Yes, you know I am going to say first that we continue to be in the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch (and the Mercury retrograde part of it which is most noticeable) until January 2. (a) Computer slowdowns, as for example Microsoft insisting on an update at an inconvenient time, (b) a nice time with a friend yet mixed with delays while he sat in a smartphone place while they worked on his phone almost an hour, (c) the leader of a volunteer group sprung an unexpected Zoom meeting on me and it seemed to be mostly pointless, (d) right now my thermostat has stopped working and I do not know if I will get normal heat tonight. Plus, (e) people on Twitter and the internet seem even more disconnected or semi-crazy, or disoriented, than usual. How is all this going in your life? Oh, also the "little things" like this morning I accidentally poured a coffee drink into a mug that still had a juice drink in it from the night before and had to dump it all down the drain.
This is not to mention the horrors that Jewish hostages of Hamas, and many Palestinians, are suffering from one armed group or another. If we can do nothing else to help we ought to pray for them.
So now let's look at the whole Slow or Introspective Epoch from another viewpoint. We did that last week using the symbols given by Charubel for the chart covering the whole two-month period; this time we shall use the Borelli-Sepharial set of symbols.
The Epoch extends from November 25 through January 20:
Who seem to be "enemies"? They are like "a crow or raven standing on a water-pot," crafty, designing or effecting mischief, envious. Well, one can see people like this active on social media if nowhere else.
"A cataract is falling from one rocky ledge to another." Some are restless and impulsive, not aware of danger until it is encountered, and so much is "lost in obscurity or swallowed up in the sands of time." Sadly, this is happening in Ukraine. But these symbols are not intended to make us despair over ill-fate, but to help us change it.
Voila! Since writing that last sentence, three workmen appeared at my door and fixed my thermostat! Amazing.
"An ox asleep, two birds perched on it" can be ourselves when we succumb to the lethargy of the Mercury retrograde ambience. But we could rouse ourselves to take up "a sword set through an upright crown," symbol of upright Victory.
"An arrow in flight" is ourselves accomplishing our ambitions. Then there may be a decline, a falling away from valor to something more lovely like "A boy and girl standing with arms intertwined." There is versatility, diplomacy, and connecting links bestowing honor.
"A prepared holiday meal" suggests culinary arts plus "high living" and "the good things of life." There can be convivial feasts all through this Christmas-New Year season. "At heart we are bountiful and humane, generous and good-willed."
"A man in the prime of life stands on a dais, in his right hand a scroll of papers, on his head a laurel wreath." This is large understanding resulting in favor, Mind-Wealth.
"Two triangles interlaced, with a third superposed" suggest the Jewish Star of David as well as the Hindu emblem of Vishnu from which the former was derived. The third triangle is something combining yet transcending the virtues of the other two. "The conquest of things mental and spiritual will be the chief object in life." There is self-government and rulership, Mastery.
{Weekend of December 16-17, and the Holiday Season to January 21}
Cosmic Piper
Saturday 16: Moon in Aquarius
|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week begins at 10:59a PT | 1:59p ET | 6:59p UT
Sunday 17: Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces
|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week is at its peak this afternoon (continuing until late Monday night)
/moon goes void-of-course at 4:05a PT | 7:05a ET | 12:05p UT
until it enters Pisces at 11:59a PT | 2:59p ET | 7:59p UT
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