^Furlough During the Battle^
Moon in Leo
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Sunday at 0:25a PT | 3:25a ET | 8:25a UT
I'll discuss the election more in the Sunday report (posted with this one). Today the most unpleasant symbol is "a battered hulk lying upon the seashore." This ship has been "battered by the winds of adversity" and that might seem to be the Trump campaign. "The fortunes will eventually be in danger of wreck and ruin." However, some might say this could apply also to the Biden campaign, if the Trump people can successfully launch vote-recounts and legal challenges. "A wandering and rudderless drifting upon troubled waters" sounds also like the election process itself during the pandemic, which now looks like that "battered hulk lying upon the seashore" of politics. However, at the personal level there are things one could do to "shore up" one's fortunes. "A man with a sickle under one arm and a sheaf of corn under the other" is taking care of his business or labor, his projects, successfully, so he can eventually reap his reward during this harvest season and on into a new Bright Hermetic Epoch beginning November 19.
"A mummer's (mime artist's) mask" suggests mimicry, imitation, simulation, perhaps insincere or comedic. Maybe that's the best we can do to cheer ourselves up while Venus opposes Mars. Lunar aspects do sweeten the situation (moon sextile Venus and trine Mars while in Leo), so if you're drawn to theatricality, foolishness, and flattery, go for it! If the extravagance and conviviality should go too far, there could be "a wine glass overturned," spilled-over feelings and passions, an incontinence which could be upsetting.
"A female in a state of nudity" is self-explanatory, following on the overturned wine glass, and our Victorian clairvoyant warns against voluptuousness and "the lower passions." You may adjust this as you wish for a more permissive era. "Two awards for bravery in war" might go to both sides in any contest. You may find that your self-dedication and resourcefulness, your personal vision and character, are bringing recognition.
{Saturday} ^Furlough During the Battle^
Sunday 8 November 2020
Moon in Leo
|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 0:25a PT | 3:25a ET | 8:25a UT
I wanted to comment on the election here in the Sunday report where I take a vacation from the daily methods with the symbols. But it is exceedingly difficult. Even astrologers are not immune from the confusion of a Dark Hermetic Epoch (this one lasting until November 19) and I find that on Twitter many astrologers are making confusing comments and not understanding what other astrologers say.
It is better not to try to predict elections, as I have explained, because that would invalidate the free will of the voters!
It seems to me that Monday through Wednesday, November 9-11, will be decisive for the "first round" of the election decision. That is, it might be "called" for Biden, most likely, by many observers. That does not mean that Biden will be the final winner, because the Trump campaign is determined to allege and follow up voting fraud, or inexact or unfair counting, in the courts, and that could go on for weeks. And so I am just going to sit back for now. My best advice: See where things stand on Wednesday through Friday this week. Even if the election is still being contested, one should be able by then to figure out how and when it may finally be determined. That does not mean one will decisively know the winner. November 19 (and following days) is another key date.
As for our personal lives, which continue: I can't over-emphasize the importance of the Dark Hermetic Epoch. We may be finished with Mercury Retrograde, but not with the DHE, which always goes on a couple of weeks after Mercury turns direct, because it is moving so very slowly. In my experience it is just as difficult as the core of it, the MR three-week period. Right now I am going through difficulties of large scope every day, and feeling as if I am slightly out of synch with a lot of things. What about you? I often say, "Don't panic during the DHE, don't think you are going crazy or senile." I have to remind myself of that advice every day, and often in a day, for so much is "out of pattern" in my thinking, my working, my scheduling, my diet and sleep schedule. "Out of pattern" is an important phrase to remember. It is not wrong that things are "out of pattern" during the DHE (to November 19) but it is difficult, often. At other times it can be very refreshing.
As for the good side of all this, during the DHE I have been able to REsearch both astrology and other more practical matters with success. One gets unusual insights and while some may be misleading, others are "leading" on, are "leading indicators" giving one insight of a solid sort one had not had before. Mercury goes backward to help us "REcover" things we have either forgotten or never known. (Plato said that all knowledge is REcollection because of his belief in immortal life and REincarnation.)
Cosmic Piper
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