Waiting and watching will probably be a bit of a preoccupation today. You’ve begun the process and have done all you can for the moment.
This might be a good time to review the steps you’ve taken so far. Make sure that you’ve got yourself balanced before the real journey begins.
Virtue is likely to be a key concept. Virtue here means being true to yourself within and between all your layers – mind, body and spirit.
Are your emotions in line with your thinking? Are you acting in a way that accurately reflects you’re beliefs and feelings? Explore these questions and relax. Your ship will arrive soon.
A recent study, soon to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research, has found that people who trust their feelings about future events are more likely to correctly predict outcomes for those events than people who have less trust in their feelings.
Researchers Michel Tuan Pham, Leonard Lee, Andrew Stephen, and Joseph M. Katz have called it the Emotional Oracle Effect. They say that our feelings encompass everything we know about the world around us, including things that our logical reasoning might ignore.
Put another way, our feelings might know more than our intellect, primarily because feelings don’t worry about making sense.
Eight different studies were done with participants predicting outcomes in each. They covered topics from politics, to the stock market, to American Idol. In all cases, those people who trusted their feelings were more apt to get the outcome right than those with less trust.
But feelings aren’t enough to help predict outcomes for situations we have no personal experience with.
For instance, when asked to predict future weather conditions for places they knew, participants who trusted their feelings did well. But when they tried to predict the weather for places they had no experience with, they were way off.
There’s nothing psychic in any of the predictions made by the participants in this study, but the results are still pretty interesting.
It looks like we know a lot more than we give ourselves credit for. And feelings shouldn’t be ignored.
Venus moves into Taurus today and will stay there until April 3rd.
If we look at this transit from a Tarot perspective, it would be like the Empress is wearing the Hierophant’s clothing. She’s moved from casual comfort to a more authoritative formal look.
Venus in Taurus, or the Empress in the Hierophant’s clothing can be a time of faith that the universe is operating exactly as it should. How could it not be? The world’s mother is in charge.
Creative energies can be contained, directed and used to exalt the lowly and the sublime. It’s a time of sensuality, but one that’s refined and under control.
Fine art, philosophy, music, and good food. Embrace it all and celebrate how amazing it is to be human.
As long as the Empress is in this outfit, the rule of the day is grace, love and beauty.
Charge forward with strength and vitality. This is a day of power, passion and growing energy. Your plan is in place and now’s the time to take it to the next step. Use your internal fire to take you where you’re tying to go.
You don’t need to wait till everything’s perfect to start moving. In fact, more often than not, things don’t start falling where they should until you start shifting them up and get some excitement going. Take a chance that you know what you’re doing and act on it. Believe in yourself and don’t be shy.
The Moon moves into Leo today and stays there until Wednesday.
Translated into Tarot cards, this transit would be like the High Priestess is wearing Strength’s clothing. She’s thrown off her heavy cape and is spending some time outside with her lion.
The Moon in Leo, or High Priestess in Strength’s clothing is potentially a time of emotional power. Something beautiful that’s usually under wraps can finally be revealed.
The silence is broken. Quiet wisdom and passion can be united. During this time, it might be difficult to keep your ideas to yourself. But why should you?
Try finding an outlet for plans you’ve been sitting on? This is an opportunity to shine if you’re not over-burdened by self-consciousness.
It might feel a little uncomfortable at first, but letting your wilder side out right now could be positive. The sun isn’t always shining. Take advantage of it when it does.
Most likely, this is an important time. You’re probably coming to the end of a long phase and are in the process of review.
Judgment might be a heavy word to use, but that’s likely the situation – you’re judging yourself and your progress to date. How do you rate yourself? How are you rating others? Where do you want to go next?
There’s a strong element of resurrection in this energy. As the phase you’re in comes to a close, you ready yourself for rebirth. Listen carefully to what your soul is trying to tell you. What have you learned through these last years? What might you want to try again? What might you want to let go of? The big question is how might you be even more alive going forward?
Enjoy this time for what it is, though it might feel confusing and even a little anxiety-ridden. Soon there will be movement. Take a good look at your past, a good look at your present and envision what you want to do next. What do you want your life to be like tomorrow? It’s up to you to make it happen.
Lon Milo Duquette is best known in the Tarot community as the preeminent expert on Aleister Crowley and the Thoth Tarot. But it might be less well known that he’s also an accomplished musician.
