Venus sextile Saturn

Now this has been helped along by Mars square Pluto, which perfects tomorrow morning at 7:41 am, and I think gave me the energy to keep going through the afternoon and way into the evening digging up plants that weren't doing well, transplanting them somewhere where I thought they might be happier, enlarging the growing space I've made in an enclosed section of the "garden" by moving the logs that define the growing area, digging up buckets full of good soil from the oak grove and mixing it with compost to put into the enlarged planting area and in general doing so much manual labor that by eight pm I'm forced to come inside and know that for the following day, to all intents and purposes, I'll be out of service, Saturn in Virgo or not.

I get very Martha in the garden - as In Stewart and the space outside the house. I want everything to be exquisite, but exquisite in the sense that God did it and there's no other way it could be so perfect. Translated, that means I can spend hours trying to make a rock, a bit of wood and a dug up piece of ivy, say, look as though they've all been there for the past 10 years or so - moving the rock here, the bit of wood there, digging up the ivy again and again until I'm satisfied and the ivy is about to report me to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Flora.

If I didn't do everything with a four inch trowel and a bucket I would probably make progress faster, but my idea of the perfect birthday present to myself - one of those wheelbarrows on big wheels like the yuppie stroller thingies that you can push and jog behind at the same time - bit the dust when I realized the terrain here at the house is not suited, to put it mildly , for a wheel barrow of any type - it's all steps and ups and downs and terraced and extremely difficult to drag any kind of wheelbarrow anywhere, hence the trowel and the bucket.

And the point of this? (to be explored at greater length) - Venus in Taurus ( land, earth) sextile Saturn in Cancer (home, but it's difficult) manifested itself today as in the above. And if I can only wait long enough (Saturn) this 'ere "garden" is going to look really beautiful.