}Reviewing February{

Monday 28 February 2022

}Reviewing February{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically serious, sobering, challenging third| of this week is at its peak, lasting until Wednesday afternoon-evening

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:02p PT | 9:02p ET | 2:02a(Tu) UT

Guys, it's not easy being (or trying to be) Cosmic Piper.  Astrology, as you know, is extremely complex.  And methods of prediction are not fixed and established, but experimental, no matter what anyone may say.  And so I experiment, and have done so for several decades.  Would it be a sign of failure to admit that I am still investigating predictive methods, and am not sure which are the best or perfect ones?  Then perhaps I am a failure.  However, I have learned a lot and maybe some day I will be able to write a book about what I have found.  

A long time ago I found that just using the calendar months for predictive work seemed excellent.  That is, use a chart for the positions of the planets at midnight Greenwich Time (Universal Time) for the first of February, first of March, and so on, to see what is going on for the coming month.  Too simple?  Too conventional?  Aren't new moon charts better?  Or full moon charts?  Or ingress charts for when the sun enters each sign?  I have used all of those methods, and all work!  Does that not show that astrology is arbitrary?  If everything works, then nothing works?  No, because all these methods interact or interlock, and a very brilliant mind (the Mind of God, or what Sri Aurobindo calls the Supermind) could see why and how it is that each is valid and all are valid.  Yet for ordinary humans and ordinary astrologers, that is TMI, too much information, too much to deal with.  And so I have veered from one method to another as each seemed specially pertinent.  

Weeks such as this last one are devastating (the Ukraine war, the trucker convoys in Canada and the U. S., battles over the virus and vaccination, serious questions about who is lying and who is telling the truth).  Yet for a predictive astrologer they are helpful because one can ask, "Do your methods show this mess and cast light on it? If not, surely they must be wrong!"  Well, some are working better for the past week or two, and some not as clearly.  One that stands out is the simple calendar month method, for the chart beginning February 1 has both the sun and the moon with Saturn in Aquarius, a Saturn-ruled sign, and all three square to Uranus, the ruler of that sign.  This is very difficult. And so it is turning out.  But for war we ought to have also a Mars indication, and indeed in this monthly chart Mars is in high focus, the leading planet in a bundle-shaped mass of the ten planets.   Further, when we look at the symbol for Mars's position in that chart it is, in Charubel's system, "A butcher clothed in his working dress conducting a sheep into the slaughtr-house."  Today in the Wall Street Journal an opinion piece is titled "Putin's Slaughter-House."  Fairly or not, Putin's present image is that of a butcher.  Another symbol (for Jupiter) denotes "a practical business person, one who readily aligns himself with the world's ways, and with ordinary matters in general.  A little cantankerous and not one of the pleasantest companions.  One never short of expedients."  Even Putin's friends must agree that this describes him; and, as a commentator in the New York Times said, "We are all in Putin's world now."  So the international "community" (if such it be) is now seeking "expedients" such as sanctions to deal with Russia. 

Another Charubel symbol for the month (Saturn's) is "a vessel rolling in the trough of a rough sea."  It "denotes one who will ever live in a state of uncertainty, subject to many changes and severe trials; his career will be a struggle for existence."  This is what Zelensky and many of his Ukrainian compatriots are experiencing.  It is what many suffering either from Covid or from the vaccines are experiencing.  

There are other more pleasant symbols in the February chart, which one might think about on this the final day, such as "a tastefully furnished room with a large candle on a round table in the center."   This is ordinary comfort and elegance in one's home, or temporary homes should one be traveling. "A farmer's horse and cart, with a man driving" indicates "one who is quite contented with his lot; unambitious."  This could be a clue to calm down and accept "what is" rather than struggle intensely toward "what is not."  It might be, in contemporary terms, the truckers "driving" their "carts" or trucks.  It is sad that the Putin imbroglio is taking attention away from that important protest.  

I expect to comment on the March chart in tomorrow's report.

{Monday}  {Reviewing February}

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