Double Dose Mercury and Saturn

So Saturn trines Mercury exact this morning and Mercury does the same to Saturn at almost the same time - in about fifteen minutes. I can only hope the influence hangs around for the rest of the day as while it was coming to a crescendo yesterday *all* I managed to do was four loads of laundry to get the house back to a semblance of order after having two friends with an eight-year-old staying here for a week and then begin a search online for the tires I bought last July as I now need two more and presumably they need to be the same kind that are already on the car.

After more effort than I am usually able to muster I did indeed find them, and maybe today I'll have the concentration to go back to my tax filing and get that done at last. And order the tires. That would do, pig.

Neptune to Mars

I had the first pass of this last summer and spent a lot of time photographing flowers and feeling immensely grateful for my life.

This go-around hasn't been quite as pleasant. It's been happening at the same time as Pluto squaring the Sun, which I am thankful is now over, as January was a month from hell I never want to have to repeat and god willing won't have to as when Pluto reappears later in the year things will be different, she says confidently.

So - glossing over my experimentation with anti-depressants for most of January I suddenly, tonight, with Neptune to Mars exact tomorrow, have severe toothache - missed a dental appointment when I was sick earlier in the year - and have been routing around in the medicine cabinet looking for leftover painkillers from when I broke my wrist and tore my rotator cuff two and three years ago respectively.

The point to this, if there is one, is that just as I feel I can't be bothered to keep this blog going and don't think I will make another post, there's a manifestation so - so what? - so glaringly As Above So Below even my current unmotivated anhedonic self cannot help but fire up a page and put some words down.

I might even do it again.

Pluto Square Sun

If that was Pluto, you can have him. And he's not done yet. On the day this culminates, Mars is squaring Saturn and opposing Neptune, just to add to the general paralysis haha. Flu - or some unidentified bug that knocked me out for two days at the beginning of the month, depression, inability to get out of bed, no interest in anything, freezing cold, unusual for this part of the country, a cat peeing and leaving turds in the living room, depression, inability to get out of bed etc. etc. etc. - not what you could call an auspicious beginning to the year.

Sun Trine Jupiter

Sixth day in bed with no energy but had just enough to check flights to Spain to perhaps go and see my sisters in April. Use miles to get to Boston and then fly from there for less that $550 round trip. Score.

You Really Have to Laugh

So one of the things I decided NOT to do in the New Year - note the absence of the r*s*l*t**n word - was to stop wasting so much time reading Readers' Comments. I don't need to know what Fezzie in Cambs think about Kim Kardashian's psoriasis or what Gimmeabreak has to say about George Michaels - of course, I don't need to know about KK's psoriasis or anything more about George Michaels - but at least let me stop there, I had said to myself as yet another year promised to begin with a six-years-in-the-non-writing-stage play remained unwritten.

I was going to get so much done in the week between Christmas and New Year's Day and somehow with back to back airbnb-ers and being Hedda Hopper on both days all that got done was lots of laundry and food shopping and cooking and then it was January 2nd and I decided I could at least give myself a break and stay in bed for a day, and then I couldn't get out of bed and slept for two days and felt like sh*t when I did wake up, and then when I did get back to the Daily Mail I must need to update Safari or something BECAUSE NONE OF THE READERS' COMMENTS ARE VISIBLE AND ALL I SEE IS WHITE SPACE.

And having exhausted myself with the supreme effort of writing this I shall now go back to sleep for another couple of days and hope that when I wake up The Play will be finished.

Hahahaha

So what do you do when you're having a Mars return on the same day you have Venus sextile Venus and you've been working like a crazy person for a week?

You get out the extra-creamy macaroni and cheese leftover from yesterday's Open House and you put it in a frying pan with some butter and more half-and-half and a couple of slices of Velveeta and warm it all up and eat a great big bowlful and go back to bed, that's what you do.

Mars Trine Saturn

Only with this in effect could anyone (me) put the little sticky pad things that they bought weeks ago on the bottoms of the legs of the dining room chairs at 8:30 on Christmas Eve.

Most productive day I've had for ever - even washed the bathroom floor in the bnb room and put on two coats of sealer, not that it looks any different but still I did it.