Message for Monday 17 October 2022

Monday 17 October 2022

~Past Clouds to Favorable Promontory~

We enter, through Mercury’s apparent forward motion, a new Bright Hermetic Epoch at 9:44p(Su) PT | 12:44a(M) ET | 4:44a(M) UT, lasting until December 12 (when a new Dark Epoch will begin until February 7, 2023)

Moon in Cancer—>Leo

/moon goes void-of-course at 1:57p PT | 4:57p ET | 8:57p UT

until it enters Leo at 9:46p PT | 12:46a(Tu) ET | 4:46a(Tu) UT

1 Hither-and-yon astrological notes: I try to avoid politics but it’s hard. Megyn Kelly said on her podcast that Nancy Pelosi is ‘a bully, not a nice person.” Well, she is Aries the Ram and those horns are really horns. Megyn also said that Pelosi “acts like the one dictatorial leader.” This can be an Aries trait, for it is the “first” sign and ruled by Mars, the “strong man,” and the sun is exalted in it making for self-directed will-power. Whether all this works for good or ill in Pelosi is for you to decide.

2 We have entered a new Bright or Fast Hermetic Epoch while Mercury moves quickly toward the sun and passes it (by geocentric viewpoint). This lasts until December 12 and should help us to follow well-constructed plans in any area we feel to be important. (Let us hope it will make for greater sanity and more honest communication in national and international politics.)

3 Monday: Moon opposite Pluto while Saturn continues to square Uranus could make one feel like “a solitary tree upon a rocky height; behind it is a dark threatening cloud.” One wants to be independent and self-confident, and one can, though there may be feelings of isolation and suspicions of betrayal. Or that “cloud” could be a mushroom cloud if we fail to push Zelensky and Putin to the negotiating table.

4 “A man trimming palms” could be almost literal for me, because a large household plant has several browning leaves about to fall. But there is beauty here as well. “One seeks to leave his immortal stamp on the world around him.” Enhancement of one’s surroundings by an aesthetic sense lifts the whole tone of things.

5 The world seems to lack “an ancient shepherd with crook in hand, standing in the midst of his flock.” Not many think that that is Xi, though he wants everyone to think so, or Biden, or anyone I know of. Hey, somebody, somewhere, step up and take that “shepherd’s crook” and lead us away from war and nuclear annihilation. I met someone last night who has “an extraordinary love for rural life,” as Charubel says this shepherd does. Yet she also has “a large amount of this world’s wisdom.”

6 Maybe the new Bright Epoch will make us feel we are on “an elevated promontory, illumined by the noonday sun and crowned with variously colored flowers.” Venus trine Mars has romantic overtones. One might be amenable to flattery or prone to self-conceit, “proud in heart and light-headed.” Yet one has “considerable personal charm” and “receives many of fortune’s favors.”

{Monday} ~Past Clouds to Favorable Promontory~

Cosmic Piper