Message for Thursday 15 May 2025

 Message for Thursday 15 May 2025

• Concord • An old sea captain rocking is any of us when we we revisit past defeats and victories in memory. Retrospection is masterful, calling up afresh powers we have gained through struggle. Mercury and Mars in a square make for a sharp mind which could be too eager, stumbling over itself. At best it can be adroit flexibility, mathematical capability and ingenuity. "A large water-wheel attached to a corn mill" could, these days, be some forms of AI, or just productive mental action. "A woman of beautiful and kind countenance stands alone, half covered with a robe falling from her left shoulder." She is gentle and amiable, addicted to acts of kindness and charity, sometimes forgetful of self in a desire to please others. She could be "a fair woman leading a child by the hand and gathering flowers by the way." She is loving and agreeable, finding happiness in common duties, radiatng peace, tolerance and concord. • Thursday • Concord • Cosmic Piper Moon in Sagittarius goes void-of-course at 11:30a PT until entering Capricorn at 12:59p PT Karmically sobering third of this week is most intense in late morning and early afternoon, ending Friday evening

14 May

 Message for Wednesday 14 May 2025

° Upward ° An old sea captain, rocking, relives history In memory, retrospectively fighting old battles, Daring the past to spoil the present. He had been on horseback in the midst Of battlefields, surrounded by the dead and Dying. Is that victory? He has been A dark moving column standing high, A stranger to men, content to live unknown In a world of his own, mysterious, Ignoring others' callow notions. He forms a cross of two swords on the Ground and stands on them while pointing A scepter heavenward. Now a man of

Peace, he confides in the higher power. ° Wednesday ° Upward ° Cosmic Piper Moon in Sagittarius Karmically sobering third of this week is with us, exact Thursday and ending Friday afternoon-evening

Message for Tuesday 13 May 2025

 Message for Tuesday 13 May 2025

• A Mission within Companionship • Arms folded and head erect, a man stands on a lofty place. He is an able friend or formidable enemy. Let's hope the folded arms indicate the absence of weapons. He loves freedom. His temerity and positive disposition add up to pride. He or someone else may be the "man, yet greater than a man" who has a *world* mission. Will the world allow him to carry it out, is the question. His sunlight is trying to penetrate a vast darkness. Today and tonight the moon forms a felicitous Grand Trine with Venus and Mars. "A man stands upright within an elliptical figure on the ground." He "loves passionately and is a great admirer of the opposite sex; a lover of the beautiful in art and in nature." And so everything is set up for "an evening lawn party." "There are limitless forms of self-expression by which one may come to discover oneself as a distinct personality, with recognition of its worth from one's fellows." Sharing with neighbors and intimates is a delight. The keyword is Companionship. • Tuesday • A Mission within Companionship • Cosmic Piper Moon in Scorpio goes void-of-course at 11:38p(Mo) PT/ 2:38a ET until entering Sagittarius at 1:36a PT/ 4:36a ET

Message for Monday 12 May 2025

 Message for Monday 12 May 2025

• Toward Reoriented Companionship • "A widow at an open grave" is, like many of us, undergoing the reorientation that comes when someone important has been removed from this world known to the physical senses. We can transcend such disappointment through personal aplomb, self-discovery, and belief in the immortality of the loved one. "A man standing upon a lofty place with arms folded and head erect" sounds like Zelensky or Putin, and the former, at Donald Trump’s urging, has said he will be in Turkey on Thursday to meet with Putin face to face, the first such meeting since the war which has made hundreds of thousands of widows began three years ago. "An able friend and formidable enemy, cool and collected, yet frequently a victim to pride and self-love," is both Z and P. Let's hope and pray for solid steps toward a ceasefire and peace. "Implicit in the symbolism of 'a jewelry shop' is the kaleidoscopic capacity of the world at large for producing and reproducing whatever an individual may require in the way of immediate realities with which to deal." There can be luxury, or a path toward it. The keyword is Preservation. Intimates and neighbors help one to express oneself and discover oneself as a distinctive personality. There might be "an evening lawn party." The inherent normality of enhanced work with others makes for Companionship. • Monday • Toward Reoriented Companionship • Cosmic Piper Moon in Scorpio goes void-of-course at 11:38p PT

Message for Week of May 10-17, 2025

 Message for Week of May 10-17, 2025

° Responsible Kindness ° Things are getting easier to handle, with Mercury, Mars and Venus near normal orbital speed. "Everything in its place" is easier. So is simpler, less scattered scheduling. This is a good time to arrive at well-considered decisions. Venus's long sad conjunction with Saturn concludes this week. Much mourning can end. We have had grief and tears since mid-March. Now Venus has entered an unusually long-lasting friendly trine with Mars. Affections flow more smoothly up to mid-June. This week Mercury is at point focus between a Mars and Pluto opposition. I would beware of any unnecessary air or other travel. There is vitality and courage, but there could be haste and jumping to conclusions. Rabbit holes. Better, intuitive grasp and shrewdness. Then the well considered decisions already mentioned. A major issue is living up to your ideals. Jupiter square Saturn is karma asking: What are you doing to fulfill your mission, your destiny? This question increases in intensity till the aspect is exact on June 13-15. Then it continues till the end of July. You are preparing to pass a test, perhaps self-administered but still crucial. Powers and talents should not be neglected but employed responsibly. Don't forget the potentially wonderful trine of Mars and Venus. Be with someone you love, or attract a harmonious love life through kindness. Spending on pleasure and popularity comes naturally. ° Week of May 10-17 ° Responsible Kindness ° Cosmic Piper Saturday 10: Moon in Libra is void-of-course until entering Scorpio at 12:59p PT/ 3:59p ET Sunday 11: Moon in Scorpio goes void-of-course at 11:38p PT Moon shall be full Monday at 9:57a PT

Message for Friday 9 May 2025

 Message for Friday 9 May 2025

• Soulful • A horseman, armed, is watching the waning moon in poetic, soulful isolation. Independent and domineering, he's forsaken by friends and colleagues. Serving himself alone, he is left alone. A crow standing on a waterpot is designing and crafty, planning mischief. Eventually he's reflected in his own designs, injuring himself by his envy. Yesterday I saw a man in a gorgeous robe stand on a balcony speaking in three languages to an adoring multitude beneath him. "A man rides a horse near the edge of a cliff, looking down into a valley where people are at work." He is qualified to govern others but not without danger or envy. A pope tries to be humble in order to be superior, living out the paradoxes of spirituality. Leo XIV and other shepherds want to cast benedictions on the world as refreshing as "early morning dew." Each of us has unexpected resources at hand when life seems to have defeated us. We can deny personal limitation and tap into a new morning's moist rejuvenation. • Friday • Soulful • Cosmic Piper Moon in Libra

Message for Thursday 8 May 2025

Message for Thursday 8 May 2025 ° Favored ° Early morning dew is nature's eternal

Refreshment, a benediction on human efforts, Endorsement of rejuvenated aims. A person on a horse looks down into A valley where people work. He undertakes Wary, maybe dangerous, government of others. A woman lightly clad lies in a field of violet-colored Flowers. Is she weak and incompetent Or merely gentle and inoffensive? In time she shall arise with nature's blessing. Then, richly attired, she stands alone. With a gifted beneficent nature, and Goodness of heart, she attracts friends and Attention, luxury and favor. ° Thursday ° Favored ° Cosmic Piper Moon is void-of-course until entering Libra at 0:07a PT/ 3:07a

Message for Wednesday 7 May 2025

 Message for Wednesday 7 May 2025

• Force of Character • A man cruelly beating a mule is a savage, Indeed a criminal. Kindness is a human Badge, repaid by laws of karma. Glass blowers have developed a deft skill, Contributing an enduring form to things as if Breathing divine fire into them. Are there few favoring circumstances? Yet there is force of character. A person Climbs a rock during a fierce storm Amid fashes of lightning, at last Gaining security and comfort. He has made a discovery! Can he Make it known? A new idea could dawn On the world through his agency. • Wednesday • Force of Character • Cosmic Piper Moon in Virgo goes void-of-course at 9:12p PT Karmically sobering third of this week is with us, exact tonight and ending Friday morning

Message for Tuesday 6 May 2025

 Message for Tuesday 6 May 2025

• Faith • 1 "An outhouse with a ladder conducting homeless ones to a dark loft" suggests concern for those casually termed vagrants or beggars. Each one of them has his or her own story. 2 A rustic scene includes a wood with wild undergrowth and multicolored plants. Country folk may lack learning yet manifest natural wisdom. Ruggedness combines with richness of heart. 3 "Glass blowers" have developed creative skill of hand and genius of self-application. They manifest the divine breath plus the heat of living enthusiasm. Arts and crafts are slow-working yet deft magic. 4 What is danger? Being in the wrong place at the wrong time? "A small cottage is at the base of a high mountain. Jutting rocks overhanging it perpetually threaten its destruction." Yet Charubel says that the dweller in the cottage is "a truly good person; one who has implicit faith in the Most High." He trusts in That which is higher than the cottage and the rocks above it. • Tuesday • Faith • Cosmic Piper Moon in Virgo Karmically sobering third of this week begins about 11a PT, until early Friday

Message for Monday 5 May 2025

 Message for Monday 5 May 2025

□ Ruggedness □ Things are mixed. People are going through complex transitions. Some feel "We're in the end times." I don't believe that but it's hard to recall a time when so many were struggling with immediate life-challenges. Yet I keep saying that things are slowly getting better. Even, I said that today, May 5th, is the first day when the mournful month-long conjunction of Venus with Saturn, though continuing, is overtaken by the friendly trine between Venus and Mars. I hope. Yet the four symbols for the day are sobering: 1 Many seem like strangers with peculiar beliefs and opinions, unpopular. 2 "A comet with a long tail pointing toward the earth" represents notorious characters in the hands of evil powers. (There are plenty to choose from in the headlines.) They could become "the scourge of nations." Their influence is baneful on all with whom they have to do. 3 What is the remedy? "A Bolshevik propagandist"? Or is he one of the peculiar people of paragraph 1? Are revolutionists leavening social-political thinking or just making a bigger mess of things? Do the rants of propagandists on the left or right ever make a constructive difference? Wouldn't serious respectful discussion between them be more worthy and helpful? 4 It's the merry month of May, and in the woods wild undergrowth abounds, with plants of many kinds and colors. Fortunately they do not have political opinions. Rustic folk are fond of the beauties of country life. Ruggedness is not crude, but rich of heart and prodigal of energy. □ Monday □ Ruggedness □ Cosmic Piper Moon in Leo goes void-of-course at 6:05a PT until entering Virgo at 12:41p PT

Message for Week of May 3-10, and current Hermetic Epoch

Message for Week of May 3-10, and current Hermetic Epoch ○ The May-June Epoch ○ I'm looking at a chart that covers the whole of the Bright Hermetic Epoch which began April 26th and extends through June 29th. Based on just the motions and speeds of Mars, Venus and Mercury we have been in a troubling, sticky period since last October when Mars entered its rare slow phase. That shall end Saturday May 3rd about when you read this. Already it feels like most governmental operations and the financial markets are returning to normality. Then, on May 17th Venus also shall return to normal orbital speed. This is specially good for relationships because Venus shall also be exactly trine Mars at that time. Those you care about will be more easily available, less worried or worrisome. Let's look at the positions and symbols of five major planets in this chart for, essentially, May and June: Saturn: Conjunct Neptune, beware of drink and drugs. Square Jupiter, be willing to examine yourself, be your own confessor, and take charge of your soul's destiny. We are being judged by the laws of Deity, yet He is merciful to those who keep trying to live up to high ideals. Thereby male and female, purposeful and emotional aspects of self become interdependent in a deep realization. Jupiter: "A man declared bankrupt" is really just learning how to make transactions more convenient, being delivered from penalties felicitously. With a square to Saturn and Neptune, of course fraud and scam should be avoided. Jupiter's other aspects are excellent, sextiles to Mars and Venus on both sides. Much is available: "A baronial mansion with spacious park abounding with gigantic trees" "denotes a person not given to change, a student of antiquity, a profound scholar." There's our spring-summer reading. "A large well-cultivated tract of land" has the keyword Fruitfulness. Mars: Working toward a square with Uranus, there are despotic or cruel tendencies. Prisons will not be "reformatories" until prison management is reformed. "A human face is surrounded by a coiled serpent; a raised hand also appears." There is diplomacy and success in commanding others through insight into character, with the keyword Penetration. "Chickens intoxicated" warn against "the futility of a dependence on physical agency for spiritual results." There could be, rather, accentuated self-mobilization. Then, with Mars's good aspects to Jupiter and Venus, "on a high mountain plateau one of the ancient magi is performing his morning devotions in the sunlight." There's nothing like beginning the day in alignment with the Highest. Sol and Mercury conjoined: "An airplane falling" is a plunge into experience with disregard of consequences; however, the dive can be righted, thus reestablishing control of the flight at a crisis point. Sometimes it appears that "a monster plant" is growing rapidly as if propelled by magic power. A lively two months. Yet when things get out of hand, a woman of pleasing appearance offers a glass of healing fluid to a child. There is kindness, sympathy and benevolence achieved through self-sacrifice. Venus: An immodest woman stands behind a man playing with colored balls. The exultation of Mars and Venus in a trine can sometimes be careless or foolish pleasures. But we have "a nice villa on the northeast side of a green field surrounded by shrubberies." Nothing essential is missing. We are content with the adequacy that keeps us. And there is "an open window and a net curtain blowing into a cornucopia." Unmerited good fortune? No, "the human and cosmic facets of reality in a convenient and joyful realization of each other." The keyword is Munificence. So may it be. Cosmic Piper ○ Week of May 3-10, and May-June Epoch ○ Saturday 3: Moon goes void-of-course at 1:03a PT until entering Leo at 4:30a PT Sunday 4: Moon in Leo

Message for Friday 2 May 2025

 Message for Friday 2 May 2025

° Reassurance ° The recent power outage in Spain and Portugal is now blamed on their overdependance on solar power. This happened while Mars in Leo, sign of the sun, was exactly opposite Pluto in Aquarius, sign of electricity. A dog runs carrying a bone, another Runs in pursuit. Humans have laws Yet are unlawful, pursuing the unprofitable. An old man in a simple worn gown Clasps two bags of gold at his breast But would never call himself a miser. He envisions himself dressed in scarlet And purple, aimed with sword and spear. Proud and confident, independent. he Asserts his opinions while fond of display. Others, less acquisitive, gather beneath the sky Of a spring evening to gaze at constellations Whirling slowly with earth's motion, granting A subtle, calm, inward reassurance. ° Friday ° Reassurance ° Cosmic Piper Moon in Cancer