Thursday 23 September 2021
\Beyond Weariness into History's Music/
Moon in Aries-->Taurus
|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week continues (until Saturday morning)
/moon is void-of-course (beginning time given in yesterdays' report) until it enters Taurus at 5:39a PT | 8:39a ET | 12:39p UT
Challenge: The weariness and dreariness of the |difficult third| plus this Dark or Slow Epoch (until November 3) could make one feel like lying down and forgetting about work. This would not be wise. 'A heifer drawing a plow, urged by the goad' is not being treated cruelly but just performing the labor for which it was bred and raised. We are not beasts of burden yet to be patient and enduring is to be assured of ultimate reward. Also one can attend to the spiritual side of things when feeling melancholic, as if one were 'in the garb of a doctor of the monastic order misericordia.' This is not misery but recondite searching for spiritual laws and their practical application.
Process: A similar trend is suggested by 'a round temple with pointed roof' denoting outward observances of religious rites or other rituals, whether superstitiously or with full awareness of the powers they invoke. In a more theosophical or universal way this could be 'the light of the sixth race transmuted to the seventh' as 'a mirror which history provides for mankind' to challenge it to its real future. Things may look dark on many levels (possible government shutdown, mandates against freedom, etc.) during this Dark Epoch yet the root manifestations of human culture may be drawing us toward a threshold of something better.
Blessing: If, during that Dark or Slow Epoch, straightforward plans seem stymied, we can turn to what feels more spontaneous, as if 'children playing around five mounds of sand.' An 'illimitable capacity for experience' exalts naive discovery of both outer eventualities (the sand) and inner powers (shaping it into five mounds, as the digit of fingers or toes). This is fun, inept only in appearance or temporarily, granting self-renewal. Another way of doing this is to be 'a person playing on a violin' bringing forth refined perceptions and intuitions, fine tastes and exquisite accomplishments. I have been listening to Haydn symphonies during this Dark Epoch and finding that they are not boring but wonderfully sustaining and healing, smooth benefactors of sanity. Their classical predictability, plus their ever-liberating unpredictability, blend into comfort. The best music is a gift from the gods.
{Thursday} /Beyond Weariness into History's Music\
Cosmic Piper
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