Saturn Trine Venus

So I gave up on the Christmas Cards and was going to spend today making New Year Cards but that doesn't seem to have happened. Marvelous and wonderful news is that Good Girl, who's been refusing to use a litter box since I got back from vacation a month ago, broke down and used it this afternoon for both functions. The relationship will continue. Iffy there for a while.

Pluto Square Sun

How I can say I no longer have an interest in astrology when I go www.astrograph.com at least twice a week to see what my solar return chart would be like in 2019 or so if I stay in Silver or go to see my sister in Spain or John in Palm Springs and exactly WHEN my Progressed Sun will square natal Chiron I really don't know, but it's the truth.

I'm certainly no longer as obsessed as I was for many years, when I filled three-ring binder after three-ring binder with home-made calendars showing every transit for the day, complete with bi-monthly charts of new and full moons showing as bi-wheels against my own horoscope.

Still, here I am watching io sprite show Pluto is squaring my Sun right this very second and for the rest of the day, and have done my very best to honor it by telling myself I am NOT a playwright, NOT a writer and fully acknowledge I have to change my life.

Update Two Days Later:
Well now I feel pretty silly as absolutely nothing Plutonic manifested itself, even with Saturn squaring Chiron three hours after the Pluto aspect perfected.

Mars Conjunct Neptune and Sun Square Pluto

... so to continue with the joke's on me, I got to the service station place at eight o'clock on the dot except I'd put the hour back the night before because the U.K. Daily Mail told me to so I got there at nine o'clock on the dot.....

.... which meant it took them two and a half hours to fix the car so I couldn't play tennis and to add Pluto's insult to injury it turned out the car needs a new alternator as well as all the other stuff it needed so I need to take it back tomorrow for another Saturn in the Eighth $300. Good thing it's only money.

Mars Conjunct Neptune

Fortunately (or not) for me this means Mars is squaring Saturn, and for once I was able to get through a list of boring and painstaking *tasks*. Whether this was due to astrological influences or because I've cheerfully decided to triple the dose of my antidepressant I'm not sure, but either way it felt good. Slowly but slowly I'm working my way through sorting through clothes and making alterations to those that need, er, altering. I took photographs of the wildflowers that are still blooming and reframed a piece of embroidery, reminding myself never to compare myself to anyone else or I'd have been back in bed in five minutes.          

This was yesterday. This morning I woke up, turned on the heat and nothing happened. This is when I'm glad I have some knowledge of astrology. No seething inside for me. I'm saving that for when I take the car in at eight o'clock and they're not done in the ninety minutes they said they would be haha.

Oh boy - is this the joke's on me or not? Read on...

Venus opposed to Sun...

.. and much too cold to get out of bed. Forty-two degrees and thirty-three last night - first time this year Pretty Boy has asked to come in in the middle of the night. Supposed to get to sixty-three today so if there's no wind a perfect day for continuing to clean up outside. We shall see.

To be continued:

Well, three espressos and back to sleep - has to be some kind of record. Three phone calls - another record - one asking if I'd let a couch surfer I don't know stay in the airbnb room for a night. No. Another wondering if I'd be home so a book I'd asked about could be dropped off. Yes. Last one from a would-be neighbor telling she was unable to keep the house and would be moving out. Hate to say sad, under the circumstances, but sad.

Any outside work? Hahahahaha.

Sun Trine Saturn

Praise the Lord for this one - just as I'd decided my life from now on in would be playing tennis in the mornings and then retiring to bed for the rest of the day and reading the Daily Mail, here I am rearranging my little bedroom for the winter so I don't freeze sleeping in the ell of the two big windows without even thinking about it - just walk in, decide to do it and so help me, do it.

Looks horrible, but I knew it would. It's time to decide whether I want to keep the iMac and so the desk or let it go and - gasp - perhaps not even HAVE a desk. Way too much to contemplate for today. I can for the first day in what seems like ages feel as though I've accomplished something other than watering the plants.

Uranus Conjunct Mercury

I'm not sure what it says about me that I barely notice this. A couple of unexpected events - wasps in the airbnb room, a chance (hah!) meeting with an astrologer I have heard about for fifteen years but never encountered, the recirculating pump for hot water doing the reverse of its supposed function and cutting OFF hot water to both bathrooms - but thoughts coming at me so quickly I can't handle them and wanting to share my new insights with everyone I meet - not a chance. Sad.