Message for Tuesday 14 January 2020

Tuesday 14 January 2020

\Earth Yields Largesse to the Worthy/

Moon in Virgo

There are questions of who really has power, in any context, and that is interesting. 

"Rocks and things forming therein" is a fascinating symbol in that seven of the ten planets are now in earth signs! Most important is the conjunction of the sun and Mercury with Saturn and Pluto, all tight, within two to three degrees, and that was true over the weekend during the very difficult weather in many parts of the world. Saturn is the planet of cold, and I have found it to be also the planet of precipitation. (Also Neptune sometimes.) You can count on it that usually the hardest parts of any winter are when planets are either square, opposite, or conjoined to Saturn. I have seen this over the decades, wherever I have lived. There is a question of "orb," that is, how long we can expect this cold wave, or wave of difficult weather (including, oddly enough, the fires in Australia, because it is in the Southern Hemisphere so heat is the problem there. Saturn can also indicate too much heat, when afflicted).  By ten degrees, this specially harsh spell could be said to end by January 24 or 25, or to drag on a week more. Today, the moon in Virgo is trine those Capricorn planets so there is some relief, or people are learning how to be calm and comfortable during the ordeal at least. (For me it has been one of those endless respiratory infections, though it seems on the wane.) Sometimes a bout of Saturn problems leads to indifference, or detachment such as the Buddha recommended. 

There is a desire to prove oneself, to say "This is me, this is what I can do." "A buffalo is standing on an eminence, pawing the ground and snorting." Don't mess with me. That is the earth signs in their glory.  There is competition, "two men running a race," and this is both for practical gain and for the sheer exultation of trying to win.

And winning is possible, with a grand trine in earth signs. The victory is made more glorious by the difficulties one has to overcome in the process. At last there is "a field of ripe corn; the reapers are at work 'neath the beams of the sun." Fortune smiles and there is abundance. With this, one could aid those who need special help, as if one were "a noble person, a defender of the defenseless, a benefactor of the indigent and poor." 

{Tuesday}  /Earth Yields Largesse to the Worthy\

Cosmic Piper