I apologize for not getting back here sooner; a series of tiny emergencies, crises, and surprises came up that demanded my attention. Since this is my Solar Return week, I’ll be taking off for a while–and hoping to take off with a couple of new projects, so, no more daily posts until next week. I will be back sometime between now and the New Moon with a post on the Lunar event; with Dark of the Moon in play right now, and other influences outlined in ECLIPSE http://dogandsunflower.wordpress.com/new-summer-2010-eclipse/ (and all publications will still be available–we’ll keep the presses manned! though I will not for now be accepting anymore Juno ‘thank you’ questions), plus the wide range of forecasts accessible through the blogroll, I think all readers will be satisfied.

For me Solar Return time is always a little melancholy, and I tend to review my Solar efforts over the past year carefully, assessing just how well (or not) things have gone. So, I may come back to this site with some changes to the routine, and possibly some big changes to my life. I told you all about the first ‘end of the world’ dream I had a few weeks ago; I’ve had more since. Then they became centered on other major changes, all of a destructive or frightening (from the worldly point of few) nature, until I dreamed of hovering over a road with a young woman and an older woman, both of whom had just died.

You can imagine what I was wondering the morning after that dream! Was I coming to the ‘end of the road’? After examining the possibilities, and (finally!) accepting that death could be on the horizon, I had another dream, which I think now was what all the other dreams were leading up to: I was living a completely different daily life than I do now–and I say ‘completely different’ only in that I was not occupying my time with astrology; I was instead doing what I’ve wanted to do since childhood, but have only sporadically indulged in. This had become, in the dream, my full-time job.

So part of what I want to do this week is to explore the possibilities, though I know I won’t entirely stop doing astrology (how could I?) I may change much of what’s going on. My Solar Return happens during the Dark of the Moon, and I can’t recall another year when that has been so (but may investigate during my time off); the SR will also see the ASC at 29 degrees, on my Venus/ MC midpoint, 4 other energies in the chart at 29 deg, Saturn within minutes of exact conjunct my Mars, T Juno conj my natal Pluto, and so on, certainly suggesting at the very least crisis and change. I know I will continue the magazine, at least for now; a new issue arrives at the end of this month, featuring work by Jude Cowell, Karen at Ravenesque, and of course, me.

‘Til I return with the New Moon report, have a great one, and I wish for all of us, that our dreams really do come true!