January 4-11

Message for Week of January 4-11, 2025

¤ Pertinacity ¤ Let's look at a crucial paragraph (6) from last week's forecast: 'We have spoken of the ethically demanding Jupiter-Saturn square exact now though lasting through next July. It summons and builds character. Saturn's symbol this week is "a hand with a sword in it, enveloped in a halo of golden light. That sword is not for indiscriminate slaughter. It is to defend the right." "Whoever thou art, thou hast a mission to accomplish." Yet we all have seen in the news how horribly a sense of mission can go awry. Let's be careful, and settle things through diplomacy as far as possible.' Who is bearing that "sword to defend the right"? Many. I nominate Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk, who are putting their personal convenience and safety way behind their brave defense of the thousands of girls who have been sexually tortured for years in the UK by Muslim gangs. The karmic Jupiter-Saturn square continues this week, indeed until late July, so we need to be specially alert to a challenge to uphold our ideals when that seems difficult. The long awaited Bright Hermetic Epoch of two months begins the first day of this week, January 4. But Saturday is the most intense day of the Difficult Third of this week. We could expect inclement weather and melancholy moods, clearing up Sunday-Monday. Still, we may find plans and agendas shaping up with more clarity and positivity than in November-December. January 4-11: 1 A child of about five with a huge shopping bag has high expectations. Who is that in your life? 2 A large stepladder which leads to nowhere suggests a need for fixedness of purpose rather than just self-amusement. 3 An Indian chief demanding recognition has made a place of advantage for himself and maintains his authority inflexibly. 4 A person of strong will, lofty in deportment, resembles an acute triangle with a cross on the top. He or she would do well in a governmental position. 5 Yet he needs to be sure he does not neglect his higher ideals. What has made his life worthwhile? The inner voice of conscience. "A cross lying on rocks" would be an abandonment of conscience. 6 "In a niche are set a lamp or book and a missal." Devotion to the Supreme returns. Religion, philosophy and the fine arts bring illumination. 7 Can that be shared with others? Not easily. "An old man is attempting vainly to reveal the Mysteries." There needs to be uncompromising integrity and a revolt against inertia: Pertinacity. 8 "A master is instructing his pupil." Self-refinement and self-orientation proceed best when worked at in common. "Personality comes into its own as it is able to direct its own destiny." Not AI but the human masters of AI perform patient investigation with psychological insight. The keyword is Elucidation. Week of January 4-11, 2025 ¤ Pertinacity ¤ Cosmic Piper Saturday 4: Moon in Pisces Karmic third of this week is at highest intensity Sunday 5: Moon goes void-of-course at 6:31a PT until entering Aries at 11:02a PT Karmic third ends around noon PT, early afternoon ET