October 05, 2005Metaversal Fireweek Forecast (Oct 3-9)
This just arrived in my inbox last night from Johannes (too late to post) so it's a couple days late on the forecast, but better late than not. Some folks have mentioned that they prefer reading the forecasts after the date has passed and that sometimes things are more clear that way.
Thanks to Johannes for sending them in any case, we certainly appreciate having them!
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFT
HYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
THE METAVERSAL WATERWEEK FORECAST
Atziluth
First Quarter Moon
-FIREWEEK-
October 3rd to October 9th
Fireweek is the time to remember we're in the pilots seat of our own personal Lightcraft and make some corrections if we've veered off course. You needn't dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!) The Sun is in Libra at the begining of this Lunar cycle. The name Libra comes from the Libyan Goddess of Holy Law who carried the scales of judgment, and her counterpart in Egypt was Maat, the spirit of equilibrium, of justice, truth and rightness. She lived within a person and also existed outside and so was known as the 'double Maat,' encompassing both individual and cosmic consciousness. After death the Egyptians believed that the heart was weighed against a feather in the scales of Maat. Maat was no dispenser of punishment, however; she was the personification of truth, the spirit that animates all living beings, both divine and human. If the heart were too heavy then, without blame or punishment, the soul would return to earth to reincarnate until light enough for final liberation. Maat had no temple because she could not be confined; she was the natural order itself. To be in accord with natural truth and justice creates harmony, and Maat symbolized this quality.
The New Moon in Libra on October 3 is a solar eclipse, opening a new chapter in relationships while closing an old one. The stars will be out in full force and the mirrorstream will be kleiglit by lamps affixed to the underside of the bridge. You will be naked I am obsessed with Enochian angles and colors in awe. Libra's focus is on relationships, but Libra wouldrather clean up the past than forge ahead into the future. This lunation conjoins the Moon's South Node in Libra, reminding us that partnerships built by strong individuals (North Node in independent Aries) are most likely to endure. Venus, the traditional ruler of Libra, occupies a very influential position during this eclipse. In Scorpio and closely semi-square the Sun and Moon, Venus draws us into experiencing our deepest desires and fears. Venus also opposes her mythic counterpart, Mars. The God of War dancing with the Goddess of Love and Beauty sparks love, libido, and passions of all kinds; the more sides of ourselves that we've repressed, the greater the infatuations and revelations will be. When Venus entered Scorpio she was lovingly put inside a transparent gyroscope roving the Carnival of the Torture Demons, so to speak. For all intents and purposes, she could have been put in the shark tank diving-bell - but you'll get a hell of a lot more out of this experience, I guarantee you. While it might not feel like it, you'll be safe in Scorpio - it's like a magic carpet with an impermeable aura - and Scorpio itself is the ultimate spectacle of sheer menacing horror and pranksterish delirium.
In the intimacy of relationship, we become more conscious of our shadow and thus more conscious of our light. Mars's ardor has been intensified by his station retrograde at 23° Taurus on October 1, just two days before this eclipse; this signals the beginning of a two-month re-evaluation of our desires and the strategies we've been using to achieve them. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism-- so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos. Because of his retrograde phase, the Red Planet will be spending six-and-a-half months in Taurus rather than the usual 6-8 weeks. So, that period (from July 27, 2005 to February 17, 2006) is an excellent time to work on our relationship with money, security, and abundance. Chiron in Capricorn turns direct on October 4, which brings healing into the foreground. Venus sashays into outgoing Sagittarius on October 7, kicking off a more active social cycle, and Mercury's entry into Scorpio on October 8 intensifies communication and deepens our thoughts.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
The first day of a new Lunar cycle always gets my donkeys up on stage! The solar eclipse New Moon in Libra at 3:29 a.m. goes forward and backward at the same time. All New Moons mark fresh turns of the cosmic tides, beginning another monthly cycle of activity. But whenever there's an eclipse as well, excess baggage from the past could be slowing us down. This one's about relationships, so tossing out mental photos of love gone wrong may be required cleanup if you want to make a fresh start. Put some new pictures on your wall and new images in your mind that support starting over, either in your current relationship or the pursuit of a new one. Ideas should be plentiful, with Mercury making four aspects over the next three days. Today's sextile to Pluto and sesquiquadrate to Uranus both deepen and brighten conversation. Nuggets of information are exposed and then polished into new and radical forms. A solar eclipse involves a temporary blockage of the Sun's light, diverting the customary flow of our awareness. Even during an annular eclipse (such as this one), when a narrow ring of sunlight is still visible, perceptions of time and space are altered. Birds hush, flowers close, bees become disoriented. Whether or not we actually see the eclipse, we feel the increased gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon. A beam of lunar information penetrates into the Earth and into our psyche. I'm so excited by the prospect that you might actually join me on this information penetration outing that I've been masturbating - and furiously! - all morning in anticipation. Dr. Shabubu told me that this would be good for calming my nerves –indeed the opposite, for I find myself in a neurasthenic frenzy just contemplating the notion that you and I might picnic together beneath those samebolts of lightning which are sure to set the Riddley barns aflame again.
A solar eclipse opens an evolutionary doorway; it also offers an opportunity to hit the reset button - to remember and realign with the original intentions encoded in our birth chart. Eclipses in Libra focus our attention on partnership and the ongoing balancing act between independence and cooperation. Each of us has the sign of Libra somewherein our birth chart; those with planets or angles around 10° Libra will feel the transformative impulse of this eclipse most strongly. For everyone, the house activated by this eclipse denotes the area of life where we will grow more rapidly through interaction with others than through solo endeavors. The need to reconsider our objectives and expand our perspective is amplified by Mars's quincunx to Pluto at 22° Sagittarius and another to Jupiter at 25° Libra (and to Mercury at 22° Libra as well). This forms a yod, a challenging configuration that calls for the elimination of unproductive attitudes and methods. Venus at 25° Scorpio occupies the resolution point of the yod, symbolizing the need to shift from the love of power to the power of love.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
The Day of Mars in Fireweek sees the red planet retrograde in Taurus. Uncover the inner dynamic at the core of your Lightcraft and follow its instructions implicitly. The language or system used is completely unimportant as long as it reflects and supports balance within your body. Early today, Mercury quincunxes stationary Mars, which is likely to stimulate more talk than action. Coaxing will work better than pushing, and working around problems, rather than facing them head-on, is probably the wisest move now. At 5:03 p.m., the Moon enters Scorpio; For the next two and a half days, secret desires, hidden fears and subconscious drives surface more easily. Scorpio represents the period from 42 years old to Death, when ones sense of Time compacts and passes rapidly. Since this stage is the last in the life of the human biological machine, it's now time to transcend the confines of the mortal body and to assure continued existence, either you breed (pass on your DNA) or step out of the loop (become your DNA). On the World scale, Scorpio is between AD 1100 and AD 1500, when the Dark Ages reached their peak. This is the Time of the Crusades and the Inquisition, when Pain, Bloodshed and Oppression swept over Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, after the uneasy alliances made during Libra. This is the sign of the Shadow. Successfully navigated, one can experience healthy, flowing spontaneous sexuality, an acceptance of Death and an integration of its reality into daily life, thus gaining a sense of the immortality of consciousness. The Scorpio Moon is building strange bridges and arousing otherworldly passions, the eye opening each thing like poetic treasure, emotions intensify and positions harden. Give feelings time to simmer before acting on them. Chiron turns direct tonight at 27°" 48' Capricorn, while the Moon in surgical Scorpio, reminds us that facing the pain is the first step toward healing.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
The Day of Mercury in the Week of Fire finds the fleet footed one in his home sign of Virgo. Here he is cautious, modest, humble, unassuming in the way he expresses himself. Problematic Mercury in Virgo Qualities: Hair-splitting, too much of a perfectionist, getting lost in the "fine print" and the details.Where Mercury is present, there are no boundaries to ideas. You can take mine into your head as if they were your own. Mercury reminds us that there is a certain dissolving of ownership, a "communion", in all communication and learning. Of the mind, what can we say is genuinely ours and ours alone? Ultimately, all language is a kind of mimetic thievery: the acquisition of most knowledge requires liberal stealing from the wisdom and experience of others. The incenses attributed to Mercury and the sephirah Hod are Storax and fresh White-out. The Power of Mercury in Atziluth (Fire) is THE ABILITY TO CONCEPTUALIZE. Mercury is the Word, the Logos in the highest, the direct means of connection between polarities: yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as the electrick current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which are transmitted by it's means.
Mercury teaches (by demonstration), the animation of Eidolons, the magick indwelling of icons by Spirit. Mercury conjuncts Jupiter (25°" 37' Libra), a mentally rich combination of details and big ideas, full-bodied conversation, and bold promises. This is good for teaching, learning, traveling, and sales, but it can be tricky now to sort out the difference between a fact and a belief. With the Moon in Scorpio we are in the darker realms, feeling horny and sharp as the proverbial stiletto, bent at tearing away every comforting lie, every soothing half-truth. It may put you in a lighthouse made of black rubber and steel. Its walls will be adorned with mandalas of contraluz opals and petrified wood. Itwill be evenly lit by an indiscernible source I haven't figured out yet. Its atmosphere could be suffused with an idyllic sadness. You may hear the foghorns of ghostships. You may see, through crystal windows, gigantic manta rays surging through primordial waves in a sea blasted by silent lightning. Have you any toothpaste? Be sure to screw the cap on tightly:You are only as healthy as the Secrets that you keep. Avoid the dirt nap yourself by frequent "little deaths."A Venus-Chiron sextile today shows the health benefits that come from having a good time.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Take physical exercise in Jupiter's Day, when he is reigning, and use Jovial things such as Lapis Lazuli, Brass, Cedarwood, blue and aery colours, wine, honey; and entertain thoughts and feelings which are particularly Jovial, that is, expansive, healthy, and with good humour... - Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Astrologer and Orphic Musician
The Day of Jupiter in the kabbalistic World of Fire and Force, Atziluth. Projecting Light Specific Blue and facing West, vibrate this azure deluxe into your Second Chakra along with the mantrum: EE-BE-DA. Jupiter is all about allowing ambiguity, contradiction, and movement. It isn't about integration. It helps the ego become more flexible. By Jove, life isn't about staying calm and balanced, but rather about keeping complexity and drama and everything else alive and in dynamic flow. Venus is semi-square (45°" ) the Sun (28°" 42' Scorpio - 13°" 42' Libra), the only hard aspect possible between this normally close-linked pair. There's a potential for objectivity when Venus, the mirror of self-worth, is held at this sharp angle to the solar sense of self. Yet, egos may be more fragile now, and mild criticism could sting like a swarm of angry bees (THEY'RE IN THE WHAT NOW?). The fun part is knowing that this nice little braid cascade of planetary wave donuts gets its pressure nested to fold all inside out through one slip knot to ... elsewhere....and don't hesitate, meditate, because not only is stable gravity the wind of magnetism permitted by fractal symmetry to go BETWEEN frequencies in a cascade, but magnetism is also actually the WIND ON WHICH LOVE TRAVELS.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
The Day of Venus in the week of Fire. In the Western Mystery Tradition, the most pervasive polyamorous archetype is Aphrodite, Greek goddess of Love and Beauty. She is Venus, Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna and relates to the sephera Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. While she had more lovers than any other Greek goddess she was not victimized and never suffered from her numerous love affairs as did many of the other goddesses. Neither was she jealous or possessive. Unlike her counter parts she was allowed freely to choose both her husband and many lovers. She inspired poetry, communication and art as well as love. Her liaison with Hermes produced the bisexual Hermaphroditus. and her long time union with Mars (God of War) produced a daughter, Harmonia. Thus Love and War combined to give rise to Harmony. There's plenty of truth in the offing on with the Moon entering Sagittarius at 12:28 a.m., followed by Venus's ingress into the same sign that very night. Sagittarius represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between Conception and 7 weeks, the first Lunar month after the sperm reaches the egg, and is a compacted pattern at a molecular time scale of the entire life of the cellular body. The embryo develops in parallel with the earlier phases of evolution, retaining memory of these structures in the brain. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Sagittarius represents Initiation beyond the realms of Death (Scorpio). On the World scale, Sag occupies the period between AD 1500 and AD 1750, The Renaissance. This was the time when astrology, mathematics, musick and geometry were understood as divine techniques for communicating with the Soul of the World. With the Moon in Sagittarius we are into philosophical speculation, adventure, and foreign influences, and actions that expand the awareness through gathering unfamiliar experiences. The real good news is that optimism and hope propel us upward and onward. Frank words (not put-downs) are likely to be heard now. A sense of humor is Sagittarius's gift and almost a requirement today, if cleverness is to be inspiring rather than hurtful. A Sun-Neptune trine tonight (14°" 55' Libra-Aquarius) adds sensitivity and idealism that don't necessarily flourish in Sagittarius’ normally bawdy atmosphere. Truth served up with tenderness is the only kind that can be easily ingested now. Although Sun-Neptune has enormous capacity to forgive, Get the responsibilities taken care of early so the rest of the day and night can be devoted to our Lady Aphrodite. The Eternal Feminine will lure to perfection.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
Mercury's entry into Scorpio at 10:15 a.m. may make the mind a researcher, the detective, the spy. When Mercury is in Scorpio, ideas are intense and resourceful, but there may be a secretiveness about us, because Mercury in Scorpio does not lik talk a lot or reveal everything it knows. Mercury in Scorpio represents an important segment of development in the overall creative process of life and is part of the larger Mercury cycle of intellectual focus and learning. We are deeply interested in all things dark, hidden or mysterious, including religion and political conspiracies, and in all forms of research. Resentments can pile up without being noticed, like dust bunnies in dark corners, eventually dimming our high hopes with cynicism. Yet, psychological perceptiveness that can be applied to tough emotional issues also accompanies Mercury in Scorpio. We recognize wounded places - but not to rub salt in the wound, thereby turning minor scratches into scars. To heal relationship issues, we must become as sensitive to others pain and suffering as we are to our own. This would be a good time to mention that the structural basis for all Light-specific work in the Metaverse is regular, disciplined connection to the No-Form, meditation, contemplation, what ever you want to call it, as long as it's deep. The Light-Specific State initiates itself with SOLITUDE, the gratifying element of being alone (if only for 20 minutes a day)...without which, true development is impossible. The point is to connect to your inner source of stability, the state of potentia, the No-Form, at least once a day. No-Form is not a goal or state of "spiritual arrival" (as some religions would have us believe), it is a highly practical, multipurpose tool for dissolving our identification with the ego. If you want to play with us, this is the only rule. The foundation of our Lightcraft is built in Chaos, so you must maintain a firm foundation, or Chaos your life will be. Some of us need this connection four times a day (sunrise, true noon, sunset, true midnight). Some of us actually manage to do it four times a day. It is a choice you must make. I would do it for you if I could. Once a day is all that's required to maintain the Continuity function. Future generations of yourself will be glad this came to pass. Yoga, Ceremonial Magick, this astrology forecast, they all provide ritual technology for Self initiation. But the key word here is Self. T The Metaverse vibrates rapidly tonight and new ideas about love explode into consciousness like salvo after salvo of ripened spores shooting forth into the air.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9
The Day of the Sun in Fireweek. The six of Wands (Sun in Atziluth) is all about being acknowledged, getting a pat on the back, achieving recognition. You can triumph over yourself, the environment, or the odds. Your talents begin in the Divine, develop with the love and support of others, and only in the end express through us. When obtaining the summit of this holy mountain, keep in mind this fourth-dimensional "Metaverse" possesses a design and field of motion encoded with solar-galactic information. Few things symbolize victory and glory like obtaining the summit of this Holy Mountain. In order to do so one has to plan, organize, exercise patience, and overcome mental and physical hardships. In short - be willing to do the seemingly impossible and then accept the credit when your objective is completed. In order to climb this Mountain and participate in the design of Lightcraft Earth, humans need only correct their calendar by synchronizing it to the Metaversal spin. This is what makes a Lightpilot. Released from their materialistic time warp, humans will be able to address their problems from the Metaversal perspective. Once they have understood and resolved their problems through application of the self-organizing principles of the galactic calendar, they will then be able to practice the Metaversal art of galactic time, standing atop the Holy Mountain. Take a small step made out of stars. Sleep until you wake up dreaming.
At 5:43 a.m. the Moon enters Capricorn. The promise of this placement is emotional maturity and the patience to work through tough issues with discipline and respect. However, Capricorn can also be a sign of dominance; sometimes, the only way to see relationships is through the lens of control. This is clearly not a way to engender trust or build intimacy, but its fine if you're just working on your own. With the Moon in Capricorn, opportunities are stimulated when one works hard, assumes responsibilities, and tunes into Nature and it's mystical rhythms. Capricorn represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 7 weeks until 12 weeks after Conception, when the embryo becomes a fetus, and the sex and physical appearance are determined. The body takes form through it's skeletal system. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Capricorn represents the integration and structuring of the higher perceptions of the Self in the World on a practical level. On the World scale, Capricorn occupies the period between AD 1750 and AD 1840. This was the time when the ideology of Sagittarius was translated into material form. Humanity assumed a superiority over the forces of nature, and the Industrial revolution began. Romanticism surrounded the likes of Shelly, Goethe, Byron, and Chopin, reacting to the cold prevailing mechanistic World view. Rudolph Steiner said that the human being is created, and destined to be, a self-defining creature. Are we slightly higher than monkeys or slightly lower than angels? Good old fashion hard work yields the answer. Monkeys and Angels are set to grind corn today.. Tackle those long term projects and remember, the Mountain must be tackled one step at a time. If partnership matters at all to you now, though, be kind to yourself and others. It can make an enormous difference.
Thanks to Johannes for sending them in any case, we certainly appreciate having them!
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFTHYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
THE METAVERSAL WATERWEEK FORECAST
Atziluth
First Quarter Moon
-FIREWEEK-
October 3rd to October 9th
Fireweek is the time to remember we're in the pilots seat of our own personal Lightcraft and make some corrections if we've veered off course. You needn't dress in any but the most perfunctory manner nor bring any crickets (there will be plenty of those!) The Sun is in Libra at the begining of this Lunar cycle. The name Libra comes from the Libyan Goddess of Holy Law who carried the scales of judgment, and her counterpart in Egypt was Maat, the spirit of equilibrium, of justice, truth and rightness. She lived within a person and also existed outside and so was known as the 'double Maat,' encompassing both individual and cosmic consciousness. After death the Egyptians believed that the heart was weighed against a feather in the scales of Maat. Maat was no dispenser of punishment, however; she was the personification of truth, the spirit that animates all living beings, both divine and human. If the heart were too heavy then, without blame or punishment, the soul would return to earth to reincarnate until light enough for final liberation. Maat had no temple because she could not be confined; she was the natural order itself. To be in accord with natural truth and justice creates harmony, and Maat symbolized this quality.
The New Moon in Libra on October 3 is a solar eclipse, opening a new chapter in relationships while closing an old one. The stars will be out in full force and the mirrorstream will be kleiglit by lamps affixed to the underside of the bridge. You will be naked I am obsessed with Enochian angles and colors in awe. Libra's focus is on relationships, but Libra wouldrather clean up the past than forge ahead into the future. This lunation conjoins the Moon's South Node in Libra, reminding us that partnerships built by strong individuals (North Node in independent Aries) are most likely to endure. Venus, the traditional ruler of Libra, occupies a very influential position during this eclipse. In Scorpio and closely semi-square the Sun and Moon, Venus draws us into experiencing our deepest desires and fears. Venus also opposes her mythic counterpart, Mars. The God of War dancing with the Goddess of Love and Beauty sparks love, libido, and passions of all kinds; the more sides of ourselves that we've repressed, the greater the infatuations and revelations will be. When Venus entered Scorpio she was lovingly put inside a transparent gyroscope roving the Carnival of the Torture Demons, so to speak. For all intents and purposes, she could have been put in the shark tank diving-bell - but you'll get a hell of a lot more out of this experience, I guarantee you. While it might not feel like it, you'll be safe in Scorpio - it's like a magic carpet with an impermeable aura - and Scorpio itself is the ultimate spectacle of sheer menacing horror and pranksterish delirium.
In the intimacy of relationship, we become more conscious of our shadow and thus more conscious of our light. Mars's ardor has been intensified by his station retrograde at 23° Taurus on October 1, just two days before this eclipse; this signals the beginning of a two-month re-evaluation of our desires and the strategies we've been using to achieve them. If I were to kiss you here they'd call it an act of terrorism-- so let's take our pistols to bed & wake up the city at midnight like drunken bandits celebrating with a fusillade, the message of the taste of chaos. Because of his retrograde phase, the Red Planet will be spending six-and-a-half months in Taurus rather than the usual 6-8 weeks. So, that period (from July 27, 2005 to February 17, 2006) is an excellent time to work on our relationship with money, security, and abundance. Chiron in Capricorn turns direct on October 4, which brings healing into the foreground. Venus sashays into outgoing Sagittarius on October 7, kicking off a more active social cycle, and Mercury's entry into Scorpio on October 8 intensifies communication and deepens our thoughts.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3
The first day of a new Lunar cycle always gets my donkeys up on stage! The solar eclipse New Moon in Libra at 3:29 a.m. goes forward and backward at the same time. All New Moons mark fresh turns of the cosmic tides, beginning another monthly cycle of activity. But whenever there's an eclipse as well, excess baggage from the past could be slowing us down. This one's about relationships, so tossing out mental photos of love gone wrong may be required cleanup if you want to make a fresh start. Put some new pictures on your wall and new images in your mind that support starting over, either in your current relationship or the pursuit of a new one. Ideas should be plentiful, with Mercury making four aspects over the next three days. Today's sextile to Pluto and sesquiquadrate to Uranus both deepen and brighten conversation. Nuggets of information are exposed and then polished into new and radical forms. A solar eclipse involves a temporary blockage of the Sun's light, diverting the customary flow of our awareness. Even during an annular eclipse (such as this one), when a narrow ring of sunlight is still visible, perceptions of time and space are altered. Birds hush, flowers close, bees become disoriented. Whether or not we actually see the eclipse, we feel the increased gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon. A beam of lunar information penetrates into the Earth and into our psyche. I'm so excited by the prospect that you might actually join me on this information penetration outing that I've been masturbating - and furiously! - all morning in anticipation. Dr. Shabubu told me that this would be good for calming my nerves –indeed the opposite, for I find myself in a neurasthenic frenzy just contemplating the notion that you and I might picnic together beneath those samebolts of lightning which are sure to set the Riddley barns aflame again.
A solar eclipse opens an evolutionary doorway; it also offers an opportunity to hit the reset button - to remember and realign with the original intentions encoded in our birth chart. Eclipses in Libra focus our attention on partnership and the ongoing balancing act between independence and cooperation. Each of us has the sign of Libra somewherein our birth chart; those with planets or angles around 10° Libra will feel the transformative impulse of this eclipse most strongly. For everyone, the house activated by this eclipse denotes the area of life where we will grow more rapidly through interaction with others than through solo endeavors. The need to reconsider our objectives and expand our perspective is amplified by Mars's quincunx to Pluto at 22° Sagittarius and another to Jupiter at 25° Libra (and to Mercury at 22° Libra as well). This forms a yod, a challenging configuration that calls for the elimination of unproductive attitudes and methods. Venus at 25° Scorpio occupies the resolution point of the yod, symbolizing the need to shift from the love of power to the power of love.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
The Day of Mars in Fireweek sees the red planet retrograde in Taurus. Uncover the inner dynamic at the core of your Lightcraft and follow its instructions implicitly. The language or system used is completely unimportant as long as it reflects and supports balance within your body. Early today, Mercury quincunxes stationary Mars, which is likely to stimulate more talk than action. Coaxing will work better than pushing, and working around problems, rather than facing them head-on, is probably the wisest move now. At 5:03 p.m., the Moon enters Scorpio; For the next two and a half days, secret desires, hidden fears and subconscious drives surface more easily. Scorpio represents the period from 42 years old to Death, when ones sense of Time compacts and passes rapidly. Since this stage is the last in the life of the human biological machine, it's now time to transcend the confines of the mortal body and to assure continued existence, either you breed (pass on your DNA) or step out of the loop (become your DNA). On the World scale, Scorpio is between AD 1100 and AD 1500, when the Dark Ages reached their peak. This is the Time of the Crusades and the Inquisition, when Pain, Bloodshed and Oppression swept over Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, after the uneasy alliances made during Libra. This is the sign of the Shadow. Successfully navigated, one can experience healthy, flowing spontaneous sexuality, an acceptance of Death and an integration of its reality into daily life, thus gaining a sense of the immortality of consciousness. The Scorpio Moon is building strange bridges and arousing otherworldly passions, the eye opening each thing like poetic treasure, emotions intensify and positions harden. Give feelings time to simmer before acting on them. Chiron turns direct tonight at 27°" 48' Capricorn, while the Moon in surgical Scorpio, reminds us that facing the pain is the first step toward healing.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
The Day of Mercury in the Week of Fire finds the fleet footed one in his home sign of Virgo. Here he is cautious, modest, humble, unassuming in the way he expresses himself. Problematic Mercury in Virgo Qualities: Hair-splitting, too much of a perfectionist, getting lost in the "fine print" and the details.Where Mercury is present, there are no boundaries to ideas. You can take mine into your head as if they were your own. Mercury reminds us that there is a certain dissolving of ownership, a "communion", in all communication and learning. Of the mind, what can we say is genuinely ours and ours alone? Ultimately, all language is a kind of mimetic thievery: the acquisition of most knowledge requires liberal stealing from the wisdom and experience of others. The incenses attributed to Mercury and the sephirah Hod are Storax and fresh White-out. The Power of Mercury in Atziluth (Fire) is THE ABILITY TO CONCEPTUALIZE. Mercury is the Word, the Logos in the highest, the direct means of connection between polarities: yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as the electrick current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which are transmitted by it's means.
Mercury teaches (by demonstration), the animation of Eidolons, the magick indwelling of icons by Spirit. Mercury conjuncts Jupiter (25°" 37' Libra), a mentally rich combination of details and big ideas, full-bodied conversation, and bold promises. This is good for teaching, learning, traveling, and sales, but it can be tricky now to sort out the difference between a fact and a belief. With the Moon in Scorpio we are in the darker realms, feeling horny and sharp as the proverbial stiletto, bent at tearing away every comforting lie, every soothing half-truth. It may put you in a lighthouse made of black rubber and steel. Its walls will be adorned with mandalas of contraluz opals and petrified wood. Itwill be evenly lit by an indiscernible source I haven't figured out yet. Its atmosphere could be suffused with an idyllic sadness. You may hear the foghorns of ghostships. You may see, through crystal windows, gigantic manta rays surging through primordial waves in a sea blasted by silent lightning. Have you any toothpaste? Be sure to screw the cap on tightly:You are only as healthy as the Secrets that you keep. Avoid the dirt nap yourself by frequent "little deaths."A Venus-Chiron sextile today shows the health benefits that come from having a good time.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
Take physical exercise in Jupiter's Day, when he is reigning, and use Jovial things such as Lapis Lazuli, Brass, Cedarwood, blue and aery colours, wine, honey; and entertain thoughts and feelings which are particularly Jovial, that is, expansive, healthy, and with good humour... - Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Astrologer and Orphic Musician
The Day of Jupiter in the kabbalistic World of Fire and Force, Atziluth. Projecting Light Specific Blue and facing West, vibrate this azure deluxe into your Second Chakra along with the mantrum: EE-BE-DA. Jupiter is all about allowing ambiguity, contradiction, and movement. It isn't about integration. It helps the ego become more flexible. By Jove, life isn't about staying calm and balanced, but rather about keeping complexity and drama and everything else alive and in dynamic flow. Venus is semi-square (45°" ) the Sun (28°" 42' Scorpio - 13°" 42' Libra), the only hard aspect possible between this normally close-linked pair. There's a potential for objectivity when Venus, the mirror of self-worth, is held at this sharp angle to the solar sense of self. Yet, egos may be more fragile now, and mild criticism could sting like a swarm of angry bees (THEY'RE IN THE WHAT NOW?). The fun part is knowing that this nice little braid cascade of planetary wave donuts gets its pressure nested to fold all inside out through one slip knot to ... elsewhere....and don't hesitate, meditate, because not only is stable gravity the wind of magnetism permitted by fractal symmetry to go BETWEEN frequencies in a cascade, but magnetism is also actually the WIND ON WHICH LOVE TRAVELS.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
The Day of Venus in the week of Fire. In the Western Mystery Tradition, the most pervasive polyamorous archetype is Aphrodite, Greek goddess of Love and Beauty. She is Venus, Ishtar, Astarte, Inanna and relates to the sephera Netzach on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. While she had more lovers than any other Greek goddess she was not victimized and never suffered from her numerous love affairs as did many of the other goddesses. Neither was she jealous or possessive. Unlike her counter parts she was allowed freely to choose both her husband and many lovers. She inspired poetry, communication and art as well as love. Her liaison with Hermes produced the bisexual Hermaphroditus. and her long time union with Mars (God of War) produced a daughter, Harmonia. Thus Love and War combined to give rise to Harmony. There's plenty of truth in the offing on with the Moon entering Sagittarius at 12:28 a.m., followed by Venus's ingress into the same sign that very night. Sagittarius represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between Conception and 7 weeks, the first Lunar month after the sperm reaches the egg, and is a compacted pattern at a molecular time scale of the entire life of the cellular body. The embryo develops in parallel with the earlier phases of evolution, retaining memory of these structures in the brain. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Sagittarius represents Initiation beyond the realms of Death (Scorpio). On the World scale, Sag occupies the period between AD 1500 and AD 1750, The Renaissance. This was the time when astrology, mathematics, musick and geometry were understood as divine techniques for communicating with the Soul of the World. With the Moon in Sagittarius we are into philosophical speculation, adventure, and foreign influences, and actions that expand the awareness through gathering unfamiliar experiences. The real good news is that optimism and hope propel us upward and onward. Frank words (not put-downs) are likely to be heard now. A sense of humor is Sagittarius's gift and almost a requirement today, if cleverness is to be inspiring rather than hurtful. A Sun-Neptune trine tonight (14°" 55' Libra-Aquarius) adds sensitivity and idealism that don't necessarily flourish in Sagittarius’ normally bawdy atmosphere. Truth served up with tenderness is the only kind that can be easily ingested now. Although Sun-Neptune has enormous capacity to forgive, Get the responsibilities taken care of early so the rest of the day and night can be devoted to our Lady Aphrodite. The Eternal Feminine will lure to perfection.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
Mercury's entry into Scorpio at 10:15 a.m. may make the mind a researcher, the detective, the spy. When Mercury is in Scorpio, ideas are intense and resourceful, but there may be a secretiveness about us, because Mercury in Scorpio does not lik talk a lot or reveal everything it knows. Mercury in Scorpio represents an important segment of development in the overall creative process of life and is part of the larger Mercury cycle of intellectual focus and learning. We are deeply interested in all things dark, hidden or mysterious, including religion and political conspiracies, and in all forms of research. Resentments can pile up without being noticed, like dust bunnies in dark corners, eventually dimming our high hopes with cynicism. Yet, psychological perceptiveness that can be applied to tough emotional issues also accompanies Mercury in Scorpio. We recognize wounded places - but not to rub salt in the wound, thereby turning minor scratches into scars. To heal relationship issues, we must become as sensitive to others pain and suffering as we are to our own. This would be a good time to mention that the structural basis for all Light-specific work in the Metaverse is regular, disciplined connection to the No-Form, meditation, contemplation, what ever you want to call it, as long as it's deep. The Light-Specific State initiates itself with SOLITUDE, the gratifying element of being alone (if only for 20 minutes a day)...without which, true development is impossible. The point is to connect to your inner source of stability, the state of potentia, the No-Form, at least once a day. No-Form is not a goal or state of "spiritual arrival" (as some religions would have us believe), it is a highly practical, multipurpose tool for dissolving our identification with the ego. If you want to play with us, this is the only rule. The foundation of our Lightcraft is built in Chaos, so you must maintain a firm foundation, or Chaos your life will be. Some of us need this connection four times a day (sunrise, true noon, sunset, true midnight). Some of us actually manage to do it four times a day. It is a choice you must make. I would do it for you if I could. Once a day is all that's required to maintain the Continuity function. Future generations of yourself will be glad this came to pass. Yoga, Ceremonial Magick, this astrology forecast, they all provide ritual technology for Self initiation. But the key word here is Self. T The Metaverse vibrates rapidly tonight and new ideas about love explode into consciousness like salvo after salvo of ripened spores shooting forth into the air.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9
The Day of the Sun in Fireweek. The six of Wands (Sun in Atziluth) is all about being acknowledged, getting a pat on the back, achieving recognition. You can triumph over yourself, the environment, or the odds. Your talents begin in the Divine, develop with the love and support of others, and only in the end express through us. When obtaining the summit of this holy mountain, keep in mind this fourth-dimensional "Metaverse" possesses a design and field of motion encoded with solar-galactic information. Few things symbolize victory and glory like obtaining the summit of this Holy Mountain. In order to do so one has to plan, organize, exercise patience, and overcome mental and physical hardships. In short - be willing to do the seemingly impossible and then accept the credit when your objective is completed. In order to climb this Mountain and participate in the design of Lightcraft Earth, humans need only correct their calendar by synchronizing it to the Metaversal spin. This is what makes a Lightpilot. Released from their materialistic time warp, humans will be able to address their problems from the Metaversal perspective. Once they have understood and resolved their problems through application of the self-organizing principles of the galactic calendar, they will then be able to practice the Metaversal art of galactic time, standing atop the Holy Mountain. Take a small step made out of stars. Sleep until you wake up dreaming.
At 5:43 a.m. the Moon enters Capricorn. The promise of this placement is emotional maturity and the patience to work through tough issues with discipline and respect. However, Capricorn can also be a sign of dominance; sometimes, the only way to see relationships is through the lens of control. This is clearly not a way to engender trust or build intimacy, but its fine if you're just working on your own. With the Moon in Capricorn, opportunities are stimulated when one works hard, assumes responsibilities, and tunes into Nature and it's mystical rhythms. Capricorn represents, on the level of the first octave, the period between 7 weeks until 12 weeks after Conception, when the embryo becomes a fetus, and the sex and physical appearance are determined. The body takes form through it's skeletal system. On the level of the fourth octave (see Chapter 9 of the Metaversal Lightcraft Training Manual for more on the Four Octaves), Capricorn represents the integration and structuring of the higher perceptions of the Self in the World on a practical level. On the World scale, Capricorn occupies the period between AD 1750 and AD 1840. This was the time when the ideology of Sagittarius was translated into material form. Humanity assumed a superiority over the forces of nature, and the Industrial revolution began. Romanticism surrounded the likes of Shelly, Goethe, Byron, and Chopin, reacting to the cold prevailing mechanistic World view. Rudolph Steiner said that the human being is created, and destined to be, a self-defining creature. Are we slightly higher than monkeys or slightly lower than angels? Good old fashion hard work yields the answer. Monkeys and Angels are set to grind corn today.. Tackle those long term projects and remember, the Mountain must be tackled one step at a time. If partnership matters at all to you now, though, be kind to yourself and others. It can make an enormous difference.
