Forecast for Thursday 18 August 2016

Thursday 18 August 2016

~Review and Integration~

Moon in Aquarius--Pisces   ***

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 0:34a PT | 3:34a ET | 7:34a UT   ** |

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:28a PT | 5:28a ET | 9:28a UT   * / |

until it enters Pisces at 9:35a PT | 12:35p ET |  4:35p UT   ** | 

OK, please don't blame me! I am trying to be honest here, otherwise why would I write this? Any charlatan could tell you "Every day is going to be perfect! Wonderful! Rejoice!" Actually, I do believe that! If you want to drop astrology completely, drop your reliance on the daily time and space of your life, and just believe that everything is always perfect, there are teachers who support that view. Maybe that is the best path for you. In that case, it might be wise to stop reading these forecasts. I agree with them, at a deep level. Everything is always perfect, because G*d is perfect, and there is no need to fret over what seems to be imperfect. So why worry about what the planets are doing on a specific day?

I understand the viewpoint.

However, to me, that seems as imperfect as saying "Well, every day is perfect, so if I don't have to go in to my job on Saturday and Sunday, why should I bother to go in on Monday through Friday?" 

We have limitations to face and overcome. That is not evil. It is not G*d's failure. It is not our failure. It is just the way things have been arranged for our best and quickest growth into something better for us. Just as Monday brings the necessity to go to your work, Venus's square with Saturn, when it happens, brings a need to face certain sorts of issues. That does not mean that Time, or the Solar System, or G*d, is evil, but merely that G*d manifests Himself in an orderly way through Time and the Solar System whose motions manifest and reveal the particular way He has chosen to reveal and manifest Himself for our growth at that particular moment of His and our glory. By understanding some of this through astrology, we become more humble and efficacious Servants of Him and His Cosmic Intention.

I don't know how to put that in other words at this moment, but other ways of saying it have come up in the past and shall come up in the future. All is a process. Part of my reflections here come from my current reviewing of philosophy, that is, its history, which I am doing in a big way while Mars and Saturn are together in Sagittarius the sign (perhaps, in some sense) of philosophy. This is also related to the Dark Hermetic Epoch when we "review" many things. What are you reviewing now in your daily or hourly thoughts? It is good to do that; it is not a mistake or something you are slipping into pointlessly. It is good for you. With that knowledge, you can do it more consciously and intentionally rather than just haphazardly. We are meant to "dwell in the past" to some degree during any DHE, as now. Then we are actually recovering treasure from that past and bringing it with us into the present to use and enjoy.

I hope all that is going well for you. It seems a "strong" time--the sun in Leo in High Focus is showing us how to "be ourselves" in a more definite way. You can find who you are more deeply and firmly, more widely and brightly. 

Then Mercury in Virgo together with the benefics Venus and Jupiter is high intelligence. You can sense and think out a lot of things in a profound and accurate manner. The |difficult third| of this week, now upon us, merely makes us more serious, not necessarily morose. This could be an afternoon and evening to come to terms with important matters in your consciousness--to face challenges you know you need to face in order to get your destiny in shape. May that go well for you . . . 

{Thursday}  ~Review and Integration~

Cosmic Piper