Messages for Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 January 2024

Messages for Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 January 2024

Saturday 27: \Discipline or Devotion/

"Officers on dress parade" could be--who is it?--Texas rangers, National Guard, the Feds, the gun-toting Texans, I don't remember their correct designations--on opposite sides of the very real border crisis. "Dignity and protocol always provide a dramatic and valuable rehearsal of cultural or group values." The keyword is Discipline.

"Two men in fierce strife" carry out a similar picture. They are "aggressive and quarrelsome," fomenting "difficulties and dangers from which they may not escape unhurt." 25 other states have joined with Texas to repel the southern invasion, and some speak of civil war. "His mind will be at war with prevailing opinions and popular beliefs." Finally he might be "deserted and abandoned to the mercies of his mother Nature." 

But of course things do not have to go that far. We have minds which are ordering and harmonizing, and helpful tools such as "an astrological chart in square form." Someone fond of astrology is "a just, kind person." Justice and kindness are in fact two of the virtues wise astrological study instills.

"A heart surmounted by an aureole" is symbol of "an affectionate and devoted nature" (which military men usually display toward their own families). "He will center his affections on a single object and continue steadfast all his life." Despite disappointment and dismay "he will succeed where others have failed, because of his whole-heartedness and concentration." The keyword is Devotion. 

{Saturday} /Discipline or Devotion\

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week is at its peak

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Virgo at 11:12a PT | 2:12p ET | 7:12p UT

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Sunday 28: \Toward Cosmic Reconciliation/

"A huge rock is rent by a flash of lightning." There can be aggression and forcefulness. This may be the occasion of reviling and bitterness in others. Yet light comes into the dark places. The keyword is Conversion.

One may feel one is in "a coal pit. The machinery is at a standstill and the whole of the plant in a dilapidated condition." In other words, "it's the pits," part of the time, until one is rested or restored mentally and physically. 

There can be strong attachments with a selfish design in them, and when that fails there are bitter feelings of resentment. The keyword, Jealousy, warns against rivalries and feuds resulting in "nothing but oneself to care for and all the world to rail against." 

Fortunately that is not all we are, so we are called to "go up higher" and realize our spiritual nature. "A hidden choir is singing." We can hear "the eternal music of the spheres." "The ideality of experience is at root a symphony of cosmic reconciliations." "All men are at one in the universal pattern." The keyword is Worship.

{Sunday} /Toward Cosmic Reconciliation\

Cosmic Piper

Moon is in Virgo

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