Wednesday, Thursday, early Friday, May 23-25, 2012

Sun in Gemini and Moon in Cancer, 2012

Beginning Wednesday 23 May at 4:32a PT | 7:32a ET | 11:32a UT
through Thursday 24 May
/moon goes void-of-course Friday 25 at 7:35a PT|10:35a ET|2:35p UT
until Luna enters Leo Friday at 3:12p PT | 6:12p ET | 10:12p UT

~Fulfilling Yet Transcending Needs~

It's moody and intense, with people holding on to what they have for dear life. There may be another spiritual world, is the attitude, but this one is the one I know and I'm fastened to it like a leech. (People hate bed bugs and mosquitoes, but are we really any different in the way we exploit other animate beings, causing them more suffering than those insects cause us?) (Couldn't help the mini-lecture, and you may find others in a similar mood.) Bain Capital! You will be hearing more about them than you want over coming months. Are human beings parasites on one another? I am sorry to bring up such unpleasant thoughts but they seem to be in the nature of current astrological aspects, that is, we find out where, how, and to what extent we are hard-nosed bastards who want what we think is our due no matter what anybody else thinks about it. Some such as Ayn Rand and Nietzsche (in some of his moods) think this is admirable.

Another potential is hard-nosed social connections, based on "Love me or else," that is, you better love me because if you don't you are a piece of .....  Pop singers, especially the females it seems, get away with expressing this attitude in their songs, which might explain why their love lives are so hideous.

Well, at its best this is refreshing up-front boldness with a pumped-up humor kick. And if you can't laugh, you will be crying.

Organizing things at home for the sake of friendship, love, or freedom of motion is one potential or necessity.

People see into one another sharply and pungently, so there is little sentiment except the raunchy and humorous, or an implicit detective-like judgment. However this can have its own kind of charm. Seeing into someone else's peccadilloes is the glory of the gossip or of the closed-mouthed but ever-ready sleuth.

For this to be a happy time you will have to depend on everybody's sense of humor. If somebody consequential doesn't have one, heaven help you.

Serving is something we all either have to do or pretend to do. So when you get no recognition or applause, you may as well chortle.

There is pride in people beyond what you might surmise. Therefore there is hurt in them when their pride has been injured, and you can't expect them to point this out to you, so you need to be perceptive enough to sense it and coddle their poor hurt feelings a little. For your own sake, of course.

A woman with a child comes to your attention and you envy her enjoyment of her motherhood (I say this as one who has fortunately never been a mother). Well, there are things she does enjoy about it, such as seeing her child learn, backtrack, and learn again through all the inevitable brattishness and gradually-more-mature prudence.

A boy, or a man in a power position, is feeling his oats and either being cutely male or chauvinistically arrogant. You are there to appreciate this or modify it, whether you are female or male. There is a factor of invitation, or each wanting to let the other in a little closer, and finding some way to do this whether event, communication, meal, or other togetherness. The moon's square with Saturn, especially Thursday and Friday, can make this more sensitive and difficult. Probably Wednesday is better for being with someone, but you do not have to hide on the other two days.

Those may be days for dignity, although you do not have to lose your sense of humor. There are times to keep it to yourself (but not with observably stifled laughter). Life is a theater but not a tragedy, or at least we do our best to prevent that, which is why I suggest comedy. But when you get weary of that, you might succumb to the blues, and learn a lot by just giving in to your anxieties and worries for a while, lying down or sitting down with closed eyes to think of someone you admire who has been through terrible sufferings. Then you can rise above yours with the spirit of that blessedly redeemed individual supporting you.

{Wednesday, Thursday, early Friday} ~Fulfilling Yet Transcending Needs~

Cosmic Piper