Message for Saturday 16 October 2021

 Saturday 16 October 2021

~Toward Balance and Reconciliation~

Moon in Pisces

Challenge:  When we have degrees which are warnings we need to calm down and be more patient and philosophic with life (always important while Mercury is retrograde).  "A solitary tree upon a rocky height, behind it a dark threatening cloud" suggests betrayal by enemies, but this is likely to be merely misjudgment, such as trusting an ad and wasting money on a useless product, or listening to gossip which would distort your relation to the object of the gossip.  Or one could reach "isolated distinction" while unintentionally making enemies or rivals.  Pride is not wrong when based on real attainments, but should not be flaunted so as to bring about pushbacks such as "a tiger crouching as if in the act of assault."  It's not that someone is necessarily treacherous but he or she could be employing selfish strategy.   (I don't like these warnings which sound paranoid but you are best fitted to see what they might mean in your case. Sometimes people hurt each other without intending to do so.)  )  

Process:   The previous theme continues, but more hopefully, with "a lion alone with tail erect, running toward a panther."  Charubel says this is favorable, indicating "a person of noble disposition, high-minded and honorable; also bold, courageous, and fearless of foes.."  If one seems slow in bringing forward a favorable destiny, one resembles "a big man like a giant, the lower limbs black; he appears to creep upwards."  This indicates "capacious desires" (giant) baffled by misfortune and loss.  But by knowing himself (especially through studying his birth-chart, says Charubel) he may master his destiny.  

Blessing:  "A third wing on the left side of a butterfly" may seem useless, and could disrupt a smooth flight path.  During this Mercury Retrograde cycle we can get involved in more than we can handle, because our minds are ceaselessly searching in odd directions (retrograde) for something to remedy our malaise.  The "third wing" makes the butterfly distinctive, for sure, and you may become aware of what is distinctive in you, making you odd to others yet essential to your particular makeup and destiny.  You may rely on "the lamp of physical enlightenment at the left temple," or an enlarged understanding issuing from cealess experiment and balancing of consequences in the soul's laboratory.  Then you reconcile contrary trends and continue to capitalize on past achievements.  

{Saturday}  ~Toward Balance and Reconciliation~

Cosmic Piper