Friday 21 August 2015

~Wise Career Strategy Plus Sexy Disappointments and Pseudo-Opportunities~

Moon in Scorpio

Leaves the Via Combusta around 9a PT | 12p ET | 4p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues all day (until Sunday evening)

It's obvious that those who want to keep looking for "good days" or "easy days" with astrology are pretty much doomed to failure. I do believe that in planning a party, a wedding, or a special date (get-together) or outing, it would be good to choose a "smooth" day with as few problems as possible--not in the |difficult third|, not in the Via Combusta, not during a void-of-course time (although that is often not as bad as the other two), and when Venus is not square Saturn, preferably not sun square Saturn, and preferably a good aspect between the moon and Venus or the sun or Jupiter on the day in question (by an orb of let's say 8 or 10 degrees). If you pick such a day for a special event, you will probably not be disappointed. But such days have been very rare recently, with the long-term square between Venus and Saturn and now the 20-day square between the sun and Saturn. 

But life goes on, and in these reports my mission is and ought to be not just to point out when you can eat your candy without upsetting your digestion, but to show you how to ingest the bitter herbs on the days you can't avoid it and still come through happy, peaceful, and spiritually secure.

A tall order.

But we keep trying.

There is poignancy. People are mourning lost loves, and feeling bitter about some who seem to have betrayed them. Yet love is in the air. How to explain the contradiction? Hope springs eternal! And Venus is moving backward to a conjunction with Mars in Leo the sign of (more or less) love and pleasure. (It is much more than that of course.) 

Today you may pay special attention to ideas, knowledge, learning, and communication as difficulties which become points of learning rather than of dissatisfaction if you attend to them faithfully.

You may be aware of points of knowledge and expertise in your career area, of which you are the master, in which you have expertise. 

People who are, or feel, imprisoned get your sympathy. Can you visit them? Then try, either now or soon. Or can you write to them or call them? Good idea. They need to know someone cares and that they are not stuck forever in their own self-imposed or other-imposed confinement.

Attractions and infatuations are funny. They happen without apparent cause, out of the blue. Sometimes they are desperation. Sometimes they are a shot in the dark. Cupid does that. And often he misses, but the misses are curiously interesting.

More smartly and wisely, focus on your career area. You are very good at it. Don't give up on it. Your perceptions and strategies are likely to be "on" at this point. Write them down or get them in rememberable order before the Dark Hermetic Epoch begins a week from tomorrow (August 29).

{Friday 21 August 2015} ~Wise Career Strategy Plus Sexy Disappointments and Pseudo-Opportunities~

Cosmic Piper

P. S. "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one."  -- Jay-Z