Messages for the Weekend of August 8th and 9th, 2026
Saturday 8th:
1 "A man in chains" is a hard symbol for me because for years I have supported the Innocence Project which works hard to liberate those imprisoned on the basis of false accusations. Then today I happened to read about the thousands who are trying to escape from bondage to prescribed antidepressants. The keyword is Binding. There can be estrangement or distress. Let us pray.
2 "A wild boar" "has a life of his own, a sphere of his own, and pleasures of his own." If considered coarse and impolite, he doesn't care.
3 "A man driving a bull or an ox" prospers by dealing in cattle. What this might mean for urban folk I cannot say.
4 "The first mockingbird in spring" is attempting a self-revelation which will add stature to his role in everyday living, stimulating others. The keyword is Quickening.
5 Members of "a nonvested church choir" exercise respect for one another within the broader or community functions of life. The keyword is Communion.
6 "A man riding a camel with attendants following" travels much and is stubborn and persevering. He is fond of parade and self-advertisement. Throughout his Journeying he is highly successful.
Moon in Gemini goes void-of-course at 10:28p PT until entering Cancer at 12:09a early Sunday.
Sunday 9th:
"August and few the sovereign Kings of Thought
Have made of Space their wide all-seeing gaze
Surveying the enormous work of Time:
A breadth of all-containing Consciousness
Supported Being in a still embrace.
Intercessors with a luminous Unseen,
They capt in the long passage to the world
The imperatives of the creator Self
Obeyed by unknowing earth, by conscious heaven;
Their thoughts are partners in its vast control.
A great all-ruling Consciousness is there
And Mind unwitting serves a higher Power;
It is a channel, not the Source of all.
The cosmos is no accident in Time;
There is a meaning in each play of Chance,
There is a freedom in each face of Fate."
-- Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, p. 271
Moon in Cancer
Cosmic Piper