Message for Saturday and Sunday 28-29 January, and Fortnight through February 3

Saturday 28 January 2017

Moon in Aquarius    ** 

Sunday 29 January 2017

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces   **

/moon goes void-of-course at [9:53p(F) PT] | 0:53a ET | 5:53a UT  * /

until it enters Pisces at 8:11a PT | 11:11a ET | 4:11p UT   **

I am deciding that the square between Saturn and Venus is more intense and important than I had assumed.

People seem to be under a cloud: suffering and worrying, perhaps about interpersonal relations, perhaps about money, or both.

I have seen this in several individuals, in myself, and in people's faces on the street. (If you train yourself, you can be aware of mass moods determined by astrological aspects by just walking down a town or city street, or going into grocery stores, coffee shops, bars, or restaurants and observing the moods of people. It is not that hard.) 

So we have to cope with the "nobody loves me" side of Saturn and Venus in a square. Is it an illusion? Yes, ultimately, because Love according to philosophers since Plato, that is, the ones in the idealistic tradition, have said that Love is the foundation of everything, and so does Sri Aurobindo, the most brilliant and perfect of all Hindu teachers. (I say that after 60+ years of solid research.)

But it sure seems as if people reject us, or snub us, or give up on us.

So we are dealing with that. The aspect is exact within a degree on Friday and Saturday; then lessens, theoretically, although it remains in effect for the coming week.

What does this have to do with the "crowing of the Rooster" I celebrated in Friday's forecast?

It just means that our mood in terms of our relations with people is going to be less firm, more questionable, more morose, than our mood in connection with things we can do in the business world, or things we can do in our favorite pet projects. When we are alone we may feel we are "getting it" and ready to go out and conquer the world---because of the Bright Hermetic Epoch which began Friday along with the New Moon. But when we are with others, we may feel that they are somewhat alien to us or not in sympathy with our own hopes. 

It is a phase, and not something to be seriously upset about. People separate, and ignore one another, for various reasons, and sometimes we cannot determine why. That is hard to bear. But we have lived through it before, and we can live through it this time.

You are not a monster because someone seems to reject or ignore you.

On Saturday we have the trine of the moon with Jupiter and its sextiles with Saturn and Uranus to help us. Moods may improve over what they were on Friday.

On Sunday the moon in Pisces give us somewhat of a withdrawal phase, or a willingness to be alone although not unsympathetic to others. Since Luna is both in Pisces and close to Neptune, one's spiritual life is important and can be uplifting, reassuring.

Here is the forecast-meditation for the current Fortnight (of the dark or crescent moon) from January 19 to February 4:

[All of the changes in typeface, from bold to all caps, etc., have been forced upon my somehow by Gmail and Blogspot and I cannot change them. A very strange glitch.]

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.

I do not know why we have all-caps and a strange typeface for the following, but I cannot change it. It is some kind of glitch with Gmail and Blogspot. No matter what I do I cannot fix it. 

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.

{Weekend of January 28-29, and Fortnight concluding February 3, 2017}

Cosmic Piper