Forecast: Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 May 2014

Wednesday 21 May 2014

Sun in Gemini; Moon in Pisces; Foci in 10, Career or Honor and 3, Communication or Environment

/moon void-of-course   **

until it enters Pisces at 5:19a PT | 8:19a ET | 12:19p UT   ***

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 3:51p PT | 6:51p ET | 10:51p UT   ****

~Family Spiritualized~

I hope you have been benefiting by the |difficult third of the week| indications. Last week, here is how it worked for me: On Tuesday after the period began, a friend realized that he had left a very harsh phone message for a friend which he didn't really mean, and he called him in my presence to try to apologize. It was not working out well. Meanwhile I was tired of waiting for him to finish the call and walked off. Then he followed me and complained bitterly that I had left him while he was close to tears and going through a very hard time. We settled this fairly smoothly. But then the next day, Wednesday, still in the |difficult third|, he was out drinking--much too much--and got into another argument with someone who proceeded to land a punch on his jaw and broke it. He was taken to the hospital and not only that had to forego a special trip he had planned for the next day. By the time the |difficult third| ended on Thursday he was feeling a little better although he is still recovering. Things are not always that dramatic during the |difficult third|, thank Heaven, but this incident illustrates how seriously you ought to take these indications. People can "lose it" much more easily during those times and therefore they are more dangerous. Resentments, fears, and angers surge forward. The current |difficult third| ends this afternoon--you perhaps can look over Monday and Tuesday and sense what it meant in your particular situation. For those who are firmly in control, it can mean no more than a sense of solid realism about everything, perhaps with a bit of depression.

The Dark Hermetic Epoch begins Friday (for about two months until July 17). Some tell me that they like those periods and look forward to them. I can understand that. They are more relaxed in some ways, although many things can go wrong or get bollixed up. Therefore, if you have serious business to attend to, purchases to make, agreements to sign or otherwise certify, it might be good to do that today or tomorrow (Thursday). The moon's trines with both Jupiter and Saturn make these two days good ones for getting things in shape before the curtain falls on us once again.

It's pretty in the countryside. Your childhood had its flowers. 

An ass or beast of burden has a life as bleak and harsh as yours,

And conscience calls to still more attempts to do what's right.

You see what's needed and proceed, caring about your honor.

Interpreting music is fun, releasing energy,

Bringing sunshine above old shadows of regret.

Indecision spills a drink; instability a program;

But harmony cascades alive through tasks well done.

Competence is real in every lurking danger 

And every woman wants a man to wed her

And every priest desires another marriage;

And flowers grow beneath a family tree.

Song of the day: Against All Odds by Phil Collins

{Wednesday} ~Family Spiritualized~

Cosmic Piper

Thursday 22 May 2014

Sun in Gemini; Moon in Pisces; Foci in 10, Honor or Career and 3, Neighbors or Communications

Moon on course ****

until it goes void-of-course at 11:27p PT | 2:27a(F) ET | 6:27a(F) UT   **

~Svelte Momentum~

You could get wonderful assurances about your true path while the moon trines both Jupiter and Saturn. Since this is the last day of a Bright Hermetic Epoch, and the Dark begins tomorrow for two months, it could be good to "take care of business" especially if overdue or pressing.

Song of the day: Satellite by The Wanted

Aimless, they grope toward something with talent, variety; 

Yet homely work is the order of the day.

Too much is enough; enough just right; and beauty

Suffuses all, with flexible youth in the total.

Weak, he drifts to low associates, drinks and caroms off

Whatever he touches. Some look away, embarrassed; 

Some offer a lantern of faith to guide his faltering steps.

Music, precision, practice, ancient honor patch his garments.

He scales a wall with daring faith in his skill,

Conforms to ritual hopes to confirm his alliance

With someone lovely as Nature's springtide profusion;

Jumps in his boat; steers wisely to save those he cares for.

{Thursday} ~Svelte Momentum~

Cosmic Piper