Message for Friday 11 April 2025 • Compatibility • 1 While Donald Trump has been confidently imposing tariffs, then postponing them, and rattling the markets, Mercury has been retrograde, then stationary, then direct but still very slow. On Tuesday April 2, when Trump first imposed the new tariffs, and also on Wednesday April 9 when he rescinded them, Mercury was in Pisces 27-28, a degree of which Charubel warns "he is generally possessed of some secret notions which, being false, render all his other good intentions abortive." Was Charubel right in this case? 2 Meanwhile Venus, stationary, has been at a degree of Victory. Whose victory? Despite all the confusion, of which I have been warning for weeks, most of us are beginning to feel that things are straightening out for us. Venus turns direct Saturday evening. 3 Friday revels have mixed results. "A man is standing with a tankard in his hand, ready to drink. Two others stand apart, talking together with averted faces." Bar behavior is often inexplicable. Is there envy, gossip, intrigue, weakness, shame? What's your favorite Country drinking song? I nominate Toby Keith's Drunk Americans. 4 Or one could choose to be "a modern Pocahontas." She went out of her way to befriend those of a different ethnicity and culture. The keyword is Compatibility. • Friday • Compatibility • Cosmic Piper Moon in Libra
• 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