Message for Thursday 1 November 2018

Thursday 1 November 2018

^Ideals Shared in Harmony^

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 10:49p PT | 1:49a(F) ET | 5:49a(F) UT

(enters Virgo later)

Much information about long-term current aspects was given in the Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday reports. Here is more about two of those aspects:

Mars square Jupiter, building up till the middle of November and then remaining till mid-December, exacerbates religious and political differences. And all other disagreements which seem based on principles, ethics or justice. We feel we need to go on a crusade against what is wrong in the world and in people's opinions or attitudes. Fortunately the Mars trine Venus aspect, also present this whole time, will help smooth things out at least on the interpersonal level. So one might feel good about harmony among certain friends and associates, yet disquieted about others who seem wrong or unfair. Taking a stand seems inevitable, yet one wants harmony. Deal with it! Me too. Let's find answers. Love combined with principle. 

Thursday:  Study could go well, especially connected with career or vocation. "A mariner's compass" suggests possibly secret discoveries which are useful or prospering. People feel strongly about principles and values, and sense that others are unfair, yet may disguise their feelings in a playful way. Not a bad approach since many of us are weary of political bickering.

The family or community provides places for us to play and find ourselves--gymnasiums, parks, squares, street-corners, restaurants and so on. There we refine our perceptions of others and ourselves. Someone of a beautiful, striking appearance may catch your eye and interest with Luna trining Venus (building up in late evening at the void-of-course moment) while she has gone backward into Libra again, her own sign. 

Despite that, there is a signal that one ought to keep up with one's work, not slacking off or dozing, for there are opportunities to gain information or knowledge which is helpful in anticipating the near future, and so gaining, through developed skills.

One's ideals can be effectuated partly by pleading with or cajoling someone to help correct injustice. People in power may feel dignified and strengthened by doing something altruistic, when approached in the right way. One may also plead with the Supreme Lord, as Jesus recommended: "Ask." If one does this with others, indirectly or directly, one may be at a "fellowship supper" or gathering where there is harmony among those who feel united in ultimate purpose. 

{Thursday} ^Ideals Shared in Harmony^

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Message for Wednesday 31 October 2018

Wednesday 31 October 2018

^Interesting Awakeness^

Moon in Leo

Pumpkin color, get it? It looks like an intense Halloween, people not in their finest moods even if in their finest costumes. Who needs spooks when they think their neighbors and relatives are spooks in this hyper-critical political ambiance? 

If you haven't read the posts for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, you might want to, or revisit them. I pointed out that a long-term trine of Venus and Mars began yesterday which could make things sweeter. Let us hope. The strife however is likely to continue, with Mars working up to a square with Jupiter exact in the middle of November. Yes, political and maybe religious strife both before and after the election. Are we not used to it? Let's hope the Venus-Mars benevolence will make it less arrogant and annoying. Mars-Jupiter squares seek adventure, and sometimes even danger, adventuring into foreign territory. (Even jihad or crusade.) Let's be careful, defensive not aggressive.

Wednesday:  It's harvest time and we seldom remember the goodness of our farmers, here and abroad, who provide our crops.  I knew orphans who had foster homes with farmers, when I was a kid. I hope their lives turned out well.

Those of both sexes who don costumes hope they will set off their beauty, and they shall. One may notice striking faces, eyes and features. Admiration is good for us. At some level we are like children jumping on a rug on the floor set out for them to play upon. Halloween can have such a flavor. We refine our sensibilities through participation or observation.

Sepharial warns us not to be indifferent, lazy or sleepy. Something at home may need attention to facilitate what you are trying to do in career. We learn through experience to understand things at all levels and then can see more easily into the near future.

I dreamed last night of an angelic yet human woman who was trying to help me. It was reassuring. Jupiter's Sabian symbol is "An Indian squaw pleading to the chief for the lives of her children."  Whoever the "woman" is in your case, she could be effective in awakening a greater, more adaptable practicality in you so you can get on with business in the economy and society which fulfills you. 

{Wednesday} ^Interesting Awakeness^

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In honor of our fellow American Jews being laid to rest after a hideous assault, their Psalm 124:

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Our help is in the name of JEHOVAH, who made heaven and earth.

Message for Tuesday 30 October 2018

Tuesday 30 October 2018

~Unusual Companions Need not Deflect Purposes~ 

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week ends at 5:45a PT | 8:45a ET | 12:45p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:32p PT | 10:32p ET | 2:32a(W) UT

until it enters Leo 9 minutes later at 7:43p etc.

The horror of what happened in an American synagogue Saturday is in everyone's consciousness. There can be not a smidgen of excuse for it, and in astrology we do not look for excuses for evil acts, but try to see the "formal causes" which might have prompted them, given the evil in particular human beings. Saturday was not included in the |Karmically difficult third| of the week although that began later in the evening after the crime. And the Dark Hermetic Epoch did not begin until Sunday evening. What then? Well I have been writing at length (especially in the weekend forecast just past) about Venus opposite Uranus as accentuating differences among people. It does not have to be violence, of course, but is often revulsion or separation, momentarily. It was exact within two degrees on Saturday. Further than that, we have to look to Mars for violence (the worse side of the planet, that is) and I have mentioned cruelty as a symptom of Mercury square Mars, which has been with us from October 9 and continues until November 1. On top of that, Mars began a square with Jupiter on October 23, which continues until December 13. (A ten-degree orb used for all these.) The period when both of these Mars squares were effective was from October 23 through October 31, with the atrocity occurring on the 27th, near the center of it. Jupiter is a planet of religion, among other things, and is often involved in squares or oppositions when religious matters spur hatred or violence. The hard Mars-Jupiter aspects are especially significant in that regard. The 9/11/01 attack occurred on the very first day of an opposition between Mars and Jupiter. (Other shorter-term factors were operative; no time for that here.) There is no doubt that Islamic "extremism" was a principal factor. Just as of course extreme religious bigotry was responsible for the weekend's tragedy. Whatever our positions on religion and politics, let us be careful to avoid exacerbating differences to an inflammatory degree over the next six weeks (or ever).  (That does not mean avoiding all discussion of differences among religions, but trying to keep it civil by hearing both sides.) 

Hope? I refer you to the weekend forecast which had a long analysis of current trends. One good one is Mars trine Venus beginning (by ten degrees) today! Some comfort, kindness and amicability in relationships and friendships. The aspect lasts, as reported before, through November 27. Then it shall re-begin before Christmas until early February, a highly unusual length because of Venus's retrogradation. Something to be pleased about.

Tuesday:  We perceive people as eccentric or comet-like, disappearing and reappearing, but they have greatness within them. Inner or psychological adjustments can happen through rapport with those who seem difficult yet do indeed have souls, "The moon shining across a lake." 

Religions can be severe on their devotees, requiring much of them, and some may retreat into monkish self-discipline for the sake of idealism and peace of mind. Otherwise there might be a danger of accepting defeat as final, "A woman disappointed and disillusioned," rather than as a setback from which to recover and learn. 

Quarrels and offenses, conscious or unconscious, may seem to wound friendships. People press toward what they need, or think they need (Mars square Jupiter building up) and may not realize when they are offensive. If we "take it light" we could instead be on "A sight-seeing bus" and cultivate impersonal or naive friendliness.

Someone you know who is restless, flighty and indeterminate (Sepharial's words) may play a role. There is so much going on in his or her life that it is hard to know what it means or where it is going. Yet he remains nonchalant and enthusiastic. Someone else, perhaps yourself, is more careful, studying something requiring developed faculties and a sort of computation. This could be successful eventually.

{Tuesday} ~Unusual Companions Need not Deflect Purposes~

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Message for Monday 29 October 2018

Monday 29 October 2018

~Grandiose Prospects in View~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically challenging or sobering third| of this week continues (until near sunrise Tuesday in the Western Hemisphere)

As reported, a Slow or Dark Hermetic Epoch began last night, continuing until December 24. Most people recognize only the three-week core of this period, which is Mercury Retrograde, but the other three week periods on each side of it are equally likely to be times of review and sometimes backwardness. On the good side it is a two-month period of spiritual progress through deeper understanding, which emerges directly from within and indirectly through what happens on the "outside." It can be peaceful and enlightening (light is more visible within the darkness, as it were). It is nothing to worry about although one would be wise to slow down with utterly new plans and focus rather on carrying out old established ones. 

The long-term planetary aspect we ought to consider is Venus opposite Uranus. It began August 30 and usually lasts only 20 days or less, but this time, because Venus turned retrograde in early October, it lasts until December 15, believe it or not. Very unusual and you can blame whatever is harsh or difficult in personal relations on it. (Of course I don't mean "Blame the planets," but see that the reason particular problems come out just now has to do with planetary timing; the issues are of human creation.) Because Venus is the money planet, to a large degree, this aspect has also been hard on the stock market, and perhaps on personal financial planning.  It is exact today and the rest of this week, will continue, and will be exact again at the end of November and in early December.  

It can be separation (Uranus) from the loved one (Venus), or learning to understand the loved one's (Venus) unusual qualities and tendencies (Uranus). Why does he or she have to be this way? is a common question. With Uranus, maybe the only answer is "That's just it; take it or leave it." And so often one does "leave it" for a while, then come back, then again wonder at the loved ones' peculiarities, then leave again for a while. Love becomes a yo-yo. 

One might also be asking, "What is it about me that stands out as unusual or peculiar, and how does it affect my reputation or likability?"  Yet we are notoriously unable to perceive ourselves as others do; Uranus is the planet of independent originality, of the unique. People may both like and dislike this in ourselves, at various times, and there may be little to do about it.

Of course, among the answers are tolerance, patience, and attempting to comprehend the other's and one's own odd or unique qualities and tendencies. Or one may just adopt the attitude "People are radically different; get over it and accept it happily." 

What made all this worse was the accompanying square between Venus and Mars which lasted from August 26 through October 21. The Blasey-Kavanaugh dispute which happened then was only one public and noticeable manifestation of what was going on. Some women declared that there was war between the sexes. One cannot blame everything on the aspect itself, but rather the aspect was showing that that was the time for male culpability to be brought out and recognized, in many forms both public, private and individual. Astrology is formal cause, not material, efficient, or final cause (in Aristotelian terminology). 

Now, good news:  Though the Venus-Uranus opposition remains, Mars and Venus will be in a trine aspect, very helpful and felicitous, beginning October 30 (tomorrow) through November 27. It will return again December 17 through February 9, while the Venus-Uranus opposition will be gone.  Happy New Year!

Monday: There can be innocency, dignity, and promise of future greatness (says Charubel), " A naked boy with a crown on his head and a sceptre in his hand."  One is involved in life's meanings at a deeper level, moon trine Neptune, "Deep-sea divers." 

Music can be prominent and helpful. There could be divine favor because of your convictions, "A big white dove, a message bearer."

Because of elevated opinions and magnanimity, there is confidence, and one's hopes will not be frustrated. Your better qualities permeate your environment, benefiting your associates. 

Spiritual and religious studies of a deep nature could go well indeed. At the same time, there could be wonderful and unexpected good fortune in the material realm--gain or promotion. Something one had thought impossible could elevate one's prospects. 

(These hopeful prognostications are from the symbols for the day, while the |karmically difficult third| suggests muting them to some degree, or taking them as hints of possibilities to be cultivated even if their fruition be not evident yet.)

{Monday}  ~Grandiose Prospects in View~

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Message for Weekend of October 27-28, 2018

Saturday 27 October 2018

Moon in Gemini

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:39p PT | 12:39a(Su) ET | 4:39a(Su) UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 7:12p PT | 10:12p ET | 2:12a(Su) UT

Sunday 28 October 2018

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues (until Tuesday morning)

/moon is void-of-course (see above for times)

until it enters Cancer at 4:23p PT | 7:23p ET | 11:23p UT

A Dark Hermetic Epoch begins at 5:57p PT | 8:57p ET | 11:57p UT (until December 24)

I need a break from writing this weekend, but am continuing with research, some of it highly complex and time-consuming.

A new Dark Hermetic Epoch shall begin Sunday evening, extending until December 24. It includes within it the Mercury Retrograde period beginning November 16 and ending December 6. Usually the plot thickens and things get more confusing, but the opportunities for self-discovery and internal spiritual realization increase. So there is a balance of benefits, which becomes even better for those who are aware of these important Epochs. Further, beginning Tuesday this week, Mars and Venus will be in a trine aspect (very good) by ten degrees or less through November 27. This should be a pleasant contrast to the square between them which lasted through the Blasey-Kavanaugh dispute up until Tuesday October 23. Not just relationships but all human interactions should be smoother at least in one regard. 

HHH / CP

Message for Friday 26 October 2018

Friday 26 October 2018

}Conscious of Slow Gain through Values{

Moon in Taurus-->Gemini

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:50a PT | 10:50a ET | 2:50p UT

until it enters Gemini at 12:42p PT | 3:42p ET | 7:43p UT

Notice the five-hour void-of-course time, and see what it means for you. It separates the day into two segments and might be a time for recuperation, or in which you drift or are uncertain. Not a crisis but a punctuation.

Details of work and of communication are undergoing transition. 

Who is your partner, or your partners in various areas of endeavor? Worth considering while the Part of Fortune is in the 7th sector. 

If it's hard to get a firm grip on anything, music is calming and restorative. We want "a massive, rocky shore,' something to rely on, and Sol's sextile with Saturn helps define purposes and agendas. This could be important because a new Dark Hermetic Epoch of about two months begins late Sunday (through December 23), when we review and reconsider things but find forward progress less simplistic.

You eye business matters, your budget and financial strategies, and could be concerned about expenses. There are ways to prevent calamity and to escape from losses already suffered. This may involve considerable calculation.

Most reading this are not revengeful individuals, yet some in the world are, and we may become aware of them. They are impatient and want to get what someone else has or to protect themselves from supposed danger through semi-violence. Awareness of that brings out one's will-power, to harmonize the situation or eliminate danger.  This is magical if allied with the True and the Right and the Just. 

Trying to see things through on-key perspectives and values, you may feel remote from people, in a world of solitude and philosophic thought. Disillusion means freedom from illusion, so is not a bad thing. You then come back to ordinary life and sense that you can aid someone through "a house-raising," a shared task which builds up someone's living reality. It's not just kindness, but beneficial to both of you. 

{Friday}   {Conscious of Slow Gain through Values}

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Message for Thursday 25 October 2018

Thursday 25 October 2018

\Fractured Fairy Tale/

Moon in Taurus

Love lost and maybe regained? Uranus opposite Venus, love lost. It is hard not to get upset at the loved one. Or be hypersensitive. Or explode, but by retaining the explosion within oneself one feels uneasy with the Other. I do not have an answer for you. People are so very different and Uranus-Venus hard aspects make us painfully aware of that. Fractious.

Moon square Mars today adds to the pressures. "A man unmasked" is a painful degree-symbol (for Mars). People may see the worst in one another, or perhaps also in themselves. Or see each other more truly, but if we don't look for the better and best we are missing what could be our blessing, including a lift upward for the Other.

[Blogger made the text smaller and thinner, not I, and I cannot change it without making it enormous. Stupid programmers. Men unmasked.] 

Mercury conjoined to Jupiter in Scorpio gives some kinds of mental penetration and something gained through study. Other people's sex lives may come up as difficult to understand. 

It is good to be helpful to someone you care about, "A house-raising." "The king of the fairies approaching his domain" could mean you gain what you want through an imaginative approach, ruling the world with your hopes and dreams, the fairy realm of which you are queen or king. Someone will respond one way or another.

Moon trine Pluto in earth signs could be good for simple ordinary comforts of life.  

{Thursday}  /Fractured Fairy Tale\

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Message for Wednesday 24 October 2018

Wednesday 24 October 2018

\Stabilization/

Moon in Aries-->Taurus

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Taurus at 7:34a PT | 10:34a ET | 2:34p UT

Full Moon of Scorpio-Taurus is exact at 9:46a PT | 12:46p ET | 4:46p UT

You may feel "I don't get around much any more" and yet manage to be where you need to be for some human sharing, entertainment or friendliness.  People feel that they are revealing themselves, or making an accounting of themselves, in a way which others may analyze. Such self-analysis or other-analysis does not have to be hostile but perhaps critical in a kindly manner, hoping for the better.

People who seem wrong or who get in your way may seem unworthy of consideration, so you would like to sweep them off the face of, not the earth, but your own consciousness. Of course this is dangerous, with likely backlash. Rather, you could rely on firmness and stability within yourself, regardless of what they do or say. By being dependable you find dependability around you. 

You make an impact on people in ways which might seem embarrassing from one perspective yet are helpful to them from some other viewpoint. "A broken bottle and spilled perfume" suggests spilling secrets, or letting oneself be revealed in surprising ways.  Self-assertion could be too forceful. Yet it is well to be intrepid in pursuing one's goals. Opportunities are meant to be seized. 

Whatever melancholy we feel has to do with the inevitability of human differences; sometimes we feel them as a pin-prick, sometimes as a sword-thrust, but more sweetly as just a different savor than our own. We talk blithely about "human unity" and sometimes feel it. There is a chance for elevated, lofty understanding. One senses savings and income as something that can be relied on (good aspects to Saturn including sextiles from Venus and the sun), no matter how the Market or other transient factors fluctuate. 

{Wednesday}  /Stabilization\

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Update-Correction for Tuesday 23 October

In the following data, the moon's /void-of-course beginning was not indicated. Apologies. 

Tuesday 23 October 2018

^Principles Upheld; Differences Mediated^

Moon in Aries
/moon goes void-of-course at 11:19a PT | 2:19p ET | 6:19p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues until 12:04p PT | 3:04p ET | 7:04p UT

Message for Tuesday 23 October 2018

Tuesday 23 October 2018

^Principles Upheld; Differences Mediated^

Moon in Aries
/moon goes void-of-course at 11:19a PT | 2:19p ET | 6:19p UT

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues until 12:04p PT | 3:04p ET | 7:04p UT

This is the first day of the sun's presence in Scorpio. This can be a warrior sign and today you might want to be sure you don't become offensive when you really don't mean to.  Many are trying to persuade others in a way which seems honorable, even if through implicit rebukes of what seems wrong. If you are sure you are right you may win converts to your ideas or ideals. 

We approach the Full Moon (exact tomorrow evening) and so feel expanded consciousness. A relationship has some solid reality to it. Someone is affectionate, confiding, and unselfish. There seems to be naive friendliness everywhere. 

Strong erotic attractions can occur while Mars is bi-septile Venus. Money does not have to be an obstacle though disagreements in values need to be overlooked or compromised, to some degree, for smooth interaction. Individuals, couples or friends are protective toward one another. Whatever is sordid needs to be tempered or ameliorated. 

A sense of freedom could lead to waste and extravagance, which may be harmless as long as one resists a temptation to be abrupt or harsh with whatever or whomever gets in one's way. Free as the wind does not give one carte blanche to knock over someone else's idols. You and they could calm down as if resting on a "massive, rocky shore" which stabilizes possibly discordant feelings. Each has her or his own dignity. Respecting that fosters harmonization. 

{Tuesday}  ^Principles Upheld; Differences Mediated^

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Message for Monday 22 October 2018

Monday 22 October 2018

^Summoning Prudence^

Moon in Aries

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues till Tuesday evening

Squares between Mars and Mercury often signify cruelty, at the present level of humanity, or subconscious anger coming out in harshness. Like "a raven standing on a stone" we may be morose, secretive and misanthropic, or feel that from others. But strengthened individuality may also lead to deep thoughts and philosophic awareness, "three mounds of knowledge on a philosopher's head." 

There could be lustful, erotic or filthy propensities, "a naked man with a serpent coiled around the lower part of his body." The danger is that such desires seem harmless until fulfilled. "A watchdog standing guard" is not just outer protection as from community mores and laws, but internal probity gained through experience.

"A gold rush" could be good or pointless depending on the realism and prescience of the "rusher." Safer is long-term building up of prosperity as through gardening, farming, or wise investing. Work done patiently is fruitful.

Carelessness and self-indulgence are warned against, "a man sleeping on a bundle of clothes while wild animals threaten." And so one may lecture oneself as "a plumed warrior haranguing a multitude of soldiers." We need to remember our responsibilities on any |karmically challenging| day and persuade ourselves that carrying them out will make us happier than neglecting them.

{Monday}  ^Summoning Prudence^

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P. S. The |karmically difficult third| of each week, as determined by the moon-Saturn relationship, was discovered and verified by me (and no one else) over the past decades. It is very serious. The world has been riveted on the horrible murder of Jamal Kashoggi on October 2. Here is what I posted on that day :

|Karmically serious or challenging third| of this week continues

until 9:29p PT | 12:29a(W) ET | 4:29a(W) UT |  (7:29 a.m. Wednesday October 3 in Turkey)

Kashoggi was murdered horribly on that Tuesday afternoon. The assassination of Kennedy and the bombing (or secretly controlled demolition) of the WTC also occurred during such periods. And much more, carefully observed by me. This is not to frighten you but to encourage you to consider what these periods mean for you when they come up, in your individual situation. "Probity" could be a keyword, meaning integrity, uprightness, honesty; and also not paranoid but intelligent caution. 

Weekend of October 20-21, and Week Ahead

~Self-Reliant Purpose~ (Coming Week)

Saturday 20 October

Moon in Pisces

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week begins at 11:11p PT | 2:11a(Su) ET | 6:11a(Su) UT

Sunday 21 October 2018

/moon in Pisces-->Aries

|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week continues (until Tuesday evening)

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:48p PT | 7:48p ET | 11:48p UT

until it enters Aries at 11:59p PT | 2:59a(M) ET | 6:59a(M) UT

The week of October 20-26 (Saturday through Friday):

The high-focus planet is the sun in a bowl-shaped chart, much calmer, and more self-contained rather than self-promulgating.  Fixed Natural Disposition indicates a strong desire to find and uphold values. Values seemed to clash more a week ago because of the harsher aspects and the Venus square Mars plus Uranus as the handle planet. This week there remains an interest in values and upholding them, but without so much anger and hoopla. Venus is in a bi-septile aspect with Mars so there should be somewhat better relations between the sexes and within them, somehow fateful or destiny-laden, as if one were seeing what a relationship is all about and its value. 

Previous weeks' charts had Mars at point focus, with squares from Uranus on one side and Venus on the other. Nothing could more clearly suggest a "battle of the sexes" such as we experienced. It seems that friendships were fractured, which is very frequent with hard Uranus-Venus aspects, but this time especially because Mars too was involved. The current chart does not have a T square, removing much pressure. We will feel more poised and less challenged. Uranus remains important through its opposition with both Venus and the sun. Not all of the hurt or rejection will disappear but it will be easier to deal with because the opposition is more of a mental aspect, one of gaining perspective, while the previous square is often the instigation and exacerbation of conflict. 

There is more of a focus on minding one's own business, rather than minding everyone else's.  It is true that Jupiter and Mercury are square Mars, but this could be a focus on intellectual tasks or projects, not necessarily rash or painful arguments. Those can happen with Mercury square Mars but other helpful aspects suggest that this is a more utilitarian rather than contentious use of mental forces. 

The formula for the "dynamic aptness" aspect Uranus opposite Sol, is an experimentative approach to purpose. This is self-contained, that is, not insisting that everyone else come along, understand or agree to what one is doing. And so we may find ourselves able to actualize some hopes and purposes calmly rather than feel the world is against us.

{Week of October 20-26}  ~Self-Reliant Purpose~

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Message for Friday 19 October 2018

Friday 19 October 2018

}Varying Attitudes Made Compatible{ 

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:28a PT | 8:28a ET | 12:28p UT

until it enters Pisces at 11:59p PT | 2:59a(Sa) ET | 6:59a(Sa) UT

Restlessness and disappointment can be changed into a sharp clear focus on what one wishes to do--with calm, fearless courage. There is a benevolent tinge to everything, as if one wanted to make travelers, or those met casually, comfortable and happy even if one does not know them well. Likewise, so they may treat you.

Love can be real, and lovers more congenial than lately, affirming wordlessly to each other that they are true. At the same time they wish to enlighten each other, "A beacon shining from a high rock." Mars square Mercury could spoil plans through hastiness or critical irritability so it is good to remember the invisible links of affection. 

There could be compulsive attractions. These could be nonchalant and "at hazard," multiple. Yet while each lasts there could be timeless rapport as "a moon shining across a lake." The restless mind ought not to end these precious moments too quickly.

'An airplane hovering overhead" gives an over-all view. One reflects on things and sees outcomes at beginnings. That helps one to "make camp" as if an "Indian," extemporizing rather than getting hooked on fixed ways of thinking and responding, at least for a while.

{Friday}  {Varying Attitudes Made Compatible}

P. S.  I condensed and compacted the language to make some subtle yet powerful factors evident to intuition. 

Nirvana, Adam Lambert

Message for Thursday 18 October 2018

Thursday 18 October 2018

}Hedged Adeptness{

Moon in Aquarius

There is a trend toward privacy or semi-seclusion. Friends have their own mental processes which are different but not necessarily in conflict. 

The financial and investment world has been in volatile re-alignment, as it often is in the month of Libra, the scales and balance. The Market tries to find its "balance" but while doing so veers sharply from side to side. Scorpio planets in good aspect with Pluto and Neptune suggest that some are smelling out fresh investment opportunities. If those should be involved with marijuana, rapidly becoming legalized in many places, I have no advice, but it seems many would be tempted in that direction because Neptune planet of drugs is well-aspected. I am not recommending anything. The trend may be indicated, but not its ultimate outcome. 

Perceptions are sharp. One is susceptible to strong appreciation of various factors leading toward non-apathetic extremes.  People at a distance seem hidden. Courage and determination can lead to victory even if that is confined to the limits of one's headquarters.

Higher intuitions from "a beacon light on a high rock" may guide you into something wonderful, though you know there is disagreement about it in your surroundings. "Two lovebirds sitting on a fence" may not agree to which side to fly. Yet they affirm their ultimate loyalty through tweets.

"An eagle and a large white dove turning one into the other" sound like the politics to which we are accustomed, as for example in Crown Prince bin Salman and his defenders. This disgusting affair is no doubt symbolized in the sky by the persisting square between Venus and Mars, lessening but strong, and now the even closer square between Mercury and Mars, with Venus and Mercury in the sign Scorpio, sometimes death or some termination or crisis. Jupiter also in Scorpio makes for a huge amount of detective work, investigation and speculation about guilt or innocence, as in the Blasey-Kavanaugh mess and the bin Salman scandal-tragedy-crime. 

"Indians making camp," Extemporization, is, apart from Elizabeth Warren, what all of us are doing to some degree, finding our way in fresh situations through trial and error. Though this be challenging, still it can bring out our smooth self-confidence and inner composure, with Sol in high focus in a bowl shaped pattern. Our view of ourselves may be susceptible to re-test and re-engagement, yet we return to ourselves from  adventure with enhanced self-reliance.

{Thursday}  {Hedged Adeptness}

Chillin' by Cro

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Message for Wednesday 17 October 2018

Wednesday 17 October 2018

}New Fortnight{

Moon in Aquarius

/moon void-of-course in Capricorn

until it enters Aquarius at 0:37a PT | 3:37a ET | 7:37a UT

Continuing our discussion of the new, current Fortnight (Tuesday October 16 until mid-day Wednesday October 31):

The old chart has seven "hard" aspects and seven "soft" ones. The new chart has only five "hard" aspects and seven "soft" ones. That might not seem a huge difference but it tells. The old chart had Uranus as the handle planet in a bucket chart. This fits what happened wonderfully, because the bucket shaped pattern shows high individualism (one planet set off against the others) and Uranus is the most individualistic planet. Did you notice how everyone took the Blasey-Kavanaugh dispute so personally? They identified with one or the other and could not stop broadcasting their allegiances. Uranus shouting and kicking. Uranus is a planet of shake-ups and unexpected changes, such as the storm Michael which exceeded expectations in destructive power. The Khashoggi disappearance or murder was another prominent example.

In the new chart the high-focus planet is the sun in a bowl-shaped chart, much calmer, and more self-contained rather than self-promulgating. Both charts had the Fixed Natural Disposition which indicates a strong desire to find and uphold values. Values seemed to clash last Fortnight because of the harsher aspects and the Venus square Mars plus Uranus as the handle planet. This fortnight there remains an interest in values and upholding them, but without so much anger and hoopla. Venus is not in aspect with Mars so there should be somewhat better relations between the sexes and within them. 

The previous chart had Mars at point focus, with squares from Uranus on one side and Venus on the other. Nothing could more clearly suggest a "battle of the sexes" such as we experienced. It seems that friendships were fractured, which is very frequent with hard Uranus-Venus aspects, but this time especially because Mars too was involved. The current chart does not have a T square, removing much pressure. We will feel more poised and less challenged. Uranus remains important through its opposition with both Venus and the sun. Not all of the hurt or rejection from the last Fortnight will disappear but it will be easier to deal with because the opposition is more of a mental aspect, one of gaining perspective, while the square last Fortnight is often the instigation and exacerbation of conflict. 

There is more of a focus on minding one's own business, rather than minding everyone else's.  It is true that Jupiter and Mercury are square Mars, but this could be merely a focus on mental or intellectual tasks or projects, not necessarily rash or painful arguments. Those can happen with Mercury square Mars but other helpful aspects suggest that this might be a more utilitarian rather than contentious use of mental forces. 

The formula for the "dynamic aptness" aspect Uranus opposite Sol, is an experimentative approach to purpose. This is self-contained, that is, not insisting that everyone else come along, understand or agree to what one is doing. And so we may find ourselves able to actualize some hopes and purposes calmly rather than feel the world is against us.

{Wednesday} {New Fortnight}

Cosmic Piper

Fields of Gold, Celtic Woman  This is superb. Even Sting (who composed it) might agree.

P. S. For some reason I don't understand, I copied the time of the beginning of this new Fortnight incorrectly in yesterday's report. It was actually at 11:03a PT | 2:03p ET | 6:03p UT on Tuesday, about five hours earlier than I had indicated. 

Deity?

Deity?

Do people even suspect what Deity might be? Are they totally arrogant assholes?

I use that offensive term deliberately and after due consideration. Arrogance is a matter of putting your consciousness so low that it might as well literally be in your arse.

And yet the arrogant ones think they are flaming with the very fires of Deity, omniscient and omnipotent!

I've got news for them. Read the Scriptures, people.

And does that apply to them only and not to me? No, it applies to me also and I am taking it seriously.

Humility before God is the secret of power before humanity.

Verbum sapienti sat est. (A word to the wise is sufficient.)

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 16 October 2018: New Fortnight at Hand

Tuesday 16 October 2018

\Somewhat Calmer Fortnight at Hand/

Moon in Capricorn

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:50p PT | 5:50p 'ET | 9:50p UT

A new Fortnight begins today at 11:03a PT | 2:03p ET | 6:03p UT. 

It was rather startling to see a confirmation of my just-finally-completed-research today when I looked up the birthdate of Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared on October 2, the very day the current (but ending today) Fortnight began (at 9:47a UT or 12:47p Arabian (Riyadh) Time). Since Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Turkey in the afternoon, according to all accounts, it was just after that Fortnight began. And what do I find in the six field systems I have worked out with excruciating review and revision and research over the past 25 years? 

Khashoggi is Libra (born October 13, 1958) and my system is devised to work for the twelve sun-signs of the zodiac as well as for everyone in general. For Libra, out of the six field systems I have discovered, Saturn is in the First Field (that of identity, the body) in three of them for Libra individuals (one twelfth of the human race). That is very rare. As of that afternoon when Khashoggi disappeared. We may hope that he is still alive and not suffering, somewhere, but the chances appear slim at this point. Saturn is of course the planet of very heavy karma or, in our own eyes, of unexpected ill fortune. And it is often the planet of death when appearing in the 1st house or Field. Did every Libra sun-sign individual on the planet suffer something horrible this fortnight? I would not go that far but perhaps they have all been struggling with unusual difficulties. Are you Libra or do you know someone who is? Please let us know. I intended this to be a research module when I founded it but rarely hear from anyone to give me extra leads.

Further, for Virgo, Crown Prince bin Salman's sign, Saturn was in the second, not first, house or Field in three of the Systems. That is the money house and bin Salman's big shindig planned for the 31st (no Halloween in Muslim lands, but maybe there will be this year) is intended to bring investment and other financial gains to Saudi Arabia, and now it is being shunned. Bad news for the Prince's money house. 

And so what may we expect in the Fortnight beginning today and lasting until October 31 (around mid-day in the Western Hemisphere)? There is a lot I could say but time forbids a huge pages-long report and I wonder how many would welcome that. Here are a few clues:

The old chart has seven "hard" aspects and seven "soft" ones. The new chart has only five "hard" aspects and seven "soft" ones. That might not seem a huge difference but it tells. The old chart had Uranus as the handle planet in a bucket chart. This fits what happened wonderfully, because the bucket shaped pattern shows high individualism (one planet set off against the others) and Uranus is the most individualistic planet. Did you notice how everyone took the Blasey-Kavanaugh dispute so personally? They identified with one or the other and could not stop broadcasting their allegiances. Uranus shouting and kicking. In the new chart the high-focus planet is the sun in a bowl-shaped chart, much calmer and more self-contained rather than self-promulgating. Both charts had the Fixed Natural Disposition which indicates a strong desire to find and uphold values. Values seemed to clash last Fortnight because of the harsher aspects and the Venus square Mars plus Uranus as the handle planet. This fortnight there remains an interest in values and upholding them, but without so much anger and hoopla. Venus is not in aspect with Mars so there should be somewhat better relations between the sexes and within them.

We can work on this to understand more in coming days.

{Tuesday}  /Somewhat Calmer Fortnight at Hand\

Cosmic Piper

Everything I Own, by David Gates and Bread