Saturday 21 December 2013
Sun in Capricorn, Discrimination; Moon in Leo, Glory; Foci in 8, Regeneration and 5, Pleasure
Sun enters Capricorn (Winter Solstice) at 9:12a PT | 12:12p ET | 5:12p UT
|Karmically difficult third| of this week continues (until very late Sunday)
*Self-Possessed Assurance*
Apology: I failed to mention the beginning of the |difficult third| in Friday's report. Holiday turmoil plus extra necessary doings truncated the time available for writing and I overlooked it. It began Friday in the forenoon in the West and early afternoon in the East.
Despite possibly gloomy feelings related to delays and difficulties, we remain in the Bright Hermetic Epoch and are nearing the center of it (December 28 when Mercury joins the sun). You are happy about some of the ways you are organizing your world--social activities, finances, business, friendships. It all is fitting together in a way that makes sense. Voila!
But the opposition of Mars to Uranus, both square Pluto, is with us as pressures to get things done. It can feel hectic. We need the peace of the sun's sextile with Neptune. So when you take time to meditate or pray and relax, you are able to handle the rapidity of the pressures to action calmly and efficiently.
In silence and solitude they contemplate the providence
With which they have been blessed. Protection from
The world's mischances seems their privilege.
Gloomy weather cannot threaten that.
A mountain plateau at sunrise is the site of
A daily ceremony linking man with God.
In colder climes a fireplace blazes the warmth
Of old Sol indirectly. Complacence
And good fortune go together. The one who
Stands high on a rock with folded arms
Is self-possessed and does not need the
Sickly sweet effusions toward which he hankered
In his immaturity. He sees his peers
Intoxicated by weeds and potions and
Tolerates their trendy drug-dependence.
He remembers his home where a fire burns.
It wants his presence and some tending.
He will sit before it contemplating the dark
Beyond the light and the light beyond
The dark. The solstice shows a new plateau.
{Saturday} *Self-Possessed Assurance*
Cosmic Piper
Sunday 22 December 2013
Sun in Capricorn, Discrimination; Moon in Leo, Glory-->Virgo, Purity; Foci in 9, Travel and 4, Home
/moon goes void-of-course at 5:27a PT | 8:27a ET | 1:27p UT
until it enters Virgo at 11:20a PT | 2:20p ET | 7:20p UT
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 8:20p PT | 11:20p ET | 4:20a(M) UT
\Unconvention Stalks Convention/
I changed the keywords for 9 and 4 (9th and 4th houses of the horoscope containing the Parts of Fortune and Spirit respectively) because Travel and Home are more likely emphases perhaps at this season than Comprehension and Foundations, although those meanings are also in the air. I could always list multiple shades of meaning for these points but do not want to be unnecessarily complex or confusing.
The pressure of the T square which is intensifying was pointed out yesterday, which see to refresh your memory. The help of the sun's healing sextile with Neptune likewise remains with us.
Giving is easy when not self-conscious. There is
Providence in intention. Darkness fosters
Internal vision. The pressure of activity
Dissipates loneliness. Cool courage retreats
When there is nothing to do but hope and
Wait. Guarding the fireplace in an empty home
Breeds utter loneliness, though there's plenty
To eat and drink. To go here or there seems
An insoluble riddle, for every action appears
Inept. The odor of the Christmas greens
Is heavenly. Why not become a fir?
Angels, it is said, are flying all around
At times like this. Just stoke the fire,
And wonder at the friends and relatives
Whose absence flies at you from out the
Flames. Nothing remains but the dark
And the sky, at last; and memories;
And a Yuletide fire in an empty house.
{Sunday} /Unconvention Stalks Convention\
Cosmic Piper
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