5A11.13 formerly TUESDAY JANUARY 29
The Day of Mars in Active Airweek. Since Air is active, this is the stage where you actually get down and actively work that planet. Marsday means workout day for me, so I do 5 intensive workouts over the course of the day. Moon in Virgo bursts open as it encounters Jupiter, now virtually at its standstill before moving forward again. We can do some deep clearing today via flowing encounters with Pluto and Saturn—apply as needed.We may feel overloaded with facts today as we sift through the incoming data. The intellectually discriminating Virgo Moon raises the bar of acceptability now as we dismiss information that doesn’t stand up to our highest standards. However, concentration is challenged this morning as the emotional Moon squares boundless Jupiter in scattered Gemini. Thankfully, it’s easier to focus when the Moon harmonizes with perceptive Pluto later in the day. Moon in Virgo helps us focus on the details.Virgo represents the period from 13 to 23 years old, when mental growth dominates our lives and many attend institutes of higher learning. Many binding choices are made and the rules and details of society are learned. On the World scale Virgo is between 800 BC and AD 400, when classical civilizations like Greece and Rome flourished, when culture, science, philosophy, politics dominated. By AD 300the Books of the New Testament were chosen to support the beliefs of the Christians who formed the political organization of the Church. The naive excepted the surface value, while initiates were forced to hide (occult) their rituals and teachings. Until now. Even above Earth, there are secrets at the heart of Nature that'd make you laugh till you stopped." How can you believe in astrology?," angry, drunken Basque separatists have asked me. I tell them that astrology is not a belief system, but an archetypal, poetic language. I don't ask you if you believe in Japanese. I ask if you speak it. I don't ask you if you believe in music, I ask if you play it. I happen to speak the heavenly tongue of astrology along with thousands of other highly intelligent, inspiring, spiritual and even scientific astrologers. If I never have to deal with angry, drunken Basque separatists who have stolen the Shroud Of Turin again, it'll be too soon. Still, if my destiny is to be an untransformed seed-cum-manure of a man - or to put it another way - if I can at least be the source of unconscious friction that triggers another Christ or Buddha's urgency to awaken, then so be it.
8A11.13 formerly WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30
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 It’s a red-letter day that has us feeling expanded as we become aware of the coming contraction that Saturn will bring in mid-February. Today’s Sun-square-Saturn opens the wormhole where our efforts are especially critical in what comes during Saturn’s 5-month retrograde that starts then. Jupiter returns to forward motion (Stationary Direct) at 6°20′ Gemini after four months in retrograde. It has been an intense retrograde during which we resolved karmic-ancestral patterns that dug deep but are clearing with unprecedented swiftness. The Moon goes void of course in Virgo at 5:59 pm on a soothing trine to Venus. It’s a good evening to bond and cuddle. At 10:36 pm, Moon makes its ingress into diplomatic Libra.
4A11.13 formerly THURSDAY JANUARY 31
The Day of Jupiter in Active Airweek. 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 twin child, the male-female Holy Spirit of the Gnostic Mass, the living fruit of two sexual partners. The Book of Lies teaches that seed and child and parent are mystically one, and that the seed represents the innermost and highest expression of the parent. In the Star Sapphire, a ritual form of the IX, the invocation brings father, mother, son, and daughter (YHVH, above) into one point of mystic union, referred to as Ararita. This daughter-son, the living elixir, is made a sacrifice to the magical goal of the working. Note that it is not metaphorically alive, but literally alive, containing a great quantity of living cells. Thus, for the male magician, it is the sacrifice of "all that he is and all that he has" into the "Cup of Babalon", which is held by the Scarlet Woman of Babylon and in which the blood of the saints is said to be mingled. The inner incubation time is important and knowing when to intuitively act is a part of the process. Even projects already in motion may benefit from releasing attachments to specific pictures or outcomes and allowing for the possibility of even greater expression to unfold. The Moon carries us forward through another gate of awareness where the big-gun planets Uranus and Pluto hold court. This also participates in a Kite pattern as it completes another Grand Trine in Air with Sun and the still stationary Jupiter. Our thinking is profound and again we feel the pressure to “decide”, as Mercury squares the Nodes. Writing it out will reveal what you need to know. Listen to your heart for answers.
