Forecast: Thursday, Friday, early Saturday, March 22-24, 2012

Sun in Aries and Moon in Aries, 2012

Beginning Thursday 22 at 2:58a PT | 5:58a ET | 9:58a UT
through Friday 23 March
/moon goes void-of-course Saturday 24 at 10:18a PT | 1:18p ET | 5:18p UT
until Luna enters Taurus Saturday at 2:44p PT | 5:44p ET | 9:44p UT

*Life-Vector at Poise*

As we meander through the Mercury-retrograde period (until April 4) we are feeling optimistic yet somewhat held back from expressing optimism in bold action. That is good because probably our plans need further development before implementation.

The New Moon (Thursday at 7:38a PT | 10:38a ET | 2:38p UT) grants a good deal of optimism and probably luck. One feels "ready for anything" whether or not one is really prepared for "anything." There are restraining influences which could squelch some of that initially unrestrained hope, and that makes it more determined and desperate, so that one could become disagreeable, insisting that one must be the first among rivals. That is a natural boy-adolescent desire, Aries in sum. As a matter of fact, you might be building yourself up to a position of eminence. This will be more evident on Thursday; by Friday there are questions about it and a need to hunker down to basics. Your time is coming, but sometimes the ram on the mountain has to stand still surveying the landscape and the rest of the flock.

Another trend is more socially facilitative--harmonious and hopeful, graceful and sympathetic. You find reciprocity with those close enough to you in interests and aspirations to share the implicit vector of your life-direction. We all want companions who are "birds of a feather" and rarely find them. Sometimes this can happen in fantasy life (whether dreaming, day-dreaming, reading or viewing films) before it happens in actuality, the former evoking the latter as if by magic.

Anyone, female or male, who has felt restrained or hemmed in, enslaved or misused, is likely to be smarting and trying to manifest freedom directly or indirectly. Someone in an institution or a harem has to do that mostly indirectly, yet the urge to freedom will out one way or another. The figurative "harem" is an enslaving or abusive relationship. This could involve you, someone close to you, or both.

Whatever that has been, there are both negative and positive influences pushing it toward resolution of one sort or another. You might recall what has been said here about the past two years, the period of Jupiter's opposition with Saturn, making for major life-change for each individual. Can you look back and sense what that has been for you? Even if you can't define it in so many words (although that might help), you could get the drift of it. You are seeing things differently now than two years ago. Likewise, anyone with whom you are involved as friend or partner.

There has been a big push for freedom, ruggedness and experiment, rusticity, heart-richness, generosity. There has been also an opposite tendency to ridicule, scorn, or belittle people, especially some important to you. Perhaps you are seeing how self-defeating that is. You see how others justly or unjustly do the same to you. Contempt is a very unlovely human vice. Some cast it toward mate, child, parent, even G*d. After it works its mischief, we may remember and learn, and resolve to understand rather than contemn, be flexible in our awareness of who people are and are trying to be rather than rigidly judgmental. This might be specially important late Friday and Saturday.

The one who learns from mistakes is the one who recovers from them.

{Thursday, Friday, early Saturday} *Life-Vector at Poise*

Cosmic Piper

"A man may think he is always right,
but the Lord fixes a standard for the heart."
"Persevere in right conduct and loyalty
and you shall find life and honour."
"A horse may be made ready for the day of battle,
but victory comes from the Lord."
--Proverbs 21: 2, 21, 31