Thursday 19 January 2017, and Fortnight of January 19---February 3
~True Grit plus Casual Festivity~
Moon in Libra-->Scorpio
>moon remains in the Via Combusta (through Friday into early Saturday) *** <
/moon goes void-of-course at 0:56a PT | 3:56a ET | 8:56a UT ** / >
until it enters Scorpio at 2:10p PT | 5:10p ET | 10:10p UT *** >
We are in a seemingly self-contradictory period, when the Monthly Directions I have touted as giving us CELEBRATION from January 16-25 are contradicted by the transit of Mars square Saturn, which is one of the hardest aspects in astrology. It is not harshness so much as it is just quiet effort. It has been said that lens-grinders, or those who work with metal-on-metal, are born with charts with this aspect in them. It is grating and demanding, but when one faces one's challenges and keeps up with them it is gratifying. One has achieved something! Even if no one else knows or cares, one knows.
So this "hard grit" aspect is mingling with the beautiful, glorious Celebratory aspects and we can do both---get our work done in a way which makes us proud, and have time left for sheer exhilaration.
The fortnightly chart for the period beginning today and ending on Friday February 3 is also a mixed bag, elucidated as follows:
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.
We shall continue with this fortnightly report tomorrow. The above is the first half of it.
I mentioned yesterday how I guessed Judy Collins's sign (Taurus) through just listening to her singing. Today the same happened, almost, when I listened to Buddy Greco, who passed on last week. I did not recall ever having heard him. His powerful voice said to me, "Earth signs," and I guessed Capricorn or Taurus. When I looked him up I saw he was in fact Leo, but with Mars in Taurus. Taurus is the sign of the voice, to a very large degree (although some singers of course have no planets in that sign). Mars there, in his case, gave him a booming, attention-getting vocal virility.
Then I listened to a recent album by Conor Oberst. You might remember him as the Bright Eyes singer, which was in his salad days as a teenager, and to me unforgettable. The Ruminations album of 2016 is new to me, and I just heard one song from it which is reminiscent of his earlier singing (though he is now 36). What is remarkable to me is the quavering or quivering voice. It is very touching, often (he has Venus in Pisces); it sounds almost weak or vulnerable, demanding a sympathetic response. I am glad he has not lost it. Do you know the symbol for Aquarius, the two wavy lines? His voice sounds just like that---it quavers or quivers---and he was born with both the sun and the moon in Aquarius (February 15, 1980).
A key to enjoying this period, including the controversial inauguration day of Friday, is getting one's work done (Mars square Saturn) first and then enjoying the Celebratory aspects which are blessing us through the weekend and into next week.
{Thursday} ~True Grit plus Casual Festivity~
Cosmic Piper
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