Message for Thursday 21 March 2019

Thursday 21 March 2019

}Internal Before External Victory{

Moon in Libra

< moon enters the Via Combusta for 2.5 days (sometimes loss of morale or confusion; better, expanding one's viewpoint) beginning at 6:37p PT | 9:37p ET | 1:37a(F) UT

We have to discuss the Mercury retrograde phenomenon again, like it or not, because it is so important. It lasts until March 28, another week, though the accompanying (similar but less intense) Dark (Slow) Hermetic Epoch will last until April 16. 

You are familiar with the negative side of it, which is popularly discussed (and dismissed and made fun of). 

Now for some of the neutral or positive sides of this period.

It has a lot to do with Time. With our perceptions of the past and future and our orientation within Time. We can be transported easily back into some segment or facet of the past, in dreams or waking dreams or memories. We can imagine all kinds of future possibilities and get somewhat lost in them to the detriment of present duties. However, the positive part of this is that we may get genuine insights into our lives which are unavailable in the more prosaic Bright or Quick Hermetic Epochs. This is almost supernatural, often.

Those involved in astrology or psychic gropings or supernormal phenomena of any kind (including sometimes UFOs) often become very agitated or excited or inspired during these times. Wow, this stuff is real! Yes it is, and yet with Mercury the trickster we sometimes wonder how real it is or if its reality is other than we imagine it to be. 

Just some clues. I cannot solve all that for you but merely hope that pointing out the above will help you traverse the period more comfortably and successfully. It seems to me that we need to (A) not forsake all these unusual or supernormal insights and ideas but also (B) not get too lost in all of them because our immediate duties in "the world" also require attention. 

Thursday:  The sun is in Aries the "first" sign and you may feel you want to be "first" in something. Maybe you can be. There is some danger of getting ahead of yourself or annoying people by your competitive attitude. (You may see this in others also, or more than in yourself.)

One cannot have control or influence over others without controlling oneself. This is obvious and yet we sometimes forget all that it implies. It helps to realize that we are not going to just substitute our own skill for that of those who oppose us, but can also assimilate some of their skill, or learn something from them, making our "victory" more thoroughly victorious.

Abortive projects and unfortunate relationships can be a problem. There may need to be clearance. You do not reject anyone's heart or soul, but spend less time with her or him for a period in order to focus on what is real in your own life and consciousness. (This could have something to do with Venus square Mars, intense over the past few days and continuing to some degree till the second week of April.)

There could be something to be said for being passionate, even a little quarrelsome or arrogant, as for example the presidential candidates are, for one has to hew out one's own path sometimes without bowing or curtsying to everyone else. 

That said, there is danger of becoming fiercely frenzied or vindictive. We need to remember the social culturing and training we have experienced all our lives, and remember also that someone else might forget that during a moment of anger and slip into semi-violence in word or act. Our differences are what make us despise one another, but also what make us appreciate and love one another--paradoxically. By sensing and expressing what is unique in yourself, you do not have to be conceited, nor suffer others' conceit painfully, but can dismiss all that jostling for supremacy while being busy manifesting your special qualities. 

{Thursday}  {Internal Before External Victory}

Cosmic Piper