Mercury Trine Uranus

A friend texted me this morning asking how I was doing.

It took seven hours for me to come up with the answer - heartsick - but when I finally answered I didn't say that. I said something like "All hunkered  down waiting for I don't know what", which is actually true, but a more truthful answer would have been "Severely depressed and heartsick about the state of this country".

The M trine U bit was thinking of a birthday present for the mother of a friend who's (the mother) going to be 100 on the 29th - the front page of a newspaper printed on the day she was born. Brilliant! 

Bugger. I wrote more but it's on the iMac and this is the laptop and they're not synched. 

Venus Trine Uranus and Mercury Opposed to Pluto

Well maybe it was the Sun trining Neptune that got me to take a shower yesterday haha, but more likely it was what got me to take one of the Larazapams at midnight last night when I couldn't sleep (I rarely can as I never do anything during the day to make me tired), logged on to the New YorkTimes and saw the second innocent person killed by "Homeland Security" this month was carrying a phone and not a gun when he was shoved to the ground and shot dead by an "agent". 

But that was yesterday. Today I slept until eight and didn't really come to until noon, but I've made another stab at the exercises I'm trying to make myself do and done a load of laundry, and if I can keep this amazing burst of energy going I'm going to take the used-up cylinder out of the Terra, replace it with a new one and put the used one in the box with the other used one and take it to the Post Office tomorrow so I can get back the $30 SodaStream has charged me for not returning them sooner. 

That of course is doubtful as it's the only thing I need do tomorrow, whereas on Tuesday I have to go to a doctor's appointment so could go to the P.O. then and not waste gas by driving eight miles into town and back tomorrow. Maybe Mercury opposed to Pluto will help me get to the bottom of that vexing question. 

I did keep the amazing burst of energy up and changed the cylinder in the Terra, but now I'm back in bed (it's 6:35) and I haven't put the sheets back on the bed so I'm lying on the mattress pad and probably will be when I wake up. Hey, it's all baby steps. 

Sun Trine Neptune

So that little bunch of planets that just left Capricorn and entered Aquarius is now taking turns at trining Neptune for me.

Yesterday was Mercury's turn, and now some of them are opposing Pluto as Venus did yesterday, and the sum total of it all seems to be I get lazier and lazier (or more and more slothful, take your pick, and add in more and more depressed if you want another choice) and just stay in bed.

So - so far - this is the person I spent so much time being concerned about as 2025 came to a close and I wondered who I was going to be and what I was going to do when that horrible year had ended: I stay in bed all day, have no interest in doing anything that involves effort and live on the laptop watching radical left-wing lunatics voice their opinions about Trump on YouTube. 

And I don't care. 

Mars Square Venus

 Well first of all any interpretation of this involves a partner, which lets me out immediately. 

(Yesterday, Mars trine Chiron, I went to a therapy appointment where I intended to say I no longer wanted to go and said it in a way that worked with no one's feelings being hurt, and somehow today I feel liberated by that.)

So - back to today, handyman painter was supposed to come at ten and I was going to be all ready to leave when he arrived and go down to the P.O. to pick up a box to return S's stuff and take a couple of bags of trash to B's and I might even have deluded myself into thinking I could return S's Christmas present even though I've yet to tell Amazon I want to return it. 

And at ten, when HM arrived, I was still in my fleecy keep me warm hooded robe but had the two gallons of paint I bought months ago all ready, did absolutely nothing while he was here and when he left and I was paying him I asked if he could add in a dump run and there went all the trash. 

Now if it works I'll be hearing from the Tucson surgeon at 3:15 and won't miss the call as I did last week. 

Later: It did work and I talked to the Tucson surgeon and I don't need a stent in my heart I need a stent in my leg - or rather I don't yet but if he does indeed ever put a stent inside me it will be in the legs. 

I know English isn't his first language but I do really need to pay more attention to my health. 

CHIRON CHIRON CHIRON.

It's my little friend at the moment, Chiron is, following me around along with Saturn for a couple of years. I suppose it should be "He" and not "it".

Mars square Venus? I was texting Liza about not needing a stent and John FaceTimed me. 

Mercury square Venus and...

...Venus trine Neptune. 

Neighbor texted saying he completely forgot about our planned astrological conversation yesterday and could we do it today. I had to think about it for three hours but eventually answered yes.

It was the right answer. Big success, happy client, 90 minutes and he left at 3:30 (PM). 

Then I got high and watched lunatic left-wing radicals on YouTube watching The Man at the Resolute Desk self-destruct. I missed out completely on Watergate. Had no idea what it was all about and am definitely making up for that by paying bigly attention to this one. The pace is picking up. 

Going to look at the https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html to see if he's awake yet. 

Oh boy. Just looked. 

Capricorn New Moon or Getting High?

Doesn't matter. Yesterday was the first day in 2026 that I got out of bed mid-morning and stayed out. 

I made a start at repotting the succulents and did a little bit of clearing up. Most importantly, I did some very basic exercises supposed to help with hip pain, and hope/intend/plan to do them for a week and see if they help.. 

Today, Monday, with Mercury trine Chiron and Sun square Venus, at 9:43 I'm already back from a dental cleaning and will be giving an introduction to astrology to a neighbor and am probably going to make a batch of gingerbread with the baking stuff I have left over from Christmas. 

Fingers crossed. 

Over the Midheaven Hurdle

That was a bit rough, that parade of planets over the MC. The pack is only now starting to break up and start its separate travels through the Tenth. 

And with full credit to Lynn Hayes 

(Those of us with planets between 10º-25º of Capricorn, Cancer, Aries and Libra will be most strongly affected by the Chiron influences.)