Forecast for Monday 28 March 2011

Forecast for Monday 28 March 2011

}Peaceful Reorientation Past Obstacles{

Thank heaven the weekend is over! I think most will greet Monday's workload with a sigh of relief. "Something definite to do, I am no longer in limbo!" This because the |more difficult third of the week| lasted through Saturday and Sunday, plus the moon in Capricorn (the sign of its detriment) and the Dark Hermetic Epoch. Mercury turns retrograde (the three-week plus retrogradation being the center of the Dark Epoch) on Wednesday at 1:49p PT | 4:49p ET | 8:49p UT (until April 23). That is information to write down or remember. Those who are "spooked" by the retrogradation period are not superstitious, just aware, and blessed with memories of what has happened during earlier such periods. Of course there is no reason to panic, just to calm down and proceed as peaceably as possible, realizing that you are tempted to deviate from your normal patterns perhaps more thoroughly than is good for you. Things take longer, generally, but that is no reason to give up. Also it is wise to allow yourself more periods of free time than usual, to recover inwardly and do "inner work" in consciousness which goes very well at these times.

The sun in Aries squared to Pluto (while opposing Saturn and close to Uranus) could be a sense of frustration, as in "road rage," and impatience with obstacles. Financial matters are working out no matter how difficult it may be to husband them perfectly. Actually there are hints of prosperity shaping up. When things seem slow or everything "under the weather," you can stick with slow ordinary matters. Then when interest picks up in more remote but fascinating potentials, you will feel you have a right to pursue them, having attended to normal duties.

Some suspicion of others is natural, with the current hard aspects to Saturn. Preferably this could be more a wariness based on a perception of human weaknesses than a paranoid state of accusation or self-accusation. People feel blocked in many ways and so will not be as cheery as usual and if they tangle with you it is probably because they are inwardly frustrated, up against a brick wall. The solution to this is calm diligence in continuing with a thread of responsibilities which makes sense to you. That will lead and comfort you through the darkness. Usefulness is a tonic to the one useful.

What is not possible at one time is possible at another. This is one of the great lights of astrology. So if things seem to turn against you, that is nothing to cause despair. Actually the moon's aspects are quite good, so you will be able to see your way past difficulties and even feel optimistic as the day goes on into the evening. There are influences of a hidden sort which could either help or hurt, so it is wise to tune in to the helpful ones---the good spirits, not the confused or deceptive ones. There is a benediction coming down in ways not anticipated, if we are receptive to it.

The more cheery part of things is conviviality and even festivity, which could break out as remedies for the confusion or heaviness already outlined, even if short-lived. Gifts which come down from heaven are evident to those receptive to them, especially in late afternoon-evening. There is a survival of what is best and what you have found supportive in the past: a bulwark against anxiety.

{Monday} {Peaceful Reorientation Past Obstacles}

Cosmic Piper