Message for Weekend of February 12-13, and the rest of the Dark or Slow Epoch until February 24

Message for Weekend of February 12-13, and the rest of the Dark or Slow Epoch until February 24 

[From the January 30 report]:

It seems crucial to orient ourselves to the remaining portion of the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch.  Here is the pattern:

December 29 Dark Hermetic Epoch began . . . [January 14 Mercury turned retrograde . . . February 4 Mercury turns direct] . . . February 24 new Bright Hermetic Epoch begins (until April 26 when another Dark Hermetic Epoch begins, lasting until June 20)

The coming twelve days offer a chance to REthink what has been going on for the past month and settle our minds a bit, to get our bearings, realizing that we are going through a REcalculation or REestimation of what we are doing or trying to do.  (The DHE is all very much like the central MR period at its center, though not quite as intense.  Sometimes, however, it can be at least as intense.)  

I'll talk about my own experience a little so you can compare it with yours.  First, the shadowy, unsettling portion:  I have had much delay through technological matters.  Today my computer was working much slower than usual, for no reason known to me.  Pages took forever to load, it seemed.  Last night I had trouble with a streaming service and contacted its customer support, only to find that the chat person didn't understand my question and wasted about 20 minutes of my time not-giving me an answer, though finally I figured out what was wrong and fixed it myself.  Not everything technological goes wrong during the MR or DHE, but enough does to make these periods difficult at times, like walking on chewing gum or through ankle-deep mud.  I forgot twice to buy coffee when I went shopping and so spent a week making do with some tea bags I found.  Not a tragedy but typical of the period.  One can forget things.  Things get out of pattern.  Contacts with people, whether by phone, in person, mail or email, seem oddly askew, though sometimes they can be lucky, and sometimes they appear to be almost miraculous, as though the universe were trying to put you in touch with some individuals, or keep you from others, by odd coincidences.  (Right now, as I type, the screen does not move up when I get to the bottom and I have to do it by hand so I can see what I'm typing.  This is way out of pattern.)  

On the positive side, there is a quest for the unusual, the new, the 'pleasingly out of pattern.'  This is mixed with an interest in the past.  There is both REsearch toward the new and REcollection of the old, sometimes mixed together.  For example, for at least 50 years I have found that during the MR or DHE periods I find myself reading about UFOs or flying saucers.  Or about psychic phenomena of some sort.  This time, just two days ago, I found that Joe Rogan had interviewed Travis Walton (abductee) in one episode, and Bob Lazar (whistleblower of government possession of and study of anti-gravity crafts) in another.  Fascinating stuff, and I recommend the Bob Lazar interview (if you have Spotify just type his name in Search and you will find it).  Mercury retrograde does not mean that everything you hear about is wrong or questionable but that it is frequently unusual or surprising, REquiring REvised thinking to comprehend.  

But that can be quite exciting.  A pitfall can be getting involved in scams or questionable or sham negotiations or purchases.  Use your credit card abstemiously!  One wants to try 'out of pattern' things and that can be good but it can also be expensive or dangerous, or else just fatuous.  

Fatuous?  Not everything that seems useless is really so, I think.  What good does it do me to know about Bob Lazar and Travis Walton?  If I were to spend all my time getting involved in UFO research and diving down those Saucer-covered rabbit holes, that could be hurtful to me or to my proper destiny.  But getting a taste of those things could be stimulating and exhilarating.  It's a matter of proportion.  This also applies to old movies or TV series one feels like seeing again.  

Conspiracy theories, or conspiracy facts?  Those too are likely to turn up in a big way during MR or DHE.  I appreciated learning a lot from Rogan's interview with Dr. Robert Epstein, for example, though he does not have good things to say about Google, on which and through which I post these reports.  Will Google censor me if I keep writing about Epstein?  Not so far as I know, but such twisted complications and suspicions are likely to come up during the MR and DHE.  

On the good side, there is the Supreme Good, G*d.  That is, your spiritual path, whatever it may be, becomes deeper and more illuminating during the DHE, which might seem paradoxical unless we REmember that much deep meditation, and many REvealing dreams, come with the night, and that when the sun is absent one often (even if only through reading or watching streaming video) seeks inner light more assiduously.  

We could speculate more extensively about what all this means.  Are there really two different kinds of time, or two different dimensions of experience, one during the DHE and one during the BHE?  I tend to think so.  I leave such speculation to you.  I hope this REport helps you navigate the next ten days more consciously and peacefully. 

[From the February 9 report]:

It doesn't seem that I can ever write about the Dark Hermetic Epoch too often.  We tend to forget it is going on.  If you are reading this you are in the .000000001 per cent of the earth's population who know about it.  Congratulate yourself! and use the knowledge.  Its duration this time was and is from December 29 through February 23, another twelve days.  I used to hope that we feel things getting easier toward the end of the period, but now I think that there is a quantum leap from the Dark (Slow) to the Bright (Fast) Epoch.  That will come in twelve days on Thursday February 24.  I am finding things very slow, delayed, sometimes distressing, requiring much backtracking every day.  I do things in an 'out of pattern way' and sometimes this is okay, sometimes disturbing, but always seems to be unavoidable.  I am speaking for myself because I am not you, but I believe you must be going through the same thing.  As for the world at large, one could point to the Biden-Putin-Ukraine imbroglio, which goes backward, forward, and nowhere by the day, and the vaccine mandate mess, which seems to get better, then worse, then marginally better, or to the Canadian truckers who have a legitimate grievance but no easy way of getting relief, and so on and so on.  (Joe Rogan flip-flopping, etc.)  I am moaning about all this because it definitely helps, rather than hurts, to know about it, and realize that one is not going crazy, nor senile, nor bonkers, nor are one's friends and neighbors going nuts, and that perhaps there could even be some hope for political matters getting better in a couple weeks or more.  

There are some promising indications:  Beginning Tuesday-Wednesday, the  15th-16th, Venus will take the place of Mars as high-focus planet (in the transiting configuration).  Mars has been strident, accenting intense disagreements whether political or otherwise.  Venus should make things smoother and more sociable.  And beginning Friday the 18th the sun will enter Pisces, so that the grip of Saturn on the planets is decreased, for Pisces is ruled by Jupiter (and Neptune).  Some shackles may be removed. 

I applaud those who keep on working and pursuing their tasks, ambitions, or missions during this difficult period.  They have a lot to contend with, and grow stronger by facing the strangeness with as much perspective and courage as they can summon.

Cosmic Piper

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