Friday, April 4, 2025

Message for Week of April 5--12, 2025

 Message for Week of April 5--12, 2025

• Good Grief, continued • As I write on Friday it's the second day of a horrific stock market decline. Mercury and Venus remain retrograde and close to Saturn. That tells the story. You can read all the commentators. Does that explain anything? Mercury turns direct Monday April 7 at 4:09a PT/ 7:09a ET, but Venus remains retrograde until Saturday the 12th and Mercury remains slow until April 26th. The deep confusion continues, but also the opportunity for spiritual renewal. What I posted a few days ago remains relevant: • 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 6). "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 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. 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. 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. 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 • Week of April 5--12 • Good Grief • Cosmic Piper Saturday 5: Moon in Cancer goes void-of-course at 3:56p PT until entering Leo at 9:35p PT Sunday 6: Moon in Leo

Thursday, April 3, 2025

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

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

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