Message for Friday 23 February 2024 ^Survival through a Sea Change^

 Message for Friday 23 February 2024

^Survival through a Sea Change^

We changed course with the forecast-meditations this week, beginning with the start of a new soli-lunar Fortnight on Friday the 16th, ending March 2. I've been describing some of its features as best I can make out, and shall post a rewrite of all that in the weekend report Friday afternoon. 

The Pisces month has us, I believe, swimming in a sea change, giving us an opportunity to reconnoiter without anxiety, trusting that things will turn out okay even if we relax more than usual. Dangerous advice? I hope not. Paradoxically, it seems that not pushing oneself results in a natural desire to do more than one would if one were whipping oneself. Some have called this 'effortless effort.' 

'An aviator in the clouds' has 'transcendental powers of comprehension' and a 'gift for creating the endless hypotheses he needs for solving problems.' AI at its best? I prefer NI, Natural Intelligence as displayed by the sages and astrologers (Wise Men or Magi in the Bible) of the ages. 'He is able to take a perspective superior to any involvement or pattern of limitation.' There could be 'special competence in whole judgment and long-range planning.' 

The |Karmically sobering, challenging third| of this week occupies almost all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday because the moon, which determines it with Saturn, is moving more slowly than usual. We need to watch out for 'a popularity which proves ephemeral' when the pendulum swing of popular feeling goes against us for a while. The moments of endorsement are real but we cannot cling to them.

What is not ephemeral? 'A petrified forest.' This is 'an eternal stout-heartedness, and its very practical dividends in spiritual continuance.' At its peak this can make for physical longevity as well. The keyword is Survival.

We may attend, effortlessly, more than usual to duties than we would anticipate on a weekend, as if 'officers on dress parade' -- keyword, Discipline. Or, 'A woman sprinkling flowers,' demonstrating stewardship and (the keyword) Care. Yet the moon being void-of-course most of the day Friday means we may do these things in 'out-of-pattern' ways rather than as sticklers to past methods.

There can be the Relaxation of 'a retired sea captain' -- 'a completeness of self-consummation through a gift for bringing all prior factors of realization to focus in the present moment.'

And there are occasions for Diversion and pleasure when we climb onto life's 'Merry-go-round,' 'receptive to every turn of opportunity.' 

{Friday} ^Survival through a Sea Change^

Cosmic Piper

Moon is void-of-course in Leo

until it enters Virgo at 5:39p PT | 8:39p ET | 1:39a(Sa) UT

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week is with us until very early Monday