Thursday, November 29, 2012

Forecast: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, November 30-December 2, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Cancer, 2012

Beginning Friday 30 November at 5:56a PT|8:56a ET|1:56p UT
through Saturday 1 December
/moon goes void-of-course late Saturday-early Sunday 2
/at 10:56p(Sa) PT | 1:56a(Su) ET | 6:56a(Su) UT
until Luna enters Leo Sunday at 5:58p PT|8:58p ET|1:58a(M) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third of this week| runs from
Sunday 2 at 1:40a PT | 4:40a ET | 9:40a UT through Monday 3
until Tuesday 4 at 12:44p PT | 3:44p ET | 8:44p UT


~Chrysalis Preparing to Open~

 A lot is possible now, at a sort of turning point. You may be very happy that this week is ending, and feel that coming weeks will be at least more tolerable and less pressured. (But I do have to add, in good conscience, that the Dark Hermetic Epoch lasts until Friday the 14th, two more weeks, that is, a time to study and develop major goals and train yourself toward them rather than implement them, unless you are very sure of them.) (I thought out every word in the preceding sentence as carefully as I know how and meant what I said; it is not a meaningless generality but an important directive; it is up to you to see what it means in your own case.)

You are happy with your capacities.
You sense how generously you are endowed. At the same time, you know you need to restrain yourself from premature or over-excited adventures which could cost you slow progress toward your real objectives. (Again, every word here has been thought out precisely.)


As for a time of fun, which most of us would welcome at this point, you needn't look beyond Friday, which looks to be a fine time for a party, get-together, date, social gambit or entertainment of any kind which appeals to you. Not just because it's Friday but because of promising, relaxing lunar aspects combined with the near-exactitude of Venus sextile Mars. Where has love been? Hiding behind Saturn while Venus has been with that planet; now it peeks out at least and you "know who your friends are" at this point. It might be harder to find new ones but could be possible.


The happy trend continues on Saturday, though with less vigor perhaps. Sunday looks more withdrawn and "serious" (as made evident above in the time of the |sobering third of this week| and the v-of-c time).You may be good at putting things in their proper places, sensing how to weigh, measure, and dispose items around you in your home, office, garage, kitchen, workshop. Taking some time to do it will reward you. A neat environment awakens better thinking, and vice versa.

There could be contests of the body or mind. These might not be labeled "contest," of course. You encounter someone who wants to arg
ue perhaps, or win at a game. "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another" say the Psalms. Or this could be going on within your own mind as you prepare for such competition.

So much seems promising, yet something is missing, or seems to be; you wonder why fate has denied you this and that. It is well to realize that you have what you need, in a beneficent cosmos, and "make do" with it while enjoying yourself.

If neighbors or housemates seem to be hindering you or fencing you in, this is something to deal with in your mind; I would suggest through prayer. The injunction of Jesus to "love your neighbor as yourself" is one which has seemed impossible to me very frequently, to say the least. Yet remembering it and trying is a strong palliative if not a cure for problems in the home and neighborhood. This begins as struggle in the mind, leads to prayer, and can eventuate in greater harmony and peace of mind.

There is a pronounced intellectual side to things. You are seeking or finding explanations. Who is equipped to tell you what you need to know in some area? You could learn from this person, whether the teacher of a course or author of a book. Likewise you may be preparing yourself to be a better, shrewder teacher in some way.

Let's hope it will be a weekend of gradual growth into the approaching very interesting phases of our lives for all of us.

{Friday, Saturday, Sunday} ~Chrysalis Preparing to Open~

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Forecast: Late Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, November 27-29, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Gemini, 2012

Beginning Tuesday 27 November at 4:59p PT|7:59p ET|12:59a(W) UT
through Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29
/moon goes void-of-course Wednesday at 5:05p PT|8:05p ET|1:05a(Th)UT
until Luna enters Cancer Friday 30 at 5:56a PT|8:56a ET|1:56p UT

Full Moon of Sagittarius-Gemini exact Wednesday 28
at 6:47a PT|9:47a ET|2:47p UT

}Poise Returning{


Wednesday should be a goo
d "catch-up" day for whatever you need it for. We have had an every-other-day moon-void-of-course process going on, with Tuesday and Thursday "out to lunch" this week. Wednesday (and Friday ) could be good for correspondence, phone conversations, any kind of needed negotiation if it can't be postponed much longer. 


The "dragginess" of things is still with us because Mercury is moving very slowly, but at least he turned direct Monday afternoon (at the time already given). So you may have a clearer sense of how to negotiate the next few weeks than you did last week.


Immovable objects become a little more movable. You experiment with ways of getting your life in forward motion. Some of this may feel a little like a game, which could make it more cheerful. 


The hard things you have been trying to clear away are still there, lurking in your mind because you are still trying to finish with them definitively. If that takes until the 14th of December or longer, try to be patient with the process, for that will make it easier, and also quicker than if you were to press too hard and fast, then perhaps tangling yourself up even more. "With all due speed" is a good motto, rather than with precipitate haste.


Some communication seems hard, almost impossible. Is everyone crazy? you might ask yourself. And why do so many things and people seem wilfully obstinate? Some of this is fate, another word for karma. That does not mean you have to blame yourself for some horrible crime you committed in a past life (although you might have) but try to see the immediate justice of the situation as best you can and work with it patiently until you have "paid your dues" even if those seem unfair. " Seem" is a key word. You will be able to use it in the future more easily than you can now. 


Contentment with what we have is one of those great secrets we tend to forget when we most need to remember.


Venus has some good aspects suggesting sardonic humor, or good-natured sport which is not afraid to be a little mocking. The absurdity of human behavior is a constant entertainment to those who at least momentarily feel secure enough to appreciate it at a level free from anxiety. People may pretend to be other than they are, mocking both themselves and whoever they are imitating. This provides some relief from Venus's conjunction with Saturn, very much there but retreating; it is whatever has been "bugging" you about your friends, relatives or neighbors in the past week or more. Now perhaps you can laugh at what seemed anything but laughable before.

You will be nurtured if you have a nurturing attitude. The hard-headed businessman is not a nurturer, directly, yet to succeed he has to pay his workers well, and negotiate deals which repay those with whom he contracts as handsomely as they do himself. This is all a matter of mutual nurturing, viewed from some overall perspective. And so, perhaps, not totally inconsistent with the spirit of Christmas, which has become a Santa Claus holiday for merchants and other businessmen and businesswomen. We can wink at the commercialism and remain undisturbed even if, or because, we have a more spiritual attitude toward the meaning of the holiday.

See
ing it all as a game, as children do, might be a cure for some of the holiday woes. Losing is not fun, but it punctuates winning with doses of realism and humility. At that point, maturity and age often recover some or all of childhood's serendipitous poise.

{Late Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
} {Poise Returning}

Cosmic Piper

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Forecast: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Novewmber 25-27, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Taurus, 2012

Beginning Sunday 25 November at 4:19a PT | 7:19a ET | 12:19p UT
through Monday 26
/moon goes void-of-course Monday at 4:58p PT|7:58p ET|12:58a(Tu) UT
until Luna enters Gemini Tuesday 27 at 4:59p PT|7:59p ET|12:59a(W) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third of this week|
ends
Tuesday 27 at 4:11a PT | 7:11a ET | 12:11p UT

Mercury turns direct Monday 26 at 2:49p PT|5:49p ET|10:49p UT
(but see below for warning and explanation)

\Karmic Tangles Tangling and Untangling/

It's a fateful time. It is not easy. Many will feel "swamped" as a friend said the other day. Too much to take care of, and not a clear path, and what to do first? Patience is usually wise counsel. You can't postpone everything, but you could postpone some things which are less crucial in order to take care of the crucial ones. An easing of burdens is itself a great benefit, says the I Ching. But my advice comes from the planetary picture. My main counsel to anyone who is really suffering would be, Don't give up to despair. All this is something working out for the better, but at that point where it seems anything but better.

A rundown of three days: Monday should be aided by Mercury turning direct in late afternoon
, but this does not immediately change things dramatically. Mercury although direct will be very slow, and we will remain in the Dark Hermetic Epoch
until December 14th. Then two months of a Bright Epoch when outer things go more smoothly.

So, on Monday, you could handle important business calmly and carefully, not making any dramatic changes, doing the best you can to clear up confusions or old problems but not insisting that they get settled then, because they probably won't. Still, small steps forward are encouraging. Plus, your mental outlook should clear as Mercury turns direct.

On Tuesday, I am sorry to say, things look bleak because the moon will be void-of-course until evening (times above, this time exactly 24 hours). That, combined with other planetary indications, suggests it would be wise to slow down, not rush, and handle the most-routine things you can, which have little danger of going wrong. It would not be wise to make promises or negotiate to a conclusion on Tuesday. If you have to discuss something, fine, but you may lack information or otherwise arrive at decisions which have to be revised, and that is no fun. Postpone decisions until Wednesday, I recommend, except for the trivial ones such as which socks to wear, what to have for lunch etc. You may note that others seem not to know what they are doing.

Wednesday is the beginning of the next period, not covered in this forecast, but you should know that it will be the best of the three days for gaining clarity and beginning to set many things in order which have been puzzling or upsetting. Not everything will be straightened out but at least you will see the light at the end of that old proverbial tunnel (which we seem to re-enter periodically).

Back to Sunday through Tuesday:  You labor in your mind over people you know and what they are doing. Or not doing. Are they going in circles? You see their immaturity and what is missing in them. That does not mean you detest them. But your patience with them is strained. How sad, it seems, human destiny. Can people ever get perspective and control over themselves? (Gurdjieff and Ouspensky throught No, almost never.) Meanwhile because your friendships have been tested, and some come out wanting, you may sense who your true friends are. If they are all invisible, so be it, but there are probably a few visible ones.

Even mor
e ominous things may seem to be going on, when it comes to business, finances, loss, recovery of loss, debts, paying them or delaying them or obliterating them if they are a result of mistaken accounting. Nobody wants to deal with this stuff, yet there it is. I would advise against thinking of a creditor, or someone who thinks he is a creditor, with enmity and anger. That wouldn't help. If you are patient, prayerful, and honest, the tangles will untangle. I hope you will attend to the timing I gave above, perhaps dealing with some of this on Monday, and postponing the rest until Wednesday (and, looking ahead, Friday). 


Disagreements are painful. You see someone as self-centered and incapable of seeing your viewpoint, and he or she sees you likewise. Which viewpoint is supreme? Again, the friendships which survive through these kinds of storms are true ones.

A cheery spot is Venus sextile Mars. Thank Heaven, because it lends a bit of kindness, romance, chivalry, even in the midst of  difficulties. People want to be kindly and loving, even when they find it hard to do so.
This comes out in little things, esthetic matters, something you like on your desk or worktable, something you like to wear, maybe music you are organizing to cheer you. This spirit gets into your work, so that you take pride in the handsomeness of an accomplished task. You did it for someone else, for G*d, for yourself, for the joy of doing, and it has its peculiar beauty within the whole.

A prophetic gift could be yours. Let us hope it does not go negative. Seeing disaster for someone is a false form of prophecy, because the true prophet projects only goodness, except when he has to offer warnings. You may struggle with how to warn someone, not knowing how to do it. Perhaps you have done it and been misunderstood. Perhaps there remains only prayer. And perhaps the best prophecy now is for yourself, sensing precisely what you can do in the next phase of your life, one day at a time, in order to manifest the power of the Divine in your living effectively and thoroughly.


{
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday} /Karmic Tangles Tangling and Untangling\

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Forecast: Late Thursday, Friday, Saturday, November 22-24, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Aries, 2012

Beginning Thursday 22 at 5:13p PT|8:13p ET|1:12a(F) UT
through Friday 23 and Saturday 24
/moon goes void-of-course Friday at 5:36p PT|8:36p ET|1:36a(Sa) UT
until Luna enters Taurus Sunday 25
at 4:19a PT | 7:19a ET | 12:19p UT

|Difficult or sobering third of this week| runs from
Saturday 24 at 7:12a PT | 10:12a ET | 3:12p UT
through Sunday and Monday
until Tuesday 27 at 4:11a PT | 7:11a ET | 12:11p UT
(longer than usual because of the moon's speed)



*Deep Within, Mercy and Peace*

The period begins toward or in the evening of Thanksgiving. Friday is good for getting back to business if that is what you need to do; also for a happy time while the moon forms a sextile with Jupiter. Because that planet is retrograde, as is Mercury, you will be caught up in backtracking, that is, finishing up old stuff which either you have neglected or is becoming imperative by force of circumstances. Friday would be a good day for that. Those who do holiday shopping that day may be in a good mood. I myself would wait until Mercury goes direct beginning Thursday next week. That could avoid confusion in choosing gifts, or picking something inappropriate and returning it later.

When
you're done with important tasks, Friday could be a superb day or evening for relaxation and pleasure. People are feeling more interest in and attraction toward one another than usual.

Your benevolence and friendliness extend out from the home circle toward others, strangers, all. The spirit of Thanksgiving and Christmas is upon you. This has a good effect not only on your home, relationships and friendships but your work and attempts for income. Because Mercury is retrograde, you may feel that this trend, although inspiring, is not practical or is leading nowhere but in circles. Well, a circle of love, mercy and harmony is a happy circle.

True, there are crucial and even ugly factors to take care of. The world is not all sweetness and light. Something which you have to do, which requires work, and seems to be something like fending off an enemy, is needing to be done. Since the moon will be void-of-course all day Saturday, Friday would be the time. You can face this challenge with stamina and bravery. Then on Saturday, when you are able to do little about it, you may feel its heaviness, because it remains unresolved, but can take comfort in the fact that you are facing it with the spiritual support you rely on.

Some individuals seem selfish and voracious. That is a characteristic of the business world, of plutocracy, sometimes of government bureaucracy, and each of us living within such a culture has to find his or her individual way of dealing with it, for self-protection. You can do that without losing the spirit of goodwill and merciful understanding set forth in
paragraph 3. 


Another trend, more difficult to describe, is a wonderfully sedate detachment. You have found a place within you which is linked with eternity and unbaffled by the illusions of the world, its allurements and sufferings. This is real. Here, in this place in your consciousness, nothing inharmonious can touch you. The changeability of human beings cannot disappoint you. You are secure, and you know that they, in their deepest selves, are secure. 


Therefore you can face the darkness of uncertainty without fear. Complex factors in your life need to be handled thoroughly. You know this but do not feel you always have to work on them. Friday might be the time for that; then on Saturday you can gravitate to that place of inner security which transcends difficulties. When you see that all things have purposes beyond your initial understanding of them, you can rest secure in the knowledge that all will be well.


{Late Thursday, Friday, Saturday} *Deep Within, Mercy and Peace*

Cosmic Piper

Monday, November 19, 2012

Forecast: Late Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday, November 20-22, 2012

Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces, 2012

Beginning Tuesday 20 November at 8:56a PT|11:56a ET|4:56p UT
through Wednesday 21
/moon goes void-of-course late Wednesday-early Thursday
/at 10:33p(W) PT | 1:33a(Th) ET | 6:33a UT
until Luna enters Aries Thursday at 5:13p PT|8:13p ET|1:13a(F) UT


~Unstrained yet Wise Preparation for Thanksgiving~

This period ends in the early evening of Thanksgiving. I would suggest that many who are having Thanksgiving parties might want to prolong the festivity into the later evening hours in order to take advantage of the moon no longer being void-of-course after it enters Aries (the beginning of the next period, time above).

This could be a time for simplicity. What is all the toil and bother about? you ask yourself. Why struggle and suffer for goals which, when attained, give no satisfaction but merely prompt toward further goals? And when those are attained, what is the advantage? Therefore there can be a growing humanism in you, a feeling that "we are all in this together so why not give up ambition and just live simply?". Of course this is a good attitude for Thanksgiving anyway.

It's appropriate that the moon goes void-of-course Wednesday evening, since that shows the 'business" part of the period to be done by then. It seems that "old business," things from the past requiring resolution, is what you wlll want to handle and get done as much as possible. To do that you need a certain fixedness of purpose, or otherwise you will slack off and meander in circles.

There is a secretive and revengeful side of you which, when you encounter it consciously, may surprise you. Secretly you would like to conquer prizes which you feel others do not deserve. This, in sum, is a semi-criminal tendency. Don't we all have it? Don't we sometimes find ourselves rooting for the criminals in a "heist" movie? "These people don't deserve this money anyway, so it might as well be mine." It's unlikely this sentiment will drive any of us to criminal acts but it might be a part of you to be noticed for whatever you can learn from that. It has a childish side, as when a child innocently takes something which belongs to someone else, not understanding the concept of "theft." Of course, you could notice this in others rather than yourself. Laws of karma work themselves out in strange ways sometimes, which we may not understand until much later or in our next state of existence. A sense of proportion and humor can help.

Children might come into your awareness in an interesting way. What seems easy to understand about them may not be. Their motivations and thoughts may be far other (and more complex) than you realize. Some of them have learned how to protect themselves from adult craziness adeptly, sometimes humorously.

I don't like to say this, but there are signs that we (and therefore you) could be careless and self-indulgent. The question is, how far is that safe? I would say, reserve it for Thursday, which is a holiday anyway. Then you will protect yourself from improvidence on Tuesday and Wednesday.

You need to get approval from people, or someone, a client, employer, or government agency, in order to "get on with" your own program, it seems. That involves perhaps explaining past choices and actions. This does not have to be harrowing but may require forbearance. It is part of Mercury being retrograde--recalling, explaining or justifying past actions, or repenting of them sometimes. It might involve recovering something lost, or preventing loss.

Then when order has been established or re-established, you are ready to proceed more confidently. Of course, you do not proceed alone, and so will be conscious also of the needs of those with whom your lot is cast.

I hope you will enjoy (a mostly void-of-course--relaxed, let us say) Thanksgiving!

{Late Tuesday, Wednesday, early Thursday} ~Unstrained yet Wise Preparation for Thanksgiving~

Cosmic Piper


P. S. The heading of the latest forecast said originally "Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Pisces." That is correct for the beginning of the period up to a little past the half-way point, but then the sun enters Sagittarius, on Wednesday the 21st at 1:51p PT | 4:51p ET | 9:51p UT. Because it will be there all day on Thanksgiving, I changed the online forecasts to "Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces." It is noteworthy that Franklin Roosevelt changed Thanksgiving to a sun-in-Sagittarius holiday. Before, it had been celebrated earlier in November; he changed it to the 4th Thursday. When it is the earliest it can be, as this year, still the sun has entered Sagittarius by that day. And that is wholly appropriate since Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, the planet connected with Deity, in some ways, and certainly with expansiveness, good will, and thanksgiving.

Cosmic Piper

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Forecast: Sunday, Monday, early Tuesdeay, November 18-20, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Aquarius, 2012

Beginning Sunday 18 November at 4:11a PT|7:11a ET|12:11p UT
through Monday 19
/moon goes void-of-course Tuesday 20 at 6:33a PT|9:33a ET|2:33p UT
until Luna enters Pisces Tuesday at 8:56a PT|11:56a ET|4:56p UT


|Difficult or sobering third of this week| runs from

Saturday 17 at 12:35p PT | 3:35p ET | 8:35p UT
until Monday 19 at 4:38p PT | 7:38p ET | 12:38a(Tu) UT

[I'm posting this forec
ast earlier than usual, just after this |sobering| period begins, because I did not include it in the previous forecast and some of you might find it extremely helpful to know about it. I certainly do.]


}Concerns Overflow into Benevolent Sharing{



It appears from general aspects that things are getting better in many ways, yet there are sobering factors.

The depth of Mercury-retrograde plus the |
sobering third of this week| (until Monday evening) suggests you will want to go deep in  thinking so you can understand more basically what you are about. This could be initially depressing but does not have to be. Those serious about living good lives naturally tend to be critical of themselves. If they weren't, would they really be trying? This self-criticism leads to religious or spiritual paths, if it is effective. We need to be faithful to something more than our own self-interest. Without ideals, self-interest degenerates into decadence. Those ideals are present in your consciousness in a big way if you attend to them. A good reasoner and profound thinker helps you if you try to learn from him.

There is bittersweet sadness emanating from thoughts about those who have died. I do not believe anyone is dead, but our way of connecting with th
ose passed on has to be indirect and on a spiritual plane. Otherwise it can be self-deceptive. Good and uplifting thoughts of those in the "other realm" are certainly connected with their consciousness. The more uplifting your feelings about them, the more they are really with you. 


You might wonder if you are living up to any standards your deceased relatives or friends would approve. That is sobering. If you are merely scheming and plundering for yourself, are you living in a way that connects with immortality? Yet of course you need to look after your own interests, your bank balance. Don't you? 

Jesus spoke enigmatically on such topics. He said to the rich young man, whom he "loved," that he should give up all his wealth for the poor. Then he said that the rich would find it hard to enter the kingdom of Heaven, yet that "with God everything is possible." This last escape clause might be too easy, if we forget that to be "with God" requires quite a lot.

A p
ath that seems too hard is probably wrong. A path that seems too easy is very likely also wrong.

Yet that same Yehoshua, Jesus, said that his path was easy and his burden light.

These paradoxes are significant now. The temper of the times suggests the
ir pertinence and our deep need to ponder them, though the superficial logical reason cannot ever "solve" them or deconstruct or demystify them. Learning how to live is a deeper process than that.

At perhaps the more sup
erficial level, some, and perhaps you, will be finding more solid ways of benefiting personally from the world's wealth.

There are che
ering trends, especially Monday evening. Maybe you should make it a social time, to be with someone you like or in a group of strangers somewhere. In some sense, we are all guests living in one another's homes, or sharing a common one. You might sense what that means Monday evening. Others you encounter, or friends, are likely to be thinking deeply, perhaps of those who have passed from their lives, and wanting to commemorate them somehow in their living. That could make for inspiring rather than depressing interchange.

Because Venus and Mars are in a sextile, getting closer by the day, people want to share feelings with one another, and because of other
factors those feelings are not superficial but thoughtful and profound. There can be mutual benevolence. Therefore you need not be shy or afraid to share your difficult emotions and concerns. They might be welcome, helping someone else to open up in the same way; helping both understand more fully the Mystery.

{Sunday, Monday, early Tuesday} {Concerns Over
flow into Benevolent Sharing}

Cosmic Piper


Thursday, November 15, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Capricorn, 2012
Beginning Friday 16 November at 2:36a PT|5:36a ET|10:36a UT
through Saturday 17
/moon goes void-of-course late Saturday-early Sunday
/at 9:55p(Sa) PT | 12:55a(Su) ET | 5:55a(Su) UT
until Luna enters Aquarius Sunday 18 at 4:11a PT|7:11a ET|12:11p UT

\Determination, with Mutual Respect/

Mercury continues retrograde until the week after Thanksgiving. Have you noticed the "piling up of things" in your consciousness? As if you did not know where to begin? So much to do and think about. At sea. Then there are "other people," who may seem unreliable or "flakey."

With
in all that, there is guidance. You know whom you trust. Someone of vast intellect and profound intelligence. This is your guide or teacher. You need that link desperately now.

One thing it will do is help you confront the problems of others, which could weigh upon you. How did that paragon of intelligence and wisdom meet such problems? That will give you the clues you need.

Your career or mission is i
mportant to you, but seems ill-defined. You are groping for a better understanding of it. How can you save others? Do you need to save yourself first, or will saving them impel you to save yourself? What sacrifice is needed, and what self-interest?

Again, the influence of important, brilliant, admirable individuals will help you figure this out. You might become or be such a person yourself, but to do that you will ride (much of the way) on the shoulders of those who have gone before.

The "self-interest" part of the program is interesting now. Money! People are fractured over it, fighting over it, uncertain about it, because of the so-called "fiscal cliff" which is a cliff in the minds only of the blind lemmings who seem to want to run over it. There is too much self-mutiliation while Mercury is retrograde. People sense the metaphysical futility of many material desires and tend then to go too far, rejecting common sense self-preservation. Fears become morsels to savor. Hey, let's stop all that. There is no "cliff."

Venus during this period has some nice aspects suggesting that despite the foregoing, you will enjoy sunshine,
beauty and gladness. (At least "metaphysical sunshine" no matter the weather.) People can be light-hearted. They appreciate the admiration and flattery showered upon them. There are paths of charm and good fortune to be dawdled upon.

You will experience valor and determination also, the more masculine side of
the picture. "I am somebody, I know something, I am doing something important. Recognize that!" Yes, everybody should recognize that! Especially, you feel, when your path is partly one of sacrifice. As long as it doesn't become arrogant, this attitude will lift you to a place where you can insist on the best path you have trod and fortified for yourself, holding to an inflexible course in the face of anyone's detraction or ridicule. You don't completely rule or control them, but the reverse of that sure as heck is not true. So they had better treat you with respect.

{Friday and Saturday} /Determination, with Mutual Respect\

Cosmic Piper


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Forecast: Wednesday and Thursday, November 14-15, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Sagittarius, 2012

Beginning Wednesday 14 November at 2:53a PT|5:53a ET|10:53a UT
through Thursday 15
/moon goes void-of-course Friday 16 at 1:45a PT|4:45a ET|9:45a UT
until Luna enters Capricorn Friday at 2:36a PT|5:36a ET|10:36a UT


*The Pioneer Persists*


I'm writing on Tuesday, before the New Moon, which can be a "down" time, although mentally I am seeing things which are very valuable to me, as I predicted in the forecast for Sun Scorpio-Moon Scorpio. I expect that to get even better in the afternoon and evening--for you also, I hope. I note that I have been sluggish with my physical exercise in the past week, which is typical of the final week of an Old Moon. As I have said, study the records of gyms and exercise salons and you might find that their business falls off every month in those days. Perhaps you will take up more physical activity in the coming week.

A friend who is a good and attentive astrologer has spoken to me about the quincunx between Saturn in Scorpio and Uranus in Aries, which is exact this week. She thought it might be something disastrous. So far it has not been for the stock market, which has been sluggish but not as bad as last week. I believe this aspect has a lot to do with fears of the "fiscal cliff" and all the attention and concern it is getting. It is the major business before Congress and the President. Scorpio of course is almost the financial sign, although Taurus enters in, but I find that Scorpio is more important usually (and its ruler Pluto) in regard to government expenses, corporate power, and taxes. It is the sign of indebtedness, whether one happens to be a debtor or creditor. The quincunx can be a "do it now or else" aspect, and that seems to be the case in regard to the "cliff."

It's interesting that the other "crisis" getting atten tion, though not really as important, is the General Petraeus case, and of course Aries, the sign containing the other planet in the quincunx, Uranus, is a ruler of the military since its ruler is Mars. It is too early for me to comment on that case because all we have to deal with at this point seems to be rumor and innuendo. But it is all over the news media as this quincunx becomes exact (on Thursday to be precise).

Very sadly, the re have been self-immolations by fire in Tibet again, quite a few in the past week, three on Wednesday the day that Mercury turned retrograde (very early that morning in Tibet). People do desperate things while Mercury is retrograde. I hope you will keep that in mind if you get any urges toward anything dangerous. These desperate immolations are another correspondence to the quincunx we are discussing, since Scorpio is the sign of death and Uranus a planet of protest. Uranus represents the urge to freedom of the Tibetan people and Saturn the iron-fisted thick-headed rulership of the Chinese. I marvel that the Dalai Lama never goes under, but has even in the past few days carried his case to Japan where he was met with great applause by the Japanese parliament. He is such an admirable man and teacher on so many levels. He stands up under this aspect and all aspects to defend his people in whatever way he can in accord with his principles. "Do it now or never" as one meaning of this quincunx seems to be his motto as he carries on in his 70's. Unfortunately, from my viewpoint, the same motto may have inspired the suicides, but one can understand the desperation. What the Chinese are doing to the pristine wonderful Tibetan culture and people is completely wrong, cruel, and unjustifiable.

This two -day period does not have to be suffused with gloom. We have escaped the |difficult or sobering third| of this week as well as the Via Combusta. We have a New Moon and Luna has left Scorpio for Sagittarius. Not everything is rosy but there is more hope.

There is a pioneering instinc t. You push on with the work which makes sense to you. The pioneer does not always seem a romantic figure to himself but endures the drudgery of hewing timber and building his habitation in the wild. Perhaps only a novelist or film-maker looking on from a distance would see this as romantic. To the pioneer, raw survival is the motif. And so you can do this, though you will be dreaming of ultimate ideals at the same time.

Some of the pioneering could be intellectual as well as physical. Although you circle back and forth in your speculations and reasonings, some of them are profoundly accurate. So you may sense how to handle money, for example, in a way which makes more sense, so that budgeting or investing comes clear. Let us hope this will be true for our Congress and President. Indeed something fateful or destiny-laden could develop in connection with finances, at the national, international, and personal levels.

You see how to aim at your mark and hit it, securing prosperity for yourself. I shall not enter into ethic al discussions about self-interest versus other-interest or altruism. I think we all realize that we are members of human society and cannot be callously selfish, yet have to look out for our own interests. The "yet" here carries with it huge amounts of thought, planning, purpose and good intention.

Venus  feebly aspected in Libra seems to show that although there are love-interests, for most they are not clearly defined. Important mental work or research may seem more vital. That in turn can lead to fresh ways to participate with the world in whatever activities get your major interest. Love on the mental plane is the joy of understanding, plus implementing that understanding in ways which benefit all. That in turn brings about joys of personal contact, and those may be heightened because Luna is turning up the volume of the increasing sextile between Venus and Mars.

{Wednesday and Thursday} *The Pioneer Persists*

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Forecast: Monday and Tuesday, November 12-13, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Scorpio, 2012

Beginning Monday 12 November at 3:11a PT|6:11a ET|11:11a UT
through Tuesday 13
/moon goes void-of-course Wednesday 14 at 2:40a PT|5:40a ET|10:41a UT
until Luna enters Sagittarius Wednesday at 2:53a PT|5:53a ET|10:53a UT

|Difficult or stressful third of this week| ends

Tuesday 13 at 2:43p PT|5:43p ET |10:43p UT

New Moon of Scorpio Tuesday at 2:09p PT | 5:09p ET | 10:09p UT

~Crafted Personal Dominion~

Remarkable understandings can
come to you. I use the plural because you will sense how multiple factors are interrelated. You will feel compelled to use this knowledge in ways which have an effect on the world, ultimately , no matter how slow or complex the process seems. 


Practical matters need to be faced, connected with finances and household living. You might feel compelled to get your household in order. This could have a protective value, that is, protect you from government inspectors, nosey landlords, or anyone hypercritical. You sense how you would be forced from one level to another, one fall after another, if you failed to get things in shape so there would be no danger of anything going berserk. 


There is a sober restrained pleasure in making everything neat and orderly. This could apply also in mental areas, when you research anything complicated. You feel sure there are answers, though you may be impelled from one answer to another until you can sort them out and choose. Some of that could happen now, especially on Tuesday.

The area in which yo
u are a genius could interfere with what you need to do in the practical sphere, yet somehow you can do both if you balance them wisely.

The social sphere, where you interact with people, may be focused on people's jobs, health, or basic needs, which they may want to talk about, and that could be interesting. One gains valuable clues about one's own work when hearing what others say about theirs.

Yet there is a desire for the marvelous and remarkable, with Mercury square Neptune and trin
e Uranus. You might read something which convinces you that the world is basically a Mystery, the freak of a veiled Creator, a drama in which we are actors aware of only part of the script. The austere resplendence of Nature in autumn awakens profound contemplation. Something beyond words is the Mystery. Sometimes children get it, and sometimes even we do.

There is pride, and a desire to sway the des
tinies of others. There is a desire for secret knowledge by which you can plunder the world's coffers. This is a Scorpio desire, which is fulfilled in those rare multi-billionaires whom we either envy, detest, or understand as in some way needed actors within the Mystery. What you are thinking about may be your particular way to participate in the world's riches while remaining a responsible member of human society. Philanthropy, when divorced from egotism, is one of the highest human activities.

Personal expression and personal power are natural and do not have to go wrong.


{Monday and Tuesday} ~Crafted Personal Dominion~

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Forecast for Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Libra, 2012

Beginning Saturday 10 November at 1:36a PT | 4:36a ET | 9:36a UT
through Sunday 11
/moon goes void-of-course late Sunday
/at 9:14p PT | 12:14a(M) ET | 5:14a(M) UT
until Luna enters Scorpio early Monday
at 3:11a PT | 6:11a ET | 11:11a UT


|Difficult or stressful third| of this week runs from
Sunday November 11 at 7:41a PT | 10:41a ET | 3:41p UT
through Monday until Tuesday 13 at 2:43p PT|5:43p ET |10:43p UT


}Within Disarray, Budding Distinction{


There are three reasons why Saturday is better than Sunday for most objective (not necessarily subjective or spiritual) purposes. 1. On S
aturday the Part of Fortune is in the 11th (friendship and hopes), on Sunday the 12th (confinement). 2. On Saturday the moon is not in the Via Combusta; on Sunday it is. 3. On Saturday we are not in the |difficult third| of this week; on Sunday we will be. 


The rest of this report will be about the whole two-day period; you can make adjustments based on the previous paragraph.


There is less doubt and more optimism than in the previous period. There is a quest for fresh knowledge and understanding: discovery. This could either be shallow or profound.


You might write out, print out, draw, paint, or otherwise put on paper (or e-paper) something which helps you define your role, career, mission, intentions. This is clarifying and defining. When you go too far with it, you feel you are attempting too much or considering too many factors, and then you could pull back and estimate which are most significant.

The complications of life drive some to become angry at existing systems, laws, rules, methods. This could lead to pointless argu
ment and loss of time. Improving on what exists, for yourself, is wonderful. Trying to knock it in the minds of others only alienates them and doesn't help you. Whatever "community" means in your life has to be accepted in one way or another.

Self-sacrifice and nobility may seem beyond us most of the time. There are times of relaxation when we recov
er from the strain of trying to be our best. Some of that is natural now. Working with others on anything will go better Saturday then Sunday. On both days there are high hopes but on Sunday you have to boost them more by faith-exercise.

You h
ave a right to believe in coming honors and distinctions for yourself, because you have been earning them, even if sometimes you feel you are going in circles. A circle which turns on itself but expands, so that it becomes a spiral, is actually the way of our evolution, rather than a straight line. You may be realizing happily what this means in the coming week.

{Saturday and Sunday} {Within
Disarray, Budding Distinction}

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Forecast: Late Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, November 7-9, 2012

Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Virgo, 2012

Beginning Wednesday 7 November at 8:36p PT|11:36p ET|4:36a(Th) UT
through Thursday 8
/moon goes void-of-course Friday 9 at 4:28p PT|7:28p ET|12:28a(Sa) UT
until Luna enters Libra Saturday at 1:36a PT | 4:36a ET | 9:36a UT


\Entanglement, Disentanglement, Self-Esteem/

 
Finally we have two business days in a row when the moon is not void-of-course (Thursday-Friday). It may be a relief to get important routine things on track where they do not have to be messed with or thought about continually. Many will have set up a system of reliabilities, in terms of finances, relationships and transactions, in which they can trust. That is indeed a good arrangement during a Dark Hermetic Epoch (extending until December 14). If you feel that something like this is set up for you or by you, you are blessed. If not, you could continue working toward it patiently.

There are desires in you
and others to get what you want "by hook or by crook." This could be in terms of money or tangible gain, or  in terms of love or an entangling relationship, or both.
I could say "be careful" but you probably will, knowing that you are being tempted beyond your powers yet enjoying the thrill of that, the adventure. So you feel like courting a little danger to make life more interesting. At the same time it's unlikely you will go too far because you will remember the weaknesses of others and how they can get you in trouble. It's a "danger game" but one you feel you can play safely. 

Realizing how shallow the desires and ambitions of some really are could help you face their manipulations with poise. That which is shallow now gains depth through a lifetime of experience. So we make allowance for the shallow wishes of children or younger people knowing that with maturity all this will change to a degree, and that it may be an inescapable stage. (Older people too, of course, remain in it in some ways.) Searching for one thing, then another, with no thought of continuity or clear scheme, will be observable in yourself and others. This could be exhilarating rather than dismaying if you take in in the right spirit. 

  There is room for a lot of pleasure, with Venus trine Jupiter from Libra to Gemini. It would be well to take love and friendship casually--that is, without building some fortress of hope on anyone's affections or projected behavior, for your projections are likely to fall short of reality. That means, in sum, that someone will appear fickle, either now or later, showering his or her attention on someone other than yourself, and you need to comprehend the necessity of that in the Other's nature. The yo-yo bounces down and rises back; the boomerang flies away and returns. The void-of-course time Friday evening may be a good time to remember this. It need not fracture your enjoyment of a spontaneous (with built-in flexibility) good time. 

At another level, you are trying honestly to be something you aren't yet but sense as a real possibility. This is aspiration, hope, emulation, and self-esteem--which asks even more of itself in order to remain self-esteem. This is progressive, and uplifting, no matter how many obstacles in others, the world, or yourself seem to thwart your good intentions. The thwarting is really part of the process of becoming.


{Very Late Wednesday, Thursday, Friday} ~Entanglement, Disentanglement, Self-Esteem~

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