Forecast for Tuesday 13 December 2011

Tuesday 13 December 2011

~Mercury's Station: Patient Poise~

There is a likelihood of attempting too much and going in circles. A better focus is gradually returning while Mercury slows to its station before turning direct late tonight or early tomorrow depending on your time zone. Slowdown is good if it is what you feel you have to do. From tomorrow to January 1, Mercury will gradually gain speed and your plans will become sharper and more confident.

A glimmer of this may come after the moon enters Leo at 1:49p PT | 4:49p ET | 9:49p UT.

I believe it is good to slow down, sit down, and meditate or pray while Mercury is at its station or near it (give and take a whole day or more). The station occurs at 5:44p PT | 8:44p ET | 1:44a(W) UT.

I always have to preach a sermon on Venus square Saturn when it occurs. It will be with us through December 21 (smaller orb) or December 26 (larger orb). It need not be a horrible time (encompassing Christmas as it happens to do) but one needs to understand what it is all about.

Love (Venus) is up against reality (Saturn), to put it boldly and bleakly. This is not just romantic love but everything including family relationships, friendships, and casual relations with co-workers, customers, clients.

That formula comes out in a lot of ways. 1. Older people become important, or those with troubles whether older or younger. They are suffering and you may not feel sympathetic. Sympathy is something to cultivate at this time.

2. People are touchy. They are pondering their own problems and may not feel they have time for yours. The little things in your behavior which they don't like but usually overlook become looming horrors to them. You may feel the same about them at certain moments.

3. Income and costs can be a problem. You have to make do with less than usual, perhaps. Let's all accent easy, less expensive forms of gift-giving, whether the merchants like that or not.

4. One tends to feel worse about oneself. One sees into one's own weaknesses and failures. This can make for humility, at best. So let's be humble! (Am I more humble than you?) God became a helpless baby, some Christians say.

5. People from your past whom you usually forget start to loom large. You think about them, whether they are alive or deceased, here or elsewhere, and feel you owe them a phone call or card or some form of communication, touching base. This may always be true this time of year, but even more so with this aspect.

6. "Nobody loves me" is a common feeling with Venus square Saturn. Remember that others feel it too. If this can be transmuted to the faith that "God loves me," or "God loves you," something real has been gained.

Remember, the above points could be specially applicable through the day after Christmas.

Tuesday: When there are hints of strife or contention, you might turn to ancient teachings you believe in which have helped you in the past. The best of our past is there to lean on, an everlasting present.

You can be affectionate and honorable even when you feel down, worried, or anxious. The moon's aspects are a mixed bag. You could pull poise out of them.

(If this seems impossible, the time given in paragraph 2 might help.)

Weakness can be transmuted into graciousness. Humility can be pleasing. Then you find a poise surging up into determination to do the things you really want to do, cutting through all obstacles while the sun's trine with Jupiter grants faith and confidence. Yet, sometimes the slower, more careful and deliberate path is necessary or better (paragraphs 1 and 3).

{Tuesday} ~Mercury's Station: Patient Poise~

Cosmic Piper