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}

Cosmic Piper
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}

Cosmic Piper