Forecast: Sunday 31 August and Monday 1 September 2014

Sunday 31 August 2014

Sun in Virgo; Moon in Scorpio; Foci in 3, Communication or Neighbors and 10, Honor or Career

|Karmically intense or sobering third| of this week continues   *

Moon on course 

~Playful Strategy~

Despite the |difficult third|, which might include worries about a love relationship, there is a playful and experimental attitude toward things which can reduce tensions. We need to be simple and childlike sometimes. Then there accompanies that directness of desire a gift for expanding the mind to encompass future potentials one had not thought of. Can one map the future? Not completely, but enough to have happy orientation. Then one can release good feelings and hopes in others as well as oneself. 

Song of the day:  The One by Brandon Heath

There is a delight in the possible, and if we have reduced some expectations, there is a delight in the unexpected and simple which remains to us. At this moment life does not have to be horribly complicated. You may encounter some who have made the directness and simplicity of their aims into callousness and selfishness, so that while enterprising they are exploitative. It is possible to steer around or past them rather than into them. 

Passions and emotions are intense. If these are not centered in jealousy and the desire to possess someone, they can be thrilling and even uplifting. Still, there can be instability because what one desires is inordinate or more hurtful than one had anticipated. Realizing that, one can revert to the more simple and childlike attitude just outlined. There is strategy, but at this point the less fear involved in it the better. Then it is not so much self-intent and grasping as it is playful. 

{Sunday} ~Playful Strategy~

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Monday 1 September 2014

Sun in Virgo; Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius; Foci in 3, Neighbors and Communication and 10, Career and Honor   **

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:41a PT | 11:41a ET | 3:41p UT   *

until it enters Sagittarius at 10:18a PT | 1:18p ET | 5:18p UT   **

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues until 7:34p PT | 10:34p ET | 2:34a(Tu) UT   ***

^Steadfast Yet Impulsive^

It looks like a day of labor--funny, that was going to be my first sentence and then I realized that today is "Labor Day"! Which really means a day of rest in our paradoxical way of speaking. If it had not been a holiday I would have said, A day to reduce expectations and just keep working on honestly at whatever you do. Well, maybe you will do that in your own way even if off work today, keeping on with a project important to you. This might be in a country-style setting. You are steadfast. 

Song of the Day:  The Summer Place by Fountains of Wayne

You have reduced some expectations in that you have seen some of them were too ambitious, perhaps, but you stick solidly to what is do-able. A lighter side of things is fantastic or phantasmal, with the moon squaring Neptune, or perhaps devoted to wishes for the remarkable, mystical, and ordinarily unobtainable. We need to keep our faith in the "impossible" because without it we cannot expand the limits of the possible. Voila! Believe in fairies and leprechauns, or in the possibility of transforming your body through a re-birthing process, for the more you believe, the more is possible. You might read or discuss fascinating occult teachings. 

There is more affection than recently, with honorable attitudes among people even if accompanied by a bit of reckless impulsiveness.

{Monday, Labor Day} ^Steadfast Yet Impulsive^

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Forecast: Tuesday through Saturday, August 26-30

Tuesday 26 through Saturday 30 August 2014

}Heritage Manifesting Gradually{

I am recovering from my vacation, catching up with missing or failed technology (e.g. a new computer which does not work with my old printer, etc.)  and do not have time for a full forecast involving the daily lunar data.

These five days include the peak of Venus's square with Mars on Tuesday-Wednesday as well as her square with Saturn exact on Tuesday but continuing through the period. This is not an easy aspect, especially for love, friendship and human relations. People find it hard to trust each other. There is a sense of rejection, of being rejected or rejecting or both. This can be extremely painful.

There are questions of practicality, of what is practical. You may feel you have been devoting too much time to something airy and insubstantial, digging in the wind rather than in the earth. Obviously crops cannot grow in the air, so you look for more reliable footing, a place to plant seeds for the future. 

You sense that something about you is appreciated by many, even by the public at large, if you can develop it in an appropriate manner. You want to be essential, a blessing to all. Someone else, or several, who have earned public approval in their own spheres inspire you to do the same.

A church or spiritual group may get your attention more than usual. You don't mind being reclusive or secluded if while being so you gain approval from the Highest or from those in ecclesiastical, hierarchical or spiritually essential positions. This you can do even if outwardly faced with what looks like devastation or disaster. You can work for the greater good, no matter what your immediate lot or tangible future appears to be. Individuals also who face devastation or death may come into your orbit and you can shelter them even if some aspects of them seem worthless. They have tried, and you try, and you can work on in hope, with them or without them. 

Some develop through their spiritual aspirations and attempts an unhealthy sense of superiority to others. Then, of course, they need to go deeper and find common humanity with all. The Sabian symbol involved is "A Jewish rabbi" and it represents a living heritage of deep teaching with which you are in contact and which can be a blessing to you and everyone. 

When one day or cycle ends, another begins, and this is rejuvenating. You are at such a point. Unexpected resources lie at hand and you may be happily surprised by them when they turn up. Nature blesses you, and you find the better when the worse has threatened. So the process of personal evolution goes on with fresh benedictions on our attempts to live intelligent, worthy lives. Then love, which may seem missing  now, can spring up afresh in ways we could not have imagined. 

{Tuesday through Saturday} {Heritage Manifesting Gradually}

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Thursday 21 through Monday 25 August 2014

Thursday 21 through Monday 25 August 2014

We are finding our way to a slightly different approach for the daily forecasts. First, the lunar data for each day; then an essay-forecast on the trends during the period. Usually it will be four or five days, sometimes more, up to 15 days as maximum. I may add quick comments on some or most days after listing the lunar data.

Thursday 21 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Cancer; Foci in 11, Friendship and Hopes and 2, Allies and Possessions   **

/moon goes void-of-course at 12:35p PT | 3:35p ET | 7:35p UT   *

Difficulties galore for most of us especially later in the day. You may feel failure and degradation, perhaps because of misjudgment. When you choose one option, the door closes on another which might have been better. There is uncertainty, jealousy, even helplessness, but a scuffle brings out your manliness or womanliness, your temerity. A friend is not what you wish but that does not end the friendship.

Friday 22 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Cancer-->Leo; Foci in 12, Confinement or Research and 1, Self or Focus

Sun enters Virgo at 9:47p PT

/moon void-of-course   *

until it enters Leo at 1:50p PT | 4:50p ET | 8:50p UT   **

Things proceed quickly, as if in play. Old abnormal behaviors in people repeat themselves. But you could be overshadowed by someone or something Higher if you are open to that, and then there could be smoother sailing. Impressions and assumptions do not have to be worrisome if you refuse to let them make you totally uneasy. You can adorn yourself in the best invisible clothing.

Saturday 23 August 2014

Sun enters Virgo at 0:47a ET | 4:47a UT; Moon in Leo; Foci in 12, Research or Confinement and 1, Focus or Self

Moon on course   *

You may feel inadequate and abashed. There could be tears. Then there could be illumination which shows that the Father of all remains with you, loving and upholding. Undercurrents of loss make you feel that your life has shrunk somehow, yet this disillusionment can be a depletion of what you do not need, and so make you freer and grant you seer-like insight into better paths.

Sunday 24 August 2014

Sun in Virgo; Moon in Leo-->Virgo; Foci in 12, Confinement or Research and 1, Self or Focus   *

/moon goes void-of-course at 1:27a PT | 4:27a ET | 8:27a UT   *

It is hard to give more than one * during this period. There is excitement, possibly revolt. Devilishness tempts you. Sexual perversion could end in suffering. Some will be arrested for misdemeanors or worse. If you get and accept Orders from above you will be safe. There is discouragement and loneliness, and resulting vacillation. Obstacles are merely a signal that your plans and objectives are incomplete. What privileges are you overlooking? You have a right to turn away from anything which makes too much mischief.

Monday 25 August 2014

Sun in Virgo; Moon in Virgo; Foci in 1, Self or Focus and 12, Confinement or Research

New Moon of Virgo at 7:14a PT | 10:14a ET | 2:14p UT

/moon void-of-course   * 

until it enters Virgo at 2:34a PT | 5:34a ET | 9:34a UT   **

Stubbornness can amount to stupidity, in fact is the only real stupidity. It tries to vampirize others by refusing to adjust to their reality. When insulated from others you may feel despair. Then is the time to intuit what your High Self wants you to feel or do. Better things could be coming. You get news. You can be in a right place where your response to life is vital. Plans can be modified wisely. There is even some amusement, a gift of internal liberation.  

Thursday 21 through Monday 25 August 2014

^Pride and Self-Display with Intense Defensiveness^

1 We need to be careful. Venus is squaring both Mars and Saturn while the latter two are conjoined in Scorpio. This is not pleasant. At worst this can be pestilent, violent behavior. People feel defensive and could, as a supposed remedy for that, become offensive. The question is how far humanity can transcend these indications. At worst, the situation could become harsh or violent in war-torn regions. On a personal level, it can be harshness or apparent coldness in love-relations. "Nobody loves me" is the quickest and clearest definition of how people feel while Venus squares Saturn, as she is doing from Monday August 18 through September 3. This is modified by one's individual situation; if one is in a happy marriage, it just means that you and your mate will be a little at arm's length for a while, or "need your space" apart from each other more than usual. That is not bad, but a vacation from too much closeness. People need space in which to be different from each other. 

2 The defensiveness can become even a magical ability to push people away or get them out of your life if they have been too annoying or diverting. Of course this could go too far; but if used to prevent anyone from imposing too much on you it might be beneficent. Your will-power will not let anyone make a fool of you.

3 There is pride, and a desire to display your excellent qualities, your body or charm, your wealth or whatever makes you proud of yourself. (Venus and Jupiter remain in Leo while the former trines Uranus in Aries.) It is not necessary to be snobby if one has good taste, but one can glory in what one has attained and what one can display to the world for it to enjoy as well. This could be done in places brimming over with luxuriousness. 

4 A more difficult side of things involves the squares already mentioned as well as the quincunx between Mars-Saturn in Scorpio and Uranus in Aries. This could be a collapse of things you had relied upon. I am not wanting to frighten you; more likely it will be a questioning of some things you have been trying to do, with a realization that you need to change your approach to them so they do not become a false trail sapping your life-energy. Such a turning point is not harmful, but progressive.

5 Deft employment of arts and crafts is culturally and personally salutary. Something you do qualifies in this sphere, even if not conventionally named as a particular art or craft. "Make your own kind of music" remains good advice ever since the Mamas and the Papas popularized it (and before that). This requires effort (the Leo-Scorpio squares involving Mars, Saturn and Venus), but the results make unusual effort ultimately pleasurable. 

6 People do not want to be alone, even during the intensity of Venus square Saturn, which can make one feel one would like to retreat to a cave away from the gaze of the public (even friends or relatives). The desire to display one's body, personality or charm (paragraph 3) remains intense, with an accompanying desire to see or appreciate others' bodies and personalities. This is the exhilaration of human togetherness, even when no strong intimacy springs up (because of the Venus-square-Saturn tendency to be shy, reticent or sensitive to apparent rejection). People cagily appreciate one another while cagily avoiding anything which could make them feel they are not appreciated as they wish to be. 

{Thursday through Monday, August 21-25} ^Pride and Self-Display with Intense Defensiveness^

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Forecast: Sunday 17 through Wednesday 20 August 2014

Sunday 17 August through Wednesday 20 August 2014

As always, I am finding the lunar indications such as void-of-course and |difficult third| crucial each day. As I write on Sunday August 16 during a |difficult third| I find people around me mostly depressed or feeling challenged. But on my vacation I found it hard to find time to list this data as usual. This is the next-to-last day of the vacation and I present the daily data first, below, and then the written forecast covering the four days. 

Sunday 17 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Taurus-->Gemini; Foci in 10, Career or Honor and 3, Neighbors and Communication  **

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

until it enters Gemini at 3:42p PT | 6:42p ET | 10:42p UT   ***

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues all day

Monday 18 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Gemini; Foci in 10, Honor or Career and 3, Communication and Neighbors

Moon on course   ****

Tuesday 19 August 2014

****

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:55p PT | 10:55p ET | 2:55a(W) UT   ***

Wednesday 20 August 2014

/moon void-of-course   **

until it enters Cancer at 1:46a PT | 4:46a ET | 8:46a UT   ***

}Past Pernicious Collapse Toward Shared Exhilaration{

The negative indications have to be taken with a grain of salt--"Have salt in yourselves," said Jesus, meaning perhaps that we have to season life with something from deep within to make it palatable. During these four days we may encounter individuals who seem pernicious or pestilent--and need to find ways to face such challenges to our poise without exploding in rage or internal angst. We do not want to be imposed upon and feel defensive of our internal security. This we can do through positive character and strong will. There is magic of a positive, not hurtful, nature in the determiantion to find the best in everyone and every situation. This does far more to eliminate trouble than a direct attack on it, which leads to backlash usually.

When some plans have collapsed, one has to carry on. This could be a turning point when one looks back on recent activities realizing that some of them have been excursions along false trails. When projects fall through, either one has to try again with an improved method, or choose a different project more suited to one's qualifications. 

More happily, there are times of beauty and glory, when one feels confident in displaying one's success to the world. One can enjoy tasteful luxury, somewhat ostentatiously. There is leisure, accompanied by a bit of snobbishness perhaps. Yet this is basic good fortune on the material level. 

What is the art, craft, or skill you know to be specially yours? It is in high evidence, if you feel enthusiastic enough about it to keep expressing it through whatever materials you have at hand. You participate in life by giving it form through your ability. 

This can open a world of human relationships on a basic level of shared bodily togetherness. People are either attractive or interesting or both. They need to see or experience one another, to rest on the basic human fellowship which keeps us going. The symbol given by Wheeler and Jones is "A crowd upon the beach," signifying the exhilaration we feel when knowing we are as good or as fascinating as anyone else in the shared company of humanity.

{Sunday through Wednesday} {Past Pernicious Collapse Toward Shared Exhilaration}

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Forecast: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-16 August 2014

Tuesday 12 through Saturday 16 August 2014

We continue with the vacation mode: Forecasts covering more than one day. I wanted to post the daily lunar data (void-of-course, |difficult third of week|, etc.) but had special problems with that while on vacation, including the absence of a computer to use. Whether I will post those data separately after I post the written forecast is a question.

^The Inept Overcome by the Sublime^

1 Within these five days, there is much entertainment, either of an exalted or amateurish, refined or silly nature. It is possible to look for the highest and best in less-than-perfect music, dancing and entertaining. 

2 More than that, there are remarkably uplifting energies and synchronicities. I quote from the seer Charubel (John Thomas) concerning the degree of Leo occupied by Jupiter: "This degree is impinged by a degree from a a transcendental sun . . . Denotes the greater good; the sublime; gives prophetic inspirations; rules the wonderful; and fills the soul with a flood of celestial glory." Why not tune in to this?

3 A negative or distressing side of things has to do with instability, foolishness, and wavering. Literally the degree concerned has to do with spilling a liquid. "How shall he act who does not know what he desires?" asks Sepharial. There can be faulty judgment or indecision. Yet it is possible to recover from this. One needs perhaps a degree of freedom to be foolish, as long as this is not disastrous.

4 The glories of paragraph 2 remain, and can save every situation through one's native superiority to it in each case. Sepharial suggests "power, eminence, fame," plus "courage, nobility, energy, and endurance." The symbol given by Segnior Borelli is "A sceptre, on the crest of which shines a diamond like a magnificent star." 

5 Elsie Wheeler gives "The constellations in the sky," indicating surety based on questing through time and space, finding assurance not just in the sky but in one's understanding and ordering of oneself. This can be happening even if the difficulties of paragraph 3 remain as deviations to correct again and again. 

6 "The gate to the garden of desire" is given by Wheeler and Jones as the symbol for the currently crucial focal point of the lunar zodiac. One suggestion is that "the gate" is not the garden itself, and so one may find oneself at that entrance but still have to pass through it. Some may feel, however, that they have in fact been set gloriously in a situation which embodies everything they have ever desired. When the heart overflows, we can only give thanks in a superlative degree.

{Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday} ^The Inept Overcome by The Sublime^  

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Forecast: Thursday 7 August through Monday 11 August 2014

Thursday 7 August through Monday 11 August, 2014

We continue with longer-term forecasts while I am on my vacation. I will give the daily lunar data later--here is a written forecast, extending to five days this time.

}Open Gate Toward Fulfillment{

There is an emphasis on entertainment, whether amateurish or approaching something more substantial. People need singing, music, and dancing for their psychological health. 

In the midst of this, amazing characters evolve or reveal themselves, like balls of fire flying through the air. They find that they have inescapable missions which insist on finding an outlet, and some, perhaps yourself, become rulers of others whether in government, business, or social relations on a more heart-centered level.

There is a possibility of "missing the mark" in some ways, as if one were tottering because of uncertainty. Instability can be a signal that one is in a period of inner freedom which finds it hard to focus directly on major goals. Still, if they are maintained as one's ideal, the seeming loss of credit, through wavering, or questionable judgment, need not be embarrassing.

There are deeds of daring in contests, athletic events, or anything requiring courage and strength. These test one's mettle and if one is found wanting one does not despair but tries again. Such is the path to prowess. 

Roles to be played are contrasts with one another. Differing age-groups have to find their own styles. Interacting with one another helps them refine those styles in varying directions. And so the generations' modes and needs interact in colorful and meaningful ways. The past and future need each other.

So much is amazingly beautiful and promising! You may feel that some of your most cherished dreams are coming true. Let's not spoil this by failing to be thankful to the One who has made it possible!  Opportunities are unlimited. Prospects appear in every direction as dream-fulfillments. Individual discovery and experience is satisfying fond desires.  

{August 7-11} {Open Gate toward Fulfillment}

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Forecast: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, August 4, 5, 6, 2014

Monday 4 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Scorpio; Foci in 4, Home or Foundation and 9, Travel or Comprehension   **

/moon goes void-of-course at 10:44a PT | 1:44p ET | 5:44p for the rest of the day   **

Song of the day:  Changes by the Zombies

Tuesday 5 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius; Foci in 4, Foundation or Home and 9, Comprehension or Travel

/moon void-of-course   **

until it enters Sagittarius at 3:20a PT | 6:20a ET | 10:20a UT   ***

Song of the day:  Under Attack by Abba

Wednesday 6 August 2014

Sun in Leo; Moon in Sagittarius; Foci in 5, Pleasure and Offspring and 8, Regeneration and Others' Money    ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:53a PT | 10:53a ET | 2:53p UT   **

for the rest of the day

Song of the day: Sur ma Route by Black M

As usual, the void-of-course times (Monday and Wednesday) can bring peculiar, unusual, or confusing incidents. It is sometimes harder to focus on ordinary business, so one veers off into the improbable or spontaneous. That is all right if there are no pressing responsibilities, but the latter ought to be taken care of minimally at least. Solid agreements or purchases could go awry so it is all right to hesitate in such cases. I note that these times are good for bottom-most routine necessities such as laundry and clean-up.

Forecast for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4, 5, 6, 2014:

^Seizing the Moment Advantageously^

There can be amusment, with singing and dancing. It does not matter how amateurish or inconsequential this seems; it is pleasure as part of what the cosmos gives us gladly. The heat of the summer or other intensities may be challenging. You need not lose your bearings; staying close to headquarters can help. 

There can be wonderful self-fulfillment, the prospect of a realization of your fondest dreams. Satisfying experiences are opening up as into a magic garden. Sometimes it may seem that this is dangerous or at the edge of  precipice. Then you can avert the crisis skilfully and get back to the path of your fondest prospects.

Indecision and wavering judgment could make you look silly in some eyes. You might seem weak and disorderly, or someone in your life could appear so. This could just be a harmless phase. There is subtlety, caution and cunning, however, which can save the day. You enjoy competition and seizing personal advantages in a style which seems magical. So you could surprise or amaze someone and get what you want. 

{Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday}  ^Seizing the Moment Advantageously^

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