Sunday 25 November 2018
^Current Trends^
Moon in Cancer
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (until Monday evening)
What follows about the Thanksgiving period is relevant still, as long as the aspects analyzed last, all of them into December and some returning after Christmas:
Thanksgiving always comes just after the sun passes from Scorpio to Sagittarius. This is felicitous because that sign and its ruler Jupiter are indicators of goodness, beneficence, goodwill, kindness--and, yes, appreciation for blessings.
However, this year all these qualities are under strain because the sun, Jupiter itself and Mercury although in Sagittarius are squared to Mars in Pisces, and Mercury also to Neptune in that sign. This spells out religious disagreement. There will be a lot of it! Be prepared. What are your religious or spiritual principles? Your ethical foundations? How do these play into current political conflicts? They may be confronted by others attending your particular Thanksgiving event. If, as we try to do, all retain their disagreements within themselves, still the strain will be felt.
Or, if we are extra saintly, maybe we will sense that there is some bond of common humanity and aspiration linking us despite our differences.
To whom does one give thanks? If with atheists or agnostics, to whom are they giving thanks? Such questions ought not to be avoided. If, as we like to believe, some of our ancestors once joined with native Americans giving thanks, it seems that they at least both recognized the Great Spirit, by whatever designation.
Because Jupiter, Neptune, and Pisces are involved in all this, there are likely going to be differing attitudes about alcohol and marijuana. Some will think that others are indulging too freely along those lines. Others will feel unfairly judged for so indulging. Welcome to the addictive human race. Sai Baba teaches that the only safe addiction is that to God. I agree. He teaches that repeating a name of the Supreme, silently in one's mind (or audibly), reverently, is a safe and sure way to keep one's link with Him (Her). This could be an excellent practice on a day when we are supposedly giving thanks to the Perfect One.
One sees into others' foibles, sins, confusions. It is harder to see into one's own. But there is also a trend to "take it light" or just relax and drop worries, based on the preponderance of Jupiter and Neptune accents. Suspicion or nonchalance? The dialectic will play out.
Another factor I did not write about by name in the daily reports last week remains extremely important: The Mercury Retrograde period from November 16 until December 6. But included in any discussion of it should be the longer Dark Hermetic Epoch (when Mercury is either very slow or retrograde) which lasts from October 29 until December 24. I have written about this dozens of times since this forecast-meditation project began. I might look up some of the things I have said in past years and re-post it. Each time it has a somewhat different flavor because of different accompanying aspects.
You will see people being confused. You will see things happening at inopportune times. Out-of-pattern events happen over and over, maybe within the same day or hour, which can be very disconcerting. Sometimes it is computer or technological factors (I had to re-start my computer six times yesterday which was very disconcerting).
Toward the end of Thanksgiving I came home and found my apartment complex surrounded by flashing police cars. Coming down the steps were four cops with an unwilling woman whom they wanted to strap to a stretcher. She had gotten very drunk and had trouble walking. They insisted on taking her to the hospital and she seriously did not want to go there. (I sympathize because I know that hospital "visit" might cost her hundreds of dollars.) I intervened and said I would walk her home. We pretended to know each other although we had never met! Surprisingly, this satisfied the cops and after a lecture they allowed me to walk her home, about a mile away. It was not a lot of fun but she was very appreciative, calling me her 'guardian angel."
I found a bar open in her neighborhood where I could rest for a while before walking home, drinking only a soft drink. This sort of thing is likely to happen frequently---things which are highly unusual and require backtracking, seemingly wasting time, and on and on. Often I believe they are "karmic lessons" for us, or something which will improve our character by requiring more of us than usual. And they happen very often during the Dark Hermetic Epochs.
Another clue: It is usually a mistake to change horses during these periods. When you drop a religion, a teaching, a teacher, a friend, a mate, a job, for a new one, you are perhaps putting yourself at serious risk. It is usually better to stay the course. If a change is inevitable, that is a different story.
The light within the frequent outer darkness is internal. It can be wonderful for spiritual seekers. Go for it! through spiritual study, meditation and prayer. Wonderful realizations can come, which make the "Dark Epoch" a bright one in its own unusual way. G*d is not absent. Light is seeking to find and uplift us. We need not miss it by trying instead for transitory, illusory things which would interrupt our journey and hamper us.
{Sunday} ^Current Trends^
Cosmic Piper
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