Forecast for Monday 16 November 2015

Monday 16 November 2015

\Good Planning/

Moon in Capricorn   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 12:54p PT | 3:54p ET | 8:43p UT  ** /

until it enters Aquarius at 11:25p PT | 2:25a(Tu) ET | 7:25a(Tu) UT   ***

I am assuming that many of you noticed that the Paris attacks and killings occurred during what I marked here as the |karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week. I have been marking those weekly periods here for many years and have yet to get a report from anyone who says that he or she notices the value of them. Yet most of the most heinous terrorist attacks and killings and accidents and natural catastrophes seem to occur during these periods. Though they make up only one-third of the time, it seems that at least half or maybe 70 per cent of MAJOR catastrophes which get huge media attention occur during those periods. Examples are the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the 9/11/01 attack in New York, and the 11/13/2015 attacks in Paris. It is true that such things can happen at any time, and unfortunately do, but my claim is that the most dramatic, attention-getting ones, and also perhaps the ones which involve the largest numbers of people, occur during the |karmically difficult third| of the time, which happens to be a weekly rhythm, about 2.5 days per week (less or more depending on the speed and position of our moon and Saturn).

Just a reminder that those periods are listed at the beginning of each forecast for a reason. You will find how to work with them if you just watch what goes on in your life at those times. The next one will begin Wednesday evening and continue until late Friday evening this week. An example: I was not in Paris last Friday, but I did go out here in Seattle and am not happy with what I did--it seemed to a large degree a waste of time and money. I might have been better off staying at home and researching astrology. Likewise many in Paris are now thinking they might better have stayed at home than go to the Eagles of Death Metal concert in the Bataclan. 

We can work with these periods, each in his or her own way, if we are vigilant, and improve our lives thereby. They are "no nonsensense" periods, if we want to be safe and secure. They are also periods in which moods swing very low. That is why, probably, so many criminal or violent deeds occur during those times. A killer does not feel good about life, others, or himself. We need deep prayer at such times, whatever else we do, if we are spiritual aspirants. (I am saying all this now in memory of the Paris sadness, but ought to repeat all this on Wednesday to remind us once again.) 

Today there is no such period, but of course there are always challenging aspects. With Mars bi-septile Pluto and tri-septile Neptune, we face oddness, deceptiveness or duplicity in relationships. This may be unintentional, that is, misunderstanding, as in the complexities of Middle Eastern warfare at this time, for example. France, Russia and the U. S. are involved in strange complexities of investigation and intervention in Syria and elsewhere. In your own life it may be that you are trying to figure someone out, or they you, or you are misunderstanding someone or they you, and want to find what seems just and fair (Mars in Libra). Mars's potentials of anger are there, or else a determination to come to grips with the difference or disagreement and mediate between the opposites until harmony is restored.

Today should be a good time for business and ordinary life-improving activities at least until the void-of-course period begins (time above). Mercury approaches its once-every-two-months conjunction with the sun. This is the "good one," while the one two months from now will be during the Dark Hermetic Epoch when Mercury is going backward (in geocentric perspective). This "good" Solar-Hermetic conjunction suggests getting one's life in order according to clear mental standards. We cannot map out everything for ourselves but we can do our best to anticipate what we can do and how we can do it. Our minds partake of the Solar splendor, that is, the Supermind or Overmind (of Sri Aurobindo's teaching) is influencing us so that we can make wise choices and good plans. You might want to write down what you have figured out as your best life-plan for the next three months, or into February at least. That is, what you think your daily or weekly schedule of activities ought to be during that period, or whom you wish to contact, what opportunities you want to seek out or try, what groups you want to visit, what concerts hear, what books read, what sporting or theatrical events you want to partake of. And you could put some challenges in the mix which you ordinarily shrink from, to expand yourself beyond yourself. This does not have to be extremely detailed of course. The idea is that right now you might be able to see clearly into the best possibilities. Putting them in a form you can remember and work with could be helpful. 

{Monday} /Good Planning\

Cosmic Piper