Week of Saturday April 8 through Friday April 14

Week of Saturday April 8 through Friday April 14

The Dark Hermetic Epoch of about two months began Friday April 7 at about 5:12a PT | 8:12a ET | 12:12p UT, lasting through May 31. It is not to be feared but is a more inward rather than outward phase, sometimes confusing but always interesting. What seems "dark" to the outward vision can be wonderfully illuminating to psychic consciousness. Little things may seem obstructive,, and plans tangled, yet by dealing with "what is" we are led to what would not have been possible without the detours.

I do my best to survey trends of the week ahead. The method is in constant evolution and has undergone fascinating changes in the past few weeks. This time let's try making a story from the zodiacal symbols of planetary positions in the weekly chart. If you want to know how I construct the weekly chart you may write me about it. In the story I will use the male pronoun because that is easier and more natural for me but I might use female pronouns sometimes in the future. As for "they," I'll think about it.

The story is circuitous actually so the beginning and end could be anywhere within it.

April 8-14, 2023 (Saturday through Friday)

He is lying asleep on a sheaf of corn, viands at his side,. HIs dreams and visions are real but there is no work to bring them to reality. Others often just push him aside. A woman holds a bag of food out of a window and wants to toss it to him. She likes to facilitate people's lives toward the better.

Another man has a fork, a farmyard implement with four prongs, and employs it n a laborious way, useful to society. He is content with his lot. He cultivates a bulbous plant pushing its way upward from beneath the sod, reflecting its grower's soul-force, which is immense. He has a strong will and his plant is unfolding its beauty.

He joins some heavy traffic on a narrow isthmus, winding toward personal fulfillment for each traveler, though each might temporarily block the way of the other. Yet within the convergence lurks a hidden, well-integrated community. He leaves the crowd at an inn where he orders a drink. As he stands lifting it to his mouth two individuals, apart from him, talk together with averted faces, as if critiquing him, but then they invite him to join them in a drinking bout leading to drunkenness.

Still, he has his smartphone and, alone, sits by himself to explore the latest on internet media. Politics, politics, politics. Who is responsible, who deserves a position of trust? Each candidate holds a roll of sealed parchment lying across a scepter, brilliant plans for the nation should he or she gain leverage. Everything is possible on this rectangular tube illuminated from within, but who shall win coveted authority in the world apart from the phone?

He has left the bar, alone with his thoughts as he heads back toward familiar territory. But is he alone? Something occult is with him, a strange influence. It must be a "familiar," a spirit companion. Is he obsessed? Could he really do what this presence is suggesting? He looks up and sees a gate he has never seen before, above it a signboard: "The Garden of Desire." Is this just naïve optimism? Yet there are always immeasurable frontiers yet to be crossed. Why not enhance his dreams and pass through the gate to whatever prospect unfolds before him?

(And, perchance, back to the beginning of the story.)

Week of April 8-14

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 8: Moon in Scorpio
< moon in the Via Combusta until 2:58 a PT | 5:58a ET | 9:58a UT
|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 9:17a PT | 12:17p ET | 4:17p UT

Sunday 9: Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius
/moon goes void-of-course at 2:10a PT | 5:10a ET | 9:10a UT
until it enters Sagittarius at 5:58a PT | 8:58a ET | 12:58p UT

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until Monday afternoon