Forecast for Tuesday 1 December 2015

Tuesday 1 December 2015

^Awe and its Reward^

Moon in Leo   ****

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 11:44a PT | 2:44p ET | 7:44p UT   *** |

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:10p PT | 10:10p ET | 3:10a(W) UT   **/ |

The gloom you may have been feeling over the past week (or more) may have a lot to do with the triple conjunction of Mercury, sun, and Saturn in Sagittarius, all squaring Neptune in Pisces. Saturn is the planet of gloom--I will not say "doom" because we have to guard against fatalism and learn how to turn Saturn's requirements into a blessing. But that requires realism of us, at the least, and sometimes what seems like unreasonable sacrifice--especially this time because of the square with Neptune, which when adversely aspected is a planet of sacrifice or obligation. You know how this has worked out in your own life. For me it became poignant this morning when I read the following words of Sri Aurobindo:  

"The work itself is at first determined by the best light we can command in our ignorance. It is that which we conceive as the thing that should be done. And whether it be shaped by our sense of duty, by our feeling for our fellow-creatures, by our idea of what is for the good of others or the good of the world or by the direction of one whom we accept as a human Master, wiser than ourselves and for us the representative of that Lord of all works in whom we believe but whom we do not yet know, the principle is the same. The essential of the sacrifice of works must be there and the essential is the surrender of all desire for the fruit of our works, the renunciation of all attachment to the result for which yet we labour. For so long as we work with attachment to the result, the sacrifice is offered not to the Divine, but to our ego. We may think otherwise, but we are deceiving ourselves; we are making our idea of the Divine, our sense of duty, our feeling for our fellow-creatures, our idea of what is good for the world or others, even our obedience to the Master a mask for our egoistic satisfactions and preferences and a specious shield against the demand made on us to root all desire out of our nature."

Very strong and, perhaps, frightening words. Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga is not for dabblers. I realize that not all who read these forecasts are involved in such a Yoga or Religion or Consecration or Devotion. The words above have challenged me to wonder how much of a hypocrite I am myself. Yet in them, Sri Aurobindo is merely following the explicit advice of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita. "To root all desire out of our nature" seems to most of us very harsh indeed. In other places, Sri Aurobindo explains that it does not mean to reject all pleasures and satisfactions, not at all--rather to accept these when they come naturally, but not to put them above duty or work for the Divine. They should not be sought after directly but appreciated when they are given us. This is really not so hard, it seems to me, because the Divine is gracious, merciful, and kind. He or She meets us half way when we are trying.

Still, the rebuke in those words is awesome. It is, in a sense, the essence of Saturn. And Sri Aurobindo was born with that planet in its own sign, Capricorn. Now, with the Saturn configuration outlined above, we are feeling, perhaps, the need to heed such a teaching, or else wonder why we are feeling miserable and gloomy. As most have learned through experience, the effort to do one's best is in itself a relief and a subtle satisfaction, while running after false pleasures makes one less happy. 

Today we have help, because the sextile of Luna with Venus, always a "reward" aspect, comes in late afternoon and evening as if to recompense us for our Saturnian struggles. The resulting pleasures might be in entertainment or in personal relations.

It is interesting that the climate conference in Paris, beginning now, lasts twelve days, and is being touted as of immense importance for the future of our planet. Whatever is decided there could shape our destiny. And it begins with this Saturn configuration, which grows less and less as it progresses--a good omen. Also, very significantly, a square from the sun to Jupiter begins right now, by twelve degrees, and since the sun moves a degree a day, will be exact by the end of the Conference. Virgo is in a sense the sign of the earth, or certainly of environmental crises and needs and solutions (together with the other two earth signs) and so the aspect makes perfect sense. Further, the sun is in Sagittarius the sign of international relations, so this Conference is written in the heavens--is a heavenly decree. Let us hope it has excellent results.

{Tuesday} ^Awe and its Reward^

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P. S.  The four stars may not indicate a sense of ease and pleasure, at least not early in the day, as much as a feeling that one knows what one is doing and can proceed wisely with one's plans. Then pleasure may flower afterward, even though the |difficult third| is with us. Gotta believe in the holiday spirit on the first day of Advent!

Forecast for Monday 30 November 2015

Monday 30 November 2015

^Strength in Patient Learning^

Moon in Leo ****

The professor questions everyone, even colleagues, and quibbles

And quarrels. He has specialized and knows his field but oversteps

His bounds to make others subservient. At last he is isolated,

With only his intelligence to guide him back to a safer port.

This mother suffers poverty, but not of spirit;

She does what she knows best for her children.

Her favorite boy seems bent on self-abandonment,

Refusing education, hopeless; she bears with him.

The knight knows his rights and those of his people.

He visits a sea-captain friend rocking retired in his chair, 

Whose retrospect enriches the prospects of the younger strong

Man, whose hidden coat of arms grants prerogatives royal.

In fact education, learning, study seem themes of the day. There is strength in knowing what one can do and dropping what is pointless. People are set in hierarchies only for the sake of the daily world-order, but rise beyond them when they find themselves completely. Yet this does not reduce their responsibilities, though it makes them more congenial. There is no reason to shy away from a direct issue that has to be faced with someone, even if there are misunderstandings you can't totally correct. You are likely to feel your hidden strengths and sense how to take advantage of them. 

{Monday} ^Strength in Patient Learning^

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Forecasts for Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November 2015

Saturday 28 November 2015

Moon in Cancer   ***

This could be almost a four-star day, yet there is a focus on work to be done as well as pleasure or entertainment and holiday festivity.

It's the holiday weekend and I am busy also with research, so I am not doing the complete full-throttle forecasts I usually do until Monday's forecast. 

Sunday 29 November 2015

Moon in Cancer-->Leo   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:47a PT | 7:47a ET | 12:47p UT   ** /

until it enters Leo at 4:48p PT | 7:48p ET | 0:48a(M) UT   ****

Luna is v-of-c for exactly twelve hours. It's a good Sunday for relaxing, it would appear. Lunar aspects are quite smooth. There could be free-form pleasure, entertainment, and creativity. 

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P. S. You may be happy that I am not giving forth my usual preaching about ethics, spirituality, and so on, but I feel a little chagrined that I am not doing so because that is what makes these forecasts different from most of the others. It is hard to be a prophet with a conscience in the format of what is usually somewhat careless fortune-telling. I keep trying but sometimes wonder if it is worth the trouble. We shall see. 

Forecast for Friday 27 November 2015

Friday 17 November 2015

~Competent Self-Reliance~

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon void-of-course   ** /

until it enters Cancer at 11:28a PT | 2:28p ET | 7:28p UT   ***

Studies of the atmosphere or of ecology, also of geology and the earth's strata, could be significant. We need competency in these areas to prepare for changes brought on by global warming or accompanying earth changes. 

Your work may seem tiresome servitude. Yet with Saturn, Mercury and the sun together, sextile Mars, there is a reason for this seemingly endless process of "being used" for the sake of others or the world. There is a call to good judgment, and possibly research, measuring things carefully in a specific field to validate hypotheses or reliable plans. 

When there is grief or despair over some passionate attachment which has ended, perhaps in what feels like disgrace, there is hope in other things, such as your comfortable habits at home, your family, and prosperity you share with all.

Dreaming of the past or future as an escape from present requirements could be a costly mistake. Things you could accomplish now depend on an indomitable spirit of self-reliance and pressing ahead toward the unknown with stalwart determination.

Many are considering their incomes carefully and how to improve them. This does not have to be penuriousness or covetousness; it could be common sense plus wise estimation of costs in possible speculation. That is better than carelessness. Danger of loss has awakened you to ways of greater competence in facing risks and refining skills. 

{Friday} ~Competent Self-Reliance~

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Forecast for Thursday 26 November 2015

Thursday 26 November 2015

}Thanksgiving{

Moon in Gemini

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

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:36p PT | 10:36p ET | 3:36a UT   * / |

The last aspect of the moon, at the v-of-c time above, is a trine with Venus which could help salvage whatever was difficult in this day. 

One might feel empty, or open to any influence whatever, therefore weak. But there is tradition to rely on, which is strengthening. When people come together, there is accord. There is sharing of artistry, decorativeness and photos.

One can see into and validate things accurately, no matter what anyone's opinions may be. Clashing attitudes are possible but can be finessed successfully. Music is festive and varied. A girl or woman keeps changing the channels, so to speak, but could be delightful.

Some may feel dejected, alienated, lost, betrayed or bereaved. On top of that there could be quarrels or, again, clashing opinions. We will have to face and rise above all that as best we can. 

A feeling that things have fallen or are falling apart is natural at times. It is a signal that we need to rely on background understanding derived from either religion, philosophy, or some personal belief system which gives stability. (In my view there is only One who gives stability, but I try not to preach overmuch.) A large book, or one weighty in substance, could help.

Some could seem superficial or unpleasant in their conversation, despising others' ideas while having none of their own. We need to find something other than people's limitations to think about and relate to in our minds. Spiritual artistry is one alternative, looking for the beautiful in things and people, memories and ideas and hopes.

{Thursday} Thanksgiving

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Forecast for Wednesday 25 November 2015

Wednesday 25 November 2015

}Missed Glory Smolders{

Moon in Taurus-->Gemini

|Karmically intense or sobering third| of this week continues (until Friday morning)   

/moon void-of-course    * / |

until it enters Gemini at 9:16a PT | 12:16p ET | 5:16p UT   ** |

This is probably the hardest day of the week. Luna opposes the difficult conjunction of the sun, Saturn, and Mercury in Sagittarius. As remarked yesterday, Thanksgiving, though still in the |difficult third| of this week, may be better because of lunar aspects. Still, people are serious.

You may feel depressed by Thanksgiving preparations for one reason or another--not purchasing  just what you wanted, or delays, or free-floating anxiety. You may be missing someone who will not be there, or past Thanksgivings in your mind may pale before the prospects of this one. Or, if you are younger, you may feel you are a prisoner of older people and would like to break away (from Saturn as indicating more mature or elderly individuals). 

However, it should definitely seem better tomorrow. Still, the issues of Saturn and sun and Mercury all square Neptune are with us both days, and for a week and more to come. Alcohol, while giving short-term relief, could be a poison long-term (depending on quantity of course). There can be enervation, or a feeling of loss or sadness. You are aware of sacrifices you need to make for others.  

But then, Thanksgiving as a spiritual (rather than gastronomic) holiday was made for the purpose of rising above such things, was it not? We all have much for which to be grateful.

The very orderly, neat person with arched eyebrows forgot to put out

The fire in his fireplace. It blazes, and the neighbors guard it. Yet he sees

Keenly into the intricacies of his work, and his co-workers' business.

His prism-like mind validates all, but is embarrassed when he goes home.

The priest in his robe wants peace and seclusion, standing in his

Cloister. A radical magazine blazes gossip about his lost youth.

Some think the writer a silly ostrich trying to profit by

Others' peccadillos. Some think the priest a tinkling cymbal.

The casket of jewels arouses his passionate greed. He is willing to fight

For it, walking on the edge of a precipice to secure it. 

It eludes his grasp, but he still has a story to tell and becomes

A lecturer and writer of tales of would-be glory he missed. 

{Wednesday} }Missed Glory Smolders}

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Forecast for Tuesday 24 November 2015

Tuesday 24 November 2015

\The Game of Guarding, Guiding, Ruling/

Moon in Taurus   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:27p PT | 8:27p ET | 1:27a(W) UT   ** /

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 4:42p PT | 7:42p ET | 0:42a(W) UT

The discrepancy between the eminence you feel you deserve, and the path to it, seems great. Yet you are rising. Your home, it seems, is empty or feels so. You feel you have abandoned it or it you. You want to be once again a guardian of it so that you can use it as a lunching pad for career or treasured projects.

Someone who guides or teaches in career paths has a lot of egoity or eogism. This gives him or her confidence, but can seem uncouth. You want to play the game of ambition and achievement as if on a chessboard, figuring out every move for your abilities.This could have an influence on the public or bring you into the public eye.

There is or could be good fortune and you could feel prosperous through work, either at home or in a secure station at headquarters. The good things of life are available. There could be envy, either of yourself by someone, or by yourself of someone. It sneaks up even though in your soul-nature you are above it. Wishing someone would stumble from what seems undeserved success is a peccadillo or minor sin, but we should try to root it out because it is not good for our own well-being.

Some seem born to rule or lead. Some like that are your friends, or could be. They have a swaying power over others' destinies. At times you or they might be in too much hurry, trying to get too much accomplished at once, hastily, huffing and puffing over little things which result in little reward. Getting back to essentials recovers strength.

A grand trine in earth signs, formed only today by Luna with Jupiter and Pluto, is a signal that you could rise upward through fostering ambitions. Yet there is a social element in this, so you express yourself in a game-like manner. You need to work and play with others, in essence and consciousness if not actuality. Some rule, others follow, but followers also rule within their own domain. Where and what is that domain? That you need to remember. 

{Tuesday} /The Game of Guarding, Guiding, Ruling\

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P. S. The |karmically difficult or sobering| third of this week sneaks up on us in later afternoon-evening and lasts through Thanksgiving until Friday morning. But Thanksgiving itself is saved, for the most part, because it will be past the midpoint of that weekly period and more importantly because Luna forms a trine with Venus and a sextile with Uranus on that holiday, lasting all day into the evening. That should put us in pretty good spirits, I am happy to say.

Forecast for Monday 23 November 2015

Monday 23 November 2015

\Effort as Play and Playful Learning/

Moon in Aries-->Taurus

/moon void-of course   * /

until it enters Taurus at 8:27a PT | 11:27a ET | 4:27p UT   ** /

I'm hinting at a one-star and then two-star day because of vacuous lunar aspects, and also because Mercury and the sun are moving closer to Saturn, a heavy, serious planet requiring much of us. 

I have struggled with the degree-symbols of the planets for each day, for many years, in fact decades, trying to find the best formula for accuracy in understanding daily events. Often I have put them into quatrains, most recently three of them each day. But I think a prose interpretation can work successfully. Because they are symbols, they go deep, and you may not see what they mean until the end of the day, so the following forecast should be re-read then to get the full flavor or essence of what the symbols are trying to say. They were delivered by three different clairvoyants in the 19th and 20th centuries and seem perennially relevant. I could give historical examples of that (perhaps shall if I am ever able to write something more permanent about them such as a book). 

Monday: 

There is shrewdness of self-protection. You feel you need shelter, and want to shelter someone else. A young person's obsessions or complicated feelings and motives are weighing on you. Yet there can be adventure. You could be with this person or someone else in a company of change, with intriguing sharing.

Some have firm foundations in their lives they do not want questioned. Those could be home, belief, religious awareness or philosophic orientation. These individuals are intelligent but could be didactic and self-assertive without flexibility. Perhaps they ought to be more deferential to you, as well as you to them. They need to realize that the conclusion of things is not in sight, at least not in the same way to everyone. Irritability could be transformed into irrepressibility and hopeful personal anticipations.

Changefulness also leads to the arts and music. A performer could entrance you. That which is refined is uplifting when moods waver. There is ingrained goodwill. The symbols speak of someone working outside his cottage, happy and contented with the natural goodness around him. Faithfulness leads to expressing heartfelt feelings amid prosperity.

There is hospitality, with fine fare presented to you or others three days ahead of Thanksgiving. Someone opens the door to you. Still, mixed with such kindness is sorrow, as if someone were mourning the loss of a loved one. This does not have to be total frustration, but rather a reorientation to glories ahead. 

"A girls' basketball team" suggests teamwork, cooperation and adaptability. People want to enhance their repute by working for the team. This could develop in both social and job situations. There is shrewdness in protecting people from difficulties together with hospitable sharing. A game-like approach minimizes irritability and opens the heart to joyful interaction.

{Monday} /Effort as Play and Playful Learning\

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P. S. Today is the birthday of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. (He left this world, apparently, in April of 2010.) If you know little or nothing of him, you might benefit greatly by reading the book "Modern Miracles" or, the same book under another title, "Miracles are My Visiting Cards." Now I see on Amazon that there is a new edition--wonderful!--and its title is definitely "Modern Miracles." 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E6S1VEG?keywords=modern%20miracles&qid=1448238756&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

I am very happy to recommend it as a thoroughly researched and wise approach to the paranormal, written by a professor of parapsychology. I have had experiences with Sai Baba which convince me he is real and they include not only "miracles" of healing and reassurance but emotional openings which resulted in crying for maybe a half hour at a time while looking at his picture. If that sounds silly to you, consider that a couple months ago, years after that experience, I read that Wayne Dyer, the self-help author, had the same experience--conveyed in his own words--looking at photos of Sai Baba and crying. Something real is going on there. You might wish Sai Baba a happy birthday by repeating "Jai Sai Ram." "Jai" means "salute," more or less. Pronounced "jay." Sai is pronounced either "Sigh" or "Sah-ee." Ram is of course "Rahm." 

Jai Sai Ram! Om Sai Ram! Jai Sai Ram!

Hugh

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Forecast for Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 November 2015

Saturday 21 November 2015

^Approval Through Pliability^

Moon in Pisces--Aries   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:24a PT | 8:24a ET | 1:24p UT   ** /

until it enters Aries at 7:13a PT | 10:13a ET | 3:13p UT   ***

There is a sharpness to the day. Ideals are crystallized, perhaps in a particular person. Who is the one who compels your respect and even adoration? You can work, communicate, and play with this person. You remember him or her almost constantly.

Someone strong-willed but impressionable attracts you, a "mad bull" sort of individual when aroused. 

Your attitude is pliable. When you follow up what excites you, on the move, everything is interesting, even if you seem not to get much closer to the goal. 

Many are persuasive or fascinating; you may be one of them. You have a wand of attraction when you choose to wave it. Thereby you gain approval.

You may feel superior to some who seem to understand less, but should treat them as learning children rather than rebuke them. There will be a residue of fresh awareness in them.

The romantic and wild attract you. Yet you are able, as discussed in the past week, to hold to your latest serious and probably successful plans very realistically. They are a prophecy of stupendous things to come.

Love is in the air, sometimes "airy" love of a flattering, temporarily infatuating sort, with more than one individual. It has a semi-spiritual caste. Those you consort with might aid somehow in professional or job aims or performance.

Your mind-set can be firm and unyielding because you know what you are doing (Luna trine the conjunction of Mercury and Saturn). Yet you are not complacent but trying to upgrade your approach.

Disputes and quarrels may involve "secret enemies" (in astrological lingo). These are really people who misunderstand you as perhaps you misunderstand them partially. But there is sufficient harmony, with Venus and Mars in Libra, to rise beyond all that. Friendly communication is a key. 

{Saturday} ^Approval Through Pliability^

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Sunday 22 November 2015

^Love of Freedom within Competence^

Moon in Aries   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 11:17a PT | 2:17p ET | 7:17p UT   ** /

until it enters Taurus Monday at 8:27a PT | 11:27a ET | 4:27p UT   **

You can be shrewd in protecting your own interests. You are trying to be competent rather than inept, and can succeed (Mars sextile Saturn exactly, and other indications).

Hearing of tragedies, as we have in recent days, is hard. It calls us to question our faith in a beneficent order, of G*d or not according to one's individual understanding. As a believer I recommend prayer, always, and I know its good results, giving praise and thanks.

Self-will and passion can reign, while the moon is in Aries conjoined to Uranus (exactly at the void-of-course time above). Others may want to restrain you, or you someone else.

Love of freedom could lead to rest, even laziness. Natural simplicity allies us with dreaming, which may not have the practical results we want. Yet contentment can be its own reward.

Still, you might be an inquisitive pioneer in some ways. You go places just for the joy of discovery. Or this could be armchair travel via books, Internet or media.

This does not have to be reckless, but could be. Being honorable protects you. 

One of the symbols is an iceberg above which shines the aurora borealis. Perhaps this is mental brilliance, incandescent thinking, amazing truths. They may jump out at you.

There can be hospitality. You might buy something for a friend or even a stranger. Separation can be healed by unusual kindness.

Speculation for gain is possible. You at least could evaluate your income and the ways you get it and perhaps make wise modifications. 

{Sunday} ^Love of Freedom within Competence^

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Forecast for Friday 20 November 2015

Friday 20 November 2015

~Discernment Amid Festivity~

Moon in Pisces   ***

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 4:48p PT | 7:48p ET | 0:48a(Sa) UT   ****

Four stars in the evening partly because of TGIF, and partly because Luna will trine Sol, always heartening, though other aspects are intense. Venus opposite Uranus warns of sudden breaks or harsh differences with a loved one or friend, but this does not have to happen. Instead there can be a willingness to appreciate those differences and enjoy them as much as possible, or overlook them while enjoying other factors in the loved one. 

There can be graciousness plus reasonableness, with an appreciation of the psychological or archetypal standing of someone you want to be with. 

With his bow and arrow he aimed, in days when hunting was essential,

Sharing his prosperity with all in need. At his feet a serpent, shaped like

An S, reminded him of detective work to do. At night a cloud released 

A moon and lightning-flash; his projects took on proud cleaving force.

In the lobby of the theater the man with the mask mocks his friends;

They laugh in self-subversive mirth. His foolery imitates their 

Foolishness. He thought he could win the heart of a cute one there.

His talent betrayed his hopes. So he hurt the one he loved lovingly.

The true inner knowledge does not flow easily from someone without 

Archetypal resonance. A man walking with a lantern in his hand attracts

Attentive hearers. They sit with him in a canyon; on the mountain above

A face sculptured in stone conveys a message of peaceful discernment.

{Friday} ~Discernment Amid Festivity~

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Forecast for Thursday 19 November 2015

Thursday 19 November 2015

~Idealism Ameliorates Worry~

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces

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

/moon goes void-of-course at 0:20a PT | 3:20a ET | 8:20a UT   * / |

(not a good idea to get out of bed and snack to curb anxieties!)

until it enters Pisces at 4:23a PT | 7:23a ET | 12:23p UT   ** |

The woman separated from her husband stands in front of a pillar of

Black marble toward which she casts her loneliness. A cross lying on

Rocks awakens conscience; she has been self-centered, misanthropic,

Defensive. A mission she had dropped returns to her compellingly.

An affinity for true inner knowledge brings the seekers into the 

Cave of the yogi. The fog in the mountains outside contrasts with the

Altar fire on the rock in the cave. Those suffering worldly loss

Come here and gain by light from a deity's face carved in stone.

The tiger crouches, waiting for prey, not malicious though humans

Preying on humans be so.The monk who passes him, leaving his

Lamp and book, has eyes on a goal toward which his followers

Strive, a way to end all cruelty forever. 

The day seems normal for a |difficult third|, with probably too much worry, perhaps about money or business. You could develop a firm determination to get hold of the reins. By Friday evening and the weekend we may be ready to enter into the holiday spirit of Thanksgiving a week from today. Meanwhile patience with oneself and everyone is required.

{Thursday} ~Idealism Ameliorates Worry~

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Forecast for Wednesday 18 November 2015

Wednesday 18 November 2015

}Carrying On{

Moon in Aquarius    ***
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 12:58p PT | 3:58p ET | 8:58p UT   ** |

To expand the road they need to fell a tree overhanging the

Gorge. A military band is exercising and marching in their

Way. A marcher with a dark covering on his head and face

Wields a baton, or is it a bat? Music and industry collide. 

The girl looking at her face in a handglass wonders how she competes

With others, then drops it and waves her hands in the air

With exultation. A caravan of automobiles passing by

Includes observers of her chic appearance and she is pleased.

The group seems amiable. Two men on one side of the campfire

Contest with one on the other. The argument is over politics,

Or really something else? Some would like to be in a tent

With a mate rather than simulate treachery and revenge.

It's a good day to just keep carrying on, probably near home base or headquarters. Worries arise only to be faced and overcome.

{Wednesday} {Carrying On}

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Forecast for Tuesday 17 November 2015

Tuesday 17 November 2015

}Decisive Cooperative Trend{

Moon in Aquarius   ****

I'm chancing a rare four-star rating and hope it will not be excessively rosy.  (The maximum is five, almost never given.)

I don't like to make a fetish of the lunar void-of-course times, because we have to keep on living and doing during those, but it's true that on Monday I suddenly felt depressed and ill at ease, wondering what I was doing and why, and then noted that the void-of-course had started almost an hour before. This has happened so often that I do not consider the v-of-c a superstition, although it is possible to make too much of it and slack off too much at those times. So my basic advice of "stick to routine things rather than edgy, unusual or ambitious ones" seems to hold over the years. You might be reading this during Monday's v-of-c in the evening.

Tuesday does not have such a phenomenon going and instead the moon forms trines with Mars (early) and Venus (late afternoon-evening) as well as sextiles with Saturn and Uranus. Combining that with the fact of Mercury's conjunction with the sun while it is moving fast-forward, we arrive at a prescription for confident action and planning. People are likely to be friendly and receptive to suggestions or requests. You might re-read or reconsider yesterday's notion of formulating or writing your plans for the next two or three months, because you might be "on" in your surmise of what will be best for you (better than Monday evening because Luna was v-of-c). And those doing research of any kind may be at the peak of their accurate perceptions. Truth is available.

Doors should open smoothly, through the day and evening, into interpersonal connections, friendships, or partnerships. Just striking up a conversation could be life-changing.

There, I have been "too rosy" but I hope not enough to mislead you.

The group roaming over the ruins of an ancient massive wall

Enter through an archway into a region of natural ease where they

Relax and start a campfire. As sunlight fades appears the 

Apparition of a man with no head, unless it's shrouded in darkness.

On the other side of the wall, native Americans, also making camp,

Note on the ground a separated skeletal head and hand

Left from who knows what skirmish years ago. A young one

Among them tries to extemporize his individual chaotic path.

A centaur with bow and arrow is attracted to any and all 

Creatures and humans, yet wants to learn at the feet of his

Favorite philosopher. A caravan of travelers distracts him.

His popularity fades and he retreats to lonely study. 

I wouldn't want those quatrains to be depressing. Perhaps they are just a subjective flavor of some of the day's happenings. I hold to the rosiness of the original prognosis.

{Tuesday} {Decisive Cooperative Trend{

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