Message for Thursday 25 April 2024 ~Recharging~

Message for Thursday 25 April 2024

~Recharging~

Yes, Mercury turns direct today at 5:55a PT | 8:55a ET | 12:55p UT 

I am not as pleased with this as other astrologers are. The speed of Mercury is as important as its apparent direction, and its temporal place in the over-all Mercury cycle, which I call the Hermetic Epoch, as important as its speed. That Slow or Dark Epoch lasts until May 12 (it began March 19).

Then a Bright or Fast (normal) Epoch shall begin, through July 16; then another Dark Epoch until September 12, when a Bright Epoch shall begin until November 7. Each Epoch lasts an average of around 60 days, the Dark ones generally a little shorter.

Why do I make so much of these Epochs? Because I have found them, over decades, to be the primary division of human time. For example, what was one of the most memorable unexpected events which shocked the whole world? 9/11/2001. A Dark Epoch began that very morning, just a few hours before the attack. And for the next two months of course people never ceased asking "What happened? Why? Why weren't we prepared for it? How can we prevent it from happening again?" 

This time, I shouldn't have to mention the Ukraine war and the disputed funding for it, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the disputed funding for it, the Trump trial or trials and the endless ways of analyzing them, Biden's flaws and fitness issues, and on and on. Campus upheavals are grabbing the headlines today as I write.

People are saying, on Twitter, "Is this the end times? Is black or evil magic being unleashed on the world? How do I learn to pray before it's too late?" And so on. Many feel "silent desperation." 

The exact time Mercury turns direct, given above, could be a good time for prayer, meditation, and aspiration. Or within a few hours of that time. Most of us will probably feel, "Something is changing" even though we can't define it. I have been feeling it Wednesday as I write.  And typical Mercury-retrograde (Dark Epoch) stuff has been happening, such as needing to restart my computer not once but three times this morning. That was alarming but I give thanks that it is now functioning.

Can we expect there to be a big change Thursday, or before May 12? Usually there is no dramatic change, which is one reason people doubt the reality of Mercury-retrograde. But there can be a quiet internal strengthening, a gain of calm perspective. Then gradually that expands into the Bright Epoch more evident beginning May 12. It may or may not be too early for definite planning; that depends on your personal situation; but plans are likely to get clearer over the next three weeks. 

For clarity here is the timeline again:

Mercury (M) entered a Dark Hermetic Epoch (DHE) on March 19, 2024 . . .(M retrograde April 1-25) . . . DHE ends May 12 . . . Bright Hermetic Epoch begins May 12 through July 16 . . . DHE begins July 17 . . .(M retrograde August 5-29) . . . DHE ends September 11 . . . BHE begins September 12 through November 6.

{Thursday} ~Recharging~

Cosmic Piper 

Moon in Scorpio-->Sagittarius 

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:18p PT 7:18p ET | 11:18p UT

until it enters Sagittarius at 6:38p PT | 9:38p ET | 1:38a(F) UT