Message for Weekend of January 7-8, and Long-Term Outlook

Weekend of January 7-8, and Long-Term Outlook

Happy Christmas to the Eastern, Greek and Russian Orthodox!

Saturday: Moon in Cancer-->Leo

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:24p PT | 5:24P ET | 10:24p UT

until it enters Leo at 6:41p PT | 9:41p ET | 2:41a(Su) UT

Sunday: Moon in Leo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 7:13a PT | 10:13a ET | 3:13p UT (until early Wednesday)

We have dwelt on the interminable Speaker votes at length in the previous week, as related to Mercury and Mars both retrograde. As I write on Friday there is still no winner. (My personal opinion is that the 20 hold-outs are not obstructionists but that McCarthy is the obstructionist, obviously not trusted, and that he ought to step down and let the Republicans find a consensus candidate. I am not predicting that that will happen, but wish it would. If McCarthy would REtreat, the House could be REvivified.)

It seems good to turn to longer-term outlooks on the weekends: 

One can cut the astrological "pie" in various ways. The Hermetic Epochs are one way, and I did that last weekend and the weekend before. Another way is whole-year charts, beginning not on January 1 but on March 20 when the sun enters Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, determined by the Spring Equinox. These are the charts which have succeeded in my research as the winners of the whole-year sweepstakes, and I gave the January 1 charts and the Winter Solstice charts equal consideration. They did not work nearly as well. 

The March 20, 2022 to March 20, 2023 chart is a very difficult one. It shows Venus, Mars and Saturn all bunched together in Aquarius, Saturn's sign, and Venus in hard aspect with Saturn, also Mars in hard aspect with Saturn. These are two of the most difficult of all aspects. (The conjunctions, with the squares and oppositions, are hard aspects.) Further, it shows all three of these in a square with Uranus, planet of disruption when at its harshest. 

Well, looking at most people's "bottom line" is enough to verify that. (As Venus and Jupiter fare, so fares the economy of the majority.) In 2022 the S&P went down 19%, and since March 20, down 13%. The FTX scandal-scam was just one evidence of this, but here is a fascinating story about it.

As you know, I use three different sets of clairvoyantly-derived symbols for the 360 degrees of the zodiac, 1080 in all. When I studied Sam Bankman Fried's horoscope (March 6, 1992) I saw that he has both Mars and Saturn, the two harshest planets according to the ancients, at 13Aquarius14 (appearing as 13 Aquarius in charts but as Aquarius 14 in books because the first degree of a sign is 0). Guess how Signor Borelli, the unknown Italian clairvoyant, described this degree in the 1880s more than a century before Fried was born? "A broken bridge spanning a rapid stream. Keyword: Collapse." And here is how Sepharial, also in the 19th century, elucidated that symbol: "One whose life will be beset with unforeseen dangers, and who should therefore go warily and with much circumspection into the narrow walks of competitive life. About the middle of his life there will be a great catastrophe by which he may suffer a total collapse of his affairs. He will then be in danger of liquidation and may become involved in serious trouble. While he is sure to be of considerable service to others [for a while! - CP], and may be the author of wise counsel, he will himself stand in need of help and sustenance ere his days are half completed. His future thereafter is in the keeping of Heaven." I rest my case. This is amazingly accurate. 

That reading applies especially to the FTX founder because two major planets are in that degree in his birth-chart, but it applies in a minor way to everyone during this 2022-23 zodiacal year because one planet, Venus, is in that degree in the annual chart (set up for the moment of the Vernal Equinox beginning the year). Liquidation? Collapse? Fortunately it's not that bad for most of us, but it is for some, and all seem to be struggling for better sources of income. Krystal Ball of Breaking Points calls this "the golden age of the con" and many are falling for get-rich-easily schemes.

Using the same Borelli-Sepharial symbols, we have for Mars in the current year 'Two bulls fighting on the edge of a precipice' which seems to describe the Ukraine-Russia mess, the U. S. midterm elections, and the current Speaker of the House imbroglio. We have for Saturn 'A man lying wounded or sick upon the ground' which fits the "sudden death syndrome" in even hardy young athletes. There are more ominous symbols, including 'a horse and rider falling at a fence.' 

It's not all bleak and the other two sets of symbols have some more positive indications to take advantage of. I do not have time here for all of that.

I must emphasize that in the short term, up to January 17, we have a friendly, loving or romantic Venus trine Mars aspect to help us.

As for the coming zodiacal year, March 20, 2023 to March 20, 2024: We don't need the symbols to see that it will be an easier and happier year. (Theoretically and philosophically, every year can be happy if we get our souls right with G*d and the cosmos.) Because rather than heavy Venus-Mars-Saturn aspects we have Venus in her own sign sextile Mars, with both in good aspect to Saturn. That is a huge difference. We looked at the symbol "Collapse" for Venus in the 2022-23 chart, in connection with FTX and SBF, so let's look at the Venus symbol in the same system for 2023-24: 'A man of benevolent countenance stands near to a cottage chopping wood. Around him are orchards well filled with fruit. Near him is a sheep grazing.' This 'denotes a person of a contented, happy disposition, a friend of Nature and well-beloved of her. He has natural goodwill. His labor its its own reward, his wealth is his own contentment, and his ambitious are fulfilled with the day. It is a degree of Heart-Wealth.' 

Quite a change from the FTX-SBS "golden age of con," 2022!

The same degree in the Charubel set of symbols: 'A boat on a large lake or big river; two men are rowing in it.' 'Fond of company and of change; a speculative bent of mind and fond of adventure.'

We shall see!

Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it with the Eastern, Greek and Russian Orthodox on January 7.

Cosmic Piper