Mars Sextile Venus (also yesterday, Sunday)

All these Mars and Venus and Mercury transits that happen all the time, there's really nothing to them as I'm usually alone all day and never go anywhere, so when I read my sexual drives will be aroused and I'll I'll want to seek a physical relationship with another person I just roll my eyes and move on.  

I definitely got fired up in a different way when I heard Trump tell us all "that's the way it is" about Americans being killed in the war he just started—that was the Sun conjunct Mars and got me to make a reasonably coherent post about him—but all Mars sextile Venus got me was a phone call from a New York friend when I didn't say much at all as she went into a great deal of detail and then said her phone was at 12% and she had to go. 

Note to self: remember this as the 2026  version of "Hey I've got something on the stove and I have to turn it down" as an excuse to get off the phone with a long-winded person. 

Sun Conjunct Mars

Energy at last. K&L gave me bags of  pine cone husks from outside their house at least two weeks ago and today is the first time I touched them. Weeded a little patch where the agaves are then spread on a layer of golden brown husks and it looked amazing in the sunlight.

So much for astrology (mine).

I see Trump has released a video in which he says more Americans will be killed in the course of whatever is coming because he went to war with Iran yesterday without telling anybody.

He's only just come out of hiding and is saying he doesn't really like the idea of more Americans dying, but that's the way it is and there's really nothing he can do about it. He didn't say all of that. He said he would do everything in his power to stop more soldiers being killed (only the American ones, he doesn't really care about the other ones)  and he would start thinking about these poor potential victims and include them in his prayers as soon as he was done with this video

He doesn't like it but that's the way it is. 

Committing political suicide.