Message for Friday 20 March 2020

Friday 20 March 2020

}Creativity{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 3:23a PT | 6:23a ET | 10:23a UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:01a PT | 12:01p ET | 4:01p UT

until it enters Pisces tomorrow at 5:34a PT | 8:34a ET | 12:34p UT

The sun enters Aries (the vernal equinox) at 3:51a UT (which is late Thursday at 8:51p PT | 11:51p ET)

"Swimming against the current" seems to be the name of the game during this historically peculiar time.  Or, one could just decide against normal conventional life, choose a more deep-stirring path, and emulate "a woman entering a convent."  This is "social distancing" combined with consecration to some enduring allegiance.

"Two awards for bravery in war" could go to any of thousands of medical personnel, or others such as delivery people who are braving the "contrary current" for the sake of the rest of us.  Many are giving more than they receive in return, in one way or another.  This redounds to their ethical, karmic credit.

It's the first day of Spring! I have been predicting that this would be a milestone in the crisis, toward something better, before the further important milestone of March 30 when a new Bright Epoch begins.  Maybe we ought not to expect too much at once but better alignments should be in place for health and for the economy.  (More in tomorrow's report for the coming week.)  The Sabian symbol for the first degree of Aries is one I have never understood well, "A woman rises out of water, a seal rises and embraces her."  If this is taken into quiet meditation it might reveal something.  Dr. Jones says it indicates a realization of "completely unconditioned potentiality."  This fits nicely with "A man holding the end of a rope in his hand, the other end out of sight in the heavens."  Charubel says this denotes a psychological power to "procure esoteric truth at will consciously."  "Esoteric truth" on a void-of-course day might fit less well into exposition than into poetry or music.  Let's be creative.

{Friday}  {Creativity}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 19 March 2020

Thursday 19 March 2020

}Discontent Morphs into Discernment{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Friday morning at 3:24a PT | 6:24a ET | 10:24a UT

It's impossible to love all the symbols for the degrees of the zodiac bequeathed to us, but one cannot deny their accuracy.  For today, "a lion raging against the bars of its cage" seems exactly what many (especially young) people feel.  It's a matter of rights and privileges, and adjudicating or adjusting them.  Sepharial says that the lion needs to "adapt himself to his environment" which requires temporary restraint.  "Two man striving to hold a mad bull with ropes" likewise suggests self-will and a powerful desire to have one's own way, frustrated by the social situation. 

Even those who feel they can enjoy themselves for a while may sense the lurking constraints which threaten loss of job, money or liberty.  They could get philosophic about it and retreat into meditation.  "The Great Stone Face" is that of one who discerns quietly the endless cycles through which we pass, with a sense of assured immortality.  Therefore his or her character is settled, and encouraging to others.

"Two awards for bravery in war" suggests social and political stewardship and self-dedication, preserving values for all through individual character inspired by idealism.  This brings recognition, which then recycles into an expanded wish to be heroic.  In times like these, this could be in small ways which nevertheless have an impact.

{Thursday}  {Discontent Morphs into Discernment{

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 18 March 2020

Wednesday 18 March 2020

\Drifting, Repositioning, Seeking/

Moon in Capricorn-->Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third of this week remains until Friday morning.

It may be near the peak of intensity at the following moment when the moon goes v-of-c

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:49p PT | 8:49p ET | 12:49a(Th) UT

until it enters Aquarius at 6:17p PT | 9:17p ET | 1:49a(Th) UT  (about a half hour later)

"A man upon a raft floating in open sea" has the keyword Isolation.  Oh, it could be what many of us are feeling.  Sepharial says "Let him take in hand the rudder of intelligence and spread his sails in hope."  He and we may resemble the "general accepting defeat gracefully."  But we have loyalty to long-range goals, which translates into expediency when things are difficult. 

Should we attribute some of our problems to our own mistakes?  Maybe have followed inherent impulses too willingly with not enough power of direction and adaptation?  Then our arrow could miss the mark as it declines, unless we could marvelously change its course in mid-trajectory.  Maybe we could, by psychokinesis, if we don't tipple into excess of desire and passion which makes us "overturn a wineglass" rather than be soberly vigilant.  Or, we could overturn the wineglass into the sink.

There are deeper levels.  Maybe with all the time alone some will be developing mental resources, studying, climbing a ladder which reaches toward inspiration and profound speculation.  Mystery has its attractions.  Those who penetrate into it have charisma.  One could be like "one who is sought after while himself seeking none."

{Wednesday}   /Drifting, Repositioning, Seeking\

P. S.  As to the endurance of the pandemic, I have been saying that things get better on the ^20th and on the ^30th, that is, beginning on those two dates and extending into April.  Of course that doesn't mean the pandemic will end by then although that would be glorious.  At least some things should be better, or we will know how to cope with the situation better and feel more relaxed.  Maybe those government checks will be in our mailboxes . . . 

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 17 March 2020

Tuesday 17 March 2020

\Through Intense Feelings Toward Stability/

Moon in Capricorn

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Friday morning

Obviously there is a worldwide health crisis, but in astrological terms there is an even greater "work crisis" or "career challenge."  That is probably because the virus itself does not hit nearly as many people as the strategies to fight it do, that is, their disruption of ordinary scheduling and business and cash flow.  Businesses are hurting and having to reorganize, as are individuals who are professionals or temps or even those retired.  "What is my purposive function in society?" is a question everyone is trying to answer, probably without words but as trying to sense what one's mission is, what is worth doing.  This of course will be easier after the vernal equinox on the ^20th and even easier after the new Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on the ^30th, as I have been saying.  Those could be milestone points for you.

Meanwhile, in today's symbols, you may be that "general accepting defeat gracefully."  That means realistic practicality.  Rather than immediately starting another battle (maybe involving business, job or money) doomed to failure, you take a pause to determine what is expedient, and stay with that for the time being.  There is also "a girl bathing surreptitiously in the nude," and because of the pandemic she does not want you to see her, but nevertheless there could be love peeking around various corners because Venus and Mars have begun a long-term trine, effective by ten degrees from March 10 through May 14.  This may be felt more strongly in the (this time) affectionate month of April.  

Lofty inspirations lead to mental speculation.  Scholarship of the right sort elevates humanity.  Many college students are now being forced to study online from their homes.  This is cumbersome (Dark Hermetic Epoch until March 30) but could still result in wonderful insights.  At another level, there is the search for a cure for the virus.  This could go well although the results remain on hold.  At a still higher level there is the search for the spiritual healing of illness, which many face most deeply when actually ill.  I cannot say I am grateful for illnesses I have had, but some of them have helped me learn how to pray.  Man's extremity can be God's opportunity.  "A serpent standing erect within a circle of fire" learns from the ordeal to rise beyond the suffering.  "He will take life at a crisis and turn it back from the Gates of Death."  May such divine healing be the lot of all who have been infected. 

Those not infected who want some lighter moments in their lives may be genial and convivial. In having a good time they might go too far, losing control of desires which are like "a wine glass overturned."  This is a familiar story.  Escape of a legitimate sort does not have to turn into a fiasco.  Rather there can be justice, peace, liberality; fraternity or sorority.  "Good works" for others do not have to be virtue-conscious burdens but can be light and free, easily shared, a grace of friendly interaction.  If that has to be at a distance for awhile, okay. 

{Tuesday}  /Through Intense Feelings Toward Stability\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 16 March 2020

Monday 16 March 2020

\In It Together/

Moon in Sagittarius-->Capricorn

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:35a PT | 5:35a ET | 9:35a UT

until it enters Capricorn at 9:26a PT | 12:26p ET | 4:26p UT

I can't say I like the picture this chart is showing, but we'll get through it. 

Work seems emphasized.  One has a position in the community determined partly by one's work and that is important.  

We all know the stock market, plus business in general, is in trouble and this symbol seems to focus on that:  "Two dogs running, one carrying a bone, the other in pursuit of it." This could be the bears versus the bulls in investment, one invested short, the other long, so that when one wins the other loses. It's happening.  I would rather ignore the symbol "an earthquake" for it is said to signify "sudden and unexpected calamities."  Patient and humble endeavors are recommended rather than daring ones.  One has "a greater need of care and stronger faith in God, oneself and humanity."  

Paperwork, accounts, and such are emphasized, either one's own or those which are public.  The crisis is obviously forcing many in government and out of it to do extra accounting.  Opposed to all that is a trend toward incontinence or extravagance, "a wineglass overturned."  Drinking to cure one's troubles obviously has its limits.  And many are warning against visiting bars and restaurants at this time.

"A party entering a large canoe" is ironic because we are being told to avoid such crowding.  What it means is the ordering of community efforts in a protective manner, which is going on with a lot of fortitude and good faith.  Thanks! to all those who are working overtime to confine the virus or mitigate it or end it.  The "canoe" means "we're in this together, like it or not."  "A relay race" means we do not want to "pass on" a virus, but "pass on" the torch of our valiant endeavors so that each one can do his or her part.  That way the race against infection can be won.  Likewise the race toward restored stability in the business sector.  As for personal meanings, you can find those yourself, some effort you make in a project which you transmit to someone else involved in it.

{Monday}   /In It Together\

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  For longer-term projections, please see what was posted here as a weekly forecast on Friday.  

Unconscious Cosmic Timing is Happening

Unconscious Cosmic Timing is Happening

Examples:

Bill Maher has put his show on "hiatus" for the next week. Cosmic Piper predicted that things would get somewhat better beginning March 20, day of the Vernal Equinox, which is the week Maher will return. Maybe Maher subconsciously "knew" something. I believe successful people have a covert, subconscious "astrologer" within them, sensitive to things like the Mercury cycles.

Donald Trump said weeks ago that he thought the pandemic would subside "by April." People mocked him for that. However, Cosmic Piper has predicted that things will get better beginning March 30 because a new Bright Hermetic Epoch begins then, lasting into mid-May. Trump's "gut" is actually right very often.

The New York Public Library announced it will be closed until at earliest April 1. Mercury of course rules books, libraries, study, and all things mental or intellectual, and its new Bright Epoch will begin March 30 exactly when the Library is expected to re-open.

Unconscious or subconscious cosmic timing is a thing.

Cosmic Piper / H H H

Message for Week beginning Saturday 14 March 2020

Saturday-Sunday March 14-15, and Week ending Friday March 20

Yea, Accurate Predictions!

As destiny would have it, the President's very long press conference plus announcements came on just as I was ready to write this report, and I dutifully listened to all of it.  You like all of us are inundated with information about the virus and steps for ending it, so I shall say only this:  For weeks I have been predicting that things would get better beginning March 13, Friday, and that was the very day the President announced a national emergency plus new plans for combating the virus such as drive-through testing, waiving student loans temporarily, etc..  I consider that a "score" for Cosmic Piper.  Also, Friday was the first day that I read in the news that there is an "abatement" of the virus in China and Korea.  Yea!  Things in fact are getting better.  Also, on Friday the stock market recovered from some of its previous losses, with a whopping gain of 9 per cent.  A triple play for Cosmic Piper!  

The next date for improvements which I announced comes in a week, March 20, and I believe it will be another step forward in combating the virus and also for improvements in the stock market.  (It's the day the sun enters Aries, the Vernal Equinox, first day of Spring.)  And finally there should be another boost upward when a fresh Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on March 30.  April will be a better, easier month.

I have been working on weekly charts for years and believe that my research is near complete.  These weeks run from Saturday through Friday, for good reasons I won't discuss.  I am using a combination of the astrological aspects during the week, the planetary positions in signs and field systems, and the reigning symbols for the degrees of the zodiac, discovered by clairvoyants (two from the 19th century and one from the 20th).  

Week of March 14-20, 2020

~Victims Rescued by Good-Humored Heroes~

There are no planets in fire or air signs!  All ten are in earth and water signs.  This is rare.  Our feet are on the ground and we are dealing with the complexities of the physical world (earth) and our emotional reactions to it (water).  What about my health? and what about my money? are the big questions.  

Of course not everything is easy, but the chart does look smoother than the one for the previous week (of a huge Market crash plus pandemic panic).  We feel more in control.  Mars in Capricorn is the leading planet, cutting edge, high-focus planet and that means control, control, control.  We are control freaks!  We have to be according to our various governments who are trying to shepherd us past the virus, for example, and we are watching our bottom line as the Market and business conditions have to adjust to the severe restrictions on ordinary motion and trading.  Because Mars is in a trine with Venus in Taurus (her own sign where she is strong, and she is the planet of money), I am optimistic.  Yet because it is still a Dark Hermetic Epoch, there are going to be all of those backward, re- tracking, revising necessities, and things which apparently waste one's time or cause disruptions and annoyances.  We can deal with it.  Signor Borelli's symbol for Mars's position is "a plow" which he says indicates "arduous and protracted labors."  But force of character, definition of purpose, and incisiveness give us headway against obstructions.  We cut out a line for ourselves.  We may need to use "old and waste materials" or in other words whatever is at hand during a time when so many things are restricted or on hold.  

Here is what many of us will feel like during some moments:  "A man struggling in a lake; only the head out;  sometimes it appears to sink under, but rises again and again until at last a lifebuoy is thrown to him by a person witnessing; finally he is saved."  This could be the cruise industry, the airline industry, any business impacted by the virus-caused restrictions, an individual investor, or someone who actually gets the virus.  Says Charubel:  "He will be in trouble through debt; always involved and on the verge of bankruptcy; finally by some un-looked-for godsend he or she is delivered."  

"A squirrel hiding from hunters" could be people remaining home, isolated or quarantined.  Caution is appropriate.

Why do we have the symbol denoting "a leader and a commander of a society or a nation, in the capacity of president" who is "a ruler indeed," as if "a shepherd looking out for the locality of his sheep"?  Well, both Trump and Pence (as in the press conference) feel that they are in such a position, while many critics will say they are doing it all wrong.  The "shepherd" is also any government official, servant, doctor or nurse who is trying to help those affected by the pandemic, shepherding them to safety.  Cynics who question government programs and regimentation will mock all this; others will welcome it.  "Two awards for bravery in war" will be given willingly by those who are benefited by all this "shepherding."  It is good to give recognition where it is deserved.

"A man lying in a bed, a grey dark cloud hanging over him.  His chamber is also dark and gloomy.  Yet the horizon looks bright."  After heavy affliction, health and other comforts.  Yea!  

At another level there are prospects for intellectual-spiritual seeking of a venerable sort, using books and scientific instruments for finding the inner meaning of nature's workings.  One doing this is solitary, yet always surrounded by those who seek him, though he seeks none.  Mystery is charismatic.  One of the scientific tools is symbolically "a prism," which provides many-hued validation of hypotheses or hopeful premises.  Learning when alive is colorful.  

Finally, there can be moments of sheer fun and pleasure, let us hope.  "A boat on a large lake or river.  Two men are rowing in it."  This shows fondness for company and changes.  These two have a speculative bent of mind and love adventure.  Well, if these virus-evaders are seeking "social separation" I guess a boat on a lake is a good place to be . . .

{Week of March 14-20}  ~Victims Rescued by Good-Humored Heroes~

Daily Data

Saturday 14 March

/moon goes void-of-course in Scorpio at 3:07a PT | 6:07a ET | 10:07a UT

until it enters Sagittarius at 4:10a PT | 7:10a ET | 11:10a UT

Sunday 15 March

Moon in Sagittarius

Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 13 March 2020

Friday 13 March 2020

~Graceful in Defeat, Expectant in Composure~

Moon in Scorpio (no longer in the Via Combusta during waking hours in the Western Hemisphere)

Scorpio is a money-and-investment sign, and the moon there is in good aspect to all the planets in Capricorn (four) and Pisces (two)  Does that mean that the Market's downward plunge will be reversed?  I have found it unwise to predict the stock market, as have many others using conventional approaches.  I did predict that "things will get better" starting today, and better still beginning the 20th, and better yet beginning the 30th.  I stand by that.  Whether it means big progress in controlling the virus, or big progress in restoring calm to the markets, or both, I am not sure, but I am hopeful.  I believe you will feel better about things.

We will try to see more about trends in tomorrow's report for the coming week.

Friday:  Will the "Friday the 13th" bugaboo prevent investors from "buying the dip" and bringing up Market prices?  Nobody can say for sure.  If it's still too early for "market normalcy," perhaps it will begin on the 20th.  Bear markets always precede very bullish ones.  But it sometimes takes four months or so for the new trend to begin in earnest. However, please ignore any stock-market advice you get from me or anyone!  Usually "buy and hold" works best, if you ask Warren Buffett.

The symbols for the day are mixed.  "A sorrowing man subjected to harrowing trials" sounds like us, or like victims of the virus, or those who have lost huge amounts in the market.  Harvey Weinstein is not the only one who feels imprisoned. This symbol was also in the weekly chart.  So was "A general accepting defeat gracefully," which applies not only to Bernie Sanders but to many investors and businesspersons.  The "gracefully" part is what we have control over.  

If we are stalwart souls we will be like the "man habited in rough clothes hewing timber close to a log hut."  Being peacefully employed in labor or "useful arts" we both adapt ourselves to circumstances and shape our world from what nature has given us.  Utility is rooted in common sense yet is a way of cooperating with the Creator.  We cultivate the potentials among which we find ourselves and take charge of our private world, as if on "an inhabited island."  (We are being told to be alone much of the time in all the media.)

Whether losing money or gaining it, we might become idle and self-indulgent, overdoing a natural celebration of the work week's end.  Then we would bring trouble upon ourselves from the Nature we are trying to exploit.  Or our eagerness could be more innocent, like "a child of about five with a huge shopping bag."  This kid expects anything and everything from the world, but when his bag is full he will share some of it with companions, exalting enjoyment in everyone.

{Friday}  ~Graceful in Defeat, Expectant in Composure~

Cosmic Piper

P. S.  I hope you will often re-read these reports late at night or on the following day, to see how their indications applied to your experience.  For example, I had forgotten that in the report for Thursday I pretty much predicted the huge 10 per cent drop in the Dow:  "Unexpected, disastrous, and explosive loss is possible.  (I thought we had had enough of that this week.)"  Indeed, it was the worst drop in the Dow since October 1987.  I got that wording from one of the daily symbols.  I have learned to trust them.

Message for Thursday 12 March 2020

Thursday 12 March 2020

~Orphans Find Daddy?~

Moon in Scorpio

< moon in the Via Combusta

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Friday morning

It is tough.  I don't need to tell you.  The above difficult indications just for today are added to the problems of the Dark Hermetic (or Slow Mercury) Epoch until March 30.  The most complicated and disturbing things happen during those periods, as you must know if you've been reading these reports, and this time around they are VERY complicated and VERY disturbing.  Not only the pandemic but the resulting careening downhill of businesses and investments.  Even "the best and brightest," Harvard students, have been sent home, forced to leave their dormitories and pack their bags.  Unbelievable.  And that is an enormous hardship for many of them who are in the lower economic brackets.  They were given five days to get out!  Not only the pandemic but the often crazy, panicky reactions to the pandemic seem to be harrowing so many people, directly or indirectly.  Do world and national health organizations and governments know what to do?  Not really, it would appear.  Utter confusion, as to be expected in any DHE.  

A lot of this has to do with the multiple conjunction in Capricorn.  It is not a bad sign but a challenging one.  It manifests on the earth plane strongly---this time, in health and in money.  What is more "earthy" than those two things?  It rules the skin, and so I wonder how many are experiencing skin problems such as rashes.  Also, the virus can be transmitted through skin contact and so we are told to wash our hands and avoid touching our faces.  

Again, I say:  Some relief beginning on March 13, which is tomorrow (Friday).  More relief beginning March 20 when the sun enters Aries.  And more relief beginning March 30 when the next Bright Hermetic Epoch begins.  April should be a much better month for us, and the first two weeks of May at least.  

Thursday:  We feel lost or neglected, as if orphans.  Who is going to take care of us?  People are looking to government for help in getting through the pandemic and the financial crisis.  "The Union Jack" is a symbol of that very government (as it existed during the British Empire) and so the world's population may be hoping for some accord among big governments to ward off the crisis.  Dr. Jones says this symbol shows "the maximum protection which life at large will provide for the individual in general."  "The organized nation is able to bring benefits to man beyond anything any person or group could ever win in a lesser dimension of enterprise."  Of course, to receive those benefits one has to agree to some degree of supervision.

"A general accepting defeat gracefully" is any captain of industry or finance who now has to work with less capital or fewer prospects.  There appear to be millions of them worldwide.  When one thing doesn't work, another has to be tried, and that is known as expediency.  To be expedient gracefully contributes something to the morale of the nation and of individuals, employees, clients and customers.  It helps when all are also aware of deeper or higher realities, as of "spiritist phenomena."  Such subtle sensitivity provides a focus beyond the merely observable, which aids in re-forming the latter according to desire.

Unexpected, disastrous, and explosive loss is possible.  (I thought we had had enough of that this week.)  However, good aspects between the Pisces and Capricorn planets, including the sun-Neptune conjunction,  could be protective.  This is the last day of Venus's square with Saturn, and her trine with Mars is within ten degrees and tightening every day.  Therefore my projection that tomorrow could be the beginning of a better era.  "A portly man walks among pigeons which flock upon the ground at his feet."  He inspires confidence and faith in animals and young people.  He or she is benevolent and secure, walking by easy steps.  So may it be.

{Thursday}  ~Orphans Find Daddy?~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 11 March 2020

Wednesday 11 March 2020

}Meeting the Test{

Moon in Libra

< moon in the Via Combusta

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us until Friday morning

I have said several times that happier times may begin on Friday this week (the 13th) and go on through April into early May.  That is a deliberately optimistic view because we need something to look forward to.  But I think I may be right. Meanwhile, today does not look easy.  I do not know whether this will be the stock market's gyrations, or the pandemic, or reactions to the pandemic (which seem to be causing at least as much trouble as the illness itself), or something else in your own life.  Keep your faith going.  This looks like possibly the hardest day of the week. 

When it comes to sorrowful illnesses, it could be said that the sign Gemini is deeply connected with infections of the lungs or the respiratory system.  It is interesting that the four planets which have been lingering in Capricorn for many weeks--Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn---could be among the villains bringing this condition about, because Capricorn, often a sign of test or crisis, is the 8th house (death) of Gemini while Gemini is the 6th (health and illness) of Capricorn.  That is, they are in the fateful quincunx (five signs apart) relation.  Also, the sun and Neptune in Pisces are square to Gemini, and Pisces can be a bearer of communicable diseases (but also of wonderful things including good moods and music by osmosis).  Saturn leaves Capricorn on March 22, Mars on March 30, the very day a new Bright Hermetic Epoch shall begin.  And so if the virus lingers, we might look to those two dates as signals of hope for a recession of the trouble.

Also, things look better beginning when the sun enters Aries on March 20.  So if this Friday fails to bring relief of your major troubles, as I ventured to predict, perhaps in one or two more weeks such relief will be more fully accessible.

Wednesday:   Much seems harrowing, with delays and complications.  Isolated feelings are likely, and while being alone is not bad in itself, if it were to result in pride, perhaps of a vindictive sort, it would call forth enmity from someone or, seemingly, from "the world."  You may feel you have been patient long enough, but more endurance is required.

We still have the girl bathing privately in the nude, a symbol of glad immersion in nature's gifts, such as fresh clean water, symbolizing other restorative factors available to us.  Perhaps her sweet solitude is better than involvement with people, for we also have "a woman of dark countenance standing over a prostrate man."  While this could be nice vindication for a woman who has been mistreated, it could also show that there is dishonor and threat between the sexes, or within them, so that someone feels demeaned or violated by someone else.

Those who have not lost money through investment or business during these difficult days may laugh somewhat maliciously at the next symbol:  "An old man, poorly clad, stands beside a river, from which he collects bits of wood and straw with a rake."  This could be what some investors feel like.  The river of the Market rather than overflowing with luxuries has subsided to the point that one is lucky to extricate from it bits of straw.  Of course, it is probably not that bad but this could be a prevalent mood.  However, one can use even old or waste materials as resources for "keeping on keeping on."  Definition of purpose and protracted labor manifest force of character, and cannot ultimately fail.

{Wednesday}  {Meeting the Test}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 10 March 2020

Tuesday 10 March 2020

}Beyond Panic to Contentment{

Moon in Libra beginning at 3:04a PT | 6:04a ET | 10:04a UT  (void-of-course before that)

I will not try to sugar-coat the problems most are having during this specially harrowing Dark Hermetic Epoch.  It extends to March 30, though Mercury turned direct last night and that should help, and--as reported several times here--beginning Friday the thirteenth we should also get a smoother time of it, no matter what your particular issues.  The stock market crash plus the pandemic (or panic-emic perhaps) show that we are going through a tough time.  In today's report I will focus on the symbols of the day and look for some amelioration.  

It's easy to say that the DHE periods are good for inner search, introspection, psychological probing and realization, and spiritual quest and higher-world experience, but not always easy to bring such potentials into manifestation.  Whatever your spiritual path, it is specially important now.

Tuesday:  If with determination one has pursued goals, but some sudden event or experience seems to reveal that failure is coming, one can re-assess the situation rather than panic.  You can use old things in new ways, if determined once again to be incisive during protracted labors.

We rely on what we believe, on honored traditions inspiring faith, like "a man walking in darkness with an old-fashioned lantern."  Faith in religious traditions awakens divine instincts which guide.  There can also be help from artistic creations, "three old masters hanging in an art gallery."  People come together while appreciating beauty or any cultural fulfillment. 

Appreciating one's body and giving it tender care or recreation is restorative, "a girl surreptitiously bathing in the nude."  The wealth of the body is independent of the stock market.  One's natural qualities make one well-favored.  To be contented is to be attractive because good cheer bubbles forth spontaneously.  

{Tuesday}  {Beyond Panic to Contentment}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 9 March 2020

Monday 9 March 2020

\Tantalizing Cues/

Moon in Virgo

Full Moon of Pisces-Virgo occurs at 10:49a PT | 1:49p ET | 5:49p UT  (daylight savings times except for UT)

Mercury turns direct at 8:50p PT | 11:50p ET | 3:50a(Tu) UT, but is still motionless, turning on a slow dime, so the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch remains with us until March 30.

I have to give the above warning because people in general seem to believe that "now everything is okay" the minute Mercury turns direct.  No! I wish.  I have observed at least 150 Hermetic Epochs (three per year) during the past fifty years and I know whereof I speak.  While Mercury is slow, and gaining speed (until March 30) we have "Mercury retrograde light" because actually Mercury's speed is behind the speed of the sun (that is, of the earth in its orbit).  (All this is from geocentric perspective because believe it or not we live on the earth and you have to notice the stop light ahead of you to be safe, not the stop light a thousand miles away in another city.)  Things are somewhat easier, let us hope, but not dramatically easier, usually.  Still, there can be an internal coalescence of thinking and planning which feels good. I hope you are feeling it today and tomorrow.

We discussed the current MR period in relation to the coronavirus, the stock market, and the presidential primaries in recent posts.  To sum up how it seems to me, it is COMPLICATIONS and DELAYS.  Those two things.  You can see it in your own life and what areas it is affecting. That could be health, work, relationships, diet, transactions, scheduling, anything and everything. To most of us it seems a testing time.  It is good to (a) not get too far behind with everything but also (b) give yourself more breaks than usual to REst, REview, REsearch, and REcover. That could include spending more time in meditation and prayer.

Then from tomorrow until March 30 we will be getting a surer foothold with everything gradually.  Unfortunately there can be RElapses along the way.  As mentioned at least twice, it seems that a major turning point could be Friday March 13, with smoother sailing from then into early May.

Monday:  The Full Moon is neither good nor bad per se, but gives heightened consciousness, broader awareness, so at best it is expanded optimism.  That is needed because one degree of the day shows "sorrow" or "harrowing trials."  Of course this could be partly because so many have to vary their schedules and their mo because of coronavirus fears, but partly because of individual issues only you know about. It is good to get expanded views of history and spiritual evolution in order to cure your individual anxieties and troubles. It could help a lot. Symbolically you could escape into "a spacious hall, the walls covered with symbols and hieroglyphics."  The Mysteries of the ancients were not just obfuscation but helped people get comforting perspective.

Some schools are closed, so "boys and girls in gymnasium suits" might mean kids are getting their exercise and animated activity in other ways.  Effort in a group can be humbling if it reveals individual weaknesses, but that is beneficial.  "Mary and her white lamb" suggests young ideas and even naivete as helpful, which is not surprising during a MR or DHE period. Take it light, there are other ways to see things, let go of the hooks you have been hooked on. Maybe the innocent child's or pet's approach is better.  

There are indications of strong, penetrating intellect and mind-wealth.  Some are favored because they express ideas in a colorful and helpful manner.  This could be just interesting, or it could be spiritually or politically crucial, as "an angel blowing a trumpet" who publishes an important message.  He or she lectures or preaches and that is appreciated. 

Meditation, prayer, or ritual could be magnified in good results when done within hours of the Full Moon or of the station (motionlessness) of Mercury later (given above). That means really all day.

{Monday}   /Tantalizing Cues\

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Message for Week of Saturday 7 March through Friday 13 March

Week of Saturday 7 March through Friday 13 March

~Emanation~

I will not pretend that I can predict when the stock market shall start surging upward.  (I hope it's this week, but would feel more sure about the following week, March 14-20.)  I won't pretend I know when the coronavirus epidemic will be ended; it seems to keep on through this week anyway, from what I can deduce from the weekly chart.  We are fortunate that it is hitting so few, relatively speaking (100 thousand ill and only 14 percent of them dying is almost nothing in the world population; probably many more die from car accidents in a month).  Anyway we look to the medical profession for answers about this, or to Christian Scientists if that is our chosen therapy, rather than to astrologers.  However, it makes perfect sense that an epidemic like this, upsetting everyone's plans in a big or little way, would happen while Mercury is retrograde.  The worst things happen then.  Mercury has a big connection with health, since it rules Virgo the major health-and-therapy sign (even the actor in Hart of Dixie, a doctor, was Virgo by sun-sign, Rachel Bilson), and Mercury also rules Gemini the sign of the lungs.  Enough said.  When Hermes is retrograde he is a trickster, not always malevolent but seemingly so in this case.  Cure?  On hold.  Treatment?  Confusing.  Stay home or go out?  A gamble.  And so on. The uncertainty of any Mercury-retrograde period seems heightened in an annoying manner by this virus.  

Add to that the square between Venus and Saturn (February 22 through March 12), because this has been for decades another "big bugaboo" aspect for me.  Whenever it comes I find myself depressed or withdrawn.  As I get older, it tends to be withdrawal rather than depression because I don't expect as much from people.  Younger (and older) ones tend to have their break-ups then, and moon about lost love.  And what do we have during the "pandemic":  Recommended "social distancing" as I just read in a commentary!  Social (Venus) distancing (Saturn) is a perfect description of one side of the Venus-Saturn syndrome.  In this case, it comes from fear of contact in a physical sense rather than an emotional one.  But the results are similar.  Thank heaven for the huge benefits of the internet, wherein no germs are transmitted.  

But even there, I felt today like "distancing" myself from you readers.  No offense, it just felt wearisome to carry on.  Now that I have started writing . . .

Let me repeat from last week's forecast:  "And so when does it get easier?  I would say, "on our next Friday the 13th," because beginning March 13 a lot of things look better. Mercury will have turned direct (though the Dark or Slow Epoch remains), the square of Venus with Saturn will have passed, and Venus will be beginning a long-term trine with Mars (continuing through April and into the first week of May).  You might want to make that a day of celebration, or if the Friday-13 thing worries you, have the party on the 14th."

Excuse me for quoting last week's report, because REtrograde times make for more REpeating in a natural way; we are mulling over things and trying to make sense of them, more than we do in the fast-forward times.  Here is more, but before you read it think about the fact that during this past week Joe Biden became the consensus candidate for the Democrats.  He is from the past, he was VP for 8 years, he is in people's memory banks, and he is seemingly being accepted while his competitors with more recent credentials are being rejected.  That is Mercury Retrograde.  It does not mean the voters are wrong, just that "going back to the past" is natural, and often good, at these times.  It is also Venus square Saturn, for as I said in last week's report:  "It's like this:  You feel intensely the failures, lacks, crudenesses or peculiarities of the loved one.  'Not that again.'  [e.g. Biden's stammering]  But the more you ponder the situation, the more you realize that this person you have taken on as a friend, lover or partner is 'just the best there is at this point.' And that 'point' may go on for years!"  This fits exactly the Democrats' current "love affair" (sigh) with Mr. Biden.  They are not exactly enthusiastic but he is there. 

In sum, though I see both health and money matters still stagnant, stymied, slow or disappointing this week, they are on the mend and by Friday the 13th perhaps we will sense that we are "over the hump."  I hope so.  Yet it is certainly not a time to throw caution to the winds.  As mentioned last week, "throwing in the towel" is a danger, giving up, dropping a project, job, or relationship.  No, don't trust your lazy impulse to do that.  You can slow down a little, take more breaks than usual, find a way to make it easier, but not give up or you may regret that before very long. 

Let's look at some of the Sabian symbols for the coming week.  First, one from last week:  "An automobile wrecked by a train."  This seems to get at the coronavirus situation:  People's autonomy (I can go wherever I want) "wrecked" by the train of the virus so that one has to stay home or secluded instead.  

The correlative symbol for this week is:  "A retired sea captain."  This sounds more refreshing  Still there is the hint of being subdued, of resting and living in the past to a degree.  "A general accepting defeat gracefully" is similar.  This could apply to some investors, and many others in other ways.  One defeat is not final defeat.  Expediency now can be accomplishment in the future.  Reorientation is needed, but it is not an end of anything promising, just of what had already fulfilled its purpose.  "A girl surreptitiously bathing in the nude" is us as we immerse ourselves in relaxing and restoring moments, which preserve our sanity and composure.  "A man bringing down the new law from Sinai" is ourselves as we comprehend better the over-all principles by which we choose to live.  

"Butterfly emerging from chrysalis" is ourselves eager for self-renewal, not sluggish, but resting often in the matrix which supports us while we gather strength.  This week our lives should be not frenzy but emanation.

{Week of March 7-13}   ~Emanation~

Daily data:

Saturday 7 March

Moon in Leo

Sunday 8 March

/moon goes void-of-course in Leo at 0:14a PT | 3:14a ET | 8:14a UT

until it enters Virgo at 2:48a PT | 5:48a ET | 10:48a UT

Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 6 March 2020

Friday 6 March 2020

^On the Way^

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Saturday at 3:46a PT | 6:46a ET | 11:46a UT

Moon is void-of-course (very early) 

until it enters Leo at 1:29a PT | 4:29a ET | 9:29a UT

We are "preparing the way for a higher manifestation," as if plowing the substance of the mind, our consciousness.  I believe everyone is doing this, albeit without awareness of exactly what he or she is doing in most cases.  Humanity's spiritual evolution is happening, no matter what the seeming side paths.  I believe you will see this more convincingly beginning a week from today, March 13.  We are in a "relay race" because with Mercury retrograde we are reaching back to past experience and knowledge in order to take the "torch" from it, its current vitalizing value for us and our future.  Thus we are fitting ourselves for "the race's race" toward something better.  

The foundations of our progress are in writing, architecture, sciences, literature, philosophy, technology, drama, music and the arts.  We cannot grasp all this at once, but by working with what is relevant, or turns up, at every hour, we are led forward gradually and surely.  We are finding that if friends disappoint us, the "larger friendship" of the human race---the work of all discoverers and creators, now available free online and in libraries---sustains us until the next tangible human friend comes along, and makes us more able  to appreciate her or him.  Then we can celebrate! through individualistic self-expression.

The day's symbols are hinting at things probably beyond immediate total realization.  There could be pride and ostentation along with good fortune, while we display ourselves in "a fine chateau with gardens and terraces."  "A strutting peacock" may be thinking "Thank G*d it's Friday."  "A woman gathering grapes with which she fills many baskets" is ourselves rejoicing in benefits we have reaped, and sharing them among long-term or temporary associates who are "gathering together."  Some of our designs have met with success.

{Friday}  ^On the Way^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 5 March 2020

Thursday 5 March 2020

~Steady~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is intense, continuing until early Saturday

/moon goes void-of-course at 11:13p PT | 2:13a(F) ET | 7:13a(F) UT

I give Joe Biden a lot of credit, because this seems a peculiarly difficult time, and he is the one who triumphed on Tuesday.  The Venus-square-Saturn (depression, doubt) plus Mercury retrograde (what am I doing anyway? nothing works, everything is delayed) makes it hard for most everyone, and it is evident that Sanders, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar were feeling it.  "Just give up."  (Sanders of course has not.)  But I saw smiles of relief on the faces of Pete and Amy as they endorsed Joe.  "Now this ordeal is over."  If you want to feel that way about one or two things in your life, I would not be surprised.  As announced, we should enter a less disturbing time beginning March 13, just over a week from now.  However, I have to warn, as always during MR, against "throwing in the towel" or dropping projects or a job or relationship.  It is almost always better to stick with it, unless utterly impossible (as it was for four of the candidates including Steyer).  You can clench your teeth and carry on.

Self-defense and self-preservation require a bit of diplomacy. With a cardinal-sign and earth-sign emphasis, we want results immediately, but there are "No, you have to wait" signals.  A "field of strife" opens before us, but we can prevail.  You may feel you are standing guard over a "young litter," children or immature adults who require patient defense even if they don't realize that.

Some indications of yesterday are re-emphasized, concerning study of the Mysteries or a determination to succeed at the alchemical work of character-reformation.  (We tend to feel we have to reform ourselves during the |karmically serious third|.)  "Why does this have to be so hard?" The hardness is what produces the magic, when it is faced honestly.  (True, some of the effort may have to be postponed, but not all.) 

"A horseman armed moving across the desert to some woody hills" is exactly how I feel often these days.  At least the "woody hills" grant some rest.  But the effort is not done.  To finish it one has to be self-reliant, and not disconsolate when being alone is essential.  We may long for a trouble-free state when wealth flows to us, and that is not impossible, yet not the whole story.  If this is a day of test (with some rest),  still we may grant ourselves rewards.

{Thursday}  ~Steady~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 4 March 2020

Wednesday 4 March 2020

~Dedication as Magic~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 5:21p PT | 8:21p ET | 1:21a(Th) UT, lasting until Saturday morning

"A horseman, armed, is watching the waning moon."  Could this be Michael Bloomberg?  Joe Biden?  Bernie Sanders?  This degree represents self-sufficiency, independence, and isolation.  By being too domineering one loses support.  "A dog and his bone are best left alone."  This could be you, if you identify with that feeling sometimes.  However, you could respond by acting like "a clown making grimaces," making fun of your misfortune, being inimitably ridiculous at least in your own mind.  (It seems Joe Biden has the best sense of humor of the remaining candidates.  If Bernie loses, he will not be laughing.  A lady who had lost her inheritance told me about it, and laughed.  I said, "How can you laugh?" She replied, "What else can I do?")

But if our horseman decides that he is going to recover after mooning over that waning orb, he will be as "an arrow passing through a cloud of smoke."  His determination gives direction without vacillation.  His path is already marked out, he feels, and what hurts him does not stop him.  (Could be you.)  He has a mission to accomplish.  Which of the candidates is worthy of this description:  "A hand with a sword in it enveloped by a halo of golden light.  It is to defend the right."  

Dedication is magic.  "A fire worshiper" links himself with higher forces ("Virat, who lights his camp-fires in the suns" [Sri Aurobindo]) and so demonstrates that he is independent of circumstances, to the point of miracle.  This could be at the level of perhaps-ethical struggle, a victory over whatever is wrong or inadequate, or it could be more intellectual-spiritual if one peruses "an ancient hieroglyphic manuscript" to get one's bearings.  That volume explicates didacticses for the Magnum Opus of the alchemists, who are not dead.

{Wednesday}  ~Dedication as Magic~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 3 March 2020

Tuesday 3 March 2020

}Persistence Toward Fulfillment{

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:21p PT | 9:21p ET | 2:21a(W) UT

until it enters Cancer at 8:26p PT | 11:26p ET | 4:26a(W) UT

Although it's the much-heralded SuperTuesday for the Democratic primaries, I do not find sufficient clarity in estimating the candidates' fortunes to predict anything. (That is, by using only a sun-sign method, since I have not done the immense amount of work to set up the progressions and directions for each individual candidate.)  And so this forecast will be as usual a "universal" forecast, which means that it will mean something individual to you though written for everyone.  It's the mirror of the solar system in which we see our own reflection, plus the trends of that system as they interact with our own, which makes the resulting insights personal.

Attention to individual finances and holdings is significant.  If any such deals seem futile, a modified trajectory is needed. If one is resourceful, one uses what is convenient even when that requires waiting, which is better than blundering.  Some may be considering their taxes or other documentary records. "A man holding a roll of paper or parchment" in these days could be someone responsible for public documents and information, such as those counting the ballots in 14 states tonight. It is expected that the results from many will be slow, not definite until tomorrow or even later.  That is of course in accord with the Mercury-retrograde phenomenon. Fate does not want the Democrats to have an easy path forward.

Information is interesting whether one is teaching grade-school children or graduate students, and explanations of the bare facts are even more interesting, which is happening in many minds.  Some teachers feel that they are carrying their students across a stream they cannot cross themselves, like the operator of a ferry-boat. That is one particular mission in life. 

"A man felling a tree with an ax" is reminiscent of pioneer living, suggesting that we can contend with obstacles and cut out our own path to fulfillment. Persistent effort gives sure reward, and some of that might be experienced near the time of the v-of-c (above) for that aspect happens to be Luna sextile Venus, happy.  Apparently not all will be totally dissatisfied with the primary results. or you may find some other form of pleasing entertainment.  "A field of ripe corn" promises prosperity and peace of mind no matter what the difficulties in arriving at it. 

{Tuesday}  {Persistence Toward Fulfillment}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 2 March 2020

Monday 2 March 2020

}Passing Tests to go Higher in the Spiral{

Moon in Gemini

Ouch, the square of Venus with Saturn is exact today and tomorrow.  "Nobody loves me," or "I don't like anybody," or "Well I really do love so-and-so but it is not easy at this moment."  And so on. One of the nicest things you can do is realize that this is going on for everyone, and so be patient with those who are out-of-sorts. They will probably not want to discuss what's troubling them.  Even health problems are likely to flare up, with the solid Capricorn emphasis plus Mercury retrograde (that planet rules Virgo which is a major health-sign, witness the anxiety over the pandemic).  A key is eliminating cruelty, which could sneak up on you---you feel so frustrated with some situations or people that you find yourself secretly wishing them ill, or that they would have some problem which would "wake them up."  We have to leave all that to G*d, and bless everyone and hope for their comfort, well-being and happiness. That is a karmic protection against cruelty or meanness attacking us from anyone else, consciously or unconsciously.  We need to see people as striving individuals, not just as "game birds" such as "a large group of pheasants."  The many TV series and movies which show people tormenting one another (more now than I have seen in my lifetime) are a warning that people are justifying cruelty to themselves. This is a good day to try to put a stop to that. 

Communication may seem mired in confusion, but it is possible to try for clarification, as "two Dutch children talking."  Their shared background plus complementary individual skills help them make things smoother for themselves and everyone.  This goes better when there is also inspiration derived from book-learning, which elevates consciousness.

Small returns from your labor may make you feel you are walking in circles, yet you may sense that really you are on a "spiral staircase" spiraling upward toward better luck.  This is heartening.  "A fair woman, richly attired" may help you or you her, for her goodness of heart gains approbation and she is generous.  You may suspect that you are being favored toward luxury as she is, even if some previous indications in this report suggest otherwise.  Or she may be a goddess figure blessing you.

{Monday}  {Passing Tests to go Higher in the Spiral}

Cosmic Piper