Forecast: 14-15 February 2013

Thursday 14 February 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Aries
/moon goes void-of-course at 7:36p PT|10:36p ET|3:36a(F) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week
begins at 3:32p PT | 6:32p ET | 11:32p UT
and continues until Sunday afternoon (almost three days, longer than usual)
In recent weeks, the following events have occurred within the
|difficult third|: The Sandy Hook storm which closed down New York City,
the nightclub fire in Brazil which killed hundreds, and the storm in the Northeast
this past weekend which closed down car and air traffic. Such notoriously notable
problems do not occur every time, but if you watch these |periods| closely you
will determine what they mean for you personally. Generally, quieter, more individual
and "lonesome" activities are preferable to business or social initiatives.

*Probity*

It seems that Valentine's Day expressions and activities might go better earlier in the day or early evening. Late at night it seems that unwelcome, perverse or decadent trends might set in.

The whole day could be brimming over with mysteries, some of them fascinating. By struggling to understand, you arrive at surprising insight.

Disciplined effort is better than speculative gambling. Feelings of gloom or futility can be overcome by focusing on your basic work. This might include difficult but important communications.

You can be strong, determined, and independent, asserting your dominion. This requires control of a quailing or shrinking trend in your emotions, but you are capable of that. A place where people recompense themselves through refreshment is favorable.

You can be bold and forceful when necessary. Most of the time you prefer to avoid dangers cautiously. It is possible to make positive suggestions to people without "leading them on" insincerely, if you develop the knack. They feel you are promising something but without a stated commitment.

An intellectual-spiritual side of the day runs deep, as if you were seeking illumination. That can bring you profound  contentment and well-being. Someone homeless or otherwise needing assistance will not be a drag on things if you handle the situation smoothly.

Adhering to some delicate, easy-going tradition could ease your feelings and make you less isolated.

A happy facet of the day is some sense of possession, of aristocracy or heritage, a feeling that you are set up to be an asset to others, hospitable: a boon to the community.

Precise, exact thinking and accounting in business will dispel clouds of worry.

Whatever is filthy or perverse will be easily dispatched if you remain watchful. You guard against whatever would subvert calm simple purposes with which you are aligned.

{Thursday} *Probity*

Cosmic Piper

Friday 15 February 2013
Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Taurus
/moon void-of-course until it
enters Taurus at 2:09a PT | 5:09a ET | 10:09p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues
until Sunday afternoon

\Options Toyed With; Misanthropy Overcome/

However dull this may sound, quietude and calm are a good approach, rather than high expectations of any sort of excitement or thrill. You can let things work out by being as easily responsible as possible--easily because you do not make an issue of things you have to do but just do them, making your object not ambition or success but "just doing it" as if serving in a Zen monastery.

A trend toward Nature could be wonderful. You want to be somewhere free of the artificiality and selfish calculation of the urban environment. Of course this can be a state of mind you enter into even in the intensity of a metropolis if that is your only option.

A sense of futility and gloom can be overcome. A place of refreshment can help. Of course I don't meant drinking until you fall asleep in a bar. However, "misery loves company" and being with the down-and-out can be a comfort. They have little to enjoy and so make the most of it.

A strong desire for freedom could lead to fascinating examination of your options, what you might buy or use as a springboard to gain and liberty. Is this realistic? Maybe not but it gives you hope--which is a sustainment in consciousness at least even if it doesn't buy the tickets you would like.

At a deeper level, common sense jibes with spiritual seeking so that you could soberly keep a calm head while pursuing deeper knowledge, insight, and illumination. Desires fall away as you confide in a higher power. Then anxiety falls away also.

Work is a part of your salvation. You see what you need to do in the immediate situation, so doing it expeditiously is a tonic. Heave-ho! Then you feel flushed with accomplishment, no matter how small the task, and revived for further adventures.

Those could include something like a game or play--at worst foolish gambling, or, for the better, relaxation through either a formal game or free-form joking or jostling with people. During a |difficult third| this has its limits. Unfortunately people can get out of sorts rather easily.

Inspiration and ingenuity flow to you especially in the evening, no matter what your mood. That can protect you from bitterness, which could be one of the worst features of the day. You may see the worse in people too easily, brood about that, and become morose and misanthropic. But by evening you should be able to sense the solid reality in your situation, the economic, business, and career foundations of your life, and that is a comfort.

{Friday} /Options Toyed With; Misanthropy Overcome\
Cosmic Piper