Forecast for Thursday 17 March 2011

Thursday 17 March 2011

\Through Potential Crisis with Patient Attention/

The day seems nebulous, with the moon making virtually no aspects but an opposition with Neptune. This could be intensified worry, or, more happily, an escape from worry through spiritual meditation. Practical matters remain delayed, held back or under a cloud, although to pursue what is truly important is a mark of bravery and could be essential. Some work will please you because you see it will eventually bring greater harmony into your life.

The symbols for degrees of the zodiac by Signor Antonio Borelli give, for today's position of the sun, "A serpent standing erect within a circle of fire." I immediately thought of the brave workers in Japan who are trying to contain a potential nuclear disaster. Let us indeed pray for them to succeed with a minimum of human suffering. Sepharial's interpretation of the symbol states that those living through it "will take life at the crisis and turn it back from the Gates of Death." Indeed let us hope so. Perhaps you will see what this might mean in your life.

Ultimate gain is sometimes other than immediate gain, and if that applies to the finances of many--as indeed it applies to the finances of governments at this peculiar time--we may sense something good and even bountiful being prepared through temporary lack.

The conjunction of the sun with Uranus, from the latter degrees of Pisces to the first of Aries, suggests that something you do not yet comprehend may be essential as a revision of your policies or procedures in order to make them successful. It is well to correct information and understanding through as much knowledge as you can secure.

Changes in your home, connected with partnership, may be evident and clearer to you. Since tomorrow, Friday, is the beginning of the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasting until May 11, you might realize that something basic you have already decided, or come close to deciding, is the right procedure to hold on to for the next two months, especially as connected with home and partnership. This could give clarity you need when things seem doubtful.

The troubles of younger people may or may not be evident; perhaps they hide some of them; but you can be a bulwark for them through a helpful attitude and willingness to help whether help is asked or not. They, as all of us, are going through the 20-year "mutation" of Saturn and Jupiter and are rethinking their futures.

Most of us are sensing that our freedom, very important to us, is secured through being reliable for those who are important in our worlds. In other words, real freedom is not inconsistent with reliability but an outcome of it. The labyrinthine paths we may choose, as a result of our freedom, can be useful to others when we modify them as well as we can for their benefit.

On other fronts there could be discord or even fighting, although this can be mitigated or turned into concord because Mars is semi-sextile Venus, a "minor" yet strong aspect when exact as now. (It had a somewhat colorful direct depiction in Hillary Clinton's informal conversations with Egyptian "revolutionaries" [she Venus, they Mars]). In family matters and in work, one can elucidate matters calmly for those who seem to differ with one and thereby secure something like an affectionate response. They are more willing to listen than you would expect.

Health matters, yours or others', are better than they seem because temporary setback is just that, temporary, and so faith is not only curative in itself but realistic. Even seemingly chronic matters are susceptible of cure.

Asking for help or advice when needed is not weakness but strength. Of course it is up to you to decide if the advice is right. It is important to translate concern into action to meet any emergency. Prayer plus appropriate action, perhaps stemming from prayer's answer, is the formula. The Sabian Symbol for Venus is "A forest fire quenched." Let us hope this might apply to the Japanese situation, almost literally if the water-cannon approach to cooling the reactors proves effective.

At a more prosaic level, you might be able to handle accounts, taxes, or any financial accounting or planning wisely. In disturbing times sometimes basic necessities, attended smartly, are therapeutic in more ways than one.

{Thursday} /Through Potential Crisis with Patient Attention\

Cosmic Piper