Mercury Trine Saturn and....

 ...Venus sextile Venus. 

Serious thinking and simply feeling at ease—I guess they could go together. There's definitely been some kind of switch but whether it's because I unburdened myself a bit with yesterday's post or due to today's transits I have no idea, but as with the way I feel about everything right now it doesn't matter. 

If I could do SOMETHING about the will I'm supposed to be making it would make me feel SO much better instead of having it hang over my head like the executioner's sword. The Aries in me wants to simply (hah!) call an attorney, tell him or her what I want and be done with it, but alas! Silver is such a dinky little town that's impossible, so rather than take one step towards making it happen I do nothing. 

It occurs to me it's a bit silly to post about a day first thing in the morning—well, 10:04, when nothing's happened except the usual let the cat in, feed him. make a cup of coffee and go back to bed for a cuddle and cheering myself up with the news, so this is it for now and I'll be back later. I hope. 

Progressed Saturn Conjunct North Node in Cancer

OK, this is the one I need to be focusing on when I try and make a post on here. This is the one that's been going on for years and is getting closer and closer to perfection, except that won't happen till April of next year, and as soon as it does I'll have transiting Saturn to the Sun, then Mercury and then Venus, and that won't be over till April of '28, when I'll be 83.

My North Node's in the Third, short distance driving, and with Saturn doing its stuff on the Node the DWI I got in November 2024 (with Uranus and Algol on the Ascendant)  took care of driving for nearly a year, and as soon as I discovered a device I could use my skeleton gave out so I can drive but not walk—easily, that is. Some day my sense of humor will come back and I'll find that funny.

So, become the transit or suffer the transit. I got my walking stick but it doesn't seem to be enough, and so far I don't see any signs of anything arising from the ashes. My main occupation so far this year is staying in bed all day and wondering how Trump can possibly be president.  

 

Mercury Sextile Venus Yesterday...

...and Venus sextile Mercury today and the sad truth is I cannot summon up any enthusiam/motivation/desire to do anything at all, least of all describe what happened yesterday or today or the however many days it is since I posted.

I'm giving up for today and maybe tomorrow will be better. 

Maybe There's Hope

At some point last year, when I must have been feeling somewhat OK, I went back to putting stuff on eBay as a way of making some money and giving myself something to do. It must have been  after I'd switched to INTOXALOCK and could drive the car, as the problem with putting things on eBay' is that once they sell they have to be delivered, and with the dreaded Lifesaver in the car I couldn't do that. 

So—I have no idea how I got it but I have (had) a needlework sampler made by one of my great-aunts when she was 11 and attending a school in a working class area of London in about 1890. It's always fascinated me as unlike most Victorian samples it doesn't show hearts and flowers but instead shows various darning and mending skills—buttonholes, several patching methods and some intricate embroidery thrown in for good measure. 

No one else in my family is interested in it and I don't want it going to a thrift store when I'm dead so I put it on eBay for $99, carefully put it somewhere where I'd know where it was and was pleased that it garnered some attention with several watchers. I was optimistic enough that I thought I'd better get it ready to ship for when it sold and then, of course, as has been happening for the past 24 years I've had this house, couldn't find it. I had to take it off eBay.

Fast forward to three days ago. My mission this year is getting my various health "issues" to my primary care doctor, and when I saw the pulmonologist last week and discovered I have nodules on my lung (lungs?) he gave me a hard copy of the hospital report and a note to take to her. Now I needed a big enough envelope, which meant going into the freezing cold inadequately heated addition  that J built on when we bought the house that has all the eBay stuff to sell and all the packing materials. There's a cardboard box with bubble wrap and padded mailers and right there on top of that was a 8 x 10 brown envelope, perfect for the report and doctor notes. 

Imagine my surprise (!) as I picked it up, opened it to put in the report, and lo and behold, there was the lost Victorian sampler, neatly folded and wrapped in tissue paper ready to ship to the lucky person who might have bought it six months ago. 

Lesson—do one little thing instead of watching YouTube left-wing radical lunatics in bed all day and you'll start (if you're lucky) a chain of events that'll MAKE you do something and get you out of this horrible waiting for your new life to start but not doing anything to start it. 

It didn't MAKE me put it on eBay but I must have some tiny spark of life left and I did—put it on eBay for $99 at nine yesterday morning and at 5:43AM THIS morning it sold. Less than 24 hours. 

So now, with Mercury square the Ascendant today, I have to get out of bed, wrap it up, print a label and take it to the Post Office. Movement! Activity! Probably speaking to someone! $84.67! 

Maybe I'll even put something else on eBay. Maybe it IS the beginning of a whole new healing cycle. 

Maybe living here will be OK after all. About time!

Mars Opposed to Pluto...

..and it's 12:30PM and I am still in bed watching 30 Easy Meals '50s Housewives Made Without a Recipe (that have disappeared). There's a link if you want to check it out yourself. 

This is also the day the Saturn opposed to Chiron transit perfects for the third and final time. It began in May of last year, before I had any knee or hip issues, and goes on for a week or so, by which time I doubt either of those issues will have vanished. 

 Astro.com call it a test of ideals, but I have no idea what they might be. Maybe I think the president of this country should be sane. That he isn't is definitely the cause of a lot of inner strife as I stay in bed all day shackled to the laptop, although the staying in bed all day is only (only!) since January 6th of this year. 

I don't know if this wanting nothing other than  to be warm in bed is related to the horror of last year, when all I did was jump through hoop after hoop after hoop, or to the not having heat for a year and a half because of the solar debacle or just because I'm 80 and have absolutely nothing to do except keep the cat and I fed and watered.

Doesn't really matter. And as for Mars opposed to Pluto, I can't see any culmination of successful effort or giving up because the opposition is too strong. Still, it's only 1:06, so anything could happen. 

Oh, Walmart is supposed to deliver my decaf coffee they didn't have when I ordered yesterday, so maybe that's the culmination of successful effort. 

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.