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Week of March 1
Dear Friends,
On Monday, fair Venus will move into the zodiacal realm of Pisces: In winning, may gain be lost. It’s here where Venus finds her ‘exaltation’ (at 27°)—the degree among the 360 where her qualities find the strongest expression. Venus’s enthronement among the stars of Pisces is easily understood, given the Piscean qualities of magnanimity (love for all) and sacrifice. This argument gains further credibility when we recall that Venus was in Pisces—less than three degrees from her point of exaltation—throughout the Passion of Christ. Indeed, love itself was exalted in Jesus!
Venus was in the first degree of the Fishes on 26/Jan/31—when (in Capernaum) the crowd of the sick and suffering around Jesus was so great that the disciples had to put up a kind of scaffold to afford more room for them. Many Pharisees, filled with rage and bitterness, were present. However,
They no longer cared to contradict [Jesus] in public, as on such occasions his replies generally put them to shame before the people. But when Jesus withdrew, they sought by every possible means to turn the people away from him, and they set lies afloat against him.
They knew now that the man with the withered hand was there, and they wanted to see whether Jesus would heal him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him. . . . They were anxious for something to take home with them and lay before the Sanhedrin. [Visions, vol. 2, pp. 224–25]
In a touching passage, Anne Catherine describes Jesus’s “unwearied patience” in answering the questions put before him on the matter:
Several of them now put the query: “Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?” Jesus, knowing their thoughts, called the man with the withered hand, placed him in the midst of them, and said: “Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath day, or to do evil? To save life, or to destroy it?” . . . [Jesus] was very much troubled by the obduracy of these men, and his angry glance penetrated to the bottom of their souls. Taking the arm of the poor man in his left hand, he stroked it down with the right, straightened out and separated the crooked fingers, and said: “Stretch out thy hand!”
The man stretched out his hand and moved it. It had become as long as the other and was perfectly cured. The whole scene was the work of an instant. [Ibid., p. 297]
Mars, too, makes a statement on Monday, as he makes his way to 5° Aquarius—thereby providing an astrological foundation for Tomberg’s devotion to Mary-Sophia. For Mars was at this degree at the conception of the Virgin as well as at the birth of Tomberg.
A Full Moon in Leo (18°) will rise at sunset on Tuesday, as the Sun (18° Aquarius) brings daylight to the far side of the world. The alignment of the Sun and Moon along the nodal axis fulfills the requisite conditions for a total lunar eclipse—which will be experienced in Asia, the Americas, Australia, and the Pacific.
The Lion confers certainty of purpose. The Moon at today’s degree recalls the events of 4/Dec/30, when Jesus prepared his disciples for their mission. From Anne Catherine:
Today he led the twelve to a retired spot near the lake, placed them in the order mentioned in the Gospel, and conferred upon them the power of healing and of casting out devils. . . . At the same time, he addressed to them a touching discourse in which he promised to be with them always and to share with them all he possessed. [Ibid, p. 168]
On Saturday, Mercury will position itself on the distant side of the Sun, thereby forming a superior conjunction at 22° Aquarius. Mercury functions as a messenger between humanity and the Holy Spirit—and the superior conjunction (when the ‘grail cup’ atop the Mercury glyph is facing the cosmos) represents an offering of our prayers and dreams to the spiritual world. Twenty-two Aquarius was Mercury’s zodiacal degree at the healing of the Syrophoenician woman on 12/Feb/31. (In fact, Mercury and the Sun were similarly positioned at this miracle, meaning that today’s superior conjunction is nearly identical to the one that overlighted this miraculous event.) A crippled old woman whose daughter was possessed had sought out help from Jesus. From Anne Catherine:
But [Jesus] replied that it was not yet time, that he wanted to avoid giving offense, and that he would not help the pagans before the Jews.
In the afternoon, Jesus went with Peter, James, and John to the house of one of the Jewish elders of the city. That man was very well disposed, a friend of Lazarus and Nicodemus, and in secret a follower of Jesus. . . . This old father, whose beard was long and white, was led by [his] sons to meet Jesus, for he could not walk alone. He was shedding tears of reverential joy. The sons washed the feet of Jesus and the apostles, and presented them with refreshments. . . . [Jesus] did not remain long in the house, for the people, having found out his whereabouts, had gathered outside. [Visions, vol. 2, pp. 308–09]
The pagan woman kept her distance, but as she cried out, the disciples begged Jesus to help her.
Jesus asked her whether she herself did not want to be cured, for she was crippled on one side. But she replied that she was not worthy, and that she asked for her daughter’s cure only. Then he laid one hand on her head, the other one on her side, and said: “Straighten up! May it be done to thee as thou dost will!” The woman stood upright. She was tall and thin. For several moments, she uttered not a word. And then, with uplifted hands, she cried out: “O Lord, I see my daughter lying in bed, well and in peace!” [Ibid., p. 309]
This week’s final aspect will be a conjunction between Venus (6° Pisces) and Neptune. It is often the case that aspects involving the transcendentals occur not once, but three times—owing to the retrograde motion of one or both planets. (Venus and Neptune met each other three times in 2025.) However, today’s aspect is the first and last Venus-Neptune conjunction of 2026.
One effect that we might discern in this conjunction is soul-healing. (It was present at the final conversion of Mary Magdalene.) We might also observe that this planetary pair can instill an abiding love for the whole of humanity. (A Venus-Neptune conjunction accompanied Jesus during his final three temptations in the wilderness.)
I wish you a blessed week beneath the Full Leo Moon.
~ Julie H.
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