Holiday Season Forecast

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Dear Group,

As always, I hope this Forecast illustrates useful Jyotish technique

and is helpful to you in personal planning.

 

 

Vedic Predictive Astrology

 

 

Holiday Season Forecast

Composed Dec. 9, 2002

 

Today's national news spotlights new studies on what makes

people happy, certainly a timely issue with the holidays and the new

year and potential new war approaching. Contentment, forgiveness,

altruism, lack of materialism, actively doing what you do best, being

in the company of friends and family and staying in the "flow" are

psychology's new hallmarks for mental health. These are also the

recipe for getting out of ones solar ego, as well as for peace.

 

Of course, this "new" psychological theory is truly ancient, and

Hindu philosophy is literally built upon detaching from desires,

forgiveness, work without expectation, good deeds, staying in

the "now," the value of personal associations... These bring

fulfillment, which the Indians believe is happiness, and thereby also

contentment and peace. While examination of other belief systems

will yield the same fundamentals, India's age old philosophy focuses

most deeply upon the path to fulfillment, which dictates detachment

and happiness to gain enlightenment - the abandonment of the ego and

the liberation of the soul. Consider that India is the only major

country which has never invaded another, and the end result of

personal peace intertwines with international peace. Reflect that

India's Vedic Astrology is centered upon the perceptional Moon, the

planet of peace of mind, contentment, cooperation, perception,

nurturing, relationships and the group.

 

It is, however, encouraging during this period of multicultural

strife and violence that western psychology has suddenly discovered

what makes people happy, and by extrapolation, peaceful. Perhaps the

planets' generally auspicious placements since the end of July, and

particularly wise Jupiter in its exaltation sign of Cancer, have

promoted this new psychological understanding, this rediscovery of

millennia-old understanding that our western society's egocentric Sun

must be tamed to gain happiness. Western Astrology is natural solar-

primary. Perhaps the day will come when the Eastern cooperative Moon

supersedes the Western egocentric Sun.

 

As we approach the holidays, there is a potent planetary

irritation existent, for violent and desirous Mars is closely

conjunct loving and forgiving Venus in Libra, the constellation of

relationships. Mars/Venus is passionate attachment, expressing itself

in quarreling, agitation and aggression. These must disrupt

happiness, and now psychologists and Indian philosophy both believe

so. This conjunction, unusual for its duration, began during the

last week of November, is most forceful from December 6 to about

December 20, and then decreases until it ends at New Years.

 

This Forecast focuses upon the Mars/Venus conjunction to help us

all avoid its excesses that can break relationships, stimulate

disappointments and destroy happiness during this year's pivotal

holiday/new year season. Individual happiness is needed now to gain

the peacefulness that can avoid or blunt the international calamity

that has been feeding upon the long-standing cultural/religious

discord evidenced so dramatically on 9-11. This risk for calamity

has been predicted for the period from January 7 to February 23, with

January 27 spotlighted. Venus's receptive and forgiving love is

changed to temperamental passion by Mars' aggressive energy.

Arguments within existing relationships - lovers, mates, family and

friends - are stimulated now, and to avoid permanent breaks, efforts

to detach and forgive are the sole remedy. New love affairs blossom,

but these tend to burn out with heated intimacy, resulting in

emotional pain. Venus's materialism is pumped up by Mars, suggesting

care in impulsive gift buying to avoid overspending and over-

expectation of both gratitude from recipients, as well as in the

gifts we may receive. (See the 12/3 Stock Market Forecast, below,

predicting a downtrend, which limits holiday spending.) Regarding

family relationships, Mars is brothers, and Venus is wives and

daughters, indicating that during this period, we should be most

sensitive to, and non-judgmental of, these loved ones. In Venus

signifying vehicles and Mars accidents, travel with awareness and

avoid excesses that can trigger accidents

 

As Venus is pleasures, Mars' energy stimulates overeating,

sweets, fats, alcohol, drugs and other overindulgences, and these

also stimulate the harmful passionate actions described above. Use

care in choosing holiday events and activities, especially if you are

entertaining, for you are responsible to your guests.

 

It is best to focus on moderation in all things, looking beyond

yourself to the needs of others and avoiding pressurized situations.

In some cases, you may find it literally impossible to restrain your

passionate impulses, and sometimes you may find yourself attacked by

others, but your awareness of this sensitivity will be a great aid in

deflating and deflecting aggression and objectifying your reactions.

Your forgiveness is the only remedy in unavoidable clashes, for

resentment breeds aggression. Spend time as you can with family and

friends, for not only does isolation bring misery, but those closest

to you need your support the most. Enjoy Venus's performing and

visual arts, at a peak during the holidays, for these support love

and depress Martian aggression. Reach out to those less fortunate,

for your generosity strengthens Venus's compassionate love and

transforms Mars' destruction into energy to do good. Attending

spiritual and religious functions is helpful in the internal struggle

between Venus's love and Mars' war, as well as propitiating peace in

the world.

 

With these thoughts, I wish all of you a happy, fulfilled and

peaceful holiday season as a the prelude for the new year of 2003,

when only these values can promote peace within ourselves and

throughout the diverse, but ultimately one, world community of

mankind.

 

 

 

Namaste,

 

doug

 

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Stock Market Forecast 12/3/02.

The recent stock markets run-up is running out of steam - may have

already reached its peak.

On 1/3/02, markets may begin to gyrate - bigger up/down swings - and

then move downward after 2/22/03.

Markets will begin to recover after 4/5/03 and pick up steam again

after 4/14/03.

Bush's actions are the wild card here.

 

 

 

Doug Riemer

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Vedic

www.VedicPredictiveAstrology.com

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