Forecast: Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday, 2012

Sun in Virgo and Moon in Aquarius, 2012

Beginning Tuesday 28 August at 10:40a PT | 1:40p ET | 5:40p UT
through Wednesday 29 August
/moon goes void-of-course Thursday 30
/at 10:49a PT | 1:49p ET | 5:49p UT
until Luna enters Pisces Thursday at 3:32p PT|6:32p ET|10:32p UT

}Private Competence{

We may be feeling we are "too good for this world." Is that a sin? It is perhaps more a practical problem, since it inclines to disinclination to work or "get things done." The esoteric teachings agree that we are "too good for this world," in the sense that we are essentially spiritual beings. Our "fall" into material conditions is considered to be necessary however for our development. During this 2.5-day period, many may feel that they are "too good" within themselves to bother themselves with material concerns, and lie down for a nap. Perhaps they need that, and perhaps they deserve it. Meanwhile, they may be missing material opportunities to "better themselves" in the ordinary sense, that is, in terms of material well-being. An individual balance needs to be maintained. The chart suggests that many will be neglecting very good opportunities to "get things done." Those opportunities are denoted by the sun's sextile with Mars and Pluto plus the sun's trine with Pluto. Perhaps the trine of Mars and Saturn with Neptune will help, for it suggests a basic harmony between the spiritual and material. If we can realize and implement this in specific areas of our lives, we will be able to "get things done" without sacrificing spiritual beatitude. Ordinarily, that is a tall order, but it should be one goal of human life. Refusing to do work which makes one relatively self-sufficient puts more of a burden on others.

Those involved in a relationship have a lot to think about. Now that we have computers, I recommend to astrologers that they set up their programs with a 2-degree orb for septiles, bi-septiles and tri-septiles, and see how those aspects pattern in their charts and speculate as to what they might mean. Right now we have a fascinating septile pattern with Mars, Venus, and Uranus, all of them in one of the aforementioned aspects to the other two. One thing this might mean is "too much individuality for a relationship." In other words, the feeling is "I am too good for this person" or some such feeling. Or maybe "this person is too good for me" or just a sense of varying individuality such that rapport is challenged. Even lovers are turning their backs to one another. This might not be anger, rage, or upset but just a need to be chastely sensitive and delicate. "I don't need to face the issues this person raises for me" is part of the feeling. "Not now, that is." There would be awkwardness face-to-face, so why deal with it? That does not imply a rejection of the other, but a respite.

This goes along with the Venus-square-Saturn problems discussed in the previous report (first paragraph). When this is not utter loneliness and despair of ever being loved, it is more like a reluctance to test the waters, a bashfulness. There could be an internal feeling that the timing is not right.

We are in the Bright Hermetic Epoch until the middle of October and so there is no reason to hold back from practical efforts and intelligent plans. You may realize that some of these are eccentric, or would be regarded as such by many. Confusion in implementing them could result from not choosing priorities, that is, not putting first things first. If you do that you will avoid much vexation from following side paths which lead nowhere. The approaching Full Moon (Friday) tends to clarify thinking.

You do not need to drive yourself as if your own slave, but can give yourself reasonable breaks. And you don't need to try to share every detail of your life with anyone. You are able to rely on what inspires you, whether religious, spiritual, or esthetic, and from feelings of the goodness and security surrounding you move on with what makes sense in your life-program.

{Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday} {Private Competence}

Cosmic Piper