Sunday, December 30, 2012

Forecast for Sunday, Monday, ear.y Tuesday, December 30-January 1, 2012-13

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Leo, 2012

Beginning Saturday-Sunday December 29-30
at 11:46p(Sa) PT | 2:46a(Su) ET | 7:46a(Su) UT
through Sunday 30 and Monday 31
/moon goes void-of-course Monday 31 at 1:53p PT|4:53p ET|9:53p UT
until Luna enters Virgo Tuesday 1 at 9:36a PT|12:36p ET|5:36p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends
Monday 31-Tuesday 1 at 11:16p(M) PT | 2:16a(T) ET | 7:16a(T) UT

*Healing Within the Mystery of Subtle Change*



From the beginning of this soli-lunar phase early Sunday (first time above) until
the beginning of the next period, 8.5 hours:
Things could be happening quickly in making connections with people. A spiritual therapeutic healing force is present to help. You are industrious in the face of rivalry because you want to accomplish something. You don't want to compromise because to you what is best is clear. Some may see you as indifferent or drifting but you are passionate about what you believe as you try to learn and accomplish. Your morale is up. Where is a compass and map which can make your and others' paths clear? You care about that. You want to end disputes. A dead calm at times is a prelude to progressive activity.

Beginning
Sunday at 8:16a PT | 9:16a MT | 10:16a CT | 11:16a ET | 4:16p UT, about 2 hours
Something in your vicinity stands out as difficult for those living there, as if they were on the brink of danger or had to recover from a tragedy or crisis, as well as prevent a further one. You are not sure whether to intervene or not, but feel you are called upon to think, ponder, go deep in contemplation rather than act in a precipitate way. You could be a protective or stabilizing influence. Some others around you are acquisitive, afraid of loss, holding on desperately to something, which could explain any unpleasant reactions from them. People are finding their way out of lassitude toward something progressive and therapeutic.


Beginning Sunday at 10:31a PT, about 6 hours
The taste of freedom inspires you to keep trying whatever you can if it feels liberating and puts you on top of a social situation or ladder. You see what could be wrong and want to correct it, through speech, agitation or prodding people. This is not a mistake so long as it does not make them burn with anger toward you. You might need to look up something or write something, records, precise information or accounting. You can rise beyond resentment and remember that healing is possible throughout your activities and connections no matter what they are.

Beginning Sunday at 4:37p PT , about 3 hours
A particular location is important as a place where you can accomplish something or do research. At best, you could get stupendous insight, light from above, when you settle down to seeing how things actually work in a scientific or semi-scientific manner. This could be through study or individual experiment. You realize that your emotions should not rule, yet you experience rejuvenation in youthful style. Therefore you gravitate toward mirth, pleasure, and a cheerful companion. What could be wrong with that? Nothing, except that you also want to go deep, and to prove yourself in a big way, as if you were going to impress someone important or a spiritual guide you respect. Somehow these apparently contrary trends manage to blend.

Beginning Sunday at 7:43 p PT , about 20 hours
What is the weakness, in yourself or someone close to you, which appears a sort of parasitic tendency to use strategy and cleverness rather than solid character to get by, or secure a position one has not really earned? A hard question. You may be thinking about someone who seems like this. Far be it from me or you to be judgmental, however; there must be a reason for this person's lazy conniving approach to things. We never see the whole of anyone and ought to remind ourselves of that. This person does have fidelity to certain groups or rituals which reassure him or her. This translates into a helpful influence on others, at least part of the time. He or she and you ought to be looking to ancestral traditions, or something deep which can be a therapy for the human condition and help us know how to do work (karma yoga) in the best manner for our individual destiny-unfoldment. A fiery ordeal is sometimes the karmic manner in which someone is awakened to his better nature. The one who seeks to captivate others becomes captive in a way he does not like. But it would appear that there is a happy outcome. Friendliness, beauty, and fortunate associations are after all something to treasure, no matter what the circumstances of their attainment. Still, there is a price in some kind of effort, even for a charlatan or savvy magician.

Beginning Monday at 1:50p PT
until the end of this soli-lunar phase (when Luna enters Virgo, time above), about 18 hours
This is the void-of-course period of this phase. It will be colored at the beginning by the previous period-paragraph. Gradually it will assume the following character: You may be active but uncertain, turbulent inwardly while confused outwardly. What are you searching for? You are not sure. You want to do something which glorifies what you believe. That might seem to rule out many superficial New Year's Eve celebrations. You are aiming high, toward lofty inspiration, even salvation for the human race. You also want comfort and peace of mind, so may not know where to turn. I would suggest prayer first, and then, if that is allowed, some kind of celebration which at least does not offend your ideals. A place where the architecture is noticeable or impressive could be the right spot. Life transmogrifies into a colorful or impressive play or performance, whether in a bar or chapel. The Mysteries are revealed through subtle drama, wherever you go. You are invoking light from above while you look beyond the present toward a more blessed future for all. Happy New Year!

{Sunday, Monday, early Tuesday} *Healing Within the Mystery of Subtle Change*

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Forecast: Late Thursday, Friday, Saturday, December 27-29, 2012

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Cancer, 2012

Beginning Thursday 27 December at 12:08p PT | 3:08p ET | 8:08p UT
through Friday 28 and Saturday 29
/moon goes void-of-course Friday at 6:44a PT | 9:44a ET | 2:44p UT
until Luna enters Leo Saturday at 11:46p PT | 2:46p ET | 7:46a UT

Full Moon of Capricorn-Cancer: Friday 28 at 2:22a PT|5:22a ET|10:22a UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week runs from
Saturday 29 at 12:42p PT | 3:42p ET | 8:42p UT
through Sunday and Monday until Monday 31-Tuesday 1at 11:16p(M) PT | 2:16a(T) ET | 7:16a(T) UT

 
~Wrestling in the Depths of Therapeutic Transformation~


Like many, I am about ready to give up on the "fiscal cliff" worries and just say, "Oh well, we're going over the cliff. Pull the strap on the parachute and hope for the best." I have followed the astrological charts to sense what may happen and admit I am not able to see a clear probability. A friend who believes in one-degree orbs for aspects might be right, in that the intense Yod involving Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter, focused on the latter (retrograde in Gemini, a sign of duality, as in the duality of the Senate and House, which cannot agree on anything probably including whose face is on a dollar bill, or, if they did agree, would then exclaim "Oh, let George do it") will no longer be there by a one-degree orb in this period, but will still be there by a two-degree orb. If this helps, I will be surprised, because the moon is void-of-course through most of the period. If the President, who returns to Washington Wednesday evening, can get to some agreement with Boehner or others beginning late afternoon on Thursday to early Friday morning, voila! Otherwise, afterwards on Friday and Saturday in the void-of-course period, if they do reach a deal it will likely be temporizing and unsatisfactory to everyone, or a "kicking the can" procrastination.

The last c
hance would be Sunday and Monday including New Year's Eve. I have not studied the chart for that period because of intense astrological research plus holiday interruptions. We shall see. But I hope our Senators and Congressmen are prepared to spend their holiday in Washington. Regardless, I believe, not from astrology but from considering what economists and market-watchers have to say, that we will not be entering a recession no matter how this fiscal self-imposed crisis turns out.

 
As an experiment, let's divide this Capricorn-Cancer phase into six smaller periods:From the beginning of the phase (time above) until the beginning of the next period (time) below:
In this 3.5-hour period here is versatility, goo
d taste, and gentleness, so that you could tap into sweet abilities you are seldom as conscious of as now. Public documents or records might have a place, as if you were wanting to make something known to the world or find a way for harmonizing diverse standpoints. Is anybody going to protect the poor, the indigent, the aged, the suffering? Maybe, and in that uncover good things for themselves. 


Thursday beginning at 3:32p PT | 4:32p MT | 5:32p CT | 6:32p ET | 11:32p UT (until the next period begins):
Thi
s seems an ominous 7.5-hour period. There could be a blow-up of temperament, a defiance which is hurtful, intentionally or otherwise. It would be smart not to take what people say or do too seriously. They are deceived, even obsessed by wrong ideas or notions. What comes from them could be an accident, and rather than blow up in the face of it you could remain calm and collected until the storm passes. Difficulties are intense, but final success is not impossible. If communication fails, try again, first by calming the waters, but do not insist too vehemently on your viewpoint, giving the other time to come around or calm down. He or she is feeling distress and gloom as you are. We need to keep climbing above that.


Thursday-Friday beginning at 11:03p(Th) PT | 12:03a(F) MT | 1:03a(F) CT | 2:03a(F) ET | 7:03a(F) UT (until the next period begins):
These 5 early morning hours are the Full Moon time. Things should feel somewhat better. You are fully aware of your capacities, and they seem immense. They will be appreciated. However, you are aware also of "the opposition" and its challenges, including differing viewpoints. Not only how much "fighting" is necessary, but how much of it can be avoided through interaction in a less stressful manner is a good question. People sometimes have to go different ways. Barrenness and despondence may overtake your consciousness. You feel that the only revenge you have on opponents is spiritual, to see them ultimately fail, as the vengeance of the Old Testament prophets. Are your projects really vacuous? No, you have to be alert to what will turn up as opportunity and validation for your hopes. Meanwhile, spiritual reassurance is an immediate fortification to stabilize your feelings. [As I re-read these paragraphs, I saw how closely they could apply to our Senators and Congressmen, as well as, in different ways, the rest of us.]

Friday beginning at 3:50a PT | 4:50a MT | 5:50a CT | 6:50a ET | 11:50a UT (about 4 hours):
How does one disti
nguish between true intuition, inner guidance, and a foolish notion? Now is a time to try. You are susceptible to the former, that is, real impressions from Divinity. They could light your way if you attend them. For one thing, they would help you know how to aid anyone in trouble or incapacitated. Some such individuals could be friends in surprising ways if you aid them, but aid them you will want to do even without any return. Some may be rebellious, but the rebellion is part of themselves as they learn how to interact with the world. As a benefactor you would be a knight or saint. A playful side to this could lighten the burden. A little joking relieves tension. A time of sharing, perhaps with food and drink, is a balm to the oppressed. (If in the early-morning zones, this paragraph would probably show what you are thinking about rather than what you are doing.)

Friday-Saturday beginning Friday at 8:12a PT | 9:12a MT | 10:12a CT | 11:12a ET | 4:12p UT until the beginning of the next soli-lunar phase in the next forecast (time above, through Saturday) (about 40 hours):
This is the void-of-course period within this soli-lunar phase: a long one. Much of what was said in the previous periods may still prevail. But some of the defiance felt during the previous period is being healed. This could be from just dropping whatever is pointless to struggle with right now, turning your attention to things which help you gain internal poise: activities or interests which are therapeutic. The |karmically difficult third| of this week is upon us as well as the v-of-c, so you are sober about your prospects and wanting to be realistic and honest.

You may sense the value of rivalry and opposition. They help you define yourself, what you are really about. Your aptitudes shine out. You want people to notice them. You realize this has to be happen indirectly, so that you are not obvious in calling attention to yourself, but get it because of who you are. Apparent drift is not always what it seems. The mystery of childlikeness is present. The childlike one enters the Kingdom. Your spontaneity, when natural and gracious, puts you there. Even silence and quietude are a path, at a time like this, for you gravitate to deep places in yourself which, at first gloomy, break through into zeal for life as it is and what it can become if we cease fighting it.
A true teacher can help, as well as teaching surging from the depths as you meditate in night fearlessly.

{Late Thursday, Friday, Saturday} ~Wrestling in the Depths of Therapeutic Transformation~

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Gemini, 2012

Beginning Monday 24--Tuesday 25 December
at 11:14p(M) PT | 2:14a(Tu) ET | 7:14a(Tu) UT

 through Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26
/moon goes void-of-course late Wednesday-early Thursday 27
/at 10:51p(W) PT | 1:51a(Th) ET | 6:51a UT
until Luna enters Cancer Thursday at 12:08p PT|3:08p ET|7:08p UT


}The Edifying Riddle of the Ordinary{


The ineffable part of Christmas is pretty much beyond words, although traditional carols and songs perhaps come closest to its spirit. Here I will try to indicate the astrological flavor of these two and a half days.

Effort is not absent. Nor is that to be deprecated. However, it might be that you are not sure exactly in which direction to focus your activities. If the spirit of Christmas is there, work is enjoyable. Young people or the immature take up some of your concern. You may feel that they are weak through indecision. So much seems possible to them, but so little certain. Left or right, back or forth? They need a compass, and where is that compass? You provide it partially or indirectly, just by being yourself. You also need not withhold unpretentious advice when pertinent.

There may be questions as to whether you are unselfish or not. Are you secretly crafty and cruel? Or is someone else? You might think that about someone, even on Christmas Day or the day after. It's partly a matter of perception. People want to be themselves and so resent interference, even if without guidance or stimulus they would be weak and indecisive. Linking with those in the community on a realistic basis is a help.

At another level you are likely to be pondering complex matters and looking for remote or impossible answers. When they seem close there is the thrill of discovery. Then again the answer seems remote. This involves work or career, partly, and finances, but also just knowledge for the sake of the mental security it brings. You can be patient with this quest like a geologist looking for another rock stratum. Then you want to make what you have found visible, to inspire people, through writing, speaking or otherwise impressing their consciousness. At a subtle level something artistic and magical is going on, partly in clothing and ornamentation, which lifts all beyond the humdrum.

People enjoy eating together, sharing in a brotherhood-sisterhood; a fellowship. This releases their zeal for something better in their lives. It can take place in a durable center of the community, a home or institution, where there is a lively chance for positioning oneself between the old and new, past and future. The darkest or most remote part of this domicile is a place where people meditate to get glimmers of what is foundational in their lives. Then they are able to be thorough in living out the details of their destiny with more composure. People nurture one another in unsuspected ways.

Either you are prepared or you feel prepared for something deep and meaningful. You might stumble because, not fully ready, you try things in a quixotic way. The failure is just an opportunity to try again, and learn. That makes you sympathetic with others who feel that their failures are oppressing them even though they try to enter into fresh situations with confidence. The old failures hold them back, until they press on into frontiers which awaken their will to succeed. Life is vivifying even when not fully comprehended; indeed, who can claim to have comprehended?

People are looking for something to rely on, a token, a symbol, an icon (picture, garment, story, riddle, game) to inspire them and certify that they will be guided to a place (in their world or in consciousness) where all will be well. That place in all its splendor could be here if we perceive it and work within it peaceably.

Happy Christmas!

{Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday} {The Edifying Riddle of the Ordinary}

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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Forecast: Late Saturday, Sunday, Monday, December 22-24, 2012

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Taurus, 2012

Beginning Saturday 22 December at 10:26a PT|1:26p ET|6:26p UT
through Sunday 23
/moon goes void-of-course Monday 24-Tuesday 25
/at 9:59p(M) PT | 12:59a(T) ET | 5:59a(T) UT
until Luna enters Gemini Monday-Tuesday
at 11:14p(M) PT | 2:14a(T) ET | 7:14a(T) UT

|Karmically difficult third| of this week ends
Monday 24 at 3:01p PT | 6:01p ET | 11:01p UT

\Poised Perspective/


From some viewpoints, ordinary, simple plodding and effort are best of all. Simplicity is the key. Ambition is a delusion. Yet there is the light of knowledge, with a gift for government and diplomacy.


Complex problems or conundrums can be solved or worked out.


Signs and portents appear. You can sense how to arrange your living and your planning in accord with true destiny. 


Your full capacities are becoming evident, to others as well as yourself. You are also sympathetic and adaptable, and that is appreciated.

You do not have to be afraid to be a governor or administrator, or to work with others who have assumed such a position. You might help organize the work of a group. If that is your natural role at this point, you have the perspective and maturity to do it.

You see into the unique value of each individual in each situation. That allows you to enhance those values so that all are able to learn and gain through poised perspective.

{Late Saturday, Sunday, Monday} /Poised Perspective\

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Aries, 2012

Beginning Wednesday-Thursday 19-20 December
at 11:44p(W) PT | 2:44a(Th) ET | 7:44a(Th) UT
through Friday 21
/moon goes void-of-course Saturday 22 at 4:58a PT|7:58a ET|12:58p UT
until Luna enters Taurus Saturday at 10:26a PT|1:26p ET|6:26p UT

Sun enters Capricorn (Winter Solstice)
Friday 21 at 3:13a PT|6:13a ET|11:13a UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week runs from
Friday 21 at 5:54p PT | 8:54p ET | 1:54a(Sa) UT
through Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 until
Monday 24 at 3:01p PT | 6:01p ET | 11:01p UT

*Foundations Remain Foundations*


Maybe you have a bone to pick with me. I never hear from anyone when they disagree, only when they agree. I said in the previous forecast, "you can organize time and projects without worry over interruptions, sidetracks or confusion. Timing is easier." Well, that was not true for me. I had numerous interruptions, sidetracks, and temporary confusions. The good news is that they all got straightened out by the middle of the period or a little later. In afterview they were not terrible but at the time they were annoying and appeared to be time-wasting. I would suspect you have been going through some of the same. There are a few lessons to be learned, in terms of astrology (and I hope those of you who don't care for technical astrology will nevertheless pick up clues and perspective from what is said here):

1. Although we are in the Bright Hermetic Epoch, there are other factors. One of the most prominent is the position and aspects of Jupiter, which is now in "high focus" according to the incomparable methods of Marc Edmund Jones and so dominates the skies. (Parenthetically, it is also closer to the earth than it will be until 2021, which I learned from my astrological friend Shawn Collins.) Jupiter is a good planet, in fact the best according to the ancients. But it is both retrograde and in a sign of its detriment (Gemini). It is also the focus of a powerful Yod configuration, quincunx Saturn on one side and Pluto on the other. Another astrological friend makes a great deal of this as an unfortunate indication. I rather think that it is "the unfortunate-working-out-toward-the fortunate" which is what the quincunx and Yod seem to indicate. A karmic process. Since Jupiter is in Gemini and retrograde, it involves backtracking in terms of papers, information, accounts, details of accounting or other information, copying, making copies of things, writing, communicating, and of course Christmas cards for those who do them. So none of this has been easy, and there has been backtracking, and needless duplication (Gemini is "the twins" and a "dual sign"). I had to walk twice to my bank yesterday to work out some complicated stuff involving a notarized statement. That was a perfect example. I had to write a letter twice or actually three times, and put the letter on the same page as the notarized statement, which I had to duplicate from a form. This involved so much "copying" and duplication of effort that it was not funny. I ended up seeing not one notary but two. The "twins" (working in the same bank). Hours of my time. I hope you did not have to go through something like that, but in some area of your life you probably did. Another example: this morning I ordered a book from A Libris, and somehow because of confusing information on their pages ordered two copies instead of one. I am not going to waste hours of my life trying to correct this but will just have two copies. Perhaps there is a good "final cause" reason for that--I intend to give one away and perhaps the other will come in handy. "The twins" again, even in terms of a Christmas gift. (Maybe you should give socks or mittens or something else which comes in pairs?)


2. Yet, I say, this is not as bad as it would be if we were in a Dark Hermetic Epoch. We are in a bright one until February 8. And so by the end of the day I did feel better about the process I am going through, as if it were all under control at least.

3. I encourage you to re-read these reports in the middle of the period for which they are intended. I think most of you read them early, or in the previous period, and you may not sense or understand what they are referring to until much later. You may think I was "off" but if you re-read the forecast toward middle or end of the period, you may see what I was driving at and get much more help from it.

The current period covering Thursday, Friday and early Saturday has potentials of profound discovery and enlightenment. Many things are going very well. You are content with your home and perhaps your family situation. Whatever attention you give to that will be well-rewarded. The only negative note is an intensification of things, perhaps because of holiday preparations, but this, although upsetting to aplomb, is just something to keep you alert and active. "Stay awake," Jesus said to his disciples. At the ordinary level this means not postponing what you need to do. At the spiritual level it means remembering the Supreme and your mission in relation to Him and Her. When these two seem to conflict, moments of rest and meditation can restore perspective so you know what to do and not to do.

Archeology or mining may come into your consciousness, something connected with the deep earth. It could be real estate. What is your foundation, and how are you discovering more about it? Maybe old family homes arise in your memory.

The desire to push ahead toward discovery, in whatever area of your life that is important, is intense. It could lead to impatience and anger when you feel something or someone is frustrating that personal, very individual search.

Astronomy or astrology may get your attention in a big way, for you are desiring to see and grasp the contexts of everything. A cold winter's night is not a bad time to gaze at the stars. As for planets, Venus is the early-morning star in the East, and Mars should be visible in the West up to two hours after sunset. These two remain in a mysterious septile aspect, as they have been for a week, suggesting that relations between the sexes (or same-sex relationships) are taking on more significance than you may realize on the surface.

You think, ponder, and puzzle things out. The complexities seem not so much baffling as intriguing, and you feel confident that with time and patience you can find answers.

Others also are persevering in their quests for edification. The human race seems to understand that the darkest nights of the year provide an avenue for inner enlightenment. The outer ceremonies and rituals of colored lights are a symbol of that. You might find yourself joining, in consciousness or fellowship, with others in loyalty to high ideals.

This seems a wonderful time for holiday moods and parties, get-togethers, and freedom to relax contentedly with anyone close to you (even strangers). The intensity and individuality of the time need not cause flare-ups but add spice and interest. Self-control seems hard at first; wonderful thereafter.

People are feeling that the year has not been bad. They feel more secure and established in dominion over their lives. Therefore they meet any intensified temporary storm or crisis with knowledge, power, and dignified self-reliance. That means those around you and yourself. And so what is there to fear? If the Mayan calendar means anything, it means we are coming together as a human race to meet the unguaranteed future more sanely and cooperatively.

{Thursday, Friday, early Saturday} *Foundations Remain Foundations*

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Forecast for late Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, December 17-19, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces, 2012

Beginning Monday 17 December at 4:49p PT|7:49p ET|12:49a(T) UT
through Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19
/moon goes void-of-course Wednesday-Thursday
/at 9:20p(W) PT | 12:20a(Th) ET | 5:20a(Th UT
until Luna enters Aries Wednesday-Thursday
at 11:44p(W) PT | 2:44a(Th) ET | 7:44a(Th) UT

~Peaceful Steadfastness According with Destiny~


Normality seems to be the keynote. Doesn't that sound refreshing?

That means you can organize time and projects without worry over interruptions, sidetracks or confusion. Timing is easier
. There is much patience and a determination to stick with things over the long haul because you sense you are on the right track. You keep working steadfastly because it seems the smartest, simplest, most satisfying thing to do.
Relatives have a value for you, no matter how hard it may be to understand some things about their behavior. Anybody who does Christmas cards or other holiday greetings may be in just the right mood for it.
Many habits and schedules you have established for yourself make sense, and it is refreshing to carry them out and see them succeed as they ought to. They are bearing fruit. That makes you feel like treating everyone kindly and benevolently.

If you have any travel plans, they might be developing quickly. There are easily available ways to get from here to there
. You might be careful, however, to be sure you want to gallivant as much as you think, because you could overdo it. 


Goods you need are available through purchase or bargaining. If you are in business or selling anything, you may catch on to a clever way of doing it. Mutually beneficial deals can be struck. (Let us hope this might be happening in Congress.)

You have counted your cards carefully so as not to make imprudent moves. You are defending yourself from loss. At the same time, you are daring enough to get past roadblocks which would cause delay and stagnation.

Those in need of help call forth your sympathy and aid. You have the skills to do this. It does not matter if there are differences of opinion about methods. Your own methods will work, even if modified for particular purposes, or to fit with the presuppositions of whomever you are trying to help. Such self-sacrifice is sure to gain a karmic return whenever you need assistance yourself.

From the standpoint of "who you are" and what you are about, you have a destiny to be the one who takes on and fulfills hopes or missions of someone you admire. There is no fanfare over this, but quiet, calm responsibleness which brings peace and order into your world.

{Late Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday} ~Peaceful Steadfastness According with Destiny~

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Forecast: Late Saturday, Sunday, early Monday, December 15-17, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Aquarius, 2012

Beginning Saturday 15 December at 1:54p PT|4:54p ET|9:54p UT
through Sunday 16
/moon goes void-of-course Monday 17 at 10:13a PT|1:13p ET|6:13p UT
until Luna enters Pisces Monday at 4:49p PT|7:49p ET|12:49a(T) UT


|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends
Monday 17 at 5:07a PT | 8:07a ET | 1:07p(T) UT  


}Intoxicating Understanding{

Explaining, astrologically, something like the school killings of Friday is next to impossible, that is, predicting them is impossible and the after-view of what happened is always also problematic because any skeptic could say "But it didn't have to happen." Of course not. Astrology is not fatalism. I admit I did not predict something like this in the forecast covering the period. However, one of the symbols I used, for the placement of a prominent planet during the period, was from the 19th-century clairvoyant Senior Borelli, as interpreted by Charubel (Walter Gorn Old). Here it is: "A broken tree struck by a lightning flash. This is the index of a mind occupied with abortive projects, vain ambitions, and unfortunate relationships. His life is likely to be short and his end sudden. All his ambitions will fall short of accomplishment, and dire catastrophe will cut off his hopes ere he can reap the harvest of his endeavors. It is a degree of Abscission." One can see readily how accurate this is as applied to the way many individuals experienced the day, especially of course the killer, his victims and their families. Those not directly affected by the school tragedy also experienced something like this. I did. I had to spend several hours on the phone, then copying documents and preparing them to mail, then standing in a long line at the post office, to try to straighten out a so-called "debt" which I in fact do not owe but have to spend maybe a hundred hours proving that I do not owe it. In my younger days this might have made me feel like killing somebody. Likewise, I had an argument with a friend during this period which was unusually "violent" at the verbal level. Not only the degree-symbol just given, but the presence of the moon in Capricorn (where it is in its detriment) with both Mars and Pluto is a rather ominous indication, bespeaking potential violence coming from a heart of bitterness. So it was.

But I admit that, once again, I tried to take the optimistic view. I cannot see a reason to write these forecasts if all I said was, "Another bleak day, watch out for violence." Would that really help anyone? Instead I said, "
When there is defeat, apparently, one can accept it gracefully and maintain one's morale into the next phase of things, which could be a cycle of victory even if in a changed milieu. It is good to be expedient, using what one has in the most felicitous manner rather than mourning over what one does not have."  And, "If there are plans which have failed utterly in your life, that is just what is. You can accept it rather than be bitter about it. At any age there are further vistas to experience and further attempts to be made. Someone, perhaps a woman, inspires you to carry on and heals your wounded pride." This would have been excellent advice for the killer, if he had read it that morning and pondered it. Instead, you who read these forecasts are already good, honorable, responsible people who do not need help as much as those who do not read the forecasts, which includes billions. I don't know what to do about that. This second quotation also applied to me exactly, and three women were very helpful to me in helping me to carry on.

And so I carry on, with another forecast.

The often confused thinking of recent period, so evident in Washington, continues, while both Mercury and Jupiter are in signs of their detriment. This is not hopeless and should be getting better by the day while Mercury increases in speed.

This period appears to be "bipolar," or in other words, manic-depressive, that is, you alternate between high inspiration which makes you feel capable of anything at all, and a "realistic" feeling that you have to keep toiling and slaving on and on, a servant of servants, to accomplish anything worth while. Well, that alternation must sound familiar, but the chart suggests that it will be intense.

Even though we're in the |karmically difficult third| of this week, I would not discourage you from having a good time or being with people in as happy a context as possible. You could be mentally intoxicated, and perhaps fluidly at some point, but this need not have disastrous consequences if you are reasonably careful.

You are getting some welcome recognition, and seeing how you can get more of it. That is satisfying to your ego, which needs something to uplift it. You have been valiant, brave, and successful along some line and this is a badge you wear. It does not have to make you big-headed and obnoxious, which would get you slapped down in quick order. That probably won't happen because another side of you is resigned to your lot, content with what you have and where you are, the position you are in and associates who just turn up. And that is good because is not G*d everywhere? And in every situation, awaiting our recognition?

You get healing from certain sources, and you know what they are. This could be Scripture, other spiritual reading, chanting, meditating, praying, repeating mantra, or singing. Any or all of this could be unusually uplifting. Then you will see how to balance that with what needs to be done in a more practical manner. You will not flinch from criticism or self-criticism. Reading good literature is a path of criticism, in a way, even when it is comedic or humorous. Religious or spiritual discussions help us rise beyond ourselves, if we are humble enough to see other viewpoints and learn from them.

{Late Saturday, Sunday, early Monday} {Intoxicating Understanding}

Cosmic Piper

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Forecast: Late Thursday, Friday, early Saturday, December 13-15, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Capricorn, 2012

Beginning Thursday 13 December at 1:44p PT|4:44p ET|9:44p UT
through Friday 14
/moon goes void-of-course Saturday 15 at 1:16p PT|4:16P ET|9:16p UT
until Luna enters Aquarius Saturday at 1:54p PT|4:54p ET|9:54p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week runs from
Saturday 15 at 2:38a PT|5:38a ET|10:38a UT
until Monday 17 at 5:07a PT|8:07a ET|1:07p UT

\Peaceful Retraction Preceding Further Expansion/


Early Thursday we have a New Moon, and late Thursday the beginning of the two-month Bright Hermetic Epoch. (Exact times were given in the previous forecast.) So we are at a small beginning of fresh things. Emphasize small. It is still early so you may not see exactly where you are going, but there is renewed hope and expectation.

I said last time that perhaps by Friday there would be a breakthrough in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. I will not take that back, but must modify it. Maybe the "breakthrough" will be invisible. And maybe it will be of the nature of "kicking the can down the road" as many express it, that is, a temporary agreement which allows things to coast into the New Year with a limited amount of stress before new negotiations begin with a new Congress. This will be disappointing but not disastrous. Or, perhaps a further agreement of a more promising sort will be available next week which is the last week it could happen before the Congressional holiday recess.

Whatever disappointments you feel may be overcome partially by giving attention to your appearance or persona. We all can present ourselves to the world in a happy, progressive, inspiring way rather than a dull depressing way, and physical appearance has little to  to do with it. Yes, one wants to be clean and
neat and have one's hair in appropriate array, but that is almost the least of it, if the light of Spirit lights one's eyes.

When things develop swiftly as if by magic, this is encourag
ing. You will see that in some area of your life.


When there is defeat, apparently, one can accept it gracefully and maintain one's morale into the next phase of things, which could be a cycle of victory even if in a changed milieu. It is good to be expedient, using what one has in the most felicitous manner rather than mourning over what one does not have. Then the little one has seems to expand and one's "needs" contract.If you sit down at a table or desk with a pen and paper, calculator, computer, drawing board, or any other tools, and work out something in your mind with the help of these instruments, you will get solid understanding about some important plan which you can promote with your ingrained faculties and turn into ultimate success. 


If there are plans which have failed utterly in your life, that is just what is. You can accept it rather than be bitter about it. At any age there are further vistas to experience and further attempts to be made. Someone, perhaps a woman, inspires you to carry on and heals your wounded pride. With equanimity you can perceive what chances you have in the future and move optimistically toward them. Your inner understanding of life is worth far more than any outer possession.


/Peaceful Retraction Preceding Further Expansion\

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Forecast: Late Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday, December 11-13, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Sagittarius, 2012

Beginning Tuesday 11 December at 2:23p PT|5:23p ET|10:23p UT
through Wednesday 12
/moon goes void-of-course Thursday 13 at 12:43a PT|3:43a ET|8:43a UT
until Luna enters Capricorn Thursday at 1:44p PT|4:44p ET|9:44p UT

The New Moon of Sagittarius occurs Thursday 13
at 12:43a PT | 3:43a ET | 8:43a UT


The Dark Hermetic Epoch (since October 18) ends 
and the Bright Hermetic Epoch (until February 8) begins
Thursday December 13-Friday December 14

at 10:01p(Th) PT | 1:01a(F) ET | 6:01a(F) UT

*From Disagreement Toward Harmony*

 
I would not be surprised, because of additional indications in the daily charts, if some kind of breakthrough in the "financial cliff" negotiations in Washington could occur late Thursday or Friday. Let us hope. 


Meanwhile, for this soli-lunar period:

Setting the stage 

There is danger of harsh argument or disagreement. When people do not "see eye to eye," one or the other is wrong! We are afraid to acknowledge that, because everybody wants to be right. I am not encouraging you to be arrogant, however, because only the Perfect Mind can discern at every moment who is right on a given matter and who is wrong. We need to be humble enough to prevent violent disagreements. At another level or at the same time, you know you have an ability you can use. You can sit at your drawing board, artist's palette, machine shop, or computer and do what you do well. This includes putting pictures on paper, or else firming them up in your mind, pictures of what you hope to do, or designs and architectural or engineering schemes, or beauty for beauty's sake. Rather than fight, you show that you are master in your realm of creativity.

The play
A lot of things start to happen quickly. A magical power is being unloosed. At best it is leashed upward to high, worshipful understanding of your place in the cosmic scheme, so that although you are humble you are all the more powerful. The one who bows to G*d receives Supreme energy for good. We are nearing a point where recent discords can be harmonized, even if that seem too good to be true. You can be brave and persuasive toward those of weaker faith or smaller understanding. They need a leader. If you don't want that role, you may be following someone who inspires you toward brave endeavor. While we are learning how to fulfill our destiny-duty, we are followers as well as leaders.

Curtain 

Methods of healing, probably more spiritual than physical, relieve your anxiety when you feel worn out or depressed. Drinking a cup of water or tea can be an experience in meditation, whether alone or as a shared semi-sacrament. There can be singing, there can be worship, and sublime sentiment. There can be healing of the battles or arguments mentioned, through sensing that the one with whom you disagree has a part to play in a larger diaspora of which you are also a small but important detail. People persuade one another by being what one another respect. This you will do naturally when you are intent on whatever lifts your living toward a level of sacrament.

{Late Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday} *From Disagreement Toward Harmony*


Cosmic Piper