Forecast for Monday 2 November 2015

Monday 2 November 2015

^Mutual Support in Broad Idealism^

Moon in Cancer--Leo

/moon void-of-course  ** /

until it enters Leo at 7:49a PT | 10:49a ET | 3:49p UT   ***

Grant Lewi says that those born with the sun in Scorpio and moon in Leo, where they domicile today, are so filled with sensuous desires, and romanticism, that to contain themselves they build up high ideals and visionary philosophies, becoming idealists in thought even if sensualists in practice. That makes intuitive sense to me. Are we doing that today? Do we dream about and ponder love in some or many forms? Meanwhile, we can't seriously expect everyone, or maybe anyone, to live up to the high standards we construct in our ideal world. So love has to recover from disappointment over and over again.

The toughest aspects we have been facing are loosening somewhat. Luna's trine with Saturn is not depressing but can be boring; even idealistic love has its duties, some of them the nuts and bolts which are not thrilling in themselves though they serve or please the beloved. 

What are the technical or strategic or work-planning details you have been tackling lately, while there is that triple conjunction in Virgo? It has been a good time for struggling with "the details' devils" and getting them "by de tail," in other words, figuring out how to do things in a consistent and workable manner. I've been trying to do that in two or three areas, with what seems success. I hope for you also. It can be as simple as daily schedules or as complex as a spreadsheet. (I only do those in my mind or in an old spiral notebook.) (But one of those notebooks is filled with astrological data that I deign to call statistical in a real sense, even if the statisticians, never satisfied, would require me to have thousands more examples of everything. Astrology is a liberating science in which everyone is his own statistician, and that is not sloppiness but pioneer work of a very high order.)

A feeling that things have collapsed or are going nowhere is something we have had to face in the past two weeks. But we also have had enormous will-power to combat those feelings. They have put us on the defensive but we have come back, aiming our darts at our target and not giving up. We have interrupted that sometimes to be in a crowd and release tensions among others whose glance, words or moods can exhilarate us. Then back to the intense magical dart-board focus.

Music has been important to me during this time, perhaps to you: a backdrop of sound to uplift spirits. That is needed whenever there has been a feeling of oppressive disintegration caused by others who are maladjusted, or by our own maladjustment. We have looked off at people as if they were distant from us, and assumed the position, in our minds, of a magician who can scotch problems they might present. Then, sometimes, a youthful individual who has confidence in the goodness of everyone and everything will light a candle in our minds and restore our faith in everyone and in our ability to hold to our course toward the rainbow's pot of gold. 

When we have felt we were walking through mud, we have waited for the weather to settle and for a feeling of equality with everyone, even with those primitive or crude but whose dexterity gives us an ability to be dexterous in our own way. This breadth of viewpoint saves us from narrow egoism which, by ignoring the broader world, would defeat itself. We need contacts with many, even in festive situations, whether locally, or in vision, or through visual information as in films or clips, or through invisible agencies. Casual associations bring together people advantageous to one another indirectly or directly. We get the deserts we deserve and so do all.

{Monday} ^Mutual Support in Broad Idealism^

Cosmic Piper