WEDNESDAY AUGUST 4
Talkin ‘bout your social networks, A Moon trine to Venus fills our dreams with links to our real love connections, but squares to Neptune and Chiron indicate that there’s a mystery still to be solved. The Moon in Taurus is void of course as of 5:45am, but this still-useful period only lasts until 9:54 am, when the Moon enters chatty Gemini. Harmonies abound from this lunar position, with sextiles to Uranus-Jupiter and trines to Saturn-Mars. This eases the tension around the continuing saga of life’s latest adventure. Talking to others lightens the tone, introduces perspective, and brings out the humor in any situation.
THURSDAY AUGUST 5
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 Earthweek. Can you recognize something better than you've ever experienced, utterly new and positive, without letting yourself be lulled into lassitude by overconfidence, arrogance or still incompleteness? Then you are up to the Jupiterian challenge today. Before mid-morning, the planets are already done for the day, with two early contacts from the Moon. As we sleep a square to Mercury brings out any internal conflict we may be experiencing between what the heart wants and what the head thinks it should have. This gives way to a sextile to the Sun: we see that, even though there is discomfort, there is a deeper purpose to bearing with our circumstances.
FRIDAY AUGUST 6
Today is chock-ful of contacts. The Moon finishes its trip through Gemini by bringing insights to our healing process as it trines Neptune and Chiron. A final square to Venus opens the door to the void-of-course period at 2:22 pm. This lasts until the Moon enters the sign of its greatest strength, instinctual Cancer, at 2:50 pm. This immediately sets up a full grand cross in the sky when it transits the early degrees of this sign to connect with the powerful T-square that was activated in mid-July. The Moon squares Uranus, Saturn, and Mars, and opposes Pluto over the course of the day. The energy is intensified when Venus goes into Libra at 8:48 pm. Today marks the 60th anniversaries of the US atomic-bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Hiroshima, an estimated 80,000 people were killed in a split second. Some 13 square kilometres of the city was obliterated. By December, at least another 70,000 people had died from radiation and injuries. Three days after Hiroshima's destruction, the US drooped an A-bomb on Nagasaki, resulting in the deaths of at least 70,000 people before the year was out. Since 1945, tens of thousands more residents of the two cities have continued to suffer and die from radiation-induced cancers, birth defects and still births. A tiny group of US rulers met secretly in Washington and callously ordered this indiscriminate annihilation of civilian populations. They gave no explicit warnings. They rejected all alternatives, preferring to inflict the most extreme human carnage possible. They ordered and had carried out the two worst terror acts in human history
SATURDAY AUGUST 7
Venus starts the process all over again that Mars and the Moon have played out over the past two weeks, but with a relationship-and-finance twist. Now we see how our new circumstances will impact the "yin" areas of our lives—our personal relationships and how we live day to day. Venus opposes Uranus today, bringing us startling revelations and new possibilities that benefit us, especially if we can be flexible and ready to change course at a moment’s notice. The Cancer Moon gives us another chance to integrate what we’ve been learning when it sextiles Mercury at 11:46 am, when the Moon goes void of course. Worth noting is that the Moon in Cancer is so strong that we can ignore the void period. Today is the First Day of my Annual Tantra workshop “Lightcrafting the Serpent”. Registration for this years Chakra reboot jamboreebop is over, so I just thought I’d mention this for those playing along at home. 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. Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 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, multi-purpose 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. The Lightcraft Academy, Yoga Ceremonial Magick, this astrology forecast, they all provide ritual technology for Self initiation. But the key word here is Self. D.I.Y
SUNDAY AUGUST 8
Between dark and light the angles of times are best manifest at their balance, so invoke Apollo, Ra, or the baby-faced Sun god from the Teletubbies into your heart Chakra today. Sunday is always a good day integrate all the planets in our personal Lightcraft. In the World of Yetzirah, Air, the Lightcraft is analogous to the active aspect of the psychological body, or for simplicities sake, let's call it Psyche. In the physical body (in Assiah) there are infinite subdivisions down to the frontier of the physical world, where the particles of matter and impulses of energy are interchangeable. In the same way, the Psyche interpenetrates the body so that the upper part of the physical world percolates and influences the lower part of the psyche, and vice versa. In the macrodimensions of the Metaverse, a crisis can generate a direct contact with the Sun in Yetzirah (Psyche) but after the crisis, the connection fades, and the watcher in oneself fades back into the subconscious. The Lightpilot seeks to consciously make permanent connection with the Sun in Yetzirah. This is done by constant observation of actions, emotions and intellect, to perceive impartially the way those functions operate, and to correct and perfect their performance so as to become a true seething. To be the big picture, complete in all its parts. Venus reaches another of the cardinal T-square planets when it conjoins Saturn. This reminds us of the continuing changes we are experiencing as the world economy shifts to new values and foundations. It also impacts relationships of all sorts, especially love relationships. We may feel stuck or confined in a current situation—or sure that the commitment we are in is strong. It is a test of whether the connection is based on the egos or true selves of the partners. The Moon harmonizes with these players from its position in Leo, which it assumes at 4:23 pm. This makes for an evening of lighter energy, even relief, as we see the joy and humor in our situation.
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