Message for Monday 28 October 2019

Monday 28 October 2019

Moon in Scorpio

< moon remains in the Via Combusta until 1:57p PT | 4:57p ET | 8:57p UT

Luna is sextile Saturn and Pluto and trine Neptune. This is somewhat beneficent, perhaps good for arranging financial matters, thinking of those "dead" (of course still alive), or deep meditation.

Cancer (the sign), Paranoia, and al-Baghdadi

Al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State terrorist leader, self-executed in a U. S. raid Saturday, was sun-sign Cancer, born June 28, 1971. My friend Mona, one of the first individuals with whom I could discuss astrology intelligently, used to say, in New York City in the 1960s, "Cancers are paranoid." I didn't agree, at first, but grew to know what she meant. Cautious would be a nicer word, and of course there is a range of differences among them. But the following from Sunday's New York Times shows how Cancerian al-Baghdadi was (necessarily?) "paranoid" during his reign as head of the Islamic State from 2015 until yesterday:

"Meetings [between Baghdadi and his henchmen] lasted between 15 and 30 minutes and the ISIS chief would leave the building first. His visitors were required to stay under armed guard for hours after his exit. Then they were once again blindfolded and driven back to their original point of departure, according to aides who saw him in three of the past five years.

"“Baghdadi’s concern was always: Who will betray him? He didn’t trust anyone,” said Gen. Yahya Rasool, a spokesman of the Iraqi Joint Operation Command."

As might have been expected by those who have intelligently followed these reports for years, his self-execution occurred when he was chased down during a |Karmically serious or sobering third| of a week, namely this week, the exact times reported here on Friday and Saturday and Sunday in the reports for those three days. The moon was square Saturn (the midpoint of the |karmic third|) at 3:47 p.m. Saturday Eastern Time which would have been something like 11 p.m. in Barisha, Syria. No news source I have seen has given the exact time of the raid on al-Baghdadi. Odd. When I was in high school editing the school paper I was taught that the first paragraph should contain the what, where, and when. I guess the NYTimes editors need to go back to high school. Also, depending on the exact time, the moon probably had entered the Via Combusta (I gave the time in Saturday's report). Via Combusta, |Karmic third|, and Dark Epoch are a "triple witching" time. So it was for al-Baghdadi. Also for some in Texas who were either killed or wounded in another "domestic American" shooting, I am sorry to say. 

The Dark Hermetic Epoch, or Slow Mercury Epoch, October 11 through December 6, is a time when old things from the past are either concluded or wrapped up or somehow reckoned with, either decisively or not. The killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, occurred during such a time--the end of that DHE was on May 10. In astrology, things hang together if you research them. If you don't research them, you see nothing. 

Added to the |karmically serious third| of the week this time was Mars being with the moon, both of them square Saturn, the moon and Mars being in the sign Libra, often a sign of "justice" or at least would-be justice. Likewise on May 2, 2011, it was Saturn that was in Libra, Venus and Mercury opposed to it from Aries. The scales of justice eventually ended these two major terrorists. But more important for us we have to remember that we are not above judgment if we ourselves judge. "Judge not that ye be not judged." It is sad that these things "have to" happen but it is not easy to assign the blame unless one is G*d. On His mercy we all must repose.

More about al-Baghdadi: I have not studied his horoscope but in the Tarot Calendar, June 28 the year of his birth comes to 18 13 15: The Moon (secret enemies sometimes), Death, and The Devil. (This according to an exact formula which I discovered years ago.) The playing card indicator is the Two of Clubs, assigned to Saturn and Uranus, not pleasant at least on the surface, unless transmuted by the individual's growth. Say Edith Randall and Evylinn Campbell of the Two of Clubs people, including al-Baghdadi: "This is the most difficult and the least cooperative of all the 2's. They put up a very aggressive and self-confident front but as a matter of fact, they fear everything--themselves included. Of all the 2's this is the least representative of Union--and the most in need of it. The well-worn term 'defense mechanism' applies to them perfectly and accounts for a tendency to contention and dispute, their sudden flashes of anger and their lack of control. It must be understood that this does not apply to individuals who are highly developed and self-disciplined but it does apply to the majority." And there is much more, in their excellent book Sacred Symbols of the Ancients, now available only used for a few hundred dollars I believe. Occultism remains occult.  

Monday: The Tarot Calendar: 18, the Moon; 4, the Emperor; 15, the Devil. Playing card: 7 of Hearts: An hour glass inverted. Reawakening, Endowment.

Cosmic Piper