Forecast: Monday and Tuesday, 30-31 July, 2012

Sun in Leo and Moon in Capricorn, 2012

Beginning Monday 30 July at 12:30a PT | 3:30a ET | 7:30a UT
through Tuesday 31 July
/moon goes void-of-course late Tuesday 31
at 4:32p PT | 7:32p ET | 11:32p UT
until Luna enters Aquarius Wednesday 1 August
at 2:57a PT | 5:57a ET | 9:57p UT

\Friendliness During Backtracking Self-Proving/

"Row, row, row your boat, fiercely past the weir,
Gloomily, gloomily, gloomily, gloomily,
Life is really a nightmare."

Did you sing that song in grade school? No? What about this one:

"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream."

I prefer the second one too. The point is, we have our choice, more or less, during the Mercury Retrograde cycle. The first was the song of the Colorado killer, who committed his crimes on July 20, six days after the retrograde cycle began. (July 15 through August 7 this time.) The second could be our song if we get in the right spirit.

"Life is but a dream" means a lot more than appears. While Mercury is retrograde, it seems almost literally true. People do get lazy, so "Up a Lazy River" could be a good theme song for the MR cycle during this summertime. If, of course, you don't have duties to keep you from the Lazy River (and most of us do). Also we get dreamy. I felt today that I wanted to vanish into dreams of the past, of a city I haven't visited for 32 years, and recover something from that era in my life which feels deep, true, poignant and ineffably beautiful. You might say that I am filtering my memories through rose-colored glasses. Perhaps. But that is not a crime when it is uplifting. Our souls remember more definitely the good from our pasts than the horrid. The latter is a nightmare which passes, although some say we have to revisit some of those nightmares in our early after-death state in order to purge ourselves of those horrid experiences and learn what we still have to learn from them. Some of that could go on during the MR period also, as in troubled dreams. Then there can be the blissful dreams. I hope you are having some of the latter, and that you deal with the former in a way to learn from them.

There is a toughness in this two-day period, perhaps a little harsher on Tuesday. It's a need to prove yourself. You have work to do and you like that work; it is your choice; yet it can be forbidding at times. You meet a defeat here and there. Insofar as you believe in your mission, you will carry on. It is well to make sure those in high positions whom you serve are honest. If they and you are, nothing can defeat you ultimately.

A verbal bomb could explode, set off by someone who disagrees about something, yet peace in the valley can be recovered. Respecting the needs of neighbors can fit in with your other responsibilities.

Whether someone you like is devoted to the arts or the sciences, he or she is friendly, or wants to be no matter what problems have come up between you. Your sensibilities, and hers or his, are refined and so can rise beyond irritations.

You are deft in handling everything at home or headquarters, shaping things slowly  in directions which please you. That gives you a feeling of freedom and independence.

No matter how wary you may be of people and activities, there can be fun and excitement. The thrill of it is not without danger.

When some things get out of kilter or have to be abandoned because of dysfunction, you may need a respite from them for a while (Mercury retrograde). Rebeginning or rebuilding is possible, but the timing is not entirely in your hands. If you take care of the most essential, the less essential will take care of themselves. (The most-most essential, in my view, is one's relation to the Highest.)

There is luxury, within limits. You might notice how superficial, even inane, is the showy display of some who think their finery or expensive tastes make them superior. On the other hand, some earned luxuries boost your and others' morale.

It's not a time for excess. "Less is more" comes back as a proverb which has not lost its value. People can enjoy themselves in friendly ways with less cost rather than more. That applies to travel as well.

Friendship is alive. Someone attracted to you is persuasive. You too can be persuasive, if you remember that people are double-minded at this time (Mercury retrograde) and also, for these two days, highly sensitive and probably worried about something. So they appreciate your friendship more than they let on.

{Tuesday and Wednesday} /Friendliness During Backtracking Self-Proving\

Cosmic Piper