Forecast for Monday 28 November 2011

Monday 28 November 2011

\Creativity in Merging with Past toward Future/

Let's start with the difficult stuff. This is the center of the |stressful or karmically demanding third of this week|, which lasts until Tuesday evening at 6:19p PT | 9:19p ET |2:19a(Tu) UT. (It's shorter than usual because the moon is traveling fast.) However, with Luna in Capricorn, much can be accomplished if it is in the train of old things you have already begun and need to complete. You would rather do this than play or have fun, and it will make you happier. Powers of concentration are intense.

Mercury has been retrograde since Friday and I am feeling it. It comes out in slowness, delay, procrastination, and the like. You might set a coffee cup on a spoon and spill some of it. Or burn the toast, or find the toaster won't work, or spend three minutes looking for the pair of shoes you "know" you had left in a certain place last Friday, or miss the bus or train by a minute. I hope not, but when this stuff happens, remember Mercury is retrograde and get a grim smile out of it.

There can be ease and comfort, even placidity, while Venus is trine Jupiter and the sun bi-quintile that planet. This is when you feel you are accomplishing something or have accomplished it and your conscience is at rest.

You actually have a lot of vitality in these early days of a sun-moon cycle, so can push ahead with zest whenever you feel challenged enough to do it.

The worst thoughts you have about yourself and your future--that all is hopeless, that you are on your last legs, that nothing is going to work out--are perhaps natural now, but we need to be supernatural to overcome the demons of doubt. Actually the planetary structure now is more promising than in summer and early autumn.

It might be smart to get major things done before the moon goes void-of-course at 3:01p PT | 6:01p ET | 11:01p UT. No matter what pressures, at least you can focus more clearly before then.

One issue is Uranus in the first degree of Aries--the planet and the sign of independence and freedom--in a tri-septile with Saturn, lasting through December, or in other words through the Dark Hermetic Epoch which happens to end January 1. Saturn in Libra is the social world, the economic world, the world of justice and courts and legality. So, many will be feeling that they, lone wolves (Uranus in Aries), are pitted against the Establishment or the courts or Big Government or Big Business. "The mills of the gods grind slowly," and this one is grinding out self-reliance (oh, I said there was no such thing a few days ago!). (Emerson said that "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" so I will be inconsistent when necessary to make a point.) In other words, yes, you have "the world" to contend with, but you are adequate and "the world" is making you more adequte by testing your ability to meet it full-face. (I am not finding this easy any more than you are.)

And so, sometimes, we might think, "Why not go back to the soil? Live on a farming commune and live off our produce?" This especially while Mars is in Virgo (until July), which seems to be a sign of farming. A breath of such realism can be bracing. Some will be changing their diets wisely.

People at a distance may seem to test you. Are you really communicating with them? Is that even possible? Are you condemned to live your own separate lives without understanding one another?

To be original you can be experimental. This may be a time for that. The Dark Epochs, including the Mercury-Retrograde periods (this one lasts until December 14), can be times for originality. Your subconscious is fertile and productive. Watch your dreams! They are giving you amazing links with your past--some disturbing, others encouraging. The past and present commingle at these times, which is one reason people are absent-minded and there are more mistakes. From the mingling of these two comes an urge toward a "different" future, a desire to experiment. In other words, your past is a womb of creativity in which you spend time to be reborn.

And not just dreams, but day-dreaming. While supposedly at work, you dawdle and muse. Suddenly you realize you are in a reverie about something that happened years ago. This is not unhealthy. It is part of Mercury Retrograde and can be strengthening if you have a good attitude about how to use those memories.

Diplomacy is good, to get you past any brewing arguments. You are illuminated by much awareness of who your true allies are and how to benefit by cooperating with them. And so you can keep on with projects which have validity and wait for assured (even if slow) results.

{Monday} /Creativity in Merging with Past toward Future\

Cosmic Piper