Message for Sunday 18 July 2021

Sunday 18 July 2021

~Through a Storm Toward a Daybreak~

Moon in Scorpio

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until Monday midday

> moon leaves the Via Combusta at 1:04p PT | 4:04p ET | 8:04p UT

Challenge:  The hardest part of each week has been hitting the weekends and that pattern continues more or less until October.  It is hard as always to state in words what the long-term hard aspects mean---now they are Venus and Mars opposing Jupiter and Sol opposing Pluto plus the long-lasting square between Saturn and Uranus.  Ultimately they mean that we need spiritual growth in order to escape from suffering.  I am making Sai Baba a guest teacher here today because he says challenging things in a nutshell, to loosen us from our lesser selves and push us toward our greater ones.  'A storm in a canyon' could describe part of this day.  At its harshest that could be 'violence and terror as divine in their capacity for lifting man out of his aplomb and demanding some manifestation of his inner ideals and enduring values.'  Maybe nobody wants that; however, Dr. Jones adds that a negative way of taking this could be 'fatuous enjoyment of turmoil.'  Witness the scary, melancholy, tumultuous or dystopian stuff people like to watch in TV series and movies.  Whatever the personal or impersonal storms you face, still 'Nature dramatizes man's unleashed powers, or his ability to rise in supremacy over each momentary crisis.'  

Process:  'A man felling a tree' is using his physical energy and common sense in long and hard work, facing the squares and oppositions of the planets with 'Do what you will, I am content with rude work and manly attempts to provide current necessities.'  He may have a simple mind and harsh manners but a soft heart.  He sees good in everything and is a steadfast friend.  

Blessing:  Sometimes it seems we pay for a fresh beginning by clearing away what has been impeding it.  Pressures may slowly ease while we escape the Via Combusta and |difficult third|, but those are not finished yet.  Still we could anticipate 'Daybreak' or the genesis of something more promising.  (If not tomorrow, this could be more likely on Tuesday or Wednesday.)  'There is always dawn or springtime as the promise of resurgence or a new potential.'  'Reality is ever a beginning.'  Our minds are not so dark that they cannot discern the nature of things, and so we may 'untiringly capture and recapture life throughout the constant and confusing shifts of being.'

{Sunday}  ~Through a Storm Toward a Daybreak~

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