Message for Weekend of July 19-20, 2025

 Message for Weekend of July 19-20, 2025

Saturday 19: 1 Lofty aspirations and keen mental powers are symbolized by "a flying arrow." Yet there is no guarantee that it shall hit its mark while Mercury is retrograde. If not, try again. 2 In "a swimming race" some contestants are eliminated. Unstable balance requires self-pointed effectiveness to assure survival. 3 "A modern Pocahontas" brings to unity older and fresher facets of human culture. She uncovers surprising compatibility through interpersonal adjustments. 4 Stress and strain can be clearance and reconstruction. There is "sunshine just after a storm." Recuperative powers insure complete recovery. Moon in Taurus goes void-of-course at 11:45p PT Sunday 20: 1 With Venus squaring Mars while Mercury is retrograde, there's a possibility of sorrow through feeling one has been deserted. "A woman in an attitude of detection covers her otherwise naked breast with the hair of her head." There can be blighted hopes or betrayal, in appearance, but one should exercise extreme patience. 2 A giant amusing himself with a child's doll, or maybe video games, seems foolish for a while but may for some reason require such temporary diversion. 3 A man driving a bull or ox symbolizes someone with feet on the ground, close to nature and thereby prospering. 4 "An automobile caravan" shows experience on the move in a civilized society. "Self goes out very courageously to meet its world" thereby curing the perils of paragraph 1. The keyword is Variety. Moon in Gemini beginning at 3:23a PT; void-of-course for 3 hours 38 minutes before that. ° Weekend of July 19-20, 2025 ° Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 18 July 2025

 Message for Friday 18 July 2025

• Recovery • 1 "A man sitting upon his heels and breaking stones with a hammer" has few resources and brings little to fruition, but has honestly earned what he has. 2 If he were to enter "a swimming race" the impartial competition could impel him to prove his effectiveness or excellence. 3 When there is "a storm in a canyon" we are challenged to rise in supremacy over each momentary crisis. Nature's intensification can unleash our own powers and resources. 4 Then there is "Sunshine just after a storm." Recuperative powers allow the self to regrasp itself after a major issue, or everyday stress and strain. A fresh approach to experience is Recovery. • Friday • Recovery • Cosmic Piper Moon is void-of-course until entering Taurus at 1:00a PT/ 4:00a ET. Mercury turned retrograde at 9:46p Thursday/ 0:46a Friday, until August 11th. Dreaming, visioning, reminiscing and pondering are normal during such times. During the same period, Venus and Mars in a square make for (possibly constructive) tension in relationships. Don't be in a hurry.

Message for Thursday 17 July 2025

 Message for Thursday 17 July 2025

• From Vexation to Acumen • 1 An eccentric path is followed by 'a meteor or falling star." Some people's appearances are bright but spasmodic and evanescent. There is Uncertainty not only about the Epstein case but about much in our personal lives. 2 "A ram standing on a barren rock pawing the ground" is headstrong, a formidable opponent yet a warm-hearted, enthusiastic friend. His impulses are hard to restrain. 3 "A woman holding a bundle of sticks, her hair disordered, wanders in search of something." Mercury is hardly moving, motionless, at its geocentric station at 9:46p PT, thereafter retrograde until August 11th. Nothing is clear and the wandering woman is confused. The Epstein case tangles and tangles to the wrangling didcomfiture of all. We are likely to take on more than we can complete, with resulting vexation and trouble. 4 Where are the answers? Spelled out by a ouija board? Maybe we can see our experience "steadily and whole" while Mercury is motionless. We can "master life through creative sensitiveness to illimitable potentials." The keyword is Acumen. • Thursday • From Vexation to Acumen • Cosmic Piper Moon in Aries goes void-of-course at 5:39p PT Karmically sobering third of this week ends by midmorning

Message for Wednesday 16 July 2025

Message for Wednesday 16 July 2025 ● Estranged Divination ● 1 "A ram stands upon a barren rock, pawing the ground." "A formidable opponent and a warm-hearted, generous friend. Effusive, enthusiastic and restless; perhaps poor yet eminent." The keyword is Impulse. 2 "A man in a mask stands beneath the shadow of a tree at night. At his feet there is a dead cow." Remind you of anyone in the news? Someone wily and acquisitive, but perhaps deceived in his own powers. The keyword is Plunder. 3 "A horseman aimed, moving across a desert toward some woody hills" is self-willed and daring, carrying out his own designs without the aid of others. An honorable pioneer, he may be estranged from kindred: taciturn, self-contained and self-reliant. 4 In the woods, shall he and the masked man work "a ouija board" together for "effective anticipation or true rational divination"? Coming events have a myriad of signatures on which they can count if sensitive to them. Such acumen lifts them beyond any shadow-obscured past or future. ● Wednesday ● Estranged Divination ● Cosmic Piper Moon in Aries 

Karmically sobering third of this week continues until Thursday morning 

Message for Tuesday 15 July 2025

 Message for Tuesday 15 July 2025

• Amusement or Dedication? • 1 Selfishness and competition are emblemized by "two dogs running, one carrying a bone, the other in pursuit of it." Tariffs? 2 "A giant amusing himself with a child's doll" sounds to me like Elon Musk with his robots and projected futile interplanetary travel. Or others wasting time on video games. 3 "A volcano in eruption" suggests that "irresistible outbursts may be merely the total mobilization of deeper potentials." Explosions can be psychological rather than material; creative passion. 4 "A small church, highly ornate in sacerdotal display" is a physical or online meeting place for those very religious, whether narrow-minded and bigoted or not. We all seem to need fellowship with those of like-minded dedication. • Tuesday • Amusement or Dedication? • Cosmic Piper Moon in Pisces goes void-of-course at 10:11a PT until entering Aries at 9:33p PT Karmically sobering third of this week is with us, at its peak in early morning hours of Wednesday With both those strikes against us, plus Mercury very close to its retrogradation, we may feel lost. Routine things are probably best.

Message for Monday 14 July 2025

Message for Monday 14 July 2025

• Youthfulness Recovered •

1 A young laurel tree is broken by the wind and withered. Unforeseen misfortunes frustrate but do not destroy hopefulness and sincere affections. Sepharial recommends self-restraint and contentment.

2 "A giant amusing himself with a child's doll" has strong abilities but rather than using them wisely condescends to play with dolls or video games.

3 Or one could, like an orangutan, go primitive and demonstrate dexterity to meet the exigencies of any unique situation. One strips to fundamentals, standing proudly on one's own.

4 Are you going to a restaurant or inn? "A burly man with an apron before him" is perhaps the manager, or someone else "catering for the public." Bon Appetite! and Cheers!

• Monday • Youthfulness Recovered •

Cosmic Piper

Moon in Pisces

Mercury is moving very slowly prior to its retrogradation (geocentric) for three weeks beginning Thursday this week. Slow! Draggy! But also reflective and meditative in happy ways if we are not too impatient. The effects of the retrograde or slow period began June 29th and continue till August 25th. Let's be peaceful and calm through the out-of-pattern tangles whatever they may be.

Message for Weekend of July 12-13, 2025

Message for Weekend of July 12-13, 2025 Saturday 12: 1 An ornamental handkerchief symbolizes the chivalrous relations between a lady and her knight. There can be refined personal manners with exceptional charm. 2 "A woman of pleasing appearance offers a glass of some fluid to a child." There is kindness and sympathy, a willingness to help the sick and needy, with thorough knowledge of both human nature and the arts or sciences. Gentle benevolence is inspiring and healing. 3 A prima donna singing contributes the results of her skill and talent to all. They live vicariously in her rich excellence. 4 In "A pageant," there is "high magic in the public display of a significance exalting inarticulate ideals." There is "an irresistible heightening of self-significance across the whole face of experience." Moon in Aquarius goes void-of-course at 12:46p PT/ 3:46p ET (Saturday) Sunday 13: 1 In the continuing *pageant," pre-human or primitive power also has its place, symbolized by 2 "An orangutan." "There are always unmobilized resources in self to meet the exigencies of any unique situation." One can rise to any possible occasion through Dexterity, the keyword. 3 "A group of vagrants or gypsies are seated around a cauldron in which food is preparing." Sepharial says this indicates excessive appetites which lead one to "leave his native land and wander over the world, never satisfied with things as they are; leaving many golden opportunities behind." Still, there's a feast in the cauldron. 4 "A woman awaiting a sailboat" has creative poise and a quiet range of perspective. The consummation of idea rather than the pyramiding of facts provides enduring reality. Her ship may come in. The keyword is Equanimity. Moon is void-of-course in Aquarius until entering Pisces at 4:46p PT (Sunday) Cosmic Piper  

¤ Weekend of July 12-13, 2025 ¤ 

Message for Friday 11 July 2025

 Message for Friday 11 July 2025

• Graceful Dominion • 1 "An ornamental handkerchief" symbolizes chivalry (a knight with his lady) and gracefulness. 2 "Gondoliers in a serenade" are expressing the ever-exuberant music of life itself. There is a symphony of relationships and sentiments. 3 "A pageant" is a public display of excellence and inarticulate ideals, a demonstration of magical fellowship. 4 "A woman holding a globe in one hand and a scepter in the other" has knowledge and power. There is some pride and self-love, but also conscientiousness and self-reliance. The keyword is Dominion. • Friday • Graceful Dominion • Cosmic Piper Moon is void-of-course in Capricorn until entering Aquarius at 10:22a PT/ 1:22p ET

Message for Thursday 10 July 2025

 Message for Thursday 10 July 2025

° Gentility ° 1 "A large bubble floats on the water. All colors blend in it." There are idealists and occultists who admire the sublime, beautiful and transcendental. Meanwhile they may be strangers to the ordinary world. 2 "An escutcheon contains a harp and a gauntlet" as representing the musical and military worlds. There is musical talent plus an admixture of gentleness and irritability, of playfulness and gravity. The square between Venus and Mars from July 4 through August 9 is not generally happy for relationships, but manageable. 3 "In a peaceful valley lies a lake on which a swan is floating. At the back rises a high mountain." There is contentment and quiet happiness. Manners are courteous and graceful, the body elegant. 4 "A family tree" emblemizes an established tradition endowing an individual with guidance from his forebears through their spiritual presence in his blood. Personal integrity reflects family Gentility, the keyword. This could be in "extended family" as well. ° Thursday ° Gentility ° Cosmic Piper Moon in Capricorn goes void-of-course at 1:38p PT/ 4:38p ET, which is the exact moment of the Full Moon of Cancer-Capricorn. Karmically sobering third of this week ends midmorning.

Message for Wednesday 9 July 2025

 Message for Wednesday 9 July 2025

• Developing Judgment • 1 "The letter Q appears" signifying dissatisfaction. People do not take things on trust. They are quibbling, querulous, cantankerous and quarrelsome. Mention Epstein's client list to anyone! Who is not a liar in this case? 2 So we may retreat to "a cluster of faded exotics, very sweet and sickly to the smell." Timorous of exposure to winds of criticism, we live easily in luxury, without mettle, while fond of pleasure and satiety-yielding stimulants. Sigh! 3 Who "provides an over-all ordering for each moment of history" by means of "a strong hand supplanting political hysteria"? Any world leader you know of? Transient crises provide opportunities for self-discovery and wise use of Power, the keyword. 4 Maybe the key person is "a woman holding a book in one hand and a pair of scales in the other." She has learning, dispassionate judgment and elegant manners, though is somewhat cold or impassive. She succeeds famously in the duties of her profession. • Wednesday • Developing Judgment • Cosmic Piper Moon is void-of-course until entering Capricorn at 1:56a PT/ 4:56a ET Karmically sobering third of this week continues until Thursday midmorning

Message for Tuesday 8 July 2025

 Message for Tuesday 8 July 2025

□ Competent Power, Where? □ 1 What does "an artificial globe " mean? I'm not traveling but know people who are. Does the planet seem artificial to us because international politics is such a hideous mess? 2 "The letter Q" denotes a quibbler; someone querulous, cantankerous and quarrelsome. He does not take anything for granted or on trust and may consider "all men liars" save himself. Many feel this about the way the government is handling the Epstein case. Trump and Musk seem to feel it about each other. 3 "Two men standing in a wood fight a duel over a rich purple-gold vesture and a casket of jewels." Some are jealous and warlike. Tariffs? They accept hazards to gain a competence. The keyword is Chance. 4 Who on the world stage is currently holding out "a strong hand supplanting political hysteria"? Netanyahu, Putin, Xi, Trump, someone else? "There is always a counsel of confusion to take over when events are allowed to drift or when the immediate leadership proves deficient." Who is untimid enough to take charge and mitigate hysteria with Power, the keyword? □ Tuesday □ Competent Power, Where? □ Cosmic Piper Moon in Sagittarius is void-of-course. Karmically sobering third of this week is at its peak all day and late at night, continuing through Wednesday till early Thursday. No answers? Wait prayerfully.

Message for Monday 7 July 2025

 Message for Monday 7 July 2025

• Dignified Popularity • 1 There is a desire for travel and discovery. One can be a student of life and the world with "an artificial globe." 2 "A man of venerable and kindly aspect, dressed like a Minister of State" occupies positions of trust and rises to eminence in his sphere of work, manifesting Dignity. 3 When there is purity in motive and a fullness of self-giving, one is like "a bride with her veil snatched away." Some invitations are lasting. 4 "The sails of a ship are unreefed, and the masts decorated with a profusion of bunting, on a calm sea." There is happiness, prosperity, honor, plaudits and popularity. • Minday • Dignified Popularity • Cosmic Piper Moon in Sagittarius Karmically sobering third of this week begins about 7p PT, reaching a peak late Tuesday and early Wednesday, ending by Thursday morning Moon goes void-of-course at 2:31p PT/ 5:31p ET

Message for Weekend of July 5-6, 2025

 Message for Weekend of July 5-6, 2025

☆ Holiday Weekend ☆ Saturday 5: 1 "A boy molded in his mother's aspiration for him" lives up to her exactions on his character. He and the family line sustain each other. 2 "A man scaling a wall by means of a rope ladder" faces danger daringly and courageously, rising to a position of honor. 3 "Early morning dew" symbolizes Rejuvenation on this holiday weekend. 4 "A group of people who have overeaten and enjoyed it" are experiencing Satiety. There can be "an effective and smooth demonstration of human competence." There is richness in life's normal manifestations. Moon in Scorpio Sunday 6: 1 "A man before a square with a manuscript scroll before him" adjusts practical realities to ideal potentials. The keyword is Profundity. 2 "Children on a swing in a huge oak tree" experience Delight beneath the overshadowing of a universal life and order. 3 "A troubador stands with one foot on the ledge of a rock, his instrument flung at his side, listening to the music of a cascade falling at his feet." There are refined tastes and a love for things beautiful; a roaming life flowing with happiness. Talents are real but not exploited. The keyword is Harmony. 4 "A bride with her veil snatched away" has become aware that having chosen a path indicates a capacity for profiting from its consequences. The keyword is Invitation. There is fullness of self-giving. Moon in Scorpio goes void-of-course 2 minutes before entering Sagittarius at 3:07p PT (Sunday 6th) Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 4 July 2025

 Message for Friday 4 July 2025

☆ Aspiration and Rejuvenation ☆ 1 "A boy molded in his mother's aspiration for him" is self-explanatory on this holiday. The ideals of the family line continue in one way or another. 2 "A very old man facing a vast dark space to the northeast" could be you pondering "an absoluteness of self as a completeness of expectation." "There are no dark moments of outlook that cannot yield inspiration or assurance." The keyword is Sanction. 3 "Early morning dew" brings the refreshment that comes with every recurrent cycle of experience. Nature casts a benediction on human effort. There are always unexpected resources. The keyword is Rejuvenation. 4 Domestic life, whether with family, friends or neighbors, is happy and prosperous. People show forth kind dispositions. Friendships are sincere and advantageous. "Two yellow flowers grow beneath the shade of a luxuriant tree." The great protect the humble, and there is Security on this Dependence-Independence Day. ☆ Friday ☆Aspiration and Rejuvenation ☆ Cosmic Piper Moon in Libra is void-of-course until entering Scorpio at 2:34a PT. Moon remains in the Via Combusta, the Burning Way--fireworks?

Message for Thursday 3 July 2025

 Message for Thursday 3 July 2025

• Indolent yet Real Intelligence • 1 Tastes are luxurious and artistic. There is wealth and influence, perhaps with inordinate love of ease. The moon being void-of-course all day makes for lazy or unusual scheduling. "A dark man, richly appareled and surrounded by servants and courtiers, reclines on a couch." 2 This pleasant scene could be punctuated by something pernicious or pestilent, such as "a bomb exploding in mid-air." Noisy fireworks? 3 "Two heads looking out and beyond the shadows" share stereoscopic vision. We have transcendental powers of comprehension. The inner and outer facets of reality merge in effectiveness of judgment. The keyword is Intelligence. 4 "A caduceus lies between two moons, one crescent and the other gibbous." A retentive memory and penetrating mind accomplish wonders in the versatile pursuit of subtle sciences. The moon being void-of-course makes for a changeful temper with fits of alternating hope and despondency. The keyword is Knowledge. We can learn to ride our moods. • Thursday • Indolent yet Real Intelligence • Cosmic Piper The moon in Libra is both void-of-course and in the Via Combusta all day. The four symbol paragraphs adumbrate what this could mean.

Message for Wednesday 2 July 2025

 Message for Wednesday 2 July 2025

● Keep Your Head ● 1 There are some powerfully negative images today. "A man with a scourge in his right hand is driving two slaves in manacles." Some of the provisions in the Big Ugly Bill are cruel, taking away medical and nutritional benefits from the most needy. Some politicians seem to have become despotic tyrants without realizing it. 2 Where is the following happening? "A dagger lying beside a skull" denotes "one inclined to cruelty and oppression. If he does not hold his passions in check some fatality will come upon him. He is melancholy, taciturn and capable of keen feelings; then looks back with secret self-condemnation on his unfruitful or tragic work." This is a definite warning to all to whom it might apply. 3 It might be time, rather, to emulate "a hedgehog" of harmless disposition, secretive and shunning the public gaze. Thereby we may defend ourselves. 4 "A man making a futurist drawing" could be you or me, or Elon or Donald. Let me try. We entered a two month Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch on Monday June 30th, lasting until August 25th. It is not bad, but interesting. At worst, people get spooked by wildly hopeful or darkly worrisome fantasies or assumptions. Be prepared for UFO lore oozing out of the cracks on Twitter and elsewhere. As for politics, be assured that everyone on the right and left is wrong while everyone is also right. It's right down Alice's rabbit hole until the last week of August. Enjoy playing chess with the Red Queen, choose the best side of the mushroom, and keep your head. Maybe the hedgehog of paragraph 3 knows what to do. ● Wednesday ● Keep Your Head ● Cosmic Piper Moon in Libra goes void-of-course at 7:31p PT Karmically sobering third of this week continues until about 3a PT Thursday