part of Fortune was also in the 7th house of war on both occasions. (The 7th house rules both war and marriage, something to ponder.)
How one interprets the Via Combusta depends on one's philosophy. If stupid wars start then, is it evil? That would be one view. A more mature view would suggest that it is a time when people are tempted to go off half-cocked and do violent things such as starting a war. So it is a test. A perhaps more sophisticated viewpoint, philosophically, would suggest that although no one likes wars, perhaps the moon being in the Via Combusta, or burning way, while also in the sign Libra, the scales of balance or karma, is just the time when, if a war is destined to happen by the laws of karma, it might begin. We all wish the laws of karma did not cause killing or suffering. It appears that they do, sometimes. Pondering that fact and reasoning out its implications is a religious, spiritual, theological or occult project, not really the business of astrology, which is a science of observable correlations. I could do the former myself, but this does not appear to be the place for it since I am trying to write a daily forecast for Monday instead.
Maybe at the monthly time the moon goes through the Via Combusta we ought to consider our karma, how it is holding up, our "stock of merit" as some have put it. Is your karmic bank balance high or low? It seems to require continual payments, something like rent or mortgage.
(You can see why this is not a popular astrology column.)
Today some may be wanting to assert themselves powerfully, as if they knew the laws of karma and were instruments of them. (Such as Napoleon or Alexander if the stories about them are true.)
Although this sounds dangerous, if it did not involve killing or hurting people it might be more believable. Others may be focused on theoretical or mathematical research, which could go well even if unnoticed by the world at large. (One wonders what theorems autistic individuals might be working out unknown to the rest of us.) Sometimes very bright individuals find no release for their insights but humor. You might burst into laughter unexpectedly.
You may wonder if the work you struggle with on a daily basis is ever going to earn you the rewards you feel you ought to receive. In a word: Yes. I can say that with authority because the laws of karma (them again!) are utterly trustworthy. There are times when normal, not-paranoid individuals feel that everything is conspiring against them. Even saints have felt that, which might account for theories of the devil and his minions. If it seems that way, all I can say is, get to the spiritual foundations of your consciousness which are definitely above all those fears. (Individuals of differing spiritual traditions or religions appear to do that in differing ways.) Even in warfare, those who can live in that deeper reality are protected somehow or other.
Males sometimes feel they are giving in to females in a way which threatens their masculine honor. This may be such a time. What it means is a very individual matter. Perhaps there are material and enjoyable rewards for such "giving in" which are worth the cost. At other times, some principle needs to be upheld even through seeming loss or sacrifice. Although women usually seem ethically superior to men, this is not always the case.
The theme of "inadequate reward for what I do" comes up again; yet at times you can just let go, relax, and rest, perhaps at home, or in a place of entertainment or enjoyment such as a restaurant or coffee shop, in order to regain your internal bearings and continue to give to the world what you naturally give it. Those who seem to oppose your efforts may not know at all what they are really doing. They are unconscious along many lines.
It is interesting that what might look like painful self-sacrifice or selflessness to a younger person becomes serenely reasonable and easy to someone of more mature years. He or she has learned the pointlessness of too-intense desires and become open to the desires of others, or ways of helping them cope with their frustrations, so that the world does not seem enemy any longer but the happiness of each is one with his or her own.
{Monday} ~Toward Serenity~
Cosmic Piper
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