Message for Sunday 13 September 2020

 Sunday 13 September 2020

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

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

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:06a PT | 8:06a ET | 12:06p UT

until it enters Leo at 8:34a PT | 11:34a ET | 3:34p UT

Sometimes I have posted a weekly or long-term report on the weekends instead of a report for each day.  At other times I have posted a regular reading for Saturday and a different sort of message for Sunday.  I may return to that format.  I need one day off per week, and have chosen Saturday, so Fridays become burdensome when I have to write two forecasts on one day.  

This time, let's look at what was going on on September 11, 2001.  I did not use these symbols at that time, or rarely, and so the report I wrote (I have not looked it up) was probably not particularly prescient.  But since then constant research has shown me the value of the daily degree-symbols, and the ones for that historic day are amazing.  

I use nine to twelve symbols for each day, though I do not mention all of them.  Here is what I might have written for 9/11/2001 if I were using my current method.  [I'll put comments by my "present self" in brackets.]

(Post-diction or Hind-cast for) 

Tuesday 11 September 2001

~Overcoming Terror or Trial~

Challenges:  It seems a fateful day, with a need to estimate one's place in the universe or one's career or mission.  At the worst we have "a dagger lying beside a skull" (Signor Borelli).  Interpreting it, Sepharial says it can show cruelty or oppression.  "The nature is melancholy and taciturn; yet silently discerning, and capable of keen feelings.  'It makes not but it mars; and with the hollow eyes of death looks back with secret self-condemnation upon its unfruitful work.' [Perhaps a Shakespeare quotation.]  The end of life is tragic.  It is a degree of Undoing."  [I'm quoting more from the commentaries on the symbols than I usually do because so much is astoundingly accurate.  Remember that this was written in the 1890s.]  As further warning, we have "Two men fencing with swords.  A man in black stands aside watching them."  This shows disputes and quarrels.  One might be "involved in some fracas in a foreign country or with a foreigner."  "He will be liable to hurts from secret enemies.  It is a degree of Fighting."  [I find this astonishing.  Could it have been much more accurate?  Even the "man in black standing aside watching the duel" could have been Osama bin Laden.]  "Three stained-glass windows, one damaged by bombardment" carries out the ominous trend.  Dr. Jones speaks of "the necessity that man protect his handiwork from the superficial destructiveness of a life without vision or pride."  [The keyword, Commemoration, might not have been evident on the day itself but we have had countless, and annual, commemorations of the destruction of the WTC and the thousands of lives which went with it.]

Opportunities:  "A lion whose head is the only part exposed" suggests defense, and "being prepared for any attack.."  "Instead of shunning an opponent, he prefers to wait, or rather to provoke the onslaught." [This would seem to indicate the terrorists.]  "He may not be the first in the arena but he will be the last to quit it." [That seems to indicate the ensuing U. S. A. response.]  It would be wise to avoid "vacillation or uncertainty falling away into negation and ineptitude." (Sepharial).  "Procrastination will be a besetting fault." [Everyone has marveled at the failure of U. S. forces to detect anything about the attack ahead of time.]  "With more than usual effort he will achieve less than the ordinary.  His end is obscure and darkly veiled."  And so we need to be alert.  When we have done what we can, there will be "a houseboat party" or "co-operative relationship, common adventure and congeniality."  [As a matter of fact, in the evening people in the U. S. were not celebrating, of course, but getting together to discuss the grim events and sometimes it may have seemed like a party.  I was working in a retail store in Colorado and the people who came in were mostly happy and preparing for a social evening.]

Blessings:  We respect or venerate what has been substantial in our lives, "a lofty building, with nave and massive pillars on each hand."  We appreciate "the sublime in architecture."  [Amazingly this describes the World Trade Center with a fair degree of accuracy.]  "An automobile caravan" shows forth the variety and diversity of humanity.  "Self goes out very courageously to meet its world."  [This is reminiscent of the hordes of people who walked from downtown New York to escape the horror and the dust.  Also it might suggest "driving away from" the tragedy in our minds, to determine the next step, as a "caravan" of collective humanity.]  "A star surrounded with many rings" encourages us to hope in the best, for it is "beyond the vision of the outer sense."  One "need never be cast down."  "Thou wilt meet with trials, but fear not, 'Thy bread shall be given thee, thy water is sure.'"  (Charubel) [Something to encourage us, which we sorely needed that day.]

{Tuesday}  ~Overcoming Terror or Trial~

Cosmic Piper