Message for Weekend of February 24-25, 2024 ~And the Fortnight of February 16-March 2~

Message for Weekend of February 24-25, 2024 

~And the Fortnight of February 16-March 2~

We discussed, from Tuesday through Friday, the current soli-lunar fortnight, and I believe it all bears re-reading, so here it is:

~Relaxation~

The sun entered the sign Pisces Sunday February 18th at 8:14p PT | 11:14p ET, until late in the day of Tuesday March 19 when the vernal equinox occurs and the sun will occupy Aries for a month.

The Pisces experience can be mellow, peaceful, and meditative. An astrologer on X said today that Pisces acquaintances tend to take a lot of naps. Yes, I had a hard time focusing on 'duties' or planned routines today. I feel this is a good time to drift a little, to go away from some overly planned routines while sticking with essential ones. I feel I need to focus more on the longer-term rather than the daily charts for a while.

The lunar fortnight of Friday February 16 through March 2 can be read in various ways; what I have found most valuable are the clairvoyantly derived symbols for the degrees of the zodiac, as they turn up in the fortnightly charts I have researched rigorously. 

Focusing first on the revealing Charubel symbols, we have 'A ruin; the remains of a massive wall, with an archway therein.' 'One finds more pleasure in the retrospective than the prospective.' It's okay to drift into memories while napping or daydreaming. For some, ancient history or ancient literature or Scripture will be specially helpful.

There is a bit of the prosaic, so perhaps we should not push ourselves. 'A farmer's horse and cart with a man driving' suggests 'an unambitious person; one who is quite contented with his lot.' This comes as a relief to me, because today I really felt like taking a vacation. The farmer is getting his work done, but without sweat. 

Likewise, there could be prematurity. 'A scrawl or flourish of the pen' denotes 'disappointments through lack of judgment, or inability to adapt oneself to conditions required, ever anticipating what one  cannot realize.' Well, we do what we can, but should not be harsh with ourselves if it is 'baby steps.'

'The trunk of a large tree covered with moss, and hollow' is 'A romantic degree. One will outlive the other members of his family; and probably be the last of his race.' Again, it seems the past is more satisfying than an unknown, uncertain future. 

We'll consider more factors in this chart in the Wednesday report.

 ~Relaxation~

The Current Fortnight: ^Spiritual Connections^

We continue with a prognosis of the current Solar-Lunar Fortnight, February 16-March 2. You could profitably review yesterday's report along with this. On X, they can be bookmarked. 

We could say that 'lassitude,' or 'waiting for something to happen,' or 'being cool and collected' was the essence of what we recommended yesterday. That continues, but in addition we enter 'a room full of machinery and jars of chemicals' belonging to 'a scientist, chemist, or inventor; an active person with great power of perception; a promising experimentalist.' I had a hint of what this means yesterday when I found myself bookmarking advice of a dietary 'expert' or maybe a 'health nut,' but his recommendations seemed reasonable at the time, such as turmeric, and olive or avocado or coconut oil. It seems that our individual diets are always experiments, so we may be evaluating and modifying them during this fortnight. 

Pisces can be an indefinite sign, yet within it the sun is at the symbol 'A target.' We are endowed with powers of concentration, and a 'spirit of rivalism.' We are 'good marksmen' and so in the lazy way outlined yesterday we may find ways of hitting targets we didn't even know were there. 

'A flag on the top of a high mountain' is the banner of someone we believe in, perhaps in politics, religion or spirituality. It helps us center ourselves so we then find appropriate 'targets.'  

The 21st, tomorrow, is the birthday of Mira Alfassa Richard, known as The Mother in the Sri Aurobindo movement. The sun in her birth chart is where Mercury is in this Fortnight chart: 'A luminous cloud, isolated and sailing slowly in the azure sky. It suddenly opens and pours out on the earth an influence resembling a shower of pearls of variegated hue.' The Mother had (and has) spiritual powers which appear magical. We could tune in to them at this time. 'Numerous celestial gifts. One will prosper in matters temporal and spiritual, and that without apparent effort on his part. However, liable to lose by recklessness and prodigality.' We have been forewarned!

Neptune in Pisces gives us '* * * An occult degree. One is sure to be possessed with strange influences. He or she has a spirit companion or familiar as if obsessed, its nature determined by his or her own character.' Interesting times. For Catholics, a saint or guardian angel; for pagans, who knows what? 

We could reach toward the Highest. 'A fixed star; a transcendental sun. It sheds a halo of supernal glory on the ascendant.' 'Much psychic power. Brilliant gifts, not appreciated by the present-day world. His life will be long on the earth, and his influence extend to future generations.' I believe that such an individual shall appear to anyone who is ready, and that silently asking such an individual for help could bring it.

The Current Fortnight: ^Spiritual Connections^

^Excitement on a Floating Wreck^

I don't know what to say. We are in a strange Fortnight (February 16 through March 2). Everything feels inconclusive and tangential.

In the chart for the Fortnight's center, which is the Full Moon chart, a major activating configuration is the conjunction of Mars and Venus both squaring Jupiter. CEO Carter proclaimed that he had found the hard aspects, square and opposition, between Jupiter and Mars the hardest of all. No astrologer I know seems to know he said that or agree with it. But we are in a strange muddle both personally and politically, if I am reading the mood on X accurately. People are groaning and moaning about the border, Ukraine, Trump, Biden, and the overall breakdown of what has seemed normal for decades. 

Meanwhile Tulsi Gabbard seems to be at the center of a strange triangle, being floated as a possible VP candidate for both Trump and Kennedy! If she is Venus, she does not know yet to which Mars she shall ally, Donald or Bobby. Nor is it clear that she would be the top choice of either. She has, natally, the sun and three other planets in Aries and has a military background.  Through the square with Jupiter, she would shake up the presidential contest thoroughly if she joins with either of them. And Kennedy has said he shall announce his choice in the next two weeks, as required by some states for him to get on their ballots. Oy Vey. In the coming Fortnight chart (March 3-16, Mars (ruler of Aries, Tulsi) shall be exactly square Uranus, big excitement! I cannot forecast what shall happen. 

Meanwhile in our personal lives, what I reported here in the Tuesday and Wednesday reports continues. The symbols suggested quietude and review, yet the big square just mentioned is covert excitement, a desire for something big which probably will not be satisfied.

From the Borelli-Sepharial symbols: 'A wreck floating on a peaceful sea' is what we may feel like. Also, 'a hand and head separated from a body' as Disjunction or a 'what do I do now?' syndrome. Yet 'chemical instruments' allow us to Test things before they are implemented. This is something like the 'tentativeness' already indicated by the Charubel symbols. We may feel we are on 'a merry-go-round' (Sabian), caught in Diversions which can be entertaining as well as partly meaningless. As 'a raven' we may be Envious, yet we may also find our way to sit on a throne surrounded by wealth we have gained through Self-Service.

^Excitement on a Floating Wreck^

^Survival through a Sea Change^

We changed course with the forecast-meditations this week, beginning with the start of a new soli-lunar Fortnight on Friday the 16th, ending March 2. I've been describing some of its features as best I can make out, and shall post a rewrite of all that in the weekend report Friday afternoon. 

The Pisces month has us, I believe, swimming in a sea change, giving us an opportunity to reconnoiter without anxiety, trusting that things will turn out okay even if we relax more than usual. Dangerous advice? I hope not. Paradoxically, it seems that not pushing oneself results in a natural desire to do more than one would if one were whipping oneself. Some have called this 'effortless effort.' 

'An aviator in the clouds' has 'transcendental powers of comprehension' and a 'gift for creating the endless hypotheses he needs for solving problems.' AI at its best? I prefer NI, Natural Intelligence as displayed by the sages and astrologers (Wise Men or Magi in the Bible) of the ages. 'He is able to take a perspective superior to any involvement or pattern of limitation.' There could be 'special competence in whole judgment and long-range planning.' 

The |Karmically sobering, challenging third| of this week occupies all of Friday and Saturday until about noon Sunday because the moon, which determines it with Saturn, is moving more slowly than usual. We need to watch out for 'a popularity which proves ephemeral' when the pendulum swing of popular feeling goes against us for a while. The moments of endorsement are real but we cannot cling to them.

What is not ephemeral? 'A petrified forest.' This is 'an eternal stout-heartedness, and its very practical dividends in spiritual continuance.' At its peak this can make for physical longevity as well. The keyword is Survival.

We may attend, effortlessly, more than usual to duties than we would anticipate on a weekend, as if 'officers on dress parade' -- keyword, Discipline. Or, 'A woman sprinkling flowers,' demonstrating stewardship and (the keyword) Care. Yet the moon being void-of-course most of the day Friday means we may do these things in 'out-of-pattern' ways rather than as sticklers to past methods.

There can be the Relaxation of 'a retired sea captain' -- 'a completeness of self-consummation through a gift for bringing all prior factors of realization to focus in the present moment.'

And there are occasions for Diversion and pleasure when we climb onto life's 'Merry-go-round,' 'receptive to every turn of opportunity.' 

^Survival through a Sea Change^

Well, that's it. I hope that with clues from this you will have a meaningful and reasonably pleasant weekend.

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 24: Moon in Virgo 

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues

Sunday 25: Moon in Virgo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until 11:16p PT | 2:16p ET | 7:16p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 11:16p PT } 2:16a(M) ET