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
Cosmic Piper
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