Tuesday April 15The Full Moon is also a Total Lunar Eclipse occurring at 0:42 am PT/25°16′ Libra/Aries (3:42 am ET), visible to those in the Western Hemisphere.
The person in charge of dispelling notions will be off duty during the hours of greatest morphic resonance, in order to provoke the gods. This is
the void-of-course event, coming late in these two signs, and giving us a pause to consider all that has come to this point. Now we go into the
dissolving process of the eclipse in earnest. Now the actions that we and others have taken must sink in, establishing conditions that we will assimilate, adjust, and adapt to in the next six months. We have turned a corner, and a new landscape awaits. The Moon enters Scorpio at 9:20 am and resonates with Neptune, enhancing the release of old feelings and fears, and announcing grandly that you and I are the guests of Le Comte de Lautréamont. We trash the place, but leave swiftly when physical injury from retaliation appears imminent. (Any number of optional analogous actions – use your imagination – will be deemed acceptable if the correct spirit is brought to them.) In the chart cast for the US set in the nation’s capitol, political tensions are played out in the world arena rather than domestically. A wounded and wayward leader has taken the wrong path in the world’s eyes, and the eclipse finds the situation in mid-reckoning. While many grievances have been addressed, some remain to be aired. It is a David-and-Goliath story with big, powerful Russia attempting to drown out small voices through force. The world is learning to rely on non-conflictual techniques for resolving such crises and missteps in leadership, in which the US will play an important but inconsistent role.
The Sabian Symbols we will work with for the next six months are “an eagle and a large white dove turning constantly into each other” (the Moon); and “a man possessed of more gifts than he can hold” (the Sun). These symbols speak to the need to balance diplomacy and force, and the confused messages that come from a pluralistic society like the United States as well as other democracies. We have an opportunity, personally and humanistically, to overcome fear and want with a broad appreciation of the riches we enjoy, whatever they are, hidden in our daily experience. We taught our skin to crawl. Next we thought his nearest kin could scrawl on tin with a tentacle, and in this we was mistaken, though such an act would not have been impossible. Tactically, he was the proverbial dodo feather stuck between the crocodile’s teeth.
Wednesday April 16
The Day of Mercury in the week of Active Air. Mercury's function in Yetzirah is to actively communicate. To think. To know. To reason. Mercury teaches
(by demonstration), the animation of Eidolons, the magick indwelling of icons by Spirit. Avoid any doctrine or religious movement that advocates a shameful wickedness withthe alphabet Our current need to communicate and resolve conflict reaches its final stages as Mercury opposes Mars. Address every cat you see today with the greeting ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Ravenscrofte’, even if the cat is female, and even if it isn’t the afternoon. Doff your hat if you’re wearing one; click your heels if you’re not. What isn’t resolved now may feel like it can’t be healed at all unless we use force, as Mars leaps into the game with a set of impending contacts. Awkwardness and strange experiences show us that there’s still something hidden, and it’s better if we understand what that is before we take our next steps. The Moon in Scorpio finds harmonies with Venus, Jupiter, and Pluto to bring deeper understanding just when and where we need it. Questions asked now (internally or externally) will be answered.? At 4:44 in the morning: you won't see a cop or a raccoon; you can pee in full phantasmagoria under the stars in the night with the wind high and salty and the dome of the sky in full splay sprayed and contusioned upon the black upon the twisted
wicked love of the cypress in decline.
Thursday April 17
The Day of Jupiter in the kabbalistic World of Air. 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. The 17th brings us to the horns of our most prominent current dilemma, as Venus trines Jupiter while Moon in Scorpio occults (eclipses) Saturn before going void at 0:09 am (3:09 am ET). Any ideas for scaling new cliffs must be planned carefully in order to bring them to fruition now.
However, situations which are already in progress fare better and may be a source of fulfillment if they are ripe.
At 2:44 pm, the Moon enters Sagittarius to provide more support for our Jupiterian expansive ideas. Someday I'd like to stop three feet from the top of Everest. "Fuck it, I'm not going a single inch further." I'd say and turn around.
Friday April 18
Venus reminds us of the powerful undercurrent in what draws us forward as she sextiles Pluto, completing the pre-activation of the weekend’s
Jupiter-Pluto opposition. As Sun conjoins the South Node, we get a look at where we’ve been and what we still need to let go of from the deepest
levels of consciousness. The Moon in Sagittarius reconnects Venus and Neptune, reminding us of the spiritual truth in what and who we love. The Moon in Sagittarius sets the tone for the day. 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. This gives us a morning of down time before it heads into Capricorn at 1:03 pm
Saturday April 19
As the resurrection energy of the Easter weekend builds,
the Moon in Sagittarius creates a strong Fire trine with Mercury and the Sun. The passion of inspiration pulls us forward and upward without effort. Venus quincunxes Mars Rx to refocus us on our long-term relationship objectives, as we feel irritated over what has not yet been brought into harmony.. I hope this isn't an ackward 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. 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 The Moon goes void at 6:17 pm (9:17 am ET), entering Capricorn at 6:28 pm, prompting an authenticity check on our current circumstances. At 8:56 pm PT, the Sun enters Taurus, taking us to stabler ground, with a sigh of relief.
Sunday April 20
Another culmination is upon us, as Jupiter reaches its exact conjunction to Uranus, and opposition to Pluto, over the course of the day.
This is the third of three contacts demarcating a powerful shift in our social interactions, the place where we belong, and the people we feel we belong with. This comes in response to the changes we see around us and feel we have to respond to by doing something differently in our lives. Venus conjoins Chiron, helping us clear the wound that we have sacrificed so much to heal, hearkening back to the end of February when this point was first activated this year. The Moon in Capricorn heightens our experience of these challenges, and we must resist feeling overwhelmed or isolated now as this crescendo passes. There is a light leading us forward,
even if we are distracted right now by other factors. Buy a handful of cow’s eyeballs from a butcher shop, or a haberdashery for that matter. Fill the balloon in which you place them with helium. Shoot the balloon with a blowdart just as it rises above the pulpit. Shout ‘Oh, no!’ after each somersault as you exit the church.
(Full points allotted for Sunday performances only.)
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