Friday 30 September 2011
~Octobrine~
A melancholy but not necessarily depressed mood accompanies the moon's square with Neptune (from Scorpio to Aquarius). You may feel you need to earn the respect or appreciation of younger people.
There is a trend toward peaceful contemplation, yet a fiery sense of impatience within it. The glorious hopes you contemplate, and their higher-plane realities, inspire intense aspirations you would like to fulfill through action.
(I was either right or wrong when I said the moon would be void-of-course today. Wrong from the viewpoint of the current way of judging that, using the invisible planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, for the moon is forming a square with Neptune all day. Right from the viewpoint of William Lilly and the ancient astrologers who did not use those planets. Aspects with them are not always as evident in the practical sphere as aspects with the seven anciently known planets.)
In your job or other work, or personal project, you symbolize something for people in a way you may not be consious of, and that is part of your strength.
An autmnal feeling, with the "Octobrine" slanting sunlight I love at this season, is both sad and enlivening, nostalgic and contemplative. You may leave your home behind to be out in it.
With all the squares among the planets, those who want to reform the world are with us and speak up. You will hear schemes for proposed laws or reforms. I agree with the libertarians that there are too many laws, and increasing them leads to profit for no one but lawyers and judges. Yet I agree with the Left that some environmental laws and some social safety nets are very necessary. John Dewey explained a simple fact decades ago, that there is no absolute principle by which we can decide whether a given law is necessary, only experience and its results, plus the best judgment we can summon. But, in general, we risk becoming not a lawless but a law-bound, law-entagled, law-stifled society. Simplifying the tax code, which benefits only those who can afford lobbyists and lawyers, would help enormously, and cutting the government pensions of some who enjoy both them and social security. (But when a right-wing agenda would cut into their own bottom line, Rightists become selective Leftists in a hurry. As many have pointed out, the U. S. military is a Leftist organization, a self-contained socialist state supported by the taxpayers.)
We do need to care for the poor and the sick, and protect animals from cruelty, and eliminating such protections, as some on the extreme Right want, would put us back a century or more in terms of human compassion and ordinary decency.
Your spiritual heritage, which neither I nor anyone can define for you, is with you when you give it attention.
{Friday} ~Octobrine~
Cosmic Piper
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