Message for Tuesday 17 July 2018

Tuesday 17 July 2018

}Making It Smooth{

Moon in Virgo-->Libra

|Karmically difficult or challenging third| of this week is with us until very late Wednesday 

/moon goes void-of-course at 3:51a PT | 6:51a ET | 10:51a UT

until it enters Libra at 12:43p PT | 3:43p ET | 7:43p UT

The early hours indicated above may be specially difficult because (a) the moon is void-of-course, (b) we are in the |difficult third| of this week, and (c) we remain in the Dark Hermetic Epoch until September 2. During such a "triple witching" period the World Trade Center was demolished. 

If no such horror happens, then we may just feel that we are floundering for a while and need to restore our faith that things will get better. Precipitate actions or decisions should be avoided, such as quitting a job, lashing out at some injustice in a way to make it worse, or (at worst) suicide.

There may seem "extra burdens" at times like this. People may seem to expect more of you. You expect more of yourself. So it is good to decide quickly which tasks are essential, which not, and which can be trimmed down to size so you don't have to spend so long on them. "The beginning is half the matter."

A group of associates, some of them women, are having a pleasant time together (despite all the indications mentioned above). Venus quincunx Mars makes people interesting to one another at a subtle level.

One experiments with the future, or with what it might mean, by using insights derived from the past. Ancestors may be specially significant.

You may be entitled to something you weren't aware of. (I don't mean you should follow up one of those scams on the Internet.) Travel and youth are alive in your mind and you might think back to a vacation you enjoyed as a child or younger person and get some help from that. The past amplifies the future.

The uncertainties of life may seem exaggerated. Think of successes you have had, and know that you can repeat them in some different yet similar manner if you are patient until an opportunity becomes firm. Hope is better than impatient hurry.

Someone comradely and frank may be a good influence on your occupation or career. You can share things with each other you share with few others. 

There could be stagnation and decay if you spend too much time in indolent indulgences. But the essentials of life become clear to you, despite differing opinions and attitudes, if you are calm and intuitive. Then it is easy to discriminate the better from the worse and find the smoothest path.

{Tuesday}  {Making It Smooth}

Cosmic Piper

From the Sermon on the Mount:

How blest are those who know their need of God;

     the kingdom of Heaven is theirs. 

How blest are those who show mercy;

     mercy shall be shown to them.

How blest are those whose hearts are pure;

     they shall see God.

--Matthew 5  (The New English Bible, Oxford and Cambridge, 1970)