Forecast for Friday 30 December 2011

Friday 30 December 2011

~Chaos or Listless Variety~

The major trends can be covered by pointing out (1) that the Bright Hermetic Epoch, lasting through February 26, begins Sunday January 1; and (2) the two-year opposition of Saturn and Jupiter reaches its peak January 10-11, then decreases until it vanishes in April for another 18 years or so. Both of these are good omens, but the second is harder because I believe we are feeling the final bite of that opposition. As previously suggested, look over the past two years of your life and consider what has developed. You are probably still working out some of those issues.

Rather than write a long essay on this, which I felt I might today, I will be brief. Saturn is contraction, Jupiter expansion (to oversimplify). We have all been involved in figuring out how to contract some things so others can expand. For example, the head of Netflix a few months ago decided to increase fees and make his company two companies and make his customers pay on two different accounts if they used both the mail and the online versions of his service. This was expansion of his company, as it were, but it looked to customers like contraction of their service and of their cash! They protested vigorously and many canceled their subscriptions. Eventually the CEO (whose name escapes me at the moment) relented and (a) contracted his "expansion" plans so that (b) his customer base could "expand" because their fees would "contract." This was one way he and his customers experienced the Jupiter-Saturn opposition.

It's easy to see it in finances. To have one thing, you have to cut back on something else. A more expensive apartment or house means fewer vacations, etc. Or in investing: Many investors are finding that they have to cut back their losses (contract) by either trying to "time the market" (which everyone agrees is difficult) or selecting a smaller set of companies to invest in or using some other astringent investing technique. That is the Saturn side of it. They want their investments to expand (Jupiter) but prevailing conditions require them to contract their investments in order for their income from them to expand.

"Less is more" becomes somewhat meaningful in a multitude of directions.

Another example: Jupiter pleasures include eating and drinking. They make the body expand. This is enjoyable at first, then distressing because the expanded body is less healthy. Saturn is needed desperately to curtail overeating and overdrinking. By the paradox of things, enjoying less is enjoying more, because one cannot enjoy anything if one has distended one's body to the point of ill health.

Such basic yin-yang oppositions are always present, but to a more crucial degree during the duration of this aspect. It has included the worldwide sovereign debt crisis and high unemployment. Now, and the first half of January especially, could be the time you will work out or settle some of these issues for yourself, however they are configured in your own life.

Friday may have a lot of frustrating elements in it. It would be wise to calm down and reduce outward expectations. People seem to want more than they can obtain, and so experience intense frustration. Enjoying yourself in private is good, or in a place which feels almost like home to you. You may feel like "making a big splash" while at work and while enjoying yourself, getting attention, but there is no simple way to do it, so you can be content with what develops.

I don't like the word "cruelty" but have used it recently because of the square between Mercury and Mars. This can be anger and irritation with things, necessities, and people, and the result could be intense concentration on your own ends while feeling "let them go to the blue blazes." Of course it would be wise to make sure this does not end up as conscious or unconscious cruelty.

A lecture on alcohol is not something any of us want, but it's interesting that the subject has turned up so much in what I hear and see while Neptune is highly aspected and the moon is in Pisces. So I will just say, you might want to observe closely what happens with the drinking of alcohol either by you or around you. "Moderation" is the wisdom of the ages.

Being on the move is an urge you may feel strongly, partly just to experience the variety of what is in your locale. Since the moon is void-of-course all day (beginning at 5:37a PT | 8:37a ET | 1:37p UT), this restlessness could be haphazard or unpredictable so that you end up going places you didn't expect. As in paragraph 7, home is also good, or a homelike place. People have a tendency to want to assert themselves, which is all right as long as respectful of others' rights and opinions. "Let it be" is often good advice.

{Friday} ~Chaos or Listless Variety~

Cosmic Piper