Message for Tuesday 11 February 2020

Tuesday 11 February 2020

\Transmutation/

Moon in Virgo-->Libra

/moon goes void-of-course at 10:27a PT | 1:27p ET | 6:27p UT

until it enters Libra at 3:38p PT | 6:38p ET | 11:38p UT

Gloom is not permanent. Its analogue is a dark night which fades with morning. "The shades of night" may seem like the shades of the dead sometimes. Friends, relatives, partners come and go and someone you care about may seem in danger or ill health. But there is no reason to let this defeat you or steal your peace of mind. Real comfort lies in the spiritual regions. Melancholy and eccentricity go along with a reclusive life. You or someone close to you may veer in that direction. Yet things are not obscure, chaotic and confusing to one who has reinforced her or his soul-orientation. 

There is rivalry and opposition. "Three men in a boat, two on one side and one on the other" could represent the process of the New Hampshire Primary, however you choose to divide up the candidates.  There is fierce competition, "a person climbing a rock in the midst  of a fierce storm." This personage makes his way among insuperable difficulties. There is "uncertainty, peril, and final success."   That is, for someone: Why not you? 

Not everything is difficulty and self-assertion; there is also weighing and measuring in an apt manner. You know how to interconnect all details to one another successfully. Your ambitions "endow life with enduring potentiality" because you know how to transmute what is perishable into what is immortal. This is an alchemical utilization of "the philosopher's stone." 

{Tuesday}  /Transmutation\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 10 February 2020

Monday 10 February 2020

\Colorful Humanity/

Moon in Virgo

There is beauty in others and yourself, and mutual admiration. "An ornamental handkerchief" represents the gracefulness of a knight toward his lady. That is all well and good, though you may feel there are some financial obligations or transactions which are difficult and slow to get right. 

"A stout man of good proportion and rosy features is dancing grotesquely." Sounds like fun. Someone brusque and uncultivated may get your attention. He or she has natural wisdom but not book learning. Plenty of interesting things are going on in the cosmic-human dance if you are open to them.

Five planets in earth signs plus Luna's trine with Jupiter from Virgo to Capricorn fit in with "A sculptor" because we may want to idealize nature through hardy self-expression, immortalizing what we love through form and function. Whatever we do or create which might be lasting or enduring gives us a sense of fullness and perpetuity.  Some have or display brilliant gifts and psychic powers. These cannot be explained or understood by the conventional, but they grant long life and beneficently influence future generations.

{Monday}  /Colorful Humanity\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Sunday 9 February 2020

Sunday 9 February 2020

^A Near-Goddess's Blessing^

Moon in Leo-->Virgo

/moon goes void-of-course at 8:10a PT | 11:10a ET | 4:10p UT

until it enters Virgo at 3:40p PT | 6:40p ET | 11:40p UT

The symbols are warning of something which could go awry in connection with desires, erotic impulses, or sexual activity, including even the possibility of STDs or unwanted pregnancies.  Or, barring anything so extreme, one might be like "a woman disappointed and disillusioned" who realizes the path she has followed is not working.  After a setback, there can be clearance and a new beginning based on something more solid and enduring in one's character. This is a source of power, rather than enfeebling dissipation.

How much of one's personal story can be conveyed to a friend is a matter in question.  One might trust someone to keep a secret, or not, depending on one's own judgment.  It is probably better to trust anyone who has been trustworthy in the past. Even kids in grade school can sometimes be trusted to be discreet. There is an aliveness of interest when children or childlike adults work or play together, and this tends to cleanse unhealthy attitudes and proclivities. 

Shared ideals result in service to all. This is nobility, and it lifts moods. Someone who means a lot to you, probably a woman, exemplifies that attitude and her very presence is cheer-giving and harmony-yielding. Accessible, she brings ease and luxury to others as well as herself and her comportment is uplifting. 

{Sunday}  ^A Near-Goddess's Blessing^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Saturday 8 February 2020

Saturday 8 February 2020

^Accepting Self-Assurance^

Moon in Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until it ENDS at 12:03p PT | 3:03p ET | 8:03p UT

Full Moon of Aquarius-Leo becomes exact at 11:34p PT | 2:34a(Su) ET | 7:34a(Su) UT

There is always full consciousness, an expanded mind, at the Full Moon, yet this time also a youthful or immature attitude: "A giant amusing himself with a child's doll."  The implication is that the world might benefit from your efforts in a project, but that instead you devote yourself to callow entertainment.  Or, if you are "a chubby boy on a hobbyhorse" you are at least learning something or developing your aspiration and determination-toward-the-good.

If you feel more competent than that, you could be utterly on top of things or able to conquer the world, and this might make you "vain as a peacock" and a cantankerous companion.  Still, credit where credit is due, and you know your strengths.

The animation you feel could be more humble than that if you identify with "boys and girls in gymnasium suits," trying out their powers in a situation set up for them by the community.  This requires realistic demonstration of and appraisal of one's skills.  Yet there is something more, with the Full Moon, convictions derived from transcendental or superior wisdom.  "A big white dove, a message bearer," brings inspiration and assurance so that you know with conviction how to act and what to do.

{Saturday}  ^Accepting Self-Assurance^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Friday 7 February 2020

Friday 7 February 2020

^Fresh Energy and Determination^

Moon in Cancer-->Leo

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until Saturday at 12:03p PT | 3:03p ET | 8:03p UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:44a PT | 10:44a ET | 3:44p UT

until it enters Leo at 2:46p PT | 5:46p ET | 10:46p UT

Apparently Venus's entrance into Aries today is reflected in the day's symbols. There is a harsh, strong man dressed in skins. This is the Aries pioneer spirit, in this case divorced from kindness and spirituality but strong in force of character and determination. Along with it is "an obelisk" representing a pioneer in some area or field whose efforts and successes are ignored for a long time but ultimately prevail and get recognition at last.

At the juvenile level these symbols become "Boys and girls in gymnasium suits" and "A chubby boy on a hobbyhorse." We may feel animated and we want to emulate someone we admire. The moon is approaching the Full (late Saturday-early Sunday) which expands consciousness and offers opportunities.

"A forest fire quenched" could represent progress in ending the coronavirus epidemic. In your own life it might mean that you see how to cure some problem which has evaded your efforts before. Some of this could be economic in nature, and you are equipped to do it justice and work out your accounts in an expert way which will ultimately be profitable. 

{Friday}  ^Fresh Energy and Determination^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 6 February 2020

Thursday 6 February 2020

~Roused Toward Wise Activity~

Moon in Cancer

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

Feeling withdrawn, sullen, even misanthropic, is natural at times, though at best we might be able to overcome such states of consciousness.  We lose sympathy with human beings around us, who seem to be acting absurdly or pointlessly or irritatingly.  Maybe watching romantic comedies or whatever makes you laugh could help.  Too much isolation could lead to "nerveless apathy" unless we take ourselves in hand and steer by our intelligence.

"A target" suggests that a sort of rivalry or competition might be good for us, an attempt to do well in a game or the "game of life."  This requires concentration, which sometimes is more possible during the |difficult third| because we lose interest in frivolous things which could disturb our focus.  "A lightning flash" could be something which awakens you to the possibility of reform of yourself or others.  It requires force of character to pioneer in any direction.

There will be cooperation: "A bluebird standing at the door of the house."  We should be alert to rewards and welcome them.  The world speaks to us (through the "bluebird") of fortune we could take unto ourselves.  Favors could come from those who have influence or power.  "High truths" understood and felt uncover forbearance in our temperament, and suavity. 

{Thursday}  ~Roused Toward Wise Activity~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 5 February 2020

Wednesday 5 February 2020

~Appropriate Outlets for Expression~

Moon in Gemini-->Cancer

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:21a PT | 9:21a ET | 2:21p UT
 until it enters Cancer at 11:04a PT | 2:04p ET | 7:04p UT

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week begins early Thursday

The Dark Hermetic Epoch, discovered by myself, Cosmic Piper, in 1979, named almost 20 years later, and reported on regularly here for almost 21 years, is real. It covers a little less than half of the time, lasting almost two months. It means exactly what "Mercury retrograde" means in most people's minds---confusion, mixed-up schedules, bad timing, often crisis. It was obviously afflicting those administering the Iowa caucus, in a big way.  The current DHE goes from February 2 through March 29

Here is what I wrote and posted here on Sunday, January 26: 

Then there are those who look beyond politics into the sky, "an astrological chart in square form." I have been studying the chart for the next Hermetic Epoch---a Dark or Slow one---which begins February 2 and lasts through March 29. My aim was to see what I could about this important phase of the Democratic primary season. The essence of my conclusion is: Nobody will be happy! That is, it does not appear that any candidate is going to get overwhelming approval from the Iowa caucuses (February 3), the New Hampshire primary (February 11) and Super Tuesday (March 3, when fourteen states including California will vote). Who might come out on top? My quick (by no means exhaustive) astrological survey suggests Elizabeth Warren might do best, in some way, or at least exceed expectations for her, while I do not see a groundswell for any other candidate, neither Bernie Sanders nor Joe Biden nor any of the others.  

As I write on Tuesday, we are still awaiting results from the Iowa caucus.  Obviously with the confused "results," if they are results, of what I said there was prescient and correct.    From the New York Times on Caucus night, late: "Trip Gabriel, reporting from Dubuque:

"Looks like multiple candidates will claim victory of sorts in Iowa, then hop on a plane to N.H. and make moot whatever the actual results are."  This is why I said in the report more than a week earlier that "nobody would be happy" with the results of the caucus. 

Wednesday:  Signor Borelli and Sepharial warn against indolence, ineptness, and perversion. Sickness could be actual disruption of the organism, temporarily, or it could be selfish indulgence and apathy. There is a suggestion of hypochondria. However, while one is inert and recuperating, for whatever reason, one could utilize deep powers of intellect and soul to manifest wisdom and find out secrets of healing. One could even "take life at the crisis and turn it back from the Gates of Death." 

"Fateful inclinations and strong passions," sexual in nature, could bring suffering or disgrace. Intense feelings could overrule the warnings of past experience and its lessons. However, life continues, and feelings persevere, and they cannot just be bottled up without some creative outlet, so it appears the question is, What is that outlet? One feels one needs to enter into new situations, environments, ambiences in order to explore life afresh and find some way of expressing oneself hardily. 

"A naked man, having a serpent coiled around the lower part of the body."  Charubel says this is "A vicious degree" denoting "one subject to filthy habits and deeds."  What that might be in your life or that of someone you know, I leave to you.  We can easily justify to ourselves whatever impulses goad us to do, though we may judge ourselves harshly later.  It's territory where each person is left to settle such questions between himself or herself and her or his soul.   If we manage to do that wisely we might find ourselves pleased by "a soft cloudy cumulus upon a bright horizon."  Those we encounter have a "kind, pliant and sympathetic nature."  Our fortunes "lie in smooth places."  Life is as good to us as we have been to it.

{Wednesday}  ~Appropriate Outlets for Expression~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 4 February 2020

Tuesday 4 February 2020

}Divine Aid Across a Rough Sea{

Moon in Gemini

The uncertainties of outward life are what drive us to religion, or spiritual consciousness, or philosophy, or some link with the Eternal (so far as we can make that connection consciously). The symbols for the day suggest turmoil and "the struggle for existence," but such struggles are temporary, tempered and made endurable by divine grace.  "A vessel rolling in the trough of a rough sea" may be any of the presidential candidates. Some must lose, yet remain determined to win (some of them in later primaries, or in 2024, while others put their sights on some other political office their publicity in the campaign could bring). If you are that vessel battered by the waves, hold on to faith. 

Even we have, symbolically, "An earthquake." This could be for some the pandemic which, at this writing, still rages in some places. It could be the trouble some have with immigration blocked, or refugee status. It is not usually wise to transplant one's roots unless utterly necessary. Immigration into frontier country is not to be taken lightly. Sepharial says: "Let him be careful where he builds, and test with discernment the grounds of his faith in others. Let him trust in heaven and invoke its aid in all humility."

Some esoteric groups, over the centuries, have dabbled in politics, or even taken a direct hand in them. Likewise, of course, some churches and most caliphates. "Two men, well clad, are standing together, the one holding a white horse by the bridle." That horse could be the steed on which the next Avatar rides. We love such grandiose vision-projections (as a cure for the endless masochistic dystopias poisoning television). Meanwhile the influence of someone or some group could be good for you, or bad, or a mixture. Divine gifts may be sought, but cannot be commandeered; otherwise they would not be gifts. Charubel says that the recipient of "a shower of pearls of variegated hue" pouring from "a luminous cloud" "will prosper in matters temporal and spiritual, and that without apparent effort on his part." 

{Tuesday}  {Divine Aid Across a Rough Sea}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 3 February 2020

Monday 3 February 2020

}Seclusion as Hopeful Preparation{

Moon in Taurus-->Gemini

Believe it or not, the moon shall be void-of-course for just one minute before it enters Gemini at 3:30a PT | 6:30a ET | 11:30a UT

I just spent more than two hours reading about and listening about politics, and I am not sure I want to mix all that information and opinion with astrology. They often do not mix well. Actually the birth-charts of politicians can be studied profitably, and probably I should spend more time doing that. (Looking at Trump's chart I feel that no one, but no one, except an astrologer could understand him.) As for predicting the outcomes of elections, I am not sure any astrologer has been very good at that. In my somewhat slapdash way, yet carefully researched as far as I could without a supercomputer programmed in ways no one has ever programmed one, I felt that Elizabeth Warren might be the Democrat with the best chance of getting ahead in this whole Hermetic Epoch lasting from February 2 until March 30. That includes not only tonight's Iowa caucus but the New Hampshire Primary in another week and the Super Tuesday primaries on March 3. However, the majority of the polls seem to be giving Bernie Sanders an edge. He came in second in my calculated projection. No one knows, is the simple truth. There seems a real possibility that there will be a brokered Democratic convention in July, when anything could happen. I have not studied the charts for the period including that convention (July 13 through 16). It is interesting. 

Monday: Sanders, Warren, Biden, or another may feel like "A traveler in a solitary way, with a heavy burden on his back, assaulted by ruffians." Some may say that the "ruffians" are the Democratic Party, or the media, or the voters, or . . . Any of us may feel that we are struggling for our bare subsistence. Yet we can "take up our armor" and then be "fully equipped, bearing a shield." Caution plus bravery are a winning combination. In the right proportions they win goodwill and security. 

"A Chinese laundry" is interesting in light of the Coronavirus epidemic. Its keyword, "Seclusion," fits right in with "quarantine." Let us hope and pray that all this shall recede quickly from human experience. At another level, for everyone, this symbol suggests patient work while secluded from ordinary human contacts. This is not depressing when one has a future goal in mind toward which one's labor is leading. In moments of freedom one might hang out near "an old-fashioned well" which calls forth self-renewal. There is a certain recompense for oneself and those with whom one associates. Normal gain and income is reassuring. 

Being barred out from some things can result in finding other things one hadn't suspected. Groping intuition can illumine the darkness. Public documents may be significant or helpful. Much information is available online and in libraries, if one senses how to find it. "A beacon light on a high rock" is said to be "Divinity speaking through humanity." Impressions which seem foolish at first ("just a wandering light in the sky") could open doors into hidden wisdom.

{Monday}  {Seclusion as Hopeful Preparation}

Cosmic Piper

Message for Sunday 2 February 2020

Sunday 2 February 2020

\Options Successful/

Moon in Taurus

It seems there is little stress but what we make for ourselves. We may choose to stay close to home, or keep a low profile. Courtesy toward all does not have a high price tag and pays dividends. There seems an abundance of whatever we truly need, so that our modest desires are fulfilled. 

Ease and simplicity of living, with providence, seem like "a ray of light" fallen on someone "resting 'neath a shady tree." The "child and dog with borrowed eyeglasses" are facets of ourselves examining our world in varied, interesting ways so that we never grow weary of the panorama. 

If we choose to be more active, we could do so. Then we would be victorious. An upright and astute consciousness sustained by unswerving faith attains honors naturally, surviving any assault. "A mounted Indian" gains and administers authority fearlessly. His gesture is his command. This is self-discipline which wins first recognition and then cooperation. (If you do not feel you are currently such a "commander," you may admire someone who is and enlist in her or his project. Then you would act more in the mode of the previous two paragraphs.)

{Sunday}  /Options Successful\

Cosmic Piper

Message for Saturday 1 February 2020

Saturday 1 February 2020

\Fulsome Vision and Higher Hope/

Moon in Taurus

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues until it ENDS at 12:42p PT | 3:42p ET | 8:42p UT  

Things are looking better. This happens to be the last day of a Bright Hermetic Epoch. The Dark or Slow Mercury (Hermetic) Epoch goes from February 2, tomorrow, until March 30, almost two months. These alternate regularly and we go through three cycles per year so if you are 40 you have already been through 120 Dark Hermetic Epochs. It is nothing to get worried about. It tends to be a more inward, withdrawn, spiritually alive time, which can be wonderful. That often corresponds with a lack of firm direction and oomph in outward business matters, so it has a reputation for being "bad" or "hard" really because these outer things seem less important at such times and one "flakes off" rather than keeping one's "nose to the grindstone." In an ideal astrologically-conscious world, employers and employees, business people, professionals and their clients, would know about all this and we could adjust our expectations accordingly. Accidents, tantrums, hurry-worry, and bitter feelings would be reduced. The world needs astrology. 

Otherwise, however, things do look as if they are improving. Just as there is the weekly |hard third| of each week because of our moon's relation to Saturn, so there is a four-times-annually "hard month" of about 34 days. We have left it today; it began on December 25. This means that in general there is less "karmic pushback" to your plans, hopes and intentions (until April 3) so it is easier to make wise decisions and keep up with the work needed to fulfill them. It can be a better time for sheer relaxation, social links, and fun when that is feasible. (If some of this seems to contradict what was just said about the DHE, well, they are independent variables and are both in effect this time around so one might say this DHE could be less stressful than many others.)

Saturday:  Keen observation and competence in judging things could be a gift you exploit.  You estimate potentials and dependabilities accurately. You might find that you feel content with your present lot, and relatively easy or smooth efforts you can make to improve it without rush.

Your home is elegant and inviting in many ways. You may have company, or visit someone else and enjoy the hospitality. A symbol we had recently returns, "A woman reclining upon a couch, scantily attired." I leave this to your interpretation. An innocent joy in the body is one possibility. Sensuousness is another, which does not have to diverge into grossest sensuality. 

"An ancient bas-relief carved in granite" fits nicely with Luna's position in Taurus today, making for a preponderance of planets (five) in earth signs. Our feet are on the ground and we know our foundations. Yet we realize that we can perceive these in a multitude of ways, through varying lenses, for differing purposes, and that makes life interesting: "A child and a dog with borrowed eyeglasses." We can examine our personal opportunities almost playfully through many levels of experience. Resulting depths of comprehension are both practical and fascinating.

{Saturday}  /Fulsome Vision and Higher Hope\ 

Cosmic Piper

P. S. I weigh and re-examine every word in these reports. That does not mean they are perfect but I believe re-reading them during the day, or late at night, or the next day, will prove revelatory. 

Message for Friday 31 January 2020

Friday 31 January 2020

^Breaking Through Ice^

Moon in Aries-->Taurus

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (until Saturday at 12:42p PT | 3:42p ET | 8:42p UT)

/moon goes void-of-course at 7:11a PT | 10:11a ET | 3:11p UT

until it enters Taurus at 4:29p PT | 7:29p ET | 12:29a(Sa) UT

The above information is fascinating! No? You think it is utterly boring? I am trying to get readers to see how valuable it can be and how it tracks with current events in their lives. Here is something I just found out: Brexit is happening today! Oh, you've been hearing about "Brexit" for years and am utterly bored by it? Me too. But it finally is happening, at the political level, and the official exit of Britain from the European Union will be at 11 p.m. British Time tonight, midnight in most European countries. Guess what? Look at the boring information above: The moon will be void-of-course until 12:19 a.m. Universal (European) time! I have said here often (I hope you noticed) that the void-of-course times are times when things end, often. (9/11/2001 was the end of two buildings, for example, and much more.) Also, we are in a |karmically serious or sobering third| of a week. Of course! (and that also was true on 9/11/2001). I watched a fascinating documentary about Studio 54, the amazing disco club in New York in the 1970s, and found that it was shut down, raided by the "feds" for tax evasion, on December 14, 1978. Guess what? The moon was void-of-course that day and also it was during the |difficult third| of that week. It was definitely the end of something big! Truman Capote and Andy Warhol no longer had a glamorous Wonderland to which to retreat any evening. I list these times here not to amuse myself or you but because they are important. They do not mean the same thing every week, of course, but pondering them with your own intelligence and independent detective work could pay off. 

Since we are likely to be highly critical, saying beneath our breath to many things we hear or read "B. S.!", it is good to remember that people are in "a hard place" in consciousness, feeling oppressed and taking it out on those who seem to be opponents. So it is good to remain silent in many cases, or prepare one's defense or offense quietly for some other more opportune moment. People feel jealous of their rights and privileges and feel they are being unfairly restrained. That could include you. But by objecting or rebelling too much or too openly they could make things worse, so it is good to adapt wisely for the time being.

Ordinary work may seem unusually hard or annoying during the nine-hour v-of-c period, but one can carry on. I leave it to you to interpret this symbol: "A woman of dark countenance standing over a prostrate man." In the Me Too era of accusations and transgressions coming to light, this could have many applications. "To either sex it is full of warning and threat" says Sepharial. Karma may be being cleared. This can happen in the privacy of one's own conscience, or in the light of day in a courtroom. We all prefer the former, I would guess.

There is an escape hatch:  "There is no symbol to this degree. [Charubel] A degree of mystery. It is allied to fourth dimensional space. Denotes one who has \something/ not in common with the rest of his race." I choose to take this optimistically. It goes with "Men cutting through ice" which suggests breaking up overly cumbersome, rigid structures in order to get at and procure something good. One might have the faith and perspicacity to do this if allied with a higher dimension. 

{Friday}  ^Breaking Through Ice^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Thursday 30 January 2020

Thursday 30 January 2020

^Care Around Thorns^

Moon in Aries

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

Pushfulness and forcefulness cannot overcome Nature, when Nature is understood to be the underlying laws or patterns of human nature and human evolution. And so those who "push and shove" will not have a good day. "A battle-field of deadly conflict," though symbolic, still describes too much of what is going on in Washington and elsewhere. Yet Mars square Neptune has a colorful side to it, a desire to overcome sordid boring reality---but then the escape into a "colorful" reality of sex and drugs could end up even more sordid (the AIDS epidemic was one example). There can be a sense of failure, and irrational fears or phobias leading to dangerous reactions. 

Still there could be good decisions, as if a flash of lightning proceeding from a cloud illumined the intellect and one's choices. Then one could exercise an effective executive capacity. That means "cleavage," that is, rejecting some things to emphasize others. That includes ruthlessly examining choices and weeding out what is unprofitable. Financial fortunes, for example, may depend on such sharp discrimination.

Motion has pluses and minuses. You might benefit from temporary changes of location, as in your town or neighborhood. You make full use of your immediate genius, no matter what frontier is at the forefront. Some may offer you gifts or trinkets in a flattering or kindly manner, and you may do the same. It's something like sharing berries picked from thorny bushes.

{Thursday}  ^Care Around Thorns^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Wednesday 29 January 2020

Wednesday 29 January 2020

^Somewhere^

Moon in Aries

/moon is void-of-course (in Pisces) until it enters Aries at 3:52a PT | 6:52a ET | 11:52a UT

Mars is strong and the moon is in the first face (or decanate) of Aries which is doubly ruled by Mars. The symbols for the day are uneasy. We had better calm down. One might feel that one has one hand in the kitchen, another in the car or on the street, one foot walking to the car or bus, another foot entering a nightclub; there is a feeling of being everywhere but nowhere. It is good to bring coordination to one's faculties. Better perhaps to be obsessive-compulsive or autistic than a jellyfish. Projects and imaginings run riot. This might work out if one were managing and creating a daring new club as Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager were doing at the outset of Studio 54. Otherwise . . . you can finish the sentence.

Further, many are angry or hyper-critical. One sees this not only in the impeachment insanity (have you counted the man-hours wasted?) but among the Democratic candidates (Bernie supporters sometimes go hog-wild attacking supporters of other candidates, but of course not always, and of course everything one says about politics has to have double or triple qualifiers if one is to avoid slandering someone, or causing someone unfairly to think that he or she is being slandered . . .).

At work, one may feel secure in one's position and yet insecure because those beneath one (or who feel that you might be snootily "above" them in your own mind) are quietly fuming about you and could explode given a sufficient spark. 

Where is the escape? 1. in time; 2. in space.  1. is "a ruin, the remains of an ancient massive wall, with archway." The History Channel? A historical romance, or actual study of real history (so far as we can reconstruct it accurately, which is always a real question). Maybe this is more like your personal memories; maybe you should journal them or start writing memoirs (one can do that at any age). 2. is "pelicans moving their habitat" and one might dream of moving far, far away. But what is "far" any more, in a "global culture" where technology reaches almost to every square inch? Maybe just a walk to someplace in the neighborhood will do it, re-invigorate one through a small "frontier." Dr. Jones: "When life becomes unprofitable in one phase there are always additional areas of realization in which the being may have its prompt re-establishment." 

{Wednesday} ^Somewhere^

Cosmic Piper

Message for Tuesday 28 January 2020

Tuesday 28 January 2020

~Toward Calm and Gentility~

Moon in Pisces

/moon goes void-of-course at 5:10p PT | 8:10p ET | 1:10a(W) UT

"Contention and litigation" are not surprising indications considering what is going on in Washington. In your own case you may find that while you are sympathetic and supportive of partners or friends at a distance from you, there are issues dividing you which have yet to be worked out. Individual philosophies and viewpoints seem fixed, and when at a tangent it is hard to get clarity or smooth cooperation, even though that be the conscious goal. Some individuals seem like Ayatollahs with inflexible religious or political-legal notions. 

Those who can might benefit from being in nature, among trees and landscapes, or artistic renderings of these, resting content with what they have in this world and doing simple daily tasks without murmuring. 

The square between Venus and Mars has a reputation for being libidinous, though that is not always the case. It can be something like "revenge sex" at worst, or stirred-up passion plus indefinite arousal. The symbol "A woman reclining upon a couch scantily attired" can be taken however one pleases, but our Victorian commentators warn against sensuality, sick satiety, and resulting self-reproach.  A more childlike view of bodily innocence is "Tiny children in sunbonnets." Normal contact with others and participation in living via one's particular role is innocent, natural fulfillment. The children have some egoistic desires but they have not diverged into harshness or crassness.

{Tuesday}  ~Toward Calm and Gentility~

Cosmic Piper

Message for Monday 27 January 2020

Monday 27 January 2020

~Reposing Upon the Possible~

Moon in Pisces

Symbolic warnings of possible calamity or accident coincide with today's exact square of Mars with both Venus and Neptune. This has a flavor of "pursuit of the unattainable" and so we should be content with what we have or can easily gain rather than stretch ourselves beyond our current powers and circumstances. Doing that could end in bitter disappointment. If we see that our limits are temporal ones---shall last for a time until we shall be released into a chance for better things---we will not ruin anything by impatience.

One of Charubel's symbols points to "an Eastern city, Constantinople." This was once Byantion or Byzantium, then was named Constantinaple after the Christian emperor Constantine, then was changed to Istanbul which according to some (but not others) could mean "plenty of Islam" as if to exorcise Christian influence. And so this might be an indication of the persisting rift between Christian or secular nations on one hand and Islamic ones run by Mullahs or Caliphates on the other. Another symbol for the same degree is "an Easter sunrise service" and so perhaps there is hope for a resurrection of humanity itself out of harsh religious constraints on any side. We await that, and I hope not for another whole century. Some of what Mars square Neptune can mean is adherence to a spiritual leader who is militant in nature, even if his ultimate goal be peace.

Then there are those who look beyond politics into the sky, "an astrological chart in square form." I have been studying the chart for the next Hermetic Epoch---a Dark or Slow one---which begins February 2 and lasts through March 29. My aim was to see what I could about this important phase of the Democratic primary season. The essence of my conclusion is: Nobody will be happy! That is, it does not appear that any candidate is going to get overwhelming approval from the Iowa caucuses (February 3), the New Hampshire primary (February 11) and Super Tuesday (March 3, when fourteen states including California will vote). Who might come out on top? My quick (by no means exhaustive) astrological survey suggests Elizabeth Warren might do best, in some way, or at least exceed expectations for her, while I do not see a groundswell for any other candidate, neither Bernie Sanders nor Joe Biden nor any of the others. What will happen after the end of this Epoch on March 29? I have not done the very complex charts I have been researching for these periods, as yet. I realize that the pollsters are putting Warren behind both Biden and Sanders at this point. Maybe they are right. Maybe I am. It is interesting. I am not PREDICTING that Warren will get the most votes, just suggesting that she might be an ultimate beneficiary of whatever happens during this period. By no means should predictive astrology be judged by this slight effort---I have not done the immensely complex calculations for all the candidates which would be required for an exhaustive projection, nor have I even looked beyond March 29.

Last, we have "a brilliant violinist" who may be releasing into the ethers "the music of the spheres." This could be Luna, Venus and Neptune together in Pisces, the other-worldly sign. Three individuals who, born with the moon in Pisces, have embodied ineffable symbol-powers are Martin Luther King Jr., Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson. In very different ways each embodied a "dream" which many find, or found, uplifting and inspiriting.

{Monday}  ~Reposing Upon the Possible~

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Message for Sunda 26 January 2020

Sunday 26 January 2020

}On the Threshold of Magic{

Moon in Aquarius-->Pisces

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Pisces at 3:45p PT | 6:45p ET | 11:45a UT

We should have sympathy for those who have a hard time getting from one place to another, whether they are on crutches or in a wheelchair. Mobility is a wonderful gift we should be grateful for, in whatever form we share in it. We all have, and live within, an essential matrix of our own cosmically-derived identity. Each is "a child born of an eggshell." Within that matrix, motion is of the thought or of the soul and is unlimited.

"A tiger standing guard over its young litter" is strong, even ferocious, toward those who would prey on those it protects, but tender toward those to whom it is devoted. You care about a youthful friend. The sea gulls are still watching that ship, so we can be alert to every opportunity at hand. It's been a very long void-of-course period (more than a day) but chance is providing us with what we need or even desire. 

Sprinkles of fairy-dust permeate us while Venus and Neptune are together in Pisces. "The field of Ardath in bloom" is the inherent friendliness of the universe as we rely on it and make ourselves fit for it to rely on us. There is a sense of revitalization in the household or family situation and perhaps recovery from illness. When we dedicate talents and possessions to the over-all reality, we participate in its spiritualizing magic. 

{Sunday}  {On the Threshold of Magic}

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Message for Saturday 25 January 2020

Saturday 25 January 2020

}Beneficent Exploitation as Magic{

Moon in Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week ends at 3:02a PT | 6:02a ET | 11:02a UT

/moon goes void-of-course at 11:08a PT | 2:08p ET | 7:08p UT

The eight hours between the two events listed above might be the best time to contact anyone for a date, meeting, outing, or any purpose, and reach agreement. Then after the v-of-c begins, all is well unless one is wanting to settle firm commitments of any kind. It might be better to let things ride and transmogrify themselves.

"A man unmasked" is not necessarily an ill omen. Motives are revealed in yourself and others. People's secrets will out, one way or another. If one can laugh at this, fine; or, if more serious, one can "repent" and promise to do better. People are curious about one another or want to analyze one another. There are tensions regarding friendship, money or both, a need to keep trusting when someone seems unreliable, or at least to trust the reliable side of him or her. Venus square Mars can be unkindness, or attractions which go awry or degenerate into gross sensuousness with little gentility. It can be trouble or worry concerning someone in the family, including a parent. Still, many pressures may be diminishing as the sun moves away from Saturn (now by more than eleven degrees).

Some things are more subtle than they appear on the surface. Gain can come through means which seem mysterious, through "lucking out" or "wishing on a star" (Venus with Neptune in the latter's sign and that of the former's exaltation, both sextile Jupiter, and more). The author and director of the drama in which we play has put sweet secrets into the script. We can be like "sea gulls watching a ship." What one does not get, another does, and there is enough for all. 

Mars as a favored planet suggests a direct approach to hopes, with penetration and ambition along a clearly marked path.  (Especially during the 8 hours mentioned in paragraph 1, or following a plan one has settled on then.) Tying oneself to the creative power of the universe makes one independent, or able to exploit resources in a magical way. 

{Saturday}  {Beneficent Exploitation as Magic}

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Message for Friday 24 January 2020

Friday 24 January 2020

}New Moon Founds a Colony{

Moon in Capricorn-->Aquarius

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (until Saturday at 3:02a PT | 6:02a ET | 11:02a UT)

/moon is void-of-course

until it enters Aquarius at 5:22a PT | 8:22a ET | 1:22p UT

New Moon of Aquarius occurs at 1:43p PT | 4:43p ET | 9:43p UT

We emerge out of the |bleak third of this week| slowly. The process is something like "the ground hog looking for its shadow." Through trial and error we learn to anticipate the trend of events and make self-adjustments to capitalize on the momentary situation. One may feel that one is "a performer of a mystery play" because life is subtle! more than obvious. It's a matter of interpreting the dramas in human society as they unfold, often mysteriously. (The "mystery plays" were religious, not murderous.) 

It's a little early for "a cherry tree in full blossom" but you may appreciate a precocious person whose blossoming life pleases many. This individual, though totally youthful, takes seriously "a council of ancestors" whether they be parents, spiritual guides or mature friends. Therefore he or she is beloved because welcoming of good influences whether or not able to live them out fully. 

The New Moon may get us energized sufficiently to feel like "a man stripped to the waste hewing timber." He or she does not shirk labor but makes good use of native powers (Venus square Mars is vitalizing; Mercury sextile Mars is skillful). Rustic simplicity could build a house or found a colony. The creative power of the universe is increased in us as we reach out to the Divine. "ideality brought to the point of miracle" (Dr. Jones) is magic of the real not illusory kind.

{Friday}  {New Moon Founds a Colony }

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Message for Thursday 23 January 2020

Thursday 23 January 2020

\Mutual Protection/

Moon in Capricorn

|Karmically serious or sobering third| of this week continues (until Saturday morning)

/moon goes void-of-course at 6:10p PT | 9:10p ET | 2:10a(F) UT

You may worry that some of your hopes and schemes could, after seeming to be propitious, fail you at last. This is not inimical fate but a result of anticipating something which is unrealistic. So it is good, especially on a |difficult third| day, to suspect that the "fox running apace in the moonlight" may be promising you too much while really intent on his crafty predation. He has secrets that would not bear the light of day. Caution regarding investment or spending is advisable. 

Being content with your home, or spending time there, maybe making it more pleasant, could be spirit-lifting. Thinking about oneself is not always self-centered and decadent but could help you get your bearings and a sense of what you are all about. You aspire toward hidden knowledge, "The Pyramids and the Sphinx," and could pursue and find some of it, as if it had always been within you and needed only an awakened imagination to bring it to life. This could help you get over the hard part of the week which more-or-less reaches its peak right when the moon goes void-of-course (time above) because it happens to be squared to Saturn then. Not "bad" but "serious."

Taking on responsibilities is strengthening rather than burdensome. Your merits can bring you into a position of trust, such as "an officer arrayed like a Chinese mandarin in an official robe of purple, gold and blue." Working alone is the necessary prelude to being lauded in public. The hard aspects today---sun square Uranus, Venus square Mars, and moon square Saturn---are a challenge to live for someone else or for G*d and the human race. Somehow you are seriously linked with someone very close to you whom you guard, and who guards you. This is symbolized by "a circle within a circle, both concentric." Sometimes one of you is the outer circle, sometimes the other.  The harmony between you reflects the harmony each has with the world as a whole.

{Thursday}  /Mutual Protection\

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