‘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?

‘Teasing the daruma’ By Helen Hyde 1905 {{PD}}

What is it today, the tension pre-eclipse, or is the world full of traps, potholes, and a**holes? I’m only being mildly facetious, here, as it almost feels as if those who are empowered in any context are reaching out to stop us, without any real reason to. And then there are those who flat out tell us our ambition is impossible to achieve (but to be fair, we’ve got to measure whether we’re having an emotional reaction to someone speaking sense, or is it as malicious as it seems?) We want to act, especially in regard to relationships or finances, but find that it alters our Path forward in some way we don’t like, and we feel the power of our thoughts and plans right now–and if we’re smart, we are aware of their destructive potentials, as well. We may need to face it, no matter how others are behaving (or appearing to behave) we are looking for hurt, and any inclination to troll for wounds also means we’re looking for reasons to avoid doing what we know we should do. There’s no need to make sharp, precipitous, or daring moves–progress seated in more modest efforts, ones that feel manageable, are more than satisfactory, for today.

(Vesta sq Juno, Venus trine Mars and sesq NN, Mercury sq Zeus and conj Pluto, Sun sxt Chiron and sq Uranus)

I’ve been going through a personally stressful time, and during those times it’s hard for me to discern those Daily Images that I would normally see as a message both to myself and to everyone else. Under stress, I’m busy fielding all kinds of imagery, and can’t be sure what should be shared, but I think I’m finally back on track (or at least have something for today): the country of Spain. We all probably have certain ideas about it, images of it, no matter how vague or how concrete (from personal experience there, perhaps)–so the image is, whatever Spain evokes in you.

Photo By Daderot {{PD}}

You can feel it building, brimming, and ready to break, can’t you? Immense, overflowing, perhaps a burning knowledge, or thoughts on the social order or on our own or others’ belief systems, permeate everything with a larger than life quality. It seems we can think transformation into being–and we can, with enough investment, enough creative and imaginative ‘juice’, enough Love–with a subsequent spotlight falling on the real-world results. It almost feels magic, this ability to Love, to throw our lot in with, to dedicate our energy–and that is the way it works, the Universe responding to our energy, a wavelength that is both assertive and receptive, listening and making a statement, open to what’s out there and closed in embrace of what we hold dear. Enjoy it, and feel the power of the mind as it stretches, reaches out, and contacts the new, the unfamiliar, the radical and revered.

(Merc and Jupiter conj in Sag, both sxt Vesta, Merc nov Pluto, Venus trine Neptune, Sun enters Capricorn)

By John Hain – http://pixabay.com/en/question-inquiry-unknown-mystery-511568/ CC0

Today’s word image is a question unanswered, despite a jumble of words poured out. What question are you putting out into the Universe that appears to be unanswered? I say ‘appears’ as the idea here is that no question goes unanswered; we may miss the answer, not see, accept, or understand the vernacular in which it’s delivered, may reject the answer, or may try to insist the answer take a particular form, and if it doesn’t, we’ll pretend no answer has been given. The reality is that as soon as we ask a question, we have the answer–it may take a little while to dawn on us, it may take a nudge from the physical world, or it may take a remark from your own personal angel (anybody who plays a part in your drama), but you have received an answer. Now you must be brave enough to see and accept it

Next up: The Full Moon in Cancer!