Message for Thursday 2 May 2019

Thursday 2 May 2019

^Baiting, Waiting, Maintaining^

Moon in Aries

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us (until Saturday)

Some unpleasant symbols, going along with the |difficult third| of this week, put us on guard against mixed motives in others or ourselves which could get us in trouble. Is there really treachery, or is our karma trying to teach us something through some mini-ordeal? One needn't blame oneself for everything wrong. Yet it may be better to look to oneself for the cure rather than blame someone else. 

We are in a Bright Hermetic Epoch until June 20, and right now Mercury has strong aspects making for sharp, clear thinking and perception, so you can find answers. 

There can be playful give-and-take, as in "A barn dance." Luna with Venus, both sextile Mars, could make for a gregarious trend.

We have all had ambitions which seem to have been vain. This can be daunting, when one feels one doesn't know what's next, and yet there will be answers for those patient enough to "bait and wait."

"One dog chasing another with a bone" sounds a little too much like some of the business and political schemes we witness. If that shoe fits you, you could own it and then remove it, that is, make your ambitions less self-centered. 

Feeling that one has trusted someone or some institution or organization too much is a downer.  One answer is to be reliable and honest oneself, "An Indian weaving a blanket," so that one's simple diligence will pay off in the long term. The overeager and maybe untrustworthy hare loses the race to the tortoise's quiet persistence.

{Thursday}  ^Baiting, Waiting, Maintaining^

Cosmic Piper