Message for Saturday 15 May 2021

 Saturday 15 May 2021

~Entering Wonderland~

Moon in Cancer

This is the first day of a Slow or Dark Hermetic Epoch extending through July 6 (Mercury is slowing, then going retrograde)

It begins technically at 5:20p PT | 8:20p ET | 12:10a(Su) UT but is felt many hours before that

Challenge:  The Dark or Slow Epoch is not bad, just different.  It asks us to be more reflective and meditative, less insistent on following our usual procedures, open to variety and change, yet not so fickle as to lose touch with major goals.  It's a matter of keeping one's feet on the ground while taking off, sometimes, for an ethereal flight.  At worst, the Alice in Wonderland syndrome can be confusing or upsetting; at best it can be refreshing and exhilarating.  Today, 'a quiver filled with arrows' can be preparation for this two-month period.  One 'rises to the issue of the moment' and can ' make demands on one's fellows, or bring to one's service whatever may help one hold one's place in the scheme of things.' (Dr. Jones)  This fits with Mars sectile Uranus, an ability to be definite about requests or demands, and Luna with Mars in Cancer, the Crab sign which grabs and holds on to whatever it needs with those claws.  But this is not brute selfishness; 'an elephant' represents 'a person possessing much sagacity.  A great amount of secrecy, and implicit confidence in his own strength.'  (Charubel)  When one knows sagely that one is following a true, correct path one has the elephant's implicit confidence.

Process:  Mercury and Venus in Gemini are reflective and perspicacious.  One could solve conundrums.   One is not deterred by 'a labyrinth situated in the heavens' because 'a fine silver thread is suspended from it to the earth' and so one can 'solve enigmatical problems, or any given theorem requiring solution.' (Charubel)  Jupiter now in Pisces, plus the Wondering (Dark) Epoch, can open us to floods of 'higher knowledge' whether or not we choose to put any of it into words.  At a more emotive level, 'a Spaniard serenading his senorita' brings out 'the poetry of living' and 'the music of desire,' in accord with Luna's position in often-sentimental Cancer.  

Blessing:   The Wonderland, or Land of Oz, syndrome is consonant with 'a fair woman leading a child by the hand and gathering flowers by the way.'  Some will be loving and agreeable, tolerant, finding fulfillment in ordinary activity, translating that into a child's happiness.  Perhaps the fair woman collects 'a bunch of spring flowers, over which is set a bright star flashing and sparkling in a deep blue atmosphere.'  Sepharial says this indicates 'a person of poetical and gentle disposition, fond of sublime subjects and the study of nature in its gentler phases.'  He mentions botany and astronomy, flowers as stars or stars as flowers.  He states further that one influenced by this degree 'will marry a person of high rank or fame.  It is a degree of Success.'  So may it be. 

{Saturday}  ~Entering Wonderland~

Cosmic Piper