Message for Tuesday 23 February 2021

 Tuesday 23 February 2021

~Time-Taffy~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 11:41a PT | 2:41p ET | 7:41p UT (until early Friday)

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:55p PT | 11:55p ET | 4:55a(W) UT

Those who think Mercury Retrograde is nonsense are fortified in that belief by this:  When it turns direct, as it did two days ago, nothing seems to get better!  I observed this repeatedly, decades ago, and studied the situation with memories and records, and found that there is a Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch which extends a couple of weeks before and after the Mercury Retrograde cycle.  We remain in one of those until March 13, and that is why things did not seem to 'get better' a couple days ago.  For example, yesterday and today I am suffering the very odd, inexplicable, hindering, annoying collapse of a website I have used regularly for many years.  It has never had this trouble before but is now completely unusable.  It is run by a wealthy and stable major corporation.  Mercury Retrograde?  One might think so, but it is rather the Dark or Slow Mercury period, termed by yours truly the Dark Hermetic Epoch.  It is too bad that this period is so long, almost half the time, unless one remembers that the days also are divided into approximately equal bright-times and dark-times.  Therefore the terminology, BHE and DHE.  During this DHE, Time feels like taffy one has to pull.  We always get through it, but need greater encouragement than usual, which I try to provide!

Tuesday:

Challenge:  'A wreck floating on a peaceful sea' at least has the advantage of peace.  Hazards could lead to ruin and then there is a long period of recovery, during which one might 'retrieve the family fortunes,' that is, get that wreck somehow back to shore for rebuilding.  Temporary retreat might also be indicated by 'an elephant' which, says Charubel, indicates someone possessing 'sagacity, secrecy, and implicit confidence in his own strength.'  (His trunk can pull that time-taffy patiently and adroitly.)

Process:  We keep our skills functioning during the DHE even though not using them as effectively as during a BHE, so we are something like 'officers on dress parade,' proud of our status but parading it in our minds more than employing it efficaciously.  Ritualizing life according to a protocol has value.  We are investing our time for long-range potentials.  Yet there are moments of sheer easygoing happiness: 'A fair woman leading a child by the hand and gathering flowers by the way.'  One could be loving and agreeable, fostering concord.  

Blessing:  If those 'officers' ever finish their 'dress parade' they might turn to target practice.  Charubel says there are 'great powers of concentration, plus rivalism,' making for military success as 'a good marksman.'  Luna sextile Mars all day and into the evening facilitates accurate aim.  One might aim one's voice, as if 'a Spaniard serenading his senorita.'  Everything one desires is 'immediately at hand' says Dr. Jones.  One's contribution of poetry or music brings a return, if not at once, then in response to one's constancy.

{Tuesday}  ~Time-Taffy~

Cosmic Piper