Preview of the Coming Two-Month Epoch

Preview of the Coming two-month Epoch, October-November

Based on the cycles and interrelations of the sun, Mercury and earth, the next Hermetic Epoch is a Bright or Outward (more than Inward) one and it begins today, Saturday September 30. (Precisely, beginning 10:19 pm Friday PT, 1:19 am Saturday ET, and 5:19 am Saturday UT)

I can't give a complete, detailed rundown of what this new period might mean to you but here are some highlights.

I've been researching the degree-symbols in connection with the Epochs and find that the Sepharial-Borelli set correspond well, often spectacularly, with the positions of the planets at the center of each Epoch. The sun and Mercury are always in the same degree (in such charts) and that is major, but the positions of Mars and Venus also stand out.

Mars in the previous Epoch (the Dark or Inward one, August 4-September 29) was at the degree "A naked man in the act of falling from a rock into a lake." He is "susceptible and weak, liable to be drawn to peril by the agency of the opposite sex." We had plenty of "me too" incidents exposed in the tabloids and elsewhere. One of the most discussed was that of Russell Brand, who has however not been convicted of anything. "He may attain to a high position in life yet be in danger of an untimely fall. Let him take heed against the allurements of the world." The two major presidential candidates are facing legal hurdles based on supposedly bad conduct.

This played out in other than sexual and political affairs, as for example two women told me how they lost their wallets, and I know of two men who lost their phones. The "allurements" in these cases amounted merely to turning their eyes away from their precious possessions briefly.

During the new Epoch Mars is at a degree symbolized by "A great mound of earth and stones, on the summit of which there is a single flowering shrub." This indicates "carefulness in small things and attention to detail." "One's heart in his his task, and one's soul content with the simple fruits thereof." "One will build up a name for oneself by dint of patient toil, and fibe sure of due reward." 

That picture coincides well with aspects in the chart, such as Saturn in good aspect with the moon, Mars and Sol.

Venus in the previous Epoch was at the degree "A jutting rock on which some tufts of grass hold a thin but certain existence." "With firm and steadfast character one will hold resolutely to one's beliefs and principles, though that be to one's disadvantage." "Whatever he or she may determine upon as the right thing to do will assuredly be done if within the compass of resolute striving." 

Well, it sure feels that applied to myself in the August-September period. What about you? As for things being "thin," we hear that millions face heavy credit card debt, high mortgage payments, high car prices, towering student loans, and so on. But we hold on like the grass to the stone.

In the October-November period Venus occupies (in the Epoch chart) the degree "A hand with the index finger pointing upward as if in command." "A flexible nature is capable of fulfilling various positions in life. There is a generous and kind disposition and a high order of intelligence. He or she always seeks after the uses of things; ingenious and inventive, likely to succeed." 

Finally, the sun and Mercury are always together in these charts and the degrees they occupy, in past Epochs used for research, have been mostly highly meaningful. In the August-September Epoch: "A man mining in the rock with a pickaxe." "Practical and unimaginative; negationist or agnostic; a man of the people, laborious, honest and just. Hard work with little personal profit." It seems many of us might feel that that has been our fate for a while. 

I shall not say that everything will change magically, but the Sol-Mercury symbol for the new Epoch is: "A rustic cottage, overarched by a spreading cedar tree." Our nature is "attuned to works of benevolence and homely simplicity, careful in the affairs of daily life, solicitous of peace and comfort, and ever ready to shelter, befriend and succor the wayside traveler as well as those within our doors." The keyword is Benevolence. 

Cheers!

Cosmic Piper

{Overview of the new Epoch, September 30-November 24, 2023}

Saturday 30: Moon in Aries-->Taurus

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:50p PT | 5:50p ET | 9:50p UT  /// until it enters Taurus at 6:19p PT | 9:19p ET | 1:19a(Su) UT

Sunday October 1: Moon in Taurus