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^

 Cosmic Piper