Forecast for Thursday 29 October 2015

Thursday 29 October 2015

}Selective Focus{

Moon in Gemini

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues (until Friday forenoon)   ** |

The Republican debate Wednesday evening was a good example of what can happen when the moon is void-of-course and we are in the |difficult third| of the week. I tried to watch it on YouTube after it was finished--I was busy with research while it was going on--and I could find only fragments, and those were involved in relatively meaningless questions and answers and a lot of bickering, both with the moderators and among the candidates. With an astrologer, the Republican National Committee could have chosen a better time for the debate. Ronald Reagan and Nancy consulted an astrologer and his presidency was called "the teflon presidency" because he had such good luck with timing. Most likely it was astrological timing and not luck. I have a big story to tell about that sometime.

Thursday could be less disorienting because the moon will no longer be void-of-course. The hard aspects it makes to five planets form an X cross, which is known for diffusion of energy. We will have to focus in order to get things done in good order rather than get involved in too much to handle all at once. Both money issues and friendship are at stake. Those who have thought things through carefully could do well in both areas. Dropping some things could be wise, but not everything of course, so selection is essential, and quickly. Rather than seek pleasures directly we can seek to do things well and relish the feeling of power and competence which comes as a result. Getting on top of things when they are difficult is one of the greatest pleasures.

Miscommunication could be a problem. People do not see eye to eye on many factors and the best one can do is state one's position and be receptive to other viewpoints,--then do what one has to do or say what one has to say and not worry about the response overmuch. One can be diplomatic and careful, but not ineffectual merely because others do not understand what one is saying or doing. 

Interesting information is everywhere. One needs to select, however, rather than spend too much time pursuing what is not germane to one's own project. Then one can pull diverse factors into a piece and feel one has amazing comprehension of it all.

{Thursday} {Selective Focus}

Cosmic Piper

P. S. Continuing Sri Aurobindo's marvelous description of the powers of the Divine Mother in four different aspects, here is part of what he says about Mahasaraswati:

"Mahasaraswati is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things. For She is the goddess of divine skill and of the works of the Spirit, and hers is the Yoga that is skill in works, and the utilities of divine knowledge and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of its harmonies.

"Mahasaraswati is the Mother's Power of Work and her spirit of perfection and order. The youngest of the Four, she is the most skilful in executive faculty and the nearest to physical Nature. Maheswari lays down the large lines of the world-forces, Mahakali drives their energy and impetus, Mahalakshmi discovers their rhythms and measures, but Mahasaraswati presides over their detail of organization and execution, relation of parts and effective combination of forces and unfailing exactitude of result and fulfillment. The science and craft and technique of things are Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier of the worlds. When she takes up the transformation and new-building of the nature, her action is laborious and minute and often seems to our impatience slow and interminable, but it is persistent, integral and flawless. For the will in her works is scrupulous, unsleeping, indefatigable; leaning over us she notes and touches every little detail, finds out every minute defect, gap, twist or incompleteness, considers and weighs accurately all that has been done and all that remains still to be done hereafter. Nothing is too small or apparently trivial for her attention; nothing however impalpable or disguised or latent can escape her. Moulding and remoulding she labours each part till it has attained its true form, is put in its exact place in the whole and fulfils its precise purpose. In her constant and vigilant arrangement and rearrangement of things her eye is on all needs at once and the way to meet them and her intuition knows what is to be chosen and what rejected and successfully determines the right instrument, the right time, the right condition and the right process."

--Sri Aurobindo, The Mother