Cosmic Connexion

2007-04-16T19:42:00.000-05:00

Tuesday 17 April 2007

\Acquiring What's Needed/

The tragic shootings yesterday at Virginia Tech cannot be said to have a single astrological correlation. There are always such correlations in the horoscopes of the individuals involved directly. In my report for yesterday I mentioned "a coldness of propriety in [a] person who thinks everyone gets his or her just desserts." This could be the coldness of the killer, for example, who probably felt he was giving strangers what they deserved, for obscure reasons in his psyche. I said "A friend concerned about his or her job or health may seem to be running against the wind. It is better for him or her to be congenial, relax and trust people, opening up to the breadth of the human experience." Yes, it certainly would have been better. I said "Those who become successful at something demanding, such as sports or a profession, have overcome primordial urges toward the decadent, vengeful or lustful in order to practice their skills consistently." When I wrote the sentence I originally had said "decadent or lustful" but then paused and added "vengeful." If only this individual had overcome his urge toward the vengeful . . . I am not claiming that this was a prediction of what happened, but someone reading the report might have been better prepared to prevent it from happening . . . especially the killer himself or someone close to him. At any rate I am trying to give clues which are prophylactic, as well as promotive of the better.

Venus square Mars can be violent. I have mentioned here that it lasts (by ten degrees) through May 20, but it is nearing exactness (three degrees at present). This can be edginess and anger. I hope you are prepared for that and able to calm it in yourself and others. Marc Edmund Jones said that those who have this aspect in their natal charts have a 'hair-trigger disposition.' While it is going on for everyone, as now, that disposition can become general. Let us be careful and calm.

The moon and sun were both in Aries, the sign of war (and much else much better) on Monday. This happens exactly 1/144th of the time. It adds to the 'hair-trigger' nature of the day. Further, the part of fortune was in the 12th house (last days of a declining moon), the house of 'hidden enemies,' enemies you did not know were there until they strike. Admittedly I did not emphasize all this enough in the daily report. I am learning, and always hope my learning will not be too late . . .

As for Monday being a 'good' day, it is hard to see that, perhaps - it wasn't good at Virginia Tech - but for most of us it may have been a good day to get a lot of things done quickly under pressure. Not comfortable, but a day one could reckon with, and get things moving.

Today (Tuesday) you may be concerned about both career and home, wondering how to balance their demands on you. Things are labyrinthine, so you can wend your way carefully and adroitly through the tangles. You can be johnny-on-the spot, insouciant, ready to tackle every problem with confidence, dropping one when necessary and jumping on another.

A somewhat cozy, friendly quality is evident in someone, more likely male, who relaxes with you during a meeting and reveals some things you hadn't known about him.

Pride and obstinacy are hard to face in others, but they think they are in you! (Glad I'm not the judge of that.) You can bring things to a more congenial pass by showing that you are solvent and honest. That builds credit for you slowly.

Procuring what you need is more than possible. It could be a good shopping day. You are drawn to the beautiful, perhaps flowers or gardening tools (as examples). You are ready to grasp what is available for positioning your career in better ways.

A sportsman-style energy could push you to practice your skills, whether skateboarding (not near my house), horse-riding, or competitive games. This would help you work off energies of resentment which have built up in you. Preventing angry or lustful urges from dominating you requires patience, and patience requires trust in the ultimate justice of the cosmos, even if that is not evident yet.

If you've had trouble with some issue, you might approach it again though a woman's good graces. It's refreshing to realize that someone on your side is able to be flexible when you need that.

Things seem mysterious when there is no way to know yet where they are going. Yet being peaceful about them will help them gel into a happy shape. You are revived when you trust to the Tao and spirit of things, which is natural and graceful.

Those who are eccentric in some ways have much charm in others. This protects them, allowing them to try things freely others would never think of. So they can fly to heights of observation and insight. You may be among them.

{Tuesday} /Acquiring What's Needed\

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Those marked "good" and "fair" seem best for meetings, interviews, agreements, conferences, and transactions in the business sphere; and for get-togethers, parties, and friendship in the social sphere. People are likely to be in better moods, more amenable to agreements and enjoyments. The 'black and brown' days are better for individual interests and efforts carried on with lonely persistence; the 'blue and green' days for more social, public, or adventurous pursuits and fulfillments.

Monday 16: good

Today, Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

Thursday 19:

___good beginning at 1:58p PT | 4:58p ET | 8:58p UT

Friday 20: fair

Saturday 21:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 8:52a - 10:50a PT | 10:50a - 1:50p ET | 2:50p - 5:50p UT

Sunday 22: fair

Monday 23: difficult, challenging

Tuesday 24: difficult, challenging

Unmarked (brown) days are good for ordinary routines, whatever is predictable and reliable rather than ambitious or chancy. The same applies to 'difficult' days, though more challenging. Every day is good for honest work if it is a real service to G*d and humanity. Every day is good for meditation, prayer, and spiritual study.

The "good" and "fair" days are so mainly in relation to the other days of the week. This is not an attempt at an absolute standard. Longer-lasting aspects, sustaining chords through these diurnal changes, are elucidated in the daily forecasts.

2007-04-15T18:37:00.000-05:00

Monday 16 April 2007

*Stabilization*

There are probably some very reasonable, basic things you can do today to prepare yourself for something you have wanted to accomplish for a long time.

(Warning: Maybe that sentence is all you need today, and the rest of this report will just confuse you.)

Persistence is recommended,for you could slip away from the best course through neglecting necessary activities. If you feel that happening, you might take a break and get out in nature, do some gardening or the like, and you will recover your poise and motivation. Trees are important, and need sometimes to be pruned.

Someone with good judgment may be a family member or parent. Yet you feel a coldness of propriety in this person, perhaps, who thinks everyone gets his or her just desserts. You may enjoy pets or find animals in your path.

In your work you are able to see coming things reflected by interpreting them in the light of connections, friendships, your home and possessions. Someone may be an agency for showing you how to work more effectively through technology or savvy comprehension.

The moon's position is favorable for contacting those who promise some benefit to you. This could be someone with expertise in a profession.You are equal with those whose services you employ, co-partners in the game of mutual service G*d fosters.

A friend concerned about his or her job or health may seem to be running against the wind. It is better for him or her to be congenial, relax and trust people, opening up to the breadth of the human experience.

Professionalism is important, promoting concord and helping you cut through obstacles. You procure

what will help you by contacting those who offer it regularly. That is likely to go better than you had expected.

Those who become successful at something demanding, such as sports or a profession, have overcome primordial urges toward the decadent, vengeful or lustful in order to practice their skills consistently.

When you realize your judgment has been off, causing you to stumble, you can recover by cutting out whatever has been the source of the problem. Then you settle into a prosperous situation, neither envied nor envying.

{Monday} *Stabilization*

Cosmic Piper

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Today, Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

Thursday 19:

___good beginning at 1:58p PT | 4:58p ET | 8:58p UT

Friday 20: fair

Saturday 21:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 8:52a - 10:50a PT | 10:50a - 1:50p ET | 2:50p - 5:50p UT

Sunday 22: fair

Monday 23: difficult, challenging

2007-04-13T17:56:00.000-05:00

Saturday 14 April 2007

~Attaining Peaceful Dignity~

A new book about Albert Einstein, by Walter Isaacson, points out that he was very slow in learning to speak. He was called by some 'the dopey one' because he could only utter a few words as a child. Such slow mental development could be expected to accompany an aspect in his birth chart (March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wurttemberg), Mercury conjunct Saturn: Mercury planet of the mind conjunct Saturn planet of slowness, delays, and thoroughness. This last quality is what saved him. Einstein explained it himself: "The ordinary adult never bothers his head about the problems of space and time. These are things he has thought of as a child. But I developed so slowly that I began to wonder about space and time only when I was already grown up. Consequently, I probed more deeply into the problem than an ordinary child would have." [Time magazine, April 16, p. 44] "Depth" is a Saturn advantage. Thank you, Dr. Einstein, for explaining to us, unknowingly, the drawbacks and benefits of Mercury conjunct Saturn in a natal chart.

It is a crying shame that astrology, this treasure of insight and comparative understanding, is being ignored by psychologists, biographers, literary critics and all who try to understand the varieties of human beings and their intricacies. Astrology is a 'pearl of great price' buried in a field which the world passes by and scorns. Perhaps Einstein's childhood would have been happier, and his parents would not have worried and consulted a doctor (as they did), had they known about this aspect in their son's horoscope. Now it is too late, as it is for countless millions who would have happier lives if they understood their horoscopes. The scientistic, materialistic world-view which despises astrology without investigating it has won. Only the very few, such as you reading this, are mature enough to suspend judgment until they recognize the pearl buried in the field.

Today, Saturday, you may think of one at a distance who has a goodly disposition toward you, one in the higher ranks of an organization. Perhaps financial details or obligations involving travel, relatives or neighbors weigh on your conscience. Differing approaches can be reconciled without much fuss.

Your sensibilities concerning business or finance are tweaked a bit, but you can find a dual approach which satisfies both parties in any deal. Things are foreshadowed concerning your home, neighbors, house-mates, and easy compromises which keep all that cheery.

Items which seem magical to you have an international flavoring. What you trust is what you have trusted before, so as to avoid conflicting loyalties. You adhere to ritualistic procedures which have kept you centered.

While Mars and Venus remain in a square (another month), you may be aware of complications entangling you in peculiar connections with people who don't see eye to eye, but when you take a higher spiritual attitude (altitude) you become optimistic enough to juggle all parties harmoniously.

Some who are indigent, that is, out of pocket and maybe homeless, may interact with you in such a way that you can be a 'good Samaritan.' This requires sacrifice, but the relief on the face of the one you help is your reward.

Suspicions about travelers, or those you meet while out and around, need not set you against them, though you take a detective style of interest in what they are about. You have recourse to powers of analysis based on your experience.

Intellectual labor is possible. This pulls together various scholarly enterprises. Mental camaraderie can be without physical contact. You don't want to rest until you have understood some important matters.

You are able to control yourself rigidly in order to get to where you see you could be. Dominion over the senses and the urging of desires is not easy to attain, but you feel strong and at peace when you do.

It is good to be dignified when associating with those who see things other than you do. Laughter is good only when kindly, not scornful. Learning occurs on many levels at once, through scholarship, direct observation and inward musing.

{Saturday} ~Attaining Peaceful Dignity~

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Today, Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

Thursday 19:

___good beginning at 1:58p PT | 4:58p ET | 8:58p UT

Friday 20: fair

Saturday 21:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 8:52a - 10:50a PT | 10:50a - 1:50p ET | 2:50p - 5:50p UT

2007-04-12T13:17:00.000-05:00

Friday 13 April 2007

~Opulence as Springing-Board~

Varied human types interact, or refuse to do so, but can't help noticing one another. The military type, 'right' and disciplined, may enjoy the bohemian busker as entertainment, for example. To see that both are important components of our world is an inward achievement.

There is efficacy in your direct approach to overcome competition, not through squelching it but through doing better than it does in the area which currently means the most.

You may think about or be in touch with someone who seems wrecked, or needs salvaging from a state of dilapidation. This can be done with a certain craftsmanship you dredge up from within yourself when you care about this individual, and put two and two together.

A lot is available. How do you use it? It's fun, isn't it? The cosmos is munificent. Wealth is for sharing, in one way or another.

When you feel content, why exert yourself? You find different motivations. If you have all you need materially, the resulting satisfaction can be a springboard for ventures you could not have dared without the guarantee that you have a secure position to which to return.

Playful and naive qualities are charming, yet have their limits. You may feel you need to get back from idling to something at home which requires your attention. Anchorage is important. It centers your agenda, though it doesn't hold you in one narrow position forever.

You can enjoy luxuries in a public place, as well as at home. A communal spirit is pleasing when everybody has a chance to relish common opulence, each in his or her own way.

Is there a large organization which could help you, reinforce your position, or be a networking facility for you? This could be the time to prospect its value. It is given to a few to found important, lasting, influential, anchoring groups or structures; the rest of us need to work and play within or around them.

A love of the marvelous is an inducement to get out and appreciate it up close, in whatever version appeals to you. Life is full of imaginative individuals who expand horizons for the rest of us. You may do that for someone, as he or she does for you.

{Friday} ~Opulence as Springing-Board~

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Thursday 12

Today, Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

Thursday 19:

___good beginning at 1:58p PT | 4:58p ET | 8:58p UT

Friday 20: fair

2007-04-11T14:23:00.000-05:00

Thursday 12 April 2007

}Trusting in the Trustworthy{

It's a good time to trust in the protection of Someone or Something greater than yourself. You may be a beneficiary of philanthropy, and a giver of it also.

What you contribute to the world is at least subconsciously evident to people, though they may be reticent about it. You can give yourself credit for the slow processes and tedious tasks you put yourself through for the world's sake. People appreciate your merit more than they would realize unless it disappeared.

You are curious about those in high positions, especially if their friendship or good will could mean something to you. You enfold what you need when you need it, including information as well as human associations.

Gloom is temporary, a product of uncertainty most likely, while the moon opposes Saturn, with a feeling of the futility of even trying. You reestablish yourself in your true destiny when you rev up your confidence in others and yourself. Saturn seems to make us doubt so we can get to something more basic than the doubtful.

There is a warning against trusting too heedlessly someone who has seemed to you to be a scourge or pest. You are the steward of your own time and powers. Although I believe in universal love, sometimes one has to insulate oneself from someone, without hate or malice, in order to protect oneself and others.

Women may find themselves feeling victimized while Venus and Mars are in a square; males may feel women are to blame, whether justly or not. It is good to filter out hurtful influences, although learning from others' reactions and feelings. Even if you are a victim, you might learn something from considering how the situation arose.

People need good times together. On a day like this, it could be little more than a few words or glances exchanged amicably. It could be more, though people are likely to be preoccupied with their concerns, including career scrambles and acquisitions. Still, entertainment and happy sharing in mutual accord could be a wonderful tonic, even if it doesn't last long.

You might let yourself, through weakness, hang out too long with people who, while okay, are not at present helping you on an upward course. To reach high and low is fine, but when reaching low you need to be strong and wary, so you don't get pulled into an adverse current.

Yet through all this there is security, for you are protected if aware of Protection from the spiritual realm. Then there can be spontaneous kindness, with fruitage of good thoughts and higher-order trustfulness.

{Thursday} {Trusting in the Trustworthy}

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Wednesday 11: fair

Today, Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

Thursday 19:

___good beginning at 1:58p PT | 4:58p ET | 8:58p UT

2007-04-11T00:49:00.000-05:00

Wednesday 11 April 2007

}Graciousness{

There is much sharing and richness. Benefits come through being who you are, trusting, and not protesting too much against natural limitations.

What is the source of despair? Perhaps you need to be more patient. Trusting in the cosmos, which can only be understood through cabalistic or Pythagorean patterning, is the work of many lifetimes. Many assume they know more than they could possibly know until they have been prepared for the knowledge through much experience and teaching from those further ahead.

It's wonderful to see how people find the best in one another when a natural accord springs up. Cultural riches shared multiply friendship toward multi-dimensional happiness.

International relations may be a gate toward fulfillment. People are longing for peace and harmony; war is looking stupider and stupider. The grand trine of the sun, Saturn and Jupiter in fire signs points to a profusion of mutual appreciation and admiration.

Whatever you desire for entertainment is likely to bring you close to public approval, putting you in a spotlight. You are blessed when you accept simple good fortune, basking in fond attention from those who care about you, even if temporarily.

You move toward more than one opportunity, perhaps too many so that you seem unstable or uncertain. What will be real sustenance for you? If you keep your bearings, you will find it, and let go of temporary filigree when it has served its purpose.

You may be aloof from those who seem not to get in the sunshine you occupy. Is it their fault? Maybe not; they probably have to find their own patch of sunshine somewhere else.

At times we all have a mission to help someone get out of trouble, lift someone over a hard place, or insure his or her peace of mind. This requires charity and compassion. It can be done today without a lot of fuss.

You harvest what you have earned, and enjoy it in a public or semi-public situation. Luxuries are estimable when they are a natural result of gracious living. They foster further grace that leads to further achievement and fulfillment.

{Wednesday} {Graciousness}

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Tuesday 10: good

Today, Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

Wednesday 18

2007-04-10T10:34:00.000-05:00

Wednesday's Report to be Posted Later

I am attending the World Affairs Conference at the University of Colorado and will be later posting Wednesday's forecast, probably not until midnight Eastern Time.

Sir Real

2007-04-09T16:31:00.000-05:00

Tuesday 10 April 2007

\Self-Worth Enhanced by Grace/

A lot of things could happen in a hurry, testing your steadfastness and organizing powers. When things converge dramatically you need to make quick choices, juggling eventualities, perhaps appearing to step on some toes.

You exert yourself with a great deal of energy to save situations in dire need of a fix. You need to handle someone prideful who seems to deserve a punch in the face. Less drastic measures will probably work better. Differing viewpoints struggle for supremacy.

If it's possible to share work, or professional expertise, this could help settle something. Your capabilities are unquestioned; now is the time to use them in an apt manner. Someone with a sympathetic or pleasant disposition may cooperate.

I long for the days when people took psychic powers seriously! We are in the most skeptical phase of my lifetime, with the popular media scorning and trashing all spiritual things. They do not know what they are deliberately losing! With Mercury in the last degree of Pisces and the sun sextile Neptune, some may be able to tune in to the higher worlds and receive higher truths, despite the currents of malice and scorn around them. Those who do not lean toward the higher drift toward the lower, and most will not realize what has happened until they are reborn in worse situations than they have enjoyed in this lifetime. Suffering is educative, not punitive.

It is not impossible to receive messages from those 'on the other side' of what we call death. It is death of only one vehicle, the physical, while the vital, astral and mental endure. It is not necessary to contact a medium or do something spooky to be in telepathic communion with those who are intact in their invisible vehicles of consciousness. If you need them, they will probably be there for you.

While it is not good to tempt fate, it is good to trust that when you are acting in accord with your real destiny (as mapped by yourself before this life) you will be protected, even if skirting dangers when necessary. Subconscious foresight prevents disaster.

Let's try to look for and comprehend the security being given us while Jupiter is trine Saturn, in high focus and enthroned in its own sign. This is a designation of divine grace. Are we accepting it? Whether Christian, Hindu, or other, religious seekers do not expect to receive divine help unless they open themselves to channels of grace. This is something you can do if you feel your life is not moving happily toward fulfillment. It could be.

When doing what you believe in, you garner respect, and even affection. You want to be good for goodness' sake, because it is the happiest thing to do; and then human pleasures multiply, brought by humanity to your doorstep as tribute.

Those who overstep their proper powers, becoming tyrannical, are easily curtailed; perhaps what they do will soon appear ludicrous and humorous, even to themselves. A certain lush form of sado-masochism does not revel in real hurt (as in the pop lyrics: "Pain, can't get enough; pain, I like it rough") but in play-acting, a bit of dominance or submission on one side or the other. However this might apply to you or those around you, the evening gets more pleasing while the moon trines Venus in earth signs.

{Tuesday} /Self-Worth Enhanced by Grace\

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Monday 9: good

Today, Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

___except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

Tuesday 17: good until

___2:11p PT | 5:11p ET | 9:11p UT

2007-04-08T18:45:00.000-05:00

Monday 9 April 2007

\Felicitous Exploration/

What you are aiming for might appear silly to some. Maybe it's beyond your powers, but attempting it is good for you anyway. Someone important is likely to come into your life, and you share implausible hopes with each other. On Mondays, things are often slow or depressing before 10 or 11 a.m. local time.

The long survival of a relationship or friendship is fraught with meaning.

You may feel you have lost something mysteriously, through forgetting perhaps. If you take a loss manfully it will not be so bad. Renewal comes through near-miracles.

It's possible that you can enjoy eating or drinking, and convivial companionship, without worry. There are times when sharing pleasures and good fortune is more important than investing more and more energy into future gains. Your preferences deserve satisfaction.

You also want to accomplish some remarkable work or mission which is likely to bring you recognition. The sun is exalted in the sign Aries, and trine Jupiter enthroned in Sagittarius exactly. Something you have been thinking about, planning, and working on is nearing fulfillment. True, there will be further fulfillments later, but your job or professional skills are at a peak in some important way. It is good to employ them wholeheartedly. You will do this in a hospitable manner, because you brim with good will.

Someone important to you may be in extreme need of help. It is wise to think of him or her kindly and do whatever you can to remedy the situation, through a call or message at least. This could be more than one individual, those with whom your destiny is linked.

You are feeling inquisitive and adventurous about some important matters. Your life is enlarged through exploration. This will improve your position and status. Being one whom people look up to requires being johnny-on-the-spot.

Friendship is blessed, and those who have been long together persuade each other to see things in fresh ways which expand rather than contract the future. The emotions experienced together are different but can be understood by both to the degree required for reciprocity.

You see good things coming your way. Life is felicitous. It is good to believe that all is working out beautifully and that good fortune will last, rather than to churn out problems through worry.

There is a blend of serious planning-and-doing with a kind of savoir faire which trusts to luck and wants to experiment in ways which might seem naive. You can do both, and may the day be a happy one for you.

{Monday} /Felicitous Exploration\

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

Sunday 15: good,

except for the brief period 8:02a - 9:46a PT | 11:02a - 12:46p ET | 3:02p - 4:46p UT

Monday 16: good

2007-04-06T11:40:00.000-05:00

Saturday 7 April 2007

*Self-Judgment*

Being cautious but not timid will help you re-assess things. You sense changes in the air. When you want to assert your power or authority, it is hard to realize you need to pull back and do further research and self-training.

Those who ponder death, and what it all means, arrive at loftier understanding enabling them to live with greater depth. It's a paradox that facing death honestly and learning what may be beyond it actually pushes it farther into the future, at least for those who have faith.

Mars in Pisces can be the man or woman who has 'had enough' of the material world's business and wants to coast. That is fine if the coasting is toward spiritual realization, esthetic manifestation, or other treasures of the spirit. Carelessness about 'little things' in the physical world, even including finances and the like, need not accompany this higher quest, this surrender to the Spirit, but may at times.

When you ruminate freely on what is possible, and on what you have actually done in this life, you feel a passion to re-begin from a better basis. If a companion can share some of this 'passion for the better' with you, fine, but that is not essential.

Aries is considered to be the martial sign, though in this era it is becoming also an intellectual sign or a sign of oversight, overall planning from a mountain peak (mountain ram). The ordeals men suffer in battle are actually ordeals of their nation, race, or community, while the ordeals the men on the other side suffer are the same though different. It is really surprising that this realization has not yet hit home so that war is considered as stupid as suicide or homicide. (I am leaving out the very rare cases in which it is for true self-defense.) It is left to many to realize this after death. (Of course I am not talking about Hell but about the after-death state of self-examination before rebirth, which according to some could come decades or centuries later.)

There is a real desire for amity. In order to get to it, issues have to be faced, at least within yourself; you cannot force issues for someone else, though you may be part of the process which forces them whether you want to or not. It is to be hoped that the moon's good aspects will promote some happy interchange or brotherly-sisterly comradeship, even though its square with Uranus accents individuality.

Mercury's sextile with Venus suggests enjoying both mental and esthetic pleasure or recreation. This could be conversation in a refreshing public area, for example. What you are trying to understand is a source of beauty when you come closer.

You are holding yourself to account, and perhaps others indirectly, though that is not technically allowed; only the Supreme One can judge others, but He wants us to judge ourselves. You learn from their errors as well as your own, let us say.

You are ready to be aware of primary needs within you without forcing them upon whoever is in the vicinity. When you are right with your conscience, you see whatever is false fall away. You don't have to push it away violently. What is wrong destroys itself, and you are free.

{Saturday} *Self-Judgment*

Cosmic Piper

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Today, Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

Saturday 14: fair

2007-04-05T11:21:00.000-05:00

Friday 6 April 2007

*Friendly Potentials Suavely Mediated*

Iran seized 15 British sailors on March 23, a 'difficult, challenging' day in these daily ratings, as can be seen by visiting that day's forecast. On Wednesday, April 4, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad announced that they were to be released after their 12-day detention. That day was a 'good' day in these ratings.

Commercial interests need to be considered. You are aware of how to make your work for income more efficient. You need not give to the point of depleting your energies and resources. Although you can trust laws of karma to re-supply you with what you give, this is not necessarily true if the gift is ill-advised or thrown away toward those who neither appreciate it nor use it wisely.

Those who are alone, newly deprived of a mate, or not wanting a mate, may realize that withholding their emotions and responses to life in one way enhances their ability to contribute to life in other ways. Hallowed friendship is sometimes as good as marriage for ennobling life, without marriage's tangles.

The temperaments of some may be ruthless. Uncomprehending impatience was what crucified the Master Jesus. If we face some of that, we might remember Him and His ordeal commemorated on this day. What we face is nothing compared to that.

There may be an advantage in some kind of paper-work, legal or bureaucratic.

You can overcome any recent or chronic setbacks to your career, if not today then soon, with today as part of the process. Ideas of how to sail along toward business or career success are coming to you thick and fast.

Mysterious forces enable you to see what is beyond the power of the present to manifest. You are ahead of the rest of the world in some particulars, your specialties, but cannot compel anyone to catch up with you. So you can treasure your visions in private while they gather strength.

Happy potentials include communion in public, a male and female perhaps spending time together in felicity. There is a blissful union of some interests while others which do not fit well together can be left by the wayside. Couples share what they can, and it is more than would be suspected by a skeptic.

Some such pleasures are earthy and satisfying, with a glint of beneficence shining on them from above. Whatever would appear scandalous to some may be something other than that to an enlightened consciousness, yet it is wise to be circumspect. Venus continues to square Saturn, though that aspect diminishes slowly, so pleasures of the senses have their limits.

Those who feel love-bereaved may recover from that state gently. It is humbling to feel that one's prospects have declined, for then one can be respectful of others who feel down and out. This is a temporary condition or state of mind. Venus's long square with Mars (March 29--May 20) almost coincides with the Bright Hermetic Epoch (March 28--May 30). While it's a good time to forward one's practical plans, one needs to be aware of troubling disagreements, battles between the sexes, or other conflicts which can be turned to advantage if one has the right attitude about them. Some clashes need to be avoided, to conserve one's energies. Others can be mediated. In rare cases a sort of battle-psychology may be necessary, though it is wise to proceed cautiously and seek peace, but not at any price.

{Friday} *Friendly Potentials Suavely Mediated*

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Thursday 5

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

Friday 13: fair until

___good beginning at 2:01p PT | 5:01p ET | 9:01p UT

2007-04-04T14:32:00.000-05:00

Thursday 5 April 2007

~Pleasantly Bitter Sweetness~

A pop song says, "I got myself new shoes, and everything seems better." (No, it's not supposed to be a commercial for shoe companies.) Uranus, planet of the new, is in Pisces sign of the feet. It has been conjoined to Mercury and exactly sextile Venus in Taurus, sign of possessions and beauty, while this song has been climbing the charts.

The hurricane season, we are told by an expert, is from June 1st through the end of November. It's interesting that this 6-month period includes two air signs and two water signs, only one fire and one earth sign. Of course the hurricanes he is speaking of begin over the water, the Atlantic, and are disturbances in the air. It is not wise to make fun of the ancients, their system of the 'four elements,' and their astrological expertise. I would guess their brains were as fully developed as ours.

Neptune, riding high and emphasized by a square with Venus, suggests we want to restore within ourselves the glamor and mystery of the past, and our continuity with it. I recently re-viewed the inspiring movie by Frank Capra (book by James Hilton) from 1937, Lost Horizon. You may find some such entertainment or preoccupation today.

Today and yesterday (Wednesday) could be good days for a purchase, or shopping, although I would be cautious about overspending on anything doubtful since the moon squares Saturn and opposes Venus. If you stay within intelligent limits you may do well. This could prevent you feeling disassociated from life and people: shopping as therapy. I'm afraid that goes too far in our consumer culture but at times it is sanative.

You have a remarkable presence when in public, or displaying talents. People will bow to your authority along some defined or non-defined line.

Friendship can be invigorating. There is no need to be petulant with anyone; the ice can be broken pretty easily. Or, when you feel it's time to be naturally alone, you can dance with the invisible spirits who respond to human moods if they are at all uplifting or thrilling.

Saturn's position in the fourth sector suggests being linked to the earth through one's home, yard, farm, real estate, or cultivating the soil. At a deeper level is shows that the fragrance of past summers and harvests lingers with you and restores good feelings about people who are absent.

Things you might do of yourself, which are passively beautiful and edifying, need not be linked with career ambitions although they could be made profitable. Why? You enjoy them for themselves and are not inclined to make a business out of them. Divorced from what would pull you down, you wander on your happy path.

I wonder what has 'fallen to you' of late? Are you profiting in an unusual way, or have gifts been bestowed upon you? You can preserve your good fortune consciously. Even if some of it is invested in trinkets or jewelry, they are what you make of them in consciousness, talismans if you please. Thereby you avoid any breakdown of your faith in a mate or companion.

Good will and good-heartedness are wonderful qualities, somehow easier while Venus is in Taurus. They change dismay, anger and jealousy into poignance, which includes respect and love for the one lost. We may hope the loss is temporary, but are not sure; otherwise it would not be poignant.

It is interesting that some who have risen to the top of the corporate or political world feel the loss of their position as a relief, a disburdening. You may note that today in someone, or in yourself. You will pick up and go on, you are not really losing your position, but if you are willing to let go of it in your mind and feelings, you get a sense of relief which allows you then to take it back up with more enthusiasm.

{Thursday} ~Pleasantly Bitter Sweetness~

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Wednesday 4: good

Today, Thursday 5

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

Thursday 12

2007-04-03T15:28:00.000-05:00

Wednesday 4 April 2007

~Treading Softly Toward Satisfaction~

Are we always too impatient? It seems you need to take it slow today. What is most wonderful for you emerges gradually; trying to push it could ruin it. Your mind by running ahead of the game only makes things worse. You need to perceive what emanates from the Invisible within your own comfort zone.

Diligence will prevent exhaustion, because habit is a safeguard when overeagerness would tire you.

This could be a financial good luck day. Individuals in high places seem to invest in you. You are guided to do the right thing to protect and expand your income. You would be disattuned to the timing of your good fortune if you were to jump at it and upset the applecart.

If you feel sorrowful at times, you may not even know why, except that it is hard sometimes to realize what one ought to be doing, and a human being without a mission is often disconsolate. Doing something which helps someone, giving in some way, will restore your sense of reality in living, and prevent or cure illness.

Concern about your home is hard to fathom. Maybe you are a perfectionist, or maybe you are tired of where you are living - you think. Fixing it up, rearranging it, could make you realize you don't really want to move. Doggedness in living is what makes a home homey; the home can't make the livingness.

Tools you need are yours for the taking. Maybe you need some new ones. Getting rid of stuff in the way is a mood-lifter. Doing what you can do opens up clairvoyance in you concerning what could come later.

Executing your plans is the way to go. Those who have seemed enemies will fall to you if you are the one who is sure of what he is doing. After accomplishing the possible manfully, you can leave the rest to germinate in its own time.

People are not always what they seem, and you can disentangle yourself from anyone treacherous, without being rude. Those who always put themselves first could hurt your own agenda even if they bear no deliberate malice. You can take a vacation from people and situations in which you have placed too much trust.

You have utilized your powers to succeed at a number of things, and as a result have money and friends. Now you can enjoy them.

{Wednesday} ~Treading Softly Toward Satisfaction~

Cosmic Piper

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Today, Wednesday 4: good

Thursday 5

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

Wednesday 11: fair

2007-04-02T17:07:00.000-05:00

Tuesday 3 April 2007

}Your Best Guess{

Doing what seems degrading is part of Venus's long square with Saturn (March 25 through April 9). It's a matter of letting yourself find your way without stumbling speed as a fresh astrological year emanates its glories slowly. Some projects have to be cast off to do others.

Failure is hard to face, but all failure should be regarded as preparation for something better. Although this is marked as a 'good' day, things look worse than they are while the moon is in the Via Combusta. People aren't sure what they want, where they're going or why.

Someone who seems to get himself into dangers may make you wonder about his motivation or wisdom. Maybe he likes the adventure, and maybe he has to execute his peculiar destiny by tangling with opponents.

People's sexual proclivities are obscure. Why are you curious? Do you wonder if someone is interested in you as a sexual or romantic object, or observing others' interactions in that arena? There are likely repercussions to any such prurience. If we knew inevitable repercussions ahead of time we would be less adventurous and endangered, more dull and safe.

Your desire to command or rule seems blocked partially by ignorance of key factors. Flying by the seat of your pants, using your best guess, may succeed when too much calculation would fluster you. You command more by subtle persuasion than by issued imperatives.

When people are alone, and isolated, is it their misjudgment which has gotten them into the predicament? Or is it their fate, because they have no better plan? You may have a desire to be somewhere else. If you recognize that as a psychological escape valve you may do better than if you jump into a vehicle of transport.

Jesus called himself the Son of Man more often than Son of God. We can all look to One greater than ourselves, for both judgment and mercy. Judgment alone is too harsh, mercy alone too wimpy. A woman who points out key information or clues may help you confirm your position and direction.

Getting from one place to another could be pointless if the 'other' turns out to be more of the same. Is it worth the bother? Or do you need to find out what is missing in both places?

Are allies really allies, or snakes in the grass? It is good to anticipate trouble they might cause, while still treating them as allies. Sometimes complete answers are unavailable and one has to proceed with the best judgment one has, reflecting later to learn what one can from the results of one's decision.

{Wednesday} {Your Best Guess}

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Today, Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Wednesday 4: good

Thursday 5

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

Tuesday 10: good

2007-04-01T18:32:00.000-05:00

Monday 2 April 2007

}Well-Founded Quest{

Let's hope we can bring a somewhat playful quality to this day. The Full Moon occurs in the afternoon, before entering the Via Combusta at the time given below in the daily ratings. You can meet immediate needs with detached efficiency. All things serve all other things.

You may try to do things too speedily and make a hash of them, impetuous and rash, perhaps getting away with stepping on some toes. Basically you want to express yourself fully.

It's exalting to get what you want. Someone may, out of disappointment with his or her own friendships and relationships, tumble in your direction, putting himself or herself under your power temporarily. That can be thrilling while it lasts.

Something in you wants to adhere to simple ways, reminiscent of your youth perhaps. This could be a repetition of old habit-patterns, some of them good, some not. They involve the quest for friendship and love, not so hard when unsophisticated.

If a lot of things have seemed against you, realize that this is something abnormal, which has seemed almost demonic at times, trying to prevent you from ascending to heights you envision. It is likely to clear away during the next two months. Mars is moving away from his opposition with Saturn, and Venus from her square with it, while Mercury speeds ahead.

You might note logos or symbols which interest you, pointing toward benefits you could seize. You can voyage toward your ideals and hopes.

It might be wise to watch your step after the time given below in the ratings (late afternoon in the Western Hemisphere), for you could slip into ways of dissipation. Well, the life of a libertine may be okay, for ten minutes or an hour, but could waste your potentials if indulged excessively. Those who invite you toward dubious pleasures or escapades could be captivating enemies.

You may be overshadowed by Something greater than your usual self, and this is the angel who can save you from the foregoing enemies. You have a subconscious vision of the altitudes you can attain, and are willing to keep slogging on for your ultimate reward. Some of it may be closer than you realize.

Envy could get to you while Venus squares Saturn. This could be of those who have a certain charm or luck you seem to lack. So you could slip into plotting mischief against them. Even if intended as a practical joke, this would be likely to reflect on yourself and impede your better destiny. You may sense prejudices against yourself or something you're interested in, but Mercury's conjunction with Uranus and square with Jupiter can bring out higher thinking powers, bordering on the Overmental, so that you are beyond the reach of those who misunderstand, secure in intuitive understanding you don't have to put into a verbal formula, although you might express it poetically-spontaneously.

{Monday} {Well-Founded Quest}

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Today, Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Wednesday 4: good

Thursday 5

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

Saturday 7: good

Sunday 8: good,

___except for the period 6:35p - 8:36p PT | 9:35p - 11:36p ET | 1:35a - 3:36a(M) UT: fair

Monday 9: good

2007-03-29T15:01:00.000-05:00

Friday 30 March 2007

\Better Potentials Forming/

You can reach toward what is real and valuable in your career, perhaps more than in the past two months. You can correct a lack of balance in your approach, so that the intellectual and the humane weigh equally.

Some who are mendicants are worthy individuals; others have lost their way into irresponsibility for a while. It is not yours to judge in every case but to be as charitable as you can. A sense of constriction or limitation is a hard thing for a human being to bear.

People can be malicious when they feel threatened, as well as when they feel restricted. This can be passive aggression: dragging one's feet, or active: frenzy or mania. Yet the moon's trine with Venus, increasing in the evening, should soothe everyone.

Exploring the fresh is uplifting while Mercury conjoins Uranus in Pisces. This can be symbolic truth more than literal fact. We re-interpret old symbols and formulas not out of rebellion but a need to do it ourselves, with the help of those in the past who hewed the path.

Some of the insights you receive may seem extravagant to the dull. The fact that everything is connected with everything else, the Golden Truth of Occultism according to Marc Edmund Jones, spins out ever-fresh insights for the one who takes it seriously. E. M. Forster caught the idea with his " . . . only connect . . . ."

Becoming what you want to be, who you desire to manifest, is more possible for the next two months. The sun is just beginning to form a rare grand trine with Saturn and Jupiter. You may note that you are in a position to succeed where others have failed, using their partial successes and failures as cues as to how and how not to proceed. Thereby you proceed toward your particular victory.

It is impossible to judge just what people get and what they don't get from what you say. It is better to proceed with your instruction or proffer pertinacious opinions, hoping that some of it makes an impression. They also will impart to you, unknowingly, secrets which they don't even know.

People who seem odd are in fact odd, perhaps, yet within themselves they are reflecting some facet of the All. Literal poverty and mental poverty do not always go hand in hand.

Venus's squares to Saturn on one side and Mars plus Neptune on the other need not be ominous but can signify delays. You might relax too much concerning something you could do to improve your health, someone else's, or just the health of a friendship or relationship. It is good to be extremely patient with people while they transmute hurts and rejections into spiritual growth, for you are doing that also.

{Friday} /Better Potentials Forming\

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31: difficult, challenging

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Wednesday 4: good

Thursday 5 [downgraded]

Friday 6:

___fair after 9:56a PT | 12:56p ET | 4:56p UT

2007-03-28T15:31:00.000-05:00

Thursday 29 March 2007

*Enlightened Balance Promotes Honor*

Something to keep your balance is important while you explore mysteries. You could feel you are deficient in certain qualities you admire in someone else. You can assimilate them by being in that person's presence or meditating upon him or her. Then the blend of virtues in yourself becomes unique.

Surveillance of your career area can reveal alliances, or useful links with those established in good positions. You have acute intuitive impressions concerning income or ways of enhancing it.

There is no need to be timid about ideas you have for enhancing beauty and pleasure around you. Your taste is sophisticated, and you note this also in others who please you by charm and sauciness.

You may incline toward aiding some, but will be selective. You want recognition for any good deeds. You feel nervous about the best ways of helping people get back on their feet. Just going ahead will resolve the question.

People are apprehensive about which path to take. The ideal of a perfect career is strong. Yet the drudgery required to pursue it seems forbidding. If you get back to what is primary, you will settle the question for yourself, and feel secure about your choice on this second day of a Bright Hermetic Epoch (through May 30).

It is good to be resigned to the immediate situation and your environment. Before it can be improved it needs to be acknowledged peacefully. Water, and clear liquids, might be signals enabling you to dowse for something wonderful nearby.

I am hoping the flap between Iran and the U.K. is not going to be problematic for long, but it is interestingly signified by Mars (military) conjunct Neptune (the sea), both opposed to Saturn (recriminations and issues). 15 British sailors have been detained by Iran for having trespassed into Iranian waters. Also in the news: a riot in a French subway station over excessive force used by police to arrest a man accused of not paying the fare. Young people were the protesters, and Leo rules the young as well as the nation France; Saturn has been in that sign for a couple of years.

Shortly after it entered, other riots in France were instigated by young people. Malice stirred up by all this is infecting the current French electoral campaign. Defense of your honor could be an issue today while the moon opposes Mars.

Pride could delay an easy outcome. One can maintain an equilibrium between pride and humiliation; true humility is such an equilibrium, for it is not self-despising but other-enhancing. Such an attitude will aid career momentum.

When you settle yourself into some study or hobby you believe in, and feel solitarily secure in it, paradoxically you will find people attracted to you, whether interested in your predilection or not. They seek you out because they sense you have something mysterious they want, even if you can't directly impart it to them.

{Thursday} *Enlightened Balance Promotes Honor*

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision:

Days of the coming week:

Wednesday 28: fair

Today, Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31: difficult, challenging

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Wednesday 4: good

Thursday 5: fair

2007-03-27T18:08:00.000-05:00

Wednesday 28 March 2007

*Friendly Stamina*

A Neptune emphasis suggests divesting yourself of what is pointless, realizing what you can give up effortlessly, with a sense of relief. Not everyone has arrived at the point of maturity which realizes the valuelessness of so much sought after by the immature.

Some individuals are sneaky, or more likely to hurt you than you realize. They could steal your time and energy. At times one must say, "Get thee hence."

You have a commission to do something people like. This requires sacrifice on your part, yet the rewards make it worth while. You bend to the breeze of popular requests, with resulting favor.

The excitation of friendship is all to the good. No matter if it's transient. You enjoy the changes. Who will be your friend tomorrow, or in the next hour? It doesn't matter if you are ready for someone new.

Renunciation is natural while the moon conjoins Saturn, which is opposed by Neptune and Mars. We are told that at the end of major cosmic cycles, the whole earth dissolves or goes through major changes while the human race is in pralaya, waiting for rebirth on a new globe. So it is possible to let go of everything, as in sleep, and then regain it, plus more because of increased experience and wisdom.

You feel sufficiently secure to precipitate quarrels. This you need not do, yet if you do you may be clearing the air, awakening people to certain factors in you or them they need to face. If this were perverse, it would be malicious and destructive. But it could be helpful stimulation to get things moving in better directions.

Much that emerges is surprising and delightful. You do not have to plan big things in order for little things to precipitate wonderful results in consciousness. You can be at rest, yet ready for life's entertainment, offered through reactions, conversations and proposals.

There are times when you want to be alone. You have a secret mission only you understand. You do not flaunt it. You know it, ponder it, treasure it, and keep it to yourself.

It is amazing how truly good some are. They do not have to be compelled to be fair, but can see what someone needs, and do it out of a sense of justice and liberality. This is not even sacrifice when it comes from a heart which feels the correctness of things and wants to be righteous (not self-righteous) for the joy of it. Then, deeper pleasures abound, unsought.

{Wednesday} *Friendly Stamina*

Sir Real

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision.

Days of the coming week:

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Today, Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31: difficult, challenging

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Tuesday 3: good,

___except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

Wednesday 4: good

2007-03-26T18:01:00.000-05:00

Tuesday 27 March 2007

*Interesting Moves Develop Friendship*

What looks like inertia is a chance to regather energies. Your aptitudes can develop into liberating dramas or plays by the afternoon and evening. Somebody close to you needs to trust you, and you can let him or her know you are harmless and playful.

You are proficient at more than one thing, but it helps to return to home base or headquarters to get your bearings. Then you can decide how to balance the varying requirements of different spheres. Those who think you are lying about something may be convinced you are honest if they see that you have to face more than one demand in your living. You do not put forth a feeble excuse, but a genuine attempt to please both parties when you are pulled two ways.

You are dreaming of what your house could be like and how you could share it with special companions. That is a healthy trend. It is fine to visualize how you would like everything to be, how your home can be your palace or congenial headquarters.

Resistance you face has to do with rivalries or jealousies. People want to play fair with one another but can't help having favorites. Try to be a good sport. If you are the one left out for a while, that will change, and someone else will be left out.

Karma is hard to understand, seeing that one person may have a large prosperous estate and freedom to be what he pleases, while another has to work hard for little. Such a class system has been tolerated and accepted in many cultures, resisted and fought against in others, with not too different results. I say that not as a cynic but an observer. You can utilize your good fortune as led from within.

Things you do close to home, minding your own business, satisfy you. This is not necessarily inertia, but wise tending to your affairs. If you keep your corner of the universe in order, you are fulfilling a portion of your assignment in the cosmic plan.

You may speculate on further chances, with high hopes, while resting on tested skills. You could feel worn out or weak if you lack strong motivation. Your strength fails unless linked with spiritual energies and impulsions (Mars conjunct Neptune).

You are inclined more to caution than foolhardiness, avoiding dangers rather than inviting them. Yet you have a longing for heartening, fortifying friendship.

It is not impotent to need someone. Many fulfill such needs more in the imaginative than the physical realm. Today there can be promising reciprocity with someone who means a lot to you; mutual glorification.

{Tuesday} *Interesting Moves Develop Friendship*

Cosmic Piper

This Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision. I do not like to be sparing with 'good' days, and may find ways to convert some 'fair' to 'good' as we go along, but prefer to err on the side of caution.

Days of the coming week:

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Today, Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31: difficult, challenging [downgraded]

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

Tuesday 3: good,

except the period 7:30p PT - 9:35p PT | 10:30p - 12:35a(W)ET | 2:30a(W) - 4:35a(W) UT: fair

2007-03-25T23:44:00.000-05:00

Monday 26 March 2007

~Preparatory Hiatus~

The day can be adventurous if you realize you are not in your ordinary space in consciousness. That means your approach to life is either subnormal or supernormal. In either case, it may not fit well with tasks your need to get done. You want to refine your approach to work, income, and allies by making it all more fun. But that involves risks. The moon is void of course all day. Take it light; but not so light that you are careless. Avoid as many decision-making situations as possible. Stay with routines which are utterly necessary, and then let yourself, when done with them, have utter internal freedom and renewal.

There is beauty around you, in office, shop or home; you can increase it. Decorative instincts are good, as even plants know. You are aware of beauty in people also, though somewhat elusive.

You are aware of possessions that get in your way, as well as of serious concerns about your income or long-term security. Such broodings could lead toward rage, violence at worst. Forcing people to cater to you could lose them, so that allies are diminished. You can liquidate some objects or detritus in your way, but you cannot liquidate people and have a fulfilling life.

Your mind-set may be restricted, yet you can let it expand, rather than expand it forcibly. You assign yourself your own schedule and can be as strict or lenient as you please.

It's an Alice-in-Wonderland world, disconcerting, yet liberating fresh perception and creativity. Things keep changing, so you can settle on useful temporary security, whatever allows you to employ your powers in a way that feels meaningful.

You may be superior to a lot of nonsense you see going on. That is fine. Yet it's obvious you have to let people be themselves, and feel superior in their own ways. To let someone feel superior to you is a way of gaining perspective and learning something you need to learn even if it hurts at first. Whatever is really superior in you attaches itself to commitments you feel and certify through your actions, one at a time, without haste.

Being generous with nature - plants and growing things - helps you to be more generous with people and yourself. Venus in Taurus combined with the part of fortune in the fourth sector suggest yard or garden work, or preparations for it. You care for the living things closest to you.

Delicate things such as paper are valuable as artefacts. You may find ways to scribble out evanescent thoughts which point the way to better outcomes.

It is hard to complain of what you have, your situation, or your potentials. You have been set up to be in command of your world. The Bright Hermetic Epoch begins Wednesday, March 28 through May 30. These two months will allow you to press ahead with major projects. But today you may be doubtful. Staying close to home or headquarters, physically or emotionally, will settle your stomach for better things beginning tomorrow and Wednesday.

{Monday} ~Preparatory Hiatus~

Cosmic Piper

Days of the coming week:

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Today, Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31: difficult, challenging [downgraded]

Sunday April 1:

___difficult, challenging only during the 2-hour period 6:37a - 8:43a PT | 9:37a - 11:43a ET | 1:37p 3:43p UT

Monday 2: good until

___3:10p PT | 6:10p ET | 10:10p UT

2007-03-23T12:03:00.000-05:00

Saturday 24 March 2007

}Good Fortune Shared{

There are soft and gentle indications related to Venus's position in Taurus. Children or younger people are in a happy mood of interaction with their elders. Yet there is a feeling of disappointment which needs to be cleared away, through simple realism and recovery of poise.

What could make you hesitate is a kind of severity in your feelings, a withdrawal from the world or philosophic detachment (Mars conjunct Neptune and opposed to Saturn). This has its value as long as you avoid feeling airily superior to those whose proclivities you don't appreciate.

There is danger (Mars-Neptune) of poisoning from alcohol, drugs or wrong food. Some may feel more secure by just giving up or giving in, becoming quiescent or dependent, letting someone else dominate.

The vibrancy of a relationship has something to do with your home or a secluded place where there is no interference to sharing. The moon's trine with Neptune grants calm and peaceable intermixture of energies even when there are disagreements (moon opposite Jupiter and Pluto).

Life seems to be offering its best to you. Natural and human largesse commingle to exalt your sense of possession and worth.

Paying out what you feel you can give is better than seeing limits everywhere and holding back because of anxiety. Rugged country living is suggestive of heart-wealth.

A pledge can be in the business sphere, or the realm of human interaction and friendship; rarely, in both. When it happens without worry as a natural result of destiny's timing, symbols of hope and prosperous sharing abound.

Despite all this, today has been marked 'difficult, challenging.' There is a contest between light dawning in these early days of a New Moon and the gloom of your doubts. Let the doubts clarify what you can do to actualize your hopes, not quench them. Happy coincidences point out the path.

Many find themselves accepted and looked up to by those who see something in them they don't realize they have. Thus humility and exaltation coincide.

{Saturday} {Good Fortune Shared}

Sir Real

[I am struggling with what to do for the Sunday reports. Originally, I took a sabbatical day every week and did not post on Sundays. I have returned to that procedure for the past two weeks, and probably will do so again this week. Perhaps Moses was right, everybody needs a day off. I am trying to put longer-term indications within the daily reports, interspersed as appropriate.]

The following Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision. I do not like to be sparing with 'good' days, and may find ways to convert some 'fair' to 'good' as we go along, but prefer to err on the side of caution.

Days of the coming week:

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Today, Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

Saturday 31

2007-03-22T15:37:00.000-05:00

Friday 23 March 2007

}Mysteries of Reconciliation{

Something rather mysterious is going on. Now you see it, now you don't. Spiritual portents bring good news for your career. It is good to be open to convincing messages from above.

You can exploit your situation, nationality, or a brotherhood or sisterhood to which you belong. That means using its privileges, although avoiding negative stereotypes. Jupiter's position in Sagittarius, well-aspected to Mars, suggests relying on authors and teachers you respect.

What sustains you is not obvious on the surface. The phantom images which flit through your mind when you are trying to figure out your life are important. Whether bogey-men or substantial, living presences, they help you if you adopt a winning attitude toward them.

A legacy you possess need be used to be effective. Music could be important. What you sing inwardly affects your relations with all around. It may as well be uplifting.

Your instincts could be violent or assertive. You sense enemy presences, perhaps. The sun is in Aries the martial sign, and Mars opposes Saturn. It is good to be sure before you rush into battle. Aries also rules the brain, which can find better ways than mutual injury for resolving disputes.

In fact, as we recapitulate recent history through the media, we may be led to deeper realizations of how peace is attainable. Muslims and Christians need to find better answers either through or outside their religions; re-fighting the Crusades is not smart. Mars conjoins Neptune, lifting militarism toward higher ideals; and Venus is in Taurus a sign of peace, at least potentially. Some sun-in-Taurus individuals are warlike, living up to the 'bull' imagery: such as Tony Blair and Saddam Hussein. Yet both of these had Venus not in Taurus but in Aries. Here is a clear depiction of the value of Venus's sign as an extremely important supplement to the sun-sign. Both were bull-headed, but had they had Venus in Taurus (sweetly cowlike) their stubbornness would have taken a more peaceful direction.

Some politicians are not evil. (How's that for a shocking statement.) Or, as Nixon put it, "I am not a crook" (though of course he was). Look to the older, retired ones for wisdom. Jimmy Carter is one example, but there are many other retired individuals from the military or State Department who could offer intelligent and useful guidance. May their days be long and influential.

We may also recollect women who have contributed to the world's potentials for harmony. Often they are not in the headlines, but powers behind the throne. Cherchez la femme. You know at least one who by her gentility brings peace into human relations which otherwise would become fractious.

One does not have to be standing on a hill or soap-box to be influential. Those who do simple ordinary things may by their attitudes affect world events invisibly. You need not be lazy today, though so inclined, for the moon is increasing in light and Mercury gaining speed. Next week we enter the Bright Hermetic Epoch and plans may soar on new wings. Meanwhile preparatory work can be carried out gently and smoothly.

{Friday} {Mysteries of Reconciliation}

Sir Real

Days of the coming week:

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Today, Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

Friday 30: fair

2007-03-21T15:30:00.000-05:00

Thursday 22 March 2007

\Partially Formed Potentials/

You're on your way to getting an abundance of things settled. This requires concern and effort, but it is protective and strengthening. Possessions in the home, shop or office are re-ordered satisfactorily.

Pride helps you assert yourself because you want to be neat and tidy about your work, your profession, and your headquarters. Yet the moon is void of course in the afternoon and evening so you may release your worries in some kinds of amusement which restore perspective.

Not everything is clear because there are gaps in your efforts. You need to fix up things which seem disconnected from other important things. This will bring pleasure when you get in the spirit of it.

Paperwork is interesting as well as necessary, so you can speed through it with zest. It helps you perceive your life differently when done carefully yet with a certain panache. This could include tax forms at one extreme and free-form journal entries at the other.

A birth of plans is thrilling when sufficiently flexible to be unnamed and unformed as yet, like an infant. You feel passionate about someone in your feelings, and are probably linked on inner planes of consciousness.

At the beginning of fresh developments things are insecure. You dare some things before you have learned fully how to do them safely. Yet there is help, someone to bring you security.

The lushness connected with military privileges is under scrutiny. The colonel or general who grovels in privileges as if gifts from an adoring populace deserves such scrutiny. Display of one's prowess or privilege is of course one magnet for a volunteer army, navy and air force, and so needs to be preserved - within limits.

Others flaunt their vanity in the intellectual sphere. This is fine if they have actually earned their authority through study and research of an honest and plentiful sort. Such professors exist. A 'professor' is one who professes, we must remember. I am a professor of astrology, in that sense. But to profess is not necessarily to know. Those who know and do not profess are hidden saints, gnostic yogis, secret leaven of the world's still-primitive consciousness. Those who profess and do not know promote their half-baked books, and are not worthy of our notice. Those who know and profess are pillars of the intellectual or spiritual community and upholders of humanity's growth toward the Supermind. It is going to take centuries, so you had better believe in reincarnation or longevity if you want to be around when it happens.

{Thursday} /Partially Formed Potentials\

Sir Real

The following Beta system of daily ratings is under continuous revision. I do not like to be sparing with 'good' days, and may find ways to convert some of the 'fair' to 'good' as we go along, but prefer to err on the side of caution.

Days of the coming week:

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Today, Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

Thursday 29:

___difficult, challenging only during the period 6:24p - 8:27p PT | 9:24p - 11:27p ET | 1:27a(F) - 3:27a(F) UT

2007-03-20T17:58:00.000-05:00

Wednesday 21 March 2007

\Refreshed by the Stream of Time/

Happy New Year! The astrological year began last night when the sun entered Aries at the Vernal Equinox. This report, however, is for Wednesday only; I am in the process of studying past annual charts and learning from them so I may be able to say something interesting about the coming year.

Today seems a good day to be close to home or headquarters. You may be doing a lot there, whether cleaning up, reorganizing, or putting precious possessions in more serviceable order.

If worried about such matters, today seems a good day to get everything under control. A definite focus will clear away whatever is smoldering as a potential source of trouble, and restore peace of mind.

There are definite clues about major factors, whether financial or as determining career acumen. Reality is your friend when you face it honestly.

Faith needs competence in order to remain free of too much dependence. Yet you can ask for help when you need it. Those whose majesty consists in offering ready aid will be available to rescue you.

You are in a new world, to the extent you can realize that fact. Training is necessary to set you up for the rewards of excellence demonstrated. What you own consists of tools to use in fresh, happy contexts.

As a partisan of your own interests, you are aware of who your allies are. You want to feel you are going it alone, the only one who really knows what you are doing. Yet you know there are those who support you visibly or invisibly. They will appreciate your silent recognition of them and then will not get in your way.

Chance encounters are good for you. A little bit of showing off is a good show, for others when you do it or for you when they do it. In other words, we can recognize one another's individuality, enjoying it rather than envying or denigrating it. The strong one is strong because something G*d has given him or her is strong.

Life is spiritualized when shared with heart-felt appreciation of those with whom it is shared. It is said by some occultists that those who have passed from this world perform 'work' from spiritual levels to help this world become more worthy of their next incarnation in it. That makes wonderful sense to me.

A stream or river could be important to you, or it could be the stream of consciousness shared with someone with whom you converse in a pleasing manner.

While nature's wealth is starting to manifest all over again (applauded most audibly by the birds), you appreciate your home or yard and improve it. All conspires toward happiness for the one who cooperates with the conspiring.

{Wednesday} /Refreshed by the Stream of Time\

Cosmic Piper

Days of the coming week:

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Today, Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

Tuesday 27: good,

___except the period 7:37a - 10:05a PT | 10:37a - 1:05p ET | 2:37p - 5:05p UT

Wednesday 28: fair

2007-03-18T19:36:00.000-05:00

Monday 19 March 2007

*Early Stages of Satisfaction*

It seems workaday matters are important (as on most Mondays). You are protecting yourself from future trouble by taking care of things ahead of time.

It's hard for most of us to realize when our personal desires are out of hand, especially if they become lustful monsters sapping our vitality. There are warnings against just that while Mars opposes Saturn from Aquarius to Leo.

Some will feel enervated or tired even during this early phase of the New Moon, for a psychic apathy or other absence of motivation is at the root of psychological tiredness. You can discover what will revive you.

People see into what is significant when 'up against something.' By cleaning your place (whether home, office, or shop) you make room for fresh opportunities, and life becomes more colorful when what blocks it is removed. Being a tyrant of order makes you solvent, validating your hopes for better outcomes.

When uncertain, following set procedures you have relied on in the past will refresh you and make things easier. Your approach does not have to be new when the old suffices. This is one basis of military order, which is far better, most of the time, than military adventure.

When people feel oppressed they feel isolated, and that can lead to bad decisions about work, such as avoiding it entirely or choosing something which doesn't fit their temperament or need. You can make yourself a candidate for something better.

A pretty place outdoors could be the setting for a meeting. Venus has entered Taurus the sign of spring's fruition in flower and leaf, though of course it's an early stage of that. You can garner what you want when you trust your hopes in those who provide it.

There is no reason to shrink from strong impressions. Your consciousness heightens to comprehend the fullness and essence of people and events. One reason we don't manifest more psychic abilities is that we don't believe we can: a self-fulfilling and debilitating prophecy.

Prosperity is yours, more than you realize. Being grateful increases it. What you need comes together beautifully when you drop what you don't need, or give it away. You ready yourself for lofty gratification.

{Monday} *Early Stages of Satisfaction*

Sir Real

Days of the coming week:

Sunday 18: fair

Today, Monday 19: fair

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

Sunday 25: difficult, challenging

Monday 26:

___difficult, challenging beginning at 7:37a PT | 10:37a ET | 2:37p UT

2007-03-16T12:39:00.000-05:00

Saturday 17 March 2007

~Shy Green Creatures~

The moon is waning in Pisces, maybe a good time to get drunk with St. Patrick's followers. You may feel isolated and worn out. Paperwork to finish may be annoying. Yet keeping a log or diary could be useful. "Take it light" is easy for me to say. In fact, there is good fortune beneath the surface.

When you feel things are rough and uncertain, you can look to alliances you trust, or alliances just beginning to form or re-form.

You may fan a flame of inspiration to keep yourself aligned with your higher destiny. Comrades will uplift you, unostentatiously.

You may feel too worried about your appearance or the impression you make. This could be called vanity. You'll make a better impression if you think about other people's needs and glories. To appreciate beauty is to be beautiful. Then you bring a benediction to the Other and yourself.

You have an invisible patron. He or she wants you to do well. Kids with invisible playmates are closer to the truth than we adults. You can also attract such a 'playmate' or patron by visualizing the very one you would like to have, but not too aggressively. Leave room for the cosmos to give you its signals and cues.

When something outmoded threatens to vanish, you need not despair, for your prosperity is based on the invisible and intangible, which become visible and tangible when you need them. Something life-changing may happen today. St. Patrick's is our Spring festival by default, coming just a few days before the vernal equinox. It's uplifting but also has a sense of necessary readjustment to a new solar year.

You may feel a natural unforced agreement with those of different nationalities or backgrounds. When people are together they become a temporary community, even if strangers.

This could happen out in the yard or local streets and neighborhoods as well as anywhere else. You may do initially challenging yard work or otherwise get in the spirit of the earth's rebirth.

You wonder if you are alone, at times, even when rubbing elbows with people. Yet the magnificence of nature and humanity dawns upon you. Others also feel isolated, to a degree, which makes whatever is shared, however furtively, all the more enlivening.

{Saturday} ~Shy Green Creatures~

Sir Real

Days of the coming week:

Friday 16: difficult, challenging

Today, Saturday 17

Sunday 18: fair

Monday 19: fair

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

Saturday 24: difficult, challenging

2007-03-15T14:14:00.000-05:00

Friday 16 March 2007

}Toehold Into Satisfaction{

We don't always choose the tasks we have to do, but can put our spirits into them and make them something other and better than they had seemed when we looked on them as drudgery. There are chances for friendliness and joy, even love, on this 'difficult' day because the moon is moving toward a sextile with Venus in the evening.

You can have recourse to spiritual guidance which will save you from unnecessary worry. Someone suffering may be in your mind, and you need to be patient and kind; also to be kind to yourself by heeding protective signals you get from the soul level.

It's a relief to know that your financial and other plans are fairly well set up, are sailing along with good chances of fulfillment. Giving them a little push in the right direction will enable you to relax later in the day.

Being optimistic isn't hard when you link with people far and near in your mind. It is true that they have different agendas and yours does not always fit with theirs. Yet they come together at certain times like sections of a jigsaw puzzle. You need not let differences of opinion or orientation be bitter; they are diversity you can wink at.

You can note how those of differing political (or other) persuasions get angry about things, and try to see how a sort of rough reconciliation can be patched together. It is possible to be uncompromising in one's ideals, yet compromising for the nonce in practicality, negotiation, or provisional agreement. Then even better outcomes are foreshadowed.

What is it that you trust in? Something you have learned, and something you share with others. So it can hold you and your hopes together while things look gloomy. You are secure when you trust in the trustworthy. (And, need I add? the Trustworthy.)

Venus's trine with Pluto, highlighted by the moon's cushioning sextile to both, suggests a bit of laughter and the freedom to attune oneself to the music of the spheres of our Solar System. That harmony is reflected in the human scene when you let yourself respond to its chords. Doing something for somebody does not have to be patronizing when it is spontaneous.

Tenser harmonies sound like discords at first. There could be a face-off with someone over some issue. Yet, as in wrestling, it does not have to be hostile. There is camaraderie in sport, and in sportsmanlike interaction over differences.

Something is spurring you toward effort or labor even though it's a Friday and you want to enjoy yourself. Both are possible. Work into which you throw yourself wholeheartedly is pleasure. People respect and enjoy each other all the more for their reliability.

{Friday} {Toehold Into Satisfaction}

Cosmic Piper

Best days of the coming week:

Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

Today, Friday 16: difficult, challenging

Saturday 17

Sunday 18: fair

Monday 19: fair

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

Friday 23: difficult, challenging

2007-03-14T15:22:00.000-05:00

Thursday 15 March 2007

}Inward Resoluteness Toward Objectives{

While the moon conjoins Mars and both begin to oppose Saturn, there is much power seeking for an outlet but not knowing what outlet to choose, working in the dark. Young people may seem clueless, as they have to every generation of elders from time immemorial. "How can we entrust anything to this ignorant, crude generation?" Yet their charm works magic for them.

You wonder how much someone remembers you, or understands things crucial to you which you just don't succeed in conveying to his or her consciousness. Persistent activity guarantees that someone somewhere will get the gist of what you are trying to accomplish.

If people important to you seem to have collapsed, given up, or lost momentum, you may be the one who can recharge them with energy and motivation. Activity which seems aimless, alone, acquires direction when reinforced by someone else's collaboration.

The sun's squares with Jupiter and Pluto can bring out religious differences, intolerance, or a legitimate questioning of priestly or clerical authority. True believers are made 'kings and priests unto God,' said St. Paul. How many of us feel ready for that? When the old is tossed out, or mocked because of its sterility or hypocrisy, the fresh and valid fructifies our consciousness.

If you feel you are not getting sufficient income, or don't know how to use what you have, you might take a break from such worry by realizing that enough is enough. Exercising your craft is better than craving the results of someone else's.

Venus's position suggests you ought not to ignore your prerogatives. You are anchored in something which gives certain privileges you can exercise without compunction. I, for one, am trusting you to do it right - because when you feel empowered you are likely to act from noble motives which make you feel great, and even more empowered and noble.

When you fail to perform as you would have wished, the lack of applause is an inducement to try again - sometime, somehow, somewhere. There is no need to base your self-estimation on one incident.

Sometimes the simple and ordinary is your wealth. Look at your blessings with new eyes, pour your drink into a more spectacular goblet. It's grace beyond grace, if you are aware of it.

Those favored by fortune have earned good karma, somehow. They do not need to fall. When a change comes in their lives, they can adjust to it adroitly and re-assume a position of influence, giving as much as they take. Your achievements are efficacious if you re-begin them after appropriate intervals of rest.

{Thursday} {Inward Resoluteness Toward Objectives}

Cosmic Piper

The following is a Beta system of daily ratings, under continuous revision. I do not like to be so sparing with 'good' days, and may find ways to convert some of the 'fair' ones to 'good' as we go along, but I prefer to err on the side of caution.

Best days of the coming week:

Those marked "good" and "fair" are what seem the best days for meetings, interviews, agreements, conferences, and transactions in the business sphere; and for get-togethers, parties, and friendship in the social sphere. People are likely to be in better moods, more amenable to agreements and enjoyments. The 'black and brown' days are better for individual interests and efforts carried on with lonely persistence; the 'blue and green' days for more social, public, or adventurous pursuits and fulfillments.

Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

Today, Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

Friday 16: difficult, challenging

Saturday 17

Sunday 18: fair

Monday 19: fair

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

Thursday 22: difficult, challenging

2007-03-13T19:07:00.000-05:00

Wednesday 14 March 2007

\Fall, Recover, and Rise/

To prevent a reversal of good fortune, you need to be aware which way the wind is blowing. A garland of victory may be blown off one's coif. You sense how males are testing the waters, unsure of themselves though wanting to cash in on something significant. They sense loss in the air but this need not make them depressed.

You are the steward of your home and can make it beautiful or serviceable. This is an enjoyable thing to do.

The way you assert yourself may be through reestablishing your ideals, your philosophy or secure way of viewing the world and your place in it. Then you will feel secure and competent in human interactions even if there is disagreement.

It is not clear at first whom you wish to enfold in your world and who can be left out. People are eyeing one another, canvassing as it were, or estimating how they want to relate to one another. A selective process is going on. When there doesn't seem much elbow-room, you may benefit by learning something about those with whom you are temporarily closeted.

The merits of people are on display. They are attracted to one another magnetically, for reasons their conscious minds do not fathom. There can be therapy and healing when one surrenders to the mix for a while. Others supply something you didn't know you needed.

You acquire secret admirers, and admire someone secretly and hope she or he notices. People are playfully and curiously intrigued by one another. This may go nowhere in particular, but stirs the social broth.

Entertainments you might enjoy may or may not be as abundant as you would wish, but you can imagine them and thereby bring them into being. It's like blowing a bubble, but the bubble may have more reality than you thought, enriching your experience.

Trees are already pre-budding. It's the pre-spring season when life stirs, and human beings contemplate how to help it along in gardens, yards or farms. The visualized fruitage helps one make it happen.

Those who have all they need are not always to be envied, if they lose touch with the lives which produce what they use. People can let go, lose interest, and fall, as some do in retirement. It is good to be grateful for what one has and then to spread the wealth in whatever way one can, through aiding, teaching, or pleasing those with whom one's lot is cast.

{Wednesday} /Fall, Recover, and Rise\

Sir Real

The following Beta system of ratings has been revised, so I am including old dates beginning last Saturday. I do not like to be so sparing with 'good' days, and may find ways to convert some of the 'fair' ones to 'good' as we go along. I prefer to err on the side of caution.

Best days of the coming week:

Saturday 10: difficult, challenging

Sunday 11

Monday 12: fair,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT

Tuesday 13: fair

Today, Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

Friday 16: difficult, challenging

Saturday 17

Sunday 18: fair

Monday 19: fair

Tuesday 20: good until

___8:33p PT | 11:33p ET | 3:33a(W)UT: fair

Wednesday 21: difficult, challenging

2007-03-12T20:02:00.000-05:00

Tuesday 13 March 2007

\Merit/

Someone you revere or respect may give you boons, or authority. This can happen even if you are somewhat suspicious about this individual's methods, which border on opportunism.

Scrambling for a better position could be an internal process or external. Since we are still in the Dark Epoch (until March 28, two more weeks) it is likely to be internal. You want to improve your techniques, through study or slow research.

Venus and Pluto both in sextile with Neptune, cushioning it, suggest an ability to be in touch with those 'on the other side,' whether discarnate humans, angels or other invisible entities. This is likely to be good for you, not harmful. You might try the experiment of letting your thoughts drift toward someone you have good feelings about who has departed this world. Even if the contact is very subtle it could be uplifting, to the point of receiving a useful message.

You need not be in a hurry to get rid of items or projects which seem to encumber you. "Less is more" is often true, but it takes time to reduce your load when you are in the meandering, reviewing, reconsidering phase known as the Dark Epoch. You need to think of what friends want from you, and what you want to give them, as well as of what you want to learn, knowledge or techniques you want to improve. Then you will know gently and gradually what to drop and what to cherish in your world of rich opportunities.

You needn't worry if people who seem to 'click' with you are gone soon. They are basically self-centered (Venus in Aries) and will take up with you when you seem to confirm some of their hopes or wishes. When they sense that you have your own agenda, they may lose interest.

It's good to be careful when you are handling things around the house, headquarters, or neighborhood. You can prevent accidents or losses by slow, simple attention rather than haste.

Ideas for career progress may be wonderful, though you sense they aren't ready for much public exposure at this point. They have to germinate. Discovered improvements in your methods are money in the bank, even if not negotiable at present.

An urge to be in more than one place at a time is natural when you want to assimilate culture. Yet you may be held back by the restraints of your situation, the need to cooperate and establish professional competence one step at a time.

There is a profusion of all you need, either for entertainment or connections with people. You see into future potentials of cooperation, speculative but inspiring.

You are blessed in your career area, and in your pocketbook. If you doubt this it may be because you are trying to do something as yet not sufficiently appreciated or understood (Jupiter square Uranus, sun square Pluto). Yet someone in a high position will grant you assistance. If you keep that faith, you will not stumble, delay too long, or give up. Whatever you earn through merit will be secure.

{Tuesday} /Merit\

Cosmic Piper

2007-03-11T19:10:00.000-05:00

Monday 12 March 2007

*Finding Your Best Position*

It's interesting that people are graded as foolish or intelligent or savvy or silly. Does that really mean anything? Are you foolish or smart? If you don't know that about yourself how could you know it about anyone else?

Some are cruel toward friends when they feel they are not going to see them for a long time.

You push on toward freedom from bondage although can't quite figure out the perfect method. You are concerned about your career but want freedom within it.

There is a longing for absolute foundations while Saturn is the handle planet in a bucket configuration, and the core opposition is in fixed signs. What is the Scripture you believe in? Will you be more free when restrained by something which prevents you from getting lost? Could you write a new code for everyone to live by?

It is easy to enjoy yourself at home or at meals, perhaps too easy if you feel you need to restrain or retrain your appetite.

A woman friend may be good for you, even if there are suspicions on both sides. The relationship needs to rest on a basis of equality, not subordination of one to the other. Being together or working together helps both of you to be less selfish. You may also bring good luck to each other.

Something connected with study along career lines is profitable. A place where you feel comfortable with a partner who has similar career interests is good for you. A stockbroker or accountant might be useful.

It is good to be aware when people are being silly or wasting your time. Rather than 'tell them off' or offend them, you can just say you are busy. Then what is beneficial to both will happen, but you will not drag out the time to the point where you lose something else important.

{Monday} *Finding Your Best Position*

Sir Real

2007-03-10T12:04:00.000-06:00

There will be no weekly report this week. The daily reports will begin again for Monday, posted late Sunday afternoon, G*d willing.

Cosmic Piper

2007-03-09T10:59:00.000-06:00

Saturday 10 March 2007

*Sedate Yet Seraphic Fulfillment*

We start out seeing that this is a 'fair' day, or most of it except early hours; and the first we've had in a long time. What comes next will point out potential problems which could undermine the good prognosis.

People often lose faith in idols, and in each other. No one can live up to expectations continually, every moment. Or if he does, it is an excellent act.

Because Saturn remains strong while retrograde, and we are still in the Dark Hermetic Epoch until the 28th, the past beckons. Some may enjoy the ruins of history, or their personal history, more than the present. Such ruins, perhaps also runes, afford something to maunder around in and reconstruct imaginatively. Those interesting stories in which someone travels back in time to correct something done 'back then' are apropos. Perhaps that is more possible than we realize.

A sense of failure need not overcome you. If you feel you're not living up to potentials, that condition is not an incurable illness. Doing little things one at a time will make you feel competent and restore self-faith.

Something nice about family, community, or a meal develops. Simple pleasures become immense luxuries when shared happily.

The sobriety of the time (Saturn in high focus) is a wake-up call to one's potentials. When one adds 'sins of omission' to 'sins of commission,' and is pious, one is likely to start envisioning G*d as a grim, sadistic monster or tyrant who can never, ever be pleased. This is perhaps unfair to G*d, yet a good replica of what is going on in our superegos (in Freudian terminology) or consciences. We are never completely satisfied with our own performances. Yet the wake-up call does not have to be grim if it is felt as inspiring. "Oh, here is something good I can do. It's the next step. I feel better already."

There are warnings against drifting off into unrealistic, multiplex thoughts and plans which would be impossible to actualize all at once. If you trust that circumstances have placed before you what needs to be done first, you will eliminate confusion and feckless wandering.

That said, there are excellent chances for you to enter into a kind of paradise of fulfillment. It may happen serendipitously, so that you can't plan for it or calculate how to seize it. But you can be alert to opportunities offering themselves as open doors. The grand trine of Venus, Jupiter and Saturn may reach fulfillment. This can be love, beauty, ecstasy, efflorescent well-being.

Glorious entertainment can happen spontaneously. It need not be perfect to be deeply pleasing.

Once opportunities present themselves, there is the question of how far to take them. Only you can decide. You might vacillate or hesitate too long. But there is always another chance to find what you want. Not only does hope spring eternal, so does its consummation.

{Saturday} *Sedate Yet Seraphic Fulfillment*

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Friday March 9: difficult, challenging

Today, Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

Tuesday 13: good

Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

Friday 16

Saturday 17: fair

2007-03-08T13:19:00.000-06:00

Friday 9 March 2007

~Strength and Perspective Increase~

The moon has escaped the Via Combusta, and Mercury is slowly gaining speed, so you are able to plan things better. (The 'burning way' wherein the moon domiciled yesterday was quite literal for me when I observed and smelled a smoky fire in a parking garage in my neighborhood.) Staying close to home or headquarters may be best, for work, entertainment, and friendship. You long for what is far, but can get there in an armchair or in front of your computer screen.

It seems like a good time to become more sure of what you believe in. Is it a nation, a religion, an ideal, a spiritual path? You can fly with it when you are sure of it.

Some have a yearning for instruction. They want someone with charisma and knowledge to guide and encourage them. That could be you, or you may be a transfer point from one who has taught you to one who wants to learn from you. The devotion of a pupil to a teacher can merge into attachment, not necessarily harmful.

Although the day had to be rated as 'difficult,' you can become highly inspired when you decide to push ahead against all odds with something important. Some may be easy pushovers when they feel you are demonstrating integrity plus purposiveness. You'll be served when people feel you're somebody worth serving.

Finishing ordinary tasks is a relief, so even if feeling gloomy you look toward a brighter horizon, which indeed is there if my ratings for Saturday through Wednesday prove true.

There may be interesting links with those who have passed from this world. Even if a little morose at the beginning, they turn into serenity when you contemplate realized immortality.

It is reassuring to know you can make straightforward attacks on problems and clear them away decisively. You may feel it is better to ignore others' possibly wounded feelings and proceed definitely, come what may; the whole situation will rally round you if you are clearheaded.

Although the recognition you crave may seem far off, little victories on the path to it are fortifying. You are applauded to the degree you deserve, and a little more.

{Friday} ~Strength and Perspective Increase~

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Thursday March 8: difficult, challenging

Today, Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

Tuesday 13: good

Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

Friday 17

2007-03-07T13:29:00.000-06:00

Thursday 8 March 2007

~Sorting Things Out Patiently~

Mercury turned direct late Wednesday evening, but we are still in the Dark Hermetic Epoch until March 28, and Luna is still Via Combusta today. It is hard to get a grip on things. Don't blame yourself too much. True, you could do better, but not if you are beating yourself up.

I believe that Saturday and Sunday will be days of clarification and maybe celebration, but we can't live in the future; today is the bridge to it.

Let's hope there are not more displays of pseudo-macho violence which is really a form of masochism in disguise. The macho-maso gene in males is a deep sickness in the human race. That is, the gene that makes them think it is heroic to die, or be maimed for life, while fighting enemies. It is virulent at the present time, though perhaps not more so than at any time in the past. But the weapons available to it are far worse.

Those who are content with their lot seem to me far better persons than the pseudo-heroes who destroy others and themselves out of some insane patriotism, racism, or sectarianism.

Mars's septile with Jupiter, beginning today and with us for a few, may accentuate some of that. It is a desire to convert people. To attempt that by persuasion is all right and in fact can be progressive, but to attempt it by force is abominable.

A little bit of fun is good. Can we find it on a 'difficult, challenging' day as I had to denominate this one by the sheer weight of difficult aspects and positions? Yes, although your way of doing it may be somewhat lonely - entertaining yourself while alone, except for the ghostly presence perhaps of a scriptwriter or novelist! It is amazing how much the human race is living vicariously these days, rather than in direct relationship with other human beings. Yet what is eating at you is that you want to have some kind of prestige or recognition.

Just giving up to something is a tendency while the moon is in the Via Combusta and square Saturn. Make sure it is the Highest, as far as you can. To surrender to the Highest is not possible unless one has a link with Him/Her. It needs to be made conscious. Then and only then can you lead anyone else along the right path.

Accidents could happen while the moon is in the Via Combusta square Mars. It is better to prevent them by being more conscious of why one is doing what one is doing.

How do you transcend your limitations? Venus's grand trine with Saturn and Jupiter, in fire signs, is showing the way. It is inward, subjective, but strengthening. To take advantage of it you need a spiritual opening, a vehicle for transcendence, a spiritual sadhana or discipline such as ritual, scripture, prayer, mantra.

Disasters in connection with the earth, foundations, buildings, or mining are possible. I say this only to warn anyone who might be connected with such matters so as to prevent problems. Getting better order in your home, office, workshop or headquarters is prophylactic and strengthening.

Saturn's dominance of the skies, until the middle of April, may be making all of us more selfish and self-centered than we need to be. "Ya gotta serve somebody," sang Bob Dylan.

{Thursday} ~Sorting Things Out Patiently~

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Wednesday March 7: difficult, challenging

Today, Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

Tuesday 13: good

Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

Thursday 15: difficult, challenging

2007-03-06T14:35:00.000-06:00

Wednesday 7 March 2007

}The Doldrums, with Issues but Shared Good Feelings{

It's infuriating that although there is a Grand Trine in fire signs, with Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, other difficult aspects forced me to make most of this week 'difficult, challenging' in the ratings. The Grand Trine may appear under the surface as 'nice' things and opportunities. Let's not overlook them. They're there but have to be bought at a price, as it were.

Friends, perhaps in or near your home base, may be pleasing in some ways, challenging in others. You have to accept the whole picture, the whole of their failures and good points, in order to interact with them. People seemed concerned about their appearance and grooming, with generally pretty results. You may connect with someone interested in astrology, or other methods of understanding human beings in a generous, tolerant way, so that their inherent differences are revealed as assets rather than liabilities.

Something seething under the surface in you is unhappy about your image, the role you project, and wants greater freedom to be something respected and applauded. By serving you find your freedom. Those who don't serve but calculate and connive often lose their freedom (perhaps I. Lewis Libby Jr. for example). This is one of those paradoxes which look like G*d's irony: be subservient and gain power; aim at power and become subservient, perhaps even a prison inmate.

People are itchy about their religious beliefs and practices, and about hypocrisy in others. Yet there is a desire for welcoming the coming spring season ahead of time, with colorful displays of adornment or personal charm. Yet this is less important than your position in your field of honor or your job.

It is better to sow seeds than to reap what others have sown. Yet doing the former allows you to do the latter, by the laws of karma.

You have choices between the battles of life, which sometimes need to be waged one way or another, and the easy-going, relaxing pleasures which keep you sane and happy. I would guess you would veer more toward the latter. It might be good to keep in mind 'which side you are on' in regard to important issues facing the human race. Then you can maintain your inward position with integrity even when relaxing, with people or alone.

A peculiar double tri-septile of the sun-and-Uranus with Saturn seems responsible for much of the unrest of recent days. It is still there and I have hinted at its meaning in previous paragraphs. It's touchiness about one's significance in life and one's value to others. However, let's try to emphasize Venus's trines with Saturn and Jupiter as well as her sextile with Neptune. Being considerate brings love in your direction. People respond more to friendliness than you realize on the surface. If there are issues concerning your work, how generous you can be with it, perhaps it is good to err on the side of generosity. Something happy and fortifying is shaping up.

{Wednesday} {The Doldrums, with Issues but Shared Good Feelings}

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Tuesday March 6: difficult, challenging after

___7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Today, Wednesday 7: difficult, challenging

Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

Tuesday 13: good

Wednesday 14: good,

___except for the period 1:21p - 7:52p PT | 4:21p - 10:52p ET | 8:21p - 2:52a(Th)UT: fair

2007-03-05T14:17:00.000-06:00

Tuesday 6 March 2007

}Inconclusive{

Go gently and easily. I can't say that this is an easy day. However, you can make it better by trusting to talents and interests you exercise in private. They will bring you to an assured position eventually.

Discords and separations are possible. You can make them into jokes. There is sado-masochism. Keep it playful, not hurtful. Somebody may want to play the victim or the sex slave. This is not always an advantage to the one who assumes the role of master.

Some enjoy legal or other battles, others find them repellent. Matters of principle and prestige seem to block easy compromise. You need to trust to your inner inspiration. It may sweep enemies before it. You can say and do what will defend younger or less mature individuals. They don't know yet how to do what you do, although they learn from your example.

People want to say more to each other than they can easily manage. So they give up. They assume the response will be indifference, and so it is.

Are you pondering a purchase or contract which would make your business or career more progressive? As mentioned yesterday, since the moon is Via Combusta today it might be wise to delay until the weekend (when Mercury will also have turned direct). Then you will be sure and will not risk wasting time and money. Nevertheless, today you may feel confident and happy about financial or business opportunities you are considering.

Some subtle yet earthy pleasures are available while Venus is sextile Neptune and trine Jupiter. This could be indulgence in food or drink, or an esthetic gourmet meal. You may long for someone absent, drinking to the memory of him or her as well as to the hope of togetherness in the future. Things that 'fall to you' in the present are pleasing.

{Tuesday} {Inconclusive}

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Monday March 5: difficult, challenging

Today, Tuesday 6: difficult, challenging after

___7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Wednesday 7: difficult, challenging

Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

Tuesday 13: good

2007-03-04T17:43:00.000-06:00

Monday 5 March 2007

}Promising Little Consummations{

There could be a lot of fun today. You are not afraid of people or of their reactions. You can act as if in a play where you can get away with things you couldn't do in 'real life.' But this is real life!

A friend may be convinced of health methods which leave you cold.

Sports or games could be invigorating and releasing.

You feel convinced that what you most deeply believe is not incompatible with having a good time.

You're determined to combine the old and new in your daily work. You can get a lot done by considering defensive maneuvers, that is, being ready for criticism; or shielding yourself from it, by doing better along the very lines likely to be critiqued.

The long view of your work and career helps you rise to the immediate occasion. Internet techniques or opportunities may be important to your success. Money gains allow you to purchase whatever you need. If you are in serious doubt about a large expense, you might wait until after Wednesday or, better, until the weekend, when you may be more sure how you want to spend your money.

Paperwork connected with government agencies or employers could be done smoothly.

Nature is wonderful. Are there hints of spring? Be a bit of a romantic. Venus's good aspects suggest you could be with someone you like. She or he is responsive to you more than you realize.

Students are serious about their study, yet mutual attractions are likely to crop up at any time. To study where natural or human beauty envelops you when you look up from the page is a delight.

Those who are thinking about spring planting, gardening or farming may have happy thoughts and good plans. Nature spirits may be active.

Because the moon will be in the Via Combusta beginning tomorrow, this may be the best day until the weekend to get definite things settled.

{Monday} {Promising Little Consummations}

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Sunday March 4: difficult, challenging

Today, Monday 5

Tuesday 6:

___fair only before 7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Wednesday 7: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:51a - 2:16p PT | 2:51p - 5:16p ET | 7:51p - 10:16p UT

Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

Monday 12: good,

___except for the brief period 11:28a - 1:36p PT | 2:28p - 4:36p ET | 6:28p - 8:36p UT: fair

2007-03-03T18:37:00.000-06:00

Sunday 4 March 2007

The Coming Week, through Friday March 9

I'm not jumping for joy, but this should be a smoother week than we've had for a while. A wonderful grand trine is forming in fire signs. It highlights study, spirituality, career talents, and personal charm.

Mercury turns direct on Wednesday evening (8:44p PT | 11:44p ET | 4:44a(Th) UT), but the effects of the slowly-forward-moving Mercury may not be felt for a while after that. The Dark Hermetic Epoch (while Mercury is slow) continues up to March 28. It is too early to say "We're out of the woods," but we are in a neater, nicer, more pleasing section of the woods.

Murky thinking can be cleaned up by philosophic study. Even those not generally interested in difficult thinking may be drawn to it. To conceptualize one's ideals, partially, while leaving some of them "beyond the mind," helps to keep one on a happy path. We intuit more than we can formulate (Mercury slow while conjoined to Neptune), yet we want to formulate as much as we can as clearly as we can (Mercury opposite Saturn and sextile Jupiter). You will do some of this while resting at home. You might do some of it in a library.

You are aware also of what to do in terms of paper-work related to income or business. This is easier now than in recent weeks, especially later this week and next; some will be inspired to get out neglected tax forms and the like.

People at a distance, who have different views than yours, are interesting, and communicating with them is worthwhile even if it shakes both parties up a little.

Some tasks closer to home need doing. I will not be an utter bore by hinting that you could do more housework or yardwork. That's for you to decide. There is a right time for that and your intuition will point it out, provided you don't lazily reject its impulsions.

The gloom of Saturn opposed to Neptune may be easing a bit. We should be used to it, or have learned some of what it is trying to teach us. Basically: Don't let your hopes and dreams be battered by 'reality,' but also don't let reality be ignored because you live only in your hopes without facing needed chores. The chores are old ones you've been postponing. The dreams and ideals are continually fresh, inspiring you toward the best.

You are preparing yourself to respond adroitly to those who reject or oppose something dear to you. That means being flexible in your responses, able to see the other's viewpoint so you can take an effective stance against it, or even undermine it. The sun's conjunction with Uranus and square with Jupiter require fresh ways of visualizing or conceptualizing ideals. Techniques of understanding are as important as techniques of doing.

The word 'worship' has come up in a discussion group. We agreed that worship is important, but it seems that in our culture the notion of G*d as worthy of worship has somehow gotten lost. Instead of worshipping Him, we blame Him. The very essence of the idea of G*d is a Being worthy of worship. Human humility is a sign of manliness, not of its lack.

When you realize what is lacking in your career skills, you can proceed to fill in what is missing gradually, without panic or suffering. Then you feel happy with yourself, and with the society which sustains you and which you sustain.

Some may want to travel or move. Others may see that all they need to do is clean up, redecorate, or restore their current dwelling or neighborhood. This may be easier now than in recent weeks. You will enjoy the sense of being in more than one place at a time. This can be through pictures, movies, TV, reading, memories, or even clairvoyant vision. The world becoming one does not mean that it will be homogenized. Diversity survives, enriching each segment within the overarching unity.

{Sunday} The Coming Week, through Friday March 9

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

Monday 5

Tuesday 6:

___fair only before 7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Wednesday 7: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:51a - 2:16p PT | 2:51p - 5:16p ET | 7:51p - 10:16p UT

Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

Saturday 10:

___fair after 11:32a PT | 2:32p ET | 7:32p UT

Sunday 11: fair

2007-03-01T10:20:00.000-06:00

Friday 2 March 2007

*Gliding, Half-Conscious Preparation Linked to Service*

Service is a keynote. Simple souls who care about the unity of the world and of human souls are natural healers. In the East they attract devotees as flowers attract bees. In the West they are scorned and treated as pariahs, while technocrats are put in their place.

Something in you trusts to your hidden goodness. You have the authority that comes from affirming that you can straighten things out and proceeding to do it. Therefore you don't have to convince people; they sense that you are on a good path, and so cooperate eventually.

To be judged is to feel demeaned, unless of course the judgment is favorable. Even then, one risks letting one's self-esteem be a captive of the judges. What is impossible now will be possible later. There are cycles, and we tend to be at a low point when Mercury is retrograde (through next Wednesday, though the Dark Hermetic Epoch continues until March 28). When you are forced to give up some chosen activities, or curtail them, this may be so that you can recover inwardly, get fresh perspective, and then be ready to start over again (toward the end of this month).

The excitement of life has to be shared to be real, although this can sometimes be done on inner psychic planes. If you wonder where the excitement went, you can rekindle it by being with people for a while, even if strangers. You benefit by observing and studying whatever gives you an overview. Your mind is sharp and comprehensive, embracing multiple elements with ease, while Mercury is sextile Pluto. Some will appreciate that, and take your hand to get better perspective on their own living, or for the sheer joy of sharing life and insight. We influence one another in multiplex ways of which we are hardly conscious.

{Friday} *Gliding, Half-Conscious Preparation Linked to Service*

Cosmic Piper

Best days of the coming week:

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Today, Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

Monday 5

Tuesday 6:

___fair only before 7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Wednesday 7: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:51a - 2:16p PT | 2:51p - 5:16p ET | 7:51p - 10:16p UT

Thursday 8: difficult, challenging

Friday 9: difficult, challenging

2007-02-27T13:00:00.000-06:00

Wednesday 28 February 2007

*Inward Victory Shared When Possible*

What people need to do is what you need to help them do. This requires some self-restraint, because you are likely to quarrel with their methods, ideas, or styles. If you take it as an interesting drama, as if you were fellow-actors in a play, you can accomplish something in tandem with someone initially opposed to your approach.

Escapism is tempting yet challenged while Saturn opposes Neptune, and Mercury retrograde, though we can always argue over what is inappropriate escape and what is helpful recreation. Jupiter in good aspect to both planets lifts you to a higher, longer, more detached and therefore more serviceable viewpoint. It sometimes amazes me how hard people are trying to be good.

You want to rise above what's boring in traditions. Yet the traditions themselves have value. So you can reinterpret or reshape them to fit your immediate needs. This can be quite exhilarating in the evening (even though the day becomes 'difficult' then in the ratings). Entertainment mixes with friendship. When you are loyal to what you believe in, there are those who will pick up on your inner certainty as something to lean toward. They like you because they feel that although you are free to buck conventions (which is stimulating), yet you have integrity (which is reassuring).

Pretty amazing things can happen at an inward mystical level. You sense that you have a mission. This necessarily involves opposing those opposed to the mission, who just don't comprehend it. This is not always hard, when you see how confused their ideas are. You are a seer, or see-er, especially in the evening when social relaxation enables you to get a glimpse of what people really are and what they are experiencing, beyond usual bounds of perception and conversation.

Rewards for perseverance are at hand. You care about things about which you are reserved unless someone indicates definite interest in them. You know that you know them, and hold on to them as precious possessions. This you can do until all the wrong notions by which you are surrounded die out and you are vindicated. This may take a lifetime, yet little signals of the process are consoling and bracing. Idealism which seems like immolation at times, and tested knowledge, unite to give you an advantage over all who have not reached your level.

{Wednesday} *Inward Victory Shared When Possible*

Cosmic Piper

Best days of the coming week:

Tuesday February 27: difficult, challenging

Today, Wednesday 28:

___becomes difficult, challenging at 1:24p PT | 4:24p ET | 9:24p UT

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

Monday 5

Tuesday 6:

___fair only before 7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

Wednesday 7: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:51a - 2:16p PT | 2:51p - 5:16p ET | 7:51p - 10:16p UT

2007-02-26T23:24:00.000-06:00

Tuesday 27 February 2007

~Calm Within the Storm~

[I am late writing and posting this report, because of Monday's confusion and backtracking - symptoms of Mercury retrograde.]

The exactness of the opposition of Neptune and Saturn, at a critical degree, could be disturbing or climactic. You may feel you don't know which way to turn. Looking to the past, to what has sustained you, is important, to maintain a sense of continuity, preserving your sanity and helping you make non-upsetting choices.

The moon is void of course all day. This adds to the uncertainties of Mercury being retrograde. Unless you are in a crisis situation which absolutely demands a decision, I say, avoid major decisions and make even minor ones as tentative as possible. Something important is happening in connection with your job or career, but it is all tentative. Your intuition may be pressing you to get a handle on important hidden, semi-occult matters which enhance your public position. That you can do, if you are not in a hurry to exploit them or make them public. Discretion and silence protect you.

Whether to slow down or speed up is an important question. You need to keep control, disciplining yourself in health matters, perhaps exercise. Then you need to stay with ordinary routines which protect you from diffusion. You might worry too much, whereas you could do some simple things which are necessary and make you feel more in control.

Wisdom comes from mastering escapist impulses, whether gluttonous or lustful. You are the one who decides whether or not you are being foolish, not someone else.

Whether it's the weather or overly zealous, misguided attempts at the currently impossible, you could be blown off your best path. It is always possible to circle back. Someone in an authority position is good for you, but you could be misled by him or her if you were to follow his advice blindly. Yet you should not pick a quarrel with him. You need to wait to see which way the wind is blowing and therefore how to set your sails. Meanwhile a stillness, a calm, can help you center yourself, better than precipitate words or actions.

People are wanting to influence one another, quite brilliantly while Mercury is sextile Pluto, and quite persuasively; yet there is an ennui, a worldly wisdom, and a deeper intuition which spurns most advice as one-sided. Take your time. You may spur yourself to quicker action when it is definitely needed, along well-tested lines. But if it's chancy, or you feel uneasy, it is far better to wait.

The Spirit, however, does not have to wait; it is always ready to embrace you in a stream of healing and edifying energy, while you learn wisdom slowly and wait for the world, and your circumstances, to catch up.

{Tuesday} ~Calm Within the Storm~

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Today, Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

Monday 5

Tuesday 6:

___fair only before 7:48a PT | 10:48a ET | 3:48p UT

2007-02-25T17:44:00.000-06:00

Monday 26 February 2007

~Seeing the Goal through a Shimmering Veil~

Getting a message out may be important - or listening to a message someone wants you to hear. People are persuasive. You could be persuasive. Whom do you want to 'convert' or incite to action? What important individual or organization might respond to your urging to get on track with something important to you?

Unexpected deals in the marketplace could be good. You have the experience and savvy to see the value in something low-priced.

Disappointment with health can be cured through long-term, slow programs of therapy, exercise, and diet. They may not produce results immediately, but you feel exhilarated when setting them in motion. A spiritual link with the Highest is essential for health, and the existing formulations of established religions are not to be overlooked; they have been tried and proved valid or they would have died out long ago.

When uncertain which way to go, you might consider the input of someone conservative, whose business success shows that he is linked well with the world of material transaction, no matter how off-putting his personality. If he invites you to a party or excursion, there are good reasons to accept.

Entertainment has business value for you.

Many dangers connected with water have been suffered during Neptune's opposition with Saturn, now exact. There have been floods with serious loss of life, as well as the capsizing of boats, in various places. At a deeper level, you need to channel the waters of your subconscious mind safely, through spiritual study and awareness. Knowing your limits is important, for you can't do everything at once. Yet you need to rise to the occasion when there is something gracious and useful you can do. Evading danger in wily fashion is half the program; the rest is recognizing opportunities, though they be small seed-opportunities rather than tree-fulfillments.

When others are failing, as you may note, either through incapacity, illness, or unwillingness to lift a finger, you can step in and fill their place. You can get attention for professional targets you are aiming at, and secure stunning publicity. This snatches victory out of the jaws of listless defeat. Your agenda has a religious, spiritual, or international coloring, for Jupiter is strong now in his own sign, Sagittarius. Your talents have business or fund-raising value.

If all this seems unrealistic, that may be because it has to be low-key, slow, stumbling, easy-going, with backtracking and re-starting. If you keep the vision in front of you, progress will be real even if haphazard.

{Monday} ~Seeing the Goal through a Shimmering Veil~

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Sunday February 25: fair

Today, Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

Monday 5

2007-02-24T17:10:00.000-06:00

Sunday 25 February 2007

The Coming Week, through Friday March 2

If you don't notice the 'out-of-pattern' mix-ups and confusions, derailments and delays, odd choices and peculiar schedules, of Mercury retrograde (February 14 through March 7), you had better give up reading this report - you must be a different species from me and probably nothing I say would make sense to you.

A lot of stuff needs to be done, but you can do it in your own peculiar, unmapped, spontaneous manner. You have been postponing things. The dishes pile up in the kitchen, the grime in the garage, the books and papers on the desk. Hmm. You will do it all sometime.

The disappointments of Neptune opposite Saturn are intense. Yet the spiritual wisdom in you knows they are not ultimately necessary. You are struggling to keep your faith intact in the midst of disillusionment. This is quite possible, in job areas and in connection with your home or family. Perhaps an exercise program has fallen into disarray. You just gave up, or were so preoccupied with other things that exercise seemed the last thing you needed to do. If you do a little bit every day, that is better than nothing.

Fresh things are aborning. You want to break out of prison by doing bracing and exciting things which protect your situation from compromise. You have a sense of how to meet the 'enemy,' that is, those who disagree with you, in a new way which makes use of your available skills brilliantly. The sun's conjunction with Uranus, both of them square Jupiter, helps you get going in fresh directions which are recreated from old ones (while Mercury is retrograde).

You may feel giddy while doing this. Saturn's opposition with Neptune leads some to escape their suffering or confusion through alcohol or drugs. If you know better than that, you can perhaps get yourself intoxicated by enthusiasm and hope rather than artificial substances. It almost seems that all are suffering from 'bipolar disorder,' once called mania-depression. It's a seesaw. Knowing that, you can monitor your moods and get control, like a kid who stands with one foot on each side of the teeter-totter.

Jupiter mediates the Saturn-Neptune opposition through a trine to the former and sextile to the latter. This is a wonderful remedy. Dare to believe, dare to be yourself, and dare to be childlike. Many are discovering that although religion may begin in churches, synagogues and mosques, it becomes personal for each within that one's inner soul-recesses, which reach out for a unique relation to G*d which no one else has in the same way. We can develop that wonderful Relationship, each in his or her style; and we can gently foster and respect others' ways of doing it, which are bound to be different from our own - yet all compatible within the cosmic harmony.

{Sunday} The Coming Week

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Saturday February 24

Today, Sunday 25: fair

Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

Sunday 4: difficult, challenging

2007-02-23T10:11:00.000-06:00

Saturday 24 February 2007

}Mental Adventure, Calm Understanding{

Uncertainties you face were put there to be conquered through persistence.

Being at home is not a bad thing. It helps you recover from stress. Your career direction is good and you can keep it going, but need inner peace to do that.

When feeling that you need extra rest, you can get it. Then when you want to rest in action, you can turn to daily routines which are more than routine, because they put you in touch with the Highest. You may shape up or improve a daily schedule of spiritual study, ritual, prayer, meditation.

Confidence arising from internal spiritual awareness releases harmony within yourself first, then in your environment, which seems less imprisoning when infiltrated by good will from a higher realm of saints and angels.

When you live for lonely pleasure, separated, you may entertain yourself well for a while, then realize you are depleting your resources unless you attend to requirements of the Spirit.

Those who follow a life of disorder, Bohemians, or of spontaneity, hippies, may be extremists, yet needfully counteract an equally extreme tendency toward monkish severity and self-superior isolation. The two trends can come together in illuminating and liberating ways. Some Zen masters illustrate the phenomenon, as well as childlike Christian saints and Hindu yogis of the wilder variety.

A turbulent element enters through the moon's square with Uranus: moodiness and erraticism. Yet if you are determined to hit a particular mark, you can do it with speed and decisiveness, putting the weight of emotion behind the vector of impulsion. It is good to be sure you really want what you can get so forcefully, or you will then have to scramble to get rid of it.

Adventure is forthcoming. Where it will go is unpredictable. You may do something virile for a while, then weary of it and settle down to something more relaxing at home.

{Saturday} {Mental Adventure, Calm Understanding}

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Friday February 23: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:46a--2:42pPT| 2:46p--5:42p ET| 7:46p--10:42p UT

Today, Saturday 24

Sunday 25: fair

Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

Saturday 3: difficult, challenging

2007-02-22T12:51:00.000-06:00

Friday 23 February 2007

}Pretend It's Fun and It Will Be{

A headline from the New York Times: Politeness Falls to Infighting. This was about rapid-fire events on Wednesday, the very day Venus entered Aries. She had been in Pisces for a month or so, the sign of her exaltation, the sign of kindness and gentleness. Aries is the sign of the warrior, and the sign of Venus's dethronement (for she is enthroned in its opposite sign, Libra). According to the Times, "The presidential campaign has been a relatively polite affair in its early stages, and the day marked an abrupt change of tone that exposed the intensity of the bad feeling bubbling just below the surface in both parties." Pisces is the sign of bubbles, and Aries a fire sign. "None of the players showed much inclination to back off." No, Venus in Aries does not back off. Those of you who haven't read about all the incidents might enjoy doing so. In the Democratic camp it was harsh infighting between the Clinton and the Obama camps, instigated by a Maureen Dowd interview with David Geffen published Wednesday morning, just hours after Venus entered Aries. It's interesting that a woman (Venus) was the instigator through her column and a woman (Hillary) the victim of the instigation. On the Republican side, it was a pitched battle between the McCain camp and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, defenders of the Bush camp. Says the Times: "The punch and counterpunch went on all day, transfixing the political world . . ." Anyone who does not know that Aries is a pugilistic sign doesn't know much about astrology. (The Times article quoted is by Patrick Healy and Jim Rutenberg.)

Astrology is real. We just need to be alert to the signals. It's interesting that Geffen is a fund-raiser and part of the squabble was over his fund-raising for Obama (though he had previously been a strong fund-raiser for Bill Clinton). The square of Venus with Pluto continues. Pluto, the planet of plutocracy, rules fund-raising.

Things should be getting gradually more pleasant through the day. That's not because it's Friday but because the moon is separating from a square with Saturn, consummating a trine with Mars and moving toward a nice sextile with Venus in the evening. Trust, emotional security, and mutual fostering of one another's well-being are keynotes.

The harshness of life calls forth a spiritual reaction. You see people's failures and sufferings but can lift them up in exciting rather than condescending style, stimulating rather than coddling them. This gets a good response.

Who are the friends with whom you have a little cult? You share in-group fantasies and perhaps in-group esoteric truths which you would not repeat to outsiders. This is a heady mixture of comradeship plus virtually extra-terrestrial (or super-mundane) insight.

One warning: try not to be open to too negative influences. Some individuals are not malicious or intentionally hurtful so much as unconsciously hurtful when they pull you into an orbit which is pointless or even self-destructive. Maybe you can consciously lift them out of such vacuity (a drift toward a 'black hole') by re-inspiring positive good will in them.

When feeling inept, indifferent or 'out of it,' you might turn to the sources of inspiration which ultimately motivate your life. Then you will push on. Though footsteps come with difficulty at first you will get a second wind.

People seem to need each other for strengthening, a mutual fostering of virility. Then everything brightens.

A little adventure is appropriate in the evening. Your heart will show you the rugged path leading to beauty.

{Friday} {Pretend It's Fun and It Will Be}

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Thursday February 22

Today, Friday 23: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:46a--2:42pPT| 2:46p--5:42p ET| 7:46p--10:42p UT

Saturday 24

Sunday 25: fair

Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging

Friday 2: difficult, challenging

2007-02-21T13:47:00.000-06:00

Thursday 22 February 2007

\Inner Coalescence of Potentials Believed In/

I can't promise much, but can try to outline some of the problems.

Loss of morale could be the biggest. However, sometimes the square of the moon with Saturn (this time also with Neptune) can stimulate morale simply because, through desperation, one 'screws up one's courage' and gets going on important things that need to be done. These should be old ones, things you've been postponing, for the most part. And you should give yourself plenty of time to rest, or fiddle around, or re-create your consciousness and energy through divergent interests which come up. Then when you are refreshed you might get back to the work in hand. Take it easy.

When things seem utterly chaotic and you feel lost, it could help to think of, or be with, someone who is calm, gentle, and kindly. You have spent time with her or him enjoying luxuries or pleasures, and feel secure and calm in his or her presence.

You see into people pretty well, and don't always like what you see. They don't seem as austere, serious or committed as you are. So you might feel like dismissing them, yet you have to live and work with human beings and these are the ones with whom your lot has been cast for some reason. They are suffering, and so are you, yet you may not comprehend one another's suffering because it seems everyone has his or her own way of doing it. (Suffering as an activity.) So it is good to be patient.

Mercury and the sun are rushing into each other's arms while Mercury speeds backward (from our geocentric perspective). This is a defining moment. Here is one shot at what it means: You are re-experiencing dilemmas and needs from past lifetimes. You are picking up old burdens and re-learning how to carry them. You may do this with remarkable agility, and superphysical help. People you like are part of the process. It is good to be with a friend, friends, or strangers who might turn out to be friendly. Someone you are meeting from a past life is bound to be a stranger when you first meet, though you will soon feel a link drawing you together.

Someone with a professional capacity to see into problems and untangle them may be helpful, either in your job or your relationships. By cooperating with this individual at a level of shared insight you are defended from old recurring problems because you see some of what they mean and can also help someone else escape them.

Jupiter's sextile with Neptune is in the nature of a tonic which re-inspires when you feel utterly down. It comes from spiritual sources. Dare to believe! When you don't even feel like putting one foot in front of the other, believing in something, even a fairy tale or Arabian Nights story, can pick you up and get you moving in a way which feels meaningful and therefore enjoyable.

Harmony lies under the surface while the moon is in Taurus, sign of its exaltation. When you let your mind dwell on someone you would like to protect or comfort, you are re-inspired, and when the motive for action is good the results cannot be too far away from the divine plan.

{Thursday} /Inner Coalescence of Potentials Believed In\

Sir Real

Best days of the coming week:

Wednesday February 21: fair

Today, Thursday 22

Friday 23: only the following period is

___difficult, challenging: 11:46a--2:42pPT| 2:46p--5:42p ET| 7:46p--10:42p UT

Saturday 24

Sunday 25: fair

Monday 26: fair until

___10:03p PT| 1:03a(Tu) ET| 6:03a (Tu)UT

Tuesday 27: difficult, challenging

Wednesday 28

Thursday March 1: difficult, challenging