Forecast: Thursday, Friday, early Saturday, July 19-21, 2012

Sun in Cancer and Moon in Leo (reprise), 2012

Beginning Thursday 19 July at 3:14a PT | 6:14a ET | 10:14a UT
through Friday 20 July
/moon goes void-of-course Friday-Saturday 20-21
at 10:19p(F)PT | 1:19a(Sa) ET | 5:19a(Sa) UT
until Luna enters Virgo Saturday at 10:25a PT|1:25p ET|5:25p UT

*Summer Harmony*

Anybody for a cruise? That's what I thought of the second I looked at the chart for the current period. The fact that more people are taking them (and prices are often heavily discounted, check vacationstogo.com) could be connected with the presence of Neptune in Pisces--but don't rush for your ticket, you have until April 2025.

It looks like a lazy, easy summer period. Mercury retrograde (as of late last Saturday) has felt like a slightly uneasy recess--uneasy because there are things one could do, and one's conscience nags. I think we should be easier on ourselves at these times, choosing carefully major tasks and dropping minor ones which can be postponed. Easy and accessible natural beauty as in a yard or garden is emphasized this period.

Although you are careful about money (sun square Saturn), something prosperous is going on and you may feel you have plenty as compared with recent periods. Just thinking about money rolling in from income sources makes you feel good.

Those in building trades deserve our hearty appreciation; we all need homes. Although you may know nothing of those who built the rooms in which you dwell, you could give them thanks in your mind. House-building was considered a magical art, presided over by Hermes. (My only caveat with that is, I do not believe in overbuilding or in huge mansions for few residents, unless the world's population growth were to subside to make room.) A community project of some kind could be good for you, or just hobnobbing with neighbors.

All can be compatible with all, in a manner, if we work at it. Maybe there will be a neighborhood party. Well, some will put forward their ardent viewpoints, bordering on politics, which might rile you, but that is part of the "neighborhood" package. Being indignant about something wrong is a beginning of correcting it.

Adventure is fine if one is competent enough to face it. If not, such competence can be developed, and Mars-Mercury aspects favor this. What seemed scary becomes doable with practice. (Although ordinary caution always makes sense.)

Some facets of the chart are redolent of a summer church camp where hymns are offered up in a glorious natural setting. Whatever you are proud of about yourself gets reinforcement from the world. Then you feel pleased with your dominion over your bailiwick within it. There are small things you need to do which seem unfruitful, but these are part of the natural "cost of living," and dissolve within the larger glories you appreciate.

{Thursday, Friday, early Saturday} *Summer Harmony*

Cosmic Piper

"I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud." - C.G.Jung


Let those who seek the Lord be joyful in heart. --Psalm 105