Forecast: Tuesday 18 February 2014

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Sun in Pisces; Moon in Libra; Foci in 8, Regeneration and 5, Pleasure or Offspring

Moon enters the Via Combusta (Burning Way) at 3:13p PT | 6:13p ET | 11:13p UT (cosmic reshuffling, with possible loss of morale)

}Constant Recovery{

I suppose we might say that the square of Mercury with Saturn (in Scorpio, a money sign) plus Mercury being retrograde could suggest sweat and worry and confusion over taxes or other money or accounting matters. I will not say decisively that you ought to wait to do your taxes until early March (when the retrograde has ended) or late March (Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on the 20th), but it might be smart, if you have any doubts, to wait until then to review and then file them. Doing them now during the M-R period might feel like going through a fever dream. And even your accountant is subject to more errors at such a time.

Imitative skills might have a heyday--pretending to be someone or something you aren't, which is not only a monkey but a human proclivity. 

Military affairs do not look good--the Iraq war was started by the Bush administration on a day the moon was in the Via Combusta. "Secret enemies" are everywhere, as it were, that is, those who could veer you from your best course. It is well to be mindful. 

Some of that can be done by being above it all, as if in a surveillance plane. You get the lay of the land around you and the temporal lay of the land coming up in the future, at least enough for instinctive orientation. 

You may find you are not as independent as you wish--that is, you depend on others for guidance when you hit shoals which strand you. There is nothing to be ashamed of in that. 

It may seem that your boat landing has been washed away--that you have to improvise, find a new route or method to get past improvident delays. That brings out your virility and implicit confidence.  You go it alone, almost--isolated because you served yourself alone and therefore were abandoned by some. This is sobering but not impossible. The moon is waning, you have your horse and arms but there is nowhere to go at present, except into the fortress of responsibilities you have taken on. That is your safety.

Music and the arts are a comfort and a source of renewal--listening to someone else perform if you don't perform yourself. 

Papers, documents, accounts, paperwork could be important--things at headquarters you need to take care of. This sets you up for a better reputation and better links with people at a distance.

Amusements are not absent. They might take the form of mocking others or yourself--imitating, making fun of, and in a sense redeeming through humorous awareness. This is part of the over-all high-flying orientation you are getting at present and for the past few days--it is impersonal, challenging yet de-confusing, showing you how to navigate through this slow period of Mercury retrograde until Friday the 28th. Slow is a word to remember--slowing down will help time after time, or changing from one thing you can't do now to another which you can do smoothly, then going back to the one you had dropped. Things get "out of pattern" so you could lose morale (especially when the Via Combusta begins) but always you can recover, and when you have recovered you have learned something.

{Tuesday} {Constant Recovery}

Cosmic Piper