Forecast: Sunday, Monday, early Tuesday, September 2-4, 2012

Sun in Virgo and Moon in Aries, 2012

Beginning Saturday-Sunday 1-2 September
at 10:38p(Sa) PT | 1:38a(Su) ET | 5:38a(Su) UT
through Monday 3 September
/moon goes void-of-course Tuesday 4
/at 4:07a PT | 7:07a ET | 11:07a UT
until Luna enters Taurus Tuesday at 8:42a PT|11:42a ET|3:42p UT

*Are We Getting It?*

Monday and early Tuesday will be the more difficult part of this period, while Sunday has a better proportion of helpful influences.

A relationship, or relationships, could be emphasized Sunday, while the rest of the period is a challenge to regain  bearings in your over-all situation.

"I am a man under authority, with servants set under me," said the Roman centurion to Jesus when, in faith, he asked for help (Luke 7). That is how you might feel now. Who is over you, and who is under you? In today's culture this is not usually clear-cut. Neither in marriage nor in work is it so simple to say who is in control and who is a servant. Under the influence of centuries of Christianity, powerful elites in both business and government claim to be public servants. How are you entangled in the master-servant relationship? Who would you say is your master? And who serves you? This could be more than a philosophic question; it could lead to insights of a practical nature.

When people are confused, they look to someone else to take charge. In the past, the stereotype of this has been a woman weakly letting some Svengali manipulate her, and enjoying it. Then, of course, she might manipulate him in turn through her seductive weakness. So much fun for novelists and soap-opera writers! How might this be going on in your life? Remember that the sex roles can be reversed here, and also that this can go on with two of the same sex.

Such entanglements can be interesting, intriguing, and addictive. It is not always clear who is deceiving whom, or if there might be mutual deception as if both were writing their own soap opera in collaboration.

Through all this a serious search is going on, which could rightly be called a spiritual quest. We are all looking for "something." We put it that way because we suspect it is indefinable and ineffable. So it is. The spiritual Masters adumbrate it each in his own way. To get tangled up with a spiritual Master is the best entanglement.

This is a powerful time for those who are gaining self-control. It could be partly a time of impotence, when one lets such control slip. That could be because one creates vexations for oneself through troubling oneself about too many things, some of which lead exactly nowhere except away from what is useful in one's life at present.

Attending to health needs, as through discipline of diet and exercise, is not one of those useless things, however. Many will be perfecting their approach to such physical self-training under the influence of Mercury-and-sun in Virgo sextile Mars in Scorpio. (It is virtually a truism that most of us eat too much and don't get enough exercise.)

Hunch: When you see someone asking for a cigarette, or a light, you will get a clue to something. When you burn something on the stove, you will get a clue to something.

Those who are eccentric or peculiar come into your purview. Yes, they are looking for "something." Good aspects with Neptune suggest they will get at least glimmers of it. Can one eat that "something"? Yes, by not eating as much material food, say those who recommend fasting.

Those to whom one is attracted, or whom one loves, can be partial mysteries. We do not need to understand one another completely to love one another. The edge of non-understanding could be part of the attraction.

There is so much you want to be involved in, and you can do it. At worst it could be escapism and then lead you astray (paragraph 7), but at best it is the thrill of getting closer to the kaleidoscopic source of human motivation through diving into the human psyche, one's own and others'. How you swim there is not exactly how anyone else does it.

Those who serve are not weak, but strong. You serve. "Gotta serve somebody" sang Bob Dylan. You also are served, and have you not sometimes marveled at the conscientiousness of someone who served you? This is part of the splendor of human life, superior to the splendor of Lady Gaga (who, I admit, does serve as an entertainer anyway). Being docile in service, not caring about the endurance required, results eventually in paradoxical mastery, as Hegel explained at brilliant length in his Phenomenology.
(Perhaps dogs and horses, whose nature is to serve, are being prepared for lives as masterful humans.)

We are in "this," we are working or swimming through it, and we are getting "there."

{Sunday, Monday, early Tuesday} *Are We Getting It?*

Cosmic Piper