Mercury Sextile Uranus

I don't think I've ever played Monopoly. If I did it was so long ago I can't remember and I have no idea who I might have played it with. Do I need to go on?

Neptune Conjunct Mars...

... and squaring Uranus, Saturn opposed to Uranus and squaring Mars, Uranus approaching Mercury and squaring the Midheaven and somewhere in the middle of all that a Jupiter return  that I think is having no chance at all to manifest until I realize my airbnb-ers who just left live in Budapest and brought me some real-life Hungarian paprika.

You couldn't make it up, that's for sure.

Mercury Square Venus

I'm not sure this has anything to do with today's aspect but things are definitely looking up - I just *activated* (pulled a tab out from) the solar lights for the bnb peeps' outside steps which I bought only two months ago - huge progress.

Now if I can just replace the Anderson window opener thingie that's been here since April of 2015, set up the Blu-Ray player that came out of its box last week thanks to M, call T the plumber to deal with the low water pressure in the bnb bathroom, buy a new shade for one of the windows in the bnb room, get the room ready for this afternoon's peeps and maybe - but this is so big I don't think I should put it on today's list - take the scanner I bought THIS April to digitize old photos out of its box and get THAT set up.

I mean I don't want to get carried away or anything. It was only last week that I got the ashes out of the used-twice-this-winter fireplace, dusted off the fire screen and put cardovan shoe polish on the bricks. No need to over-do it.

Mars Opposed to the Ascendant

So I pay $95 a year for a American AAdvantage credit card that gets me air miles and gives me the first checked bag free. Not particularly money-savvy, but there you go. I'm loaded.

This past April I was leaving Providenciales, TCI, me being loaded and all, and was told by the American Airlines agent checking me in the first checked bag free applied only to domestic flights. Twenty-five dollars please. OK. The flight was to Miami, where I went through Immigration and all that stuff and then took another flight to El Paso, and was once again charged $25 for my checked bag.

Yesterday I decided to call Citibank, the issuer of the card, to contest the $25 at Miami and was told that since the flight originated in Providenciales the flight from Miami was considered an international flight.

Deciding not to get into an argument I let it go, and wonder if I am really going to find out who the CEO of American Airlines is and write to tell him of my, er, displeasure.  Here endeth one of the more poorly written of the posts made to this blog.

Mercury Trine Midheaven

Well it got me to posting on here, for a start, and it also has me thinking that with the minute amount of knowledge that I have on the subject after studying it for 20 years (astrology, that is) the best I can figure out is that there's not much point in trying to do anything unless the transiting symbols in the sky point to whatever it is you're trying to do having a chance of a successful outcome - speaking for myself, of course, whose natal chart seems to suggest you may as well stay in bed all day unless you want to be emptying bedpans on the night shift in a mental institution.

For weeks I've been looking at this house getting messier and messier and dustier and dustier with more and more unopened mail piling up on the desk in the kitchen and more and more unopened boxes from Amazon piling up on the bedroom floor, and still going outside to do yard work and transplant things and try and dig holes in this *soil* which is nothing but caliche and water things and trim the vinca and do all the other hundred things that need doing if you're attempting to garden in the South West - until today when Mercury trines the Midheaven and Venus trines the Moon and all the mail is opened and most of it thrown away and the bathroom cleaned and the pantry/storage space tidied and the floors swept etcetera etcetera etcetera, as Yul Brynner was so fond of saying in the King and I.

'Tis a  puzzlement, I believe he also said.

Sun Conjunct Uranus

Well I don't usually open a bottle of beer at 2:00 pm and sit and watch television so I guess today is working out according to the old cosmic plan.

I do have to say in my defense (and I obviously feel this behaviour needs defending) that i) it's a holiday and ii) the French Open is on the Tennis Channel and not on Dish, meaning I can't access it on my computer, and as I've had a bnb guest over the weekend occupying the room where the sole TV in the household now resides...blah blah blah do I need to go on?

Transiting North Node to Jupiter

Money money money, except I have to work for it but what do I expect with a natal Jupiter in Virgo? I live to serve, that's my motto, and with a house twice the size I need I consider myself fortunate indeed those guys in San Francisco stuck an air mattress on the floor a couple of years ago and started a web site. Natal north node in Cancer doesn't hurt either.

It's been a bit hairier than I'd like with the current *planetary position* but you'd think I'd know by now if someone says they're arriving at five they're going to call at two and say can we come at three - I DO know but somehow lately haven't been able to act on it, and there's been a lot of scurrying around with the Windex and a dustpan and brush, but no one's complained and all those $116s for two nights add up.

That's only when there's an in and out on the same day, and with the current occupants here for another seven nights things *should* calm down a bit. I'm even optimistic enough to think that by the end of the week the back patio might look like a back patio and not like the yard at Restore. After all, if I'm posting on here, anything might happen.