It's all Learning

 [PAUSE]

Saturn, that is. 

Finally I get what an extended Saturn transit does to you (well, me). It makes you learn about structure and I suppose if you are fully enlightened you can understand why it is that what you are being forced to learn is exactly what you will need to get you successfully (you hope) to the next stage of whatever is going to happen in 2026. There endeth......

Yesterday Sun on the MC, today Mars, and yes, there have been stirrings of energy - examples of energy, to be precise, visits to Marshall's, lunch at Mi Casita, help today with a frozen spigot that I couldn't budge - nothing too much different from the other days this week in bed - and back I went this morning and only frozen spigot mid-afternoon got me really out of bed for the day.

I did wake up a bit then and here it is 8:35 and I'm still up. 

Jupiter Sextile Jupiter and Sun on the Midheaven

 It doesn't matter what the transits are - all I want to do is stay in bed. I suppose it's a plus to say I'm reading a book and not watching radical left-wing lunatics on YouTube. 

This was yesterday, and as far as action goes I did leave out a pile of New Yorker magazines for someone to pick up and I did manage to get myself to meet a friend in the CVS parking lot at 10a.m. as arranged to hand over the cake pan she left behind after the New Year Day's get-together. I also dropped off two bags of trash at a friend's house as I used to do in the olden days, and then it was back home to get straight back into bed and go on re-reading Bonfire of the Vanities, one of my favorite books ever.

And that was it. 

Well, not quite. Mid-afternoon I roused myself and took the shower I was going to take in the morning and made myself a chicken pot pie in the new little oven, using the top and bottom heat AND the convection oven, which made a difference to the bottom crust. Not enough - it needs more than 60 minutes, but it's a start. AND I did laundry. 

Did I do Duolingo? No.

Did I do anything about the burst 100 foot stainless steel hose that happened because I forgot it's winter and I'm supposed to cover up the outside faucet? Other than start going up and down to the well house and turning the water on and off, nope. 

I do wonder how long this will go on, or rather how long I will let this go on. 

Mercury Square the Sun

>>>>>>>You will be busier than usual with letter writing, paper work and group conferences.

Well, no group conferences unless you count the New York Times reader responses as conferences, 

>>>>>D*** P***** MD

>>>>>East Windsor, NJ · 2h ago

>>>>>>Trump is the heir of Ozymandias.

preevz commented 42 minutes ago

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preevz

Silver City · 41m ago

@D**** P***** MD

Yup. I look upon his works every day and despair.

Mercury Opposed to Moon's Node in Three

This was today, but going back to yesterday it probably wasn't a good idea to join my neighbours for all the fish you can eat. I knew someone else was going to be there and I didn't think through how awkward his presence was going to be. I can't say any more than that even though the chances of anyone involved ever seeing this are less than minimal. 

So today Mercury was on my natal south node in Capricorn in the ninth, and lo and behold, B texted me asking for my expert advice (no kidding) in where to begin with de-cluttering. We've talked about this a lot in the past as I'm the Queen of Throwing Things Out and she's the exact opposite, and as I know how fraught it is for her to part with anything I said I'd stop by and give her a free consultation on how to begin the process. 

(In my dreams I would love to have a job helping people declutter but of course have never done anything about it, and the "free consultation" was intended as and was taken as a joke.)

First though I returned an Inter-Library Loan book by Ricky Jay and picked up another Inter-Library Loan biography of the poet James Schyler, someone who came to my attention last summer and interested me as most of his poetry was written when he was institutionalized for mental problems. 

When I got to B's she asked me where I thought she should start - paperwork or clothes - and I went for it and suggested the iMac I'd persuaded her to buy 15 years ago, before I realized how completely technically challenged she was, that's been sitting on a desk in her bedroom the whole time, completely unused for probably five years and with nothing left on its hard drive. 

The iMac is now in the back of my car and I'll take it to the landfill at some point next week when I take a load of my own stuff. Not the result I expected but one I'm very pleased with. 

Does any of that have anything to do with Mercury opposing my north node in Cancer in three? No idea, but B no longer has to see every day something she's been wanting to get rid of for years. 

Mars and Sun Trine Jupiter

 I don't know what happened to Venus. I thought it was trining Jupiter today as well, but it seems as though it  doesn't really matter what all the little ones are doing, the big 'un overriding all is the Uranus opposed to Chiron one in the Sixth. Michael Putin always said the slowest moving planet wins. 

I ordered a $10 walking stick from Amazon a couple of days ago, working on the "Become the transit or suffer the transit" theory. THAT transit is the progressed Saturn to the Natal North Node in Cancer in three that's been slowly perfecting  for years and will end in April 2027, just as T Saturn comes to the Sun, and of course Saturn rules structure and the skeleton and I need a new hip and a new knee, so I thought if I got a walking stick it would acknowledge the transit and make it a bit easier as I hobble around the house. 

It doesn't arrive till Monday and in the meantime I'm improvising with one of the tension rods I got for curtains in Big Sunny Space and haven't made yet, and it does take some of the pressure off when I put my right foot on the ground as I walk. 

Today's supposed Have-To-Do is sort out all the different doctors and make appointments for various and assorted ones - back to Uranus opposed to Chiron - none of which I've done yet, and I have to rouse myself soon as neighbours have invited me to Wrangler's all you can eat fish dinner, and are picking me up at 4:15, and of course it's 11:30 and I'm still in bed with the surgically attached MacBook Air on my knees. 

Mars, Sun and Venus Stellium in the Ninth...

 ...all square the Sun and trining Jupiter by tomorrow. 

And I'm in bed trying to think of a reason to get up. That was an hour ago and I'm still here. 

12:07PM: Well I'm up and what you could call dressed, and in theory about to tackle all the health care paperwork I'm supposed to be doing. One more look at pre-hip replacement exercises that I haven't yet started to do and maybe I'll fill out the NM Tree survey forms I've been sent before I start on health. 

Moon Opposed to Moon...

 ...or is it really worth trying to find some manifestation of As Above So Below?

This was yesterday and today is the sixth, time to take down all the Christmas decorations I never put up.

OK, so I woke up in an antiquated but adequate Hampton Inn three minutes from the Tucson Airport, where I'd been since the day before at 3 p.m. after dropping S off for her flight to Hawaii. 

A big blank. Nothing to do. Made a disgusting cup of coffee in the tiny one cup thing provided and eventually got myself off to breakfast in the lobby where at least the coffee was good. Took the car key and quite pleased with myself for making a cup of coffee to go and driving the car closer to my room, much too far away from the lobby.

Packed - replacing the day before's pair of socks with a clean pair, and steeled myself for the drive to what I'd been calling a CAT scan to the Ultrasound it was. Had my blood pressure taken on both ankles - a first - and then a device attached to each toe on each foot in turn to see if blood was getting there. It was.

Nothing done around my heart, which surprised me as I thought I was supposed to need a stent but maybe I don't, and then the drive back to Silver, during which the Moon to Moon opposition perfected. 

The only possible thing I can come up with from Astro's extremely long description of what might happen was the reference to a project begun two weeks or so ago - S's visit to Silver - now supposedly faltering, which could be a way of saying it ended.

Easy drive back to Silver, heated a can of soup, went to bed and still there at 9:14 a.m. on Tuesday, wondering if I am really going to start pre-hip replacement exercises before I go to Gila Regional for a real CAT scan, this one for the aortic embolism or aneurysm I have in my heart. An exciting year ahead.