Forecast for Saturday 24 December 2011

Saturday 24 December 2011

\Selfhood Appreciated/

Since there is no Sunday forecast (I need a sabbatical once a week), this will be the Christmas forecast for all practical purposes. There should be a regular forecast for Monday, G*d willing.

To my discredit, I must say that on Friday morning when I read the forecast to help me with a difficult day ahead, I was disappointed and felt I had failed. I then noticed several factors in the daily chart which I should have emphasized more than I did, to give better guidance. Then, to my credit, I must say that a few hours later I re-read it and it was speaking volumes to me which I had failed to see earlier. I say this to help you, in case you have similar experiences. Often we can't see what the forecast means until later in the day, or at the end of it. If they seem like impenetrable riddles when first read, that may change later.

That said, I am yet aware of a need for improvement and strive to make the forecasts better based on daily detailed evaluation.

On Christmas day itself, Jupiter, now going backward, becomes motionless (from geocentric perspective of course) and turns direct. This is important especially because this is Jupiter's "refranation" from making another exact opposition with Saturn. But that aspect remains with us until April by normal ten-degree orb. So we should evaluate what it means.

You have been hard on yourself. Rightly so! You are the only one (with G*d's help) who can rectify your mistakes, and mistakes we all make ("sins" in theological language), and we need to become aware of them. This you have been doing for the past year and a half.

From a more egocentric angle, you have been aware of failures "in the world" or in terms of your normal ambitions and hopes. Hear what Robert DeLuce says of this aspect: "Losses of money, position, and reputation may bring the native 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." And so "recovery" could be a keyword for the period beginning on Christmas and lasting through the coming Bright Hermetic Epoch (until the next Dark begins on February 27).

To re-emphasize the sense of beginnings, we have a New Moon today at 10:08a PT | 1:08p ET | 6:08p UT. Its beneficent nature is shown by its trine with Jupiter. Truly this Winter Solstice is a time of rebirth.

As preparation for that, you might note what you experience during the hours of 4:30a-8:30a PT | 7:30a-11:30a ET | 12:30p-4:30p UT, when the moon trines Jupiter closely. This is a Christmas Eve blessing giving you hope. Since it precedes the New Moon, perhaps you could be quiet, contemplative and receptive at that time. Praise G*d! (represented partly by Zeus, Jupiter).

Criticism of others and resulting upset are not absent, but can be transmuted by remembering that all have their frailties and are learning how to be good, intelligent human beings through more than one lifetime. Some are in kindergarten.

Older ones of good character (embodied or unembodied) are blessing you if you cooperate with them.

If you forsake fault-finding (while yet seeing faults) and focus on your own potentials, you will gain illumination and feel married to the world. (A dangerous partner, but it is hard to find another.)

Rich gains are possible by being bold and fearless, honorable and diplomatic.

Competition is good when it means demonstrating the validity of your acquired or being-acquired skills. You are eliminating mistaken trails or methods. You see far off, and into the future of your career, while at home.

{Saturday} /Selfhood Appreciated\

Cosmic Piper

P. S. Have a Blessed Christmas Eve and a Happy Christmas!