Sun in Cancer and Moon in Gemini, 2012

Beginning Saturday 14 July at 5:28a PT | 8:28a ET | 12:28p UT
through Sunday 15 July
/moon goes void-of-course Monday 16 at 3:58a PT|6:58a ET|10:58a UT
until Luna enters Cancer Monday at 5:32p PT| 8:32p ET | 12:32a(T) UT

}Remarkable!{

Our moon is shrinking but in the 11th sector of "friendship" Saturday and Sunday, so connecting with people is favored. This is indicated also by Mars trining both Jupiter and Venus in air signs. Hobnobbing with people is recommended, whether in person or via Internet or phone.

Some will be traveling or going farther out of their neighborhoods than usual. Delays (Mercury slowing down) or peculiar setbacks should not faze you; take them as opportunities for adventure. (While waiting for a delayed bus, I chatted with a fellow waiter and it was a happy conversation for both of us.)

People are happy about some secret business deals, even if other deals are not to their liking. This is a time to do work you enjoy, if you do any work, and probably you will, whether hobby or other, because you feel like it. Sheer entertainment is also very much favored.

The Dark Epoch has its perks, and slacking off is one of them.

Still, Mars and Saturn are in positions suggesting a concern with your career path, so you can be pondering that or settling things connected with it.

Is there more than one Messiah? Doctrinal Christians will say No. I think the answer is more complex. Jesus was an Avatar, a Messiah, but that would not preclude others from being so. Sri Aurobindo was another, and I say that as one who has tested his work and his teachings for forty years. I know. There are lesser "messiahs," prophets or teachers also, whose work has been extremely important to me. Who is helping you to become more than merely human?

We can all be tolerant of those who think the truth is contained only in one sect, church or teaching. After all, they have found a facet of the truth, and know it helps them. If they follow that path to the end, they may rise far above those who superciliously think of themselves as "universal" and yet are shallow.

Sheer power of intellect rising toward the Overmind is with us during this period to a remarkable degree. The human mind can only attain its real power when inundated by that Overmind or the even higher Supermind (as Sri Aurobindo taught and demonstrated).

There is an inception of something crucial in a relationship. You have made a choice, or are making one, and it does not have to be an eternal choice but must be adequate to the changing current situation. You can have more than one close companion and find somehow what your direction is through both or all of them.

Some fateful, destiny-laden links are invisible or telepathic. You get intimations from those who are far away, or even gone from the  outer world. This can be pertinent and fortunate.

At a more practical level, you are shrewd. That means you separate, perhaps immediately and instinctively, what is useless from what is useful in your life-adventure. Will this benefit you and those you care about, or hurt them? You can tell at once.

You can meet strife or disagreement wisely. You have differed radically with some in recent weeks about something which could upset your neighborhood. It seems you are learning exactly how to handle the situation. You can be masterful in this regard. Opponents cannot resist the truth.

At one level, you can oppose those who would plunder the environment and other human beings. At another level, you can play a sort of game with some who are not intentionally hurtful and learn something from the play while enjoying it. These may be two separate matters, but could reinforce each other.

This is an intricate report. I encourage you to re-read it and mark those parts which apply most to you and your situation. This seems a remarkable period for most of us, and mostly excellent. (Monday may be more off-base because the moon will be void-of-course.) The final paragraphs dealt with the more difficult factors but should not obscure the happier prognoses.

{Saturday, Sunday, Monday} {Remarkable!}

Cosmic Piper