There seems to be enormous confusion about the Hermetic Epochs. I have explained them endlessly here, six times a year since 1999, but people still ask me what they are and what they mean. Here is a quick rundown.
Mercury goes retrograde (moves backward in the zodiac from geocentric perspective although of course continuing in its orbit around the sun) about three times a year. Mercury is Hermes, Mercury being the Latin name of the god and Hermes the Greek name.
I discovered in 1978-1979 that it is not just the Mercury Retrograde period of about three weeks which is disturbing, upsetting, and difficult for everyone, but a longer period of almost three weeks before that period and almost three weeks afterward, or a total period of approximately eight weeks. I did this through careful, repeated, complex research into the past in regard to my own life, the lives of people I know, and historic events.
I decided to call these approximately 8-week periods the Bright and Dark Hermetic Epochs. I might have called them the Fast and Slow Hermetic Epochs. From deep observation and experience, here are some ways of characterizing them:
Bright Hermetic Epoch (BHE) Dark Hermetic Epoch (DHE)
Quick thinking Slow thinking
Easy communication Difficult, complicated communication
Relative ease in travel Local and long-range travel often slow, delayed
Most mechanical and technological appliances work well Many mechanical and technological appliances work poorly
Focus on outward things, projects Focus on inward things, worries, concerns
Assurance about decisions Lack of assurance; constant second-guessing about decisions
Objectivity Subjectivity
Things happen as normally expected Things happen in strange, unexpected ways
People seem reasonable, predictable People seem unreasonable, caught up in inner turmoil
Negotiations and agreements go smoothly Negotiation is complex or impossible; agreement out of reach
Normal living in business, society Inner living, dreams, imaginings, psychic events, the paranormal
Can be excellent for research, study, unusual thinking, discoveries,
but usually these cannot be used maximally during the period itself
And so on, as you might work out for yourself. But I add that 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 the times when there are more tragedies in play, more self-doubt, even more suicide. It is very important for us to understand how to get through each DHE without going berserk or else just 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.
This time, the agenda is as follows:
Dark Hermetic Epoch began October 29 . . . (Mercury retrograde November 16 . . . Mercury direct Dcember 6). . . DHE ends December 23
Bright Hermetic Epoch begins December 24 . . . Mercury conjoins the sun, center of BHE, January 29 . . . BHE ends February 18
(Yes, the "center" of the BHE is not necessarily the center in terms of the length of ordinary time before and after the center.)
If you ask me, What is the difference between the Mercury Retrograde period at the center of the DHE, and the two periods on either side of it, I answer, No difference, except possibly in degree. For example: The planes hit the WTC on 9/11/2001 just hours after that DHE began. This was a very "Mercury Retrograde" sort of phenomenon, since it was disruptive, tragic, unexpected, and even now people don't know what really happened. But it occurred weeks before Mercury went retrograde, but on the first day of the DHE. (I hear people speaking of a "shadow period" to describe the times before and after the central MR period, but I have never used that phrase myself.)
Saturday 8 December 2018
Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn
|Karmically difficult or sobering third| of this week is intense
/moon goes void-of-course at 2:01a PT | 5:01a ET | 10:01a UT
until it enters Capricorn at 4:03a PT | 7:03a ET | 12:03p UT
Sunday 9 December 2018
Moon in Capricorn
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until tomorrow, Monday, at 9:38a(M) PT | 12:38p(M)ET | 5:38p(M) UT
Cosmic Piper
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