Friday, August 31, 2018

Message for Saturday 1 September 2018

Saturday 1 September 2018

\Easing Into New Period/

Moon in Taurus
/moon goes void-of-course at 10:58p PT | 1:58a(Su) ET | 5:58a(Su) UT

I am taking a break today, but expect to publish something for Sunday. I hope you have a happy holiday weekend. It marks the beginning of a new Hermetic Epoch and so we may feel optimistic and ready for something better. 

The Hermetic Epochs (discovered and named by myself in the 1970s and 1980s and refined and abundantly confirmed by multiple experiences and observations since) are not the only thing going on but they are very important and provide a framework for everything else:

Dark (or Slow or Contemplative) Hermetic Epoch began July 7 --> (Mercury went retrograde  July 16 --> Mercury turned direct  August 19) --> DHE continues until September 2

The next Brighter or Faster or more Active Hermetic Epoch lasts from September 2 through October 28

Dark or Slow or Contemplative HE occurs again from October 29 through December 23

Another Bright or Fast or Active Hermetic Epoch begins December 24 and continues through February 18, 2019

As you can see, they are of approximately equal length, which is one reason I named them Bright and Dark to correspond with the two halves of a day or the two halves of a year. But the Dark or Slow or Contemplative periods have their own positive uses, as we discuss here repeatedly and shall discuss in the future. As the Bright or Fast or Active one begins on Sunday, we may have a "new lease on life." 
Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Cosmic Piper

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Message for Friday 31 August 2018

Friday 31 August 2018

\Scaffolding for the Future/

Moon in Taurus

Setting up a temporary building, structure or edifice, perhaps just on paper or in your mind, or maybe materially, could be fortunate. We are thinking of new and better ways of doing things because Mercury is gaining momentum toward the Brighter or Faster Hermetic Epoch beginning Sunday.  Some of these notions might be ridiculous, and so could be dismissed, but others might be not only interesting but useful. Travel may be on your mind, whether or not it is realistic in the near future. 

Serving people's needs, or giving them comfort food or a hand on the shoulder, is a good thing to do. If sometimes it appears that this is pointless or excessive it may be that there are elements of indolence or wastefulness involved and both of you are stagnating in some way. You can benefit each other but cut out whatever is pointless or time-wasting.

Signs and signals might reveal uneasiness in a relationship or in efforts made to communicate with someone professionally.  Solitariness is all right at times, but isolation could deprive you of needed cooperation. Therefore it is well to heed the signals which suggest how to preserve your dignity while still working with someone whose views or methods differ from yours.  

"A woods rich in autumn coloring" is a beautiful symbol. It's a little early for that, literally, but there is fulfillment building up in your affairs in one way or another, in business, home, and friendship. You can peek into the future and glimpse much which is hopeful and strengthening. Experimenting toward what one has glimpsed as positive possibilities expands original powers and expectations. 

{Friday}  /Scaffolding for the Future\

Cosmic Piper

The Hermetic Epochs (discovered and named by myself in the 1970s and 1980s and refined and abundantly confirmed by multiple experiences and observations since) are not the only thing going on but they are very important and provide a framework for everything else:

Dark (or Slow or Contemplative) Hermetic Epoch begins July 7 --> (Mercury goes retrograde  July 16 --> Mercury goes direct  August 19) --> DHE continues until September 2

The next Brighter or Faster or more Active Hermetic Epoch lasts from September 2 through October 28

Dark or Slow or Contemplative HE occurs again from October 29 through December 23

Another Bright or Fast or Active Hermetic Epoch begins December 24 and continues through February 18, 2019

As you can see, they are of approximately equal length, which is one reason I named them Bright and Dark to correspond with the two halves of a day or the two halves of a year. But the Dark or Slow or Contemplative periods have their own positive uses, as we discuss here repeatedly and shall discuss in the future. 

HHH / CP

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Message for Thursday 30 August 2018

Thursday 30 August 2018

^Learning and Teaching Amid Tricky Feelings^

Moon in Aries-->Taurus
/moon goes void-of-course at 4:05p PT | 7:05p ET | 11:05p UT
until it enters Taurus at 6:31p PT | 9:31p ET | 1:31a(F) UT

One wonders sometimes if one has given too much to others in return for little or no appreciation. Whether friends or "the public," they take as if one were a natural fount rather than a conscious being working to help. Yet one can continue to sing one's song, crow one's message, give forth whatever one has to give, with fervor.

Natural beauties go along with exalted ideals. In living them, one can place one's hand on another's shoulder and be a bulwark of comfort and subtle support or guidance. 

Venus beginning to square Mars (until about October 18! an unusual, exceedingly long time for this aspect usually lasting less than a month) suggests passionate feelings not under control, or attempts to gain sway over others' affections, or jealousy leading to disgraceful words or acts. This does not have to be if we are conscious and restrained, self-aware, and desirous of manifesting real love rather than lust, a desire for the other's well-being rather than possession of her or him.  Today this may be evident in subtle ways; yet there can be a softer sort of mutual assistance or intended or unintended instruction, "first dancing instruction." Seemingly unrequited affections get some relief. No matter if the dance seems awkward.

Learning other things of a more practical nature, or researching them, is likely. Some skill connected with job or career could be developed aggressively. Careful observation yields natural secrets. Sometimes this is well-crafted research and sometimes intuitive suggestion which turns out to be remarkably accurate.

{Thursday} ^Learning and Teaching Amid Tricky Feelings^

Cosmic Piper

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Message for Wednesday 29 August 2018

Wednesday 29 August 2018

}Reserved but Persistent{

Moon in Aries
|Karmically serious third| of this week continues
until it ends at 7:14p PT | 10:14p ET | 2:14a(Th) UT

We all need inspiration to get through our days. Me too, and I put what I hope is inspiration, as far as consistent with an astrological report, in the final paragraphs devoted to the day itself and its symbols and aspects. Before that I often comment on current situations and aspects, and I admit that can be depressing, because I am trying to sort out the most difficult things going on and how they are related to astrological positions. I am hoping that seeing these things will help you to cope with them but realize that instead some of you might just find them depressing. "Dark Hermetic Epoch? Still? Why bother with anything!" I sometimes feel this way myself and have to counter the negative thoughts through positive thinking. I am hoping that you will do the same as you read the early part of this report.

I am thinking a lot about the fires in California and elsewhere, because I have to breathe Seattle air, which has been afflicted with smoke from those fires for weeks. The "elsewhere" includes Canada but in the American press I have not read much about the Canadian fires. I could research them but of course time is limited. I have already reported, often, on the connection of the fires with Mars square Uranus which is going on much longer than usual because Mars went retrograde, and then direct, within orb of its square with Uranus. This is the most incendiary aspect in astrology! We learn what the aspects mean by history, by what older astrologers and writers have observed, and through direct observation. The fact that Mars square Uranus can be fires, or violence, has been amply substantiated this summer. But what are the positive uses of this aspect? I quote from Reinhold Ebertin: "Intensified creativity. Desire for freedom and independence. Remaining undaunted. Powers of quick decision. Surprises." I would add: The possibility of work on or with electrical devices. Advances in computer technology or one's use of it. Discovering new ways to use technological tools. 

Meanwhile, we have the fires:   Firefighters are pushing themselves to their physical and emotional limits to battle these blazes, staying awake for days, sleeping in the dirt, working away from their homes for more than a month. They are doing so even as their colleagues die, and they are grappling with grief and a profound exhaustion that some in the field believe may have contributed to those deaths. 
“I can’t recall a time where we were looking at three different memorial services within a two-week span,” Carroll Wills, a spokesman for the California Professional Firefighters, said of the state’s deadly summer. “The men and women on the frontlines, they’re exhausted, they’re hurting,” he added. “Our resources are being pushed to the limit."  --The Guardian

I see that next year Mars will be square Uranus again, but much more briefly, from late June to the last week in July, during a DHE again. Perhaps the fire season will come a little earlier in 2019. 

Yesterday an airline accident killed 51 people in Nepal. The captain of the plane was said to be suffering emotional disturbance, chain smoking and weeping. Uranus rules air travel, and Mars accidents. The Dark Hermetic Epoch includes for most a lot of emotional distress, no matter how we conceal (or reveal) it. This is just a signal that you are not alone when it comes to suffering such depression. (Join Elon Musk.) Some resort to more smoking, more "weed," more alcohol or drugs. I am convinced that people are more likely to backslide into such habits during every Dark or Slow or Regressive Epoch. 

This DHE lasts until this Sunday, September 2. I already notice that some symptoms of it seem ameliorated, yet clinging. Patience is the keyword. For two days there has been much less smoke in Seattle, with the help of winds blowing it away. Let's hope the fires will be contained by early in September, although the Mars-Uranus aspect continues into early October. The Bright HE should make that easier to deal with. "Intensified creativity. Desire for freedom and independence. Remaining undaunted. Powers of quick decision. Surprises." We are more likely to be manifesting those better trends of the aspect beginning Sunday. 

Wednesday:  One can cajole the laws to be on one's side when one is in compliance with them as far as possible. A generous, giving side of one's nature wants to bestow goodness on all.

People's feelings are delicate and reserved, though sincere and kindly. So someone who is remote from you may not dislike you but is either shy or just wanting to remain in her or his own world. A guiding tendency wants to be maternal or paternal toward people, yet not too emotionally involved. 

The winds of adversity might make one feel like a battered ship, useless and abandoned. That makes people susceptible to cultish behavior, subjecting themselves to a leader or even tyrant just to get a sense of belonging and security. But then the restraints become unpleasant at some point. Bearing with them still has advantages, yet deviating may be necessary also.

We often want to take the easy path when it would be advantageous to be more vigilant and expend energy to make something good happen. Work confers benefits not apparent on the surface. Signatures, signs or clues are offered by the cosmos to show you what is worth doing.

{Wednesday}  {Reserved but Persistent}


Cosmic Piper

Monday, August 27, 2018

Message for Tuesday 28 August 2018

Tuesday 28 August 2018

^Working Toward Connection^

Moon in Pisces-->Aries
/moon goes void-of-course at 6:56a PT | 9:56a ET | 1:56p UT
until it enters Aries at 9:36a PT | 12:36p ET | 4:36p UT
|Karmically serious third| of this week lasts until Wednesday evening

We see more than we understand, and the universe gives us more clues, moment to moment, than we are aware of. If we go on insisting on an outworn or inadequate approach, there will be a collapse of what we are trying to do. This signals a need to rethink and restart.  

We have all made mistakes we regret and you may feel you are deservedly abandoned by life or by some individuals. Yet there can be recovery. Even various diversions, "a merry-go-round," could, rather than make things worse, make them better by providing reorientation and fresh hope. 

Guiding someone gently, or being guided by him or her, you find yourself comforting one another and enjoying special pleasures, with youthful spirits and mirth. This is playing with a cheerful companion. If the |karmically difficult third| of the week (moon square Saturn) tries to interfere with this, it could be you need to modify it or get duties accomplished before indulging yourself and someone else.

You may try to put something together or solve a puzzle or experiment with materials or chemicals, machines or flavors. Yet you are thinking of "a crowd upon the beach" or of ways to use what you do to secure some social exhilaration for yourself. 

{Tuesday}  ^Working Toward Connection^

Cosmic Piper

Sunday, August 26, 2018

Message for Monday 27 August 2018

Monday 27 August 2018

~Favoring Steadiness~

Moon in Pisces
|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week begins at 5:32a PT | 8:32a ET | 12:32p UT
(lasting through Wednesday, longer than usual because of Luna's speed)

Things seem to be on an even keel. Anxiety about the future or finances is normal but can be smoothed out by just taking care of essentials.

Dedication to your heritage, as symbolized by "a Jewish rabbi," is stabilizing and enhances your security. 

A young person appreciates your steadying hand or influence. 

You can be highly skilled and efficient in preparation for "the battle of life" which is more like a game, really. Since you know what to do and how to do it there should be no special worry, but satisfying action. 

Your mind has relation with an invisible world of universal co-ordinates. Making these conscious is just a matter of believing in them and paying attention. Then you can be guided happily.

The center of reality between you and your world is a nucleus of certainty. Practical matters are subject to it, and you may arrive at it in your own way or through religious aspiration. Quiet, peace, and seclusion bring favor.

{Monday}  ~Favoring Steadiness~

Cosmic Piper

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Message for Sunday 26 August 2018

Sunday 26 August 2018

Moon in Pisces

On August 17 while Mercury was still retrograde (and even now it is very slow, hence the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch until September 2) I posted here:  Elon Musk tweets that he will take Tesla private, gets all kinds of flack from everyone, then changes his story, and even now the whole thing is in limbo and the SEC is investigating. One wonders if he has REgrets.  

Now, on Saturday 8/25, I find in the NYTimes: 

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Remain a Public Company

Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive announced that the electric car company would remain public, despite considering making it private earlier this month.

So, he did have REgrets, and as I stated, even one of the richest men in the world was not free from the toils, tribulations and uncertainties of Mercury Retrograde and the Dark Hermetic Epoch. 

We do not do the regular daily sort of forecast for Sunday. Here is something I wrote lasst night:

Stranger Things: Borrowed Character, or Redemption?

As for "the childlike ones" ("they are the ones to emulate," I said yesterday) I am watching the Netflix series Stranger Things for the second time and find that "Eleven" is the only character I can fully believe in, and she is the most "childlike" and perhaps the wisest. Most of the others are too "fucked up" (is there a better expression for it?) to be trusted or liked. Loved? Kierkegaard said that we are commanded to love, but I am not sure if he would extend the purview of that commandment to fictional characters! When they seem unreal it is hard to love them. People in the flesh hardly ever seem unreal, although perhaps a sociopath might. I am not sure I have ever met one and am quite sure I do not wish to.

Everybody likes Eleven because of her purity and sincerity. It is wonderful to believe that those qualities might go along with her semi-omnipotence or magical powers. Actually these are supposed to have come from her suffering, that is, from the ordeals to which she was exposed by her original "Papa" who rather than making her a monster, as he seemed to wish, strengthened her good qualities along with her "powers" so that she became a magical heroine.

Are both innocence and suffering required to yield a human character imbued with magical powers? Vide Jesus for example.

Innocence enduring through persecution is a magical formula. One wants to do away with the persecution, and some have said that is possible, though to do it one might have to assimilate oneself to the suffering of another who was persecuted, as Christians assimilate themselves to the suffering of Jesus and through that are saved and made impervious to much of the suffering he had taken upon himself.

It is interesting that in the non-Christian secular or humanistic world many assimilate themselves to the suffering of imaginary heroes and heroines, as in The X Men or Superman, Batman or others. By doing this they internally strengthen themselves, imagining what it would be like to suffer in order to to good deeds. This can be a real strengthening of character. It can be a medicine for the soul. But this would not work if the way the hero wins out over "evil" is by deliberately torturing it or causing it pain in a way which is enjoyed. Here is where too many of the popular series on TV or in movies fail, ethically. Ultimately the best remedy for evil is causing it to be self-seen and self-obliterated through conversion or reformation. The best heroes and heroines are those who rather than vengefully or sadistically killing evildoers manage somehow or other to show them how to change their ways. This ideal is too seldom displayed in popular culture.

Jesus has for the Western world been the paradigm of that ideal, as well as the saints who have emulated him.

I am agnostic as to whether or not there can be other saviors (I prefer "saviour" because there is an "our" in it, just as there is an "us" in Jesus) than Jesus. If we think of him as "our" saviour , and as one with "us," then there is no other. I leave such a decision to you.

HHH / CP

Friday, August 24, 2018

Message for Saturday 25 August 2018

Saturday 25 August 2018

}Inward Strength Self-Contained{

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces
/moon is void-of-course 
until it enters Pisces at 10:33p PT | 1:33a(Su) ET | 5:33a(Su) UT

There is cool strength and courage. Whatever good fortune one has enjoyed is shared with those weaker or defenseless. 

There are those who try to gain through dishonest means, "a gang of robbers in hiding," so it is good to be aware of that and direct one's kindness toward those who deserve it.

Those who are humble and docile, accepting direction, are favorites and you may guide them patiently.

Research could go well, perhaps in regard to finances or business, or in other areas which would profit you eventually. There are laws or reliable patterns to be discovered.

Your inquisitive mind is somewhat aloof from people except the one or ones you feel most responsible for.  Clues and signals come from everywhere though you may not need to act on them immediately, but savor the secrets they convey. You know you can be ruler over some area of your world even if, with the moon void-of-course, you do not exert yourself directly very much, or do so in unexpected ways. 

{Saturday}  {Inward Strength Self-Contained}

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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Message for Friday 24 August 2018 (and Notes on Virgo!)

Friday 24 August 2018

}Covert Suspicion, Yet Party Mood{

Moon in Aquarius
/moon goes void-of-course at 9:40p PT | 12:40a(Sa) ET | 4:40a(Sa) UT

The sun entered Virgo late Wednesday-early Thursday (depending on time zone). 

It is a fascinating sign. Virgos have been among my best friends and I find them refreshing, honest, congenial, and considerate. Michael Cohen is a Virgo. You might want to take out the "honest" in that characterization, in his case! However, Trump found him honest at least in their own relationship and trusted him for many years. He was very loyal to his "superior," something Virgos are routinely, which is one reason it is the sign of "service" in some sense. 

Virgos often have large heads. I am not kidding. I do not know why this is so but I have seen it over the years. Two wonderful friends when I lived in New York City, one female and one male, were Virgos with large and good-looking heads. There is something imposing about them. Another friend in high school had the same image, large and impressive head. Michael Cohen also has that. It's one reason the newspapers like to post photos of him over and over. Photos and portraits of the philosopher Hegel (Virgo) show him with a large, imposing Greek head (though he was totally Germanic). The philosopher-king. 

Decades ago I read in a popular astrology magazine that often when a Virgo is born, the same mother will have one more child, and then no more. That makes Virgo the "penultimate" sign for mothers. I thought that this must be nonsense, but applied it to the Virgos I knew and it worked in every case. In one of those cases, the child born after the first Virgo was another Virgo, but then no more children. So today I looked up Michael Cohen's siblings and find that he has only one, Bryan, who is younger. That works. Wow, guys, I just checked for the philosopher Hegel! He had an elder brother, Taurus. Georg Hegel himself was Virgo. Then a sister, Christiana, was three years younger.  No more children in the family. It works in this case also. 

I give praise to the unknown astrologer who noticed this! Some of the best discoveries of patiently dedicated, inquiring astrologers are unsung, unnoticed and unappreciated. (Such as my discovery of the |karmically serious third| of each week and the Hermetic Epochs.) (Does anyone care about those? I don't hear from you so I guess you don't. Why am I writing for you?)

There may be something also about Virgos and Scotch. I would not go out on a limb with this, but my cousin Jim's drink when he went to a bar was always Scotch and soda. Jim was a delightful Virgo. Another younger Virgo friend liked Drambuie, which has a Scotch basis. Then, last night, reading about the amazing trial of Michael Cohen (Virgo) in which he pleaded guilty to trying to influence the 2016 election by paying off two women and implicated Trump as the one who commanded him to do that, I see that he told the judge, when asked, that the night before he had had "Glenlivet 12 on the rocks." There was much laughter in the courtroom. Glenlivet is a highly praised Scotch. 

If you say that I need more than three instances to show that Virgos often like Scotch, you are right, but this is a start, isn't it? Of course I also know Virgo individuals who drink no alcohol at all. In fact, the one who liked Drambuie is now a teetotaler and says he is better off that way. Cohen told the judge that he rarely had a drink. Virgo is often a sign of purity. Sometimes Scorpio can also be a sign of self-control and issues surrounding it. I have known two Scorpios (both had both sun and moon in that sign) who after being alcoholic went into rehab and became entirely "clean."  One was a bartender. Talk about self-control.

Friday:  People are spying on one another, not only in government circles. This could be as harmless as a little voyeurism or as serious as violating someone's privacy. Or it could just be the political parties reconnoitering in advance of fall elections. There could be gossip.

The symbol "Two men placed under arrest" is remarkable in view of what happened Tuesday to Manafort and Cohen. What it means for today I don't know except that there are consequences for bad behavior. The way out is to develop skills in seclusion.

Some who lack executive ability or any desire for it become poor as a matter of course and endure through cold, mathematical gravity, paying debts honestly and not expecting more. 

Charubel's symbol for Mars's position, "A man walking beside a cow, with his hand on her back, and bringing her home from the pasture at eventide" is disturbing because it was there also on Tuesday when Cristhian Rivera, who killed Mollie Tibbetts, was arrested, and he "had worked for years tending to dairy cows" according to the New York Times. The kidnapping and killing occurred "at eventide." Let's make that symbol signify something nicer today, such as being good to an animal or dependent person.
The co-ordinates of experience are alive and colorful as we pay attention to them, "A woman reading tea leaves." Life is a panorama of synchronicity.

People feel self-secure and self-sufficient, yet there could be entertainment and hospitality, a party. Luna trines Venus in evening hours. "A well-lighted house with open door."

{Friday}  {Covert Suspicion, Yet Party Mood}

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Astrology as Phenomenology

Astrology as Phenomenology

I am waiting for the wind which was predicted for "Wednesday or Thursday" to rescue us from the heavy smoke which has descended on Seattle. It hasn't come and it's 9:13 p.m. Wednesday.

I just removed an old large dictionary plus three paperback books from under my laptop in order to get it down from its Netflix position to its writing position. Better.

I am reading four popular, relatively superficial books on the history of philosophy concurrently, one page from each every day, or more than one page on some days. I find it liberating. I may never really study some of these philosophers who are in these books subjected to inadequate capsule presentations, so knowing a little of them may be better than knowing nothing. It is easy to fill in some of the blanks left by one of these encapsulating writers with what turns up in the other three. It's an adventure. Sometimes there is profundity in superficiality. A crude grasp of what Paul Feyerabend said is exhilarating, for he wanted to make "science" and "scientific knowledge" more democratic and individual. Therefore he could have been a champion of astrology, for it is a democratic and individual science. It is, as I have called it, an experimental, experiential, phenomenological science. That means its conclusions may be somewhat different for everyone who becomes proficient in it. Is not that true anyway of psychology, for example? There are perspectives, observations, and speculations in psychology but not a rigid science. Who would want it to be a rigid science, making human behavior entirely predictable and taking away all free will or spontaneity?

Systematic thought, systematic speculation, and systematic observation are what I take to and what I believe in. I do that with diet. I read many words from those who study diet, dieticians and whatnot, and never believe any of it totally but draw my own conclusions from eating what seems right to me and noting how it affects me. Is this "scientific"? Maybe or maybe not, but it is certainly experimental and experiential and phenomenological.

How do these popular books define phenomenology? From one: "the study of experience." Or: "An approach to philosophy which investigates objects of experience (known as phenomena) only to the extent that they manifest themselves in our consciousness, without making any assumptions about their nature as independent things."  ("Independent things" are called, since Kant, noumena rather than phenomena. But what are "independent things" if we know them only through our consciousness?)

Another of the "superficial" phllo books says: "Phenomenology is a philosophy founded by Edmund Husserl that says that 'intentionality,' or attitude, always goes along with consciousness."

Another: "Husserl envisioned his phenomenological method as a descriptive procedure for examining conscious experience. It was not a psychological method but, rather, one that brought out certain and necessary aspects of experience. It did not deduce these from presuppositions, but revealed them by phenomenological reductions, a most arduous process as carried on by Husserl . . ."

Another: "The central doctrine of Husserl's phenomenology is the thesis that consciousnesses is intentional. That is, every act of consciousness is directed at some object or other, perhaps a material object, perhaps an 'ideal' object--as in mathematics. Thus the phenomenologist can distinguish and describe the nature of the intentional acts of consciousness and the intentional objects of consciousness, which are defined through the content of consciousness. It is important to note that one can describe the content of consciousness and, accordingly, the object of consciousness without any particular commitment to the actuality or existence of the object. Thus, one can describe the content of a dream in much the same terms that one describes the view from a window or a scene from a novel."

To me, all this means that we have the freedom to be aware of and understand our own conscious experience in our own way and be our own scientists! Husserl probably would not agree with that because he (an Aries!) probably thought that he and he alone knew how to do it! Here I am putting "Aries" against "Husserl" in the sense that I am saying he does not realize that his month of birth influences how he thinks and so when he thinks the world is all contained in his own "head" (Aries is the sign of the head and brain) he is merely thinking as an Aries has to think! Does that mean I am putting the temporal order, that is, the month of Husserl's birth, as superior to thought per se? No, it means I am noticing things, namely, that Aries people are individualists and believe in their own visions, and this has been made evident to me through observing how many Aries people act, and that probably Husserl is not immune to thinking that way since he was born in the month of Aries. I call this astrological phenomenology. And I care not if Husserl would say it is nonsense! My own experience, according to he himself, could not be nonsense.

Oh well, there is a sample of philosophy, and you can see why it is that while philosophic discussion may expand the consciousness or awareness, it hardly ever leads to resolutions into agreements. So if one were to set down "resolutions into agreement" as the goal of philosophy, one would have to say that philosophy has never attained its goal at least in any universally agreed-upon way. Of course Hegel and maybe a few others have believed that they had in fact resolved everything into agreement. Hegel made the best attempt ever, it would seem. But how many philosophers nowadays would agree with that?

So it goes. And goes. But I do not give up and may even resolve all the philosophers who ever lived into agreement in my own mind and consciousness! So there. (I too am Aries.)

8/22/2018  10:07 pm

Message for Thursday 23 August 2018

Thursday 23 August 2018

}Mutual Self-Assured Respect Requisite{

Moon in Capricorn-->Aquarius
/moon goes void-of-course at 7:20a PT | 10:20a ET | 2:20p UT
until it enters Aquarius at 9:57a PT | 12:57p ET | 4:57p UT

Was Tuesday a |Karmic day|?!  (As was definitely pointed out here.) Well, Michael Cohen and then Paul Manafort were convicted within an hour of each other in the afternoon, and the body of Mollie Tibbetts was found. She had vanished on a |difficult third| day and her body was found on another, and her killer confessed. Karmic? I would guess so. And all the commentators are saying, "The worst day ever for Donald Trump" and are assuming his "karma" might be catching up to him. No comment from me on that because he has a very lucky birth-chart. Even, it could be said, the fact that Mollie's killer is an undocumented Mexican immigrant played into his hands on the very day he had other miserable luck, to give his convinced followers more reason to believe in his immigration policies. 

Fox News played the Mexican killer headlines over those of the two convictions of Trump cronies, and the New York Times the reverse. As would be expected. No news seems unvarnished by editorial slanting.

And, of course, all this happened during a Dark or Slow or Contemplative or Recessive Hermetic Epoch (choose your favorite term). The Manafort and Cohen accusations have been stewing or percolating for months, finally to be REhashed or REsolved in the convictions. The disappearance of Mollie happened during the DHR and the unhappy REvelation of what happened to her also. You can supply other endless examples of "old tapes" from the past being replayed and re-evaluated. In your own life, in the lives of friends, and in the lives of public persons.

Thursday:  It is amazing how some people get away with cruel, avaricious, criminal deeds--for a time. Of course karma catches up with them sooner or later. The symbol "A wolf carrying away a lamb" might be a warning to some of us, whether we tend to be the lamb or the wolf!

Another "re" word is RElaxation, keyword for the Sabian symbol "A REtired sea captain." Well you may legitimately do some of that. 

Relations between the sexes are such that someone feels like treating you, or you feel like treating someone, as a lost animal. How comforting to guide this loved one home from wandering.

A convivial or festival spirit could turn up at some point during the day or evening, perhaps with some abrasiveness because of differing cultures or lifestyles. 

Naive insight comes via signs and signals, whether systematically through divination or spontaneously through serendipitous synchronicity. 

One feels an internal self-reliance within one's own nuclear reality. This need not mean that one disrespects or contemns others. If that were to happen it would dissipate one's own self-surety by linking one's emotions and responses to someone else's errors or  seeming errors. 

{Thursday}  {Mutual Self-Assured Respect Requisite}

Cosmic Piper


Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Message for Wednesday 22 August 2018

Wednesday 22 August 2018

\Churning Without Firm Conclusion/

Moon in Capricorn
|Karmically serious third| of this week remains until 12:58p PT | 3:58p ET | 7:58p UT

Frankly, I am not at all interested in Elon Musk and have a sort of dislike of him. But his name and face keep turning up in the headlines and this latest stuff about his "adventures"(?) shows conclusively that being one of the richest men in the world does NOT save anyone from the effects of the Dark or Slow or Confusing Hermetic Epoch! One might think from reading this that he has "lost it" both in personal affairs and business--but no, he is just suffering the DHE (or SHE, Slow Hermetic Epoch) like the rest of us. 

Wednesday:  Intellect and mature judgment seem to go along with strong will-power. 

However, the basis of some communications seems to be lost, or to go astray, so that you are delayed in making agreements with anyone. This could be a needed respite which allows all to rethink their priorities.

Being good to someone dependent or a young person or animal could bring good fortune to both. 

A dairy product--yogurt, cheese, kefir, ice cream--could be prominent or helpful.

We need to recognize the needs of other life-forms, pets, wild animals. We need to recognize the needs of prisoners, of whom we have too many, who are for two weeks demonstrating against cruel and unfair prison conditions. Prison reform should be high on the national (and international) agenda. We can't expect prisoners to feel they want to deal justly with the world after their release if we do not deal justly with them while they are incarcerated!

When there seems to be danger or turmoil, signals and intuitions can guide you. 

The moon united with both Pluto and Mars in Capricorn is a strong  position and I have reported here many times that there are often high winds when the moon is conjunct, square or opposite Mars. I hope so this time, at least for Seattle, because the meteorologists are saying that wind on Wednesday could blow away the heavy concentration of pollutants from the fires all over the West and nearby Canada. Or, they say, it might be Thursday, which is interesting because Luna will be closer to Mars then, in fact exactly conjoined to it. 

There is force, energy, and brilliance to be directed wisely. People feel sure of their spiritual allegiances and personal enthusiasms, at some deep level, even if unable to articulate them persuasively. 

{Wednesday}  /Churning Without Firm Conclusion\

Cosmic Piper

Monday, August 20, 2018

Message for Tuesday 21 August 2018

Tuesday 21 August 2018

\Union Sought Beyond Passion or Jealousy/

Moon in Capricorn
|Karmically serious third| of this week remains until Wednesday afternoon at 12:58p PT | 3:58p ET | 7:58p UT

I don't know about you but I have without a doubt been having an extraordinary number of computer and internet mix-ups and glitches during the Dark Hermetic Epoch (or Slow Epoch if you prefer). Just now I spent nearly a half hour trying to get started with this post on Google, had to restart the browser, then restart gmail, then it lost the beginning of this report and I had to try again and retype the beginning.

If I didn't know about the DHE I might have just said, "This is insane, I am not writing a report today" and you would not be reading this. And that is an object lesson for all of us:  We are tempted to give up on things when they seem to get impossibly hard or weird. Which they frequently do during a DHE (oh, can't say SHE because that would look sexist!). (And, today, I and all of us are contending with a |difficult third of the week|, namely Luna's conjunction with Saturn.) 

As for weather, it too seems to be harder during these DHE times, which I have noticed for years. As for the fires wracking the West, here is something from the front page of today's NYTimes: "Climate change may be intensifying California’s fires, but the blazes are almost all ignited by humans, not natural causes."  In other words, during the DHE people do crazier things and get more careless because so involved in their inner worlds that they forget to put out a campfire or maybe are so upset that they deliberately set a fire. We can't blame Mercury or Hermes for that. They are (or rather he is) gods of the human mind and we are in control of our minds, not the planets, though it seems that when we go into "machine mode" or become semi-conscious or lose control, planetary aspects take over. 

Right now and for preceding months since May, that has included Mars square Uranus. It is very rare that that incendiary aspect would last so long. Usually it lasts about two to three weeks. This time Mars went retrograde and had its station right at the point where it was square Uranus, so it has lasted four months and shall last (by a seven degree orb) until early October. Combining it with the DHE, we had way too many fires, and not just in the U. S. Today, two days after Mercury turned direct, some of the worst fires have been contained and the Seattle papers say that later this week we may be free of the smoke which has afflicted us for too long. Let's salute and pray for the courageous fire fighters! I believe two of them have lost their lives. It seems a thankless job and I for one am very grateful for their sacrifice. Not only Mercury but Mars and four other planets being retrograde, their work has been hard no doubt. That could be another reason for more fires during a DHE--the difficulties of fighting them increase, even sometimes human errors for which no one could seriously be blamed amid such turmoil. Our patience and skill seem tested to the limit. 

Tuesday:  There is something good about mathematical abilities, or the capacity to arrange things geometrically or in equations, or just taking charge of a lot of details in some area of your life and arranging them perfectly, as in a diagram. 

We may think in circles. (A perfect equation is something like a circle, the end and beginning joined.) This is not necessarily wrong. Hegel's brilliant "logic" (which seems equally a metaphysic) was conceived of as circular, in some exalted sense. You may see that in your work, that of which you are most proud, you circle back and recover things or methods you had tried or discovered long ago.

People can be easily influenced, or manageable in a sweet way, when you care about them enough to help them find their path.

Attraction and love are not absent. Marriages could be fortunate. The lofty, spiritual side of love is emphasized. A union of hearts is not a forced collusion of passions and jealousies, but something beyond description--which is why there are so many love songs. 

Venus in Libra, often a sign of flirtation or even adultery, can be exhilarating even if more than one love is competing for your attention. Troubles which could result are obvious enough to be avoided!

{Tuesday}  /Union Sought Beyond Passion or Jealousy\

Cosmic Piper