Monday, April 6, 2020

Google Will be the Death of Me

Really should not write something like that at the moment, but I think by now I'm up to five accounts with them in an attempt to get back into this blog - the nearlyeveryday one.

I think this may have done it but not completely sure. Have copied the URL into stickies. Not eben attempting to get in to everydayastrology because there's nothing on that, and it *should* have all of the posts on here, assuming of course that when I hit "Update" it will take me back to where I started. Assuming.

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Sun Sextile Uranus...

... and Lo! after this many months of wanting to post again and being told by Google that my current log in does not give me access to this blog and logging out and logging in again as a different user and being told the same thing and repeating the process and giving up for a week or so and trying again and still being refused and reading Help pages without getting any help it suddenly dawns on me that I am using Adblocker on Chrome but not on Safari so switching to Safari and here I am, first try.

Jesus.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Saturn Opposed to Saturn

OK, so if I'm on the right track and doing what I'm supposed to do I reach a kind of "material peak", to quote Astrodienst that I can't be bothered to link to.

Well, airbnb is humming along nicely and apart from not being able to finish the play I've been working on (hah!) for eight years all is well.

Latest set of airbnb-ers leave and I go in to clean up and lo and behold! There's my material peak - a melted thing that you put over food in the microwave, a note of apology and a ten dollar bill to cover the cost of replacement, and the transit is exact to the day. I mean you just gotta love it, whatever it is.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Uranus Conjunct Venus

OK, so it's every-six-months-or-so astrology, not my fault if I've turned into the laziest person in the world.

Every now and again though the idea of posting something pops into my head and is usually gone as quickly as Oscar Wilde's thoughts about  exercise - every time I think of it I lie down until it passes haha - but today even I am compelled to note the truly astounding literalness of astrology's working.

Uranus to Venus: it happened earlier this year, will perfect in a couple of weeks and come back one last time next February, and perhaps yesterday it was intensified by the almost full moon coinciding with it, but sitting on my kitchen table right now is a big packet of Spam-flavored macadamia nuts - yes, SPAM-flavored - from a friend in Maui as a completely unexpected out-of-the-blue present.

I defy anyone to come up with a more literal representation of Uranus conjuncting natal Venus, and can't help but wonder what the next two weeks will bring.

Monday, July 30, 2018

Sun Conjunct Pluto

So off I go for my second piano lesson and there's my teacher's son crouched by the side of the Yamaha with a pump and a bucket and a hose and my teacher tells me she thoughtlessly put white rice vinegar into the piano instead of water and how would tomorrow be, and I say fine and go back home and there's Pluto with his work done for me for the day by 11:30 am.

Friday, July 27, 2018

Venus Conjunct Jupiter

So glossing over the fact I haven't posted here since March, today's *events* were so right on, so textbook correct, I can't let them go unacknowledged.

Went to play tennis and my partner brought me six just picked off the tree peaches. Came home and a friend had left me a punnet of home-grown tomatoes. Message on machine from a friend I see far too infrequently. Could she come over and bring a salad she'd made too much of with basil, fresh tomatoes and fresh mozzarella? She could and did, and also gave me a clove of fresh garlic a friend had given her.

Spent the rest of the day (after watering, of course) in bed reading Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Mercury Retrograde - You Have to Laugh

So here comes Spring at last and I'm waking myself up and trying to act like a playwright again, plodding on with Anonymous and Me and looking for submissions for work already finished.
Last week one of the requirements was a 300 word synopsis. This one wanted one of  "less than 200 words" and in only three hours I managed to rewrite the last one and get it sent off.  Last week wanted contact info in the script, this time blind script, contact info elsewhere, all done.

Everything has a horoscope, as we all know, so I drew one up (well, Time Passages did) for the moment of submission and all looked good. Leo rising with north node on the ascendant, Taurus on the midheaven plugging along as I do, moon in Gemini in the 11th, ever hopeful, retrograde Mercury in Aries - ooh, hold on - look again at script submitted, right, no contact info but - ooh, no character breakdown page either as that took itself out with the title page...

Contrite and groveling email sent to theater explaining mistake (omitting retrograde Mercury part) and asking if could send new PDF marked (PLAY NAME) USE THIS ONE. Now waiting, er, for a response....