Wednesday 23 September 2015
}Hopeful, Quiet Rebalancing{
/moon void-of-course ** /
until it enters Aquarius at 10:52a PT | 1:52p ET | 5:52p UT ***
The Autumnal Equinox! It occurs at 1:22a PT | 4:22a ET | 8:22a UT. In other words, the sun enters the sign (not the constellation) Libra. We Western astrologers use the signs based upon the solstices and equinoxes, not the star-fields or constellations which once were in alignment with the signs as they remain named. This is not confusing except to those who cannot realize that our solar system is a self-contained system of energy and that we have little or no connection in a dynamic living sense with other solar systems or stars remote in space, any more than those stars can give us heat and life as our Sol does.
I tend to feel that the ancient Hebrews got it right in making this autumnal equinox the beginning of the year, although as an Aries I like having that Spring sign as the first sign of the zodiac and of the astrological year. It just seems that social life, as in schools, colleges, and the social seasons of clubs and the like tends to restart in the autumn while it is actually winding down in the spring for a summer recess. Take your pick.
Let's hope there will be some good luck and good feelings while Luna trines Sol just after the equinox. At the same time both will be in good aspect with Saturn, which makes things heavier or more serious and contemplative--appropriate in terms of the Pope's presence in Washington. There seems no escape for human beings from self-examination and self-improvement. It came with the contract when we agreed to be born as babies once again. Doing it as best we can actually keeps us happy, while evading it makes us miserable.
Mercury's retrogradation (September 18--October 9) makes things harder in some ways, or perhaps easier, spiritually, because it challenges us to go deeper into ourselves and others and transmute our thinking and feeling to harmonize with other dimensions than the ordinary. It can be a magical time just as much as a disturbing one. Slowdowns and delays seem designed to make us more reflective or to get us to think of things in new, more living ways. We do things "out of pattern" and try different ways of scheduling things and sometimes we retry ideas or attempts from the past and find that on the second or seventy-second attempt there are new and wonderful gains from them.
"Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually." --Psalm 51:1 This is a good mantra to use (yes, repeat it over and over in your mind; memorize it) when thinking of politicians, rulers, bosses, CEOs and the like. The goodness of God is destined to overcome all their foibles.
"As a child of God you cannot have a habit of hurting or torturing people by your speeches or actions. You cannot have a habit of being jealous. You cannot feel easily offended. [As a child of God] you cannot resent the way people act with you. You are not envious of anybody. You are not filled with eagerness to be praised. You are not cowardly about being blamed. [As a child of God] you are not penurious. You are not glad to know that your enemies are unfortunate. You do not feel discouraged when you have tried and do not succeed.
"It is one duty we seem to have laid out before us as a race, that we reject the idea of the absence of Good by the word of truth boldly spoken concerning Good as omnipresent. This teaching goes forth from the mind in a mysterious influence. . . . Tell now that you reject the common feeling of the absence of Good. As God is not absent, Good must be here.
"We do not need to wait to be free. As God is free now, so we are free now."
--Emma Curtis Hopkins, Scientific Christian Mental Practice, p. 47
{Wednesday} {Hopeful, Quiet Rebalancing}
Cosmic Piper
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