Message for Saturday and Sunday, 21-22 January, and Fortnight concluding February 3

Saturday and Sunday, 21-22 January, and Fortnight through February 3

^Shared Disappointments Build Solidarity^

Saturday 21 January 2017

Moon in Scorpio (and no longer in the Via Combusta)   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:25p PT | 8:25p ET | 1:25a(Su) UT   ** /

Sunday 22 January 2017

Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius

/moon void-of-course   ** /

until it enters Sagittarius at 2:46a PT | 5:46a ET | 10:46a UT   ***

Friday played out more or less as expected. Some of you may feel that I went overboard in proclaiming the 16th-25 a CELEBRATORY period (without reference to the Inauguration which of course many did not celebrate at all). As indicated, I was using an experimental approach in addition to conventional transits of the planets with each other. Those conventional aspects give us Mars square Saturn, and now Venus squaring that "malefic" (in traditional astrological lingo). When we are depressed, we are responding to those aspects; when exalted, to the others. I found that both were going on on Friday. I was with a group of young marchers who went through downtown Seattle chanting and waving placards against the Trump presidency (most were high school and college students). The mood of course was sour at one level (Venus-Saturn), yet very determined (Mars-Saturn). At other levels, the Celebratory aspects were happening, for most were having a good time socially, sharing the exuberance of their anti-celebration, as it were. 

The same I found to be true of a few other individuals I had conversations with after the march-demonstration.

So that combination of opposite (yet complementary) trends is continuing through the weekend.

Now here is the complete forecast for the lunar Fortnight of January 19 to February 4, the Crescent (thin-moon) half of the lunar month: 

There is loyalty to enduring values, and to special individuals or groups who have been supportive in the past and deserve your support or attention in return. This has to do with career, but also with happy communication and friendship. There is uninhibited acting, without the restraints of convention. You can spend resources wisely to further group dimensions of joy and entertainment which open up human consciousness to shared freedom.

Making use of things in the light of one's own experience is both an achievement and a gift of the gods. They want to give us that gift this fortnight, through challenging us to maintain common sense when feeling deprived of anything, knowing that deprivation (of love or money) is the basis of pyramiding rewards which come through learning how to cope patiently. The limiting structures of reality are there for a reason, to benefit us even when we complain of them. So any absence of love or of money is just a clue that we can live without them (in the particular way we had hoped), to gain them again in some better way which we would not have thought of or planned. Giving some things up is a prelude to getting them back multiplied. Integrity is a thing that has to be learned by rising above temptation.

Inner consistency in one's own personality is enhanced through the world's cooperation. This you may expect in fullness if you just maintain your personal balance and psychological aliveness in the face of the things you are sensitive about. People share their wisdom and maturity. They give when the giving makes them aware of their competence, and that benefits you. Then you respond in kind. Friends surprisingly share their personalities with you, enriching you no matter how down you feel at first. 

[Blogspot is messing up the format here, of the text, so I cannot get it the right consistent size. I am not "shouting." They ought to apologize to us.] 

People are instinctively drawing together. Using your energies for your own well-being has to be done in subconscious alliance with others. You have had a great love in your past. She or he is in your consciousness, as someone whom you missed, or who is missing, and yet this does not feel sad or poignant so much as merely a transition phase. You are ready to use your initiative in fresh competition, to show your worth by following up individual ambitions. Some of this is not understood by the person you care about. Yet other friends, some perhaps new, will "get" what you are doing and feel exalted by it. Some of your energies will go into supporting a community spot of entertainment and joyous sharing. 

You are embellishing yourself through rapport with your surroundings and with those to whom you adhere or who adhere to you. Sometimes these are surprising. Esthetics is important, refining your personality to make it pleasing, and then you will be noticed and appreciated. Friendship is indeed one of the great human values. It is ready to burst out through your sympathy for others' experiences. When you are in a place (your home, others' homes, a community center) where people are wanting to relax and have fun, you connect with someone wonderful. There is something serious about this, because all tend to be in a serious mood (not neglecting responsibilities), and yet the connection, short or long, can be heavenly. 

The word "antsy" seems appropriate for the Uranus-Jupiter opposition we are experiencing. It remains strong this fortnight. It is tension to pursue the best, and one never feels that one has pursued it successfully, but is always on the brink of a better way. This is fluidity in search of the novel or the fresh. This can operate through reconciliations among people who are each highly individualistic and yet find the "other" enhancing their individualism. This has to go both ways to be lasting. Providing a service is met by someone providing a service for you. Friends wear veils, and yet at moments of incandescent joy there is laughter and mutual acceptance. All want to be masters of the world, but sense that to do that they need to accept the other's mastery in some realm as part of the deal. It can happen.

{Saturday and Sunday, and Fortnight through February 3}  ^Shared Disappointments Build Solidarity^

Cosmic Piper