Forecast: Late Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 17-19

Sun in Leo and Moon in Virgo, 2012

Beginning Friday 17 August at 5:34p PT | 8:34p ET | 12:34a(Sa) UT
through Saturday 18 August
/moon goes void-of-course Saturday
/at 4:27p PT | 7:27p ET | 11:27p UT
until Luna enters Libra Sunday-Monday
at 9:46p(Su) PT | 12:46a(M) UT | 4:46a(M) UT

\Cultivating Response to the Highest/

Advice in general during a Dark Epoch (until Wednesday the 22nd) has to be to adhere to former paths you have mapped out and verified for yourself. It appears that questionable business deals or other propositions might be in the offing and you might have to squelch most of them because they are likely to be if not deceptive then less good than what you already have.

It is wise to keep to high ground, to think high things, rather than descend to a level at which you could be harmed. You will sense what this means if you tune to your conscience and deeper self.

Interesting things may develop concerning wealth and its gaining, and how you use it to expand or improve your living quarters. You are aware of those who would plunder yourself or others to gain illicitly or unethically.

There is much you can do to make you proud of yourself. Valor, dignity, and honor are invulnerable qualities. What you have promised, you realize, you need to fulfill as best you can.

The human race is struggling to materialize powers and capabilities formerly considered miraculous. This is not easy, and at the present time the harsh aspects to Venus suggest that our hearts, feelings, affections and desires are being transformed, and this might seem brutal because it means giving up a desire, for the sake of something else which will ultimately be better but does not seem better. You might note this going on in several areas of your life. All the "why doesn't he/she love me?" songs are playing in our minds because love is being challenged to rise to a more spiritual level, which is often called selfless. Mary Baker Eddy called it "unselfed love."

An argumentative, even destroying tendency is present with Mars conjoined to Saturn, but aspects to this pair from other planets are good, so it seems that you can fight out battles within yourself rather than try to force your will on somebody in a harsh and ill-fated manner. Some around you may be working out "religious problems" in their minds and hearts, and we know how this can lead to violence in the immature who do not really understand religion or spirituality. Whether on the side of the God envisioned by a major religion or on the side of atheism, they could be bitter. You might be also.

Fortunately there are brightening influences which help all to be responsive to the better possibilities we are trying to manifest. When they don't seem present, we can invoke them in a moment of prayer (Mars and Saturn trine Neptune). There are those who are taciturn, melancholy, and so "fed up" with the human race that they become cruel. We read about them in the mass murderer or serial killer stories (which unfortunately have not all been just stories). So it is incumbent upon us to disarm mentally and emotionally disturbed people through our attitudes and prayers. Just trying is enough, usually, especially if one tries early and repeatedly as circumstances suggest your spiritual help is needed. Jesus cast out devils, or evil spirits, or foul destructive moods, immediately with His word. We can do the same, according to His promises, and so it is well to try. The attempt, through faith, can lead to internal peace and contentment.

(Late Friday, Saturday, Sunday} /Cultivating Response to the Highest\

Cosmic Piper