Message for Thursday 19 December 2024 □ Alliances □ 1 With both Mars and Mercury at their geocentric stations, symbols repeat themselves, and again we have "Rocks and things forming therein." Certain circumstances form the matrix of your everyday existence; are your endowment. You wish it were more munificent, but whatever it is it's the foundation for your initiatives. Slow? Yes. The keyword is Composition. Be composed. 2 Another re*peating symbol: "An old-fashioned woman and an up-to-date girl." A friend invited me out for a drink but insisted "no politics." Probably each of us thinks he is the up-to-date one and the other the old-fashioned one. The contrast doesn't have to be competitive. We can respect our differences while playing out our roles within the friendship. 3 Maybe during this Dark or Slow Epoch we have felt like delaying, or been forced to delay, a lot of things, but now "a fat boy is mowing the lawn" (or shoveling snow). We are, day by day, getting back to usual schedules which no longer seem so onerous. We realize that participating in human life requires carrying out ordinary tasks. 4 The hard Saturn aspects continuing make it hard to take the final symbol literally: "A ship in full sail upon a sunlit sea." Yet there is an enterprising or adventurous spirit, associations with others remote, a catholic or cosmopolitan trend. There are alliances productive of great good. □ Thursday □ Alliances □ Cosmic Piper Moon in Leo  

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