Message for Monday 24 July 2017

Monday 24 July 2017

^Dark Reflections Made Mellow^

Moon in Leo

This is the first day of a Dark Hermetic Epoch extending to September 19. We discussed its meaning last Friday and will be discussing it further. I felt it already on Sunday as a "walk down memory lane" because I was thinking about old high school friends and tried to find a few on the Internet and also listening to old music from the 1930s through the 1950s. Don't be surprised if you find yourself doing similar things over the next almost-two months. There is an emphasis on re-experiencing or re-working, re-embracing, freshly understanding the past, whether one's own in very personal terms or the world in historic terms.

Monday: There are mysteries of the sublime and glorious, "a veiled statue." At a more practical level, there is a desire for easy money, and this could succeed to some degree if one uses the exact trine of Mercury with Uranus as the mental or perceptive brilliance which can detect opportunities accurately. One may feel elevated into unconditioned creativity, which may not seem "practical" but can be exalting.

Seclusion and extended labor is possible for many. One may feel inferior in an alien or unfriendly situation. Yet this is an opportunity for sober achievement which improves one's situation slowly. One makes sharp decisions which mobilize one for the sake of personal ambitions. You examine yourself and choose ways to participate more smoothly in the social group around you even if that requires changes in your way of presenting yourself. 

The worst possibility is that one feels abandoned, cut off, separated from the people one has valued in the past (Venus opposite Saturn exact today). The storms of life through which one has passed may seem to have ruined one's zest for living. The good side is that one can examine the past in a philosophic, reflective manner, "a retired sea captain." One has had one's day, one's successes as well as failures. Why not think of those as well? That helps prepare for future successes even if one feels one doesn't really care at this point. Rather than "Enough of that, I'm free of it now" it can be "I learned from the failures and successes, now I can apply that knowledge in fresh situations even if not immediately."  There is too much of a tendency to "throw in the towel" and become inconsequent and unreliable. 

A little aimless wandering accompanied by deep reflection or reminiscence may be good for the soul. Then there is an unknown but happy future awaiting us. Luna's trine with Saturn and sextile with Venus can help us accept things with a mellow attitude. The good plans we have made over the past month are still valid and workable, even if with necessary adaptations during the DHE.

{Monday} ^Dark Reflections Made Mellow^

Cosmic Piper