Message for Friday 3 May 2024 ~This Baneful Comet-Struck Epoch~

Message for Friday 3 May 2024

~This Baneful Comet-Struck Epoch~

How has your Thursday been? It started with the moon void-of-course, and after taking a bath I had to answer the door wrapped in a towel to hear the wails of a neighbor who had lost something. I was unable to help at that time. Later, after the moon entered a new sign, it seems that his problem was solved.

Then I had to deal with a workman in the employ of my landlord who was required to make certain upgrades to my apartment even though, out of the four, only one was important to me. He did well, considering the moon was void. I told him about that and he understood, because he had to make repeated trips up and down the stairs to get supplies. But experience, competence and patience can conquer the void-of-course periods, although with more delay and annoyance than usual. 

Now the moon in Pisces is conjoining Saturn by less than 17 degrees, the |difficult third| of this week (until very late Saturday night), and I am feeling a struggle to explain something to you here. The moon-Saturn aspects are challenging if not depressing; less depressing if the challenge is met. I'll try.

I believe, based on hours of research, that the Hermetic Epochs reveal a lot about what all of us experience during each two-month period. I looked at the symbols for the degrees of the zodiac occupied by the major planets in the chart for the present Dark Epoch of March 18 - May 12, and they were so depressing that I said very little about them. But now, with the period almost at its end, I look again and see how remarkably accurate they are (in the system given out by Charubel).

First, in the current Epoch, the sun and Mercury together are at the degree "A comet with a very long tail, pointing towards the earth. A notorious character who may become an instrument in the hands of evil powers, so as to bring evil on this earth generally and on individuals in particular. Such persons may become the scourge of nations. Whatever their position, their influence will prove baneful to all with whom they may have to do." 

Do I have to give examples of this? The Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas war, the campus protests, the quarrels among Trump, Biden and Kennedy supporters. The FISA act being prolonged, giving "our" government the power to become our enemy. And so on. It has been hard to find any "good" news except in the entertainment or sports columns. That invisible "comet" seems to be wreaking its havoc. Of course, from a deeper viewpoint, it is something implicit within us rather than outside us.

Then what is the sun-and-Mercury symbol for the coming Bright Epoch of May 12 through July 16? "A balloon. A person capable of performing remarkable feats, though he will never succeed in any one great enterprise."  Well, that is far better than the baneful comet. Our plans or enterprises could be "remarkable" or wonderful, up to a point. Maybe that is enough.

The symbols for the other planets seem equally meaningful. More about them in coming reports.

{Friday} ~This Baneful Comet-Struck Epoch~

Cosmic Piper

Moon in Pisces

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues until very late Saturday night