Message for Weekend of April 27-28, 2024

Message for Weekend of April 27-28, 2024

Do you notice, or use, or benefit from, the |Karmically sobering, challenging third| of each week I post here every week? I wish more would take advantage of that information. From yesterday's message: "|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week is at its peak today and tonight, ending early Sunday." I am feeling it on Friday, for sure. It often correlates with hard weather; today I see: "US weather forecast: Tornadoes, severe weather threat for 60 million Americans." "Tornadoes, strong wind are likely to hit southern Minnesota to Texas as more than 60 million are under severe weather threat till Sunday." Is it a coincidence that this time period is exactly the same two days I had already pointed out to be the |difficult third| of this week? No, it is not a coincidence because I discovered the |difficult third| (not known to other astrologers) partly by observing weather patterns. Astrology is real, to those with enough patience to work with it. 

Another "bugaboo" I point out here, to help you, is of course the Mercury-retrograde period and its extension, the Dark (Slow) Hermetic Epoch, lasting until May 12. This was discussed at length yesterday. Guess what? This morning (Friday) I had to restart my computer for unknown reasons and then, for unknown reasons, it lost all the tabs I had saved. An hour of my time was wasted on all this. It is just the sort of thing astrologers have always pointed out as more common while Mercury is retrograde, but I insist that it is nearly equally as common during the Dark Epochs which typically last about two weeks before and after the M-retrograde period of about three weeks. 

Does it delight me to point this out? No, but I do it to help you navigate the "storms." Astrology is real to those patient enough to work with it.

Yet it seems true that some "ice" was breaking yesterday (Thursday) after Mercury turned direct in the morning. I already covered the several good signals for the Trump candidacy, including a Supreme Court decision. Now on Friday some Biden "ice" may be thawing since it is reported that he has said he will be glad to debate Trump. That is highly significant breaking news while Mercury stops in its tracks and slowly turns around, because before this it has been assumed that there would be no debates.

And there was breaking news in the Kennedy campaign. In an interview he disclosed that the members of his family who had said they supported Biden had also asked Biden to provide Secret Service protection for their relative. This he has not done, to his shame, as if making things harder for his political rival. The Democratic Party despises Kennedy because he makes clear that it is not at all democratic. 

Another way I try to say something meaningful looks more fanciful, through the sonnets I construct using the degree-symbols. Last week I posted one relating to the soli-lunar Fortnight of April 16-30, using Charubel's symbols, and this time let's use instead the Borelli-Sepharial set of symbols. The three sets (the Sabian symbols are the other one) seem to describe parallel universes; sometimes we appear to be in one and sometimes in another. 

Through a crown is set an upright sword. 

High resolves sustain assaults in victory.

But while the king enjoys his throne a figure

Veiled in black stands behind. Collapse and

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Fall? The young are the ones to protect. A tiger

Stands guard over its litter, watchful and devoted.

A man juggles colored balls while an immodest

Woman stands behind him. Are both or just one

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Foolish? A woman holds a pair of scales; on one side

A cup of red wine; on the other a number of golden

Coins. There's pleasure or wealth in earthiness. 

A man, his face benevolent, chops wood

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Near a cottage. A sheep grazes while the 

Orchard is filled with fruit. He is content.

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{Weekend, and Fortnight of April 16-30}

Cosmic Piper

Saturday 27: Moon in Sagittarius

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues

Sunday 28: Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn

/moon goes void-of-course at 0:32a PT | 3:32a ET | 7:32a UT

until it enters Capricorn at 2:39a PT | 5:39a ET | 9:39a UT

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 5:10a PT | 8:10a ET | 12:10p UT