Monday 15 February 2021
^Steps Over a Fence^
Moon in Aries
The critical degrees of the zodiac, demarcated by ancient and medieval astrologers, are based on an exact mathematical formula and I find them highly significant. (The books of Marc Edmund Jones elucidate them.) I allow two degrees on each side for the orb (Jones allowed only one). Right now Pluto, Uranus, Saturn and Mars are at critical degrees and these are not pleasant planets; I mark three of them (the last three) with red in my charts when at critical degrees. This to me explains some of the difficult weather conditions we are having in various places. (Heavy snow where I am, though that is not universal of course, but occurred in the East earlier, though those planets were still accented then.)
Monday: Mercury remains retrograde for six more days (and the DHE continues after that) so we have 'a boat to which a submerged man is clinging for support.' Sepharial suggests this shows 'a deficiency of tact and skill rendering him subject to adversity of fortune. But there will be raised up to him a friend sustaining him in his extremity, and he will not therefore sink. He should acknowledge his incompetence in certain areas [swimming in the example] to prevent insecurity.' Or, know what skill to use and what to leave in abeyance for now (Mercury retrograde). Then one might be expedient in whatever one chooses to do, mobilizing things in one's own interest, and could have at one's feet 'a tree felled and sawed' for firewood or building, fuel or shelter.
Luna in adventurous Aries sextile four planets in Aquarius suggests risk-taking, however, so we have 'a cup, a pack of playing cards, and dice.' 'Weakness for wine and gambling could lead into sore difficulties' or this could be some other 'pursuit of fortune by adventitious means.' One might 'attach oneself to others of like propensity' but, lacking confidence, lose even their adherence, and be lost in byways. The favorable sextiles would then indicate a temporarily thrilling misadventure. Or, one might use one's mental faculties (Mercury conjoined with Jupiter) in better ways and be able to climb up and down 'a stile' the steps of which allow one to get over a fence. Such steps, as minute analysis and sound reasoning, would be an effective use of those same sextile aspects.
Luna sextile Venus (and other planets) could make one intrigued by 'beautifully gowned wax figures.' I just received two magazines filled with photos of prominent people, female and male, in fashion-designers' garb. This is superficial stuff but I might be looking at it Monday. The 'wax figures' are just promoting their own careers and those of the designers, but we live sometimes through images presented by the culture, to do with as we wish (those magazines can go in the trash at some not-distant point). People impact one another through vanity and finery. That can stimulate self-confidence. But then we are likely to get back to business. 'A man with dark hair and keen dark eyes sits at a desk with account books before him' which these days would probably be digital. Everyone is an expert at his or her own accounting, always unique, coded according to some ineffable individual formula no one else would get.
{Monday} ^Steps Over a Fence^
Cosmic Piper
No comments:
Post a Comment