Forecast for Thursday 24 September 2015

Thursday 24 September 2015

}Connections Restored and Re-Restored{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 1:00p PT | 4:00p ET | 8:00p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:03p PT | 0:03a(F) ET | 4:03a(F) UT

There is an intensity of desires. Mercury's square with Pluto, while retrograde, brings up passions we didn't know were there or of which we were only partially conscious. We see into others' peccadilloes and either feel titillated or revolted, or shrug them off. When on the move people feel thwarted or as if they need to pull back. It would take something serious or deep to convince them to travel very far. 

Mercury's retrograde period, until October 9, can be confusing or enlightening. I don't know if you have gotten those ridiculous calls from scammers pretending to be Microsoft technicians. I have had five of them in the past week. I know who they are by now and dismiss them but the calls are typical of Mercury retrograde. (I received almost none of them before that period.) One of its aspects is "barking up the wrong tree," which these scammers are definitely doing. And of course were I to take them seriously I would be the one falling a false lead. Then there are delays and carelessness. A friend slept through the period in which he could have gone to a temporary job, yesterday, and the problem was compounded because his phone was not working for the person picking him up to awaken him. Very typical of  Mercury-retrograde disturbances. On the good side, there can be chance meetings with old or new friends which seem as if "planned by the gods." These happen frequently during the retrograde phase. "Out of pattern" events and meetings can be godsends.

On Thursday gains in finance would come from very conservative moves or non-moves (sun sextile Saturn). The mysterious side of people may be not chilling so much as fortifying. At a point of focus in your consciousness is a friend whose problems seem to be yours also. They involve transitioning from the nebulous or unreal (and therefore deceptive or dangerous) toward the practical and the real. The loved one's worries become yours indirectly. However, songs of optimism and hope can ring out definitively. Personal freedom is yours as well as your friend's. We are picking up the pieces and putting them back together, over and over, and the process can be game-like and friendly or even exhilarating rather than tedious if we get in the right spirit.

{Thursday} {Connections Restored and Re-Restored}

Cosmic Piper

"God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God."   --Psalm 53:2

"Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they are put or, more accurately, put themselves into their place in the whole out of which they arise and their outcome is determined by forces that overpass us. That world action in its vast totality and in every petty detail is the indivisible movement of the One who manifests himself progressively in the cosmos. Man too becomes progressively conscious of the truth of himself and the truth of things in proportion as he awakens to this One within him and outside him and to the occult, miraculous and significant process of its forces in the motion of Nature."

--Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 177