Catch-up Time

 Last post three days ago?

Thursday: Sun trine Uranus and Mars trine Neptune:

Managed to take a bag of trash downtown and then I think Neptune took over and probably retreated to the comfort of the laptop.

Friday, yesterday: Mercury sextile the Sun:

Okay, I think Robert Hand IS right - doing this day by day really is madness. If I had more interest than I do in astrology right now it could make sense, but all I think I'm doing is living out three planets in Aries intercepted in the Twelfth, and none of it is particularly interesting. 

Sun Opposed to Pluto

What better day to go to the pulmonologist and get the results of a CAT scan given two weeks ago?

Six months ago I was told I had an aortic aneurism but it wasn't very big and "we" just had to keep our eyes on it. Yesterday Dr. S told me I had nodules on my lungs and I had to remind him about the aneurism. 

Result: I'm having a PET scan to confirm or rule out cancer because "you don't want to go through all the surgery for knee and hip replacement and then find out you have cancer." Nope, I guess I don't. 

Another result:  my attempt to get all of my "health" providers under one roof can begin as I have hard copies of results of both CAT scans and a note from Dr. S to my primary care doctor Dr. R. I do have to get them over to her though and with Mars trine Neptune it's not happening today. 

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.)

And now it's Venus's Turn on the MC...

 ...and what I could do today is get on Amazon, get the code to return S's Christmas present that she didn't want or need, take it to the UPS store, take some trash to B's in town. go to the library and see what other Tom Wolfe books they have, take stuff to the thrift shop, pick up the mail blah blah blah or stay in bed and finish Bonfire of the Vanities. 

Sunday:

 I stayed in bed and finished B of the V. 

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. 

...and then the Sun and Venus...

 ...and time for S to go back to Hawaii.

I forgot to mention that on the full moon the leader of the free world sent U.S. troops to Venezuela and captured the president and his wife, bringing them to a jail in Brooklyn, and trapping S's mum on St. Croix as all flights from the Caribbean were promptly cancelled for a week, but S had to go home anyway which of course involves a three hour car trip from Silver to Tucson.

Mercury was opposing Saturn for me - S called me a bad driver and upset me - and also squaring Neptune - I wrote down on a grocery list where I parked the car - D17 - looked at it and then tried to find B17 for about 15 minutes after getting S to her flight - which REALLY upset me as I am of the age for dementia  and don't like any signs of it, but blamed it on Neptune.

Then Apple Maps took me to the wrong hotel but the right one was next to it so I managed that, checked in and have been in my king-sized bed for three hours, wondering if Apple Maps will get me to my CAT-scan tomorrow morning. 

Then it's back to Silver and a CAT-scan at Gila Regional on Tuesday and after that who knows what and when. Progressed Saturn has been slowly approaching exactitude to that North Node in Cancer - perfecting I think in April 2027 so help me, and I have a hip replacement and a knee replacement to look forward to this year. 

And in April 2027 I shall have Saturn to the Sun and then to Mercury and then to Venus, all of it in the Twelfth, and I shall have to hope a Twelfth House Sun means people come to you instead of you going to them. It worked when I did airbnb. I hope it works when I might need a little bit of help.  

First Mars to the North Node...

 ...for Open House Day on 1/1 that I thought would be a disaster but wasn't, no idea what we did on Friday, probably collapsed and I made an attempt to clean up the kitchen - oh, threw away a lot of food - then Saturday with a Full Moon on "my" nodes - Sun on the North in Capricorn and Moon on my North Node in Cancer - we went to Zocolo and had pizza with pepperoni and roasted garlic and bought home-cured jerky in Bayard and then S went to S's and groomed her horses and when I went to pick her up J arrived at the house for an au devoir, bed early for both of us and then on Sunday.....

Mars to the South Node in Capricorn in the Ninth

 OK, here it is, the one that's been giving me the horrors since I first realized it was going to happen. 

I've been living in Silver City full time since 2012 after living in New York for 49 years. Didn't quite make the half-century. When I lived in New York the NYC Marathon went past my front windows and I always used to have a party. No marathons in Silver and nothing goes past my windows except Walmart Delivery and the UPS truck, and as I 'm on a dead-end (off a dead-end) all they do is turn around and go back the way they came, so I started having a New Year's Day Open House with the doors opening at 2 p.m. and people staying as long as they wanted to. 

That was all fine till Covid put an end to it, and then in November 2024 I got a DWI, in December had to have a device I couldn't use installed in my car and had a PA who wouldn't order the anti-depressant I'd been on since February 2002 and that took care of New Year's Day 2025 and the rest of the year as well. 

I think this is the most lucid post I've ever made, apart from the two other blogs I've had when I was totally absorbed by astrology. They still exist and one day soon I hope to post the links to show that once upon a time I was able to write quite well, something I hope to do again as this year unfolds. Right now I have my beloved 17-year-old surrogate grandchild staying with me and about 20 people will be at the door  in five and a half hours, so this will do for now. Cross your fingers for me please. 

January 2 report:

If you did, thank you. If you didn't, it worked anyway. Several cancellations, some no-shows and a couple of won't come insides but a good gathering, many happy people, everyone gone by 4:30 and me and Sirjana in bed by six. 

Most significant occurrence/event: Masses and masses of food, most of it to be thrown away this morning.