\Midnight Lamp of Comfort/
Moon in Taurus
/moon goes void-of-course at 2:33p PT | 5:33p ET | 9:33p UT
The elephant with the castle on his back hears the whining of a dog who is cringing as if he had been abused. He desires to comfort the poor creature. Then he finds that its owner is also whining and cringing, not because of direct abuse but imagined injustices, lamenting because he cannot "get it together." He is self-centered, morose, and lazy. Everyone is at fault but himself. The elephant passes on to see a sage in the light of an open window, sitting by his lamp. The elephant trumpets and the sage replies that he is busy solving immense problems of the universe and human life. The elephant remarks, "I see that you are a grand magician." Two angels appear above the sage's window and gaze at the elephant, who requests that they aid and comfort the poor whining dog. They do what they can and the canine seems at peace while his owner sleeps fitfully. The groundhog appears, looking for its shadow in the lamplight from the sage's window. The elephant shakes his head, but the sage calls down, "Keep seeking and thou shalt find." The groundhog comes upon a solitary rock jutting up from sand, and upon it sits a man calculating his prospects shrewdly, feeling that he can at least cope with his poverty, while dismissing G*d, who has apparently never helped him, as a silly superstition. The sage's "Seek" means to him nothing but to continue with gravity and cold mathematical cunning. He pulls from his pocket an unsealed letter to peruse once more. His heart does not comprehend the sentiments it expresses. The angels looking down try to awaken compassionate feelings in him so that he will not reject callously this opportunity to meet again with one who loved him.
{Thursday} /Midnight Lamp of Comfort\
Cosmic Piper
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