Monday July 7, 2025

– Gibbous Moon Phase – trust, analyze, prepare, digest, alchemy

– Moon in SAGITTARIUS– Void of Course 5:29 PM – 6/9 @ 4:55 PM Moving to CAPRICORN

– Retrogrades –

Pluto – May 4th – Oct 13th
Neptune – Jul 4th – Dec 10th
Saturn – Jul 13th – Nov 28th
Mercury – Jul 17th – Aug 11th
Chiron – Jul 30th – Jan 2nd

– Best Days (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – Jul 7th – 8th – Advertise to Sell, Shopping, Advertising and More, Castrate Farm Animals, Farm/Animals, Cut Firewood, Outdoor Chores, Dig Holes, Outdoor Chores, Kill Plant Pests, Outdoor Chores, Mow to Increase Growth, Outdoor Chores, Parenting, Potty Train, Shopping, Advertising and More, Travel for Pleasure, Home Repair, Wash Windows, Parenting, Wean

– Planting Calendar (from the Farmer’s Almanac) – Jul – 6th – 8th – Barren days, neither plant nor sow.

– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Year: – 11 ARIES: the ruler of a nation

– Aspect of the Aeon Sophia: (Wisdom): – Kali – The Destroyer

– Aspect of the Aeon Thelete: (Will/Desire): Kathe (God of The South)

– Sabian Symbol for the Solar-Lunar Month – New Moon in CANCER SUN/MOON – SUN – 05 CANCER: at a railroad crossing, an automobile is wrecked by a train (EARTH – 05 CAPRICORN: Indians – some rowing a canoe and others dancing a war dance in it)

SUN – 16 CANCER: a man studying a mandala in front of him with the help of a very ancient book

EARTH – 16 CAPRICORN: school grounds filled with boys and girls in gymnasium suits

Happy Monday! The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.

What is Impossible?

Arthur C. Clark, famed futurist as Science Fiction writer formulated three adages that are known as Clarke’s three laws that address the future:

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Thinking about them individually, they each create a pretty perfect beginning to a story. And if you look a little, they probably did.

But most importantly for this discussion, it opens the question as to what exactly is impossible. It usually starts from the point of view of someone looking at a problem from one point of view.

Back in about 1992, I attended a seminar in downtown Philadelphia entitled “How to Think Outside the Box.” This is now considered to be pretty cliche. But at the time is was what we might call freshly minted. Likely out of one of the MBA programs from the 80’s. Wikipedia states that it came from a puzzle:

You are asked to connect all nine dots using 4 straight lines. But once you start, you are not allowed to lift your pencil. If you do not know the solution, you can play with it for a few minutes. Of you can look it up. The clue is that you have to think outside to box.

In the end, it suggests that you might not be able to solve a lot of problems while limiting yourself to a specific set of variables. You have to look beyond what you know. Or what is obvious.

I mention that the seminar was is downtown Philadelphia because the location was significant. We were high up in a building directly facing the bronze statue of William Penn atop the city hall building. If nothing else, it offered us some inspiration for considering how the thing got put up there.

Far too many people become hung up with what they consider (or have been told) is impossible. We look to “science” to tell us what is true or what is a fact or, in the end, what is possible. But then forget that new discoveries are constantly being made. That what was impossible yesterday, can become possible tomorrow.

I think it is the fiction writers who are out there constantly breaking down the barriers of what is possible. Imagining realities that do not exist in this world. But offer them a possibilities.

I remember often one of my favorite quotes from Harry Potter (the books and not the movies). “The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

Nerve is important. Just as much as the ability to think outside the box. Napoleon Hill stated, “If you can conceive it, you can achieve it.” And once you conceive it, do you have the nerve to achieve it? It takes belief.