‘Did You Speak To Me?’ By William Merritt Chase 1897 {{PD}}

Creative flourishes come easily today, but we can dig deeper using instincts and our inherent abilities and change the reality picture, either to make it beautiful or to make it pay. That’s the key: reach for the Venusian element, know that you have the creative juice to make it happen real-world, and the day delivers much more than it ever could’ve if you’d drifted along, enjoying the ‘nice’.

(Saturn sxt Neptune, Mars opp Zeus, Venus parallel SN/ contra-parallel NN, apex to a Finger of God base of Sedna-Juno and NN)

By Johann Rudolf Schellenberg CC BY 4.0

Today’s word image is an invasion. Is it bugs in your house or garden, uninvited guests, in-laws with their noses in your business, an imposition at work, some area of your life that suddenly isn’t under your control? The important thing to know here is that 1) this isn’t your fault–you did nothing to ‘earn’ this, and 2) don’t wait for rescue–you’re the only one who can do anything about it.

By Maxim Vorobiev 1841 {{PD}}

How much are you aware of the power you actually hold in the world? Do you spend much time telling yourself you’re powerless in some realm? Do you feel powerless, and spend your time struggling against that? Are you defining power in a way that makes sense, or excuses? I’m asking because today instincts meld seamlessly with the power available to us, and the only way to deploy it is to know your true status, and precisely how much power you are in command of. The usual guidelines just won’t serve: being wise or practical holds little weight, putting ambitions and desires to the side is the only way to choose or act effectively, and skills at our disposal are those that are uniquely our own. It’s as if the day requires we muster those gifts (the ones we’re most excellent with, that only we can do, just so) and use them–and the only way to do that is to know who we are, and what status we hold. (Juno conj Sedna, Pallas contra-parallel Juno, Chiron parallel Juno, Mars contra-parallel Zeus)

Today’s word image is the last Archetype you fantasized being or related strongly to. That’s a window into at least one of your gifts or areas of power.

‘A Reading by Emile Verhaeren’ By Theo van Rysselberghe 1901 {{PD}}

What we don’t see, what is intangible, our values and standards, those things we’ve tried to ignore or deny, what’s wise, what’s practical, conspires to deliver the results that occur with the Superior Conjunction. A ‘thought-seed’, planted at the Inferior Conjunction of Mercury and the Sun during Merc’s retrograde period has grown to maturity–but is that really what we wanted? Today wisdom may masquerade as hurt, and vice versa, it may be too easy to rebel against the things we honor most, actions and choices carry the marks of all that we are avoiding, and the totality of it conspires in the presentation of the final thought-thing first planted in late November 2018. We get the outcome of something relatively major, this time around. Learn from it; don’t be afraid to reverse engineer the results in order to see what was done to create them in the first place.

(Chiron contra-parallel Pallas, Uranus sxt Vesta, Mars sxt Black Moon Lilith, Mercury semi-sq Venus, Superior Conjunction of Mercury and the Sun)

‘Falling Star’ By Witold Pruszkowski 1884 {{PD}}

Today’s word image is bright lights streaking across your vision like falling stars, that may signal vision issues. Is there something beautiful, a little dazzling, that’s happening right in front of you–and have you considered that it might not be benign at all, but a warning that attention is needed?