\Invisible Crown/
Moon in Virgo
|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week continues ** |
The intellectual, careful technical, hobby-like or other work and study and research you may have been doing for the past week has perhaps reached a point of culmination or perfection. You feel it is not perfect and yet it is closer to that than ever before.
Moods are usually down during the |challenging third| but fortunately it ends on the 31st about sunset (in the Western Hemisphere), making room for a happier party or New Year spirit that evening than we often have. I would guess that many will be thinking of the year ahead in terms of career, technique, skill and how that can work out in a satisfying way. I am not opposed to the party side of New Year celebrations, and yet over the years I have heard many say to me "I never really have a great party time on New Year's Eve." I think that has to do with the seriousness of the time. There are non-astrological factors at work in our calendar, which I seldom mention--they are quite mysterious--but New Year's is a sober time for good reason. We can have some fun without losing our deeper orientation to responsible fulfillment in the year ahead. It should be a time for prayer perhaps even more than merry-making. But it helps to have the |difficult third| out of the way; it lightens the mood toward optimism.
Meanwhile today we are in the thick of that karmic lesson. It seems to show us what we are doing wrong, over and over again. "What, you haven't overcome that little weakness yet? You know how it makes you suffer!" That is the nagging of the Karmic Gods. We should listen rather than talk back to them.
A man lying on a heap of stones by the side of the road
Dreams of what might have been. A farmer passes by with
His hand on the back of a cow he's guiding home. A man with
A quiver full of arrows stands resting his hand on his bow.
The king wonders if he has to preserve his crown through the
Sword. Or is his aggressive sustainment of the throne secure?
In the assembly room a facile pianist entertains with wit as well
As musical skill. Bright influences lift the audience and king.
The sleeping man rises from his bed of stones and climbs a steep
Hill. An angel beckons to him from its top. A lost ambition seems
To resurge within his breast. He remembers his one-time service to
The king. The angel inspires him, holding up a golden crown.
{Wednesday} /Invisible Crown\
Cosmic Piper
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