Message for Thursday 16 April 2026
• Reformulating Tradition • A violent person on horseback (tank, ship, etc.) is Rushing and Rash. He would do well to calm down and luxuriate in the greenery of nature. Everything is on the move. A person with shears is a fine, dexterous artisan. Or he or she might be pruning trees in a garden as a horticulturist. "A man richly attired, having lost his foothold, is falling to the ground." His dignity and influence fail for lack of judgment or persistence. Families may break up or lose their traditions. The keyword is Decadence. However, "lost opportunity is regained in the imagination" through psychological maturity. The keyword is Reformulation. "A swarm of bees encircle a tree standing in a field of rich grass." The yard of my beekeeper grandfather! Diligence leads to the acquisition of money and friends. The keyword is Utility. "Things are given their fundamental ordering as they are accepted in consciousness." "A square is brightly lighted on one side." The keyword is Set. There is the absolute unimpeachability of a genuine self-direction. Thursday • Reformulating Tradition • Moon in Aries Karmically sobering third of this week ends shortly after midnight of Thursday-Friday. Cosmic Piper
Saturday 11th:
• Strangers' Reticence •
Strange! Some of the symbols for today point out that many are "strangers to the public and not very popular." Need I mention names? They and others may be victims of "a baneful comet with a long tail pointing toward the earth." Some notorious persons become "the scourge of nations."
Others, more fortunate, sit in dark rooms surrounded by books, papers and mathematical instruments, capable of great achievements, but not benefiting themselves by their studies. Others are real or would-be revolutionists or agitators. "A red flag floats at the top of a high staff."
Two fortunate cows do not notice a tiger ready to spring. Who are the cows and who the tigers in the ongoing negotiations in Pakistan? Let's pray for J. D. Vance. Is alcohol always a weakness? No, but "two men talk together with faces averted from a third with a tankard in his hand, ready to drink." Low habits and associations result from Weakness.
Fortunate are you if you can throw your head back and laugh at the victims of these symbols! But pleasure at others' misery (Schadenfreude) is definitely sinful! Nevertheless, "a comedian entertaining a group" grants us needed Release. More genteel is "a woman in pastel colors carrying a heavy and valuable but veiled load." She accepts complete responsibility for her experience, with unimpeachable integrity. The keyword is Reticence.
Saturday • Strangers' Reticence •
Moon in Aquarius
Sunday 12th:
"A wiser word, a larger thought came in
Than what the slow labor of human mind can bring,
A secret sense awoke that could perceive
A Presence and a Greatness everywhere.
The universe was not now this senseless whirl
Borne round inert on an immense machine;
It cast away its grandiose lifeless front,
A mechanism no more or work of Chance,
But a living movement of the body of God."
Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, p. 42
Moon in Aquarius
Cosmic Piper