Jupiter Sextile Mars

Independent initiative
This is a time of high energy and independent initiative. You feel very self-confident and capable of tackling almost anything within reason. It is a good time to start a project, and most activities that you take up now should have a successful outcome. (excerpted from Astrodienst)

Yay - I moved a button! I took my sewing kit off the shelf, found some white thread, threaded a needle, took a kitchen knife to a button, cut it off and sewed it on again a quarter of an inch closer to the edge of the front of the jacket that was too small when I bought it a year ago - an astonishing display of high energy and independent initiative for me at the moment and yet another example of the principle that everything is relative.

Now this is a more than one day transit, and admittedly the day before Star Child and I expended a bit more energy than threading the needle involved by moving my poor Sweet Pea from Fayerweather, where he'd stayed while I was in Spain, back to Concord. This was a major operation necessitating the use of the stroller as dolly and was made a little more complicated by SC bringing her scooter along; said scooter was rescued from the trash by BT and watching her attempt to maneuver it along the sidewalk showed exactly why it was in the trash in the first place. For it to go forward in a straight line, the handlebars have to be held at a 45 degree angle pointing left, but as this was my first (and I hope the last - there's a birthday coming up ) - outing with it I was unaware of its idiosyncrasies. For the first block or so of what is fortunately only a two and a half block walk, the poor child had to listen to me saying "No, hold the handlebars straight or you'll go bashing into that wall", at which point she would obediently hold the handlebars straight and go bashing into that wall.

Once we sorted that out progress speeded up a bit, and while it took us two trips - first for his kitty litter and tray and food and brush and comb and his big clunky scratching post - and then a trip without the stroller just for him in his carrier, the activity most definitely had a successful outcome; we let him out of his box in the hallway and he fled up the stairs, opened the closet door and disappeared. Business as usual.

There's another manifestation I could attribute to this aspect if my ego were bigger, but something tells me Tim Cook had more than me in mind when he made the announcement on Monday about Apple's dividend. Still, with Progressed Venus in Taurus coming to square Pluto, me still with some Apple stock I haven't had to sell yet and not a lover in sight, surely a girl can dream. In fact, I know she can. After an hour or so spent in trying to figure out why copying something over from Astrodienst has made it impossible to get the subsequent text formatted with a left margin, when that hasn't happened before, she's going to post anyway and hope no one notices.

P.S. Ignore last sentence. An attempt to change the date of this post, something formerly available under "options," led to the discovery of "Remove Formatting" in the menu bar. I could spend another hour trying to figure out how to have this entry show as being posted on March 21, but I have many better uses for my time. The Daily Mail beckons.

P.P.S. It only took a minute.

P.P.P.S. But now I can't get rid of the white box around the quote, and I say to hell with it.