Message for Tuesday 1 March 2022

 Tuesday 1 March 2022

~Prospects for March~

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week continues (until very early tomorrow)

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Pisces at 12:55p PT |  3:55p ET | 8:55p UT

The Russia-Ukraine situation continues to occupy attention and so I shall deal with it as well as I know how rather than construct the usual daily forecast-meditation.  Of course I am not giving a detailed analysis of it because it is very complex, and one thing we are learning from the crisis is how little the average person knows about Russia, Ukraine, SWIFT, the relations between the ruble and the dollar, the geography of Ukraine bordered by Russia, Poland, Belarus, Romania, and Crimea, and so on.  (Are such matters being taught at all in our schools, or just how boys can become girls and girls become boys?)  

Some may wonder why I use, here, the sometimes fanciful, sometimes questionable, degree-symbols (three systems for 360 degrees, a total of 1080).  Simple answer:  They work!  Complex answer:  They work but in mysterious ways.  Further answer:  They, by their accuracy yet seeming fancifulness, challenge us to open our minds to see things in a more complete and rewarding manner.  

In 2020 I wrote here about the degree 12-13 Pisces which is the degree occupied by Venus, and perhaps both Mercury and Venus, in the birth-chart of Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian major general assassinated by the United States (via a drone strike in Baghdad).  He was known as a very bad or dangerous dude, among his own people, and feared or despised by many.  Here is what Charubel in the 1880s said about that zodiacal degree: "There is no symbol to this degree.  But I perceive that it is charged with evil, and wickedness of the most diabolical nature.  The nature will be subtle but plausible in appearance.  Destitute of one spark of REAL sympathy.  One who will ever prove dangerous to those who take him into their confidence.  . . . This is liable to modification, but under the most favorable circumstances such a person will find very strong leanings to injure his fellow men rather than to do them good."  Now note what was going on at the beginning of the Russian incursion into Ukraine.  Jupiter was at this very degree from February 21-24, and on the 24th Putin began his strikes in Ukraine.  We might assume that decision and preparation were going on, among Putin and his cohorts, in the three preceding days, under the influence of this "most diabolical" influence.  

I will not speculate further about this, but felt it important to point it out.  And this:  Over the years I found it important to include Jupiter, but not Saturn or the other "outer planets," in the daily degree-symbol-readings.  However, lately I have focused only on Venus, Mars, and the sun (V and M are closest to us, and the sun's position is really a representation of the earth's motion around it).  Had I been looking at the Jupiter symbol I might have been more perspicuous in pointing out dangers in the past week (though I would not have known, probably, that Russia and Ukraine were involved).  Finally:  The sun will occupy this degree on Wednesday this week, just for that day (and early Thursday). That happens to be the beginning of Lent, Ash Wednesday.  I make no prediction.  We should "examine our hearts" to be sure we are not semi-consciously "injuring" anyone.

Yesterday we looked at February as a calendar month, using the aspects and symbols for February 1.  Here is a little of the same agenda for March:

Is it better?  Yes and no.  We need optimism, so I shall point out some of the promising features and not dwell on the ugly ones.  The ugly ones are meant to be overcome, of course; even Cinderella's ugly sisters might enter upon a plan of self-reform.  Mercury, moon and Saturn very close together are in degrees Charubel gives as: "A naked man with a serpent coiled around the lower part of the body" -- filthy habits; "conquer thy evil nature" -- "A man on crutches," unfortunate -- and "A man at a desk with account books; he has dark hair, projecting eyebrows and keen dark eyes."  This suggests early attention to tax returns or other accounts, or maybe in this era digital equipment such as computers and phones.  Since Mars and Venus are together in Capricorn, perhaps relationships will be involved with career matters (I know one couple of whom this is true).  

Whereas Mars was in the degree "A butcher" (suggesting at present Putin to most people, but having other applications) in February, in March it is "Two men running a race" suggesting that the Russia-Ukraine situation, with its Russia-Western nations implications, may be less harsh and more like manageable rivalry or competition along some lines.  This can also be the perpetual Biden-Trump contest as continuing whether anyone likes it or not.  Pluto is tightly with the Venus-Mars conjunction and its symbol is "An indescribable scene; chaos, confusion, dissolving views" and Charubel says this could be insanity or idiocy.  Some will think this might apply to Biden or Putin or both, but it might be more important to see how it applies to oneself in one's weaker moments, or those with whom one is associated.  Ukraine is not the only place where there could be "chaos, confusion, dissolving views."  

Last month Mars was the high-focus planet and this month Venus.  That seems good.  Less warlike proclivities, let us hope, and more desire to cooperate.  However, Venus is in the degree "Too revolting to be given" according to dear Charubel -- "indulge not in stimulants; keep out of bad company; seek to develop thy higher nature."  It seems we are being toughened up, or it is the tough who win out, with six of the ten planets in Saturn-ruled signs.  We do have, however, the sun with Jupiter while both sextile Uranus and that is liberating at some level.  Jupiter: "A field of ripe corn ready for the sickle.  A cloudless sky and brilliant sunshine."  Says Charubel: "Health of body, peace of mind, a most happy disposition, prosperous in all worldly transactions."  Let us hope.  

Looking ahead, July and August (by this calendar-month method) stand out as the happiest, by planetary pattern and aspect, in the near future.  

{Tuesday}  ~Prospects for March~

Cosmic Piper