Thursday 30 July 2015
}Pulling Together{
Moon in Capricorn-->Aquarius ***
/moon goes void-of-course at 11:51a PT | 2:51p ET | 6:51p UT ** /
until it enters Aquarius at 2:41p PT | 5:41p ET | 9:41p UT ***
(If possible you might give yourself a little meditative or prayerful break during part of that 3-hour period.)
It is always hard to make clear what all this means. I do not believe the planets are mechanical agencies putting pressures or difficulties on us. That would mean we are parts of a machine. Not at all. But almost no one has the philosophical sophistication to comprehend what astrological aspects mean or how or why they work. How many have read or have even a remote understanding of the philosophies of Leibniz or Malebranche? Include also George Berkeley and other idealist philosophers, including Schelling and Hegel. Yet it seems to me that such understanding is essential to comprehend why we can experience the motions of the planets the way we do. G*d set it all up, of course--who else? But it is not a meaningless machine, rather the instrument and agent of a conscious G*d who loves His creation. What we feel as difficulties, such as Venus square Saturn, are merely something like what a child feels when it is told it cannot eat a third ice cream cone or play in the yard past midnight. We feel of course that sometimes it is far worse than that. "Do your homework before you watch TV." Then we have to invoke things like karma, either from this or a past life, of which the planets can be agents. Not punishment but teaching.
Without an understanding that G*d and the universe are conscious, more conscious than we are in some sense, it is impossible to sense how astrology could be real. That is why materialists cannot fathom it but dismiss it out of hand.
It is all design--amazingly complex, wonderful, miraculous design. That is why I call the Facebook page on which these predictions appear The Matrix Celestial.
I had to say all this because in pondering the difficulties of Venus plus Jupiter square Saturn, continuing till August 22, I see there is no way to "get it" other than to know that it is a process in soul-evolution. Each one of us, in a different but similar way, is going through this process of "correction" now. As the child who is told it has to do its homework before entertainment. We don't like it but somehow we can sense that it is essential, and then we stop complaining.
I think it's amazing, in general, how well people are doing this. I was out and about this afternoon and felt that while people are not ecstatic, and are not in a thrilling party mode, they are soberly getting on with their lives, in most cases, with a rather stoic and peaceful attitude.
The Jupiter-Saturn square is known as a deeply profound and soulful phase of things. Marc Edmund Jones explains it as a "hard karma" aspect which requires much of the person who has it in his birth-chart. Now, when the whole world is experiencing it, everyone's karma is catching up with him or her. We are being tough on ourselves and we have to be in order to get through this in a way which makes us feel good about ourselves.
In Jones's words, the "native" or person who has this in his horoscope "usually suffers very immediate consequences of even the least neglect or abuse of his own potentials. He finds he must fight continually for the ideals in which has has come to take the most consistent interest, and also learns that his conscious well-being is wholly dependent on the moral struggles in which he becomes involved almost inevitably at every stage of his experience. If he does not relish the days in which he seems torn to pieces in self-uncertainty, he must discover ways to tear himself apart deliberately . . . on the behalf of some cause of real significance or some conception that he can dramatize through his own being. Personal existence under this configuration can become either great opportunity or else a gradual disintegration of the soul in the very core of itself." Jones does not mince words. This may seem a rather extreme warning, but I think Dr. Jones was doing his best to warn people against terrible things which could happen under this configuration unless they brought their souls forward as the heroes or heroines of their lives.
Okay, so let's do it.
That helped me get out something that has been brewing in me about this period but find it very hard to elucidate. When we feel depressed, we need to keep rising to our soul's challenges and try to be the best we can be, especially in the ethical sense, or as living for other people as well as ourselves. No it is not easy but, as Jones suggests, the alternative is far worse.
I do not want to keep on giving that lecture-sermon but maybe I will have to do it to be honest with myself and you. The Jupiter square Saturn aspect continues through October 1 (the Venus square through August 21). Here is an example of how it is working in one life: A dear friend has been going through serious, intense addiction to both nicotine and alcohol and knows he has to do something about it. He feels desperate. Today he told me that he intends to go into a serious detoxification program in a week or two. That would be wonderful, as perhaps the best way for him to conquer this "enemy"--and perhaps he will be doing that right through the intensity of the aspect for the next couple of months.
Whatever your personal habits or weaknesses, you can do the same. I am trying to get certain lax portions of my daily life in a shape that I can respect more fully. I don't like Jones's language but sometimes indeed it does feel like "tearing myself apart" to rise to the challenge, especially when it comes to cooperating with other people when my lazy egoistic self resists.
Thursday does not have major changes. We continue toward a Full Moon early Friday morning. This is heightened consciousness. Problems and issues of friends seem important and probably should not be avoided. Let's be patient with ourselves and one another and pull together as best we can.
{Thursday} {Pulling Together}
Cosmic Piper
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