Forecast for Wednesday 24 February 2016

Wednesday 24 February 2016

}Inner Listening{

Moon in Virgo-->Libra   ** |

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:24a PT | 9:24a ET | 2:24p UT   * / |

until it enters Libra at 2:43p PT | 5:43p ET | 10:43p UT   ** |

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 4:04p PT | 7:04p ET | 0:04a(Th) UT

  ***

It is interesting that the two now considered the most likely winners of the Republican nomination are Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, both Gemini. Of course there are countless differences between them and their individual horoscopes. The last Gemini President was George H. W. Bush (the elder Bush). And, most interesting to me, in the field systems I have worked out laboriously for decades, ever since I undertook writing the astrological guides for the twelve sun-signs of the zodiac for Sterling's Magazines in New York (a job I continued for more than twelve years), Gemini currently has six placements in the 10th field of Career or Honor or Success. This is in a system known to no one on earth but Cosmic Piper, and is an interesting verification of it, or at least evidence for it. That does not mean he will be able to pick who will be nominated or become President by this system alone. As all astrologers know, predictions like that are highly dicey because there are so many variables to consider. 

However, none of the other Republican candidates' sun-signs have as many favorable placements, including Bush (Aquarius), Cruz (Capricorn), Christie (Virgo), Carson (Virgo), and Kasich (Taurus). The last-named is to my mind the most reasonable and virtuous of the Republicans. Taurus might have a chance, and Kasich may do well in the Eastern states where he has been campaigning. Whereas the two Geminis mostly give out hot air, Kasich has solid workable ideas, though perhaps not advanced or progressive enough for the current political climate. Like Al Gore, who also had the Moon (not sun) in Capricorn, he doesn't seem to give off enough charisma to keep people excited about him, but I consider him a decent man, which is saying a lot at the current political moment. (Since they both have good intentions and are honest, in some ideal imaginary outcome he and Bernie Sanders working together might find solutions for our nation. Without bipartisan sincerity that is likely to be impossible.)

By late afternoon or evening most of us will feel a weight has been lifted from our shoulders. Before that it's mostly "Carry on as usual."  Friendship or partnership might be flourishing inasmuch as the moon in Libra plus the Part of Fortune in the 7th (relationships) plus Venus and Mars in a quintile relation. Added to that, Luna in smooth aspect to both is harbinger of something good developing in that area, whether overt or covert, tangible or in feelings and attitudes. 

One watching butterflies wants to capture one, 

Another warns of karma from such cruelty.

He has a mandate from on high to protect all creatures, end

All fighting. How could he now articulate that?

A military ship, wrecked on the ocean, floats as if

Waiting for salvage. On shore marches a military

Band, blazing notes of intrepidity. Off in the

Jungle lie separated body parts. What thought, what action?

The wind rises, the ship rolls in the trough of a rough

Sea. The butterfly-chasing man with net finds his

Prey blown in all directions. The mandated man

Is poised to utter salvific karmic law. Who hears?

{Wednesday} {Inner Listening}

Cosmic Piper

P. S. There seems a difference between the forecast and the poem, the latter based on the symbolic degrees for the day. Which will be more accurate? Let me know.