Message for Tuesday 23 April 2024 ~Toward Heart-Wealth~

Message for Tuesday 23 April 2024

~Toward Heart-Wealth~

How are your Mercury-retrograde adventures going? Politics, which I have been following closely, seems impossible. Truth is not believed and lies are believed, for the most part. I have been doing things in out-of-pattern ways, not crazy but peculiar. G*d help us all.

The Full Moon gives expanded consciousness even though it be fuzzy, introverted, mysterious, mystical. 

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A widow at an open grave has to return to enduring

Values while releasing outworn factors, that is, to

Reorient herself. She may feel the Supreme has

Let her down. She relied on a priesthood which seems

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To require reformation. Who are the "white magicians" 

Who have a mission, armored against a savage 

World? They might protect her. She would like to 

Row with someone in a boat on a lake for sheer 

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Adventure. She wants company, changeability. 

She could stand behind a man playing with colored

Balls, juggling foolishly in carefree pleasure. 

Or she could align herself with a man of benevolent

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Countenance chopping wood near a cottage. Orchards 

Are full, sheep grazing. Heart-wealth fills the days.

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{Tuesday} ~Toward Heart-Wealth~

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Moon in Libra-Scorpio

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Scorpio at 8:21a PT | 11:21a ET | 3:21p UT

< moon is in the Via Combusta

Full Moon of Taurus-Scorpio is at 4:50p PT | 7:50p ET | 11:50p UT

Message for Monday 22 April 2024 }Purification toward Faith Manifesting{

Message for Monday 22 April 2024

}Purification toward Faith Manifesting{

A ram standing alone looks toward a distant

Flock of sheep. The sexes are not understanding

Each other. A man, tottering and uncertain, spills

Water on the ground. He is weak, disorderly,

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Unstable. A lion is enraged against a burning brand

Beneath its paw, but its own violence brought on the

Suffering. Something needs to be done to purify

The human race, and its priesthood needs to be 

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Not just spanked but purged. Then we could enter into

A large ballroom filled with amusement, music, singing

And dancing. Amateurish? Fun anyway. 

Does anybody believe in the rainbow's pot of gold?

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Yet in the prismatic sky presides a covenant,

A universal matrix of faith manifesting.

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{Monday} {Purification toward Faith Manifesting}

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Moon in Libra

< moon in the Via Combusta

/moon goes void-of-course at 4:25p PT | 7:25p ET | 11:25p UT

until it enters Scorpio tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8:21a PT | 11:21a ET | 3:21p UT

These indications added to Mercury retrograde do not make a pretty picture. People may seem to be losing their minds, that is, their composure; but progressive as well as retrogressive potentials are elucidated in the sonnet.

Message for Weekend of April 20-21, 2024 and encompassing Fortnight of April 15-30

Message for Weekend of April 20-21, 2024 and encompassing Fortnight of April 15-30

Things are wild and weird.

While one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.' s relatives was saying in an interview that no one should vote for her brother, but for Biden, a Kennedy supporter screamed bloody murder in the background. (I'm on his side.)

When the jury for Donald Trump's trial was selected, a Trump supporter outside set himself on fire.

The long-awaited sacrifice of a red heifer in Israel, ordained by Hebrew scriptures, may take place during Passover or Pentecost, April 22-30, while Jupiter conjoins Uranus in Taurus the sign of the bull and therefore of the cow and heifer. Whether such a sacrifice shall have an effect on Israel or on world history is unknown to me but is certainly interesting. 

Yes, things are wild and weird. People lose sane or normal orientation while Mercury is retrograde or slow. Therefore I compose a sonnet on the soli-lunar Fortnight of April 15-30, using Charubel's symbols for the positions of the planets at its temporal center, the Full Moon of April 23.

\Adequacy/

A large field of grain has many reapers

Though they labor without adequate results.

Could litigation secure what's needed? 

No, that's as repellant as two swords crossed.

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A smelting furnace represents great soul force,

Modest intellect but savvy large-heartedness.

Two men row in a boat on a large lake,

Fond of company, speculation, adventure.

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This prepares them for navigation and travel, 

Captaining a merchant ship, sailing in mid-

Ocean toward notable success. At last they come

To rest in a nice villa on the northeast corner of

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A green field surrounded by shrubberies. 

In verdant adequacy they remain content.

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/Adequacy\

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Saturday 20: Moon in Virgo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week continues

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:21p PT | 8:21p ET | 12:21a(Su) UT

until it enters Libra at 8:09p PT | 11:09p ET | 3:09a(Su) UT

Sunday 21: Moon in Libra 

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week ends at 1:42a PT | 4:42a ET | 8:42a UT

Message for Friday 19 April 2024 \Peace Mandate/

Message for Friday 19 April 2024

\Peace Mandate/

Two swords cross each other in a display of

Litigious and repellent quarreling. An old man

In a worn gown clasps to his breast two bags 

Of gold nervously, fearing loss.

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A black diamond-shaped figure accompanies 

Someone with magical powers, reserved and

Cruel, who ought instead to emulate a woman

Holding a sword pointing earthward, her face

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Kissed by the sun, preserving herself and the world

From dangerous disputes. Could she be the one to

Bring down a new law from Sinai, a mandate for

Peace? Her feet are washed in the mountain's clear

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Downward stream. Only purity is a sure source of

Strength. Her resourcefulness is unswerving.

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{Friday} /Peace Mandate\

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Moon in Virgo

|Karmic sobering, challenging third| of this week is at its peak around 3p PT | 6p ET | 10p UT, lasting until very late Saturday night or early Sunday

Message for Thursday 18 April 2024 \A Portion of a Parable/

Message for Thursday 18 April 2024

\A Portion of a Parable/

Reminder: People tend to be very confused while Mercury is retrograde, April 1-25. Often VERY confused and that means they don't even know they are confused. That includes politicians of all stripes. It includes you and all with whom you attempt to communicate. We need to calm down.

Frankly I don't feel like writing a message just now.

As you might guess, I'm blaming Mercury's retrograde motion (April 1-25). It can be honest laziness. It can be weighing inner values (peace of mind) over outer values (continuing with these reports faithfully for the sake of the readers). Or it could, at best, be rising into a higher beyond-the-mind region of spiritual awareness. 

"A Consciousness that knows not its own truth,

A vagrant hunter of misleading dawns,

Moves here in a half-light that seems the whole

Or runs upon a road that has no end;

In some huge void Inconscience it lives,

Like a thought persisting in a wide emptiness.

As if an unintelligible phrase 

Suggested a million renderings to the Mind,

It lends a purport to the random world.

A conjecture leaning upon doubtful proofs,

A message misunderstood, a thought confused

Missing its aim is all that it can speak

Or a fragment of the universal word.  . . .

Thus is the meaning of creation veiled;

For without context reads the cosmic page;

Its signs stare at us like an unknown script,

As if appeared screened by a foreign tongue

Or code of splendor signs without a key

A portion of a parable sublime."

-- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, pp. 55-56

{Thursday} /A Portion of a Parable\

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|Karmic sobering, challenging third of this week begins at 4:04a PT | 7:04a ET | 11:04a UT (until very late Saturday night or early Sunday) (longer than usual because of the moon's slow speed)

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:03a PT | 8:03a ET | 12:03p UT

until it enters Virgo at 7:12a PT | 10:12a ET | 2:12p UT

Message for Wednesday 17 April 2024

^Renaissance of Talent and Beauty^

I dither in my thinking as to whether a sonnet based on the day's degree-symbols, or a straight-up commentary on planetary aspects and positions, is more helpful to you, the reader. (Comments would be appreciated.) Sometimes it seems more natural to do the one, sometimes the other. 

I remind you, no matter how boring it seem, that Mercury remains retrograde until the 25th (and since it doesn't turn on a dime, the Dark Epoch extends even to May 12). Little things seem to go awry. From my life today: Some good exchanges of insight on the internet (for me that's X, my favorite source of connections) but also odd stuff, like being told when I wanted to make a small donation to a political cause that my card had no funds. I knew it wasn't true but checked my account, which took more pointless time, and found that it was full up, so I may have entered a wrong account number. I saved myself some money by saying "This was just not to be." Saved money, lost time. Then I was issued a letter from the Attorney General of Washington State saying that I had failed to cash a check issued to me in December because of a class action suit I knew nothing about. I called the office and was told kindly that a new check for 50 dollars would be issued to me. Well every bit helps. This shows how even good things have a "retrograde" feel to them, which is why astrologers have called this the "old business" time. 

I stayed away from a spiritual or semi-spiritual group for three weeks but returned to it yesterday. It was okay but brought up old issues and old practices from earlier decades of my life, such as reading Tarot cards. I don't do that any more, or very rarely. These daily reports and other astrological methods provide my oracle. But it was harmless and maybe helpful to be re-acquainted with some Tarot card methods. This is a Mer*re thing, new dimensions which seem old dimensions re*turning. 

I could go on about such incidents. You may go back in dreams to people who were major for you earlier in your life. Where are they now? Maybe you don't know, and maybe they are in the next world. There is re*membering and there can be re*birth or re*naissance. Meanwhile some ordinary stuff, such as laundry or shopping or cleaning, may seem sidetracked. 

Some of today's symbols are harsh, such as two men engaged in a fight, that is, pugnaciousness. Donald Trump comes to mind. A pair of shears indicates dexterity or dexterousness. We can act dexterously during Mer*re to re*pair or re*adjust things. Or we could work humbly like a man felling a tree to re*build something. 

"A little white lamb, a child and a Chinese servant" are repositories of Talents we can use as we please. Easy does it. Simple actions on our part have happy results and engage others in similar services.  

"A celestial choir singing" is our higher Self resonating with the higher Selves of others in veneration of the Supreme. Doing that consciously is a consortium of upliftment and well-being.

"A youth, book in hand, wanders through a glade overhung with the branches of surrounding trees. The sunlight is slanting through them and falling upon the figure of the student." This is a degree of Passive Beauty. 

{Wednesday} ^Renaissance of Talent and Beauty^

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Moon in Leo

Message for Tuesday 16 April 2024 ^Without Applause, Familiarity^

Message for Tuesday 16 April 2024

^Without Applause, Familiarity^

A broken footbridge casts a man into the water,

Struggling to overcome results of bad judgment.

A dark curtain like a pall seems to block full 

Consciousness, yet something wishing to be pulls 

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The curtain back before a large disappointed

Audience. There's no applause. Selfhood cannot

Cater to anything exterior to itself. Better to

Run a dairy farm, milk a cow, make cheese. 

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A fair woman, richly attired, stands alone.

Rich and beneficent, she attracts friends and

Favor. Loving luxury, she shares her gifts.

A table is set for an evening meal. Nature's

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Prodigality provides satisfaction and thorough

Self-gratification. The familiar embraces all.

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{Tuesday} ^Without Applause, Familiarity^

Cosmic Piper

Moon in Leo