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Cancer, sixteen degrees |
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The word to know today
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Station
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A station is the moment a planet stops moving forward and turns, or stops moving backward and turns again. Five of the seven do it. The Sun and the Moon never do, which is one of the things that set the two of them apart from the rest.
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Weird homemade jelly… for your “Third Eye”?
People can't stop making this at home.
So why does it feel like something is blocking you?
Government and world elites have known this for years.
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At about seven this morning by UTC, Venus stopped. She had been creeping forward through Scorpio at a few minutes a day, slowing all week, and at eight degrees she halted and started going backward. The Moon is at sixteen degrees of Cancer tonight, in her own house, and she has never done anything of the kind. She cannot.
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Five of the seven classical planets turn retrograde. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all appear from here to stop, reverse, stop again and resume, because we watch them from a moving platform. The Sun and the Moon never do it. That is among the reasons the tradition set those two apart and called them the lights rather than planets, and it is why the Moon can never carry this particular debility. Lilly’s tables dock a retrograde planet five points. She is not eligible for the penalty.
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The station was read as the worst of it. A planet at a standstill was held to be at its weakest, neither going nor returning, and the older writers took the days around a station more seriously than the long backward stretch that follows. Venus will spend about six weeks retracing her ground. The Moon takes her last quarter at 13:25 UTC today, at ten degrees of Cancer, and goes void of course just under two hours after that. She finishes nothing more until Sunday night, which is a different sort of stillness and the only one available to her.
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From the shelf
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Abu Ma’shar
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Ninth century Baghdad, where the stations and the retrograde arcs are part of the ordinary account of how a planet behaves.
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