Nine Days in Early March 2015

Nine Days in early March 2015

*  Probably a difficult day best used for basic necessary activities, including plenty of prayer, meditation and inspiration. Pulling back or being reclusive is probably not a mistake. Making allowance for others' problems is important. 

** Same as * except less dire or confusing

*** A normal day, good for most anything, but during the current Bright Hermetic Epoch the best days are given four stars. The *** days have either the moon void-of-course or in the Via Combusta or they are in the |difficult third of the week|. But if two of those things are going on, they get only ** or *. For something really special such as a job interview, a really important meeting, decision or party, look for ****

**** Best for anything extremely important to you, or anything about which you have doubts and want to bless with the best astrological setup. 

***** This will be rare, when general background supporting aspects are very positive. Better not to wait for it, but savor it when it comes.

 

Saturday 28 February

Moon in Cancer  ***

/goes void-of-course at 9:54a PT | 12:54p ET | 5:54p UT   **

Sunday 1 March 

Moon in Cancer, void-of-course   **

Moon enters Leo at 3:35p PT | 6:35p ET | 11:35p UT   ***

Monday 2 March 

Moon in Leo  ****

Tuesday 3 March 

Bright Hermetic Epoch begins at 8:49a PT | 11:49a ET | 4:49p UT, lasting until May 4 when the next Dark Hermetic Epoch begins

Moon in Leo ***

/goes void-of-course at 1:49a PT | 4:49a ET | 9:49a UT  **

|Difficult, challenging, sobering third| of this week begins at 3:21p PT | 6:21p ET | 11:21p UT   *

Wednesday 4 March

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues  

 

/moon void-of-course   *

until it enters Virgo at 3:59a PT | 6:59a ET | 11:59a UT   **

Thursday 5 March 

Moon in Virgo   **

Full Moon of Pisces-Virgo exact at 10:07a PT | 1:07p ET | 6:07p UT

/goes void-of-course at 10:37a PT | 1:37p ET | 6:37p UT   *

|Difficult, Challenging, sobering third| of this week continues until it ends at 8:19p PT | 11:19p ET | 4:19a UT   **

Friday 6 March 

/moon remains void-of-course   **

until it enters Libra at 4:53p PT | 7:53p ET | 0:53a(Sa) UT   ***

Saturday 7 March 

Moon in Libra ****

Moon enters the Via Combusta at 11:11p PT | 3:11a(Su) ET | 7:11a (Su) UT   ***

Daylight Savings Time begins, reflected in the Eastern time above. UT or Universal Time, Greenwich Mean Time, remains the same, in the summer four hours from ET.

Sunday 8 March

Moon in Libra and the Via Combusta   ***

/goes void-of-course at 6:25p PT | 9:25p ET | 1:25a(M) UT   **

Times given in Daylight Time until November (except UT which is a constant).

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Forecast for Friday 27 February 2015

Forecast for Friday 27 February 2015

Report on the void-of-course day, Thursday:

No electricity or heat in my apartment all day--I was forewarned but it made the day difficult and chaotic.

Noticed in a coffee shop customers unusually confused or apparently so--wandering in circles, chatting aimlessly, not communicating well.

Trying to get over a "cold" or bacterial lung infection or whatever it is, and on the bus I took in the afternoon two windows were open blowing cold air all around me and making the situation worse. I have not noticed windows open on a city bus in this kind of weather before. 

Sat in a public library reading rather meaningless things, and took out two--comic books! They were all that interested me. 

Forgot to take a pen with me and needed one to work on charts so had to buy some in a Rite Aid, which was all right. But I noticed a cold remedy and decided to try it. It was too costly and doesn't seem to help any more than what I had taken before at a much lower price. But the lady who waited on me was in a laughing comic mood and made me laugh repeatedly and we parted almost friends. That was cool. The cold is not. Oh yes, laugh during the v-of-c! She said she had just cut her arm with the edge of a bag--a paper cut. I said, "Well there are plenty of remedies for that in this store." She was not amused--but then she was! And she got back at me nicely and I could hardly stop laughing. 

Had time to spare and so went into a vegetarian buffet place, which was just about closed for the afternoon, but the proprietor offered me "two plates" just before he closed down and I filled them--with way too much and forced myself to eat more than I should have.

While eating, there was a lot of yelling and raucousness on the street and it turned out to be two homeless men fighting with each other. The police eventually arrived. Crowds were watching the "show"--but not I. Spiritual reading is very important to me always and I make a point of doing it while the moon is v-of-c in order to keep my composure. I did that on my cell phone, Sabian lessons and The Mother's Agenda.

I went to my usual pizza place where sweet Allison waits on me, but had already eaten too much so had a diet coke. Then, because I had more time to spare, a beer--and I didn't like the beer and left half of it behind. I told Allison I should have ordered the beer she recommended. A friendly man sitting next to me gave me a slice of pizza which I did not need but I ate it to be polite. 

I had to open the cold remedy I didn't need and had paid too much for with a paper clip I found in my pack in the bathroom. 

The spiritual meeting I attend often on Thursdays was good as usual. But a discussion of an upcoming Retreat bothered me because I didn't agree with the plan for it, but decided not to make an issue of it. Hopefully the v-of-c will void it. 

A huge number of college students who had just attended a comedy routine at the Neptune Theater passed by me while I was waiting for the bus home. I  kept hearing them say "I'm glad I went" and "It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" and "It wasn't bad" and so I concluded that it had been terrible. 

Before the half-drunk beer I mentioned, I had had another beer at another college hang-out, the Solstice Cafe with a Ram icon in front of it (I am Aries). I drank the beer just to have a place to sit and look at Friday's chart and make notes. I couldn't find a pen and had to go through almost my whole backpack to find the ones I had bought at the RiteAid. Students around me looked perplexed, not happy, studying and chatting but getting up quickly to leave as if ill-at-ease. 

When I got back home the whole block where I live was blocked by huge trucks with flashing yellow lights and the engines running. There were no drivers in the trucks. It looked like an end-of-the-world movie. The path to my home was blocked by those yellow warning things they use. A crane used to fix electrical wires way up high looked as if it were dangerous and something could fall from it. I went inside anyway. When I got to the other side of the empty trucks, I saw that the workmen were standing there in the rain, huddled against the running trucks, perhaps smoking pot. Or not. 

But the lights and heat are on! I am writing this report in the light and heat while the moon is void! Does it sound void?
Well, here are the notes on Friday I made while drinking that beer in the Solstice Cafe:

Friday 27 February 2015

~Restlessness Plus Friendly Adaptability~

Illness overcome. Mental-spiritual therapy.

Changes in home consummated with happy results.

Firmer financial foundations.

"Fame" or acclaim despite disagreement from some.

Impatience with details remains but is declining. 

Mysterious things remain mysterious but become more comprehensible.

Pride in some hard efforts pursued adamantly in recent days.

Restoration of kind or friendly relations with someone young or adaptable.

A merging of thinking with super-mental intuitive perception.

As you see, I feel Friday will be a better day and certainly hope so. Luna's squares to Mars and Venus plus Mercury's opposition with Jupiter could make for restlessness. The key to overcoming any bad moods is probably the moon's trine with Neptune-and-the-sun in Pisces, sign of kindness and compassion, at its best. There could be deep spiritual awareness which sees the best in everyone. Oh yes, we need that.

{Friday} ~Restlessness Plus Friendly Adaptability~

Moon in Gemini void-of-course **

until it enters Cancer at 4:51a PT | 7:51a ET | 12:51p UT   ***

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Forecast for Thursday 26 February 2015

Thursday 26 February 2015

}Previous Commitments Reign{

 Moon in Gemini    **

/goes void-of-course at 1:45a PT | 4:45a ET | 9:45a UT   *

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 1:04p PT | 4:04p ET | 9:04p UT   **

Another all-day void-of-course situation. We need a Zen attitude--effortless effort, mindfulness without anxiety, and so on. Things can be done, but anything really new or chancy is not recommended, nor is making commitments, which will probably look different later on and need to be withdrawn or changed. That is always disturbing and embarrassing, so "disentanglement" or "non-entanglement" is a good policy. 

But sticking with previous commitments can save the v-of-c situation if you just do the best you can to fulfill them and not worry about things that go sidewise.

{Thursday}  {Previous Commitments Reign}

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Forecast for Wednesday 25 February 2015

Wednesday 25 February 2015

}Assignment Facilitated{

Moon in Gemini, on course

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues until around noon Thursday

Yesterday's long discussion of the lunar void-of-course periods was appreciated by a few of you. Thank you for your patience. It is a difficult topic.

I am starting to see more and more puissantly that I need to write a book on these topics, with a great deal of detail about ways of understanding these different daily periods and the ways they intersect. I delay and delay doing that because there seem so many calls on my time these days that I don't know how to work the time in. I don't want these daily reports to suffer in the process. I want to keep up with the daily or almost-daily poems also, but tonight after a hard v-of-c day when things seemed to go awry (although a few things turned out very well) I fell asleep--and needed the rest deeply--and do not feel I have enough psychic energy to write a poem tonight. 

Wednesday looks "better" than Tuesday. And here is another reason I need to write that book. In brief reports such as these I am reduced to saying "better" or "worse" when really it is so much more complex than that. But if I were to try to encompass everything going on in the sky or our geocentric solar system (words chosen carefully) these reports would be pages long and I would have no time to do anything else except eat and sleep. 

Anyway, the moon is on course Wednesday, and forming good aspects with Uranus and Jupiter all day but especially in the evening, and a trine with Mercury in the afternoon-evening. It also forms a sextlile with Venus and Mars in the early morning, a little too early for "social" events unless you are a morning person who makes breakfast a social event. That however could be spoiled a little by the lunar square with Saturn at the same time, which is the heart of the |difficult third| of this week. I would say the evening or late afternoon is the best part of the day. Whether this is social or professional or work-oriented or inner-personal oriented is up to you.

Both home and job headquarters are getting in better shape. You will know what this means in your own case.

Good thinking is just plain good thinking, and we are gifted with that by the lunar trine with Mercury and sextile with Uranus, while those two planets are in a growing sextile. You sense how to put everything in just the right place, physically and mentally, and could work out or improve schemes, plans, and agendas.

The lunar squares with Neptune and the sun, conjoined now by less than a degree, suggest a deeper side of you which is never satisfied with surface gains or solutions. You want the ultimate spiritual answer to things. You also are not satisfied with the fact that there is suffering in the world; you want all suffering to end forever. So do I. Let's pray seriously about that. There are promises in the Scriptures. Let's take them seriously and thank the Lord for what we have and ask Him to help us do the spiritual work which will eliminate suffering, and the material work insofar as we are enabled to do that. To eliminate others' suffering is to ease our own, by laws of karma, divine justice and mercy. Pisces is a merciful sign. Squared to Saturn in Sagittarius, a challenge could be: Choose the channel of mercy and kindness which is appropriate to you, rather than get mixed up in one which is not your particular assignment. Doing the best with that which is your own assignment will also help, indirectly, all others' assignments.

{Wednesday} {Assignment Facilitated}

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Forecast-Meditation for Tuesday 24 February 2015

Tuesday 24 February 2015

\Recovery through Slow Management/

Moon in Taurus

/void-of-course 

until it enters Gemini at 8:55p PT | 11:55p ET | 4:55a(W) UT

|Karmically difficult or challenging third| of this week all day and until Thursday afternoon

Not all astrologers give the moon's void-of-course periods as much importance as I do. It's up to you. But I really think most people have a HUGE mental block against understanding what it really means. Part of the reason is that it means some things every time, but different things each time. And that is not obscurantism, it is just trying to put in words what can only be learned through experience. If you are superficial, and observe superficially, and never delve into the depths of what you are living, or are incapable of reflecting on the events of a day or a few hours and compare them with what went on on another day or set of hours, you just won't get it. I think I have only known one individual in my life who understood how to use the void-of-course periods, how to think about them and understand them, and that was the great astrologer Al Morrison. He explained over and over in his classes what the v-of-c means and how to use it. And probably about one per cent of his students ever got what he was saying. People are amazingly superficial in their observations of time. I think that is because nobody ever taught them, as children, that one period of time has a different flavor or quality or tendency than another period of time. It's all just one BLANK past-present-future, every day, every hour, exactly the same. That is the current materialist-atheist-agnostic-nescient view of things. Obviously I am trying to do something better here.

I'm mentioning all this now because we have had so many very long void-of-course periods recently, because of the positions of the planets within the signs. Today it is virtually all day. 

If you have read my attempts to explain how to use it and what it means in the past, you must have some glimmer of how to use it. I don't feel like repeating all that at this moment. Observe and see. Figure it out for yourself with your observation and intuition. It is not a futile time or a bad time, just a different kind of time. With that as clue, see what it is for yourself. 

It is mixed up today with the |difficult third| of the week, so that makes it harder than at other times. But if you have a great day, wonderful! I hope you do. The point of all this is not to convince people that they have a duty to have a bad day! Then I would be some kind of monster. See how you can finesse the void-of-course times to make them better. If you don't even know they are there, you will have no chance to do that.

The poem derived from the symbols for the day should resonate somehow or some way with you and give extra clues.

They have found the perfect life, an even road

Going on and on through fertile fields and gorgeous

Valleys. A horse who is half a man visits and grants luck

To the couple strolling blissfully, breathing paradise.

The massive wall is a ruin. Through its crumbling arch

Owls swoop. Its ornamental cross lies uselessly

On rocks. Once it inspired a priesthood to noble

Deeds. Now a foolish youth clambers on the wall pointlessly.

A woman passes by, once blessed by the absent centaur.

Her stormy life now seems all sunshine once again;

She manages her estate, which had its difficult days,

With worry but eclat, persuading her old lover to return.

{Tuesday} /Recovery through Slow Management\

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Forecast-Meditation for Monday 23 February 2015

Monday 23 February 2015

\Good Deeds of Hearts/

Moon in Taurus

/goes void-of-course at 4:29p PT | 7:29p ET | 0:29a(Tu) UT

Knowledge and professionalism come forward. We all have more wisdom than we realize. Trying a skill makes it possible (Mercury in good aspect to Saturn, Venus, Mars, and Uranus). People appreciate your comments. Hidden factors of disagreement need not spoil everything--they can make it more interesting if we take disagreement in the right spirit, namely, as revealing and dramatizing necessary differences of viewpoint in a universe which is also a multiverse. 

Love has its chance, while Mars and Venus remain together trine Saturn and nonagen Pluto. It could happen within career or job, or among those who share similar aspirations.

She has learnt the beauty, use, divinity of plants and herbs

Abounding in the wood. Storm and rain feed them, but now

There's sunshine. Along the path of the brook

Lounge shellfish. Children play amid the rocks and foam.

The officers who dress up and parade now find their route

Obstructed by a farmer and his cart. He's in

No hurry. He salutes the officers and invites them to

His cherished Masonic lodge, to learn to do good deeds.

The reclusive mystic centaur knows more than he

Hints but does not know his father. He aims his

Arrow at two lovers strolling blithely down a

Hidden path. The weapon is astral, marrying hearts.

{Monday} /Good Deeds of Hearts\

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Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 February 2015

Saturday 21 February 2015

^Realistic Love^

Moon in Aries

/goes void-of-course at 4:37p PT | 7:37p ET | 0:37a(Su) UT

The "experiment" we conducted yesterday has the following results:

Nobody contacted me about it. Therefore my results win by default and are the official results:

The later void-of-course time seems correct--the one based on the "apparent" coming-up conjunction of the moon with Venus (before Venus left Pisces) rather than the "actual-time" conjunction, in which they were both in Aries. 

If that confuses you you can review what was said about all this yesterday.

Fortunately these "uncertain" void-of-course times are very rare. I think now I know how to deal with them but I will give both alternatives in the future for the sake of those who wish to test them.

Saturday continues a progressive trend. You may feel good about prosperity, about what you have to save and to spend. 

Luna's conjunction with Uranus and square with Pluto bring out hurried, rushing tendencies, that fanatical desire to transform oneself, to become something one wants to be and so to be merciless with oneself. Better to be so than to be merciless with anyone else, which is a path to perdition (as I hope IS and other terrorists and cruel governments will learn posthaste).

However, Luna's trine with Jupiter is a bright spot in the day, exact at the void-of-course time given above. Afterward, in the evening, we could rely upon its momentum to carry us into social or spiritual experiences so long as we don't expect too much in a serious or specific manner. 

The sun's square with Saturn, nearing exactness today and tomorrow, is important. It requires facing the worst in oneself in order to rise beyond it and live above it--even transform it as much as one can. It can be illness or discomfort, in some cases, or maladjustment, or, to escape those demons, a concerted effort to live up to one's highest standards."True grit" is required.

But Venus and Mars are together, trine Saturn as well as sextile Mercury, and so a conjunction of male and female, or purposive and artistic, or willful and acquiescent, or any other pair of opposites characterizing these two, is feasible up to a point. The trine of these two with Saturn suggests intelligent, well-ordered, realistic love. 

Festivity within the community could happen among youthful people of any age.

The comedian calls his act "sit-down" and frequents

Country bars and clubs. His best friend shepherds

A flock near the mountains. He brings corn,

Apples, pears to the comic, who jokes that his jokes are corny.

Two pillars stand, a horizontal thwart atop them.

All feel safe when fast within that gate. A student

Pondering a book is silhouetted by the sunshine through

The branches. She appears to wear a crown unconsciously.

An impulsive man climbs down a rock-face toward her, armed

With ancient weapons, richly appareled in scarlet.

Unconstrained he bows deeply toward her. She puts

Her book into her pack. Off they dance toward the setting sun.

{Saturday} ^Realistic Love^

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Sunday 22 February 2015

^Meaningful Retreat^

/moon void-of-course in Aries

until it enters Taurus at 4:29p PT | 7:29p ET | 0:29a(M) UT

The v-of-c could make this a Sabbath-like day. Let's go deep within to get to the bottom of our spiritual nature, and to uproot whatever is blocking it from manifesting in our lives. That would be an excellent response to the square of the sun with Saturn while it is conjoining Neptune. With the latter two in Pisces and Saturn in Sagittarius, religious signs, it suggests a retreat or inner dialogue with the Lord. This does not have to be frightening, of course, although it is true that the Highest is to be feared in the sense of respected. Of all relations in the world or possible universes, the relation to the Highest requires respect above all others. That can also be love, but love without respect is too human to flourish at that high level. Indeed, love without respect is not really love. 

He served his country, he thought, by being a laborer. He earned

The minimum wage. This gave him a sort of pride. He was not taking

More than he deserved, for sure. He was getting less, and that was 

Internal strength. He visited mountain country when he could.

The horseman, armed, watches the waxing moon. He has lost

Whatever friends he had, and family. He is seen as arrogant. An

Astrologer living nearby has befriended him, studying his very

Square chart. A drinker takes them both to the tavern to chat. 

Without money for food, he boasts impulsively; the horseman

Leaves his mount near a pond while the astrologer studies

The aspects. A woman plays and sings to entertain the drinkers.

They needed this. She pauses and smiles--seems to be an angel.

{Sunday} ^Meaningful Retreat^

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Forecast for Friday 20 February 2015

Friday 20 February 2015

^Early Springtide of Hope^

Moon in Pisces /void-of-course

until it enters Aries at 3:14p PT | 6:14p ET | 11:14p UT

A lot of things are happening to suggest increased activity. We are in the First Quarter of a New Moon. Venus and Mars both enter Aries (Mars yesterday, Venus today). (Surprise: My new heating system was installed the very day Mars, planet of heat, entered his own sign Aries. So far I am happy with it, though it has had some DHE problems.) These two paired planets plus the moon (time above) at the Vernal Equinox point (0 Aries) suggest a springtide today, a sense of fresh beginnings. 

All three are trine Saturn and sextile Mercury. This suggests excellent thinking, perhaps planning. Plans may still be a little premature but they are maturing by the day until March 3 when the Bright Hermetic Epoch begins. Have you been working out job, professional, or financial ideas in the past week or so? Probably a lot of them are exactly on, or will be when you get them in shape fully. 

Mars and Venus together in the critical degree of Aries suggest love and romance, of course, yet the conjunction is not as happy a relation between these two as the sextile or trine. It can be flamboyant, momentary, thrilling attraction which does not necessarily last very long. At a deeper level it could be your realizing to whom you are really married, or what; the Alchemical Marriage as the Western chemists of the Spirit called it. Your potentials and you are married, to manifest or womanifest in the world. You can realize that and thrill to it. It is your very own (Aries) secret, yet the world will see and know it--as other than you see and know it, most likely, but still wonderfully.

The horrid beheadings of the IS group do not deserve astrological dignification, but they do show the worst perversion of Uranus in Aries, sign of the head, squared to Pluto in Capricorn, sign of (sometimes) bad or oppressive government. This aspect will be exact in the middle of March, but because we will then be in a Bright Hermetic Epoch (until May 4), it may reveal its better, inspiring, uplifting side--a will-to-transformation which, rather than oppressing or coercing or violating others forces oneself to rise to one's soul's highest level of aspiration. Of course this is a little uneasy; it is a challenge. But it makes us the men or women we want to be. Let us hope and pray that we can bring out the best potentials of this aspect. They have been termed by Reinhold Ebertin "fanatic striving for transformation; strong sense of goals; creation of new conditions of life." Amen to all that.

The conditions which seem to imprison us or lock us in can be transformed and changed, though that take time. 

We should remember that the head and brain of aspiration (Aries) need to be humble enough to kneel (Capricorn, the knees) before the Highest without Whom they could do nothing. 

We can only do what we can do in one day, and the v-of-c period till late afternoon or early evening doesn't help, but some of the above is becoming realizable within us tellingly, before it becomes realizable outwardly in our worlds. That is certified by Jupiter's growing and uplifting trine with Uranus--planets of Enthusiasm and Freedom. We have seen what is best for us and we can go for it. We can become freer because enthusiastic about goals which fit into the cosmic patterns (trine). 

That hope kept alive may be more convincing and understandable in its details by evening.

{Friday} ^Early Springtide of Hope^

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P. S. Even more hope!: The following is an important Facebook conversation I had with another astrologer. We have, perhaps, much more time early Friday before the moon goes void-of-course:

Footnote to the void-of-course period on Friday 19 February:  A fine astrologer, Mo, brought up the following and it is important: 
Mo, That's one of those "vexed questions" in astrology. I used the American Ephemeris list of void-of-course data, which says the moon went void-of-course with its sextile to Pluto at 23:03 UT (GMT) which would be 3:03p PT | 6:03p ET. They say that because, being computer-generated, they foresee that before the moon gets to Venus, Venus will have left Pisces and gone into Aries. V goes into Aries when the moon is at 28 Pisces 03, I see from my animated program. So technically the moon will not aspect any planet before it leaves Pisces. Now, in horaries as Marc Edmund Jones does them (and I think John Lilly, and myself) a horary set up before Venus goes into Aries would not be "void-of-course" because it appears that the moon could conjoin it within the same sign. It amounts to two different definitions of "void-of-course." Another definition might say that the moon will go void-of-course Friday at 12:06p PT | 3:06p ET, when Venus enters Aries, so that after that even a horary chart would be "void of course." I am not sure which definition is more appropriate. It's a very good question. Fortunately this kind of complication doesn't happen often.

(a) American Ephemeris: v-of-c from 3:03p PT | 6:03p ET Thursday  until 3:14p PT | 6:14p ET Friday.  (as given in forecast initially)

(b) modified v-of-c: From 12:06p PT | 3:06p ET Friday until 3:14P | 6:14P Friday.

Experiment: Let's see which period seem more like void-of-course!


At this point, as I post at 1:27a PT | 4:27a ET on Friday, I feel that it is safe to consider the earlier period NOT void-of-course. I have gotten a lot done in an easy, efficient manner. I would be glad to hear your observations or input about this. At this point I would choose the v-of-c as: the period (b) above. That gives us more time. 

Forecast-Meditation for Thursday 19 February 2015

Thursday 19 February 2015

~Waiting on Inspiration~

Moon in Pisces

/goes void-of-course at 3:03p PT | 6:03p ET | 11:03p UT

|Difficult or challenging third| of this week continues until early Friday

The New Moon needs time to establish itself, but things are looking better, slowly. Uncertainties cannot be avoided but gradually settle into principles or agendas to be relied upon. 

We feel we need to care about those imprisoned or institutionalized or suffering. And we do need to do that, and help any way we can, through concern and prayer at least.

Poem for memories of Wednesday:

The Stone Face glares down on the copyist 

Copying it. She wants to show it to her

Professor. He specializes in stone faces, usually

On other planets. She discerns that he is crazy.

Her hand holds a whole roll of parchment to use for

Facets of her work. She likes the cherry trees

In blossom. Her boyfriend walks miraculously

Through them, coming up to clasp her hands.

Her hands held in his, she cannot work.

She is like a serpent standing erect in the circle of

His fire. Rather than lose face in the public market,

She turns him and herself away from death.

Poem for Thursday:

The professor continues to specialize in what makes no

Sense to his mother or his mate. His face beyond

His glasses seems to them a face of stone.

He argues with other professors, repelling all but editors.

One of his students climbs instead a ladder to high realms 

Of thought beyond dispute. Blossoms of cherry trees

There answer questions for the young. He wants

To be a tiger of knowledge for the sake of new students.

But alone he stands, a formidable opponent yet

Generous to those who try to understand. When

Isolated he spreads sails of research and waits for

Winds of inspiration to bring him back to his people.

{Thursday} ~Waiting on Inspiration~

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Wednesday 18 February 2015: ~Interesting Transition!~

Wednesday 18 February 2015

~Interesting Transition!~

(astrological data given at the end of this report)

The word "I" is being used too much in these reports, it appears, because i don't want to make them my personal journal but something which speaks to everyone, based on the current astrological set-up. 

However, i don't know what to do except to rely on my personal experiences in writing it. i have called astrology "a science of personal phenomenological research" and i believe that to be an exactly correct description of a major part of what it is. It uses the positions of the planets of our Solar System as the underlying structural phenomenon of varying human phenomena. And it arrives by that means at personal yet universally meaningful conclusions or realizations. That is what i am trying to do here. 

So, we continue in the only way I know how to continue . . . For me at least (let me know about you) the phenomenon of slow, painful, difficult transitions continues, which is part of what goes on in a Dark Hermetic Epoch (until the next Bright one begins March 3). 

If someone were to say, "But that is always going on!" I would reply, "True, but make that 'in spades' or 'double or triple' during a Dark Hermetic Epoch." 

For me (I can't eliminate the personal) there has been a major issue of remodeling, reconstructing, in my apartment building. It has been horrific since the DHE began January 5. That very week, my kitchen was denied to me, the cabinets and sink and stove taken out, and they have still not been returned. That began well before the Mercury Retrograde period (always enclosed within the DHE) and has continued well past it. Exactly in accord with the formulation of the DHE which I arrived at in 1978-79. 

I am not pretending that all of you are going through something like that in your personal living situation, whether your own home or rental home. Of course not. But I would assume, based on observation over several decades, that something like it is going on in your life, whether in your job, other work, a personal project, a relationship, a group you belong to, or anything else important to you. You know all the "re"-words we have used: Reconstruction, review, re-estimation, sometimes recrimination, reform, reformation, maybe even remorse, remembering, reminiscing, re-inventing. 

A critic would say that we are just "humanizing" the planets' motions, and attributing to Mercury's apparent geocentric motion human notions. I totally and absolutely disagree, because it was not from any such attribution or presupposition that I arrived at my conclusions about the Dark Hermetic Epoch. It was from genuine puzzlement as to why certain portions of my life had been so upsetting, and other portions so relatively calm. When I studied my past carefully, the only astrological factor I found as a constant was these Mercury cycles. The most difficult, painful and confusing parts of my life were within the Dark Hermetic (Mercurial) Epochs. "Dark," by the way, is a disguised word for "slow or retrograde," that is, when Mercury is either moving slow (from geocentric perspective) or backward. "Dark" seems to fit what happens at those times. (But remember, we can have wonderful dreams and other blissful experiences during the night, as well as confusing problems or worries.)

Need I mention a number of the horrible ISIS or ISIL or Islamic State atrocities which occurred during this period? Need I mention a number of airline accidents? I am not about to become a statistician. I see things directly. I am a phenomenological observer, after the manner of Husserl, and an "astrological clinician" after the manner of Freud. If Freud had waited for statistics to validate his hypotheses, there would have been no nascent science of psychoanalysis which led to later forms of psychotherapy. If I were to wait for statisticians to decide whether or not there are more or less accidents during DHEs I would never have developed the theory or the exact timing which was empirically and experimentally determined. 

Human beings have a way of being better at some things than computers.

And, actually, it would not matter to me if it were found that there are not more accidents during DHEs than during BHEs. The meaning of these cycles goes much deeper than that. The personal experiences of individuals are paramount, not blips on a statistical screen. One has only to observe. As E. M. Forster said in the epigraph at the beginning of his novel Howards End, " . . . only connect . . . "

Astrology is the Science of Forsterian Connection!  

But I do believe that it has a solid statistical foundation. So far no statistician has bothered to ask the right questions to work out a research methodology within astrology, nor would that be possible to anyone except a thoroughly experienced astrologer who also was savvy about the philosophy of science. Maybe some day it will happen. Meanwhile the glory of astrology is that it is a personal phenomenological science which welcomes individual insight and adventure!  To me, that is far more interesting than it would be in a statistical straitjacket.

Wednesday 18 February 2015

First Day of Lent

Sun enters Pisces at 3:51p PT | 6:51p ET | 11:51p UT (until March 20)

Second day of the ShivaRathri festival in India

The Year of the Goat begins with the second New Moon of Aquarius at 3:48p PT | 6:48p ET | 11:48p UT (This is rather unusual: the New Moon when both moon and sun are in Aquarius happens just minutes before the sun enters Pisces. The New Moon of Aquarius is always the beginning of Chinese New Year, but when there are two New Moons in the same sign--rather rare--the first was January 20--apparently the ancient Chinese sages decided upon the second as the beginning of the New Year. This time the transition is from Horse to Goat.)

/moon goes void-of-course at the New Moon, time above

until it enters Pisces one minute later! I would suggest it might be safe to ignore this one!

|Difficult or challenging third| of this week begins very early and continues through Thursday, two days exactly this time (because the moon is traveling fast)

It is very late and I have a cold and the hassle described above in my apartment and don't see how I could get twelve lines of pentamenter out of myself . . . or maybe I am weak. Cosmic Piper ought to be strong. 

I hope the transitions of Wednesday indicated above will go along with the coming Bright Hermetic Epoch to brighten your path and lighten your burdens, at least a little--even though we are in the dreaded |difficult or challenging third| of this week. We can sense the light around the corner. If you can, it might be good to meditate and pray before and after the New Moon time.

{Wednesday} ~Interesting Transition!~

Cosmic Piper