Message for Thursday 12 November 2020

 Thursday 12 November 2020

}Fate or Enterprising Greatness{

Moon in Libra

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

<moon in the Via Combusta (possible loss or morale during a cosmic reshuffling) beginning at 8:27a PT | 11:27a ET | 4:27p UT) (until Saturday)

People can't go faster than the planets.  I just came up with that statement after watching a Trump-supporter video summarizing the status of the race, which drags on and on.  Wearisome.  It's either Mars that we "can't go faster than" (it is still retrograde, has been since early September) or Mercury that we "can't go faster than" because it is still slow (that is, we are in the Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch) until November 19, a week from today).  Mars turns direct on Friday, though still will be very slow, and almost a week later the BHE begins.  Some resolution, or at least more clarity about when and how there shall be resolution?  Let's hope so.

Thursday:

There are compulsions which seem fatalistic, and other-persons' compulsions which are also fatalistic, like "cataracts falling from one rocky ledge to another."  Actions can be precipitate and hazardous, lacking in foresight.  Restless urges are not aware of danger until it is encountered.  What may be needed is some safe anchorage in tradition, in solid, honorable values as represented by "a Jewish rabbi."  Let us turn to our heritage and "stand on the shoulders of giants."  

Disappointments could come to some of one's early, too-sanguinary hopes, but the sun forming good aspects with Jupiter, Pluto and Saturn should help you find surer footing.  It would not be surprising that while suffering the stress of other major aspects, the "hard third" of this week, and the Via Combusta, some might turn to escapism, symbolized by "a wineglass overturned."  Yet there can be geniality plus intelligence, subduing whatever would be dangerously incontinent.

Mars is stationary while moving backward but turns direct tomorrow and Saturday.  While motionless it is said to be very powerful, so we have the symbol "hunters starting out for ducks."  The is "the straightforward honesty of desire" leading to enterprise or the use of practical skills to gain freedom. When this becomes a little more selfless it is  "the sun shining brightly," "a great man [or woman], a public character, one whose presence among mankind will be considered essential."  Who might be your nominee or nominees?

{Thursday}  {Fate or Enterprising Greatness}

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Message for Wednesday 11 November 2020

 Wednesday 11 November 2020

}Calming Toward Reliability and Friendliness{

Moon in Virgo-->Libra

/moon goes void-or-course at 3:00a PT | 6:00a ET | 11:00a UT

until it enters Libra at 8:11a PT | 11:11a ET | 4:11p UT

Thursday and Friday will be in the |difficult third| of this week, so today could be a time to get things cleared away in preparation.  Saturday looks quite good, the |difficult third| having receded away from the weekends gradually. 

I am still trying to steer away from politics, but it is hard because I keep watching what the right-wing people (many of them very honest and "right" in a good sense) are doing to contest the election in battleground states.  And so I feel the "heat of the batte" keenly even though those who only get their news from the MSM may think Biden has won comfortably.  Who is the "soldier derelict in duty"?  The Republicans who want to contest, or the Republicans who don't want to contest, or the Democratic poll-watchers who are accused of cheating?  There is "deviation" from duty perhaps on both sides, or conflicts between obligations and desires (what is the soldier to do?).  I hope there shall be clear answers, perhaps after Mars turns direct on Friday, or between then and later in November, for a new Bright Hermetic Epoch begins on the 19th.  Until then both sides, and ourselves in our personal lives, may feel like "a man on a treadmill" compelled to work hard for little reward.  Marc Edmund Jones, in his brilliant analysis of the Venus opposite Mars aspect we are enduring (until the 17th), says one suffering this (all of us) "tends to disturb himself unnecessarily with the comings and goings of other people.  When this overconcern is indulged too unthinkingly, the penalty may be a very disconcerting ostracism."  This seems what many are experiencing, even within their own parties or families.  "He is at his best when he . . . plunges into some project or situation at hand in an effort to revivify it and recreate its inspiration or momentum."  

"A gang of robbers in hiding" is the Biden gang, stealing the election.  Or it is the Trump gang, trying to steal the election.  I am not adjudicating that, but hope the courts do, leaving no doubts.  At the personal level, the "robbers" could be one's divergence from the true path, or perversions which seem delicious until payback.  We want freedom and independence, and are willing to be bold and forceful to secure it. This could be by right methods or wrong.

What is "the firmness of character" which will triumph?  We can find it by ruling ourselves before trying to rule others, even though we feel proud and ambitious.  The sun (our Sol) is forming a helpful sextile with Jupiter and two other planets in Capricorn.  It aids us to shape our lives toward "a square block of marble [reliability], upon it a scepter and crown."  In our more relaxed moments we can make use of the Part of Fortune's position in the house of Friendship, and feel like "a man in the midst of a lot of children at play."  Simple and childlike, not shunning youthful amusement, we link with others in an uncalculating good-willed manner. 

{Wednesday}  {Calming Toward Reliability and Friendliness}

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Message for Tuesday 10 November 2020

 Tuesday 10 November 2020

\Opposition, Folly, Daring, Relaxation/

Moon in Virgo 

I have weighed every word and sentence in this forecast as carefully as I knew how.  And so it may repay patient study. 

I am weary of politics, and probably you are too.  Some of the symbols pull us back into it:  "An old door in which a dagger is stuck," denoting "a critical and quarrelsome nature, apt to find fault with the opinions of others for the sake of controversy; striking at existing systems and laws even when unable to improve upon them."  Democrats will say this is the Republicans; Republicans will say it is the Democrats.  But it is going on.  Is it really all "folly," the keyword Borelli gives?  A matter of opinion.  If somebody is wrong, somebody else has to be right.  "Two men are fencing with swords."  Each is "one who would not admit an equal; a very formidable kind of opponent."  So it seems.

The duty, or pastime, or competitive game? of "counting ballots" goes on like "a horse saddled and bridled, and galloping away without a rider."  All are weary of it, but let's hope the courts, when necessary, will bring clarity, justice, and resolution.  "A woman drawing two dark curtains aside" could be a Republican revealing election fraud, or a Democrat revealing a pro-Biden vote count.  The keyword is Daring, and it seems that in the Information, Non-information, and Pseudo-information age, daring is required to announce the truth about anything, for truth is labeled falsehood.  At the personal level, an individual could exhibit daring by exposing himself or herself (or his or her style or talent) in some way crude or svelte.  Our personalities reach out to other personalities, and other personalities reach out to us.

"Two awards for bravery in war" is a subtle intimation that both sides win something.  Whether we win recognition or give recognition to someone else, we are valuing idealistic leadership, vision and character.  We may look forward to the day when we can have a respite from the campaign, and become "a retired sea captain" sustaining the world and our experience of it in cherished memories.  This is poise earned through past achievement.  It is preparing us for embarking on new enterprise, probably beginning November 19 and continuing in a positive direction until at least January 14.  (Yes, those two months look better.)

/Opposition, Folly, Daring, Relaxation\

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Message for Monday 9 November 2020

 Monday 9 November 2020

\Scrambling Toward Surety/

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 3:06 pr | 6:06a ET | 11:06a UT

until it enters Virgo at 5:31a PT | 8:31a ET | 1:31p UT

Something I have noticed but not mentioned here is obvious, so obvious that no astrologer I know of has mentioned it!!  Is the too-visible invisible?  Venus is opposite Mars, which happens only once every 3.5 years or so, and this time Venus is in her own sign Libra and Mars in his own sign Aries.  Big battle of the sexes!  Well, and of varying viewpoints, apart from sex.  Guess who has more males on his side?  Trump, statistically.  Guess who has more females?  Biden.  Further, Biden has a female running-mate who also happens to be a sun-sign Libran! Guess whom more police officers (Mars) support?  Trump, of course.  And probably military men also although I haven't seen the latest polls on that.  Men are from Mars (Trump) and women are from Venus (Biden-Harris).  And that opposition, which has been going on since October 28, is exact today, when lawyer allies of Trump have said they shall launch various legal battles questioning the validity of the vote in several states.  

Can I predict anything from that?  Not much, except to see how appropriate it is.  Mars is retrograde (Trump supporters clinging to the past, holding on) but turns direct this coming Friday, the 13th.  Will that help Trump to "move forward" whatever that means?  I cannot say but it may be interesting.  Further, the opposition ends (by a ten degree orb) on the 17th-18th, and the Dark Hermetic Epoch ends on the 18th and a new Bright Hermetic Epoch begins the 19th, ten days from now.  Would all this be favorable to Biden, ending the battle in his favor?  I don't know.  Would all this be favorable to Trump, setting legal machinery in motion to win a few states the media thought he had lost?  I don't know.  It shall be interesting.

Monday:

Many are demonizing the other side.  I don't like to contribute to that, but faithfully report a symbol for today:  "A serpent with many heads in a circle, fangs protruding."  Charubel says this is "the cursed degree of the so-called cursed sign" (Scorpio) and that it denotes "a pest and terror to society."  Donald Trump? Yet Biden is Scorpio, with several planets in that sign.  Joe?  Take your choice.  Supporters of both may feel like "a soldier going through his drill" who worries he may be wounded or killed (metaphorically). 

"A boat landing washed away" is what many on both sides may feel they are experiencing.  Nature has taken over what humans wanted to do with the environment.  This gives the necessity for a pause or respite, to work out a different plan, a different way to land one's boat.  Calculations as to practical plans may go well (moon in Virgo sextile the sun).  That is, provided one does not indulge oneself incontinently, so that one's "wine glass" is "overturned."  One feels generous and convivial, which is all to the good so long as one does not lose sight of the "boat landing" to which one is headed.  It could be "washed away" not by nature but by wine, or Bacchic indulgence.

"A stiletto (dagger) and tavola (dining table)" suggest an Italian crime-syndicate boss, perhaps, but more benignly a person of machismo who is "given to disputes" and "eager in contention," a formidable adversary yet a convivial companion with sharp wit, headstrong and quick temper yet brave, honorable, and avid.  (Some think Trump fits this description.)  In contrast with this (Mars opposite Venus again) we have the figure of Passive Beauty, a youthful student wandering in a glade with a book, quite the opposite of the masculine headman.  He or she is "devoted to the higher interests of the soul" and contemplative of natural beauty.  We may find room in our world, and ourselves, for both types.

{Monday}  /Scrambling Toward Surety\

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Messages for Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 November 2020

Saturday 7 November 2020

^Furlough During the Battle^

Moon in Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Sunday at 0:25a PT | 3:25a ET | 8:25a UT

I'll discuss the election more in the Sunday report (posted with this one).  Today the most unpleasant symbol is "a battered hulk lying upon the seashore."  This ship has been "battered by the winds of adversity" and that might seem to be the Trump campaign.  "The fortunes will eventually be in danger of wreck and ruin."  However, some might say this could apply also to the Biden campaign, if the Trump people can successfully launch vote-recounts and legal challenges.  "A wandering and rudderless drifting upon troubled waters" sounds also like the election process itself during the pandemic, which now looks like that "battered hulk lying upon the seashore" of politics.  However, at the personal level there are things one could do to "shore up" one's fortunes.  "A man with a sickle under one arm and a sheaf of corn under the other" is taking care of his business or labor, his projects, successfully, so he can eventually reap his reward during this harvest season and on into a new Bright Hermetic Epoch beginning November 19.

"A mummer's (mime artist's) mask" suggests mimicry, imitation, simulation, perhaps insincere or comedic.  Maybe that's the best we can do to cheer ourselves up while Venus opposes Mars.  Lunar aspects do sweeten the situation (moon sextile Venus and trine Mars while in Leo), so if you're drawn to theatricality, foolishness, and flattery, go for it!  If the extravagance and conviviality should go too far, there could be "a wine glass overturned," spilled-over feelings and passions, an incontinence which could be upsetting.

"A female in a state of nudity" is self-explanatory, following on the overturned wine glass, and our Victorian clairvoyant warns against voluptuousness and "the lower passions."  You may adjust this as you wish for a more permissive era.  "Two awards for bravery in war" might go to both sides in any contest. You may find that your self-dedication and resourcefulness, your personal vision and character, are bringing recognition.  

{Saturday}  ^Furlough During the Battle^

Sunday 8 November 2020

Moon in Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 0:25a PT | 3:25a ET | 8:25a UT  

I wanted to comment on the election here in the Sunday report where I take a vacation from the daily methods with the symbols.  But it is exceedingly difficult.  Even astrologers are not immune from the confusion of a Dark Hermetic Epoch (this one lasting until November 19) and I find that on Twitter many astrologers are making confusing comments and not understanding what other astrologers say.  

It is better not to try to predict elections, as I have explained, because that would invalidate the free will of the voters!

It seems to me that Monday through Wednesday, November 9-11, will be decisive for the "first round" of the election decision.  That is, it might be "called" for Biden, most likely, by many observers.  That does not mean that Biden will be the final winner, because the Trump campaign is determined to allege and follow up voting fraud, or inexact or unfair counting, in the courts, and that could go on for weeks.  And so I am just going to sit back for now.  My best advice:  See where things stand on Wednesday through Friday this week.  Even if the election is still being contested, one should be able by then to figure out how and when it may finally be determined. That does not mean one will decisively know the winner. November 19 (and following days) is another key date. 

As for our personal lives, which continue:  I can't over-emphasize the importance of the Dark Hermetic Epoch.  We may be finished with Mercury Retrograde, but not with the DHE, which always goes on a couple of weeks after Mercury turns direct, because it is moving so very slowly.  In my experience it is just as difficult as the core of it, the MR three-week period.  Right now I am going through difficulties of large scope every day, and feeling as if I am slightly out of synch with a lot of things.  What about you?  I often say, "Don't panic during the DHE, don't think you are going crazy or senile."  I have to remind myself of that advice every day, and often in a day, for so much is "out of pattern" in my thinking, my working, my scheduling, my diet and sleep schedule.  "Out of pattern" is an important phrase to remember.  It is not wrong that things are "out of pattern" during the DHE (to November 19) but it is difficult, often.  At other times it can be very refreshing. 

As for the good side of all this, during the DHE I have been able to REsearch both astrology and other more practical matters with success.  One gets unusual insights and while some may be misleading, others are "leading" on, are "leading indicators" giving one insight of a solid sort one had not had before.  Mercury goes backward to help us "REcover" things we have either forgotten or never known.  (Plato said that all knowledge is REcollection because of his belief in immortal life and REincarnation.)  

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Message for Friday 6 November 2020

 Friday 6 November 2020

~From Stress to Benevolence~

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week remains until Sunday morning (and is most intense today)

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:28p PT | 8:28p ET | 1:25a(Sa) UT

until it enters Leo at 11:19p PT | 2:19a(Sa) ET | 7:19a(Sa) UT

Keeping on in the midst of difficulties or misfortunes is one of the hardest things for all life-forms.  "A man with his arm in a sling and his head bandaged" shows someone using whatever means he can (the sling) to keep his sanity and do what needs to be done.  The 'bandaged head" is perhaps significant in that Mars is retrograde in Aries, sign of the head.  For most this does not mean a health problem in that area but perhaps difficulties in determining what "heads up" one's schedule, one's agenda, what is most important.  That should be given full attention while Mercury is at point focus, squared by Luna on one side and Saturn on the other.  Tasks one tries reluctantly are likely to bring strong satisfaction when finished.  Then one is like "a man with a sickle under one arm, a sheaf of corn under the other."  It's almost a metaphysical law that work, no matter how unpromising, brings reward.

Venus, though in her own sign Libra, is otherwise in sad straits, in a tri-septile with both Uranus and Neptune and a bi-septile with Saturn.  Love?  It is here, somewhere, but one may doubt that.  It may be that "love is being tested" in a big way and that any friendship or relationship is likely to define itself during this time with difficulty, more realistically than before.  That does not mean that love is gone but that it has to recover "while its arm is in a sling."  "A pillar of black marble roughly hewn" is said to be Solitariness, or melancholy and misanthropy.  People are separating from one another because of politics.  "A bad match with probable separation" is to be taken lightly, because these are just daily indications, but it could mean one feels that way about a relationship.  Recovery can come on another day.  Perhaps it is better for now to let someone else recover from too much interpersonal tension, or "give him or her space."  Yet we have "a red flame ascending upward to a great height" and this is "a true friend and an open enemy," someone "possessed with ardent desires" and "an enthusiast to the cause he espouses."  Perhaps we need to respect one another's enthusiasms even when we don't share them.

The square between Mercury and Saturn could mean intellectual study (as well as, for some, ballot-counting) of a more esoteric nature, for we have "a spacious museum, the walls covered with symbols and hieroglyphics."  When human beings disappoint us, it is sometimes good to regain our poise in the hieratic or hermetic wisdom of the past, expressed in symbols which awaken something in us we didn't know we needed.  Grandeur and spiritual loftiness are not always solitary, but attract friends.  "A goblet emitting rays of ruddy light" befriends and comforts those in distress.  Stress may impel us to find humaneness and benevolence in our souls, spilling out to those around us no matter how their natures fit with ours.  

{Friday}  ~From Stress to Benevolence~

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Message for Thursday 5 November 2020

 Thursday 5 November 2020

~Peering Over Glasses toward Ballots~

Moon in Cancer

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us (until Sunday morning) (almost a full three days this time)

Today and tomorrow could be the hardest days of the week.  We remain in a time of turmoil.  Though Mercury turned direct Wednesday, it is still almost motionless, and other problems are a lack of sextiles and trines (the smooth aspects) and a slew of squares and oppositions (the hard ones) including Venus's rare opposition with Mars spelling "opposition of opposites" to be redundant, and could that be Republicans and Democrats?  Among others.  It's a reminder that friends and lovers are often on opposite sides politically.  We need patience.  Good aspects with the sun may help, especially beginning Saturday-Sunday.

It seems we need to keep ourselves alert to our interests and avoid indolence or sloth.  "Busy-ness" per se may not be a virtue, but the planets are challenging us to keep up with whatever activities will protect our status and situation.  This enterprise is both material, or menial, and intellectual.  "A professor peering over his glasses" conceals, in his deskbound posture, intense mental activity of a specialized nature.  This gives her or him "a quiet mastery of events."  

"A plow" signifies arduous and protracted labors.  Activists on both sides are gearing up for what might be a protracted legal battle.  "He is endowed with definition of purpose, determination and incisiveness."  That certainly describes Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani on the Republican side, and no doubt Democratic strategists on the other.  Sepharial remarks, "He will in all probability find the recompense of his labor in . . . the utilization of old and waste materials."  Ballots?  Well, life is not all work, and to balance this we have "children playing around five mounds of sand."  This is the naivete which connects happily with anything and anyone appearing to be worthwhile during the often meandering or playful Dark or Slow Hermetic Epoch (until November 19). 

I like the image of "passive beauty," the student wandering through a glade with sunlight slanting through the leaves to illumine his book.  What could it mean? I leave it to you.  There is also "a round temple with pointed roof," and prayer does seem appropriate. 

{Thursday}  ~Peering Over Glasses toward Ballots~

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Message for Wednesday 4 November 2020

 Wednesday 4 November 2020

~Suspicious or Gracious Winners and Losers~

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:50a PT | 8:50a ET | 1:50p UT (standard time now)

until it enters Cancer at 1:47p PT | 4:47p ET | 9:47p UT

"A prison door fitted with iron spikes" fits with Mercury exactly square Saturn while almost motionless.  The Heindels say such a person "is thwarted on every hand by slander and secret enemies and this makes him bitter and sarcastic, and shunned by all who can get away from him."  Obviously there will be melancholy for whichever party lost the election (I do not know as I write).  There can be suspicion plus plotting and scheming, and it seems likely that either or both parties will suspiciously accuse the other of such scheming.  Plus, those who lost will sometimes fear those who won.   What we might need is "a general accepting defeat gracefully" or an attitude that "well, we lost this battle but shall not lose the next one." 

Perhaps totally apart from politics, we have "a dove," that is, someone innocent and harmless who "thinks and acts from the heart rather than the head" and is "a true friend" or "constant lover."  That would be great luck, for Venus is beginning to oppose Mars, from her sign to his, which does not in general bode well for intersexual matters.  It is good however to keep the ideal in mind.  Perhaps the winners of the election (if they are even known today) will feel like "brownies dancing in the setting sun," feeling invigorated and blessed with good fortune.  Maybe even the losers, or probable losers, will find something to dance about.  

If counting ballots is still going on, or there are lawsuits challenging results, the ultimate winners will be like "a canoe approaching safety through dangerous waters."  They will need to steer skillfully through risk.  In our personal affairs we need to prove our competency.  Maybe some will be able to drop all thoughts of politics and emulate "two men seated at a table with beakers of wine before them."  They drift into sympathy and joviality, with frank, friendly conversation.  It might border on indiscretion because of wise, witty and intimate knowledge of human nature. 

{Wednesday}  ~Suspicious or Gracious Winners and Losers~

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Message for Tuesday 3 November 2020

Tuesday 3 November 2020

}Beauty and Strength within Turmoil{

Moon in Gemini

 Mercury turns direct (is motionless but will gain speed forward slowly over the next month and more) at 10:51a PT | 1:51p ET | 5:51p UT

Let us hope this will make the election less turbulent than it would b e otherwise, though the "slow Mercury" lasting till November 19 is still problematic.  Though it can be good for research and many other "re" activities.  

As announced in the weekend report, I am not predicting the election.  Not only have predictors, including pollsters and astrologers, not done very well in the past, but there is an ethical reason for refraining from predicting, even if one could.  People have free will, at a basic level, though it is hard to exercise it, and so from that viewpoint it would be impossible to predict the outcome.  If it could always be predicted, would not that show that voters are machines?  I have my personal  view, but am not expressing it here.

"A gladiator, armed with dagger and shield, ready for the fray" describes the two camps.  Each causes disputes because of an irascible disposition.  Self-command is a greater conquest than other-command.  "A general accepting defeat gracefully" sounds too good to be true, this year, and when it happens it might be days from now.  Those who are loyal to long-range ends are able to accept defeat in just one battle with expediency.  

Obviously people feel strongly about the election, as if they were "a man standing near a mountain precipice waving a red flag to signal a promiscuous crowd rushing at a gallop toward the rock."  Each side feels the other side is made up of "stupid lemmings," perhaps.  Yet there is proficient analysis and excellent criticism.  Others, perhaps, are selfish enough (that can apply to both ends of the political spectrum) to consider nothing but strategy, like "a fox sitting on its haunches."  

Whether before or after the hours of the election returns, "a youth, book in hand, wanders through a glade overhung with branches.  The sunlight slanting through the trees falls upon the figure of the student."  That is not one of the pollsters!  Rather it is someone who loves "peaceful contemplation of natural beauty" without consideration for fame.  He or she is passively beautiful (Venus in Libra).  Our souls engender lasting beauty of body and manner.  Others, perhaps more concerned with substantial issues of the election, are like "a great lonely tower rising from an eminence of rock."  Independent, relying on their own counsel, inscrutable, they command respect.   Their fortunes "remain untouched by the hand of change."  

{Tuesday}   {Beauty and Strength within Turmoil}

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Message for Monday 2 November 2020

 Monday 2 November 2020

}Soulfulness Finding Itself{

Moon in Gemini

It's All Souls' Day, and there can be melancholy, keen sympathies, and thoughts of those who are invisible, as if we were "a young maiden weeping over a grave."  Yet we carry on.  Feeling abandoned could awaken energy in us, so that, like "a bull pawing up the earth" we push on to get our own way and feel anger at what opposes us. 

With Mercury near its station and squaring Saturn, we are careful, and our "small cottage" is "surrounded by a thicket."  We want to keep out ambushes or deceitfulness.  Some will feel they are doing this by fighting off an opposing party or candidate.  Defense is good as long as it doesn't degenerate into paranoia.  At moments of worry we may think of our situation as if we had left "a blazing fireplace in a deserted home."  Are the watchfires of America burning?  Who is attending them?

Luna trines Venus in her own sign all day (exact in late afternoon-evening) and this could signify "the true lover's knot," so that we become affectionate and confiding with someone, whether or not our feelings are noticed or reciprocated.  It may be egos which are strutting at "an embassy ball," but dramatizing our personal potentialities is not a bad thing.  We display ourselves as if in a picture frame. We enjoy or imagine privilege.  It's not impossible that true love could awaken even if playfully feigned at the beginning.  

{Monday}  {Soulfulness Finding Itself}

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Message for Halloween Weekend of October 31-November 1, 2020

 Weekend of October 31-November 1, 2020

\All Hallows Weekend/

Dear Faithful Readers,

I really appreciate your attention to these daily reports.  I have labored for 21 years to keep them going and to improve them as best I know how.  It is often exhausting, sometimes exhilarating.  Those of you who have commented or responded have kept me going.  Also, a quest for Truth has kept me going, and the amazing input from long-"dead' astrologers whose works I quote here.  The wisdom of their words is very much alive.

In the forecast for today (Friday as I write) we have: " The moon square Saturn (hard third of the week) fits with "a man standing in an open field with a broken plow."  There may seem to be misfortune, hindrance, and lack of opportunity. . . .  We can either fix the "broken plow" or accomplish something not requiring it."  

I have to admit that I don't feel like "fixing" a "broken plow" today so I am not going to write a forecast for this weekend including Halloween, not one using the symbols as I usually do.  

I'm going to vote, and that will require some time to review the candidates in my local and congressional races and their statements of their positions.  I am not happy with either presidential candidate.  But I care about this election.  

It's Halloween, and that is The Eve of All Hallows, not a time for scary costumes, ghosts and goblins but for revering the spirits of those who have gone on into the "next world."  All Hallows is November 1.  That is All Saints Day.  November 2, Monday, is All Souls Day in the Church.  I am not a Roman Catholic but I revere these traditions.  

Mercury Retrograde is with us in a big way.  I have tried to explain some of what it means, but there is always more! because life is complex and seems even more so during these phases of the Mercury cycle.  Mercury will turn direct on election day itself,  Tuesday, and this is interesting because Donald Trump is a Gemini, ruled by Mercury, and we do not know what this will mean for him.  I have resisted the impulse to predict the election.  A writer for the Mountain Astrologer magazine reviewed the standard "progressions" of both candidates, thoroughly, and concluded that Biden would win.  Another astrologer whom I have known for decades, Henry Weingarten who runs the Astrologers' Fund, which counsels investors, has predicted another Trump victory (and says he predicted his unexpected win four years ago).  We shall see.  

You may feel "blue" more than usual while Mercury is retrograde.  And after it turns direct, until November 19.  But you may also be very good at sensing what your past means, what the people in your life mean to you, and how to link with those you see no more, whether they are in distant places or in "the next world."  The three days of Halloween, All Saints, and All Souls could be specially significant this time. 

Often we feel "a little lost" during the Mercury Retrograde period.  Or even lost in a big way.  That is normal and you can cope with it in your own way as best you can.  Prayer of course is one of the best ways.  And spiritual study.  G*d does not "go on vacation" even though our minds seem to do so.

Saturday 31 October 2020

Moon in Taurus

Full Moon of Scorpio-Taurus is here, exact at 7:50a PT | 10:50a ET | 2:50p UT  

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week remains until 1:00p PT | 4:00p ET | 8:00p UT 

Sunday 1 November 2020

Moon in Taurus

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:31p PT | 10:31p ET | 2:31a(M) UT

/All Hallows Weekend\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 30 October 2020

 Friday 30 October 2020

\Hard-Won Harvest/

Moon in Aries-->Taurus

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week remains until Saturday at 1:00p PT | 4:00p ET | 8:00p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:14a PT | 12:14p ET | 4:14p UT

until it enters Taurus at 2:20p PT | 5:20p ET | 9:20p UT

Full Moon of Scorpio-Taurus is here, exact Saturday (Halloween) at 7:50a PT | 10:50a ET | 2:50p UT

The symbols used in these daily reports often manifest in ways hard to discern on the surface, but in afterview they make sense.  That's why I recommend re-reading these reports at the end of the day or the next morning to see what they meant in your own situation.  In Thursday's forecast we had " The symbol-promises may be more subjective than objective, yet we have "a man with his left foot on the shoulder of a spade; in his hand he holds a jewel reflecting the sun's rays."  Unexpected good fortune! "  Well, I went shopping and was pleased with my purchases.  But also, it was announced that "GDP soars by record 33.1% annual pace in third quarter" (Marketwatch) and even the New York Times admitted that this was "the best G. D. P. report ever."  So yes, there was a shining jewel in the hand of the miner.  

Friday:  

A symbol indicating "orphanage" might show that one has to "go it alone" while the sun exactly opposes Uranus, planet of Independence.  Says Sepharial:  "Obscure in origin and reared among strangers, the nature is yet capable of attaining considerable distinction."  The moon square Saturn (hard third of the week) fits with "a man standing in an open field with a broken plow."  There may seem to be misfortune, hindrance, and lack of opportunity.  Yet "menial work," which after all someone has to do, has its own reward.  Needed routines are not enemies but friends.  We can either fix the "broken plow" or accomplish something not requiring it. 

"Dental work" continues the practical trend.  This need not be literal, but is some sort of repair or maintenance of either one's tools and appliances or one's body.  When we ourselves are fit, we are able to hand on the baton or torch to someone else in life's "relay race."

'Tis the harvest season, and "a sheaf of corn," or maybe a harvested squash or pumpkin, is provided by "a practical benefactor of the race; a good member of society."  Then we are ready to join "a group around a campfire" or a consummating group experience, either in fact or memory or imagination.  Amiability is the name of the human race when it is free from fear. 

{Friday}  /Hard-Won Harvest\

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Message for Thursday 29 October 2020

 Thursday 29 October 2020

^Out of Chains, Toward the Marvelous^

Moon in Aries

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (exact around midnight) until Saturday afternoon

How do you change a cactus to a rose? A porcupine to a hummingbird?  That's my task in writing this report.  Turn political conflict and riots in the streets into the "better world" we all want.  Lying politicians into savants.  Let's try . . . 

"A man in chains" is what many think their political opponent should be.  Both presidential candidates seem to be liars and crooks.  It is verifiable that both have lied heavily and frequently.  Yet each has proponents.  Sepharial says that the "man in chains" is "disposed to take life according to his own views and beliefs, and suffer much in consequence."  Sound like anybody you know?  Or, trying to escape dullness, one might emulate "an archer shooting arrows toward a flight of birds," not hitting anything, "flighty and indeterminate, effecting operations without design."  Too many love-affairs or attractions make them inconsequential.  One could be nonchalant.

The waywardness and eccentricity of a comet is our impetus from Uranus opposing the sun.  Yet one might do some great thing if it comes from inward profundity.  Unknown laws of nature exist, and sometimes one individual is able to use one of them, knowingly or unknowingly, to do marvelous things and make his or her mark.  This seems like magic. 

"The moon shining across a lake" is fellow-feeling enabling release from compulsions, with an effortless move to deeper experiences of the heart.  There can be rapport despite differing viewpoints.  The pressures of recent weeks, not really lessened today, nevertheless may force us to innovate, so that there could be "the dawn of a new day, everything changed."  

{Thursday}  ^Out of Chains, Toward the Marvelous^

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Message for Wednesday 28 October 2020

 Wednesday 28 October 2020

^Refining One's Position^

Moon in Aries

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 2:59p PT | 5:59p ET | 9:59p UT (until Saturday afternoon)

The energy of Mars plus the independence of Uranus (the sun is opposing it) make for high-energy disputes or disagreements during this election cycle.  Or we might pull back our differences and act like "two prim spinsters" who remain coolly friendly despite their differing attitudes.  There is "divorcement" from each other even while living close together.  There is a desire to be prominent but also to get to the core of things like "deep-sea divers."  One is involved in problems not only to solve them but to further one's growth toward perfection.

The symbols paint a nicer picture than the aspects, so let's go with them while realizing they point out ideals to be attained.  "A merchant ship" signifies a successful traveler, navigator or trader, and the chart shows strong career inclinations, so one might feel that one has found how to set one's sails in one's chosen profession.  Luna is in a child-sign and we have "a naked boy with a crown on his head and a scepter in his hand."  This is innocency plus dignity.  One is endowed to be as great as one hopes to be. 

I said to a friend yesterday that most of us just need to wait until the election is over to get a true sense of where we are going or clear answers to our questions.  That's because Mercury turns direct the day of the election (though still moving very slowly until November 19).  And so it is not surprising if things seem very tentative.  The symbol-promises may be more subjective than objective, yet we have "a man with his left foot on the shoulder of a spade; in his hand he holds a jewel reflecting the sun's rays."  Unexpected good fortune! I am not suggesting the lottery or casino.  But somehow you might enjoy unusual success or good fortune.  This could be through exploration or discovery.  A trend is fortuitous.  At a more universal or spiritual level, "the light of the sixth race is transmuted to the seventh."  History's mirror is foreshadowing humanity's ultimate potentials.  Venus now in her own sign, Libra, gives relief from some of the recent nastiness.  We may be at the threshold of a better future.

{Wednesday}  ^Refining One's Position^

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Message for Tuesday 27 October 2020

 Tuesday 27 October 2020

~Discrimination as Balance and Comfort~

Moon in Pisces-->Aries

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:47p PT | 8:47p ET | 12:47a(W) UT

I can't always be a cheerleader; sometimes I have to be a consoler.  Or a commiserator.  Things don't look totally bleak but we are feeling that our spirits are required to do more lifting, or "uplifting," than usual in order to keep our faith and optimism.  "A man standing headless or with the head shrouded in black cloth" is said to be eccentric and melancholy, a recluse devoted to "midnight studies."  The mind could be obscured or chaotic.  Or, hidden truths could be discerned.  "A monster with two faces" is duplicitous and deceptive, a slanderer, and we are familiar with the type during any election cycle.  The moon is in Pisces, two fishes going opposite directions, so we could uplift the bickering to a level of Hegelian dialectic where opposing views are somehow reconciled in an overarching vision.

"A false call unheard in attention to immediate service" emphasizes a career focus in the daily chart.  Discrimination is needed in business so that one's enthusiasm for success is aligned with honorability.  If focused on the path one has chosen, one is safeguarded from deviation into pointless divagations.  Then it's as if one were piling up "a great mound of earth and stones with a flowering shrub on the summit."  Carefulness in small things leads to life-continuity and reward.

"The truth" is called into question by Twitter and Facebook and everyone.  We want to be considered fit to judge what is true for ourselves.  There is gloom and fog (untruth, error) and there is sunshine (lucidity, truthfulness).  Of course we want the latter.  While Mercury is retrograde the mind goes back and forth from new to old viewpoints and tries to find a balance. That balance is often unverbalizable.  "I just know that this is right."  Such certainty brings peace of mind.  Then we may be ready for "a gold rush" or pursuing our dreams and ambitions through personal initiative.  Enterprise frees us of limitations.  We choose skill and ultimate good fortune.  However, the way things are now we may restrict the "rush" to anticipation rather than direct action (unless perchance one is a presidential candidate or campaigner).  

{Tuesday}  ~Discrimination as Balance and Comfort~

P. S.  One reader wrote to thank me for the "planetary highlights" I tried out experimentally yesterday.  That was good to hear.  However, I am still not sure if I want to make it a daily feature and feel I have said enough for today.  It is under consideration.  

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Message for Monday 26 October 2020

 Monday 26 October 2020

~Freedom within Mysterious Knowledge~

Moon in Pisces

There is a desire to assert yourself, to force decisions.  Can you meet with the opposition?  They are elusive.  "Two contending armies" does not sound like fun, but depicts the run-up to the election.  "A storm-swept prairie" is the noise and tumult of the "battleground states" as they vote or prepare to do so.  This is freedom (you choose whom to vote for) but it can be rash and wasteful.  "Fallen idols and desolated temples' could be the lot of either candidate, in fact of both.  There is wantonness on both sides. 

On the other hand, in this "relay race" one hands on the baton or torch to whomever one can tag and whomever one believes to be "on one's side."  One is fit to enter into "a group opportunity."   Human values are passed on.  We may not realize we are standing on "a massive, rocky shore" which is the dependability of the natural and social worlds.  Markets, brokerages, government agencies of distribution such as social security or safety nets, are all dependable to the point that they stabilize our lives, and within such stabilization we carry on.  

The mysterious is often the domain of Pisces, wherein the moon joins Neptune.  "A man gaining secret knowledge from a paper he is reading" is that delicious sense of being one-up on everyone else when one gets a glimmer of the way things might appear to G*d the Overseer.  Through conscious imaginative effort one makes discoveries.  One is crowned with "a trefoil":  Faith, Hope, and Charity (Love), leading toward schemes for a better world. 

Alternate reading:  (When Mercury is retrograde one often gets "out-of-pattern" ideas or methods, experimental ones.  Here is a fresh way of reading the daily chart, as an experiment):

Highlighted planets:

Neptune: obligation-objectives-sympathy-confinement:  Objectives are confined within a realm of sympathy.  One is obliged to consider how others are feeling and responding, though this be elusive.  

Uranus:  independence-personality-integration-possession:  One's possessions are integrated according to one's own personality, not someone else's, and it is good to be consistent with what one has already chosen as to money-management.  

Saturn:  sensitiveness-consciousness-discrimination-friendship:  Friends have already been chosen according to one's best discrimination and also according to fate (or karma).  

Venus:  appreciation-pleasure-assimilation-partnership:  One might share a meal with someone pleasant, or "assimilate the world together" in a way that is pleasing.   

{Monday}  ~Freedom within Mysterious Knowledge~

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Messages for Saturday and Sunday, 24-25 October 2020

 Saturday 24 October 2020

}Readjustment Toward Mutual Assistance{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 5:20a PT | 8:20a ET | 12:10p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 2:55p PT | 5:55p ET | 9:55p UT

Some pressures seem to be easing.  This is the first Saturday almost free of the |difficult third| period for many weeks.  Mars, going backward, is easing up on squares with the three Capricorn planets, though the square with Jupiter is still strong---differences of opinion which can become intense, or even harsh conflict.  Yet homey-ness and friendliness seem possible.

"A battle-field" points out the conflicts just mentioned.  After the battle, or during it but escaping it, "an old man sits beneath a shady tree, his head bowed in thought.  A pilgrim."  There is a philosophic trend.  We need "the eternal verities."  There can be abstruse or mysterious companionship even in solitude.

"An empty hammock" is said to symbolize Rumination, or "inner reorientation and outer readjustment."  This is indeed what we do during a Mercury Retrograde period (lasting until election day, though still-slow Mercury continues its Dark Hermetic Epoch until November 19).  Yet the hammock is empty; after ruminating one gets up to do something.  One does not have to be totally selfless to see that aiding others is a way of aiding oneself.  One might captain "a ferry boat taking people across a wide deep stream."  

Luna in friendly Aquarius sextile Mars, while Venus trines Saturn, could add up to "a man and woman standing hand in hand looking with affection toward each other."  There could be amity and concord.  A friend favors one's success.  With the Part of Fortune in the 4th sector of home, there could be "a house-raising."  Through simple good will there is cooperation and mutual helpfulness.  We find fulfillment through one another's gains.    

{Saturday}  {Readjustment Toward Mutual Assistance}

Sunday 25 October 2020

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Pisces at 2:19p PT | 5:19p ET | 9:19p UT

The first paragraph of the Saturday forecast remains relevant.  We are in the heart of the Mercury Retrograde period so calming ourselves is important.  "Hurry and worry" are our bane during these times.  Meditation and prayer are our forte.  We can still keep up with what we have to do, but with poise and inner peace, even contentment, making "let it be" our theme song when there are delays.  Some momentums should be reassuring or fulfilling because Luna trines both the sun and Mercury in water signs.  

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Message for Friday 23 October 2020

 Friday 23 October 2020

}In Hiding? or Peeking Out{

Moon in Aquarius

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

We live in strange times.  As I write the last presidential debate has not happened.  I'll try to avoid politics in this report.

"An ape seated before a mirror" has huge overtones, it seems.  Doesn't it feel like that as you watch the news?  Which is the ape and which the mirror?  Opinions will diverge radically.  Leon Russell did a song "Magic Mirror" in which he rhapsodizes over how we see ourselves in others, if we dare.  There is also a lot of shenanigan or intrigue behind the scenes (Hunter Biden etc.).  And those who have chosen a hero or heroine to imitate are looking into their mirror to shape themselves to that image.  Secrets? We all seem to have plenty of them, and sometimes they seep out---"a broken bottle and spilled perfume."  You can't put the perfume, or tell-tale signs, back in the bottle; they permeate what people see (or smell) in you.

Occultists may look beyond this world toward invisible entities, whether demonic, angelic, or both.  We may be melancholy about income or "the bottom line" and feel we are clinging for dear life to what we have.  This is partly the uncertainties about the election and partly the always-uncertain Mercury Retrograde period.  (It turns direct on Election Day but that probably won't help election dither and confusion.)  We may need to be content with believing "things will get better" while we investigate or ponder imponderables and specific leads (such as those emanating from that "laptop from hell").  

"A great headland over which the sun is rising" shows someone with lofty, elevated opinions who has stability of purpose and strength of mind.  That could be you.  Let's hope the bitter political and other disagreements shall subside enough so that "two women walking together with linked hands talk confidentially."  Maybe that is a non-political personal conversation.  We might benefit from something like that, while the moon is in friendly Aquarius moving gradually from the |hard third| of this week (which was exact during last night's debate).

{Friday}  {In Hiding? Or Peeking Out}

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Message for Thursday 22 October 2020

 Thursday 22 October 2020

\Debate Party?/

Moon in Capricorn

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week is with us (most intense today) until Saturday morning

/moon goes void-of-course at 9:36p PT | 12:36a(F) ET | 4:36a(F) UT

I try to keep politics out of these reports, but we can't avoid the fact that the final presidential debate is tonight.  It WOULD happen at a time when the moon will be exactly conjoined to Saturn (perchance Satan) in Saturn's own sign Capricorn, which seems to be the source of much of our pandemic woe (three planets have been therein for the entire period).  

The first symbol is suggestive of Hunter Biden:  "A man sitting naked upon a sea-girt rock, covering his eyes with his hands."  This is someone "estranged from his kindred and maybe exiled or outcast from his country."  He "will be short-sighted or have some moral obliquity, and incur severe trouble through this defect."  Of course the media, and debate moderators, are at their worst doing their best to keep Hunter out of view, but there he is sitting on that rock. And maybe Joe nearby.  "A nomadic warrior equipped with javelin and firearms" sounds more like Donald Trump, "nomadic" because he is having a rally in a new state almost every day.  He is "ever ready for the fray, involved in many strifes and quarrels."  "In body robust and in mind offensive to the peace of others, he will not fail to make numerous enemies."  (Yes, the sun and Venus are at these two degrees in Signor Borelli's clairvoyant symbols from 19th-century Italy.) 

Both candidates are accused of ill-gotten gains, and we have "an old man carrying two bags of gold clasped at his breast with nervous hands."  This is simply Acquisitiveness, for better or worse.  Voters too are clasping their "bottom line" while awaiting further stimulus.  Foreign trade and costly foreign involvement will be discussed.  Yet Venus's trines with three planets suggest friendliness, and we may have debate parties as if "on a sight-seeing bus."  There can be "naive and indomitable interest in life as a whole" to protect us from pointless partisan gloom and fury.  Some win, some lose.  Take in the scenery.

Yes, let's have a debate party. "A large assembly room.  A large audience and a man at the piano."  The audience and piano are most likely virtual in 2020.  Some of us may be artistic, eloquent and popular.  Could we perchance overcome partisan bickering sufficiently to arrive at a point where our hearts are "affectionate, confiding, unselfish; much influenced by others"?

{Thursday}  /Debate Party?\

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Message for Wednesday 21 October 2020

 Wednesday 21 October 2020

"The Eyes in His Head See the World Spinning Round . . ."

Moon in Capricorn

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins at 2:58p PT | 5:58p ET | 9:58p UT (until Saturday morning)

"The Fool on the Hill," the Beatles song, seems relevant.  Someone, a seer, sees "rings of light in the heavens, zone within zone," but cannot make anyone believe what he deduces from that.  Sounds familiar to me.  "A raven standing on a stone" says "You are a fool!"  

We have an eye to our financial needs but should not be covetous.  Perhaps giving to someone or some cause would be appropriate to show to the world and yourself that you are not a miser.  We also need to keep our bodies in shape by right exercise, for we are all "animal trainers" in regard to our physical embodiment.

Jupiter's location and symbol suggest that we feel we are circling round in a dark stairwell, which is typical of the convolutions of Mercury Retrograde, yet there is "light at the top" and we may get rays of that before we reach the happy culmination, to encourage us.  Roving cheerfully toward new experiences, some of them romantic and dangerous, is like being on "a ship in full sail."  For most of us this is in imagination and vision rather than reality.  But we have to dream.

{Wednesday}  "The Eyes in his Head See the World Spinning Round . . ."

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