Saturday 31 January and Sunday 1 February 2015

Saturday-Sunday, 31 January-1 February

~Loyalties and Love~

Just some thoughts on this weekend. I shall work on the Nine Day forecast with data for each day and hope to post it by Sunday at latest. The data for this Saturday and Sunday have already been given in the Nine Days report posted last weekend. 

As for the Super Bowl, the coach of the Seahawks is a sun-sign Virgo, Pete Carroll, and the coach of the Patriots an Aries, Bill Belichick. That does not predict who will win and I do not choose to spend a lot of time trying to pick a winner, but if I did I would look at the charts of the two head coaches. I note, as of yesterday, that Carroll of the Seahawks has spent time conversing with some individuals who believe we do not have all the truth about what happened on 9/11/01 and, while not a fanatical believer in the conspiracy theories, is open to fresh ways of evaluating our warfare, as in Iraq, and our military strategies. That is all for the good, so I am inclined to feel even better about rooting for the Seahawks here in Seattle tomorrow. But the outcome of a game is not as important as what follows:

There is always more to say about the Hermetic Epochs, otherwise known as the Mercury cycles. In my mind, for quite a few years, they have been the major way to mark out human time--more important than New Moons, eclipses, and all the varied ways astrologers have used over the centuries to measure time.

I won't try to convince anyone of that. I will just report what seems to be true.

Here again is the current agenda: DHE = Dark Hermetic Epoch; MR = Mercury Retrograde

1/5/2015 DHE begins--> [1/21 MR begins-->2/11 MR ends] -->3/3 DHE ends

We are in the thick of it. It is not a bad but a good time, but it can seem "bad" when we are expecting things to go in normal ways. This period always defeats our expectations, always throws surprises, always challenges us to see our lives in a different way. 

For that reason it is a spiritually challenging time. And that is "good"--although it can seem "bad" to those who don't want to grow and evolve.

There is a major key. "Grow and evolve, or suffer" is one way to describe the Dark Hermetic Epoch and the Mercury Retrograde cycle within it.

We become reflective, ruminative. For some reason I have been thinking of my paternal grandfather, Frank Higgins, the past few days, and then today I got a post with a petition to help "save the bees" from the companies which are exterminating them through pesticides and genetic engineering, such as Monsanto, a big devil whom we have to corral as best we can. Grandpa Frank was a beekeeper and I used to go with him and my dad to capture swarms of bees who gathered, unwanted, in the trees of neighbors in a rural area. Then they became "his" bees whom he cared for. Thinking about him is part of my current Dark Hermetic Epoch experience. Maybe he is here with me, in some sense, in the multi-dimensional world invisible to ordinary eyesight. 

Things like that may be going on with you, whether you are conscious of them or not. (A link to the petition for the bees is on my Facebook page and I also sent it to Twitter where there is always a link to these reports.)

"Saving the world" becomes important at these times, whether it be the bees, preventing nuclear war, solving international crises, or whatever else remains (re-word) over from the past to be resolved (re-word) or remedied (re-word). Let's re-do it. Let's be aware of the crisis in Kashmir, for example, where both India and Pakistan have nuclear capabilities and a horrid war of extermination could begin. It has to do with water rights to the Indus River, for one thing. I need to be better informed about it. We can pray for a solution, which would include a surplus of water for both nations, which are suffering serious problems in that area--something hard for Americans to imagine. Some think that new desalination processes are a partial answer. Let us pray.

In your personal life this time can be poignant. "Whom do I love?" (especially now because Venus and Saturn remain in a square), "Who loves me?" (not as fruitful a question, maybe better to forget it), and so on. There can be a feeling of vacuum, nothingness. That is an opportunity for deep meditation and prayer. 

Feeling, sensing deeply one's loyalties is very significant, even essential now. These are not so much personal as collective, perhaps, but also may be personal to a degree. "What is worth living for?" is the question Mercury's review process puts before us. 

Many have found that when they put loyalty to the Supreme Lord first, instead of fifth or twenty-seventh, their other loyalties begin to fall into place.

{Saturday-Sunday}  ~Loyalties and Love~

Cosmic Piper