Forecast: Late Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, 4-6 March 2012

Sun in Pisces and Moon in Leo, 2012

Beginning Sunday 4 March at 3:19p PT | 6:19p ET | 11:19p UT
through Monday 5 March
/moon goes void-of-course Tuesday 6 at 5:28p PT | 8:28p ET | 1:28A(W) UT
until Luna enters Virgo Tuesday at 7:28p PT | 10:28p ET | 3:28a(W) UT

*Conciliation*

It could be important to be conciliatory, rather than rash and resentful. This will not make you a door-mat. The sun opposed to Mars retrograde means people are not thinking clearly when they argue or get upset. So even if you are right, you will seem wrong and repellent. Maybe bowing out from the confrontation would be wise, or trying to explain yourself and then dropping it. (Thanks to astrologer Isabel Hickey, who helped me find the right words here.)

The good luck people have been having in fact can make them arrogant, or starting to feel they are invulnerable, and so becoming unfeeling or cruel to others. It's like the rich kid who becomes a bully, with his dad's lawyers on his side. This, of course, has its limits but can work for a while. The opposition of Venus with Saturn makes people feel the weight of the loves and friendships they have lost, so they can become morose and then cruel without realizing what is happening.

There can be a mental sharpness derived from doing your work conscientiously and trying to perfect it. Then you feel rightly proud of yourself. Much remains to be done to bring your talents and skills into line with reality, that is, successful, but you welcome the challenge.

The financial side of things seems to be perking along no matter what you do, that is, by being yourself and doing what is most interesting to you your finances are brought up to speed automatically. So when it seems you don't have enough, that is an illusion. You have enough to proceed with the next step, and the rest will take care of itself.

The hysteria people have felt over national and international banking and finance, and sovereign debts, seems to be receding. Those in power have managed to avoid most of the pitfalls and calm the waves of anxiety, at least for now, and that is reassuring. The same could be true in a friendship or relationship, but more time may be needed for healing (last sentence of paragraph 2).

Turning around and looking at some people as if they were your children might help. In other words, when you start to care about their well-being as if they were your own, you release potentials of goodness in yourself and them, and protect them from whatever might have been a danger. We all need care and protection from a loving Deity. (Those who think they do not might benefit from the first sentence of paragraph 2, which perhaps describes Ayn Rand and her followers.)

There is force--to be used sparingly--and there is diplomacy, to be used generously. It's true that much depends on the situation. If force is required, we are back in the days of endless warfare, which most of us thought could be ended by the 21st century. Perhaps there is hope, even with the radical differences between the Muslim and the Western secular worlds. (Paragraph 1, when applicable.)

{Sunday(late), Monday, Tuesday} *Conciliation*

Cosmic Piper