Message for Weekend of March 23-24, 2024, and Current Fortnight ~Greening~

Message for Weekend of March 23-24, 2024, and Current Fortnight

~Greening~ (cont'd)

As you can see from the lunar data given below, the weekend including Friday is somewhat dismal, the melancholy of Saturn, as evidenced Friday by the endless media and social-media dwelling on Kate Middleton's announcement about her illness. That is very Saturnine, as is all illness, though she handled it in a somewhat Jupiterian way (Venus is making a sextile with that planet), admired by many because she emphasized healing and hope. Perhaps by Sunday afternoon-evening the mood shall be lighter. 

Message for Fortnight of March 17-April 1, 2024

~Greening~

This is an edited version of last weekend's report. I think it bears re-thinking.

We have a mostly beneficent sea change in both of the long-term charting methods I have been led to employ through decades of research. A new Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch begins Tuesday the 19th, extending through May 12th. A new Soli-Lunar Fortnight begins Sunday March 17, extending through April 1. To my hopeful yet critical eye it appears that this Fortnight, and the following one, April 2 through April 15, shall be easier, less stressful, than the one we exited last weekend (March 3-16). Of course they are not without problems or issues.

March 17(Sunday)--April 1 (Monday):

The harshest aspect of the previous Fortnight, Mars square Uranus, is gone. I shall not say giddily that the Ukraine war, or the Israel-Hamas war, shall cease, but they should be more amenable to negotiation.

Perhaps the hardest feature of the new Fortnight is Venus conjoined to Saturn, the "nobody loves me" aspect. It can also feel like "I don't love anybody." But we have learned to live with such feelings on many occasions in the past and can this time also. There is a tendency to separation or isolation, but this could be realism about the proper times to go it alone or with just minimal, businesslike associations. "Every man for himself" does not have to be contempt or disdain for anyone, but a refusal to be sentimental while looking out for one's own interests. However, any tendency to cruelty, in even mild forms, should be resisted or extirpated. Saturn aspects are karmic and one should avoid making new bad karma while working out patiently the old.

However, the stars perplex astrologers by being contradictory, so together with the hardest Venus aspect we have the sweetest, Venus sextile Jupiter. Saturn may curtail the limits of love and friendship, but Jupiter makes what is left gracious, warm and pleasurable. Saturn can be loyalty to old friends and family, sometimes when they seem wearisome, but Jupiter being harmonious with Venus fosters graciousness, sincerity, popularity, sociability, comfort and festivity. This is made even more secure by Uranus's sextile with Venus, welcoming diversity and uniqueness in people. 

There is only one square in the Fortnight chart, that of the retrograde Mercury with Pluto. This is a hint of AI and other kinds of research, or unusual, concentrated mental exercise developing insight and power. At worst it could be nervous fanaticism or overeagerness concerning pet interests. One does not have to know everything in order to secure competent orientation. In Marc Edmund Jones's language, this aspect is 'an inquisitive approach to obsession' and one might reflect on that. What obsession of yours is inviting you to further inquiry? 

Charubel's symbols for the degrees of the zodiac seem to click well with past fortnightly charts. Saturn is in an ominous one, indicating possible black magic or a desire to hurt people. We have had enough of that! It may be that cruelty in many will be 'flushed out' so that it can be recognized and rendered harmless. Choose your villain on the world stage, there are plenty. 

More happily, we have Springtime symbols: 'I see green everywhere; every object a dull green. At the same time everything is on the move.' One may find that, despite many changes, one is 'as far off from the goal as ever.' However, the magical glasses of the Land of Oz give to everything a harmonizing green hue! 

One of my favorite symbols is 'A green field surrounded by shrubberies; a nice villa on the northeast side of the field.' One day this week I walked to a restaurant to the northeast of my home, one I hardly ever visit, and had an unusual, uplifting adventure. You might try an excursion to the northeast of home, job, or your usual haunts. Charubel says, of the enjoyer of the nice villa, or of ourselves in this Fortnight, 'One possesses an adequacy to keep him; and with this he has the disposition to be content.'

Voila!

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 23: Moon in Virgo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues

Sunday 24: Moon in Virgo-->Libra

|Karmic sobering, challenging third of this week continues until 1:09p PT | 4:09p ET | 8:09p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:50a PT | 11:50a ET | 3:50p UT

until it enters Libra at 1:39p PT | 4:39p ET | 8:39p UT