Fortnight of February 15(Monday)--March 3(Tuesday), 2016
~Passing the Tests?~
This period comprises the moon's gibbous, fat, or more luminous phase. It has been many many years of research and pain and struggle and worry and trial and error and re-trial and re-error and final success which has led me to this method. Nothing I do in astrology is carelessly considered.
We consider all the planetary positions (in four field systems as well as in the zodiac) and their interplanetary relations, but also the symbolic degrees of six slowly-changing points. This time we shall utilize those of Charubel, or John Thomas, a Welsh seer of the late 19th century. I have found them extraordinarily dependable, even if sometimes obscure.
First, a symbol of a man enjoying himself totally as he carves a round of beef he will presently be eating. Says Charubel: "An epicure, or one particularly fond of good living, but harmless, and as a rule fortunate in the things of the world." Well, we cannot argue with that--although if we are not meat-eaters we will be carving a round of tofu.
"A man with a large pair of scales in the act of weighing." We had this last fortnight. It is a sober one, not liberating but important. Something you are trying to accomplish requires just that--careful measurement, weighing, getting things down to their exact measurements so you can work with them to your advantage. Freedom requires, first, an exact study of what will permit and promote the freedom.
The third symbol is just too advanced, too amazingly "not of this world" to bear repeating here (Pisces 10 for those of you who have the book). It suggests the utmost possibilities of this time, with psychic powers, brilliant gifts, and an influence over the future. Who is ready for that? If you are, please use your powers in submission to the will of the Highest.
We had the same symbol for Uranus last week, a frightening one: "A battle-field where two contending armies are engaged in deadly conflict." This could have many applications. The large heading in the New York Times for today asserts that there is a "Fierce Battle" emerging over the next appointee to the Supreme Court. I probably should not say this, but a few days ago that Court, with the support of the five usually denominated "conservative" justices, including Antonin Scalia, scuttled the hard-won agreement with the U. S. which many nations agreed to a few months ago in the Paris Climate Accords, which I touted here as astrologically propitious and important. Those five justices effectively hindered our approach to freedom from the horrendous, poisonous, deadly use of fossil fuels, from which addiction we need to escape. They said, "Sorry Obama, you and your appointees worked assiduously to save the planet, but our Constitution, framed a few hundred years ago by men who never could have known anything about the horrors fossil fuels are inflicting on the planet, did not allow for any laws to prohibit them." Such a truly retrograde idea of what our Constitution allows, while Jupiter, planet of the law, is retrograde and while we remained in the Dark Hermetic Epoch (until after Scalia died). Scalia and his four henchmen said "Death to the planet," and the planet then said, within three days, "Death to Scalia." I consider it a clear and immediate result of karmic law.
The "two contending armies engaged in deadly conflict" are the armies of light and darkness, and Scalia was on the wrong side.
I might, however, have agreed with him on other issues, such as abortion. It is very hard for human beings to be totally right or totally ethical when the universe has such greys in it rather than clear blacks and whites, in most cases. May Antonin Scalia be blessed as he finds his way into a higher life where all these complications may become crystal clear to him. We need justices on the Court who are able to see all that now, rather than after death, and I hope President Obama will appoint such a Justice and that he will be confirmed apart from party politics.
I have to say also that, when it comes to "two contending armies," I agree wholeheartedly with what Donald Trump said in the most recent Republican debate against Jeb Bush and his brother. He asserted that (1) the Iraq war was a serious mistake, and he was right; (2) that there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq, and that George W. Bush's administration's assertions to the contrary were "lies"; (3) that the war cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives (yes, and many thousands, really hundreds of thousands, of lives in Iraq); and (4) rather than G. W. Bush "keeping us safe" as his brother Jeb contended, it was during his watch that the most horrendous terrorist attack on the U. S. happened, the destruction of the Twin Towers. On all this I happen to agree with Donald Trump, and I was surprised that he said it all so vociferously, even though there were loud "boos" from the Republican audience. He was willing to go out on a limb in this case, and my opinion of him rose because of that.
The next symbol for the fortnight is one of the worst: "A person about entering a dark tunnel. He . . . will go wrong if there be no saving influences in operation. A most unfortunate and hopeless degree this." Well, we need to modify that with some common sense, yet take it as a serious warning. Probably it means that each of us is likely to underestimate what he is up against, and overestimate his ability to circumvent it. So we need to be more careful, more certain of our strategy, more humble in estimating what we can do and realistic in figuring out how to do it. There are always "saving influences in operation" and so we need to become aware of them, tune in to them, pray to them, and communicate with them. They are the forces of the Highest, who is always Good.
Last: "An ostrich." Charubel expands on the notion that this bird "hides his head in the sand" when enemies are near: "A person of lofty looks, and pompous in his demeanor. In appearance, a giant; in assumption, a hero; but when brought to close quarters, when his valour is put to the proof, one who despises the ideas of another and has none of his own. 'A sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.'" Well that is pretty intense. It sounds to me like Donald Trump at his worst. It might be representative of any or all of the Republican aspirants to the Presidency. If you are a Republican, you may take it to represent the Democratic aspirants. I do not judge among them, at this point, although I have some opinions. It seems that we and they and all are being tested as to our true worth, according to this and most of the other symbols for this Fortnight.
Let's remember the first and third symbols, above, for they are the two optimistic ones. We are capable of enjoying ourselves, sometimes, within this complex arena of contradictory forces; and we are capable of arising to some super-transcendent level where we understand what it all means and know how to deal with it perfectly. May we seek and partially arrive at that position.
{Fortnight of February 15-March 1} ~Passing the Tests?~
Cosmic Piper
Monday 15 February 2016
Moon in Taurus-->Gemini
/moon goes void-of-course at 2:55a PT | 5:55a ET | 10:55a UT
until it enters Gemini at 6:36a PT| 9:36a ET | 2:36p UT
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week all day (until Wednesday evening)
At the time of the v-of-c, and a few hours before, Luna is trine Venus, always a time of fulfillment, or of peace and a sense of promise and fulfillment. After that and after Luna enters Gemini, an interesting day probably but one filled with some worries unless you are capable of rising above them.
{Monday}
Cosmic Piper
P. S. Don't forget to read something inspirational from the Bible or some other book you trust, to help you cope with whatever you are facing. The universe and its Lord are good.
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