Message for Wednesday 8 March 2017

Wednesday 8 March 2017

^Curing Conflict by Perspective and Reliability^

Moon in Cancer--Leo   ***

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:00a PT | 10:00a ET | 3:00p UT   ** /

until it enters Leo at 8:47a PT | 11:47a ET | 4:47p UT   ***

There were mixed signals in yesterday's (Tuesday's) chart, which I tried to explain. The T square formed by the moon was "heavy" for me--I had a difficult and challenging day but by prayer, spiritual study and divine help things worked out. I wondered for a while if I would even be able to write this forecast, because of technical problems. Informed prayer can solve even those, it appears. And I am grateful.

Wednesday looks a little less difficult (although I am leery of making promises). By late afternoon and evening Luna will be broadly trine Venus, which is comforting and socially pleasing.

Poverty, with "a hard life," is a fact for many, although most of you readers will be free of it in its most difficult forms. You may sense it in someone else, sympathetically. Loss of income, or loss in one's professional life, may threaten, yet be defused. 

Some have their hardest trials in youth, and are relatively healthy and comforted in maturity. Yet for all, carelessness and lack of caution can lead to loss. So it is well to remember the lessons most learn during their youthful striving years.

Interpreting the symbols for the degrees--which have proved their accuracy over the years--I sometimes have to lighten them, for their worst forms appear only in the lives of those whose karma is heavy. "Two daggers crossed," representing "wounding," is a harsh one, which I take as suggesting that differing opinions or other disagreements require (a) a legalistic sense of how to cope with such differences successfully plus (b) an attempt to see the other's viewpoint and so defuse (or de-dagger) the situation. A solicitude for others' well-being goes far to remove causes of conflict. Then one may feel that one is something like "a child giving birds a drink at a fountain."

One could move from obscurity toward prominence, although some, having attained prominence, prefer to retreat to obscurity. That could be specially true if they see the spiritual ideals for which they have suffered working out as realities within the growth of humanity. Then, their work done, they desire to be out of the limelight. They know that the world is reliable and sustaining to those younger souls who accept the cosmic ordering as it organizes their lives and those of their neighbors if they just do what makes sense and comes naturally.

{Wednesday}  ^Curing Conflict by Perspective and Reliability^

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  176. When I look back on my past life, I see that if I had not failed & suffered, I would have lost my life's supreme blessings; yet at the time of the suffering & failure, I was vexed with the sense of calamity. Because we cannot see anything but the one fact under our noses, therefore we indulge in all these snifflings and clamours. Be silent, ye foolish hearts! slay the ego, learn go see & feel vastly & universally.

177. The prefect cosmic vision & cosmic sentiment is the cure of all error & suffering; but most men succeed only in enlarging the range of their ego.

179. Live for God in thy neighbour, God in thyself, God in thy country & the country of they foeman, God in humanity, God in tree & stone & animal, God in the world & outside the world, then art thou on the straight path to liberation.

--Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms