By Frater S.C.F.V.

Since today is the last waxing-Mooned Day of Mercury of the Lunar month before the Moon returns to its waning phase, it is a big day for me as a Solomonic magician. I did no less than 4 hours of ritual today, divided between three Hours of Mercury with some additional time thereafter in each case for supplementary prayers. In addition to that, I fasted throughout the day and did additional prayers and singing in between Hours of Mercury while crafting Solomonic tools and painting my Solomonic Circle.

I woke up before Dawn, performed a Ritual Bathing, in the Sufi Ghusl method I have long used, ate a small meal of toast with peanut butter and an apple, and prepared my tools for the first Hour of Mercury.

During the First Hour of Mercury, I consecrated a series of incenses as Holy Incense following the Key of…

April 25 VERY EARTHY GRAND TRINE between Virgo Moon  Taurus Sun and Saturn in Capricorn.

This is always positive energy. 

MERCURY in Aries squares SATURN in Capricorn

This could be a shouting match or other impulsive rash words which could get you in trouble. New ideas can be formed which with patience could develop into a good career or other long-lasting commitments.

The big day APRIL 26 with two major malefic planets conjuncts MARS and PLUTO 

These trines keep happening on the 26th which lightens up all the very heavy energy of this day.

April 26  The Mars-Pluto conjunction

can be phenomenally destructive and constructive. It’s macho, secret, revealing, the warlike drive shows the shadows of the patriarchy and corporate Plutocracy’s. Sexual politics and the old boys kingly “entitlement” to women has appeared in Toronto as an early tragic signifier of what is so very wrong and imbalanced in the world…

Mercury Rules Gemini.
Alchemical union through interchange of polar opposites.
Painting by Johfra Bosschart

The airy Alchemist energy of charming VENUS in GEMINI (Apr 24 – May 19) welcomes us to sail through Spring on a light breeze like a gorgeous butterfly, while alchemizing what we encounter.

So many really attractive things to learn and talk about! VENUS will inspire chatting, flirting, learning languages, day trips, and the alike.

GEMINI is the Alchemist of the Zodiac – bridging polarities and dualities. The shortest bridge between people can me just a smile and a kind word. 
And it can (and wants to) go much deeper than this too, with JUPITER (presently retro, supporting inner journeys and processes) this year in alchemical SCORPIO.
Yet, the springy lighter, ‘pollinating’ version of GEM comes into the foreground now, via delightful VENUS – bringing a breeze of fresh AIR into the picture of an otherwise not…

Moon is in Cancer April 21

It’s HRH Queen Elizabeth’s 92 birthday today. The staunch Taurus is the longest-serving Queen or monarch ever-serving 65 years on the Throne. A true Taurus they are strong and resist change.

The Queen is a Taurus born at Zero degrees with a 12 degree Leo Moon in a wide conjunction to Neptune and Lilith and a Capricorn hard working responsible Ascendant. 

No wonder the Queen favored Meghan Markle shes a woman after the Queen’s own heart. Meghan’s Sun is exactly conjunct the Queen’s Moon. They understand each other almost telepathically. Actually, their charts connect so well. It is awesome. Who would’ve thunk it?

The Queen has SATURN in SCORPIO at 24 degrees conjunct her Midheaven.

Her reign is due to her father unexpectedly taking over the throne from his brother Edward who abdicated. She has Uranus the planet of unexpected change in Pisces trining her Saturn and…