Moon in Virgo
It's good to review where we are in the twofold Epoch pattern:
Dark Hermetic Epoch begins July 7 --> (Mercury goes retrograde July 16 --> Mercury goes direct August 19) --> DHE continues until September 2
The next Bright Hermetic Epoch lasts from September 2 through October 28
I have written an enormous amount, over the years, about the DHE and how to deal with it. Here is more:
The way you work with the DHE, which lasts at least three more weeks (although some think the MR period at its core is more intense), depends partly on your temperament. I could say there are two ways:
A. If you are a workaholic or a very determined person and very self-disciplined, you could: Just insist that you keep up with things in the DHE just like you do in the Bright HEs. You will find that this is harder. Your mind wanders more and you have to corral it. Things outside you like mechanical devices, cars, planes, trains, buses, phones, computers, seem to have a mind of their own sometimes and delay you. Other people seem confused or give you contradictory signals or are slow or tardy or hold you up in other ways. There are more interruptions. And so on. Yet you determine to be on top of all that and do the best you can and not blame Mercury or other people but take responsibility for everything. Courageous! Strong!
B. If you are of a more passive or contemplative nature, you might decide deliberately to slow down during these times, at least with some projects or schedules, or be willing to experiment with them and let your course go "out of pattern" frequently. You are more flexible than usual. You sense when things are "going kaflooey" and bow to that a little, maybe by changing your schedule, dropping some people for a while when they are unavailable rather than chase them, dropping tasks when there are too many insuperable factors slowing them down, and turning to something else. Even you might meditate, pray, and daydream more than usual and not blame yourself for that but find the value in it. You realize that your inner life is crucial and need not be utterly dominated by your outer life and its hassles.
I find myself approaching each day during the DHE in both of these ways, though they seem contradictory. Sometimes I beat that stubborn mule to get it going again, and sometimes I let it have a rest. The stubborn mule is some part of myself which objects to the strenuousness of life and its complexities and contradictions. It needs extra rest, but sometimes needs to be prodded to get going again. It's a delicate business knowing which tack to take every hour or minute.
There is another factor which I want to emphasize: Do not think that you are "losing it" during this time. One might think that one is going senile, or losing one's short-term memory or will-power or focus or will-to-live. Yes, it seems that way. So it is important to know about these periods. It is okay to "blame Mercury" a little, or rather, know that this is naturally a period when we are "supposed to" take a different approach to life than we usually do. We are not losing it but are being nudged to do things in a different way which might seem chaotic just because it requires us to take account of more factors than usual, including our long-term memories, which often surge up either as pride or as guilt. We question life, G*d, and ourselves, and that could be very good as long as it does not lead to fatalism or anarchism or sneakily subtle forms of suicide. Rather, we can deepen our awareness and psychic-spiritual sensitivity in ways which are liberating.
Spiritual lesson for healing, redemption, fulfillment: Spirit
Cosmic Piper
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