Friday 18 September 2020
}From Awkwardness to Privilege{
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Sunday morning
< moon enters the Via Combusta, or Burning Way, at 11:42a PT | 2:42p ET | 6:42p UT (until Sunday afternoon)
Desperadoes: Grinch alert: I am not in a good mood and may spew out some of the general negativity at the beginning, but shall try to work up to something more positive before the end of this report.
Desperadoes: That is Us! it seems. Today (Thursday as I write) I am breathing smoke, need to go out for food wearing a mask which might protect against a virus as well as the smoke, but only to a tiny degree, am reading about political controversy and bickering, and two people have informed me that they cannot find these reports on Facebook. Although I have been faithfully posting them every day.
Desperadoes: The people in some Gulf Coast states are worried about high winds and flooding. Those in Western states are breathing too much smoke and worried about a possible resurgence of fires. Many are weary of face masks and the pandemic to the point of despair or repugnance and rebellion. Huge numbers are worried about the election in November and not feeling peace of mind until it is over. We are the desperadoes.
2020: This is 20 in the Tarot, Judgment, and 20 in the Tarot, The Last Judgment. (The card has both names.) It sure feels like the angel is getting ready to blow that trumpet. "Blow, Gabriel, Blow!" Desperadoes may be glad to hear you.
And I am an astrologer. How to explain all this? Well, start with Saturn. I knew of a very successful astrologer who said that she always began her work with a client by looking at Saturn in the client's birth-chart. It is the Big Baddie in conventional astrological thinking, though it has been rehabilitated by astrologers such as Liz Greene who wrote a book about its "nicer" meanings. At any rate, it is the challenging planet, few would dispute. Well, since December 2019, three planets have been in the sign of Capricorn, Saturn's sign---Jupiter, Saturn (which is very strong there because enthroned), and Pluto. That continues until December 17-19, 2020, when both Saturn and Jupiter leave Capricorn for Aquarius. It's quite amazing that they both do that within two days of each other. Is that the beginning of a "new age" or something better? Well, hold on, because Aquarius is also ruled by Saturn, according to the ancients, though also by Uranus according to us moderns.
However, this is not the whole story. Perhaps even more dire has been the square between Mars and Saturn. These are the two "malefic" planets according to the ancients, that is, trouble makers or, rather, indicators of the most difficult challenges for us as human beings. The square and opposition are the hardest aspects. So it is not hard to see that a square between these two is "bad news" for "the easy life," though it could be "good news" for those who revel in suffering or enjoy difficulties so they can triumph over them. Interestingly, Tom Ellis, the star of Lucifer, has an exact square between these two in his birth-chart! He claims he is not evil, yet revels in his role as "the punisher."
The square between these two is happening (a) while Mars is in his own sign, Aries, strengthening him, and (b) Saturn is in its own sign, strengthening it, and (c) Mars has been slowing down, stationary, and turning direct, which it does very gradually, and it is very strong, or strengthened, when it is very slow. He turned retrograde September 9 while within three degrees of that square, and shall turn direct on November 13. After that he again forms the square with Saturn from December 18 until February 15. This is a very rare long-term aspect and we might say that it is a major reason for all the suffering and dis-ease or desperation people are experiencing. Will it be less difficult during the December 18-February 15 period because then Mars will be in Taurus rather than Aries? Let us hope so.
But before that, we have a Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch beginning this coming Wednesday the 23rd. It happens to begin the day of the Autumnal Equinox. The three presidential debates will occur during that Slow or Dark period, and the election itself (Mercury is stationary turning direct the day of the election).
Is Gabriel blowing that horn? Will it be a very long and repeated blast while the election is challenged and ballots are counted and recounted? I know my current limits as an astrologer and shall not try to predict the details but they may be as confusing as many already think they may turn out to be. And will the pandemic ease up in late November to March, if not sooner? I would think so but shall not make a prediction. We all want it to be sooner, and I believe in the power of prayer and positive thinking. (For believers, that is the power of G*d and of one's cultivated relationship to Him.)
All that is to try to answer the question many would ask of an astrologer, "When will things get better?" I am sorry that I cannot be more specific than that, but it might provide a framework within which to think about what is happening.
Friday:
Challenges: There can be bluntness, backwardness, awkwardness, while Mercury and the moon square Jupiter. One needs to think twice before saying anything. An ordinary person, with conventional tastes, popular, may disappoint you because seeming superficial.
Opportunities: One can recover aplomb through public display, or connecting with those privileged, for continuing support. Despite disappointments (shown by the lunar data at the top) there can be "a pageant" of dramatized achievement and co-operative accomplishment. Life is beautiful in many ways we lose sight of when worrying needlessly.
Blessings: "A figure like the angel of the Sun (Michael)" may be hiding behind the scenes and ready to touch our affairs with "the point of a dazzling sword" to bring out the best. This is superiority which brings fame, recognition and power. Charubel also gives what is among his most favorable degree-interpretations: "I see nothing but sunshine--all is bright; a cloudless sky." (We in the Western U. S. do hope for that.) "This prosperous person is happy, living under the most favorable conditions." So may it be.
{Friday} {From Awkwardness to Privilege}
Cosmic Piper
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