Message for Weekend of May 20-21, and Coming Week }Guidance through Crisis{

Message for Weekend of May 20-21, and Coming Week

}Guidance through Crisis{

This is the final week (Saturday May 20 though Friday May 26) of the Dark Hermetic Epoch (slow Mercury) which began April 7. It continues to have the features we associate with Mercury Retrograde: delays, obfuscations, uncertainties; and on the positive side, spiritual awareness or psychic phenomena.

It is hard to avoid politics because when you combine the DHE of REview with Jupiter square Mars, said to be the harshest of all astrological aspects by CEO Carter one of the finest astrologers of all time and one of the top ten writing in the English language, we have the debt ceiling and possible default, we have possible impeachment, endless lawsuits amounting to "lawfare," and an insane and possibly planet-destroying war in Ukraine-Russia. To keep up with the intricacies of all this seems too much for one human being but I suggest Glenn Greenwald's System Update as the most important news source we have at this time. Oh, and also the RFK Jr. Podcast.

The coming week? More of the same? In a nutshell, yes. I don't see relief at this point, except that the quest for justice, after years of injustice, is continuing, and that is heartening.

Some symbols from the chart for this week: "A man lying on the ground while the sun is setting" signifies final moments of life when one judges oneself. Of course it is wise to do this ahead of time to be prepared. But "a serpent is standing erect within a circle of fire." He will "take life at the crisis and turn in back from the Gates of Death" through exceptional wisdom and knowledge. This he may gain from "a very old-looking book or ancient record." There could be abstruse studies and profound scholarship. That could set right any misdirection and inconsequent wandering, which would thrust one into obscurity until one recovered one's bearings.

As for "enemies," some may seem like a raven or crow on a water-pot, screeching at oneself out of envy or petulance or sheer malevolence. Others may seem like a tiger in view of a tethered horse. Or one may try to rescue someone else, or others, from that tiger, as in a political dispute, war, or lawfare. Wearisome. However, one's mind is sharp, like the profile of a man with one eye in view who is a savvy observer or detective. One's mind is as flexible, ingenious and mathematically exact as "a water-wheel attached to a corn mill." Further, in moments of leisure and meditation one enters "a niche wherein there is a lamp and a missal." The secrets of nature are revealed through long and patient study. Devotion sustains vigils and studies which others would have abandoned. Therefore one has gained the illumination of that "serpent standing erect" who "takes life at a crisis and turns it back from the Gates of Death."

May our world and its people acquire such mastership speedily.

{Week of May 20-26} {Guidance through Crisis}

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 20: Moon in Gemini
|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues

Sunday 21: Moon in Gemini-->Cancer
/moon goes void-of-course at 3:13p PT | 6:13p ET | 10:13p UT
until it enters Cancer at 8:30p PT | 11:30p ET | 3:30a(M) UT
|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 4:21a PT | 7:21a ET | 11:21a UT