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. 

Sun Conjunct Mars Square Uranus

Holy Cow. So THIS is why I'm in bed making notes about bank accounts and monthly bills and phone numbers and emails and passwords to make things easier for the to-be executor of my will when I'm no longer around. 

I made a few stabs at this last year but the DWI repercussions were just so horrendous and dreadful there was no way I could focus. Yesterday my executor (Personal Representative in New Mexico - PR) - came over and I showed her what I'd written and we agreed I'll make an appointment with an estate planner ASAP and we'll get the blasted thing done. Then I can really concentrate just on the health issues. 

It's going to be this warm (75*) for at least the first few days of next week so I'm not missing out on the weather, not that there's too much I can do out there anyway, although I might hobble out there right now and see if I can pull up a few more dead plants. 

Wow. A real post. 

Just the Moon Today...

... . so nothing to worry about. A strange freedom here from the beginning of the week (?) From the beginning of the year.

I knew it would be not much more than making the will and dealing with my various (some far-flung) medical  issues, for want of a better word, and so far I'm right.  Things To Be Dealt With is too long, but that's what they are. 

Staying in bed for the first two weeks of the year took me somewhat by surprise. 

This is taking me somewhat by surprise. 

TBC

Venus Opposed to Jupiter

 Well I have the blog back but I've lost my two readers.

Thought I posted this. Not paying enough attention. It's 2/27 today. 

Sun Trine Saturn

I found out this morning from my younger sister that our older sister had died. It wasn't a surprise. I knew she'd had a stroke late last week and had been unresponsive, but that was all I heard for three days.

We are not a close-knit family, if the noun can even be applied. I didn't see my mother and father in the same room together until my older brother got married in 1962, when I was 17 and had to be a bridesmaid. 

"Stolid" would be the word for my appearance at that wedding. 

Neptune Conjunct Saturn in Aries

So was it coincidence that yesterday, when the conjunction took place, was the day SCOTUS ruled that Mr. BigTie's tariffs are illegal? I haven't seen any astrological stuff online saying it wasn't, but I haven't really poked around. 

Oh well, I just did, and the AI  overview puts me in my place immediately.          

>>>a major 2026 Supreme Court decision, likely regarding executive power over tariffs, is >>>expected to coincide with the exact Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries. This alignment >>>>(Feb 2026) suggests a strict, structural ruling (Saturn) that limits broad, idealistic, or vague >>>(Neptune) executive authority, reasserting congressional control.

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As for me, I went back to TRICORE to get blood drawn for a doctor's visit on Monday (I went on Thursday but the computers were down so I had to go back) and was told there were no doctor's orders for me so nothing done again. I went and visited a couple of friends - NOT something I regularly do - and then came home, lit a fire, watched the original Wuthering Heights and went to bed.