Greetings Fellow Lightpilots....The month begins on Easter Sunday, on a date that was Venus Fest in ancient Rome. To connect with the energies of beauty, prosperity and fortune in relationship, women would strip before entering the temple of the goddess. According to Kevin Danaher, in his book, The Year in Ireland, on April Fools’ Day, “It was customary to play all sorts of tricks in her veneration.” Was humor part of the goddess’ Springtime revival?As for the resurrection, the goddess played a key role in the Death and Resurrection rites of the pre-Christian religions…the god, bless his heart, is always accompanied by a goddess. Osiris is attended by Isis, Tammuz by Ishtar, Bel-Mardok by
Belet-Ishtar, Derwood by Samantha, Adonis by Venus, Attis by Kybele, Sid by Nancy, Dagwood by Blondie. In each case the
goddess is shown either explicitly or implicitly as restoring the god to life… In the accounts of the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus, the person most in evidence is Mary Magdalene. Attis may be the earliest and wankiest of the heroes who were
symbolically sacrificed at Spring. Attis’ effigy, made of foliage, was buried with a ritual of mourning, only to be
disinterred three days later. His goddess Kybele was the Phrygian Earth Mother, connected with dark goddesses around the
world from Kali to Tlazolteotl, who had the power to take away life and restore it. Now shes in purple, now shes a turtle, disintegrating.
How are we using our own powers? What type of assertiveness do we wish to bring forth from the collective shadows? In a world that seems to be wrought by negative projections of these energies, April’s influences can help us bring them into focus and evolve them.
Brave Mars and intense Pluto will be walking down Main Street. Co-rulers of big-boss Jupiter in Scorpio, they’ll move us to look at what kind of weapon our inner tough guy carries. Is it a sawed-off rifle, a penis shapped swizzle stick, or the business end of a custard canon and a flappingtongness to move ahead on an apparently daunting intention? When we disown our energies of power and assertiveness, we get twisted warriors and demented leaders. Mars is considered “malefic,” and Pluto a creepy customer. And then there’s the “greater malefic”, Saturn, that pasty-faced schoolteacher with an army haircut who barely read your breakthrough paper and lowered your grade because you went over the word count by nine.These archetypes are now at play. Some of the contacts are challenging, others are magical. Yet within all cycles are seeds of evolution. When we recognize the planets as mirrors of inner potential, we are equipped to access their gifts of healing.
Mars rules Sun, Mercury and Uranus as they all transit through Aries for the last time until 2094. Mars also rules April’s Aries New Moon, and co-rules Jupiter and the Full Moon in Scorpio. The feisty planet will also be bugging his tough siblings, Saturn and Pluto. Pluto the powerful rules Jupiter and the Full Moon, and he’ll take a hit from Mars and a sextile from Jupiter, the planet of expansion.
As for Saturn, the planet of building rules Pluto in Capricorn, and both heavies join the retrograde motion of Jupiter and Mercury, helping us look within.
Sunday, April 1
Morning is by far the best time for get-togethers, and Moon in Libra is particularly suited for gathering in a beautiful space, and beautifying the table and Easter details or gifts. It happens to be April Fools’ Day, so we might try eggs with trick messages or another fun touch. Libra represents the period from 23 to 42 years old, when partnerships are made and balance is sought between others and oneself. On the World scale Libra is between 400and 1100 AD, when division of the church and state took over, and the Dark Ages swept over Europe and Asia. The opposition is symbolic of the fact that in order to emerge from the unconscious, internal conflicts must be brought out into the light of day. Marriage was the primary process through which opposing countries where integrated into a whole. With the Moon in Libra we are aware of our communal relations, law, justice and balance. The 7th house (Libra) has been called the house of marriage. The key to the New Aeon of MA'AT is figuring out the new symbol for Libra, as the institution of marriage was originally designed as a tool by the Church to secure it's future domination. Those that cannot find this new symbol and perform these symbolic rites on themselves and their tribe, and the whole fabric of material being, will inherit only the blues, decay, and husks. Think more in terms of partnership and remember, your heart must be light as a feather. Take this time to be good to your Libra ruled kidneys. These amazing organs filter some 400-500 hundred gallons of blood a day. Lemons, beets, cranberry juice and cabbage and leafy vegetables are all healing to your kidneys. Speaking of fun, Moon goes VOC at 11:29 am (2:29 pm ET) on an opposition with Uranus, planet of surprises. Despite the best intentions, arguments may occur. At the upside, this influence favors independent thinking and freedom from concern with the approval of others. Plan for some down-time, journal, read a good book, research unofficial versions of history or events. At 3:57 pm (6:57 ET), Moon enters Scorpio. With co-ruler Mars approaching a conjunction to Saturn in Capricorn, sign of self-mastery and goals, Moon’s presence in this sign of change radiates an atmosphere of seriousness. Her opposition to social Venus brings perspective on relational ties and attitudes that may be affecting our wellness or keeping us from fully committing to a goal. We can profitably this afternoon and evening to declutter, work on forgiveness and release, or research something that will empower a courageous initiative or cause.
Monday, April 2
Projecting Light Specific purple or octarine (a particular shade of electric pinkish purple) into your forehead and facing West, activate the Ajna Holographic Image Projection System (third eye), then invoke blessed Gabriel. Diana, or Sailor Moon into your Brow Chakra. It's the Moon's day in the week of active Air and the body in motion. The lunar orb being receptive and reflective, focuses the qualities of the signs and other planets to our personal Lightcraft. The Lunar center, and its intimate connection with the Holographic Image Projection System, is not only the foundation for the astral plane, but is the fiery aspect of astral energy itself. It cannot be weaned prematurely or circumcised without sedation lest it become traumatized and even more crestfallen. Mars in Capricorn joins Capricorn’s ruler, Saturn, pushing us to wake up and move on something important. This isn’t a gentle transit, but can be quite empowering if we visualize a successful outcome and take bold action. Initiatives done at a distance or on something related to objective production are more promising than those requiring PR, diplomacy or good chemistry. Mars is also the co-ruler of Moon in Scorpio, who happens to harmonize with the warrior planet and his older, wiser brother Saturn. We should focus our actions before 12:14 pm (3:14 ET), when Moon’s transits become less harmonious, then use the afternoon to regroup, attend to personal needs, and gather strength. Evening is great for consulting an oracle or psychic, making a vision board or enjoying a deep movie.
Tuesday, April 3
The bugle call sounds again this morning, as Moon in valiant Scorpio sextiles ruler Pluto in Capricorn, sign of tangible results.
Today’s path is clearer than it will be most of the week, so do something courageous, beyond the confines of your usual routine.
We should act early, before Moon goes VOC for the rest of the day at 9:06 am (12:06 pm ET). After that, her connections to Jupiter and Uranus favor activities like a visit to a science museum, working for a cause, practicing emotional release, and researching non-official versions or philosophic topics. We are through the thickest part of the current cosmic bottleneck, but we won’t likely see much progress right away. We’re hopeful about the future as the emotional Scorpio Moon joins expansive Jupiter. But we’re still restrained by unfulfilled promises now that the Moon forms an anxious alignment with the lingering Mars-Saturn conjunction. Yesterday’s setbacks resonate through today’s circumstances. Thankfully, we can expect movement by tomorrow.
Wednesday, April 4
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 with the alphabet. Although Moon is in sociable Sag, a square from mental Mercury to sharp Mars takes the shine 0ff its bonhomie. We’ll do best to save diplomacy, PR and for that matter, all but the most basic or inevitable communications, for another day. In fact, we should be prepared to keep conversations short, but to do this as sweetly as possible and avoid getting preachy or pulled into an argument about dogmas or beliefs. We can positively use the impatient, pushy vibrations to break through our own inertia and whip ourselves into action on something begun before March 8 —when Mercury entered shadow—in one of the following areas: Paperwork or bureaucracy that we’ve been putting off. Plan a first step and in some way, clear your plate to tackle it midmorning tomorrow. A legal case or matter. Again, this works if we take a concrete action to clear the way, so that we may contact those involved tomorrow or Friday. Work with a consultant or coach to focus on goals. Create/update a vision board or similar visual ization tool. If you have some under a pile, dust them off, throw away what you already manifested or wish to update, and begin to collect images that resonate with your new good.
Thursday, April 5
The Day of Jupiter in the kabbalistic World of Air, Yetzirah. If you don't have a good laugh today, you are missing the point. There is a whole division of the Angelic Hierarchy assigned to the sephiroth Chesed (Jupiter) whose purpose is divine inspiration through laughter. And there is no vision more critical in the career of the adept than the Metaversal Joke. Did you here the one about the astrologer who broke his arm and attributed it to an accident? 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. A wee-hour square from Mercury in restless Aries to Saturn in determined Capricorn makes a kind of encore to yesterday’s influences—thought is focused, but interactions remain tense. Early morning is good for organization and reviving our dreams.
A trine from Moon in jovial Sag to Sun in vital Aries helps ease the pressure after daybreak. 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. We can come out of our shells, take out the nails from yesterday’s bed of flagellation, and move on what we set in motion then. The influences also favor: speaking one’s mind, taking a seminar, course or lesson, spaying a pet, making a dream board for a publishing project, re-starting a promotion begun before March 8, engaging in sports, having a picnic or outdoor party, or going on adventure. We should have fun, but avoid being preachy or reckless.
Friday, April 6
The Day of Venus in Airweek. If you actively invoke blessed HANIEL, the Archangel of Venus into your heart today, you may find you have developed the ability to feel like Khrisna, multiplying himself into a dozen pastoral, naked farmhands with muddy feet and emerald pond scum on their thighs, or maybe you are a young Freya on the back of a panther, eating honey. Venus, who gets oversimplified like a lot of her sisters, is one of the most complex planets going: she works as an attractive force and as a creative one. The 5 roses represent the five senses in the Empress card (Atu 3) And in the Lovers card (Atu 6 ) the senses are the five fruits of Eve. Venus is indeed in cahoots with the senses. All movement of all living creatures in world of Assiah are tied to the senses and the desire-nature. The accomplished Lightpilot can remove the robe of desire in order to withdraw into the worlds of Briah and Atzitluth, but in order to achieve anything in the physical realms you keep that robe on. When you act, your gonna act in terms of desire. Venus represents that which is desirable. Every living thing seeks pleasure and tries to avoid pain. Victory lies in understanding our desire nature and learning how to use it. This morning, the sky urges us to go out to breakfast, knock on a door, contact light beings, pray or visualize for healing, or review and retouch creative or promotional work.
At 11:01 am (2:01 pm ET), Moon enters directed Capricorn, working nicely with the prosperous energy of today’s number 6 and the waxing Moon to help focus the inspiration of the last two days in tangible results.
Saturday, April 7
The Day of Saturn in the kabbalistic World of Air. Wearing Black and facing North, invoke the spirit of Johnny Cash into your Base Chakra (The Malkuth "Lil' World" Morphogenetic Field Transceiver) with the mantrum. "Because your mine, I walk the line". With it being Airweek, honor Saturn today by creating greater stability in the Metaverse, actively expressing or experiencing your security needs, and cleansing and strengthening your base Chakra. Our consciousness in this chakra is concerned with survival, with our fight or flight response, with our instincts. It links the individual with the physical world. Serves as the foundation to evolve and build personality. If we are to ignore this chakra, and concern ourselves with the higher levels, we will be growing without roots, we will be unstable, unable to withstand the trials that will come our way. If our survival needs are met, the Base Chakra will function healthily, but if there is a perceived threat to this, (such as a difficult house move, job change, health problems, etc.) it can create an imbalance. Other Saturnian imbalances can show themselves in various ways, from sleeplessness and the inability to relax, to obsession with money, possessions or health. Today’s numerology of 7 optimizes the strategic intelligence of Moon in Capricorn, while a mix of influences favors goals in business, money, people connections, and love.
In structured Capricorn, Moon sets a serious, work-oriented tone, which intensifies further as she joins ruler Saturn early this morning. She also trines Venus in fertile Taurus: we might want to have breakfast in an opulent setting, create tools to visualize prosperity, and organize for financial goals. The dance continues as Venus herself trines Saturn, blending themes of building, love, creativity and finance. We might review a prenuptial agreement, structure for joint collaboration, organize with our partner, clients or family for shared financial goals, get a retouch on plastic surgery, make a dream board for money, building something beautiful, or follow up on an investment, a credit we applied for, or a promotion of creative work begun before March 8. But not everything is vanilla smoothies. A mid-morning conjunction from Moon to Mars bolsters our nerve to defend a loved one or cause and can accent defensiveness or bring out Venus’ lusty side. Create, collaborate, strategize, negotiate, speak up, but keep your wits about you and your feelings under control.
Sunday, April 8
Moon sextiles adventuresome Jupiter, favoring sports and ecological activities, or an excursion to the woods, the desert or the beach.
But today is also good for business, work, de-cluttering and serious healing, thanks to Moon’s presence in goal-oriented Capricorn and her union with Pluto, planet of power, connected with today’s number 8, and also ruling Jupiter in Scorpio.
Moon reaches her Fourth Quarter before dawn. At 18-19 Capricorn, she triggers the following Sabian symbol:
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD CHILD CARRYING A BAG FULL OF GROCERIES. Rising to the occasion when one is asked to assume social responsibilities ahead of one’s normal development.…the value of early conditioning in teaching one to fulfill the responsibilities of everyday life… the possibility of meeting a certain type of social opportunity which may seem normally premature… ACCELERATED GROWTH…What opportunities for growth beckon you? At this waning quarter, are there attitudes and situations you can release in order to walk through those doors?
Friday, April 20
