Forecast for the Fortnight of January 16 (Saturday) through January 31 (Sunday), 2016
}Caution and Patience{
This is the fortnight of the gibbous (fat) moon, with the Full Moon at its center (January 23-24). We start, as before, with the positions and aspects of the planets plus their symbols as given by the 19th century clairvoyant Charubel. These have a real validity, I have observed, though not always obvious on the surface. They repay pondering.
I cannot be a Pollyanna for this fortnight! We should have a "nicer" or easier one beginning January 31 or February 1. Before that, things do not look easy. Forewarned is forearmed. \It has been difficult for me in terms of laborious study and research. I would guess that for most, it has been something similar connected with job or a difficult, complex project./
It is wise to be cautious in all your activities and plans. That does not mean fearful. But only those who are trying to live up to the Will of the Highest, every moment, really feel free from fear. That is the remedy.
Charubel gives some rather disturbing symbols. "A column of smoke ascending on a gigantic scale, followed by a terrible burst of flame. The phenomenon partakes of the character of an explosion." He warns that "events are sudden, falling out unexpectedly, and generally disastrously." That would apply to only a few incidents, of course, but they could be major ones. \I admit that there have not been such major incidents, as far as I have noticed. That is all to the good./ Let us be cautious. Especially because Mercury remains retrograde (until the 25th, but the Dark Epoch continues after that through the end of this fortnight). I shall not predict terrorist incidents but it would be well for anyone living where they might happen to be both watchful and prayerful, though not of course paranoid. More likely, what the symbol indicates is something psychological within ourselves, a seething anger or frustration which could erupt and cause havoc among our associates or in business. Neither repression nor wantonly hurtful expression but patient understanding is needed. \There was some of that for me. I shied away from people for the most part and felt that "issues" between us prevented easy cooperation. /
\Here is one way the "explosion" Charubel describes worked out for me. I live in the Pacific Northwest and a friend posted on Facebook a prediction of possible earthquakes hitting this area in the near future. I am aware of such predictions, although none of them really have a convincing timeline and all this could happen hundreds of years from now. Geological time is not the same as human time measured in our passing days. Anyway I responded like this: "The status of the earth is within ourselves. Insofar as we control ourselves, we control the internal activities of the earth." Those of you who have studied Christian Science or something like it will know why I said that. Then, on Wednesday this week I attended the Christian Science testimony meeting at First Church here and spoke up about earthquakes and their possible spiritual cause and cure. I got a positive response. Then two individuals told stories about how they had each been warned ahead of time about serious problems in someone else's home--for one it was a fire which could have killed a sleeping man, for another it was a plumbing problem inundating the place in water. Their "listening" for divine guidance led them to the scene of the problem just in time to prevent the disaster. So here was Charubel's symbol coming up--"events are sudden, falling out unexpectedly and generally disastrously." But in these cases spiritual alertness prevented tragedy. And for the rest of this fortnight, that is a good lesson./
Then we have our familiar "Man of stout make, good proportions, round, rosy features, looking very merry, dancing grotesquely." Charubel seems to imply that the dancing comes from a sense of fatality, that there is nothing else to do since everything else is rather pointless. We may find ourselves looking for entertainment as escape. That is not unusual but might be noticeable in remarkable ways. \Yes, before I went to the Christian Science meeting I felt "Oh why bother? It's a time-consuming journey." I went to a bar instead and enjoyed a couple of drinks while reading Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on my phone. I was the "man looking very merry, dancing grotesquely" in a symbolic sense. The lady bartender "danced" with me in that we chatted and laughed. But my conscience pricked me and I got up and went to the meeting in time. /
The symbol we saw as connected with Donald Trump--the grouchy and unpleasant but successful businessman--is replaced this fortnight by: "A deep red star of the first magnitude on the ascendant; but a very short interval elapses between its rising and its setting. When it sets, I see a pale golden light succeeding." Could this be a change in Trump's attitude or his strategy? But apart from that, it more importantly shows something crucial in our feelings, perhaps specially erotic or sexual ones. "Do not follow the dictates of passion" the Victorian Charubel remonstrates. He warns that "the desires of thy lower nature" could bring about "a short and wretched lot." I leave this to you to interpret for your own use and as applicable to your own case. \I have been aware of this issue in my life, my escapism into fantasy. It has been a crucial issue I have been trying to solve with the help of spiritual guides and inspirational reading. It does feel like what Charubel suggests: Passion or exaggerated desire transmuting itself into something hidden within it which is infinitely better--the red of passion changing to the golden glow of higher spiritual awareness and real selfless love. Sri Aurobindo, Sai Baba, and Jesus are helping me with this./
"A merchant ship" indicating a successful merchant or traveler is a fortunate degree. However, we know what the stock markets around the world have been doing: Dropping disastrously. Yet individual businesses can be thriving, and in fact "the economy" or business climate is much better off than the stock market's fearful gyrations. So whatever your business or job, you may tend to it successfully. \Something like that seems to be happening for me and for a few others I know. As for the stock market, its drop has been frightening, but it did go up a couple days this week including Thursday as I write./
"A magician in sacerdotal robes, standing in a magic circle, performing magic rites." We all have some sort of "creative superstition" in us, it seems, and why not? Whatever can buoy up our faith may be good for us. Depending on mere mechanical magic when things are hard or overwhelming, of course, would not be likely to result in much more than palliated expectations followed by more disappointment. So let our magic be of the soul, the White Magic which seeks others' good as well as our own. If some "art magic" accompanies that, why not? Ritual opens the heart and feelings to higher magic when done with high aspirations.
"Rings of light within the heavens; ring within ring or zone within zone." This is said to indicate "a man for the far distant future" who is not understood in his time. That would apply to many astrologers, most certainly, but not only to them. We may each have our special way of approaching something Transcendent, or The Transcendent Himself. Trying to make how you do that understood by anyone else might be futile.
One reason Charubel's warnings may well be wise and applicable is that Jupiter is beginning again its square with Saturn, or the other way around since Saturn is direct and Jupiter retrograde. This is a "soul-crisis" in some sense, or a need to find one's deep inner purpose or mission and try to fulfill it rather than neglect it.
\I feel the first two paragraphs above as true. As for the "soul crisis," I feel it. How about you? The words fit exactly, for me. I have been spending more time than usual on self-appointed tasks which might be Self-appointed if they are veracious./
That is a rather heavy reading for these coming two weeks. I shall supplement it by the probably lighter or less forbidding indications of the Sabian Symbols in the next report, probably posted on Sunday. \And we shall revisit that report tomorrow./
{Fortnight of January 16 through 31} {Caution and Patience}
Cosmic Piper
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