Friday 20 May 2016
~Re-Visioning~
Moon in Scorpio
< moon in Via Combusta * <
until 5:48a PT | 8:48a ET | 12:48p UT **
"It's just not working" is the feeling. Maybe not, in appearance, but appearances are deceptive. There is probably something you can do to fix the situation, even if that seems hopeless at first. Tinker with it; tweak it; toy with different ways of doing it, in your mind at first, and then try them out. If one doesn't work, probably another will. Mercury retrograde and the whole DHE challenge us to "keep on keeping on" in perhaps novel ways in order to get our bearings all over again. Revision is a key.
It's interesting that that word literally means "re-visioning" or seeing things in a new way. Then it has come to mean revising, that is, changing the approach outwardly to make it work better. First the re-visioning, then the revising or reconstruction. That is probably what you need to be doing with something in your life, rather than dropping it completely in disgust or despair. This particular "lecture" or sermon has been helpful in the past to readers and I'm sorry I didn't deliver it earlier this time around. I was lulled by the Grand Trine (which includes Mercury) to feel that things were easier than they have turned out to be (for me and I believe for many others). Yes, there is hope, but even that has its limits when we feel "Oh no, it's still not working, time to give up." No, it's time to figure out how to do it right, even if that means failing a few more times until you get it.
Of course, in some few situations, it might be wise to drop something, or retire from it, during a DHE or Mercury retrograde period. But I believe that is far rarer than we tend to assume. Finding a different approach, revisioning and revising, is more likely to be what is needed. For that, seemingly infinite patience is required.
For Friday, we need to beware of the Venus opposite Mars aspect described yesterday (I won't repeat that--you could re-read it.) That is because Luna will be opposed to Venus all day and evening, not an easy aspect for relationships or friendships. People often pull away from each other at such times.
On top of that, the retrograde Mercury is forming an exact quincunx with Saturn, an aspect of uneasiness or redirection. Uneasiness leads to redirection. From Taurus to Sagittarius, it might indicate tensions between sources of income, or ways of using money, on the one hand, and spiritual or ethical ideals on the other. That is one reason I mentioned philanthropy in a big way in Thursday's report. We can all be philanthropists on a small scale, even when at first it seems impossible. That may seem very hard because there is also a feeling of poverty. Even high-flying investors are not happy with the markets, which have been not only choppy but stagnant, and down for the year. Collectively we are going through a "Where is my money?" cycle.
Jesus told a rich young Hebrew man that to win eternal life he should sell all his possessions and give to the poor. The young man--the text says that "Jesus looking on him loved him"--walked away sadly. Then Jesus said to his disciples that although it was hard for the rich to "enter the kingdom of heaven," still "With God all things are possible." I think we are finding ourselves at some such point right now.
The previous paragraphs about revision and reconstruction are probably the most help I know how to give.
{Friday} ~Re-Visioning~
P. S. To look over the barriers into another's life is not an easy thing to do. Astrology helps. While writing this report an old friend called me to report the death by suicide of a family member. The personal grief involved for this person was extremely intense, and beyond the reach of astrology or any merely mental analysis, and yet I heard the news while the moon was in Scorpio, sometimes a sign of death, and in the Via Combusta, which sometimes "pulls the rug out" from under us. I hope your Thursday and Friday will be less earth-shaking.
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