Message for Weekend of July 1-2, and the current Hermetic Epoch

Message for Weekend of July 1-2, and the current Hermetic Epoch

First, personal: I have been a news junky today (Friday) and am writing this later than usual. No Friday night party for me, it seems.. The news breaking in France, and about Biden, and from the Supreme Court, and much more, is a landslide of stuff which seems to bear the signature of Venus and Mars square Uranus. Division, disagreement, individualism in the extreme, and so on.

It is possible to divide the big "pie in the sky" in many different ways. I do a daily division here five days a week. I believe now in a weekly division, Saturdays through Fridays. But it seems to me that the best larger division may be the Hermetic Epochs based on the cycles of Mercury's motion as related to the sun and the earth.

The current Bright or Quick Hermetic Epoch began on June 1 and lasts through August 3. we are right now at its center, when Mercury joins the sun (or, as the old astrologers put it, Mercury is Cazimi, in the heart of the sun from geocentric perspective). More precisely that will be tonight at 10:05p(F) PT | 1:05a(Sa) ET | 5:05a(Sa) UT.

This is the time when we see clearly and can make good plans. Have you noticed how things have been "coming together" for you in the past couple of weeks? That should continue for the rest of July.

In what remains of this report let's get an overview of the entire Epoch, June 1 through August 3.

Although things clarify, yet nerves can be frazzled, because of the double square of Mars and Venus with Uranus already mentioned. I have found, through old and recent research, that the planetary-zodiacal degree-symbols work brilliantly for these Epochs, throwing light on all that happens within the two-month period. We have one month of this one remaining and have already experienced one month of it. What follows is intended to have relevance for the whole period:

Pluto: "An arrow in flight" is in decline. We are impelled toward distant projects but "the breath of public opinion" may "carry us wide of our mark." This could apply to people you are following in politics. The "arrows" of Trump, DeSantis, Biden, Kennedy and Williamson seem to have uncertain trajectories at this point.  Which one of them is "a shepherd on the mountain top with crook in hand watching out for the locality of his sheep," "a ruler indeed"?

Neptune: Do we have things organized properly in our minds? "A triangle with a round hole in the center" indicates "good and amiable qualities" mixed with "secret notions which, being false, render the good intentions abortive." If we could get a better grip on things we could be ushered into "a fertile garden under the full moon," an ultimacy of high reward.

Uranus: "A white dove over troubled waters" could guide us to utilize wisely what is within our grasp, such as symbolically "a field of rich grass in which stands a tree encircled by a swarm of bees." I take this as homage to my paternal grandfather, a beekeeper. What successful enterprise does it suggest to you?

Saturn: "A man with upraised arms submerged in water" is a direct hit for the tragedy of the "Titan submersible" which was lost during this Epoch. It may suggest to you any other major crisis you have had to face. We can save ourselves from much ill fate by acting like "a practical business person who readily allies himself with the world's ways and who is never short of expedients." He, she, or ourselves might be "cantankerous and not one of the pleasantest companions" even though successful.

Jupiter: presents to us divergent paths: One is "An ox lying on the ground asleep in the sunshine. Upon its back two birds are perched." The keyword for this is Grossness because of idleness and self-indulgence. The other path is represented by "a Red Cross nurse" who manifests "a steadiness of concern for the more extreme needs of others." This Enlistment for service removes "all sense of separateness" and enables us to "become more satisfactorily whatever we wish to be on our own account."

Mars: "A reversed triangle upon a red ground" warns against "the watery element" and possible "suffocation or drowning." Again, the Titan submersible; and all ought to be careful when engaged in water sports, swimming or boating. One might "suffer through the allurements of the other sex" or through general watery instability. Or one might store "the watery element" within oneself, as it were, like "a large camel crossing the desert." There should be total adequacy though effective self-mobilization in the face of difficulties to be overcome.

Sol and Mercury (at same degree): "A large diamond not completely cut" is harboring latent splendors. The world depends on arts and skills to bring out its endowments. Everything at hand contains potentialities to be dramatized. Likewise "a bulbous plant" could be "pushing itself upward from beneath the sod, beginning to unfold to show forth its beauties." One might possess a great amount of soul-force and a strong will.

Venus: "Chickens intoxicated" might show "simulation from elements essentially alien to one's own nature" or else a natural accentuation of possibilities, temporarily exhilarating. A little fun might not hurt the chickens, or ourselves. Many get a better result through meditation. "In the center of a high mountain plateau I see one of the ancient magi performing his matutinal (daily) devotions. The lord of day ascends on the luminous horizon." Any of us can emulate the "magus" in our own home.

Moon: "A house on fire." There are forest fires polluting the air in many places. But more basically this is the fire of zeal. One is enthusiastic, but could be impulsive and headstrong to the point of exhausting "the cruse of one's vital powers." It would be better to channel the zeal into "standing on a platform, with an audience in front," being a lecturer, politician, orator or podcaster. Or one might turn to literature. "A mother with her children on stairs" is the maternal Educator of the planet, whether guiding her family or the children of others. Each has a different capacity and talent to be developed through her influence, suggested by his or her place on the stairway.

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 1: Moon in Sagittarius
|Karmic sobering, challenging third} of this week continues until very late Saturday-early Sunday

Sunday 2: Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn
/ goes void-of-course at 6:34a PT | 9:34a ET | 1:34p UT
until it enters Capricorn at 10:21a PT | 1:21p ET | 5:21p UT