Message for Thursday 3 October 2019

Thursday 3 October 2019

^Social Interaction as Spiritual Messaging^  

Moon in Sagittarius

I have a special affection for the month of Libra (September 23 through October 22). Yet it is a peculiar whirlwind month. Some of the worst stock market crashes have occurred then---in 1929 and 1987 and 2008. And the market has gone down considerably in the past two days. It's called "volatility" and Libra is an air sign so it is something like recurrent unpredictable wind storms.  Yet this can be exhilarating. It is somehow a travel month, and I usually get a travel urge then, as if I were in a flock of migrating birds headed South. It is ruled by Venus, so it is a "love month" in some way or other. It can, at worst, be a legal month, unless you love legalities or are a lawyer---witness the fact that impeachment got started just when it began this year. Some Democrats say they want to finish the process by October or November, and Mars will be in Libra until November 19. No predictions about what that means; Libra is the scales or the balance, and it is the wind; so the balance veers back and forth, as anyone can see who reads the news. I am trying not to be obsessive about keeping up with each subpoena, document, reported phone call, charge and accusation. It is too much. Don't we have our own lives to handle? Yet what are "our own" lives? Libra is a point in the zodiac, and in life, where our lives interlock or interact with the lives of everyone else. In that sense it is the opposite of Aries, the Spring sign which is one of individuality (fire, as symbolized by the sun). The sun is "exalted" in Aries---individuality---while in Libra it is "in its fall." And look what a very individualistic leader is doing---"falling"---at least symbolically and temporarily. (No predictions about impeachment. Some believe that the Democrats are making a mistake and are the ones who will take the fall.) 

But since Libra is ruled by Venus we can get excited or thrilled by human interactions. This can be in sports or masculine activities or the military as well as in feminine ones such as fashion. People "check each other out" or are fascinated by one another or "have to be" at parties or sporting events or political rallies or whatever gets them going. It's an interesting month. Decisions? They are dicey. Too much to do. Too many people to interact with. Flirtation without commitment? Often. Or commitment lurking within flirtation? Maybe. Libra seems to be a search for self which vanishes into other selves.

Thursday:  Writing on Wednesday, I note that the health problem of Bernie Sanders which put him in the hospital is occurring on the first day of the five-degree-orb square of the sun with Saturn. (We have been feeling this since the sun entered Libra on September 23, but it is sharper now.) Likewise many of us may feel that taking care of ourselves is crucial. Is the sun's square with Saturn "bad"? No, but critical. It was going on the month JFK was assassinated and the month of 9/11/2001. What could have prevented either of those tragedies? I cannot say, but this aspect is a warning signal. Basically, the warning is always "Get right with G*d." 

The truth is the truth, in any area of expertise and in law courts, and we are devoted to it somehow, each in his or her own way. Many philosophers (Heidegger, Nietzsche, Marc Edmund Jones, Foucault) have been born in the sign Libra and they never cease pondering and seeking "the truth" however they may define or understand it. They tend to see it as "wisdom of this world" and not of some other, since they are realists as well as idealists (the contradictory or paradoxical nature of Libra). Whatever "dwelling among mountain scenery and dealing in sheep and cattle" might mean, I pass it along from Charubel. Visualizing such a situation might be uplifting.

Boating and imbibing alcohol might not go well together, in most cases, but have been melded with good or bad results on numerous occasions! (We mentioned Jupiter's square with Neptune, "too much water," yesterday, and it can also mean "too much alcohol.") Something like that could go on, or just a party mood. There is a fear of trusting certain individuals, "even one's best friends" says Charubel. And so "working up trust" might be a good exercise.

There is diplomacy, and an ability to mimic others' attitudes. This could be humorous, serious or both. Erotic impulses might be harmless to a degree, alternating with high aspirations. People are charming and flatter one another. Fortune is generally favorable and one feels elevated.

In the midst of this one might remember that one has services to perform in order to be a viable member of the socio-economic order. And it is good to be tactful about changes people are going through.  Examine your own anxieties and you may sense what some of theirs are---very similar. "Information in the symbol of an autumn leaf" means that the change of season is awakening us to deeper meanings of our lives and better ways of living them. Everything contributes to everything else, even a beautiful falling leaf, in our approach to ultimate goals. 

{Thursday}  ^Social Interaction as Spiritual Messaging^

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  The first two paragraphs about Libra felt inspired as I wrote them and I hope you will share them with anyone who might be interested. I do not know how to expand the slim readership of these reports without spending money which is just unavailable.