Weekend of June 4-6, 2010

Weekend of June 4-6, 2010

We may be out of the Dark Hermetic Epoch (until August 1) but I am still working my way out of it with my Internet connections. I hope to be in better shape with them next week.

This has to be in ordinary type today, which may be a relief to those of you who don't like the fonts and colors.

First, a correction: In the second (I think) post on the Jupiter-Saturn cycles I said that the period of the mutation (opposition or conjunction) tends to be 11 months long. As is obvious from the times I actually quoted, I meant 13 months. It was just a mental flip-flop. I am sorry if it confused you.

Second, the oil spill, or perhaps the oil invasion from our old enemy Great Britain, began in the Dark Epoch and it appears that there is some limited success at containment now, eight days after the Bright Epoch began. Let us hope this is not a "flash in the pan" (pun intended) but the beginning of improvement. The idea that drilling two new wells in August will settle things is disturbing because another Dark Epoch will have begun by then. Let's hope for answers before that.

The stock market's disappointing fluctuations, downward last week again, are disturbing to investors. Although I do not attempt to predict the market's trends with any exactness, I doubt that there will be a "double dip recession" as some fear, although I can't say whether the upturn will come next week or two or three weeks from now.

This weekend is within the |difficult, touchy, tough or serious third of the week|, which ends in the wee hours between Sunday and Monday. It is important to retain the link with one's spiritual guide or guides, or with the Avatar Jesus or the Avatar Sri Aurobindo or someone else if that someone really does it for you. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you" is major advice during these times. We are required to drop the lesser for the greater. This is not as hard as holding on to the lesser would be, as a matter of fact. A "can do" attitude emerges at such times if one does not lose the spiritual touch, the link with the divine will.

I mentioned recently how the |difficult third| times, two to three days each week, moving gradually earlier, are taken sometimes as hard-partying days by some people. I think these are individuals who are more animal or brutish in their proclivities; pardon me if that sounds snobbish. Last night and today an unusual amount of drunken shouting went on in my neighborhood. Today three inebriates shouted seemingly ecstatic joking conversation filled with profanity at one another for a few hours. The parties at these times (difficult third) are attempts to escape serious problems, worries or memories, and that is why they can go bad.

All this was exacerbated this time by the exact opposition of Mars and Neptune, often a signal of too much alcohol. It can also be poisoning in other ways, so clean diet and air are important. Of course a bit of indulgence may be okay if kept within sensible guidelines.

For the more refined, including you readers (!), this has a "spiritual search" feeling to it, Mars the planet of action realizing he cannot act successfully if he does not know what he is doing---Neptune being either confusion or spiritual guidance. The confusion is a positive signal that the quest for spiritual guidance is there.It is not a bad aspect if that guidance is found and implemented; then it shows the possibility of "giving up the lesser for the greater," the would-be princedom of Satan for the Kingdom of God. Mars is then enlisted to do the will of the Highest rather than his own perverted will. Or, to put it more sweetly, he finds out that his own will is not his own unless it is also that of the Highest.

Venus is beginning to form a trine with Jupiter and sextile with Saturn. This should take the hard edge off the opposition we have been discussing, or perhaps facilitate an easier adjustment to the Big Adjustment. There will be moments of fun, pleasure, luxury and satisfaction; but since Saturn is involved this will tend to be within wise bounds, which could make it even better. The Venus-Jupiter trine lasts through June 23. We dare to breathe the word "love" when Venus enjoys such aspects. Unless one agrees with Good Charlotte's dance floor anthem: "I don't wanna be in love, I don't wanna be in love."

{Weekend of June 4-6}

Cosmic Piper