I could change the name of this to Whenever-Mother-and-Child-Are-Out-Astrology, but that wouldn't be fair as there have been plenty of times that's happened in the past couple of weeks and I haven't logged in to write. The sad truth; I'd rather read the Daily Mail than update this.
So, in a nutshell, some highlights: two Sundays ago, with the Sun square the Ascendant, I called American to cancel my reservation on miles for April 6 and asked how much it cost to put the miles back into my account. $150, I was told, and once I recovered the power of speech I asked if I could simply leave the miles where they are and use them again. Oh yes, American Agent says brightly, You have six months to re-use them and before I can even think Oh good, I'll use them when I go out to Silver, she goes on But you have to use them for exactly the same trip, which in my case means a trans-Atlantic flight to Madrid, not exactly what I was planning on doing twice in one year.
Solution: do nothing, leave the miles where they are and put a note in my day book to check out Super Saver 20,000 miles one-way international flight availability when I get back from the first trip.
Jupiter square Saturn and opposed to Neptune the day before Valentine's and I *came down with* the flu that TH had the week before. It knocked me out completely for only one day and then left me with a hacking cough and streaming nose, making me right at home with Star Child and Ahma, as I've just discovered Ama is spelled. Also just discovered it means 'domestic servant' as well as 'mother.' Curiousier and curiousier.
Mars square the Ascendant two days later and I called Silver Health Care to find out why they are still billing me for my 'free' Welcome to Medicare physical back in September. Oh, they say, Medicare says you've been eligible for Medicare since June 2009 and you missed the one year grace period for the no-charge checkup. Deciding not to mention that they'd just asked me for my birthdate and I'd told them April 8, 1945, I called Medicare and was told of course I had been eligible for my free check-up as I was born on April 8, 1945, and to tell Silver Health Care to resubmit the claim. I called them back and they said they would. Three days later I went to New York, picked up my mail and saw that Medicare had paid the claim in full in January.
And on it goes, blah blah blah; if I do not learn soon to write this every day I shall be saying Saturn is square Venus (it's not, thank God) and I cleaned my teeth three times today.
There has been a lot of Chiron in the mix and it's made its presence known, most painfully with me and Ahma and her feeling Star Child will become much too fond of me and needs her attention directing to Ahma when she gets home from work. My point from the beginning has been Star Child is two and can't be expected to understand she has to ignore me once you come home when she's been with me all day.
It's gotten a little fraught at times but we've survived, to give the short version, and here I am as Mercury conjuncts Mars, finally catching up and wondering if I can get another shot of Rescue Remedy into Sweet Pea so I can trim his claws before he completely destroys the back of the big armchair trying to get my attention so I'll play with him, when all I really want to do is read the Daily Mail.
27 February, 2011
09 February, 2011
Mercury trine Neptune
I don't know about leaving the everyday world and traveling in my mind to a fanciful and pleasantly unreal world as Astrodienst seemed to think I *should* have been doing but what I did do was spend five hours trying to make reservations for my now solo trip to Europe in April.
The existing reservation - me flying to Heathrow using air miles with JDG doing the same and our meeting up at Heathrow within an hour - was obviously out. The timing was never ideal as we'd have arrived two days before Soldiering On was due to open, I'd have been jet-lagged at the first rehearsal I went to, probably still jet-lagged at dress rehearsal and still out of it by opening night, so looking on the bright side, it's a good job that one went down the drain.
The not so good job is I now have to shell out moolah and pay for the flight, as that date was based on John's coming with me, staying through the one week run, and then both of us going to Spain to be tourists for a week or so before arriving at my sister's house for Easter and then coming back to the U.S.
It's not as though I couldn't have kept the original reservation. The problems, the work-arounds, involve our *plan* to have stayed at my niece's house in London right before she left for Spain with her twin daughters to spend the Easter holidays with her parents, and then arrive at my sister's house right before my niece and children left to go back to the UK.
I'm writing this three days after the event and my head is already beginning to spin attempting to write this down so it makes some kind of sense. Suffice it to say it's a good thing I bought that quad-ruled pad because I used about half of it attempting to figure all of this out, at one point having four different reservations on hold with American and then trying to make another one on one of the days I already had one, at which point I got a polite little pop-up window saying I appeared to already have a duplicate reservation of what I was trying to make and.....
And? Time to get up and get ready for sing-along with Star Child at the library. Much more important.
The existing reservation - me flying to Heathrow using air miles with JDG doing the same and our meeting up at Heathrow within an hour - was obviously out. The timing was never ideal as we'd have arrived two days before Soldiering On was due to open, I'd have been jet-lagged at the first rehearsal I went to, probably still jet-lagged at dress rehearsal and still out of it by opening night, so looking on the bright side, it's a good job that one went down the drain.
The not so good job is I now have to shell out moolah and pay for the flight, as that date was based on John's coming with me, staying through the one week run, and then both of us going to Spain to be tourists for a week or so before arriving at my sister's house for Easter and then coming back to the U.S.
It's not as though I couldn't have kept the original reservation. The problems, the work-arounds, involve our *plan* to have stayed at my niece's house in London right before she left for Spain with her twin daughters to spend the Easter holidays with her parents, and then arrive at my sister's house right before my niece and children left to go back to the UK.
I'm writing this three days after the event and my head is already beginning to spin attempting to write this down so it makes some kind of sense. Suffice it to say it's a good thing I bought that quad-ruled pad because I used about half of it attempting to figure all of this out, at one point having four different reservations on hold with American and then trying to make another one on one of the days I already had one, at which point I got a polite little pop-up window saying I appeared to already have a duplicate reservation of what I was trying to make and.....
And? Time to get up and get ready for sing-along with Star Child at the library. Much more important.
05 February, 2011
Chiron sextile Venus
Okay, I mean I know I started this blog because I was blown away by how "As Above, So Below" was working itself out in my life, but even so I was stunned by the accuracy of "You are likely to be undergoing a period of new realizations, potentially painful, around the issues of close personal relationships, artistic expression, and your values in general" when I got off the phone with JDG on Tuesday, three days before this aspect perfected, and went to my Time Passages software for an interpretation.
I've known him for 30 years, and we've been planning a trip to England together for the past 18 months - ever since I heard from the Edward Alderton Theatre in Bexleyheath, Kent, that a play I've written was scheduled to be performed there this April. We booked our outward bound tickets back in October, using air miles, and were going to go from London to Spain to visit my sister and her husband, stay for Easter, and come back to the U.S. from Madrid, again on miles. His life is more complicated than mine and I've been waiting to find out from him when to book the return trip. (It's really all Kate Middleton's fault, as once The Wedding Date was announced, we started thinking we *should* go back to the U.K. after Spain and pick up a few more tea towels.)
What's happened now is he isn't able to come at all, the dates for using air miles are severely restricted, I have a one way ticket to London leaving April 6, and without going into too much further detail I am very, very, very very glad this aspect doesn't come around too often. More later.
I've known him for 30 years, and we've been planning a trip to England together for the past 18 months - ever since I heard from the Edward Alderton Theatre in Bexleyheath, Kent, that a play I've written was scheduled to be performed there this April. We booked our outward bound tickets back in October, using air miles, and were going to go from London to Spain to visit my sister and her husband, stay for Easter, and come back to the U.S. from Madrid, again on miles. His life is more complicated than mine and I've been waiting to find out from him when to book the return trip. (It's really all Kate Middleton's fault, as once The Wedding Date was announced, we started thinking we *should* go back to the U.K. after Spain and pick up a few more tea towels.)
What's happened now is he isn't able to come at all, the dates for using air miles are severely restricted, I have a one way ticket to London leaving April 6, and without going into too much further detail I am very, very, very very glad this aspect doesn't come around too often. More later.
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