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 forecast 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 those 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 path 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 superficial level, some, and perhaps you, will be finding more solid ways of benefiting personally from the world's wealth.

There are cheering 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 Overflow into Benevolent Sharing}

Cosmic Piper