Weekend of December 22-23, and Coming Epochs
I decided on (c) at the last minute because this seems to have been a week of mayhem. We need to take a deep breath.
Market spinning downward all week, very costly and scary for investors. Trump firing Mattis, pulling troops from Syria and Afghanistan, threatening government shutdown. Brexit is called a "hell" by many Britons and others. Too many other peculiar, obstacle-seeming events and draggy delays to mention, probably in your own life also, and miscommunications.
If that is not the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch, what would it be? It continues until the 24th, Monday, which happens to be Christmas Eve. Maybe we will really have a Happy Christmas this year.
As I have been pointing out to the astrological community for 38 years (but nobody seems to listen) the period on both sides of the Mercury Retrograde period (admitted by almost everyone to be difficult), about three weeks on both sides, is just as difficult as the MR period. Nobody wants to believe it. I don't want to believe it. But I was driven to this conclusion by hard detailed observation and nothing since I arrived at it in 1978-9 has changed my opinion. Here it is for the present cycle:
A Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch began October 29. (Mercury went retrograde November 16. It turned direct December 6.) The Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch continues, while Mercury gradually gains speed, until December 24. The whole period is a little less than two months.
A Bright or Fast Hermetic Epoch begins December 24. Mercury conjoins the sun (spatially but not temporally the midpoint) January 29. The Bright or Fast Epoch continues until February 19. The whole period is a little less than two months.
Another Dark or Slow Epoch begins February 19, 2019, lasting until April 16.
The succeeding Bright or Fast Epoch lasts from April 16 until June 20, 2019.
Here is what one can expect during these two opposite periods:
B Quick thinking
D Slow but deep thinking
B Easy communication
D Difficult, complicated communication
B Relative ease in travel
D Local and long-range travel often slow, delayed
B Most mechanical and technological appliances work well
D Many mechanical and technological appliances work poorly or with gaps in service
B Focus on outward things, projects
D Focus on inward things, worries, concerns
B Up and at 'em
D Dawdling
B Assurance about decisions
D Lack of assurance; constant second-guessing about decisions
B Objectivity
D Subjectivity
B Things happen as normally expected
D Things happen in strange, unexpected ways
B People seem reasonable, predictable
D People seem unreasonable, caught up in inner turmoil
B Negotiations and agreements go smoothly
D Negotiation is complex or impossible; agreement out of reach
B Normal living in business, society
D Inner living, dreams, psychic events, the paranormal. Can be excellent for research, study, unusual thinking, discoveries, but usually these cannot be used maximally during the period itself. Can be excellent for creativity in paths one had not anticipated. Yet all this is subject to doubt or uncertainty.
And so on, as you might work out for yourself. But there is nothing "wrong" with the DHE periods any more than there is anything "wrong" with night. They require a different approach. Part of the Cosmic Piper or Cosmic Connection project is working to understand how to live through each DHE, since these are times when there are more tragedies in play, more self-doubt, even suicide. Often there are resignations or reassignments, as Kelly and Mattis in the Trump administration during the current epoch, and thousands of troops in Syria and Afghanistan. It is very important for us to understand how to get through each DHE without going berserk or else feeling very depressed and doubtful about the value of our lives. We might even be able to make them just as peaceful and enjoyable as the BHEs, but this requires conscious understanding of what is going on.
With that comprehension, you may look back over the past two months and survey what has gone wrong, what has gone right, and what you have learned. Then we may be ready for a new world on Christmas Eve.
Before that, the weekend:
Saturday 22 December 2018
Moon in Gemini-->Cancer
|Karmically serious, sobering third| of this week is with us
/moon goes void-of-course at 6:22a PT | 9:22a ET | 2:22p UT
until it enters Cancer at 8:29a PT | 11:29a ET | 4:29p UT
Full Moon of Capricorn-Cancer is exact at 9:50a PT | 12:50p ET | 5:50p UT
Full Moon of Capricorn-Cancer is exact at 9:50a PT | 12:50p ET | 5:50p UT
Sunday 23 December 2018
Moon in Cancer
|Karmically serious, sobering third| of this week continues until
it ends Monday at 4:55a PT | 7:55a ET | 12:55a UT
{Weekend and Coming Epochs}
Cosmic Piper
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