^Blithe Hopes Challenged^
Moon in Sagittarius
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues (until mid-morning on Wednesday) * |
People are feeling under much pressure, with the squares between Venus-Mars in Pisces and Saturn in Sagittarius continuing. Do people seem a little crazy? Off on tangents of their own? Thinking in ways which seem alien to you?
Mercury sextile Neptune gives spiritual insight, which is solace for woes.
Jupiter sextile Saturn shows that karma is working out reliably and wisely, no matter how it may look to us. The extremes on both sides of the political spectrum are getting wearisome, to say the least. The anger and battle is karma working out. When a chemical process is going on it looks frightening until it settles down and something new has been achieved in the test tube.
A reader asked whether the beginning of the Trump reign was something like Aries after the Piscean rule of Barack Obama. That is, a point of beginning as in the zodiac.
I see what he meant. Obama was not Piscean in his horoscope, but his mild manner and quiet consideration for everyone was Piscean or Neptunian in some way. What makes sense with the Aries part of this question is that Donald Trump has Mars rising, within three degrees of the ascendant, which is the strongest place for it in any chart, and Mars is the ruler of Aries. He even used the color red not only in his caps but in his speech, "the red blood of patriots," etc. Mars of course is "the red planet." Yes, it is a more selfish and self-centered Administration, for sure.
The Saturn aspects, accentuated today because of the |challenging third of the week|, can make us lose faith in G*d or ourselves or both. Nothing seems to be working? God seems to be failing, or maybe doesn't care? Those are common questions and feelings during such times. But we still have the good aspects of the period I called Celebratory (not ended) to lean back on. There is plenty of hope.
Venus moving closer to Mars by the day in Pisces is something like lovers feeling "It's us against the world." The world is Saturn, squaring both of them. Yet love survives and could grow stronger under the pressure, shorn perhaps of its more brutish or lustful side; deepened into caring or caritas.
The following is derived from the symbolic degrees of the planets on this day (Monday):
In the field of corn standing high and ripe a girl
Lush and dashing as a cherry tree in bloom wanders;
She is thinking of far scenes, a voyage to be
Taken for harvesting and selling foreign goods.
She espies the moon shedding its light and grace
In early evening; and notes a fellow-wanderer gazing
At the stars. He seems like someone from her dreams
Of distant ancestors seeing clear to blue discovery.
They hear a rumble rolling, punctuated sharply;
An earthquake, or just thunder? Near the moon a
Flash of lightning cleaves the air, the mood,
Their hopes. Are their plans, their travels, doomed?
They had seen themselves in water as in mirrors
And loved themselves. Now who loves them?
{Monday} ^Blithe Hopes Challenged^
Cosmic Piper
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