Forecast for Wednesday 3 August 2011

Wednesday 3 August 2011

}Facing Issues with Serenity{

In the twelve-point delineation of the Dark Hermetic Epoch (July 15-September 8) I posted last week (I hope you have a copy), it was pointed out how one perceives things intuitively, or with "right brain" (left-handed) or intuitive logic. Today I am feeling peculiarly that I am in a Tarot-card logic. Maybe the Tarot symbols and mathematical codices reveal more, in some ways, than astrology (although astrology is much more basic, intricate, and complete). The 19th century, whose characteristic number is really 18 (the 1800s), is amazingly the "romantic" century, symbolized by Tarot Picture 18, The Moon. It was an occult and mystical century beyond what we commonly realize. Spiritualism and Theosophy were born in their modern forms, and the Romantic literature in philosophy as well as poetry, including Hegel, has still not been appreciated in its full reality and depth. It was a century for us, a century we still need (at its best). The 20th century, symbolized by both 19 (the 1900s) and 20, was a century of light (the Sun, Tarot Card 19) and romance (two children dancing in a fairy ring, hands joined). The 20 involved is the Judgment card, suggestive of "final judgment" or "the end times," as in the two most hideous wars the world has yet seen, and the threat of final atomic destruction.

And, if there is a glimmer of truth in all this, where are we now? 20 and 21, the last two Tarot cards. The end times. Not in 2012 (I have never believed that peculiar myth) but . . . to be yet seen and understood. People are feeling that their lives are being summarized or summed up; they feel they are holding themselves to account.

Enough of that for now.

Wednesday is tough, with the moon conjoined to Saturn in Libra, accentuating the T square in cardinal signs (now that Mars is in Cancer). Yes, it feels that we are being held to account. It is important to decide on priorities. It might help to actually write down your priorities, in the order 1., 2., 3. etc.

It important to have some companionship, invisibly (in thought) if not visibly. When people are upset, they are often susceptible to erotic energies, no matter how fitfully or perversely. It is important to enlist yourself in something which helps people. Laws of karma require us to do that, each in his or her own way: so there is freedom within the requirement.

You can adapt yourself to varying situations and needs; you can wear more than one hat. When working, you will want to be extremely conscientious, for failing in your duties could hurt more than you realize. At the same time, you want to push on beyond formal requirements of the job and manifest something you deeply believe in, which will leaven or improve human living through either politics, science, the arts, or healing. People are manifesting their artistic sides, no matter what their professions or interests. Artistry is neither feminine nor masculine. It lends strength to both sexes.

You want to protect your advantages. This is possible despite varying opinions or opinion-clashes. You will need to control appetites, for they are lying in wait to spoil your best intentions. It is gross to indulge yourself at times when upward effort is necessary to your self-respect and well-being. The cosmos will spank you for wallowing in laziness.

The more hopeful side of the day stems from trusting to familiar (or family) traditions and customs which are supporting you and allowing you to enjoy the blessings of the summer season. Nature is bountiful, which those of an old agrarian culture appreciated more at times like this.

Who is it you can trust and rely on? Be thankful. You can feel devoted to someone, whether visible or invisible. Real devotion wants the other to be free.

Intuitive ardor is lifting you beyond the commonplace. This is not merely an escape from difficulties, but a rising above them so you face them more happily.

{Wednesday} {Facing Issues with Serenity}

Cosmic Piper