Saturday 29 August 2015
~Intuitive Creativity~
|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week continues until Sunday early ** |
We have been talking about Neptune for two days, and this is the third, because now the moon joins Neptune in its sign Pisces and opposes Jupiter and the sun in Virgo. Those two, in their natural opposition, have a lot in common. Individuals born in either Virgo or Pisces tend to be conciliatory and easygoing, because they are the "negative" or "feminine" signs of the Common or Mutable Triplicity. They are generally "nice" and very understanding people. Today such an attitude to the world should be easier than yesterday, though we remain in the "tough" or challenging third of the week. Maybe you care about someone locked away, homebound, or self-isolated. It is possible to be a good friend to someone like that.
I don't like to emphasize the dreamy nature of the sun's opposition with Neptune, because we have to remain awake and alert and get things done, but I have noted over the years that at these times people are more relaxed and sleepy. Daydreaming is frequent, and night dreams vivid. We want to go to those Elysian Fields, or Strawberry Fields Forever, and can do that to some degree, preferably without drugs or drinks.
Today is the first day of a new Dark Hermetic Epoch, lasting until October 24. This is an Epoch within the four-month-or-so Mercury cycle, divided into Dark and Bright, my terms, applied by me to this cycle in about the year 1999 for the first time, so if anyone tells you that someone else discovered or named these cycles, they are wrong. They picked it up from me.
The difference between the two may be subtle at the beginning, but it is the difference between (a) moving forward and thinking out choices with confidence (Bright) and (b) being a lot more timid or changeable in one's thinking, dwelling on inner life or the past, pondering, living within oneself rather than being sharply effective in the outer world (Dark Epoch, beginning now).
At a simple human level, you may notice people making more mistakes, backtracking, being late or careless, on and on. They get distracted easily, and so do you. They and you do things in an out-of-pattern manner, as if you were bored with the routines of the Bright Epoch and needed to experiment with something different. You will notice all that happening beginning today.
But it is not a "bad" time, just a different one. It can be highly creative. If the Bright Epoch is mathematics, symbolically, the Dark Epoch is poetry. If the Bright Epoch is running a race, the Dark Epoch is lying in bed and having blissful dreams. But of course nothing is as cut-and-dried as all that; still, you will see the difference.
So, it is indeed important to "keep awake" as Jesus recommended in the Gospels, during this time, but perhaps equally important to remember his beautiful saying that "My yoke is easy and my burden is light"--that is, that we need to take time out from a rigid, rigorous, demanding schedule, appreciate life, people and ourselves in a more relaxed way at least sometimes during the Dark Epoch. A balance can be achieved, but it certainly helps to know what is going on.
Luna's sextile with Pluto today suggests savviness in a career matter you could splash before the world as your own contribution, for which you get applause. Or if not, the applause is within your own mind, inspiring you to keep going.
The shape of the planetary configuration now is a locomotive pattern, according to Marc Edmund Jones, with Mars in high focus in the dramatic sign Leo. This is quite the contrary of what was said about Neptune above, more like a desire to do things with splash and color no matter what the world thinks. You may feel very confident about some things you have decided on as your talents or ways of approaching success. But, in accord with the Neptunian situation as discussed, you may express that confidence in a casual, dreamy, carefree, interesting way rather than an immediately practical one.
"Where is the money I need to do this?" may be a question, but if you get yourself in the creative rhythm of your skill, the money will follow at the right time. Doing what you can while without it is a magical act attracting it.
{Saturday} ~Intuitive Creativity~
Cosmic Piper
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