Tuesday 17 August 2021
^Quincunx Crisis: Hand of G*d?^
Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn
/moon goes void-of-course at 6:44p PT | 9:44p ET | 1:44a(W) UT
until it enters Capricorn at 10:59p PT | 1:59a(W) ET | 5:59a(W) UT
When someone says, "I'm not whining, but . . ." you can expect some whining! Well, I'm not whining, but . . . it is very hard to write these reports and be consistently accurate and helpful to the reader. In the Sunday report which was intended to cover this whole week, I said that things could be getting better because some of the hard aspects were loosening. Lo and behold, things seemed to get worse in Afghanistan on Sunday and Monday. And so I re-studied the charts. It turns out that I was not paying enough attention to the quincunxes in the charts. These are so named because they are five signs apart. If a planet is at 9 Virgo and another at 9 Aquarius, five signs further on in the zodiac, they are in quincunx. I have allowed a three degree orb for these aspects, but now it seems I should allow four degrees, based on experience. Both Mercury and Mars are in a quincunx with Saturn, the 'big baddy' of the planets. And Mars is the second-worse 'baddy.' This fits seemingly "impossible" situations such as what is happening to many trying to flee Afghanistan, or cope with possibly horrid conditions there imposed by the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban. I am praying for the Christians there, who might be forced either to convert to Islam or be killed. I hope and pray that this can be prevented through divine grace, but do not feel happy about it because the media do not report on the plight of Christians there. For that one needs the ICC, International Christian Concern, one of my favorite charities. Of course it is not only Christians who will be in danger, but women and many others. The sun also has two quincunxes, with Pluto on one side and Saturn on the other. Not easy. This double quincunx is a Yod, sometimes called the Hand of God (readjusting things in a way which does not seem easy). And then there is Venus quincunx Jupiter, women (Venus) in conflict with religion (Jupiter) or, in general, serious differences in viewpoints whether they erupt in violence or not. The quincunx is not considered a major aspect by many astrologers, but to my observation over decades it is very much major within a four-degree orb. They can even be more disruptive, sometimes, than the squares and oppositions. I could mention also the earthquake in Haiti and the fact that as I write the sky is clouded by forest-fire smoke from somewhere or other, the stars less visible all over the West.
When shall this ease? There are five quincunxes on Monday, four on Tuesday and Wednesday, one on Thursday, and none by Saturday. And so perhaps I should have delayed my prognosis of "things getting easier" for a week.
However (more whining), just as this situation eases, the moon comes into its weekly hard aspect with Saturn (the conjunction this time) which makes the |karmically difficult third| of the week cover Thursday through Saturday. By next Sunday the 22nd we may feel we have risen out of the depths.
Meanwhile not everything is harsh. Venus in Libra (beginning Monday as I write), trine both Pluto and Saturn, is calming. Venus enthroned in her own sign makes for a sense of expanding social possibilities. Mars and Mercury both trine Uranus in earth signs could be intelligent original thinking and acting in regard to business or any tangible project.
We will get through it. Please pray for those in crisis spots.
{Tuesday} ^Quincunx Crisis: Hand of G*d?^
Cosmic Piper
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