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~

Cosmic Piper

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*

Cosmic Piper