Month: May 2010

Cooler heads must prevail. The myriad of thoughts that have been swirling around in your head seem to have no outlet. They are kind of dizzying. This is due to the confluence of planetary influences that don’t seem to find a common resting place. There are too many conflicting elements that can’t seem to cooperate fully. This is an unhappy state of mind. Unhappiness is the inability to experience inner peace. The times that we live in bring about challenges to finding this inner peace, nevertheless, it can be achieved.

The best way to obtain inner peace is by living in the moment. You must have a master plan but nothing can be experienced in the past or in the future. Life can only be experienced in the moment. Being too connected to the past allows for some fond memories but no action can eradicate or wipe out a word of it. The future cannot be experienced except in the form of extreme anxiety in which you project your fears onto some upcoming event. Too much foresight or not enough foresight is the enemy.

Going hither & thither seems to be the best route for the moment. Flexibility is required during this major period of change. Saturn & Uranus will soon be moving into to new signs and this will usher in new beginnings. Fresh ideas will begin to rise to the surface. Consciousness will find new paths of emergence. All these things will keep you moving in a positive and constructive direction.

Use this week to refuel. After the previous few weeks, you are feeling exhausted. Sometimes you just can’t swim upstream. Relax and go with the flow. You think that expressing your opinions is necessary to national security but really, sometimes it’s better not to rankle. Some things must run their course without the interference of interested parties.

Some people are making all sorts of declarations which ultimately can’t be upheld. Don’t get in the fray. Stand clear of any forming thunder clouds. When things hit the fan, you won’t be smack in the center of the chaos. Preservation of your resources is the most important consideration. Those resources include your health. Don’t let any one drain you of your precious time or energy.

You might be looking around and wondering, where is this all going to end? Don’t contemplate the unknowable but concentrate on making your own positive contributions to the world stage. None of us see the “big” picture. We all possess a small sliver of information from which we operate our lives. Keep your balance and enjoy the show.

Look for big swings of popular opinion. We will now see lots of people suddenly supporting things that only a short time ago they wouldn’t have considered. Survival is the greatest consideration. Survive with your own talents and resources. Be your own friend.

Several tensions emerge and subside in almost the same breath. It appears that many of the aspects show opposition and conflict. When we are opposed we tend to run away from the problem. When we experience conflict we want to fight. Both of these perspectives are operating simultaneously. Good thing you are well balanced or you might actually think that you are losing you mind. This is a time when illusions must be differentiated from reality.

Illusions have a way of becoming delusions. But with the proper foundation they can be transformed into the constructive building blocks of a secure future. Neptune is the planet of illusion or Maya. By experiencing these illusions and applying it to reality we learn to know what will stand up to the test of time. We learn what is real.
We are guided by our experiences and our perception of them.

So we have our unique experiences, neither good or bad, but our experiences. Everything is good and bad at the same time. Good for some things and bad for some things. In other words, for every advantage is a disadvantage. This is where the illusion comes in. We often think that what we want will bring us only positive results but everything is good and bad at the same time. It is a double edged sword.

Be happy with where you are now. Live your life on a daily basis. You have today to make a difference.

Don’t count on others for assistance. Rely on yourself. No one, including astrologers, knows what lies ahead but you have one friend and one enemy and that is yourself.
The solution to most of life’s great problems can be found within. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” So from the global perspective, character is destiny.

Many planetary influences are at work most of which are helping us get a better grip on our own personality. The personality is important in our ability to earn income. Therefore, some tailoring is necessary as none of us is born with the perfect personality. We work out our psychology through our profession. So we must either choose the right profession or must learn what is required for the profession. These lessons come through our experiences and our ability to benefit from our observations.

We have to know what to expect from others. We learn about people by observing them but also by learning about ourselves. If you know yourself, you will know the others. People have the same needs and fulfill them through different paths. Your path should be wisely chosen and it is based on your morals and ethics. We all pay for what we want and we pay for what we don’t want. Know what you want and take the long path.

There is a saying in astrology, what you achieve in the right way will be a source of happiness and will be maintained but what you achieve in the wrong way will be a source of unhappiness and will be lost.

Obtain the right thinking.

With the Sun in Taurus you may not feel like overextending yourself. Instead you just want to relax and enjoy the spring weather and slow it down a bit. The Moon in Capricorn makes you feel guilty about it. Ignore this guilty feeling and enjoy the freedom of the moment. You will soon be immersed in work and other activities. Take time to smell the flowers.

Mercury in Taurus reinforces this lazy feeling. Information is slowly processed under this influence. Also, Mercury is retrograde which makes everything seem like it is in slow motion. This is a good time to re-examine the past and make some changes to your point of view. If anyone is going to be changing, it will have to be you. You have to do the work. Other people aren’t going to change just because you want them to.

The trine aspect between Mercury and Pluto adds some pepper to the mix. You are able to see the tumult that lies beneath the surface. You won’t be overreacting though, as the earthy signs that Mercury and Pluto currently reside in are slow to react. Jupiter is approaching an opposition to Uranus so you’ll have to choose between the conventional and the unconventional.

Take your actions seriously as some things cannot be undone. Caution is the prevailing theme during the current planetary influences.