Message for Monday 9 July 2018

Monday 9 July 2018

}Dissipation or Kindliness{

Moon in Taurus-->Gemini

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:11a PT | 12:11p ET | 4:11p UT
until it enters Gemini at 9:59a PT | 12:59p ET | 4:59p UT (less than an hour later)

Warning: I am likely to go on and on, blah blah, during any Dark Hermetic Epoch (this one from Saturday evening July 7 until September 2). I find that always at those times there is so much crowding into my consciousness to say to you. I try to remind myself that sometimes less is more (and I am reading the stories of Hemingway and his commentary on them, which insists that "leaving things out" of his stories was what made them successful.)

Nevertheless: The DHE began at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Pacific Time, and I came home at 6 p.m. and found that the heating system in my apartment, which had not been on for a couple months, was on full blast, as hot as possible, and the temperature was 84 while outside it was only 72 and a window was open.  I didn't want to bother the manager (why do these things always happen on Saturdays? Saturn's day?) but had to. He gave me various instructions as to how to manage the settings on the thermostat. Nothing worked. Finally by 9 p.m. he told me to set the "mode" on "heat" while the thermostat was set as low as possible. (It already was.) This contrarian advice seemed to work and when I went to sleep in another room the radiator was cooling. 

Then at 7 a.m. I woke up and felt unusually warm. Going into the other room I found the radiator pumping away, as hot as it could possibly be. I endured this for almost an hour, not wanting to bother the manager on a Sunday, but finally turned the "mode" of the thermostat from "heat" to "cool." Who would have guessed, that worked! Sometimes in a DHE we do not feel we are totally through to the other side of Alice's Looking Glass. So the radiator cooled and "all is well" (?). 

The point is that all this happened just when the Dark Hermetic Epoch began, according to my exact calculation. (Oh, it began about one half hour before that but lasted many hours into it.)  

Be prepared for the unexpected. Also, be prepared to find yourself looking for all kinds of excuses to drop routines. I mentioned this in Saturday's report, within a whole paragraph of good advice (you might want to revisit it.) I find that

(a) during the DHE we do in fact need to deviate from planned schedules very often, for the sake of our inner poise, or peace of mind, or some damn' impulse or whim or other. Up to a point that is good for us. However,

(b) beyond that point it can be destructive. One might do more daydreaming at work, or take more breaks, and get away with it, but not get away with just not showing up, for an obvious example. 

And so (c) there is a need to maintain a balance between common sense (Go to work and do your job efficiently!) and uncommon intuition (I really need a break, some of this work is boring and pointless, I will feel better after I take a breather, etc.). 

Further, (d) we find our schedules changing because of factors beyond our control (my heating system Saturday night and Sunday morning, for example, which also affected the schedule of the apartment manager, etc.). A bus or train is late. A call is missed for some odd reason or your phone does not signal something important, and on and on. Someone else you work with, daydreaming, forgets to do something essential and that puts you in a position where you have to do double duty for a while. And so on.

But life continues. 

More, I can't stop:  The Thai soccer team is being rescued, we hope, for four of the boys made it to safety on Sunday. I must insist that although I didn't exactly predict this I came close, for last Friday I said here: 

The day they got stuck was Saturday June 23, when Luna was in Scorpio and in the Via Combusta until 11:33 p.m. Universal Time which would be even later in Thailand. Scorpio is a water sign and the sign of death. The moon goes through it every month, of course, and we survive, but it can be crucial--a good time to be careful. This time the "via combusta" was not the burning way but the muddy way. Unfortunately the coach of the soccer team didn't know, or else ignored the fact, that there might be rains (Scorpio a water sign) which could block an exit from the cave, and so they had a picnic there which turned out to be a serious mistake. (One of the symbols for the day, as reported here, was "an evening lawn party." They would have been better off sticking to a lawn somewhere.) 

So now what? Ordinarily I do not make predictions, but we are all concerned about this, so I see that the moon will be in Taurus, the opposite sign of Scorpio (and that of the moon's exaltation) on Saturday and Sunday, forming good aspects to planets in both water and earth signs. I am hoping that the rescue parties might find an entrance to the cave through the land rather than through water (Taurus is an earth sign). Without predicting anything, I might suggest that they ought to try this seriously on Saturday and Sunday when conditions might be favorable for it.

Was I right? Well, almost. The rescue teams did not find a way through to the cave from above as I had hoped. But they did manage to rescue four of the boys on Sunday, and I said that Saturday and Sunday would be favorable days for them.  In a remarkable way, the moon being in Taurus, the opposite sign to Scorpio where it was the day they were trapped, has allowed the first rescue attempt to be successful. Here we might even have a regular formula:  If you encounter a serious problem when the moon is in Scorpio, maybe you will find a solution to it two weeks later when the moon is in Taurus. (Luna is in its fall in Scorpio but exalted in Taurus.)

Further, I see that not only is the Grand Trine in water signs still with us, but now another Grand Trine in earth signs (or it will be in earth by Tuesday when Venus enters Virgo), forming a Grand Sextile which is very rare. It is very fortunate and we can hope, without getting ahead of ourselves, that all the boys and their coach will be rescued. One grand trine in water, which comes close to filling the cavern of escape, and the other in earth, that cavern itself. If there is success it will be not just because of planetary patterns (formal cause) but because of all the heroic individuals including the Thai SEAL divers who are putting their lives on the line to rescue the boys (final cause, or divine purpose as manifested through human wills aligned with it). 

Sad note: The one diver who lost his life in this heroic cause lost it on Friday during the |sobering or challenging third| of the week. That period had ended by Saturday and Sunday when the first rescue attempt was successful. The |karmically difficult third| is real and I point it out every week for your benefit.

Monday:  Willfully, people "want what they want when they want it" and could be aggressive. However, there could be an element of trust, of deciding to trust someone with a confidence or secret, finding that such trust in the long run is easier than constant suspicion. 

The two grand trines could make us a little lazy (in combination with the DHE), and content us with things as they are: "Why bother and struggle? Why knock myself out?" Some will be timorous and frail, seeking satiety in easy ways such as "smoking weed" or drinking alcohol or . . . "fictitious pleasures" as it were.

You could "rise to the occasion" in a dramatic way rather than being a whining indigent. What could help you do that? Perhaps a "true friend or constant lover" who never ceases to amaze you with his or her innocence combined with heartfelt courage. 

{Monday}  {Dissipation or Kindliness}

Cosmic Piper