Mercury sextile Venus

I made a feeble attempt at posting for Sun opposed to Ascendant, back on November 17, and managed to write one paragraph about it was the day I got on Skype and talked to the white mummie in Kathmandu, but I never got as far as writing it was also the day I talked to a computer *expert* charged with digitizing a cassette tape for me so I could transcribe it from an MP3 and and almost lost it when he said he wouldn't send it to me via a file transfer program online, but would burn it to a CD so I could spend $$ and time going physically to pick it up - one of the very few times I have been able to stay consciously aware of a transit and been able to avoid conflict by saying "Okay, fine, you want to put it on a CD, put it on a CD and I'll come and pick it up"with only a mild note of hysteria and suppressed rage in my voice.

Mercury trine Venus, today, was much simpler: two hours before it perfected, I got an email from oneactplays.net informing me permission to perform had been granted to the Edward Alderton Theatre for one week next April, and would I like my $175 Canadian dollars via Paypal or my checking account? THAT'S the kind of straightforward manifestation we like.

Sun Opposed to Ascendant

Or conjunct the Descendant, as you prefer. This turned out to be the day I signed up for Skype so I could talk to the new mum on her travels half way around the world. At that point she had *only* reached Doha, in Qatar, where she had a twelve-hour layover before going on to Kathmandu, which (Kathmandu) was the real reason we'd decided Skype might be the only solution for communication. It worked perfectly from Doha, where as part of the travel arrangement she was put up in a hotel instead of having to spend half a day at the airport. Ten out of ten for Skype.

Mercury the little Trickster

So here I am with P Moon squaring N Mercury exactly in 24 hours time, and in the past week I have bought from either eBay or Amazon:

One Mabel Lucie Atwell ABC book
One Toddler 3 black cotton t-shirt with a scottie dog on the front
One Richard Scarry Best Word Book Ever
One set of fifteen 24-inch bamboo circular knitting needles
One hot pink Toddler 4 robe made in France (she'll grow into it)
One pattern for a child's short-sleeved ruched sweater
Four balls of dark blue viscose/cotton blend Anny Blatt yarn
One EuroTalk interactive Learn Nepali CD
One Lonely Planet Nepalese phrasebook
One Richard Scarry Little ABC Book
One set of Lands End full-size flannel sheets
One Toddler 4 blue and green corduroy coat (see Toddler 4 robe)
and
Fifty dollars worth of self-striping wool and acrylic yarn from Knitpicks that is supposed to be used for socks that I am going to knit cardigans with because if you order more than fifty dollars worth you get free shipping.

More will be revealed.

Last Published October 22?

And now it's November 10?  Well I'm in New York now, that's my excuse, and it does take a while to adjust from living on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere to living on First Avenue in Manhattan with six lanes of traffic outside the second-floor front window. Just ask Sweet Pea.

So whatever the aspects were on Wednesday and Thursday October 27 they passed me by completely as I was asleep.

Friday 10/29, with Venus trine Saturn, I made my first public appearance and had dinner with my sister-in-law, my brother's widow, here in New York on holiday with a friend and who I've known for 30 years: nice and fitting.

That's about it, though, as I've been too distracted to post and also too busy to take notes, so most of how the universe has been connecting me to it by way of the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars over the past couple of weeks has to pass undocumented, to the eternal regret of my future biographers, I'm sure.

With Mars sextile Neptune one day last week, I did selflessly get myself down to the Strand with two bags of books I was supposed to sell for a friend last winter. All but two of them were rejected so I walked away with a big four dollars to give her, but wasn't selfless enough to not charge her the dollar it took to get me there, as that was also the day I applied for my bus pass and was given a temporary one. Also Neptunian? I'm not tired or poor or homeless or tempest-tost, but I am sixty-five.

Neptune squaring the Ascendant is the biggie for me at the moment though, with a close acquaintance finally succeeding in adopting a daughter from Nepal and about to leave next week to take custody of her and bring her home. I shall be helping take care of her and so coming full circle in my years in this country, as said close acquaintance is the ten-month-old I came here to baby-sit for in 1963.  Maybe I'm finally getting to experience how having an Aries Sun intercepted in the Twelfth - the beginning in the end, the alpha and the omega and all that - is working itself out. Who knows?

What's for sure is I now spend most of my time buying Girls Toddler 3 clothes on eBay, and that yesterday, when Pluto, the North Node and the Moon were conjunct and opposing Saturn from my eighth house, I got a call from Quicken Loans asking if I wanted to refinance the house.