Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Forecast: Thursday and Friday, January 31-February 1, 2013

Thursday 31 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Libra
Moon not void-of-course

}Mother Nature{

1  Though not averse to travel, you care about your home and feel proud of it. Factors wrapped in mystery and unavailable are becoming available. You are not courting danger deliberately but are willing to face it when you feel competent with appropriate skill. Thereby you steer toward greater safety in connection with career and income.

2  Some good fortune flows to you without a great deal of exertion. It is recompense for your loyalty to tasks, often when that made you feel lonely and alienated. You have seen what it means to be criticized and treated with contempt as if you were guilty of a crime. It doesn't feel good. There is a way out and forward.

3  You can face whatever you need to face with vigilance. You can assert yourself, feeling that you are armed and equipped. Any ambush lying in wait for you can be met with alertness and skill. That might include diverting someone from harmful activity wearing you down by attracting him or her to some pastime which relaxes, refining feelings toward something other than raw competition.

4  The universe is friendly. You can tap into peace wherever you go. If you see flowers, or the hint of them, they might remind you that you do not have to suffer and worry endlessly as long as you are consistent in doing assigned tasks contentedly. Activities, pleasures, and lives flower and re-flower through eternity.

5  You are honored when you serve by administering things, that is, overseeing or supervising the work of others, to some degree. This has its limits, at which you need to pull back and refuse to go too far in trying to control everything. You can sense, or measure, dependable indications which show when to take charge and when to observe coolly.


6  The gloom of the sun's square with Saturn is still with us, at certain moments, but you can turn this toward quiet contemplation. The simple natural life seems remote to urban folk, and perhaps to most country folk when they get wrapped in machinery and technology blocking Nature out of their consciousness. We could change this, no matter where we live. The sky is always visible, and winter trees are glorious in their skeletal strength as they wait patiently to come alive once more. There is something comforting about farm animals, for those lucky enough to be on family farms free of the horrors of "agri-business." (Unfortunately that is not very many.) Whether from Nature, tea leaves, cards, or horoscopes, we can read signs and signals assuring us that the universe is friendly to each of us when we contemplate its messages and learn its language.

{Thursday} {Mother Nature}

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Friday 1 February 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Libra
/moon goes void-of-course at 5:04p PT | 8:04p ET | 1:04a(Sa) UT
until Luna enters Scorpio Saturday at 4:03a PT|7:03a ET|12:03p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins
tonight at 6:00p PT | 9:00p ET| 2:00p(Sa) UT

}Limits Define Potentials{

1  Things which are indefinite give you a degree of freedom, elbow room, a chance to let your mind relax into its best way of perceiving possibilities without interference. Then your distinctive individual qualities come to the fore; this could happen before the void-of-course time (given above).  You see into potentials which look impossible but have value as clues.

2  Good things come to you as if a well were overflowing with water you need. To a thirsty man this is a great pleasure. Some may think that you are enjoying this good fortune selfishly; you may not be cognizant of ways you could share it. Pride and isolated feelings could creep up on you before you realize what is happening. When you give of yourself, or share faithfully, you receive rich recompense otherwise lost.

3  Fears are natural, at first, when one feels one is lacking in something or some ability. There is a sense of collapse, as if one could not function without depending a great deal on others for help. But actually this is everyone's lot, if we were to analyze life honestly and humbly. No one is a Robinson Crusoe. One has to make a go of it with whatever assistance one can get at crucial moments. Self-reliance is a fine ideal, but Emerson, who wrote the famous essay by that name, once had to depend on his neighbors for help when his house burned down. One of the most serene individuals I ever met had gone through a hideous trial during the Nazi era and said that she had earned and secured her serenity during that time.

4  The continuity of life and history is a wonderful reassurance to those who suffer meaninglessness. That is, one can find in the diverse interweaving threads of history the material for weaving one's own glorious pattern. This may take a long time, with multiple failures along the way. One's natal horoscope is one of the best studies for comprehending one's destiny and fulfilling it.

5  Ambition has its limits. You cannot press yourself beyond your current powers and resources, although you can aspire in that direction. That is, you ought not try more than you can accomplish under current conditions and with your current training and ability. The previous paragraph suggests ways to expand that ability. Meanwhile, if one has to keep a low profile, so be it. A temporary dark tunnel could be part of your forward road.

6  Those born to blue blood, inheriting wealth and power, do not always comprehend how to make use of their opportunities. It is an individual matter, after all; one's ancestors cannot live one's life no matter how they endow it. Rare is the one whose superior power and insight enables him to be a leader of men and women. You may be aware of one just now with whom you could link for success through an inner circle. Previous paragraphs suggest the natural limits of this.

{Friday} {Limits Define Potentials}

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Monday, January 28, 2013

Forecast: Tuesday and Wednesday, 29-30 January, 2013

Tuesday 29 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Virgo
Moon not void-of-course

\Running the Race/


1  Sometimes we seek popularity and feel that it doesn't last long. This could be apparent because of the sun's square with Saturn, nearing exactitude. Yet we embody something our ancestors (parents and farther back) had attained and feel their presence in our blood. That means that no matter what the uncertainties or mysteries, we have an endowment to rely on.

2  There are indications of country life in the daily chart. For city dwellers this could be a longing for something rustic, or contacts with those from the sticks. For those who live closer to the soil it could be a realization of the recompense this gives them even though country life involves the complexity of hands-on labor. Nature grants ineffable beauty and also the drudgery of daily tasks. At best these are entered into with a feeling that it's all worth while.

3  Self-defense is necessary in one form or another, usually by attending to one's own business and avoiding quarrels. If these come up, it is well to avoid rancor and bitterness because this could exacerbate an emergency situation.
It should be possible to reduce your concerns by using your skills to quench dangers before they become unmanageable.

4  Immediately required tasks may be larger than usual, involving more exertion, even hard labor. But completing them will give you a feeling of well-being and peace. Then you enjoy the environment in which you accomplished them. Long shot: You might see horses,  be near them, think about them or see them in a photo or video. They symbolize something noble and proud in you.

5  You may need allies to prevent any problem arising from someone's dissatisfaction with you. You feel cautious because you want to rely on yourself and avoid anyone who would waste your time. Therefore the allies have to be those utterly dependable and non-problem-making as proved in past experience. Available, beckoning inspiration helps you make such choices.

6  People may seem gruff sometimes but that does not mean they are inimical to you, just focused on "reality" in the sense of stuff they have to get done. There can be hurry, as if running a race. What sustains you through all this is perseverance with a sense that you are linked to something higher toward which you aspire while it inspires you to do your best.

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Wednesday 30 January 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Virgo
/moon goes void-of-course at 6:00p PT|9:00p ET|2:00a(Th) UT
until Luna enters Libra at 10:37p PT|1:37a(Th) ET|6:37a(Th) UT

\Quiet Calm Definition Grants Hope/

1  You may wonder at some of the incredibly critical, morose, even hateful feelings which arise in you against certain people. The sun's square with Saturn increases worries in everyone, and they are all worrying also that they are not appreciated or that someone wishes them ill. This makes for a prim grim party where everyone's aplomb is nil, or based upon past status clung to for dear life.

2  Sorrow you feel derives from the absence of something or someone. Yet old reliable things and people, at least in memory, remain as a reserve on which to draw. Something which reassured you as a child, maybe connected with grandparents, is an inner resource for you. This is getting stronger while Jupiter, retrograde since October 4, is stationary turning direct. This will help with paper work, details, studies, and complications which have seemed mixed up or insuperable for a few months. Believe it or not, there is fresh prosperity, which you may be appreciating in late afternoon-early evening especially.

3  Yet the Saturn square makes you feel bound or restrained. You have to submit to your destiny to a certain degree, not fretting too much about those who seem opposed to you. It would degenerate your optimistic life-energy if you dwelt too much on something which seems inimical in anyone. That is a good reason for Jesus saying "Bless your enemies." Disappointment clears the way. It disillusions you, that is, removes illusions which were holding you back, so you can proceed without illusions but with solid hope based on Spirit, which is never illusion.

4  Peaceful, contented feelings can be summoned up, sometimes by looking at beautiful scenes in your environment, as a backdrop which facilitates whatever is trying to emanate from within you to make your world better. Any awkwardness, or seeming failure, is only a trial at the beginning, a learning experience.

5  Yes, it seems that someone is always lurking to cast doubt on your plans or hopes. This is hardest to bear when that person is a friend. Yet you survive, and something in you utterly resolute will not succumb to doubts. You sense that you are ahead of some people in some areas. Very true. At the same time, it would help to realize they are ahead of you in other areas, so that you can respect them, thereby calling forth greater respect for yourself (even if they still misunderstand your competence in your special area).

6  Successful ventures arise from definition, that is, your ability to define what you are doing and how. Your methods are working. This is true despite the utter confusion which may seem to reign at moments when you lose your focus or things around you look like they are dissolving into chaos. Then is when you need to remember that you remain a member of a larger community. When you try to fulfill your role in that, the chaos resolves into happier order. This is specially true when you remember reliable principles on which your role is based.

/Quiet Calm Definition Grants Hope\

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Forecast: Sunday and Monday, 27-28 January, 2013

Sunday 27 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Leo
Moon not void-of-course
Whole day is in the |karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week

*Shared Concerns Awaken Amiability*

Although the day isn't easy, I would advise you to hold on and hold out because things can get better with the help of frank, caring individuals.

Some part of you is unambitious, contented with things you want to do patiently. You don't care if total answers are not available because you know partial answers are here and that is enough. Instruction can be shared with a friend whose interests fit somewhat with yours.

When you feel you are in left field, or right field, in comparison with the rest of the human race, you are not alone. Many sense there is something in them which doesn't fit and don't know why. You feel better when you share food and drink in a natural, unostentatious setting. It is amazing how kind and generous some highly intelligent people can be. They may shine by reflected light but they do shine.

Someone who has a task of converting or reforming people has a hard lot. He awakens cataclysmic feelings in people. He or she coninues despite difficulties, but naturally feels suspicious of those who feel suspicious of him. It would help if someone who cares would affirm respect or love at crucial points, one of which could be now.

You analyze some complexities to get control over them efficiently. This is enjoyable. It shores up peace in your relations and surroundings, so you feel more comfortable with all of life. Young or interesting people sense your poise and are drawn to you because of the courage which makes you prominent in their eyes.

Those who attain success need to be careful they don't stretch everything too far. They might stir up envy or a passionately angry reaction in someone who could bring them down. If they inspect their opportunities cleverly, they could bet on something which looks promising and dramatizes their skills in a way which wins, and impresses even their opponents.

It is good to connect with honest, friendly, open people. They bring you luck. It is not a mistake to ask them for help if you need it. This could be at home or in your community. Some of them go through crises involving money, work or health and if you are there for one of them you win a true friend. Some consecrate themselves to what they deeply believe important, and proceed to save some corner, section, or facet of the world.

{Sunday} *Shared Concerns Awaken Amiability*

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Monday 28 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Leo-Virgo
/moon goes void-of-course (in Leo, after opposing Mars)
at 9:00a PT | 12:00p ET | 5:00p UT until
Luna enters Virgo at 3:28p PT | 6:28p ET | 11:28p UT

\Finessing Uncertainties with Caution/


It seems to me that we really know little about the past. Historians can be wrong, if not in facts then in the way they weigh and balance them or the conclusions they draw about cause and effect. I avoid biographical films for that reason. No one ought to be subjected to a scriptwriter's pseudo-understanding of his or her life. (Although I admit that sometimes they can be good drama.) Nevertheless you may be interested in history, archeology or something which excavates some aspect of the past (passed). Sometimes we need to catch up with the passed. At the best a biography or biographical film can reveal character in a way which inspires emulation of the best it exemplifies.

Those who are leaders or standard-bearers might not be pleasant companions. Their work is all-consuming. Nevertheless, around them can spring up festive occasions within which one uncovers colorful friendship and good fortune. This is a recompense for whatever is tedious in public figures.

The bulk of normal work hours are in the void-of-course period. You could feel disoriented. You might be nervously exhausted, or disconnected from what you feel you ought to do. The way you proceed with some projects seems pointless, even if it leads to a better procedure eventually. You are good at defending yourself from people who would waste your time, but this may make you ill-at-ease. You can stand guard and protect yourself from anything foolish or dangerous.

People like to observe traditions even when this doesn't make common sense. Or they feel forced to observe them by the prevailing social currents. That is good if it is courteous. It makes for peace. However, you may note that someone seems cunning and deceptive and feel that you are being kidnapped by him or her. It is not always pleasing to be the object of someone's erotic impulses.

Normal caution can protect you from anyone who is envious or secretly wishes you would take a fall. Keeping your nose on your own business and needs will help. It is wonderful to be popular and adored, but it can be dangerous when the adoration fades into something like jealousy or revenge.

Someone pleasing may be superficial, pretending to great wisdom along some line but really playing a game. This is for you to sense. This person still has potentials, if he or she directs them more practically, even commercially, in some way which could bring prosperity whenever his business ripens. The colorful or whimsical nature of his style might be an asset. You might get along with such a person and benefit from his or her business or project.

{Monday} /Finessing Uncertainties with Caution\

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Forecast: Wednesday and Thursday, 24-25 January, 2013

Friday 25 January 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Cancer
/Moon goes void-of-course (after opposition with Venus)
/at 12:36p PT | 3:36p ET | 8:36p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week
begins late Friday-early Saturday
at 10:41p(F) PT | 1:41a(Sa) ET | 6:41a(Sa) UT
continuing through Saturday until Sunday afternoon

~Directing and Sharing in Challenging Situations~


4
Communications which have seemed backward or partially blocked could become easygoing if you don't worry about them. People are not as inimical as you have been imagining. Your destiny with someone is wrapped in mystery. Her place or yours, his place or yours? I mean to visit, or handle business, if not anything more. The answer can be found in a backward way, or through some third location, someplace old-fashioned, familiar and comfortable.

2
Inspiration gets your mind moving in a big way. You may need to be alone or in a cloistered space to study or think things out. There is ecstasy when you are hitting onto the truth; depression when you think "This is not going to make me popular with anybody." It's necessary to pass through a void of thought, a sense of ineptitude, before any fresh discovery or realization.

1
You want to penetrate into someone, and feel you have a secret right to this. Does that sound dangerous? It could be. You sense  some power and privilege which in fact is yours, and feel this gives you a right to make a strong impression on someone in a headstrong way. This could bring disgrace. You rely on accidents, the luck of the chase, and could get what you want at first even if it doesn't last. People seem vulnerable to your manipulation, though there could be repercussions.

7
An old building which has mystical associations may be a good place to visit. Everything is curious and symbolic there. You are determined to carry on with a project no matter how anyone reacts to it emotionally, and no matter how alone you feel. You rise from defeat with a smile. Setbacks are a challenge to your continued attempts and so you refuse to give in to them or let on that they have troubled you.

5
People like to talk a lot, maybe too much. Literature, poetry and movies have endless facets to be criticized. In a restaurant you encounter someone who may have problems and react in an unfriendly way, not understanding something about you. Your response is perhaps to walk further on, always seeking adventure while avoiding dangers.

3
It seems important to do something charitable. There are always the hungry, the despairing. It is a satisfaction to aid them, even if this seems to displace you and requires labor which seems unpleasant at first. You would have to work with those who have unique qualities which might be off-putting until you learn to work together. They also notice things which seem strange about you.

6
What tracks are useless? You could smell them out and avoid them. You have a right, perhaps, to be overlooking and directing others. Or you may feel this, although someone else feels it just as strongly. Then your honor is at stake. You can carry on astutely, trying not to act superior in a haughty way while actually being superior if you supervise everything wisely.

{Friday} ~Directing and Sharing in Challenging Situations~

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Saturday 26 January 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Leo
beginning at 6:21a PT | 9:21a ET | 2:21p UT
/moon void-of-course (in Cancer) before that time


Full Moon of Aquarius-Leo is exact late Saturday
at 8:39p PT | 11:39p ET | 4:39a(Su) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week
begins late Friday-early Saturday
at 10:41p(F) PT | 1:41a(Sa) ET | 6:41a(Sa) UT
continuing through Saturday until Sunday afternoon


*Calm Merit Preventing Upset*

5
You are aware of dangers and could avoid them shrewdly, or fall into them. You could feel intense pressures in any work you do, as if you had been "pressured" into doing it rather than choosing it. However, your intelligence is up and at things, highly alert, so you can sense where advantages lie. Scientific thinking or research could be fruitful. You can endure through peculiar or frightening situations by being the one who catches on to what needs to be done and does it quickly.

1
Astrology could help. You want to be serious about it and get beyond the surface. In order to gain freedom you need wisdom. This is available in a huge measure under the rays of the Full Moon. You get inspiration from the way outstanding individuals have impacted you. The color, daring, and individuality of their lives gets you up and running toward your own way of manifesting your identity.

4
Timidity is really a way of pulling back within yourself to estimate what is possible and what ought to be avoided. You could then become more sure of yourself by relying on old, trusted teachings or friends who are continually there for you when you draw on their assistance. That sets you up for a calm, peaceful acceptance of what has to be accepted for now. Whatever it is, you realize that it is a passage toward what you desire. Beautiful, natural, calming factors in your environment are there to envelop and soothe you.

2
If you wonder about your mental competence, this is a phase you are going through. You may be too impressionable to any and all impressions at this point. That could mean you conform to limitations rather than let them awaken you to something better. If you realize there is "something more" to be sought, you will pick yourself up from any rut or twilit interspace. You may then be more humble and courteous.

7
There is a lot of unostentatious luck. You can "luck out." However, you could go too far trusting this trend and end up inebriated or otherwise a victim of intemperance. Excess and extravagance could hurt you or ruin what could be a felicitous time. Rather than strutting or showing off, you could try to be a good, strong, happy example for those who recognize you as someone to look up to.

3
Your destiny is to manifest something no one has ever thought of. If this were not true, G*d would be bored with you! So you do not have to be afraid of your uniqueness, as long as it is ethical and not hurtful to anyone. You could be very efficient in work and then efficient in fun, that is, control your fun-time in a way which makes it better rather than worse, avoiding pitfalls by measuring time and location sagely as you go.

6
Knowing when to trust and when not to trust is possible. The knack is a blend of experience, instinct and intuition. That is important during this |karmically difficult or sobering third| of a week. You sense where to go and where not to go. You choose companions according to their merit. Then you could please them by helping them estimate, in turn, what they want to do or enjoy in a highly selective, prescient manner. Some parties or get-togethers end in mutual gloom. This does not have to happen, but if it does you can do your best to turn the disappointment into something happier through detached wisdom and the inexhaustible well of  good will on which you can draw.

{Saturday} *Calm Merit Preventing Upset*

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Forecast: Wednesday and Thursday, 23-24 January, 2013

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Gemini
/moon goes void-of-course at 3:43a PT | 6:43a ET | 11:43a UT
until it enters Cancer at 7:01p PT | 10:01p ET | 3:01a(Th) UT


Blogger is screwed up, people. It is a mess. It changes the colors of my typeface here from green to black, from one font to another, and changes the size of the font. It runs paragraphs together. I cannot spend an hour trying to fix it--and then finding that it is not really fixed and I have wasted an hour. I need to find a better format for these forecasts.



I have no desire to make things complex, complicated, or riddling. I aim at clarity. However, over the decades during which I have written daily forecasts (originally for Sterling's Magazines, for more than a decade), I have been forced to take a large number of factors into consideration in order to get accuracy. Fewer words would make for more clarity, but less accuracy. So, I suggest that in order to deal with the plethora of observations in each forecast, you read it through and select the paragraph or paragraphs which "hit it" for you. That way you will not get lost in considering matters which won't help you on that particular day. Or, at times you may find that you select a sentence here and there from several or all paragraphs. It can be an experiment, and I hope an interesting and helpful one for you.


}Blossoming Personality Protected{

Passivity and calm are good things. You appreciate them in someone else while developing them in yourself. Many of your worries are unreal, although you do need to be aware of the most obvious dangers and circumvent them, as by taking care of paperwork, bills, and communications. That will help you dissipate false worries based on imagined fearful possibilities. Gazing at the moon, getting fuller and rising in the evening, could be a calming meditation.

5  Doubts and misgivings need not deter you from interesting pursuits. You are drawn to someone real or imaginary by a spicy attraction which is nameless, something no one could define except in poetry. You would like to arouse this person, stimulate him or her, get a rise out of him. If there is a hurtful side to this it is only playful. You want to quicken and revel in someone's feelings.



2  People have an impact on one another. Their astrological charts reveal the nature and tendency of it. You might find some such study helpful. The mysteries others present are extraordinary. Who can understand another person? Even biographers fail. Perhaps a biographer with a horoscope as his tool could succeed.

1  Something in your personality is blossoming. This could be very pleasing. You like yourself. Why not? That makes it easier to like others and for them to like you. Self-love of a negative sort would be vanity and egotism, but you don't have to go there; appreciating yourself, you link in sentiment with previous generations, antecedents invisible, and manifest their most pleasing qualities. They are probably the only ones who are (invisibly) aware that they are involved, but visible ones get the strong drift and respond favorably.

7
  Some things seem shut down and dilapidated while the moon is void-of-course (time above). Your convictions are important because they give you self-reliance and firmness. If you are knowing the truth, you are rock-solidly defending it against illusory attacks.
You also have an expectation of wonderful things coming, including material goods and allies, and that helps overcome any letdown.

3  You and an ally may take up positions against a common opponent. This could bring you closer together. Your aptitudes need to be used in realistic ways, as in keeping track of finances, yet you do that with a flair, a sense of drama, and a certainty that you will be in control. People need to compete, but when they grow tired of that they can let go, with mutual respect.

Do you feel you are being "used" for insufficient pay or recompense? It seems all of us feel this way sometimes. We have to trust laws of karma, yet look out for our self-interest when that is appropriate. Giving is wonderful when motivated by high ideals or love, not so wonderful when compelled and unappreciated. So you have a right to be cautious, not getting involved in anything not worth your time and trouble. That is good judgment.

{Wednesday} {Blossoming Personality Protected}

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Thursday 23 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Cancer 

~Career Fulfillment Within Hierarchy~

The numbering of the paragraphs is not meant to be a puzzle. It might help, as you get used to it. One way to read these forecasts would be as they appear on the page. Another way would be through the numbered paragraphs from 1 to 7. However, it is not necessarily true that Paragraph 1 or Paragraph 7 would be the most important ones. You will sense what is most important to you. A value of the numbers is, that each number represents a particular set of considerations within the daily horoscope. So if you find that, say, paragraph 5  or paragraph 3 usually works for you, that could be a clue in reading future forecasts.


5  When there are obstructions, you could turn to youthful amusements, such as artistry and music, and find that they lift your spirits while you wait. You have much work, it seems, but there has to be room for buffoonery or fun. At some level each artist musician or comedian is inimitable and when you "click" with one of them you get a high.

4  Pervading the background of your important work is a calm and peace which are ineffable and welcome They make your labors bearable and even enjoyable. You have some important paperwork in connection with finances, and when you face that and make progress with it you feel better. Then you are able to sail along with career endeavors, which have an element of the past in them, that is, recovering and setting up through past experience for the next stage. Memory is a huge help.

2  You excavate, as it were, into the past. This gives a foundation for what you are trying to accomplish. You gain confidence by courting popularity, although you may not realize how you do this. It happens. What is your career? Could you define it? It is partially a mystery, the very mystery of who you are and what you are here to do. So you keep doing it, whether people seem to like you or not.

People find fault with one another, probably because we are all imperfect, and this is more obvious to the observer than to the observed! Live with it. But when someone is hypercritical it reveals a lack of humility. Bear with it. You can do this because you have been around the bend, seen much yourself which is hypocritical in people and yourself, and have a resulting wisdom which  senses that the future is not controlled by your detractor but by your continued efforts to be the subtle master of your fate. When you succeed in that, you see yourself meaningfully exalted as on a stage or in a film.

7  Busy-ness accompanies business for most of us, all too often. Yet there are rewards awaiting the busy one. You may let yourself be yourself, expressing your personality, even imitating others humorously. This takes the edge off the busy-ness whenever it seems oppressive. At a higher level, you may sense the unity in humanity and the overarching Divine Grace which protects us and, if we are at all appreciative, inspires us to worship It.

Secret enemies are a plague on those who have to be secret agents in governmental or military matters. It is one thing to read about them in a novel or watch them in a film, another to face such danger in person. Fortunately few of us have to, but you may feel someone has something against you and would like to hurt you. Occultists and mystics teach us to uplift such worries to a higher plane where we pray for our supposed enemies and bless them. This, if sincere and persistent, can remove their power to hurt. You may also realize that some of your worst enemies are your own passionate desires which have brought you misery, and let some of them go gladly or transmute them.

Ingratitude is hard to face. People don't even realize when they are ungrateful. Some whom you aid, supervise or govern, if you have a position where you do that, may treat you with seeming contempt even if you are trying to be good to them. Yet you have to carry on because this is your position, your career or project. Likewise you might note how hard and even dangerous it can be for someone you know, or someone above you in a hierarchy, to govern or supervise. That makes you sympathetic. No one is superior in an absolute sense, but each of us can be superior in a relative sense within a particular field--and then deal with the difficult situations that superiority naturally brings forth without complaining.

{Thursday} ~Career Fulfillment Within Hierarchy~

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Forecast: Monday and Tuesday, 21-22 January, 2013

Monday 21 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and
Moon in Gemini beginning at 6:05a PT | 9:05a ET | 2:05p UT

You can use the following however you wish. I suggest reading through the seven paragraphs and choosing one which makes sense to you, focusing on it for a while, getting all you can out of it; then choosing another if you wish, for as long as you choose to go on. They are not mutually exclusive but mutually complementary. However, you may need only one or two for your focus or for clues. If you re-read them later in the day, another which first seemed meaningless may reveal what it has meant.


One
You see into possibilities and know how to fix things. This might mean trying to change people, always an impossible task yet one teachers of any kind are familiar with. With perseverance you will come out right at last. When labors are unprofitable, still you are honorable and keep walking toward noble goals no matter what the apparent cost.
Young people sometimes understand what you are trying to convey, or let you train them.

Two
A precocious child or an adult who is a genius gets your attention. He or she is blossoming into full display of talent, but needs someone to look toward as a source of security and assurance. You could be that person. (This could be reversed, so that you are the one  looking toward someone to support lovingly your exercise of abilities.)


Three Someone with light coloring and blue eyes, who evinces strength and mastery, gets your interest. You have some at least temporary destiny with each other. Through a playful mutual approach something about both of you is refined into a better expression of personality. Your relaxed connection with each other is enlightening.

FourMuch which is mysterious comes your way, and is a "high" because it hints at unknown, amazing possibilities. This is exhilarating. What we don't know is what we want to know. Yet there is peace in the background, not turmoil, for you feel content, thoughtful, and generous.

FiveThere is competition for what you want, and you welcome it. You feel proud of the neat way you are accomplishing things. To be successful you have to be noticeable, to stimulate or awaken people. This you are happy to do, and then you feel strengthened and potent.

SixStable efforts add up to building something. You are doing this no matter how inadequate your headquarters or foundation may seem. That will improve as you continue to labor at what you believe in. You are cautious and somewhat secretive for you have learned that this is better for conserving energies and getting more accomplished.

SevenEstimating how to use things is effective. You have a gift for it now. You could rearrange things in your home or workspace, feeling that this puts the world in shape in a much happier manner. You could sort out music you listen to. You choose what you want to read, view, or enjoy. People will be surprised how wise and helpful are statements or suggestions you are moved to utter; you are persuasive when you wish to be and sometimes when you don't think about it.

{Monday}

Cosmic Piper


Tuesday 22 January 2013

Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Gemini

One
 

You want dignity. This is a universal human need. You see dignity in someone you approve and this brings out the same dignity in yourself. Your lineage, whatever it may be, gives you authority. Spiritual paths give one a chance to adopt a lineage which was not one's own by birth. Yet a childlike quality emerges also, and you feel your authority rests mostly on that, on sheer sincerity.

Two

Powers of which you have been unconscious may be trying to get your attention. They are surging up from nowhere--a good "nowhere," namely, the sheer latency of creativity within humanity (so endowed by the Supreme). You are entitled to demonstrate more skills than you realize. The trine of Mercury and Jupiter is bringing out such potentials, at least to yourself, and to others as much as you choose to manifest them.

Three

There is rivalry of a good sort. It makes you feel you want to win, or at least compete; for losing against a formidable opponent is akin to winning against a weaker one. Your aptitudes are your own and you know it. You feel confident about them. You can throw them about as you please, sure that the universe is upholding you because it enjoys the show.

Four

Some of your confidence stems from a peaceful environment, which you appreciate. You are a swan swimming without haste elegantly within glorious natural beauty. Yet you have one eye on another swan--mother, sibling or mate--from whose presence you derive security and approval. The links between you are fragile, and sometimes absent, so there is a recurring melancholy which need not be oppressive.

Five 

Your spiritual nature is real and not an illusion. Can it be weighed and measured? Seen and catalogued? No, but that makes it more real than the objects we can itemize and forget. You cannot forget yourself; and your youth, which you have loved, remains with you in consciousness: a mental-emotional resource to be revived when you choose. Also: Reverence toward a tradition you believe in gives you magical powers.

Six 

Being a pioneer is thrilling. You are not afraid of work because the sense that you are doing something no one has ever done before exalts you. You utilize whatever is at hand in the work. You are not disturbed by working alone when that is essential. You prefer not to be watched by curious eyes, sensing that what you accomplish will be appreciated whether anyone knows who did it or not.

Seven

If feeling opposed to anything or anyone, or everything and everyone, you have some self-awareness to develop, and some tolerance of those who are doing the best they know how. Remembering that would help. You cannot reform everyone by argument or opposition. You cannot make them better people by shaming or insulting them. Paragraphs One and Three could help. A game in which the players respect and honor one another might be good. If you assume you will probably lose, a win would be a great high and a loss no loss. Meanwhile the edges of anger, envy, and hypocrisy would be rubbed off in honest, interesting competition.

{Tuesday}

Cosmic Piper

Friday, January 18, 2013

Forecast: Late Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 18-20 January, 2013

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Taurus, 2013

Beginning Friday 18 January at 5:37p PT | 8:37p ET | 1:37a(Sa) UT
through Saturday 19
/moon goes void-of-course Sunday 20
/at 10:17a PT | 1:17p ET | 6:17p UT
until Luna enters Gemini Monday 21 at 6:05a PT|9:05a ET|2:05p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week runs from
Friday 18 January at 5:12a PT | 8:12a ET | 1:12p UT
through Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 until
Monday 21 at 1:41a PT | 4:41a ET | 9:41a UT
(almost three days this time, longer than usual)

\Down for Repairs/

I am very grateful to all of you who have been reading these forecasts, and sometimes commenting on them, for years. It is wonderful to have such support from all of you. I have said, very seriously, that if nobody at all read these reports, I would still write them, for G*d and myself. Often people are astounded that I think G*d would want forecasts from Cosmic Piper! My understanding of Him is that He is working with and through the human race, century after century, eon after eon, for purposes we can hardly conceive, but in which we can participate. For the chemist it is for better chemistry. For the florist, endlessly pleasing bouquets. For the baseball player, a better batting record. For myself, more accurate and helpful forecasts. Yes, I believe G*d cares about the progress of the human race in every ethical and good way, and so about the progress of astrology--which, in its real essence, hardly ever discerned, is truly a sacred science, the science of the Magi who visited Jesus and Mary at the advent of our Christian era.

And so I press on. I did not write a regular forecast for this weekend, other than the important data above, because I needed some time off to improve my methods. I improve them regularly, week after week, month after month, year after year. That is, I try to do so; you and the Supreme Lord are the judges of that. This time a major reconstruction required more time.

The reports will be in a somewhat different format when they re-begin on Monday January 21. I hope to post that forecast, and the following one for Tuesday, on Sunday this week. I hope to post them every other day, two days included in each forecast. But I have gone back to a "daily" format instead of the "Sol-Lunar 2.5-day period" format we have been using for a few years. I won't say much about that until we get started; I am of course interested in your comments and criticisms as we go along.

I hope you have a quiet, peaceful and meaningful weekend. I use those words because since the |karmically difficult, sobering third of this week| exactly encompasses the weekend, it might be better for such quiet, thoughtful activities, plus sheer relaxation and contemplation, than for intense activity or social engagements (unless they are required by "karma" or dharma let us say).

{Late Friday, Saturday, Sunday} /Down for Repairs\

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Forecast: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 16-18 January, 2013

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Aries, 2013

Beginning Wednesday 16 January at 8:08a PT|11:08a ET|4:08p UT
through Thursday 17
/moon goes void-of-course Friday 18 at 4:41p PT|7:41p ET|12:41a UT
until Luna enters Taurus Friday at 5:37p PT|8:37p ET|1:37a(Sa) UT

|Kamically difficult or sobering third| of this week
begins Friday 18 at 5:12a PT | 8:12a ET | 1:12p UT
through Saturday and Sunday till early hours of Monday

*Reserved yet Helpfully Caring Orientation*

Message III
There is a desire to codify or make definite and certain anything you are concerned about. This could include paperwork, writing, editing, budgeting, and financial records. You have a gift now for doing this accurately and staying with it until it is done right.

Mysteries can be solved. Anyone whom you look to as teacher, guide, expert or authority is likely to be shining in your mind and helping you in a strong way to get your thinking and living in order. It seems that very few in any generation are given such authoritative directive or guiding capacity, and when we know of one we do well to heed his or her directives.

You might look to natural scenery around you, whether bodies of water, mountains, or winter views, and let it uplift you into "the peace that passeth understanding." That helps you carry on peaceably with whatever you are trying to do.

There can be secrecy, because you know some things are better left unmentioned. This could be in personal life but also in business or government service. Mute lips often protect deep planning which would upset the applecart if others knew about it. This is not furtive but peaceably reasonable, a matter of minding one's own careful business. Your future is depending on you to do that.

Message II
We are reaching toward the ineffable. You might realize this when sitting quietly. You might feel your mind does not know where to go for anchorage. What is real? This is not an idly curious or philosophically theoretical question but a deeply spiritual one. Not philosophers of analysis and complex logic but existential and religious thinkers grope toward answers we need.

It is well not to lose your focus, whatever it be. A scattered, loose, almost insane mental miasma could set in and make you feel that nothing is secure, and as a result you could feel lost and make mistakes. You know you are not an idiot, but may need to look to the "directive authorities" of Message III for secure orientation. This might be specially true Friday. A sense of values will help. You know what things are worth, or can sense it, as if inspecting items for sale and selecting among them. This subtle sense can guide you past confusion so that you choose what is best.

The need for direction does not mean you want to be ordered around by anyone; in fact you would resent that. You take readings from them and get orientation from them but know you have to make your own decisions (moon in Aries). If you feel you cannot do this you might cop out or drop out of some demanding activity, claiming that you are not up to it or feeling that you cannot "hack it." Pulling back or sitting down and resting prayerfully for a period might help.

People are not entirely secure in their emotional lives. They may be feeling lost, lonely, abandoned: in need of a loving parent. Religious devotion can heal such suffering, for many, or else an imaginative link with someone you trust and cherish. For the lucky, this can be an actual person. However, you may feel that he or she is there for you only sometimes. When not, then you have to muse upon her or him as from a distance and be content with that.

Message I
Instruction you get can be very necessary, yet not complete. Therefore you have to use your latent discernment to learn what you can from it and figure out the rest yourself. To put it simply, no one has all the answers. Yet you can find those you need if you seek and try, not judging yourself or anyone else harshly because they have only a partial knowledge of what is needed. You learn from them, yourself, and the situation, as if cooking up a recipe you have to improvise or making a chemical experiment.

How much can you help people, feed them, nurture them, without getting lost in side issues which don't help anyone? You may ask yourself this. They depend on you, and you want to be dependable. You know that being dependable for them means someone will be dependable for you when you need such help. You may over-analyze the psychology involved. You may wonder why people are needing help, or resent the fact that they are. Someone may sense this in you and wonder what your motives are or if you really care or are merely pretending. Being charitable is hard, or can bring up issues we don't want to face. Who is judging you? Yourself. When you find yourself judging others harshly, perhaps they are also judging you. We see into one another's weaknesses and hypocrisies. Rather than run from all this, if you face it patiently you will make much spiritual growth and learn something about how to interact with human beings when the chips are down and you need to be both tolerant and resolute. 

 
{Wednesday, Thursday, Friday} *Reserved yet Helpfully Caring Orientation*



Cosmic Piper

Monday, January 14, 2013

Forecast: Monday, Tuesday, early Wednesday, 15-17 January, 2013

Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Pisces, 2013

Beginning Monday 14 January at 2:50a PT | 5:50a ET | 10:50a UT
through Tuesday 15
/moon goes void-of-course Wednesday at 1:34a PT|4:34a ET|9:34a UT
until Luna enters Aries Wednesday 16
at 8:08a PT | 11:08a ET | 4:08p UT

~The Most Fortunate Focus~

You may be realizing something about your basic methods of living, thinking or being faithful. To what am I faithful? is one question to which you may be getting answers. How do I really do this particular thing I want to do well? is another question which seems to be answering itself. You are seeing how to do things which have been a puzzle in the past. This could be major, because Mercury is close to conjoining the sun at the temporal center of this Bright Hermetic Epoch (December 14 through February 7). You are "at center" in much of your thinking and perception, and can trust what you are seeing. It might be good to write some of that down as an anchorage to use in the future.

Message III
Everything seems sunny, bright, and easygoing. What is not to like? You know you have reserve forces of strength when you need them, but do not feel you must unleash them at this time because you are able to be thoughtful, genial and peaceful in your relations with everyone and so enjoy calm good fortune. Those in power, financiers, businesspersons, and government officials will likely be fair with you if you approach them wisely.

Desiring to be courteous and gracious to all, you finesse situations which might have been stumbling blocks. We have two days in a row, Monday and Tuesday, when the moon is not void-of-course but forms helpful aspects; so you could press forward with business and enjoy solid progress which relieves worry. Approaching those you need to approach should work out well.

If there is a warning it is: Stay on the up-and-up, and use methods you know to be reliable. If you were to fiddle with "interesting" methods which may be wrong or inadequate, you could pass up the chance for gain. It is not good to rely on something which will fail you. If you refuse to rush ahead with over-ambitious methods which might just waste everybody's time and then make you feel foolish, instead remaining humble, doing what you see as your duty or mission with pride in it, all will go well.

Message II
You feel things deeply. You may not know how to put them into words, or express them at all, although music or poetry could do it, or gestures and facial expressions which many will not notice or comprehend. You do it anyway for an invisible audience.

Fortune is smiling on you. Some of your plans, and past efforts, are bearing fruit, if not in a spectacular way then in a way which is promising and reassuring. Communicating with those at a distance could be helpful.

What is "bad company"? You have to decide for yourself. You could gravitate toward it and lose time and energy in pointless pastimes such as gambling or game-playing when more practical pursuits would really help you. If you make the right choice there will be angelic help to lift you up the mountain of higher aspirations. Partial fulfillment of a mission is a great and deep joy.

Self-indulgence in intense desires of an erotic sort is quite possible. You will have to govern yourself in this matter as best you can, deciding when to let yourself glory in pleasures of the flesh and when to hold back. Something interesting and deep is going on in connection with loyalties and individuals you need as perhaps mothering or nurturing figures (and males can play that role as well as females). Someone may think of you as one to cherish and cling to. That may be surprising and flattering. Likewise you may need someone (whether on the spiritual or physical plane) in the same way.

Message I
People are needing to feel a part of something larger than themselves. We demonstrate values for one another whether we realize it or not. Then each of us appropriates some of the qualities he sees outside of him, if they catch his interest and approval consciously or subconsciously. Some people find themselves imitating the mannerisms of actors or actresses in TV series, for example. There is nothing wrong with that if it aids self-expansion and self-development. Friends pick up mannerisms, gestures and thoughts from one another.

At a more somber level there is a need to protect oneself from unwanted qualities perceived around one. Parents get frantic about the "bad company" of their teenagers. This makes sense, often, but adults also are sucked into modes of thinking and feeling they would reject if they thought about them more deliberately. You can protect yourself from crisis by minding your own business and making sure others do the same if they intrude. More happily, someone may take a friendly, protective attitude toward you, aiding you in establishing yourself in a position of greater ease and comfort.

{Monday, Tuesday, early Wednesday} ~The Most Fortunate Focus~

Cosmic Piper