Forecast: Friday 1 and Saturday 2 November 2013

Friday 1 November 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Libra, Beauty; Fortuna in 12, Confinement

Moon enters the Via Combusta at 8:23a PT | 11:23a ET | 3:23p UT

The boss is angry; standards have fallen; even Mother's

Photo frowns. It's easier to go for a walk in the rain. 

A rabbi walks by repeating a prayer. Song emanates

From an open church, and soon the sun bursts forth.

}Maintaining Standards Listlessly{

Things that can be done are mostly of a basic structural nature, that is, routine things you need to keep up with. There is a heritage belonging to you which you can foster by holding on to it when in doubt. Then it lifts you from worry. This is basically spiritual but has a physical ritualistic side. There is restlessness and enthusiasm, but they could go in futile directions unless we remember we have some mission to accomplish. Remembering how our actions look to someone "above" us could keep us on course.

There is a compass in your thought pointing out where you are and where you can go. You could make technical discoveries. (I myself am waiting to purchase a phone or tablet device, if I do, until later in November after Mercury's cycle straightens out.) You contribute skill and talent to the world and it returns the favor by providing you with ways to rediscover yourself. You immortalize yourself by doing what you can to lift nature beyond itself in the domain of your expertise. 

We care about upholding standards we have absorbed from the culture, yet this may be somewhat free-form or slapdash on a day when the moon is waning and in the Via Combusta. A public character who means a lot to you is a focus for admiration and emulation. All seem to hide behind or speak out from masks, or to pretend to be other than they are--perhaps a hangover from yesterday's play-acting.

Roving tendencies could bring on drift. This could be refreshing temporarily, but then conscience rears its head and wants you to protect your reputation among those who matter by rising to the occasion and keeping up with necessary activities to prove your mettle. Those in power or whom you admire may not want to be harsh with you but they know when you are slacking off dishonorably. Evening with Luna forming a sextile to Venus while in her sign brings pleasurable relief.

{Friday} {Maintaining Standards Listlessly}

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Saturday 2 November 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Libra, Beauty-->Scorpio, Justice; Fortuna in 12, Confinement

Moon remains in the Via Combusta until Sunday afternoon

|Karmically difficult or sobering  third| of this week begins at 4:58a PT | 7:58a Et | 11:58p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:48a PT | 8:48a ET | 12:48p UT

until it enters Scorpio at 10:36a PT | 1:36p ET | 5:36p UT

The moon wanes invisibly and the sun hides. 

A rabbit runs to its burrow and waits trembling.

If only it could see the Double Triangle above,

It could rest and breathe in peace. Resolve!

~Breathing in the Eternal~

The rather bleak indications do not have to ruin your Saturday. It could be a good time for rest and recovery, with all that entails, such as an internal focus on meanings, hopes and ultimate realities. We need to be comfortable in the Eternal. Then whatever temporal matters turn up can be dealt with serendipitously. Reliance on Universal Life is solace. Autumn leaves symbolize rest between cycles.

Misappropriation of energy is possible, or silly purchases as escapes. Doing something orderly at home is progressive. A good side of you is steadfast, patient, never weary of slow useful activity.

Reaching out in mind toward a parental figure is natural. We are all babies. Listening to singers or musicians is uplifting. Peaceful natural settings are harmonizing. We conserve old buildings and parks for good reason. 

Something in your family line is trying to come out. Memories of relatives may be puissant, helpful, guiding. Your own will power derives partly from the wills of ancestors. The universal Will works through all. A more insecure side of you imagines outer insecurities and worries too much.

The waning moon (the New Moon comes early tomorrow) can be unstable and unhopeful, so it is good to remember whatever keeps you calm and persevering. Hardships are not the only ships! A better wind and sky are coming. A solid side of you treats all setbacks as "nothing at all" to a longer-term perspective. Inner compulsions which mirror something universal or family-like are holding you to a good course.

{Saturday} ~Breathing in the Eternal~

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Forecast: Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 October 2013

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Virgo, Purity; Fortuna in 11, Friendship

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:49p PT | 10:49p ET | 2:49a(Th) UT

"Two heads are better than one" said a boyhood friend.

Now two wings seem better than none, though a drunken

Bird or man could debauch. Where did I put my wine? 

Three cups in a triangle on a table by the piano man.

\Wings Sprouted or Lent by Angels/

An artless or happy-go-lucky style may be appropriate. Purposes seem fragmented. There can be intense enthusiasm whether of a spiritual nature or something more common such as debauchery.

An eccentric approach takes you unusual places in your mind and perhaps physically. You can be singing to yourself as you go. You expand toward something or someone you emulate. 

It is intelligent to see both sides and look ahead, as in Hegelian Dialectic. You might be where piano music or singing makes you and others feel popular and appreciated. You may be intense and nonchalant, giving up designs in favor of spontaneity. In that case the first sentence of this paragraph refers to your internal attitude, which could be intelligently comprehensive even if outwardly things seem inconsequent.

The waning moon can make for instability. You may be drawn to friends or those who might become friends whether they actually do or not. Friends in this case are something to lean on when you feel you have no firm direction of your own. Enthusiasm could amount to mental intoxication. Not everything is formula, though formulaic teachings in philosophy and psychology can be fascinating and helpful and could give you wings. You see both sides of every issue, question or attitude in order to get to a third, a synthesis which liberates (whether formulated verbally or intuited euphorically). 

{Wednesday} /Wings Sprouted or Lent by Angels\

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Thursday 31 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Libra, Beauty; Fortuna in 11, Friendship

/moon void-of-course until

it enters Libra at 5:23a PT | 8:23a ET | 12:23p UT

He peers round the corner to see goblins and elves.

A hawk swoops down which a witch chases away.

A message is written in the sky on a scroll.

Two masks gaze at the scene and elocute.

}Friendly Costumed Alchemy{

Halloweens past and places past could be heavy in your consciousness. You are shrewd in sensing what is worth doing and what not. A lot could happen helter-skelter but harmoniously if you get in a mood of freedom. Masks and imitations are indicated in symbols for the day so the spirit of costumed fun is with us. 

People are not forgetting basic kindness or goodness and so there could be people feeding or otherwise being kindly to one another in the midst of holiday festivities. There is music and singing; no one's excellence interferes with anyone else's. Some will be holding up a banner representing a cause, wanting to make the holiday mean something more than buffoonery.

A stereoscopic vision is intelligent, getting depth through more than one perspective. Not only can there be super-intelligence but super-revelation, spiritual vision, among and through and above the costumes. Some may feel orphaned or in need of guidance (Mercury retrograde conjoined to the sun and Saturn in Scorpio) but moods seem mostly harmonious. 

Cloudiness and drift are temporary and could lead to fun rather than boredom. People are pretending to be monsters maybe, but their hearts are kind (however, spare us more kindly vampire stories, please!). Play-acting is an art form. Those not drawn to it can still enjoy at a more mental level of observation and perspective, for the aforementioned triple conjunction in Scorpio heightens perception to a point of brilliance, as in the Hegelian dialectic which yields real magic of transformation by combining opposite viewpoints alchemically. 

{Thursday} {Friendly Costumed Alchemy}

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Forecast: Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 October 2013

Monday 21 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Leo, Glory; Fortuna in 10, Honor

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:27a PT | 8:27a ET | 12:27p UT

until it enters Virgo at 8:46p PT | 11:46p ET | 3:46a(Tu) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week

ends at 5:17p PT | 8:17p ET | 12:17a(Tu) UT

He leaves the airport with his luggage marked

For someplace new. His heart remembers loves

Lost; his course is challenged by wind. He wonders

Who is friend, who foe; a dance begins.

*Absences are Presences*

The moon void-of-course plus the |difficult third| plus Mercury retrograde is a "tripple whammy" or "triple witching" which we need to watch out for. Laugh at those witches or tell them they aren't due for ten more days. Fundamentally, you are likely to be more involved in internal processes, worries, anxieties, and stifled hopes than the external scene, so it is not an easy work day. "What am I doing here?" is the question in the minds of both bosses and workers, so all could be quite touchy. Therefore keeping a low profile could be best. "This is not the world I contracted for," people feel. Yet it is the best possible and is germinally preparing something better. 

Sometimes I feel that these general comments are more helpful than all the intricate signals I derive from the daily charts, so if you feel that is enough, maybe you should ignore the rest of this report! Yet I struggle on with it, feeling it is my mission to try.

There is purity in inner instincts which are trying to importune you to heed them and make the best of everything and everyone. There may be no system in this, so you can be up spontaneously for every momentary crisis or signal or trajectory. Affections are insecure, that is, doubted, questioned, so you could feel forlorn unless you learn to love without a need for response.

A strong side of you can take care of all necessary business quietly but firmly behind the scenes. You know better than to shout out about what you are doing. Some might listen and then slander. A mathematical table or diagram, or just listing things in some intelligible order, could help a lot. People will be singing to themselves inwardly to realize their potentials. You may wish you could transplant yourself to some other city, state, or country, or ponder the past when you were somewhere else. There is a fatefulness in our locations, exits and entrances, which we find hard to understand.

Males (or females in masculine mode) may rest content with themselves, or realize value in someone who is very much like them, an alter ego who aids. This is someone plodding and persistent yet highly ambitious. Females (or males in feminine mode) can link helpfully with someone assertive and intellectual who tries to assimilate all he can within his work and takes it as pleasant, sharing a sense of trial and error as not an awkward but a happy learning experience. 

People are compelled to be what they are, secretly or overtly, in every situation and job. Maybe they need assistance. If you do, you can accept it gracefully, as well as give it to anyone learning the ropes. Patience in labor brings a reward ultimately, and the continuity of trying is good for the soul.

Mercury is moving backward to join Saturn in Scorpio, which gives a great ability to look into the past and perhaps the future, even beyond this lifetime, or an interest in reincarnation or near-death experiences. There is no need for instability if you keep your mind on ultimate purposes, for although you are tempted to deviate from your current course, the sextile of the sun and Mars gives persistence and energy. The only way out is the way through. Resentment about spurned love is a danger, and yet you can feel and intuit deeply what all that means, what the secret value of a relationship has been no matter where it is headed. People do separate sometimes, yet something real in the relationship remains invulnerable on "inner planes," the "akashic records," or however you choose to visualize it. An immigrant has to find new relationships. If that sounds wearisome, you can relax and just let it happen whenever it happens. 

{Monday} *Absences are Presences*

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Tuesday 29 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Virgo, Purity; Fortuna in 11, Friendship

Moon on course

The lightning has struck his favorite tree breaking 

Off a branch. He remembers his mother's advice.

A bluebird settles on the tree. He had been 

A nude boy with a crown. He digs for gold.

\Glimmers of Fortune Sustain Morale/

Momentum and efficiency should be picking up from yesterday. Issues of work are more manageable. A family heritage going deep and far into the past could be in your consciousness, making you aware of ways you want to live up to the best in it. Parents sometimes have partly wrong notions of their children's destinies, but also partly right. Ways of getting things done are scattershot because you are linking many factors together as best you can although they elude complete systematization. You should not be depressed if some things seem aborted, or unrealizable at present. 

An innocent, childlike attitude could be not only a relief but an advantage. Children have inherent dignity, and hope for the future. There may be a thin line between unseemly self-pushing and a natural display of real talent. The latter is possible. Fortune is with you if you are alert to it. 

Males (or females in masculine mode) can link helpfully with someone inquisitive, detective-like, probing into the past. She or he wants to link things and people together, perhaps by phone or Internet, enjoying frank comradeship. Females (or males in feminine mode) can link helpfully with someone indomitable who is an experimentalist always looking ahead. But he could be 

currently wasteful and procrastinating, seemingly stagnant, though with big ideas.

Expanding the mind with large possibilities is something many TV series and films do, especially the ones touting supposed supernormal abilities which all of us would like to have. Though this be just entertainment, it infiltrates our consciousness making us strong and wilful, which can be bad or good. Maybe we get big heads about ourselves, or maybe we decide we will not give up. There is such a thing as good luck (more accurately, divine grace) and fortuitous discovery with accompanying gain. Some of that could come if you are alert to it.

Many may feel they are "stuck" in a position with little room for improvement. Things look pretty bleak, as if there had been an abscission of their previous large dreams and prospects. Then the hopes for the future of the previous paragraph are very important to sustain morale. 

{Tuesday} /Glimmers of Fortune Sustain Morale\

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Forecast: Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 October 2013

Saturday 26 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Leo, Glory; Fortuna in 10, Honor

/moon void-of-course until it

enters Leo at 9:13a PT | 12:13p ET | 4:13p UT

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

The logo descended from above and glowed in the dark. 

It showed him how to adjust to restraints imposed

By destiny's hand while finding his course. He watched

For emotional prey, learners, disciples, harem.

*Quiet Internal Mastery*

The Mercury-Retrograde period this time is from October 21 until late on November 10. It is not as difficult as sometimes because Mercury has favorable aspects. One good side of it is reviewing or re-experiencing the past, or going back to it in memory. This can come out in dreams or daydreams. One might be homesick for some prior residence or location or old friends. The beloved song "Midnight Train to Georgia" is a wonderful example of a Mercury-retrograde experience--the poignant story of a man retreating from the big city and his failure there to his home town in Georgia. I have heard it a few times recently and came close to weeping, for it signifies something all of us have been through at some level. 

Morale can be held up despite some harshness or sadness because you sense something splendid about yourself which is your heritage and can emerge. You want to display yourself no matter what doubts you have. An intense yet nonchalant approach could work best. The mastery you know you have at some level may be partly obscured yet is there.

Will when fused with the will of the Ultimate is indomitable. Something of this comes into your awareness. What you perfect in yourself has a popular appeal. You examine things curiously and get insights which are opportunities.

Males (or females in masculine mode) connect solidly with someone who is mature, principled, harsh, believing in justice, clever and somewhat inscrutable. Females (or males in feminine mode) connect solidly with someone intensely assured who manifests glory, is suave and watchful, a firm friend unless antagonized. 

When you withdraw from some things which seem unrewarding, you are recovering, conserving your energies. Letting someone else control things is restful when your personal initiative is not needed. Then when you want to be active again, you will see opportunities quickly and seize them. There are artistic and musical factors to appreciate wherever you are. 

No matter what your mood, an underlying fund of energies is yours, with the sun sextile Mars. You may feel you have used this pointlessly or to no purpose, yet recovery is always possible, for you have a deep comprehension of some matters which is unrivaled, and there you excel. The physical and mental are intertwined. Physical activity enhances mental. If some of this seems constrained, subject to old rules set up by others or yourself, that can be helpful for now, preventing you from losing yourself in pointless quests.

{Saturday} *Quiet Internal Mastery*

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Sunday 27 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Leo, Glory; Fortuna in 10, Honor

Moon on course

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

She picked up her old doll and danced with it; 

Then threw it on the bed. Her friend beckoned

From the woods; she joined him to learn fencing.

They could wipe the town clean, or put on a show.

*Sideways and Backward Dance of Possibles*

As if by magic, just before beginning this report I saw the following: "WASHINGTON - The troubled HealthCare.gov website will be running properly by late November, said Jeffrey Zients, President Obama's appointee to fix the problems that have plagued the site since its Oct. 1 opening." If you have been following these reports with even half-hearted attention you must have noted that I said the Dark Hermetic Epoch began October 1 and ends November 27! Exactly the period covered by this lapse in the functioning of the health-care insurance website. Score another few points for the Hermetic Epochs, discovered in 1978 by yours truly, Cosmic Piper.

1 Many have been struggling with alcohol or drug habits, with Mars continuing opposite Neptune. There can be recovery from that, so that something fresh turns up today. It might appear scattered; you would rather aim in any or all directions than make limiting choices. The danger is that some would choose conflict and continuing opposition to law or normal order and end up hurting mostly themselves. 

2 Hard, long work plus courage go with Mars trine Pluto. This is probably in ways which are not visible to anyone. In secret as it were you prepare something amazing. The |difficult third| plus the Scorpio emphasis suggest that some might be opposed to you or slander you or talk behind your back. Or you might be imagining that. Yet you can contribute skill and talent to all, which might be the best defense against misunderstanding. Possibly remote rewards mean you work mostly in seclusion.

3 Males (or females in masculine mode) could link successfully with someone sweet, attractive, sagacious, studious, an explorer who examines everything in a childlike manner. It is possible she or he could become involved in disputes or litigation. Females (or males in feminine mode) could link helpfully with someone assertive, intellectual, trying to assimilate and understand things, learning to "dance" as it were in a partially-unlearned skill, desiring to do this in a beautiful natural setting.

4 You press for conquest in ways the world does not understand. The dance you are perfecting requires natural, simple trial and error. It does not have to be childish, but could become so if you departed from what your deepest purposes are suggesting. Then it would be childlike in a happy way. If some felt too frustrated they could become wantonly assertive or vandal-like, wanting to sweep away everyone with themselves. This temptation is really a need to abandon idols which do not work for you. 

5 Unsettled habits without perseverance could make you feel lost. Then you could become ready to oppose or fight some "demon" or "monster" or "injustice" in a way which is ineffective and self-defeating. You can oppose injustice successfully but need to do it with a willingness to learn as you go in a somewhat childlike manner. The good possibilities of paragraph 3 should not be forgotten if you ever sense that someone is one of the "others" described there. 

{Saturday} *Sideways and Backward Dance of Possibles*

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Forecast: Thursday 24 and Friday 25 October 2013

Thursday 24 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Cancer, Patience; Fortuna in 9, Comprehension

Moon on course

The grinning clown on the merry-go-round

Travels from pony to pony. The bashful

Girl feels captive of the up-and-down, 

Till a familiar tune gets her singing.

~Captive to Destiny of Varied Fulfillment~

When all else fails, there is humor. Be a clown. That could help you relax when the loose ends of what you are trying to put together don't seem to connect. Not everything is ordeal, despite difficulties in your work. You may feel a captive of that, but by doing it as well as feasible you will escape from stress. 

Deep thoughts and deep studies are good for you. They will even help with practical matters, work and finances, indirectly. When one is thinking and feeling in a context of the Ultimate, the immediate goes better.  You seek perfection in your talents. You wonder about friends--New ones? A new place to find them? Old friends changing or moving? There are fateful connections among people on frontiers.

Males (or females in masculine mode) may link successfully with someone older, mature, or serious-minded (even someone from beyond the frontier of "death") who is mostly alone, taciturn, and respected. There is work and study in the relationship, experimentation and independence. Females (or males in feminine mode) may link helpfully with someone strong and assertive, dedicated to service, intellectual but currently drawn to much pleasure. There could be shared food and drink.

You can be happily resourceful, and receptive to turns of opportunity. Entertainment and music could be uplifting. There is greatness and magnificence in your feelings, plus strong solid hopes. 

Versatile aptitudes are yours, yet you need to realize they can only be applied in so many directions--preferably directions you have already set up. The new can be toyed with, but should not take up too much of your time. You may feel resentful and passionate about routines which hold you captive. Yet they are bringing out your character and strength. There is room for creative exchanges of pleasure in experimental, liberating ways--happy diversions--during or after important work-times.

{Thursday} ~Captive to Destiny of Varied Fulfillment~

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Friday 25 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Cancer, Patience; Fortuna in 9, Comprehension

/moon goes void-of-course at 1:32p PT | 4:32p ET | 8:34p UT

In the harem the women left to themselves obsess

With trivia, and argue fiercely; the owner withdraws

And meditates. Something about him wins his way.

Waiting here is a talent. What sailboat will ever come?

~Restrained Appreciation of Subtle Factors~

Since the evening is subject to the drift and uncertainty of the void-of-course, it might be better to plan it beforehand. Travel in connection with friendship is subject to doubts. You can find equanimity in waiting when waiting is the only thing possible. Mantras and prayers come in handy at such times. Obtuseness and lassitude may seem to characterize the public at large. Yet there can be much beauty, friendship and concord. People are feeling that there is "someone" for them.

Some make their mark without trying, or assuming anything. The force of their character and understanding is so intense that it makes their way for them. Their deep potentials flow out from them. Yet you realize that organized efforts are necessary to procure what you need. You can be competent in obtaining and using natural resources. 

Males (or females in masculine mode) may rest content with themselves, or could press on to a solid connection with someone important or glorious, secretive or invisible (!), who has quiet wisdom and assists others in difficult situations. Females (or males in feminine mode) could link helpfully with someone assertive and intellectual, capable yet modest, who has awkward or restrained relations with the opposite sex and tries to control them systematically. 

People feel forceful toward one another in hidden ways. They would like to regiment those they love or with whom they feel they have a destiny. And so some may become peevish, getting satisfaction from trivial toy-like things they put in place of anything significant, and creating misery around them. Others, seeing how absurd all this is, may become pilgrims in the inner life, meditating and pondering, rising beyond trivia.

There is intellectual vitality, which can come out in friends as well. An unstable trend should be corrected at least up to the void-of-course time, so you can get important things finished; then a drift would be natural and partly favorable. Flowers or flower-like factors, natural beauty, can be real; people seem like flowers. Some need protection, and some protect themselves by turning away from anyone they suspect would "mess with" them. Being cool and collected will lead along good paths.

{Friday} ~Restrained Appreciation of Subtle Factors~

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Forecast: Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 October 2013

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Sun in Libra, Equivalence; Moon in Gemini, Joy; Fortuna in 8, Regeneration

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:36p PT | 8:36p ET | 12:36a(W) UT

The raven scolds the fairy, who tosses iridescent dust at

That malicious fowl; the dreamer of both wonders which

Friend is the fairy, which the villain. It is easier to sleep.

Is she on a ship adrift? The moon wanes. She tries to sing.

}Everybody Lonely?{

Admittedly I am "behind the curve" when it comes to the TV series Breaking Bad which has won so much attention and an Emmy. When reading about it I had decided not to watch because I don't like to sully my mind with too much criminality and violence. The obsession of the public with wallowing in such stuff is a continual puzzle to me. I can only explain it on the basis of reincarnation, that people are slowly evolving out of a low state in which killing and lying and stealing seem natural, and this takes many lifetimes, so during "this" lifetime they slip back into their old habits through violent movies and video games and TV series. 

Me too, maybe, in some ways, but not usually through the more violent stuff. I have already mentioned how I watched the first episode of the series (from years ago) and saw how it perfectly mirrored the aspect Mars opposite Neptune we are going through now. Last night I watched the second episode and it was even more appropriate--two men killed through drug poisoning, one revived, a decision to kill him (Mars) but an uncertainty about how to do it (Neptune) or whether to do it (conscience, not totally absent). I felt not only sullied but in need of salvation after watching it. It was literally a "bloodbath" in some scenes. This is the kind of stuff I do not really need to watch and usually avoid. But it gave me a lesson in several areas. Here is part of what the brilliant astrologer C.E.O. Carter said about Mars opposite or square Neptune in a birth-chart: "[The native] may be brought into contact with the objectionable side of life--indeed, it is certain . . . For example, unscrupulous moneylenders, cheats, share-pushers, persons addicted to sexual irregularities, drug-takers or drug-vendors, coarse-minded and foulmouthed persons, bullies, dishonest bankrupts, courtesans, drunkards and so forth." Well, that is pretty much the cast of Breaking Bad. One of our readers said on her Facebook page that she couldn't watch it and was disturbed that it won an Emmy. Carter goes on to say, perspicuously, "He should avoid such elements most strictly or he may learn that one does not touch pitch without defilement." That is how I felt last night. 

The aspect continues and will be with us technically by ten degrees through November 4. It has more subtle ways of coming out than the above, such as fears of deception or slander or gossip among friends. One wants to trust but wonders if someone is trustworthy. It can be very hard. One wants to trust but feels one wants a commitment from the person to do better. Then, in asking for that, one may feel one is being too hard, and it goes on and on with forgiveness or without forgiveness. If you have resolved such issues successfully, tell us about it.

Tuesday:

A partner may be sensitive or moody, making you feel unloved. People seem unduly introspective, retorspective and morbid, as if trying to develop themselves from within themselves rather than in interaction. One scrapes together what assurance one can to feel poised, although seemingly abandoned by one and all. Some will find that what they have been attempting is beyond reason and just will not work. (If it is a noble ideal, then faith is required.)

Mercury turned retrograde early Monday morning. If you have read these reports for more than two or three months you know what to expect. It will turn direct on November 10 (following its usual retrograde course of three weeks) although the Dark Hermetic Epoch, of which it is the center, continues until November 27. Since Mercury has been trine Jupiter since October 6, and continues although separating, it would be well to hold to what you have seen over the past couple of weeks--you have seen things clearly in some areas of your life and should hold to the wisdom you have attained rather than doubting it. You have the strength to refuse to be indifferent to everything, which of course would make everything worse. There is music in the background. You could be reborn through considering the well-being of humanity as well as your own.

Males (or females in masculine mode) may find their long-term or temporary partner (of either sex) to be intimate, gracious, attractive, and perhaps foreign or involved in something requiring travel, perhaps a student, deeply introspective and confused, but trying to be reborn. Females (or males in feminine mode) may find no one new, but a continuation of an old relationship with someone who knows much and sometimes sees into the future. Relations between the sexes (or within one when there is romance) are fateful, with Venus septile Mars. Something which is "there" is trying to recognize and define itself.

Things you want to get done at home or at work require much energy summoned up from within yourself when you doubt that you have it. It will come if you get started. Rest can be mostly after the void-of-course period begins. Your outlook on things might seem unrealistic, yet can be persuasive to some. You might feel incompetent and spill things, drop or forget them. Anyone who seems revengeful or mischievous or wanting to hurt is going through a stage which you do not have to deal with unless you owe him something.

There is no lack of vitality, if you use it (sun sextile Mars), and no absence of mental sharpness or cleverness (Mercury quintile Mars). If you feel disabled or unstable, you can snap out of it. The sense of being abandoned and unloved is deeply human, not just your own. You dream of someone who might be excellent for you--but you doubt it. Perhaps something will develop in that regard (Venus septile Mars) if you let it. Otherwise, aloneness too has value.

{Tuesday} {Everybody Lonely?}

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Wednesday 23 October 2013

Sun in Scorpio, Creativity; Moon in Gemini, Joy; Fortuna in 8, Regeneration

/moon void-of-course until

Luna enters Cancer at 8:37p PT | 11:37p ET | 3:37a(Th) UT

 }Free Diversion Balanced with Good Sense{

Her hair style is pink and purple, orange and chartreuse;

The Ferris wheel is staid, the roller coaster fun;

The lottery tickets stuck in the cotton candy

Might be winners. Her friend slaps her hard on the ass.

As Cosmic Piper, I have the right to say "I told you so." It's part of my job description. So I say to the U. S. government and the Obama administration, "I told you so, over and over again, for the past 33 years." Because I published my definitive article on the Mercury cycle, which I later described as the Hermetic Epochs (Bright and Dark) in Horoscope Magazine in 1979; it was republished many years later (with no notification to me and no payment). I told everybody including the government (I even wrote a letter about it to NASA) and I have told and re-told everybody for 33 years and I tell and re-tell you in this blog every week or so--the Dark Hermetic Epoch is not a good time to launch some brand new project. Yet the Obama Administration launched their new health care registration process and website on October 1, the exact day of the beginning of the two-month Dark Hermetic Epoch extending to November 27. Here is what I said here on October 10: "I would suggest to anyone who needs to apply before the December 15 deadline that it might not be imprudent to wait a while, perhaps until the week beginning Monday November 11, or even when the Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on November 27. That may be too close to the deadline for comfort but actually might save time and trouble, because I would guess that some of the glitches in the system will be worked out by then and your choices might be clearer or better for you." I am not sure if that deadline is right, somewhere I saw December 7, or it is for different plans; then I saw that it is possible to apply even into 2014 for coverage later that year. I am not an expert on all that, but I am on the Hermetic Epochs. The current universal topic is the glitches with the health care sign-up process, and it was so very predictable that a new system launched at a time like this would be problematic. Your privilege as a reader of these forecasts is to know such things when nobody else does. You are a member of a tiny tiny privileged minority.

Wednesday:

Moon void-of-course most of the day during a Dark Epoch suggests: Don't worry more than you have to. Things probably seem adrift. This might be in career areas especially. People wonder if they are in the right job or why they are stuck where they are. Yet there is a sense that fresh beginnings are possible--the keyword "regeneration" for Fortuna in the 8th is not arbitrary. The flotsam and jetsam of life is potentially a boat to take to a new shore. The sun has entered Scorpio; which Marc Edmund Jones denominated "Creativity." I think of that at Halloween when people are creative with costumes. I rarely wear one myself but the idea appeals to me. One has the right to be or appear eccentric.

There can be beauty, poetry and music with the sun trine Neptune. Some will be affectionate and confiding, feeling that any momentary friend will do. Excellence displayed in artistry is appreciated. There is childlike innocence in many. 

Males (or females in masculine mode) will tend to remain with friends already established but will be up for ribald conversation and quickening, exciting and stimulating contact. Females (or males in feminine mode) will be strongly and favorably drawn to someone described in the previous paragraph: soft, sweet, mystical, poetic or musical. They may also be drawn to a spiritual guru-type figure who survived long and helped to build something. 

There could be extravagance or overspending in unguarded moments, or too-risky bets in business. There are tempting diversions and you may jump on some merry-go-round. Anything seems better than the hum-drum. You could get carried away with castigating or punishing someone, or you could be the victim of someone else's sadism. Strife and offense, even to violence, could happen too often among those inclined in such directions. (Often such aspects come out more in what one thinks about or experiences as entertainment than in what one actually experiences, fortunately.)

You have a good business head, if you use it, avoiding the problems of the previous paragraph (Mercury conjoined to Saturn in Scorpio, Mars quintile Mercury). Improving what you already hold is better than trying something risky. A grotesque, disorderly taste for the colorful but disturbing could erupt. It's a desire for diversion and freshness rather than the same old thing. If you balance that with good common sense you will be fine.

{Wednesday} {Free Diversion Balanced with Good Sense}

Cosmic Piper

Forecast: Sunday 20 and Monday 21 October 2013

Sunday 20 October 2013

Sun in Libra, Equivalence; Moon in Taurus, Peace; Fortuna in 7, Partner

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:03p PT | 5:03p ET | 9:03p UT

The arrow rises and falls. No target. The stream carries

Effluvia and cans to sell. The gristmill grinds. A black

Child plays with pink children. A craftsman uses shears

On fabric so someone can lounge in fancy headgear.

\Poise Within Uncertain Variety/

It was interesting that with Mars opposing Neptune, Mars in Virgo the sign of drugs and health, Neptune sometimes escapist drugs, I was led last night to watch the pilot episode of Breaking Bad the Emmy-winning TV series which I had never watched. I was impressed. One might call it a perfect exemplification of the worse sides of the aspect Mars opposite Neptune. Intrigue, distrust, suspicion, paranoia, subterfuge, and so on. But also a determination to press on through all that and make the best of everything. I am not sure how this is coming out  in your life as we experience this aspect. In mine it is not in overt breaks with people so much as subtle ones where it feels as if no one trusts anyone. Yet there is a dove over the troubled waters. We piece together what we can from whatever comes down the pike. This applies to work and career as well as friendship and romance. Before the void-of-course begins, you can be penetrating and direct in your approach to whatever gives you a feeling of smooth expansion even if this has no measurable result.

You are aware of your own dignity. This might cause you unconsciously to be brusque or blunt in what you say, offending when no offense was intended. Cleverness in mechanical, chemical or electrical matters is favored. You can display yourself in excellent ways. It is reassuring to get the drift of things and act in accord with it, while not abandoning your well-thought-out position.

There is no absence of clarity in your thinking about people who interest you as well as about calculated plans. The more well-established those are the better, during a Dark Hermetic Epoch (until November 27). Intimacies may spring up among those of differing races or backgrounds, although it may be hard for both sides to adjust to each other psychologically. You have seen how necessary it is to cut out or dispense with anything which is seriously in your way (as in surgery, trimming plants, giving away needless items). Then you can proceed on a well-established simple course with which you are familiar, leaving the dreaming and the excitement to entertainment hours. Those could be quite satisfying with Venus binonagen Neptune and biquintile Jupiter.

Improving your present position is so much better than trying something new. This comes out in several ways in the positions, cycles and aspects. Uncertainty may be disturbing, yet to a nonchalant temperament it can be almost charming. Both the connections you form with people and the plans you settle on have an intimate familiar feel even when the elements and people mixed in them are partly fresh. All changes; that variety is the charm; yet all is the same; that security is the ease.

{Sunday} /Poise Within Uncertain Variety\

Cosmic Piper

Monday 21 October 2013

Sun in Libra, Equivalence; Moon in Taurus, Peace-->Gemini, Joy; Fortuna in 7, Partner

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 7:57a PT | 10:57a ET | 2:57p UT

/moon void-of-course until 

Moon enters Gemini at 9:15a PT | 12:15p ET | 4:15p UT

A dark pool of water attracts brooders

While seagulls call and fly listlessly. 

A sharply gazing man eyes a costume 

Cut for Halloween. A dark woman smiles.

}Lazy Creativity in Sleepy Hollow{

Thrills and the unknown are attractive but dangerous while Mars opposes Neptune. A ritualization of things could be pleasing, as in perhaps preparing for Halloween. Assembling a costume from bits and pieces is possible. People are edgy. There is danger in becoming utterly lazy or indifferent and ending up in a vacuous state. 

With Uranus well-aspected, there can be a wonderful sense of freedom. Someone interesting, a woman or clever man, manages sagely to attract people in ways calculated and uncalculated while putting on an excellent show as if singing. She or he is alert to opportunity, avid for applause, and expectant of acquiring what can be acquired. 

Wandering tendencies of the mind show you could be easily distracted. Cultivating an art or performance skill which allows you to "wander" in feeling and thinking, rather than focus rigidly, could be good for you. This would put you in touch with individuals who at first are challenging because different from you. A coach who is a sharp observer, almost a detective, could challenge but also stimulate and help.Your adaptability could be almost fatalism, descending into introspective gloom, unless you keep in mind what motivates your endeavors.

The self-centered side of Mercury's long dalliance with Saturn (September 29-December 3, two whole months, with a brief hiatus in early November) is coming out as loneliness. Yet there is firm intellectual control, with strength along the line of one's own skills. You may feel this is going exactly nowhere today, but if you keep on plodding you know you will make gains steadily. There is much value from study, while the sextile between the sun and Mars furnishes vitality if you tap into it by exercising appropriately. Hopefulness can cure instability. Then you will not feel disturbed when forced into association with those unlike yourself.

{Monday} {Lazy Creativity in Sleepy Hollow}

Cosmic Piper