Message for Wednesday 4 January 2017

Wednesday 4 January 2017

^Eagerness Tempered by Tolerance^

Moon in Pisces-->Aries 

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues   ** |

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:15a PT | 11:15a ET | 4:15p UT   * / |

until it enters Aries at 8:21a PT | 11:21a ET | 4:21p UT six minutes later!  ** |

|Difficult third| ends at 8:23p PT | 11:23p ET | 4:23a(Th) UT   ***

I am "playing it by ear" during this Mercury Retrograde period, which seems to be more difficult in recent days. (It ends on Sunday the 8th, though the Dark Hermetic Epoch continues until the 27th.) I hope to do a two-week, or Fortnightly, forecast for the fortnight beginning Thursday this week. I have done an enormous amount of research on weekly, fortnightly, and monthly charts and methods. The idea is that there are "quantum leaps" from one period into another, and if one can identify those points---first of calendar month? midpoint of week? or whatnot---one can have a handle on events which occur within that framework. 

I am now leaning again to the fortnightly method, namely, the two-week periods from one Quarter Moon to the next. That is, (a) the two-week period with the New Moon at its center, during which the moon is crescent-shaped, and (b) the two-week period with the Full Moon at its center, during which the moon is fat (gibbous). I have found that these indeed work dramatically well, by reviewing a lot of past events, including 9/11/2001 which I always re-study with any method, other world events, and personal events in my own and friends' and clients' lives. (I am not taking clients at present, however.) 

REsearch is one thing we can do well while Mercury is REtrograde, and I have had a "feast of research" in the past two weeks, one night staying up until morning to complete a fascinating, riveting study of a relatively fresh method combined with the method I just mentioned. I had the feeling "This is amazing! It really is true!" and I bowed to the Supreme One who has allowed me to see such things. I am immensely grateful. 

Astrology works in so many ways that there is no wonder so many different, competing or apparently contradictory systems have been devised or discovered by different astrologers around the world. I have to use what I have found to work accurately over a long time period, and that is what I hope to do this week so as to write a forecast-message for the fortnight beginning this Thursday.

Wednesday: Things should be less boring and wearisome than they were on Tuesday. I note that the opposition of Uranus and Jupiter can be "frazzled nerves." Uranus is a high-strung planet. It wants everything now, if not yesterday. Jupiter has en enormous appetite--for food, experiences, gain, prosperity. So we are likely to be straining ahead, beyond our powers, impatient with ourselves and others. Mercury Retrograde makes this even harder because we see that we have to accommodate ourselves to the past, to regulations, necessities which slow us down and have to be repeated when that seems boring. We want something utterly new and exciting (Jupiter-Uranus) but Mercury says "You have to do all this other stuff first." Blah!

So one thing to do is to calm your nerves and convince yourself that getting those necessary things done is a happy part of the adventure because it prepares the way for the more thrilling scenario ahead. 

There could be easy-going connections with people through work you do in common, and through play. This is a positive Neptune contribution, letting people be what they are and letting ourselves be what we are and enjoying what all that means or suggests without fretting about puzzling interpersonal differences. Tolerance is one word for that, but it is tolerance plus appreciation, humor, and admiration. 

{Wednesday} ^Eagerness Tempered by Tolerance^

Cosmic Piper