Forecast: Late Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, September 9-11, 2012

Sun in Virgo and Moon in Cancer, 2012

Beginning Sunday 9 September at 9:50a PT | 12:50a ET | 4:50a UT
through Monday 10 September and most of Tuesday 11
/moon goes void-of-course Tuesday at 3p PT | 6p ET | 10p UT
until Luna enters Leo Tuesday at 8:02p PT | 11:02p ET | 3:02a(W) UT

~Wary and Subtle Research and Scheming Without Malice~

Have you been hunkering down to exercise and diet routines? I believe many have, during the past few weeks. Now the question is whether you will maintain them. The sun and Mercury are moving away, gradually, from their sextile with Mars, which, in the signs Virgo-Scorpio, was a major reason health regimens were emphasized. Also, we are in the final quarter (week) of a lunar month when physical energies can wane. They are available, however, if there is a strong motivation to keep going.

Some of that motivation is doubtless yours. You feel an urge to be free, "out in the country" where you can move at your choice and make other things, animals and people obey your will. In the city there is too much crowding for that to be as easy. However, you could adopt a solid stance no matter where you are. You are going to proceed with a robust approach to what you want, and chase it no matter what. Some feel the thrill of your desire and respond to it.

It's hard to know what people are thinking or feeling, and you may just give up. Poor Venus is besieged by difficult aspects. This increases shyness, which might seem a contradiction of the previous paragraph, but remember that "in the country" you do not face as many people getting in your way. No matter where you are, you are not without freedom and independence, especially within your mind and feelings.

You care about your honor, the way people see you and your work. It might seem that to uphold that, you have to keep at a lot of fruitless tasks. You could bear in mind that they will not be fruitless in the long run. The vine has to grow and produce buds and blooms for months before the harvest. You should not despair that you are lacking what it takes. That is an illusion. "Every man has his proper gift of God," said St. Paul. The small tedious tasks can be approached with joyfulness of heart.

There is some desire to display yourself and get recognition for your excellencies. You have privileges, and know it. Some look at you with admiration. You also realize that being brazen about that would be self-defeating, so you are ripe for being diplomatic as much as you can. This is quite possible, since Venus and Mars, although squared to each other (ouch) are both in good aspect with Uranus (in the case of Mars that is the not easily observable bi-quintile). Wherever people go--and they may be restless--they are alert to ways in which varied, sometimes inharmonious individualities can interact pleasingly without blending. Two notes might not blend, being discordant, but can interact happily within the total melody. Therefore, put a time-sense into your thinking about your relations with anyone.

Sunday is fair (except for the early void-of-course hours before this period begins). Monday looks like the best day in the period for most matters, especially if they have a social component. People may be wary but you can still cooperate. Tuesday looks difficult, so you might pull back and be very patient.

Tact is useful. It might veil subtlety, that is, secret plans and schemes which you are preparing to spring on someone. Elaborate research is possible, with Jupiter squared Mercury-and-sun from Gemini to Virgo, two mental signs ruled by Mercury. Abstractly, this is science, whether conventional or occult, and concretely it is cunning. A paradigm of this would be a student of the mysteries using them to conquer or influence the will of another. Or it could be using one's knowledge to press one's personal advantages, which can be completely ethical within limits. That is specially so when one tries to see that one's personal advantages merge with those of humanity at large (even if not those of some particular individual).

{Late Sunday, Monday, Tuesday} ~Wary and Subtle Research and Scheming without Malice~

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