Forecast: Thursday 20 February 2014

Thursday 20 February 2014

Sun in Pisces; Moon in Scorpio; Foci in 9, Travel or Understanding; and 4, Home or Foundation

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 7:07a PT | 10:07a ET | 3:07p UT

Moon leaves the Via Combusta at 11:14p PT | 2:14a(F) ET | 7:14a(F) UT

~The Alchemy of Believing, Preparing, Waiting~

The intensity of the battle seems to be between old things, pressing on you as something you can't escape and don't really want to escape, and new things which seem questionable. During a Mercury Retrograde cycle (until the 28th) and a Dark Hermetic Epoch (until March 20th), the old ought to have priority. New things are too up in the air, too much susceptible of later re-evaluation. What you have learned deeply to trust is what should be trusted. Your judgments in major decisions involving other people, business, and so on are likely to be way off today (look at the two lunar indications above) if they involve any departure from what has been thoroughly tried and tested.

Renovation is a link between the ancient and the current, the old and the fresh. This is going on at a philosophic as well as more practical level. Many want to have their own way, no matter what, and you will be swayed by them. That is partly because you like them so much. They will never say die and never take no for an answer.

You admire some very deeply, their beauty and lovely or colorful, charming characteristics. You may wonder how trustworthy they are, without dropping admiration of their inspiring qualities. 

You can be optimistically responsive to all uplifting influences. You need to use discretion because you could get sidetracked by things which will delay you for a long time. Then the aforementioned brightening influences will help you make wise choices. They come from friends and youthful people especially. 

The part of you which chooses sometimes to be alone is an important part of you. It has and knows its value. When others don't trust you completely, you trust yourself.

Youthful pleasures are good for you because they release you from over-worry about things you can't currently change. You can have fun, indulge yourself a little, and share high living with those convivial. 

Nothing is too much to dream for. You have a solid idea or premonition of wonderful things you could attain. Conditions are not good for showing decisively that they are attainable at present. That does not prevent you from cherishing them, studying, pondering, and preparing a remarkable future.  Influences around you are better and more promising than the circumstances in which those influences currently operate and which they are trying to improve. So it is well to go with those strong helpful tendencies, of which your soul is aware, while being patient and careful with outward conditions which take a longer time to change.

{Thursday} ~The Alchemy of Believing, Preparing, Waiting~

Cosmic Piper