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the malefic mile

Every year, I have come to dread this stretch of time. While others plan excitedly for the solstice, in the North, we are about to witness the slow death of the Sun’s light by day. Once you start paying attention to the bounds, you can really feel it.

The Mars bound got skipped for good reason. A massive donation came in to CAELi, which tied me up and had me tearing apart the library to accomodate the newness. You can read more about that over here.

Now the Sun drifts through the bounds of Saturn in Gemini, and as the solstice crests, he’ll be right back in the confines of Mars.

Both Saturn and Mars currently occupy signs that rob them of strength, so, you might think we’d have a nicer run of this mars/saturn/mars couple of weeks. What I am finding is an inexplicable slowness. No matter how fast we may want things to go, they just aren’t capable of going that fast.

The Liber Hermetis has ‘subjection’

Critodemus is kinder with ‘subordination’

Valens may be kindest with ‘Temperate, a procurator, having possessions, intellectual, with a wide knowledge, distinguised, noted for intelligence, an arranger of great matters, most famous’

but Crito and Hermes rejoin with orphanhood, inglorious expeditions (crit) and dishonorable military service (herm)…

Sun in Gemini wants glittery flexibility, and Saturn in Aries can only provide a chip on the shoulder and brittleness.

If things are not going smoothly, roll with the bound here, just know the space weather is not fit for action. It’s a time to rest, to tend to smaller things that rely on slower paces, like, getting things organized again, cleaned up for the cardinal ingress…

I had an art teacher once say, if you don’t have time to clean up your studio, you don’t have time to make the art. The tidying and tending to the tools is part of the art, too.

See you again at the Cancer solstice,

-jenn

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