Message for Friday 4 March 2025

 Message for Friday 4 March 2025

• Hiatus • On Thursday, as reported here, we were in the Karmically sobering third of this week, in fact it was at its most intense about 7a PT/ 10a ET when the markets opened. We know what that meant, the biggest market drop in 5 years. Plus, the moon is void-of-course as I write on Thursday, so I am going Out-of-Pattern until Friday when the karmically sobering third of this week shall end at 9:15a PT/ 12:15p PT. Meanwhile what I would write for Friday is already in the reports for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. • Hiatus • Cosmic Piper Friday: Moon in Cancer (and see above)Last edited

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Thursday 3 April

Thursday 3 April  

• Don't Throw in the Towel •

1 I just read a note on Twitter that someone's friend had committed suicide. And earlier today I was thinking, These Cosmic Piper posts will be worth my time if they prevent one suicide. I have often warned over the past 26 years that during the Dark Hermetic Epochs (with Mercury Retrograde always at their center) people are more likely to "throw in the towel," give up, quit a job, file for divorce, or contemplate suicide. 2 Astrology has a unique role in opening up hope to those in despair. Inspirational speakers and writers can always offer hope and say "It will get better." But astrology offers a definite time-line as to when it's likely to get better. Once one has seen this work accurately, one feels more confident that one shall recover the next time a mood of despair tries to take over. "Oh, things will be better after the next Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on April 26." 3 Things now seem more cheerless than usual even in Dark Epochs, for reasons given in yesterday's report. Re-view it if you need re-assurance. 4 The House went into recess from Wednesday through Friday this week, unexpectedly, and I remarked that it was because Venus and Mercury are both retrograde. Maybe the recess was good, and not just lazy, preventing some pointless House speeches or votes. 5 That brings up the question, How often is it wise to take a break or small vacation while Mercury is retrograde or slow? And how often is it smarter to keep driving on despite the temptation to slow down? My answer: Take small breaks or naps. Prioritize wisely. Don't be afraid to go Out-of-Pattern sometimes. 6 Such as now, for me, because my schedule is full to overflowing. 7 Remember that prayer and spiritual study and aspiration are essential during the DHE and during heavy Saturn aspects, such as now. Cosmic Piper Moon in Gemini until 11:28a PT; then void-of-course until entering Cancer at 3:51p PT Karmically sobering third of this week is with us until Friday morning

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Message for Wednesday 2 April 2025

Message for Wednesday 2 April 2025

○ Wednesday, and Spring Forecast ○ 1 Not kidding: While Mercury and Venus remain retrograde, the House unexpectedly will be unable to carry on business for the rest of this week. No voting, says Mike Johnson, until next Monday, according to Politico. For reasons that remain obscure to me. Except that Mercury and Venus are retrograde. 2 At the end of yesterday's report I said we would continue discussing the Good Grief! aspect, Venus conjoining Saturn. It's not fun. It lasts by a 10 degree orb from March 22 through May 13. Reducing the orb to 5 degrees would make it March 28 through May 5. This is an unusually long duration, so let's deep-dive. 3 Says Sydney Omarr: "This is a nasty one. Plan nothing social for this time. You are likely to expect too much of your friends and you may feel somewhat dull, unhappy or slighted, and get your precious feelings hurt. If you are disposed to be jealous, now is the time for the exhibition of this charming trait, with misunderstandings, grouches, sensitiveness, wounded feelings, and tragedies constructed out of vague imaginings. Your plans for pleasure are apt to go wrong. The one person you wanted to see won't turn up, the company will be dull and stupid, the arrangements poor. You will act awkwardly, say yes when you mean no, and be misunderstood. Every mirror you gaze in will insult you. It's a good time to stay home, have a good shampoo, and mend socks." 4 At a deeper level there can be sorrow, grief, separation, or bereavement. Thoughts of death seem to bring a final self-judgement. During this same period the square between Saturn and Jupiter calls us to try harder to manifest our ideals; to actualize our soul's high aspirations no matter the cost. 5 Happily, to smooth things out, Venus and Mars are in a very long-lasting trine, March 24 through June 13. By a tighter 5 degree orb this is March 30 through June 2. We seek affection, sympathy, love and enjoyment. There can be peace, harmony and sincerity. Family and relatives are well-disposed. There is ease in social activities. Prosperity surges if Saturn does not suppress it. There can be intimate, sympathetic friendships. 6 And so through April, May and much of June we are balancing no-nonsense, soulful responsibility (paragraphs 3 and 4) with readily available satisfactions (paragraph 5). Tangles in the process shall untangle beginning April 7 and even more beginning April 26. ○ Wednesday, and Spring Forecast ○ Cosmic Piper Moon in Gemini Karmically sobering third of this week is with us until Friday morning

Message for Tuesday 1 April 2025

 Message for Tuesday 1 April 2025 

• Good Grief • 1 I try to write what will help people navigate the streams of time. But I get almost no feedback. Consequently I'm in the position of preaching to myself while hoping that will be relevant for others. 2 This morning, lying in bed, I felt I had risen above depressing, demonic thoughts of the nighttime, and just wanted to lie there peacefully forever rather than get up to face the day's transient tasks. 3 That is a common feeling while Mercury is retrograde (March 15-April 25). "Why bother? Isn't this all just an illusion anyway?" There is mental and emotional fatigue. There is Too Much Information and much of it contradictory. The experts disagree. News outlets seem to be propaganda organs and real information is stirred up with misinformation. 4 And so one turns to me past. One's own memories after all can be trusted! Often in sleep or daydreaming I will spontaneously recall or "see" old friends or relatives, some of whom have discarded their material bodies. "Good to see you, Cousin Jim." The quick and the dead mingle. 5 Or one turns to old books, films or music for records of what has certainly happened to, or been imagined by, some members of the human race. A re-treat into the past similar to re-miniscence. This is sometimes called "retro." 6 The syndromes of paragraphs 2-5 are also more frequent than usual in the whole Dark (Slow) Hermetic Epoch, March 1--April 25. 7 This time all of the above is more intense than usual because Venus also happens to be retrograde, March 1--April 12. 8 When I finish this I want to take a nap. 9 Then there are the "little things." I waited an hour outside an office for an appointment, only to be told I had been emailed that the appointment had been canceled. Of course there was no such email. This morning a car horn was being honked in the parking lot outside my apartment for 15 minutes because its owner needed someone else to unblock the parking space. I seem to walk in circles from living room to kitchen and back, forgetting utensils or turning on the wrong burner. Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz embarrassed themselves by inviting an enemy of the Trump administration into a Signal chat on military strategy. Provide your own further examples. 10 Making the whole thing worse, both Mercury and Venus while retrograde and then stationary are stuck to Saturn at the end of Pisces, even until mid-May. Grief and sorrow. Yet they are also trine Mars--good grief. That is, love and harmony can be evoked. More tomorrow. 11 "I give you a new commandment: love one another; as I have loved you, so you are to love one another." -- Jesus in John 13:34 • Good Grief • Cosmic Piper Moon in Taurus goes void-of-course at 10:44a PT until entering Gemini as 1:27p PT

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