Message for Weekend and Fortnight of January 5-19 2017

Saturday 7 January 2017

Moon in Taurus   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:24p PT | 9:24p ET | 2:24a(Su) UT   ** /

Sunday 8 January 2016

Moon in Taurus-Gemini

/moon void-of-course   ** /

until it enters Gemini at 2:07p PT | 5:07p ET | 10:07p UT   ***

Report for the Fortnight of Thursday 5 January to Thursday 19 January 2017

This (beginning technically at 11:48a PT | 2:48p ET | 7:48p UT but probably before that in experience) is the bright half of the lunar month while the moon is gibbous or fat, increasing for a week until the Full (11th-12th) and then decreasing for a week until the next dark or crescent fortnight begins on the 19th (mid-day). 

One's natural drive toward success meets with impediments, slowness, backwardness, and yet one is getting at certain unique factors in oneself which can contribute to success ultimately. One feels imprisoned while working, yet the work can lead to ultimate freedom. Opinions vary, and you have to be free to believe in and express your own. Ultimately you can do this without antagonizing everyone. There are childish-acting people around you who can waste your time. Yet they show you what humanity is at present, helping you learn to be a part of it in your own way. 

Good judgment may seem hard to come by, yet it is with you implicitly. You have enough integrity to refrain from jumping ahead too quickly into things which require more time and patience. We are orienting ourselves to both the past and the future during this fortnight, all of it within the Dark Hermetic Epoch of Mercury's relatively slow motion. So we will see that it takes time to develop perfect judgment of practical factors. We learn through experience, or trial and error, and must not be dismayed by the error because it is our teacher. You may share what you learn with friends without any arrogance. Some of what you are learning has career and business implications which are remarkable and shrewd though not fully realized yet. Earning a living may seem tedious and disadvantageous and yet when you keep at it you are strengthened throughout your being.

Your consistent personality is linked with people against whom you have to knock in order to find yourself and find more interesting ways of interacting with them. You may get ahead of yourself, eating too much, seeking too much escape or sheer pleasure, and avoiding work in a way which makes superiors reel. But reconciliations are possible. You may sense, when people disagree or collide, that there is an equivalence at work---that both are wrong and both are right in some way. So you develop personality by bouncing with the clash, to the point of being above it in order to use it successfully while expanding personal charisma as you meet differences.

The "trial and error" of life which is a necessity for us to remain alive could be mostly error for a while, in appearance. Mars and Jupiter are stirring each other up, which can be excitation of enthusiasms spinning in directions which do not add up to profit in any definite value-scheme. However, the experience is an experience, and it makes us interested in others' struggles also. Budgeting could seem chaotic. Entertainment at home could be thrilling at times, and then in afterview one wonders what was gained. But ultimately there is stabilization in job or career routines, as Mercury regains poise after the 8th. People become more friendly when they feel their basic energies and ambitions are sustainable. Gambles or games might prove stimulating.

Venus conjoined to Neptune could be erotic aberrations, or platonic love in artistic settings. At a higher level it suggests mass action, or being sensitive to the needs of all humanity. One gains tangibly through welfare activities which benefit others. This may be selfless in sentiment, though gainful in reality. It is friendliness shared among beneficent smiling personalities. It brings a broader realization to one's work. One does not feel imprisoned when aiding others to feel less imprisoned. This can be through cheer, humor, and entertainment in a family-community setting.

Uranus opposite Jupiter is antsy, wanting unlimited freedom to be oneself and express whatever has been suppressed. Any partner is likely to be feeling his or her need for freedom, and one has to accommodate that in order to have one's own freedom. In the world of communication and opinions, the latter are sharp and felt as keys to liberty, so not modified easily. Any illness or discomfort is likely to be a result of an intense, nervous need to eliminate boundaries (when some of those may be necessary to well-being). One may feel one has to give oneself a "restraining order" in regard to someone to whom one feels strong attraction. What gets the other person going, stimulated, alive, has to be recognized and accommodated if there is not to be a schism accompanied by fireworks. How does she sing, and what is he singing? It's a different song from yours. If you appreciate that, things get better. 

Many issues will be resolved by focusing on practical order in one's life (a T square focused on the sun and Pluto in Capricorn)---so if that is a constant, a thread running through everything else, things should go well.

{Saturday and Sunday, and Fortnight of January 5-19}

Cosmic Piper