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.