Message for Thursday 16 January 2025

 Message for Thursday 16 January 2025

• From Chaos toward Magic • The Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release deal is encouraging, though some Israelis find that it doesn't measure up to their hopes. Noteworthy: The hostages were taken on October 7, 2023 when Venus was approaching an opposition with Saturn by three degrees. This deal releasing some of them happens while Venus is conjoining Saturn by three degrees. In both cases Saturn is in Pisces, a sign sometimes connected with imprisonment. Venus-Saturn hard aspects tend to be grief-filled. Mars was exactly squared to Pluto on 10/7/23. Now it is going away from the opposition with that planet by five degrees, and going backward (geocentrically) to indicate re<vision and re<lease. But not all the hostages shall be released yet. Venus conjunct Saturn can be depressing delays. Meanwhile the sun is exactly opposite Mars, which can only happen when Mars is retrograde every three years or so. Military forces around the world are being shaken up or re<vised. Pete Hegseth had to undergo tedious (retrograde) grilling to get confirmed as Defense Secretary. Mars is not only retrograde but in the sign of its fall, Cancer--a good time for wars to cease, let us pray. Thursday's symbols: 1 "An indescribable scene; chaos, confusion, dissolving views" sounds like the Senate confirmation hearings. In your own trajectory, patience is needed with little things that are hard to pin down. 2 "An arrow passing through a cloud of smoke" is penetrating ambition pursued with directness. An antidote to paragraph 1. 3 "A fire worshiper" is not an arsonist but one who realizes "an inviolable tie with the creative power of the universe itself." "Ultimate independence of circumstances" is "ideality brought to the point of miracle," or Magic. 4 Dare we aspire toward "contentment and happiness in luxury, people reading on davenports"? This could be Neptune in its own lazy sign forming an exact sextile with the sun and an exact trine with fallen retrograde Mars while they remain in tense opposition. We are entitled to some Repose. • Thursday • From Chaos toward Magic • Cosmic Piper Moon in Leo is void-of-course until entering Virgo at 8:47a PT / 11:47a ET