2008 May : Big Sky AstroBlog

May

26

pink1 Only slightly less well known is this: Don’t buy a computer when Mercury is retrograde. Not even when it’s irresistibly pink, and on sale. And having been sick for so many days that you completely lost track of the current transits is no excuse. When we got home this afternoon and I realized what I’d done, I should by rights have tendered my astrologer’s badge; instead I laughed. What are you gonna do, right?

And it is beautiful – it’s half the weight of my beleaguered and decaying Compaq, and unlike the Compaq it has a lid that opens without a crowbar and doesn’t have dozens of vertical lines scattered across the display. And come on, folks – it’s pink! There was, of course, a catch: The dreaded Vista operating system that it came with cannot be replaced with XP, though it can on the models with slightly smaller screens. Why ask why? Fortunately it appears all my weird specialized software will run with hideous Vista, and when you change the interface to Classic view it’s not quite as disorienting. So I’m sticking with it. Kinda glad I got the extended warranty, though.

Looks like I’m gonna keep on thumbing my nose at the conventional wisdom about retrograde Mercury this week: the brakes on the car have started to squeak a bit, so I’m off to see our mechanic, Mark. Maybe he’s got some flashy, pink brakes for me.

If someone out there has a contract for me to sign, I can go for the Mercury Retrograde Taboo Trifecta.

What about you? Breaking any Retrograde Rules?

May 26, 2008 | 13 Comments

May

24

I’ve been fighting off a really nasty cold/semi-flu thing that tackled me on Wednesday… ghastly. Fortunately it hit me during a relatively light week, work-wise, so I’ve spent the past few days on the couch, watching episodes of Bob Newhart and Arrested Development at Hulu.com. Presumably planetary stuff has been going on too, while I was laid out. The Sun entered Gemini, I think, and squared Saturn (which would traditionally herald my back going out for a few days, but since I’ve been flat on said back thanks to the cold, all is well in that area), and maybe Venus did something similar at some point. I dunno. I’ll get back to you on that.

There is definitely some kind of disturbance in whatever portion of the sky rules highly infectious viral diseases, because it seems half the people I’ve spoken with in the past week have got some variation of what my mom used to call “the creepin’ crud.” Rest up and force fluids, people.

May 24, 2008 | 1 Comment

May

12

Mars in Leo I don’t know about y’all, but Mars finally entering Leo last Friday – after that looooong, sulky passage through Cancer – certainly seems to have kick-started my energy level. Last week nearly did me in; much work to get finished, guests to get ready for (including the divine Kelly), and a lecture to finish preparing for the San Diego Astrological Society. It’s not that I don’t enjoy speaking; I was a friggin’ Communication major, after all. I just don’t do it often enough to be as smooth as I’d like, and I’ve had to prepare new talks for the purpose of promoting this book. So, it’s a lot of work. And I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep, which added to the delight.

But Kelly’s visit was a real treat. If you ever get a chance to meet this lady or, in particular, to see her present a lecture or class, don’t pass it up. She knows her stuff, she’s poised and articulate, and on top of all that she’s fun, fun, fun. So we goofed off and ate chocolate and pizza and I gave her a three point whistle-stop tour of San Diego, and basically it kept my nerves from getting over-jangled for the Friday talk. In the end, the lecture (just hours after Mars switched signs) went well, I sold some books, and a good time seemed to be had by all.

The divine Kelly left us on Saturday, en route to UAC, and yesterday Jonny and I spent the day shopping, hiking by the river, and taking the trolley downtown for an impromptu lunch. Thus relaxed, restored, and fortified, I greet the week ahead with more energy than I’ve had in ages. Good thing, too: I’ve got lots of catching up to do, a workshop to plan for next month, and the next round of guests arrives on Friday.

How about you – feelin’ frisky?

May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments

May

3

I’ve been sorting through marriage surveys for a few weeks now, running transits, secondary progressions, and solar arc directions for each birth chart for the date of marriage and scrutinizing them against a long checklist. Basically, I was curious to see how all the things I’ve ever learned/read/told other people about finding marriage in the birth chart stacks up against reality. Not too many surprises, really. Turns out that most of the things that are important in a wedding electional chart seem to be pretty important in showing marriage in the natal chart – various configurations of the Sun and Moon, Venus and Mars, and the Ascendant and Descendant; dramatic eclipses; a dash of Saturn.

I promise to prepare an article soon with all the juicy deets. For now, I’m pushing to put together a lecture on the topic that I will humbly lay before the San Diego Astrological Society next Friday, May 9 for their amazement, amusement, and edification. For added pizzazz I will invite the lovely and talented Australian astrologer and writer Kelly Surtees – visiting en route to UAC – to the lectern to add two or three cents on the topic. I may even invite this guy:

May 3, 2008 | Comments Off

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