Forecast for Wednesday 16 November 2011

Wednesday 16 November 2011

*Quiet Confidence is Security*

Things may be indefinite until the moon, from the end of Cancer, enters Leo at 8:17a PT | 11:17a ET | 4:17p UT. Then watch out for romantic fireworks. There is a desire to be intimate with someone unusual and compelling. Your ideals can prevent anything unseemly, but you may have to fight it off. Attraction may be incipient love, but this bud is fragile (if not tantalizingly poisonous).

Your influence on people is stronger than you realize, including those at a distance.

The opposition of Jupiter and Saturn, which we have discussed at length in past months under the title of their "Mutation" (with the square, a once-in-twenty-years phenomenon), is with us again (by wide but effective orb) until March 9. This is likely to be a finishing of old problems, a resolution of them, but they have to come back for you to be aware of them and resolve them. It is nothing to fear. I like Robert DeLuce's inspirational take on this: "Losses of money, position, and reputation may bring the native [individual under astrological analysis] to the brink of despair. Let him still preserve his faith, hold his integrity and trust in the unalterable and immortal nature of Truth and he will pass through and recover all that he temporarily loses." Because this aspect does not complete itself (being most exact in early January and then diminishing), I believe that the "loss" in question will be of the past, and that most of us will be recovering from that gradually rather than suffering new loss.

Indeed, exactly today the trine of Mars and Jupiter is exact, promising good fortune financially (whether the Market goes down or up). Either you are reaping rewards, or you have successfully planned for them and are carrying on successfully. This aspect is with us until early December, then returns for most of March. Therefore the long transit of Mars, turning stationary and retrograde and then stationary and direct, in Virgo for 8 months, is likely to be rather good and is one reason I do not predict a worldwide depression or serious recession. I believe you already know how to benefit from all this, if you stay with well-wrought plans.

Correspondence or conversation with someone at a distance could be helpful today.

You'll know how to prevent any extravagant words or choices if you calm down and trust that the prudent, steady course is best. "Hold your horses" is one way to put it.

By doing that, you will be led to continue a course of job or professional activity which leads on to recognition, especially when you trim what you are doing to fit the needs of someone important with whom you can cooperate or collaborate.

You'll get what you need if you stick with what you know.

A hopeful feeling saturates the ambience, with moments when playful childlike entertainment is good. (Paragraph 1 is pertinent here.)

Security through high-minded invocation of ideals and their powers (ideals have powers!), mentioned yesterday, is protection against long-lasting disorder or lapse of judgment.

{Wednesday} *Quiet Confidence is Security*

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