The Lord of Wealth talks not only about material wealth and its appropriate use, but about the inner wealth and resources that we all have. This is a card that teaches us that the harvest we gather in our lives is the end result of all that we have put into living – and more importantly, how we have used the riches at our disposal.
We make our own realities with every thought, every deed, every wish. And when we direct our energies positively we shall arrive – as a perfectly natural consequence – at the Ten of Disks. Of course, if we direct our energies negatively we’ll find ourselves with the Ten of Wands, or the Ten of Swords – neither of which are happy cards!
There is a warning connected to this card though. When we have created sufficient wealth to make ourselves comfortable and contented, if we have a surplus, then we must make that surplus work. We cannot expect energy to flow freely in our lives if we hoard it, and try to hang on to it. This is as pointless as trying to save up the breeze so that it will blow on a stuffy day! There are some things in life you cannot clutch tight in the hand without crushing their value out of them.
If this card comes up in an everyday reading, it re-assures that financial and material matters are proceeding well, and that there is no cause for concern.
If it comes up in a more spiritually based reading, then we need to be applying the underlying principles to our lives – so in this case, we need to be letting our inner wealth show, in order to manifest that into our lives.
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“Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion, and the luck of writers prove to be the most powerful thing in the world.”
–WILLIAM GOLDING
Born this week in 1885
Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL (September 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies, he published another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. Wikipedia
WASHINGTON—According to the results of a new poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center, the majority of Americans would swap democracy for a $100 Best Buy gift card. “Our research found that 72% of Americans would agree to give up all free and fair elections in the U.S. forever in exchange for a $100 certificate they could use to purchase a new Bluetooth speaker or couple Keurig coffee makers,” said Pew pollster Dana Felder, who noted that an overwhelming 90% of Americans stated that they would eagerly surrender their First Amendment rights without a second thought for a chance to rummage the bin of discounted DVDs and Blu-rays at the front of the store. “Sixty-five percent of the survey respondents stated that they would choose to live in an autocracy as long as they received free shipping, and another 55% of Americans responded that they would gladly abandon democracy for as little as a 15% off coupon from Bed, Bath, & Beyond. The remaining 28% of Americans who said they would not swap democracy stated they would only do so for a gift certificate to a nice local bakery.” At press time, Felder confirmed that the results were the highest they’d been since 1996 when 80% of Americans stated that they would live under an Islamic theocracy in exchange for a $50 gift card to Radio Shack.
The Pisces Full Moon occurs in the last 3° of the sign — giving events an eleventh-hour quality and placing attention on the upcoming moment of fruition, though that will not be the end of the story. Astrology always deals with cycles — a point strongly made by Dane Rudhyar in his work on the Sabian Symbols (An Astrological Mandala, Random House, 1973). In Rudhyar’s system, 28°14′ Pisces translates as the Sabian symbol for Pisces 29: “Light breaking into many colors as it passes through a prism.”
“Unity will always break again into multiplicity,” Rudhyar says. There is no absolute unity as such, only possibly “the relationship between the One and the Many.” The spectral splay of light evokes an almost orgasmic nature of experience, where, as the light passes through the prism, the organic unity fragments into a display of blinding brilliance. We may lose sight of the whole, or simply realize that it has always been something of an illusion. All we can deal with now is fragments, and hope that, somehow, they’ll eventually come together to create something meaningful — even if momentarily! These ideas conjure up the Buddhist practice of composing a mandala using multiple colors of sand, which will eventually disperse into the winds, its beautiful form in no way permanent.
This Full Moon also stirs up a line from T. S. Eliot’s poem, “The Wasteland”: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.” Under COVID-19’s devastation, the world we all thought we knew now seems to be quite another universe, as old ways and structures that we may have taken for granted morph into vastly different ways of being. Yet, as painful and difficult as such changes may sometimes be, remember that light always circulates and encourages new growth, even if it has no permanent structure that we can grasp in an absolute state. Our sense of security may be rocked, but we can press on, even if we are only dealing in fragments without a fully known form. In time they will cohere into more concrete, collective structures, and what was once solid may not go to waste, if it also binds elsewhere to make other shapes. Anyone who has lost someone special may find comfort in this thought because it suggests that their loved one’s essence continues to exist.
The Moon’s proximity to Neptune underscores the fragile nature of any fragmented situation. We are still both “one” and part of the “many” — separate, yet not alone. If we dare to consider that each of us has a certain fragility, then we can invoke and apply another great Pisces quality: compassion. With luck, this becomes a pooled effort, with one person’s kindness yielding kindness in return — a positively contagious process, for a change!
Mars in Libra opposing the Moon (albeit in an out-of-sign opposition) could be seen as a potential spanner in the works, given that Mars does not sit easily in Libra, opposite Aries, its traditional sign of rulership. Mars does, nonetheless, have a reputation for getting things done quickly and — in Libra — could indicate that many hands really do make light work! That is, so long as people agree on the method — or, at least, agree to disagree if they have individual styles. Rudhyar’s interpretation of 29° Pisces emphasizes differentiation, which makes this a good time for embracing diversity at very many levels. Each one of us is, of course, a little different, and yet we all have something different to contribute.
This article is from the Mountain Astrologer, written by Diana Collis.
