Message for Sunday 2 August 2020

Sunday 2 August 2020

}Conflicts Calmed Toward Hospitality{

Moon in Capricorn-->Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week remains until Monday

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:01a PT | 10:01a ET | 2:01p UT

until it enters Aquarius at 11:12a PT | 2:12p ET | 6:12p UT

A harsh note is provided by the squares of Mars with Jupiter and of the sun with Uranus, both exact within a degree.  At worst this could get us agitated like "several young men in dispute in a market place, asserting their respective opinions by the use of cudgels."  Shades of the protester-police conflicts.  Some might be stubborn, quarrelsome, or revengeful.  At best one could realize one has an occult or hidden mission to accomplish, and be like "a warrior in bright armor with drawn sword pursuing a savage multitude."   This will sound to present ears like racist colonialism, but has better interpretations were one to seek for them. The "savage multitude" is demons in both others and ourselves.  

We approach the Full Moon on Monday, and despite the |difficult third| there is high or broadened consciousness.  "A sailing ship on a calm sea" is said to bestow happiness, prosperity, honor, and popularity.  All that may be enjoyed at "an evening lawn party," or normal sharing of self-expression in gratifying companionship.

Mercury opposite Saturn sharpens the mind for clear definition of things---of schemes, plans, or thought-worlds.  This is a "no nonsense" aspect, yet the sextiles of Jupiter and Pluto with Neptune make us generous like "a young girl feeding birds in winter."  Hospitality is a keyword.  Further, the greater-than-human circumfuses us, as "a hidden choir singing" its worship of the One from whom all good things come.

{Sunday}   {Conflicts Calmed Toward Hospitality}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Saturday 1 August 2020

Saturday 1 August 2020

\Panorama Revealing Fortunate Choices/

Moon in Capricorn

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Monday

I have been stating for months that a new Bright Hermetic Epoch would begin July 26, last Sunday.  You may wonder if things really changed.  Well, here is one thing looking progressive.  The following is what I just posted on Facebook:

Covid 19 cases have declined since the Bright Hermetic Epoch began July 26!  

"Our weekly update is posted, and there's finally some good news: nationally, cases are declining and the states with the worst outbreaks seem to be turning a corner." -- July 30, 2020 report of the COVID Tracking Project.  I, Cosmic Piper, discovered the Hermetic Epochs in 1978-79, improved their timing through fresh research in 1999, and have been reporting on them regularly since then in my daily Cosmic Connection reports. They are real. These latest statistics are on the confirmation side!  

Did I say the pandemic is ended? No.  Did I say take off your mask?  No. But the latest figures of the Covid Tracking Project, the nearest thing  to an official report, look good.  They even tweeted what I just quoted from them.  They were pleased with the statistics.

Saturday:  Despite the heaviness of much that's going on, there are indications of festivity:  "A man and woman are seated at a table whereon viands and wine are lavishly abundant."  This could be "dissolute ways" and self-indulgence, or deserved pleasure.  It's more likely the latter because "grand aspirations and good deeds" pervade the atmosphere, signified by "a very lofty pine tree."  

"The magic carpet" we may choose to ride gives free perspective, an overview of human experience, so that we can participate only in what looks promising.  The panorama reveals both the everyday and the awesome.  The latter could be subjects worthy of deep research.  One could "study ancient methods and principles with benefit to oneself and advantage to the world."  

Exceptional mental powers are being cultivated.  They light up both the obsessive, or degraded, in human conduct and the transcendent or edifying.  A studious attitude liberates one from worry.  Business matters may prosper.  "A person ascends a spiral staircase within a dark enclosure, with sunshine at the top."  One has been doing much for small returns (the staircase), but at last enjoys good luck (the sunshine). 

{Saturday}   /Panorama Revealing Fortunate Choices\

Cosmic Piper

Friday 31 July 2020

\Magic Carpet Excursion/

Moon in Capricorn

You might evaluate some of your projects from others' viewpoints, as you imagine them, and sense that your attempts might be regarded as foolish, like "digging with a shovel in the air."  "Why is he or she wasting so much time on that stuff?" might be their attitude, you surmise.  This could make you morose or despondent, yet you continue to aid those who seem worthless or ungrateful, out of sheer goodwill.  Sepharial says, "Sow and build for the greater good, and work in hope!" 

Seeking for escape could take many forms.  "A magic carpet" is yours when you choose to take in the panorama of human affairs impersonally.  This can be imaginative self-fulfillment while viewing what others have done or are doing.  If you turn also to history and philosophic gems from the past you could go deep into research which is renovating of both mind and body.  

There could be unease about affairs of the heart, with jealousy, or resentment over some apparent rivalry.  One ought to beware of railing against anyone or everyone (Mars square Jupiter and sun square Uranus).  A deeper approach to life is available through mental powers.  "An old book is lying upon a table, and beside it a burning lamp."  Close and patient study cultivates breadth as well as depth of thought, preparing one for fulfillment. 

{Friday}  /Magic Carpet Excursion\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 30 July 2020

Thursday 30 July 2020

^Through Woes Toward Conviviality^

Moon in Sagittarius

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:09p PT | 8:09p ET | 12:09p UT

I have been saying that we are in a new Bright Hermetic Epoch, favorable for definite decisions and forward progress, since July 26 (last Sunday) continuing until September 23.  That is something "good" I can report.

However, as pointed out months ago when I looked at charts for the sun's transit through each zodiacal sign, it appears there are a lot of challenging aspects in this Leo month (until August 22). Since we are smart and sharp and forward-looking (Bright Epoch) we should be able to handle them without too much whining, I hope.  I am trying to elucidate them as best I know in each daily forecast.

It is always a mixture and so I work with the daily symbols, which clarify the aspects just as the aspects clarify the momentary meaning of the symbols.  I cannot predict the result of each daily forecast until it is finished and it's something like surfing on the ocean's waves.  I hope that with this help you can fathom what is going on in your own life and work with it more smoothly, with greater perspective.  Obviously no one can ride your board for you.

Thursday:  Don't be alarmed, but "a bomb exploding in mid-air" is one of the worst symbols.  Charubel says it "denotes what is very pernicious."  It occurs along with the continuing square of Mars and Mercury, commented on yesterday in connection with the protests, and the now-very-close square of the sun with Uranus, traditionally considered potentially violent.  CEO Carter says it can show "self-will and eccentricity" and sometimes ill-temper.  People are "edgy or ornery."  There is a lack of patience or humility.  At worst this can be suicidal, because the desire for freedom is so intense and some might feel that there is no freedom "in this world."  Of course, they are not likely to find it in the next either until they gain spiritual freedom, which is the real liberty.  They would be sent back here to gain it from where they left off.

That real freedom is represented by "a king, emperor or commander on horseback."  This is "a degree of power" which bestows "a position in which one can command rather than obey."  Obviously one does not gain such a position by throwing a bomb, so we turn to the growing trine of the sun with Mars in Leo and Aries, signs of majesty and "command" at their best.  It is possible to mobilize some such power for oneself.  

How? Through wisdom, and that brings us to the opposition of Mercury and Jupiter, exact now.  At worst it can show fraud, libel, or slander.  It might indicate problems because of others' bankruptcy or deception, duplicity or muddle.  There can be exaggeration combined with poor judgment.    Reason and faith may be in conflict until there is some resolution of the two, which has been a major quest of philosophers for millennia.  

That brings us to the next symbol, "an empty hammock," which shows Rumination, or musing on opposites (the two ends of the hammock) in order to gain a calm comfortable perspective.  Then one can be a "ferryman" guiding others across a wide deep stream, the confusions we all experience in life which books, classes and friends can ameliorate.  Or one can get on a "ferry" someone else is captaining.  This might be the good side of the Venus-square-Neptune vibration, a woozy good feeling brought about at worst by drugs or alcohol, at best by music, friendship, nature, prayer, and mystical exaltation.  

Another symbol suggests "insecure affections, bitter resentment and jealousy."  I hope you realize that the purpose of these negative suggestions is for you to reject them!  In other words, you can recognize the symptoms they point out when they arise and  correct them before they wreak serious damage.  "Forlorn hope, and loving without power to evoke response" is something all have experienced.  We do not have to submit to those today but they might raise their ugly heads; or we can take them philosophically, experience them without complaining but recognizing that the melancholy they bring on is a philosophic gift from a universe which wants us to grow impervious to such suffering.  How? is always a personal discovery.  The moon square Neptune and opposite Venus while those two square each other is probably what this is all about, yet as pointed out in the previous paragraph the Venus-Neptune vibration can have a happier expression if we go for it.  

That could end up as sociality and joviality, convivial pursuits, and happiness in the company of others.  Sympathy is persuasive toward the better.  

{Through Woes Toward Conviviality}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 29 July 2020

Wednesday 29 July 2020

^Just Being^

Moon in Sagittarius

Protest, protest, protest, anger, anger, anger, righteous wrath, righteous wrath, righteous wrath.  Have we had enough of it?

I feel that I have, and although the square between Mars and Mercury, lasting for weeks, is still with us, it is starting to decrease, gone by a week from today.  We may feel some relief even now.  "A hedgehog" is harmless, shunning the public gaze, knowing how to defend himself.  Sounds like sheer comfort (unless one enjoys the contact sport between protesters and police).  "A large somber building with walls of granite" is said to denote something lasting and admirable, and human beings who are the same.  "Just being" is something indeed.

"An empty hammock" has the keyword Rumination and suggests "an absoluteness of non-compulsion on man" according to Dr. Jones.  Blessed rest?  It can be "inner reconciliation of outer inharmonies."  If then one feels one has a more active role, one might be "a guide and teacher of the public" or a ferryman guiding others "across a wide deep stream" or life's vicissitudes and confusions.  This could be as informal as being a good friend to someone.

Trials, linked with the opposition of Mercury and the sun to Saturn, may feel as if someone has deserted or abandoned you.  You might feel like an old oak which has passed through many a storm "standing alone on a desolate moorland."  But life continues, the oak will regain its leaves eventually, and there is "a full moon shining in a clear sky."  You may shine partly by reflected light yet your capacities are evident to all.  You can be sympathetic and adaptable.  You may even "acquire fame and wealth," Charubel hints. 

{Wednesday}  ^Just Being^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 28 July 2020

Tuesday 28 July 2020

~Headquarters is Everywhere~

Moon in Scorpio

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:02p PT | 12:02a(W) ET | 4:02a(W) UT

We have two exact squares in the heavens, and two of our symbols fit them.  "A bull tossing a man with his horns" would be Mars square Mercury, a very impatient aspect and one which does not scruple about being cruel if that seems necessary for self-interest.  If you are a kindly person you might be on the receiving end of such impatient rudeness.  One could raise this to a level of "what I need to get for myself is mine, so I go for it directly" if one is trying to be honest and fair.   The other intense aspect, Venus square Neptune, could fit with "the constellations in the sky" for this can be an aspect of losing oneself in the blissful cosmos, as on a starry night.  Mental-spiritual quest can ramify infinitely.  The remote and mysterious, when apprehended amicably, is friendly in return, and grants surety when, as in the heavens, there is dependability of location and motion.  

"Two prim spinsters" have their differences even if able to live close to each other.  The keyword Divorcement suggests that they have divorced themselves from menfolk perhaps (or inversely if the "spinsters" are male), and periodically divorce from each other when they need their "space."  Each shares in the other's fidelity to self.  Sometimes one of them will be "a general accepting defeat gracefully" and then she or he will wait for later opportunities to be together companionably.  Expediency has its place within the relationship.

A cardinal-sign T-square, active and adventurous, makes us feel like "Indians making camp" or extemporizing whether at home or elsewhere, turning every place into temporary headquarters.  This can be thrilling at certain moments, when one joys in whatever turns up.  At other times it can be sweet and refreshing, as if one were "a young woman lying beneath a tree, throwing food to the birds which gather around her."  This is geniality, fellow-feeling, and shared happiness.  

{Tuesday}   ~Headquarters is Everywhere~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 27 July 2020

Monday 27 July 2020

~Day Trading All the Way to the Ball~

Moon in Scorpio

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until 7:26p PT | 10:26p ET | 2:26a(Tu) UT

< moon remains in the Via Combusta until 10:40p PT | 1:40a(Tu) ET | 5:40a(Tu) UT

As for the protests, riots, pepper spray and burning trailers Saturday night, I predicted it in Saturday's forecast, first and third paragraphs.  Does anybody notice?  I pointed out that the |karmically difficult third| of the week began Saturday at 5:04 pm Pacific Time and that was about when I heard helicopters overhead. (I live four blocks from the center of the protests in Seattle). At 7:59 p.m., again as pointed out in Saturday's forecast, the moon entered the Via Combusta and this time it was literally a "burning way"--burning eyes and burning police trailers.  I heard the helicopters all through the night.  All this got the front page major headline in the New York Times Sunday, and it is rare that the Via Combusta and the |Karmically difficult third| happen the same day.  They are independent variables.  At the same time, the moon was opposite Mars in Aries, his own sign, ruling sometimes the police.  Gurdgieff's belief that "people are machines" seems almost right, because the "riots" (or if you wish "demonstrations") happen right in accord with planetary motions.  

Monday:  The Bright Hermetic Epoch, as reported here, began near noon on Sunday (earlier in the west, by clock time, and later in the east).  Will this mean a decrease in the demonstrations and in pandemic cases and deaths? I can't say that for certain but one can hope.  However, some intense planetary aspects remain  in the chart for the Gibbous Moon period, extending from today, July 27, until August 11, including sun square Uranus, Mercury opposite Saturn and Mars square Jupiter.  What the human race will do with this is up to the human race, not to this astrologer.

I am more concerned with people in Hong Kong and China than with the relatively minor things happening in the U. S., for to be a victim of the Chinese Communist Party is to learn what police brutality really means.  American policemen are angels by comparison.

On Monday we have "an old-fashioned woman and an up-to-date girl" signifying some interesting intergenerational communication or perhaps conflict.  Let's try to make it the former.  The moon remains in the "burning way" and we have "a large ball of fire flying through the air."  But Charubel says this indicates "one who has a mission of an extraordinary character."  That could be you or someone you admire.

"Two prim spinsters" could show smooth cooperation with someone similar to oneself.  Together you see the world as inferior to both of you in some ways.  Yet those who are on your side cooperate with you in "a relay race" which can be "thoroughgoing cooperation with others in some vital phase of experience."  

Tomorrow may be better for financial decisions or deals than today, but you may sense things are improving.  Your approach to money is unconventional, "a youth tossing coins into a cup as if in play."  This may seem careless yet could have good results if done with spontaneous or calculated wisdom.  Crypto-currency, penny stocks, Robin Hood day trading?  The youth is "careless of how others are working" (moon opposite Uranus) so whether the cosmos cooperates with him is up to the cosmos.  In his dreams he may be invited to "an embassy ball," or maybe this Cinder-fella will succeed in actually getting himself on the list.  As for Cinderella, she could rely on her fairy godmother, the "old-fashioned woman" we have already met.

{Monday}  ~Day Trading All the Way to the Ball~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Sunday 26 July 2020

Sunday 26 July 2020

}Valor{

Moon in Libra-->Scorpio

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Tuesday

< moon in the Via Combusta until Tuesday

A new Bright or Fast Hermetic Epoch (Mercury moving forward quickly) begins today (approximately 10a PT | 1p ET 5p UT) and lasts until September 23

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:10p PT | 9:10p ET | 1:10a(M) UT

The new Epoch helps; the previously listed two lunar conditions do not.  So it is not clear how this day will go. However I can say, writing on Friday, that I feel "we" or at least "I" have "been through the wringer" during the Dark Epoch which began June 2 and concluded Saturday.  Certainly you must have noticed how complex and confusing it has been.  Good things have happened, as they always do, yet it often seems the "price" for the good things has been exorbitant.  Because of today's lunar conditions I can't claim that we will feel better now, but this day is a beginning of a slow and sometimes quicker evolution into something better for all of us.  Or, as suggested in the data above, it may be that Tuesday is the effective beginning of this more promising two-month epoch.  

Sunday could be mysterious.  Good developments require patience and intelligence, plus cunning and competition for personal advantage.  People speak their minds straightforwardly or bluntly.  This may not always be courteous yet may serve some obscure purpose if one listens with divine ears.  

"An ancient hieroglyphic manuscript" promises gain through esoteric research.  "Brownies dancing in the setting sun" may not be grinning but dancing with determination to feel some sort of ecstasy which eludes them.  Or if they work up to that joy, it is by divine grace.  

A seemingly haphazard approach to gain, or handling money, may actually be wisely planned though it seem like "a youth throwing coins into a cup as if in play."  The casino of our hopes is open for business, whether we squander or succeed.  Shrewdness pulls back at the right time.  

Venus square Neptune, exact, can be blissful, its happiness based on nothing one can see but rather on the Spirit's self-certainty that the universe is our blessing.  Who is certain of that?  "A man with a crown on his head and a spear in his hand."  He is said to embody dignity, valuor, and humanity.  That is the Self of us transcending astrological conditions.  

{Sunday}  {Valor}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Saturday 25 July 2020

Saturday 25 July 2020

}Prudence within the Intriguing Dance of Life{

Moon in Libra

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 5:04p PT | 8:04p ET | 12:04a(Su) UT (until Tuesday)

< moon enters the Via Combusta at 7:59p PT | 10:59p ET | 2:59a(Su) UT (a reshuffling period, until Tuesday) 

There is energy and motion, searching for what is useful.  One could take in at a glance what is advantageous and what is not, in one's travels.  In rejecting what is incompatible, there can be some irritation.  Mercury square Mars has been with us all of July, during the anti-police protests and the clamor over the pandemic and the right way to deal with it.  It is anger based on perceived wrong.  Robert deLuce says it can show "deceit or imposition from sharp-witted rascals."  CEO Carter says it increases the mental energies "sometimes to the extent of causing danger of mental or nervous breakdown."  Today it impacts one's sense of poise in one's career, and intense conversations.  One might say more than one intends to say, causing unease.  However, in the symbols we have "a cat upon the watch for prey" signifying that one can be prudent, careful, and firm in one's attachments, so that one could restrain oneself toward diplomacy and suavity with good results.  Circumspection is the keyword.  

Jupiter gives us "an ancient hieroglyphic manuscript with a retort and crucible upon it."  This is renovation through either science or ancient esoteric research.  Luna trine Venus while opposite Mars gives us "brownies dancing in the setting sun."  This could be literal enjoyment of whatever transpires before sunset and after.  The dance of life is invigorating.  

The moon forming a Grand Square including the Mars-Mercury square is a warning against accident, so one should be careful.  Those who are headstrong could bump their heads (Mars in Aries) or some other part of the body.  There is intrigue, including visionary friendship with notable individuals whose studies or information (questionable or not) could be misleading if taken disproportionately.  It is well to entertain astounding propositions or proposals provided one keeps them mostly at the level of entertainment.  

{Friday}  {Prudence within the Intriguing Dance of Life}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 24 July 2020

Friday 24 July 2020

\Sagacious Completions/

Moon in Virgo--Libra

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:09p PT | 7:09p ET | 11:09p UT

until it enters Libra at 6:55p PT | 9:55p ET | 1:55a(Sa) UT

It's fascinating that Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal lawyer for many years and a sun-sign Virgo, now imprisoned, has been ordered released in the past two days (after filing a lawsuit) because the judge found that he had been re-imprisoned because he wanted to exercise free speech rights by finishing his book on Donald Trump and publishing it before the election.  Interesting because the moon was in Virgo on Wednesday and Thursday when the ruling was issued, trine Jupiter and Pluto, very helpful to a Virgo individual, and shall remain in Virgo until after Cohen is released on Friday afternoon.  In fact, Luna shall make her final aspect while in Virgo, a trine to Saturn, just after Cohen is scheduled to be released.  Saturn in Capricorn can indicate anyone's relations to government or authority, which obviously makes sense in this case.  A Virgo "servant" of a President is getting his freedom to "tell all" about that President while Luna is in his own "servant" sign trine Saturn in the "ruler" sign, Capricorn.  Astrology is amazing, day after day.  Incidentally, though I have not read any of the other "tell-all" books about Trump, I might peruse this one because Cohen is an intelligent and often eloquent dude and sure has a lot to tell. 

For the rest of us that astrological setup could show some practical matters getting resolved to our satisfaction.  For many it will be financial matters.  It is most likely a favorable day for money decisions.  Also manual labor of any kind, either the dirty sort or the "clean" labor of typing, will be natural and have good results.  At a more ethereal level "a veiled statue" suggests mystery and "the gradual unfoldment of the sublime and the glorious."  This could be in connection with a friend or partner, especially late in the day.

Along with that is "a spacious hall, its walls covered with hieroglyphic symbols" which suggests that one wants more from life than the obvious and conventional.  However, while the thoughts are sublime the hands may toil, as if one were "an Indian weaving a blanket."  Diligence is a helpful concomitant of three planets in Capricorn trined by Luna in Virgo, so one might finish up things which have been pending.  The "blanket" will not be ready unless prepared.

At the emotional level, Venus separating from her sextile with Mars (though it remains) while moving to a square with Neptune could signify "a woman in an attitude of dejection covering her naked breast with the hair of her head."  This is a feeling that one has been deserted by a friend or lover.  "Blighted hopes" are blighted only temporarily, yet the moods occasioned could be perilous if permitted to verge into despair.  For some, a way out of this could be the consolations of religion, foretold by good Neptune aspects, through "a man attired as a cardinal of the church."  Or this could be somewhat sensuous ceremonials which restore hope, energy and creativity. You might want to note what happens, or what you think about,  after the moon enters Libra.

{Friday}  /Sagacious Completions\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 23 July 2020

Thursday 23 July 2020

\Self-Belief Manifests as Trying/

Moon in Virgo

One might be fretful and mournful over things one hadn't thought would be important, yet they touch a sensitive spot of worry.  Being more bold might be a cure, for it seems that one might underestimate one's power to speak, persuade, or get ideas across.  It is better to assume that one has the ability to be popular and express things in a convincing way.  Then one will not be hiding talents or implicit abilities, but letting them come forward naturally.

People are looking for "something more" as represented by "a spacious hall like a museum, the walls covered with symbols and hieroglyphics."  The indirect or allegorical approach is sometimes more effective than bluntness.  Neptune is sextile both Jupiter and Pluto, has been for weeks, and shall continue.  This is generosity not only in money or gifts but in attitude.  When the polar-opposite aspect, Mercury square Mars, is hopping us into anger, the Neptune sextiles can calm us down and inspire respect even for opposing views.  One might think, "How would this dispute look centuries from now if displayed in a museum?"  Then with more serene perspective one might go back to one's ordinary tasks, as if "an Indian weaving a blanket" or Gandhi at his spinning wheel. Diligence is the product of a hopeful philosophy.

Love and devotion do not have to result in timidity.  It is good to keep trying--to keep aiming and shooting one's arrow rather than let people or circumstances push one into the background.  Whether one hits the mark or not, one has attracted attention and interest, and dramatized what one can do, so that the next attempt has a better chance of success.  

{Thursday}  /Self-Belief Manifests as Trying\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 22 July 2020

Wednesday 22 July 2020

^Roar of Intended or Unintended Revelation^

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Virgo at 4:41p PT | 7:41p ET | 11:41p UT

The sun enters Leo at 1:38a PT | 4:38a ET | 8:38p UT (until August 22)

The lion roars, and when the human "lion" rages it may seem like "a case of apoplexy" (as we know from Donald Trump who was born with Leo rising).  Someone may be irresistible in his or her demands, or think that he or she is so.  Yet with the moon void-of-course most of the day it is not clear what might be gained by trying to force one's desires on anyone.  It might be good to turn to a lighter view of life, as "a young girl playing on a lyre" or gay, youthful, artistic amusement.  That could calm everyone so there may be sweeter outcomes.  Both Mercury and Jupiter squaring Mars in his own sign can make for obstreperousness.  

If "the general," you or someone else, has to "accept defeat gracefully" while the moon is void-of-course, that makes room for expedient adjustments.  The desires of a friend may seem unwieldy or unfeasible, yet "a serpent coiling near a man and a woman" is trying to impart some wisdom (a serpent thing traditionally) to the couple so they awaken to a higher revelation of what their desire for each other could mean.   

"An unsealed letter" could mean that someone is indiscreet, letting out secrets which might better be held back.  Trusting people is important, most of the time, though at times it is better not to strain that trust unwisely.  One question might be, Who is worthy of your confidences?  Maybe after Luna enters Virgo (time above), and things and people seem more realistic, it will be easier to aim one's arrow, release it, and hit the appointed mark.  

{Wednesday}  ^Roar of Intended or Unintended Revelation^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 21 July 2020

Tuesday 21 July 2020

^Friendly Soul-Force^

Moon in Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 4:08p PT | 7:08p ET | 11:08p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:28p PT | 8:28p ET | 12:28a(W) UT

(Yesterday's New Moon was not "the New Moon of Leo" as I reported because it occurred in the penultimate degree of Cancer just before the moon entered Leo.  I got ahead of myself.)  

With the help of a New Moon (yesterday) it is possible to feel like "a bulbous plant pushing its way upward and beginning to unfold its beauties."  One has soul-force which can "magnetize" others to one's will and purpose.  Then one might feel one's heritage or inheritance, the background of the leadership in which one believes, which makes one's strength more certain in its effects than if one were going it alone.  

The "general accepting defeat gracefully" is not totally defeated, just in one battle, so that he is regathering strength for a fresh campaign when that is strategic.  That is a common feeling during the whole Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch of two months, which ends on Saturday-Sunday this week.  So one might survey one's "defeats" over the past two months and sense how to recover. "A serpent coiling near a man and a woman" gets at the continuing sextile between Venus and Mars while, today, Luna is in good aspect with both. This may seem phallic or sexual yet at deeper levels it can be the revelation of male and female supporting each other both outwardly and inwardly within multi-sexual consciousness.   How this goes is highly individual.  Aiding a friend could be part of the process.  

Any awkwardness can be finessed somehow.  "A broken pitcher lying on the ground with spilled fruit around it" after all represents an accident from which one can recover.  One might feel that some efforts have been vain or impotent.   Yet there is "sunshine just after a storm" and a fresh approach to issues develops reconstructed fulfillment through steadiness and fidelity.  

{Tuesday}  ^Friendly Soul-Force^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 20 July 2020

Monday 20 July 2020

^Enduring Temporary Defeat with Persistence^

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

New Moon of Leo occurs at 10:34a PT | 1:34p ET 5:34p UT

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Tuesday late afternoon

/moon goes void-of-course at 10:56a PT | 1:56p ET | 5:56p UT

until it enters Leo at 1:17p PT | 4:17p ET | 8:17p UT

With the help of the New Moon, we may feel like "a man driving a bull or an ox."  Sometimes the "bull" is ourselves.  If in a position of authority where one "drives" someone else, there is likely to be obstinacy or resentment, with the moon and sun both opposing Saturn.  We are face to face with "reality" or the conditions which need to be handled with as much poise as possible.  We weigh values to arrive at effective judgment.  This is like being "a Muse weighing twins" or deciding what to emphasize and what to de-emphasize at each moment.  We should be good at this, with Mercury sextile Uranus while the former gains speed. That gives mental alacrity. 

The |difficult third| of this week makes us feel like "a general accepting defeat gracefully."   Expediency can win over former enemies or those who have seemed to block one's path.  Opportunism may go under cover, yet retain its long-range goals.  Work in seclusion for a while is part of the overall process.  You may face doubt of your ability to do what you know you can do.  An "unsuccessful bomb explosion" is impetuosity in the face of delay.  People will come around as Mercury slowly gains speed and things should be easier by the 26th, or next week, and even by tomorrow to some degree.  It is fortunate that the explosion does not succeed, for it would make things worse, and the energy behind it can be used in better ways, namely, to keep pushing toward feasible goals.

"An epidemic of mumps" is self-explanatory for we are being warned on all sides to be careful during the pandemic.  At another level it can be susceptibility to a self-defeating retreat from experience, rather than participation in current affairs.  We need to avoid an "infection of defeatism."  You might feel like "a man sitting upon his heels and breaking stones with a hammer."  That would be fruitless labor.  Or it could rather be labor which although seemingly fruitless for a time will bear fruit eventually.  

{Monday}  ^Enduring Temporary Defeat with Persistence^

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Message for Sunday 19 July 2020

Sunday 19 July 2020

~Approaching Thoughtful Peace~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Tuesday afternoon

(A New Moon approaches, exact Monday; the sun shall enter Leo early Wednesday; and a new Bright Hermetic Epoch shall begin a week from today. We are in "an interim period.")

If not "grim determination" then "serene determination" will get us through this day.  "An unsuccessful bomb explosion" sounds too much like what has been happening in the public consciousness, with so many perceived injustices calling out for remedy.  Obviously a bomb is not that remedy.  And so somehow kind destiny prevents the explosion of anger from harming anyone.  "Good survives through evil intention and effort" says Dr. Jones.  Impetuousness may make its point, but vanity and petulance do not help.  The "law and order" forces are observing and waiting in the form of "a spider watching the giddy dance of silly flies."  Or this could be yourself as a detective or lawyer trying to settle issues swirling around you.  

The "woman holding a bundle of faggots, her hair disordered by the wind, wandering in search of something" is an emblem of utter confusion, perhaps, and yet her eccentricity does not have to be total vexation if she retains her poise.  Then she can define her purposes (find what she was looking for) and and be incisive, gaining ultimate if not immediate recompense for her labors.  

There is a calmer, more reflective tendency, represented by "a man with a very old-looking book before him, perhaps an ancient record."  Profound thinking is possible, aided by profound thinkers who have put pen to paper.  The sun opposite Saturn aids in such a thoughtful endeavor.  An elevated mind could also find a companion in "a beautiful scene of the country" which "holds the spirit in a mood of silent adoration."  Raining or shining, hot or cool, nature still embraces us.

{Sunday}   ~Approaching Thoughtful Peace~

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Message for Saturday 18 July 2020

Saturday 18 July 2020

~Developing Harmony Patiently~

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Cancer at 7:25a PT | 10:25a ET | 2:25p UT

There are potentials of trying to do too many things at once.  Some people are brilliant yet confused and therefore impotent.  Yet if they keep searching for practical outcomes they may succeed.  This requires protracted labor, determination and incisiveness.  One can cut out a line in life by utilizing materials which have already been provided.

One can detect easily whatever is false, unjust, or wrong.  This provides a clear basis for carrying out obvious duties.  Patient service at the direction of others is not weakness but indicates wise humility and willingness to work for the greater good.   Docility and forbearance have their place and show strength not weakness.  

One can be a peacemaker, "a living talisman for the healing of discord and strife" (Charubel).  This is as if one were "a pear tree loaded with large ripe fruit."  Such good influences, when experienced at the more animal or animated level, could have the energy and freedom of "a flock of wild geese."  There is no conflict between what an individual goose wants to do and the flock's momentum, because they are at one.  The insouciance of the many is reflected within the spontaneity of the individual.  

{Saturday}  ~Developing Harmony Patiently~

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Message for Friday 17 July 2020

Friday 17 July 2020

}Wild-Goose Adventure with Benefits{

Moon in Gemini

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:16p PT | 5:16p ET | 9:16p UT

Some will seem to be abandoned by others, or by fate, if they have not acted with total honesty and integrity.  The sun opposite Pluto brings hidden things to light, and that is not to be feared if the "hidden things" are not crimes or too-embarrassing sins.  Putting oneself first in everything does not bring favorable karma.  A broader view would help, as if one could enter an ancient hall with hieroglyphs and symbols on the wall showing one the better, safer path.  

Money is on people's minds, with doubt about the best way of navigating finances.  Selfishness is not always wrong when it is securing what one needs, provided that be honest.  "A man in a mask stands beneath the shadow of a tree at night.  At his feet there is a dead cow."  This evocative symbol of Signor Borelli could show something not totally wrong, as winning a lottery or a gamble, although the immediate plunder might have to be paid for later with unhappy results (if the masked man is found out).  It is far better to eschew the plundered cow and go vegan, being "one large ripe apple on a tree" or something very special one can be because of one's particular excellencies.  One rises from obscurity eventually, though hidden away at first (moon square Neptune).

That square plus Luna going void later in the day suggest a light approach after one has accomplished necessities.  "A flock of wild geese" do not worry about where they are going, guided by instinct and subconscious memory.  There could be caprice and insouciance, trusting to nature to bring happy outcomes.  If this gets humanly social, one could be like "a gentleman with a number of ladies in a carriage" or free-minded, benevolent and generous, sharing life's delights as they bubble forth from the scenery.  We can take advantage of Venus's continued sextile with Mars, perhaps by not over-planning but trusting to the "wild goose" impetus.  

{Friday}  {Wild-Goose Adventure with Benefits}

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Message for Thursday 16 July 2020

Thursday 16 July 2020

}Rich Aspirations{

Moon in Gemini

The self-centered nature of things is symbolized by "two wolves devouring a carcass in the moonlight."  This is not necessarily predatory, but one is looking out for one's own interests even when in companionship.  Treaties and associations may be questionable, or it is hard to know who will benefit by them.  Yet one's personality could be exalted so that one feels as if "the president of the country" or an idealized leader.  

"Symbols and hieroglyphics on the walls of a spacious hall like a museum" show a devotion to higher thought as an avenue to deeper, more satisfying reality.  What is curious and mystifying to one is food and drink to another.  People will not see eye to eye about all that, but if you develop your insights and skills in your own way you will have no peer in your specialized area.  

The practical result is that you become a healer or provider of spiritual succor to those in distress.  This can happen in simple ways one hadn't anticipated and perhaps does not even realize.  We have an effect on our neighborhood, and through it on the entire world, in ways which would surprise us if we could see with divine eyes.

{Thursday}  {Rich Aspirations}

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Message for Wednesday 15 July 2020

Wednesday 15 July 2020

\Allegiances Build up to a Leading Role/

Moon in Taurus

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:22p PT | 11:22p ET | 3:22a(Th) UT

until it enters Gemini at 10:20p PT | 1:20a(Th) ET | 5:20a(Th) UT

"Two wolves devouring a carcass in the moonlight" does not have too ominous a flavor because there are good lunar aspects.  You might splurge with a friend.  You may roam, be unsettled and crafty!  You also desire popularity, when no longer acting in secret, as "a man climbing a pole set on an elevation."  Ambitions in the clouds are all right because they develop aspirations which might be realized. 

"A woman and two men on a bit of sunlit land facing south" sounds like a good scenario for the opening of an adventure movie.  It could signify prospecting for and securing land or a basis of personal freedom.  A "plethora of outer opportunities" requires forming allegiances based on a consistent goal if there is to be an inception of good fortune.  Then one advances beyond obscurity to a position of singular excellence, as if "a single well-formed apple on a tree."

We are emerging very slowly from the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch (to be fully emerged by July 26) and so "two awards for bravery in war" may be highly dependent on much yet to happen.  Outwardly, "wars" could refer to the pandemic, or to international upheavals.  Inwardly they could refer to whatever you are "fighting" to win or secure in personal campaigns or adventures.  By "winning" you would become "the president of the country."  You would enjoy a role which has maximum breadth of recognition.  Individual assurance prepares you to play a part which will evoke idealization from others.

{Wednesday}   /Allegiances Build up to a Leading Role\

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Message for Tuesday 14 July 2020

Tuesday 14 July 2020

\Aplomb and Award/

Moon in Taurus

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 2:51p PT | 5:51p ET | 9:51p UT

Fresh viewpoints are needed to recover from worry or despair.  Hopes that haven't come to maturity may seem snatched from you, but by "learning new forms for old symbols" you may see how those same hopes can be incarnated in fresh embodiment.  Mercury has turned direct but is still moving very slowly, and the Dark Epoch remains even though it theoretically improves daily as Mercury gains speed.  If you retain faith in what you have been discovering in recent days, you will feel better by late afternoon or evening.

Reading stories, or watching TV series or movies, could refresh your consciousness.  Criticizing the foolish or immature acts of the characters can help you gain mastery over your own foibles.  Sophisticated aplomb rises beyond embarrassment.  We play roles we can determine for ourselves rather than succumb to stale routines foisted on us.  Teachers from the past, ahead of their time, lead the way to fulfillment.

Some will enjoy food and drink, catered or partaken of at a restaurant, and appreciate the social connections pervading the preparations of a meal or snack.  You may sense that there are those on whom you can lean in preparing more solid developments in your career or a project.  Study reveals what would be successful.  Values are preserved through action in a group context, so that when you persevere you receive "two awards for bravery in war."  

{Tuesday}   /Aplomb and Award\

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Message for Monday 13 July 2020

Monday 13 July 2020

\Recovering Through Detached Endeavor/

Moon in Aries-->Taurus

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:55a PT | 11:55a ET | 3:55p UT

until it enters Taurus at 10:35a PT | 1:35p ET | 5:35p UT

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Tuesday mid-morning

Portions of the day may seem ominous or depressing.  "A young laurel tree broken by the wind" can recover and in fact the "brokenness" may be imaginary, in the case of us humans; we need to be patient and refrain from jumping on false solutions to problems just because we are weary of the true gradual tested solutions. The sun opposite Jupiter can be succumbing to appetites, eating too much.  For health also smoking and drinking should be restrained.  When the deeper essences of life are sought, we get a better, more secure sense of who we are.  We could turn to "a person teaching new forms for old symbols" with profit, that is, be open to fresh interpretations of life rather than to gorging on life or imbibing it.  Vigor comes through the mind rather than the stomach.

If feeling morose or irritated by life or people, one might join "a literary society" or develop one's power of intelligent criticism of people and their actions.  This can be constructive because it makes plain what one wants to avoid, by seeing it depicted vividly in literature or drama.  If indulging physical rather than literary appetites, you might have issues with the manager of a restaurant or grocery, or find him or her annoying in some way, or this might be a reflection of your own moods and impatient tendencies.  The |sobering third| of the week requires detachment.  

Yet you want to be triumphant in your own way, through pursuing your special accomplishments.  This is possible.  You might be ready to earn "two awards for bravery in war."  You are resourceful in developing practical areas of experience.  Your dedication to doing that could gain recognition.  Beyond that, the natural universe is beautiful and gives us so much in both food and flourishing colorfulness.  "Steps up to a lawn blooming with clover" are ours to climb.  It is not unmanly or unladylike to hug the trees and smell the flowers. 

{Monday}  /Recovering Through Detached Endeavor\

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Message for Weekend of July 11-12, plus ~Crab Month of Smart Hesitation~

Continuing with the ~Crab Month of Smart Hesitation~, plus weekend indicators for July 11-12

I have to keep saying that the Mercury Retrograde period is a slump because that is true and we keep forgetting it.  Knowing that it is a slump helps enormously, by reassuring oneself that "this too shall pass" and that one is not "losing it" or going crazy.  

Here again is the Hermetic (Mercurial) schedule: 

Dark or Slow or Confusing Hermetic Epoch began June 2 . . . (Mercury turned retrograde June 18, until it turns direct July 12) . . . Dark, Slow or Confusing Hermetic Epoch continues until July 26 . . . 

the next Bright or Quick or Clear, Progressive Hermetic Epoch runs from July 26 until September 23.  

This is what I have found over 42 years of careful research and observation.  The complete Dark (Slow) plus Bright (Fast) Epochs last about four months so I have observed the cycle about 126 times in those 42 years.  It is real.  You can count on it.  You can cut it with a knife.

Look at the covid-19 statistics, for example, and you will find that the cases started escalating in mid-June during the Dark Epoch.  Will they decline in the next Bright Epoch beginning July 26 (until September 23)?  We can hope so, but of course I could not conscientiously make such a prediction, for there are always "too many variables" in astrology, with no two complete planetary set-ups repeating within thousands or millions of years.  Still, we might hope that somehow the world's coping with the pandemic will be easier and smoother during those coming two months.  

In your own life, look over the past six or seven weeks and sense what has been going on.  It has been hard, has it not?  Have you not done things "out of pattern," changed your approach over and over, and found that many things were too complex or unpredictable to be reliable, so that you had to "punt" or throw up your hands and "just hope for the best"?  That is the way it goes.  

Yet a lot is good about these "dark" or "slow" periods, which might be called Unusual or Remarkable.  You break out of old patterns and this can be a release.  It can be a needed refreshing change rather than just galling.  You review, recollect, and rehash your life and relationships and hopes, and find out more about who you are and want to be.  It is like pulling back the bow, with the inserted arrow, and aiming it, while sensing that it is too early to release it.  That could come after July 25 and in August and September.

We need to learn a different way of living during the Slow periods, which are almost half the time.  Rather than harry ourselves and worry that we aren't' keeping up or that nothing is working, we can take the time to review and refocus and relax into a better take on our lives. 

Another way of measuring time is the twelve zodiacal months of the year, measured from the Vernal Equinox in equal portions.  Research on these has convinced me that this is another excellent way of measuring the changes in our lives.  The Cancer period lasts through the 21st, or until Wednesday July 22 when the Leo period begins.  I presented a lot of thoughts and projections about this in the weekend reports of two weeks ago and three weeks ago.  We have eleven more days of it, so here is more:

Much of the chart and its accompanying symbols suggest a slowdown, a need to take it easy or redevelop one's approaches.  "A man at a crossroads not knowing which way to go" is not entirely negative, for it suggests that this natural pause is a time to make up one's mind slowly, so as to avoid a hasty wrong decision.  "An old adobe mission" is a place to rest and get one's bearings within the durability of the traditions and loyalties which sustain one's life.  

You might feel like "an easy-going person, content with only a little; fond of home; rather unstable."  This is something like "a pool of water."  Satisfying one's appetites to satiety is a concurrent possibility, "a group of people who have overeaten and enjoyed it."  These indicators show how we might use the Mercury retrograde period for rest and renewal, at best, or at worst for unhealthful laziness.

The "Too revolting to be given" degree warns of slipping into bad company, those who are addicted to drugs, drink, or gambling.  "Seek to develop thy higher nature" says Charubel.  The happier side of this tendency toward dangerous indulgences could be the spontaneity of "a water sprite" who is restless and playful but not hurtful.    

"A high flagstaff with a red flag floating at the top" is a revolutionary degree suggesting radicality, agitation, or revolution.  We hive had that in the Black Lives Matter movement.  Contrasting with it is "a spacious room with expensive furniture and mirrors," or "the bourgeoisie" who don't want revolution but comfort.  "Things are not as bad as you are making out" they say.  The revolutionists say "It's getting worse and worse."  The "woke" versus the unawakened? or the pointlessly angry and fidgety versus the wisely serene?  You call it. Or those who see both sides might be like "a new moon that divides its influences," finessing the disagreements diplomatically.  This is refusal to make a commitment one might regret, plus openness to better developments of potentials on all sides.

I hope that is happening.

{Weekend of July 11-12, and the ~Crab Month of Smart Hesitation~}

Saturday 11 July 2020

Moon enters Aries at [8:50p PT Friday] | [11:50p ET Friday] | 3:50a UT

This looks like one of the best days of this week, much better than Sunday for most matters including pleasure and entertainment

Sunday 12 July 2020

Moon in Aries 

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Tuesday afternoon

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