Forecast for Fortnight of January 2-16, 2016

\Dancing, Singing and Greed!/

This fortnight happens to begin and end on Saturdays two weeks apart.

I try to restrain myself from becoming excited about a new fortnight, but every new chart looks fascinating and so I have high hopes for this period. Difficult aspects are always there; we have to plow through them. I hope the following may help.

The lighter side of things is depicted by Charubel: "A large assembly room. A large audience and a man at the piano. An artistic person, an eloquent person, a musician, a popular person." That is for a birth-chart. In this present period it suggests we could enjoy a lot of easy entertainment. We could toss forth our skills and talents and get popularity in return. We could equally enjoy seeing or hearing others do this. Maybe we could be lounge lizards. The symbols for Pluto is even more exuberant, though garishly so: "A man of stout make, good proportions, round, rosy features, looking very merry, dancing grotesquely." Merry New Year! Charubel goes on: "Denotes one who lives to eat and enjoy himself; never troubles his mind with cares; seldom thinks of the future by way of providing for the same; the present is his all; his creed is 'Let me eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow I may be "done for."'"  Okay, let's not get carried away with this! We had better get on to the more realistic parts of the chart. We can't spend our days and nights in bars and nightclubs.

Much of the chart looks business-oriented. Pluto, the sun and Mercury in Capricorn are trine Jupiter in Virgo. Though Mercury is retrograde, this is not a bad set-up for business. Probably you should stick to the methods and strategies you decided on before this period begins. If you keep implementing them faithfully they may lead you to success. "A practical business person who readily allies himself with the world's ways and with ordinary matters. One never short of expedients. A little cantankerous and not one of the pleasantest companions." Does that sound like someone we know, sometimes referred to as the Donald (Duck?). But taking this as applying to ourselves, we get so involved in our business that we sometimes are cantankerous toward those who interrupt it.

Interestingly enough, Neptune has been at the above degree since mid-September during the peak in Mr. Trump's popularity. "One never short of expedients" and "a practical business person" are the essence of his self-description! "A little cantankerous"? Who would say that of the Donald?!

"A merchant ship" is also good for business, suggesting "a successful merchant." I do not claim to predict the stock market, which perversely seems to follow its own indecipherable rules. But it seems about time that world markets should recover somewhat. In your personal life this means perhaps to be a little bold in your planning (although while Mercury is retrograde and a little before [that begins on the 5th] it is wise to stick with well-tested plans, though perhaps to be bold in implementing the most solid ones). 

More business, of a rather dark sort: "Death, with a scythe in one hand, and a bag of money in the other. A miser; one who will starve himself for gain; and one who would delight in slaughter and carnage if it would prove of some monetary advantage to himself." Interestingly enough, Pluto was in this degree on 9/11/2001, giving perhaps some support to the conspiracy theorists. Or not. Now it is Saturn which is there. It sounds a little like the credo of the Republican Party, as well as the Democratic Party at certain moments of its history. To counterbalance this is Jupiter's position, which happens to be identical with that of Rahu or the moon's north node, considered above: The popular entertainer playing the piano in a dance hall. That gives relief, but we might do well to watch out for those who are in fact monetary predators, especially when Mercury is retrograde and we might fall under their influence. If it sounds like a scam it probably is.

Perhaps that horrible degree-symbol is warning us to beware of putting money before love. That is often a problem when Venus conjoins Saturn, as she does during this whole period. The "miser" warned about in the symbol could be ourselves. Business which pushes family away could be one symptom of the syndrome. Saying "I'm too busy" to a friend could be another.

Then, since we have the symbols of easy entertainment and wild carefree dancing, we might say that self-absorbed entertainment, as in sitting and watching endless episodes of a favorite TV series, could also get in the way of real connection with other human beings. Yet the happy carefree symbols are refreshing and I hope we enjoy many such times! 

Those were the symbols of Charubel for this period beginning on New Year's evening, the 1st, at 9:32p PT | 0:32a(Saturday the 2nd) ET | 5:32a(Sa) UT. We considered them together with the planetary aspects for the two-week period.Tomorrow we will have another report for the same fortnight using the Sabian Symbols which were a 20th-century development in the art of astrology.

Till then, Enjoy your New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!  And yes, do take time to pray very seriously amid, before, and after the merriment. The world needs your prayers as much as you do.

{Fortnight of January 2-16, 2016}  /Dancing, Singing and Greed!\

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Friday 1 January 2016

Moon in Libra   ***

There is quite a positive vibration on this first day of the year. It might be better for most activities or events than Saturday, when Luna enters the Via Combusta.

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