‘The Royal Yacht Squadron’s schooner Modwena dressed overall offshore’ By Antonio de Simonec1920 {{PD}}

The 13th Is A Good Day To . . . vow not to make yourself a target. The inclination may be to try and inflict your Will on those in power; you know you’re right, and they should acknowledge that and change–your idea or methodology is simply better! Unfortunately, they just won’t see it that way, and since they hold the power . . . you could end up wearing a big ol’ bullseye, soon to be fired upon.

You may also find that the power to ‘fire when ready’ is yours, most particularly if ‘the facts’ are on your side. In any event, opportunities to change the distribution of power in your sphere will exist–in which case the question becomes, how do you hit your target, without becoming one yourself?

The answer is, you might not be able to–and that needs to be okay, for now. To continue this tiresome symbolism, keep your powder dry and wait for opportunities–because those will come sooner than you anticipate, and you need to be ready.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

‘Servant Returning from the Market (La Pourvoyeuse)’ By Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin 1738 {{PD}}

The 12th Is A Good Day To . . . listen for the delicious word, look for the uplifting relationship, open your arms to the Love offered. Being open to either a supportive social circle or ‘the facts’ will stave off any destructive or deleterious energies, while keeping a firm eye on reality (and a good grip on the creative urge), and welcoming the spontaneous and original will make for surprising outcomes where everybody is enriched. To close off to the positive will only leave room for the expansion of the negative–so do your part, and be loved.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

‘Ilmbrücke in Weimar’ By Christian Rohlfs 1892 {{PD}}

The 11th Is A Good Day To . . . stay calm and think carefully; here’s why: there are a couple of influences with the potential to be exceptionally confusing as we try to navigate them. The gist of it is that the mind will be too strongly affected by events of the past to reason as effectively as we actually need it to, and perceptions are ‘assaulted’, in a way, so that we suffer contradictory reasoning that may leave us frazzled in trying to sort through it. The best thing I think I can do is elaborate on the pair of influences; awareness of their existence is probably the most important thing in gaining an accurate perspective.

One involves discord created by health matters that appear to conflict with our desires, ambitions, and wants. It seems either our health precludes pursuing what we’d like to, or the steps we must take to preserve health appear to create barriers to getting what we want. Here’s my take: you can’t get and enjoy what you’d like to, can’t achieve, if you’re dead. That should make it clear that protecting the health must be the priority.

The other influence brings delusions, illusions, fantasies, and nebulous, haunting fears to bear on the health picture; if we are frightened that we don’t have an accurate picture of what’s healthy, what’s right, it’s likely to preoccupy us, draining our energy from pursuit of goals and dumping it into a bottomless pit of anxiety. Look at it this way: we do our best to stay healthy, and we worry about illness only when we actually begin to experience it. There’s no sense in worrying about something that hasn’t happened and may never happen. Do your best to act in the best health interests of yourself and others, and cross the ‘worry bridge’ only if and when you come to it.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

‘Girl Arranging Flowers’ By William McGregor Paxton 1921 {{PD}}

The 9th Is A Good Day To . . . not reject reality. Today our own actions and choices are likely to point out exactly how we may be disrespecting our own highest values, and how we may be pushed to act by those things we currently ignore or deny. We create a big mess if we refuse to see and deal with ‘what is’, but we can very successfully heal whatever we find if we 1) will take responsibility for those things that really are our responsibility (part of the reason we’ve repressed certain things is an unwillingness to admit what happens is up to us), and 2) cheerfully redistribute power. With that latter, you could do it begrudgingly, but that only perpetuates a sense that there’s not enough to go around; do it happily, and suddenly everyone’s ‘power basket’ is full.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

‘Evans Bay’ By James M. Nairn 1893 {{PD}}

The 7th Is A Good Day To . . . make the distinction among what we know to be true, what we simply think is true, what we believe, and what we’ve been told and accepted without proof. Sort through this, and a powerful creative impulse is at your disposal–but first you’ll have to deal with a sense of being unmoored, of having to turn over every stone in order to align inner knowing with outer verification, and all of it subject to measurement against our highest values. By the end of the day the mind should be clear, perceptions more accurate, and the Truth much easier to see.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

‘Paul Guillaume, Novo Pilota’ By Amedeo Modigliani 1915 {{PD}}

The 6th Is A Good Day To . . . not allow pressure or insinuations from others to dissuade you of the importance of maintaining your highest values and honoring your commitments. You may be tempted to behave in ways that are both uncharacteristic and unwise, all in the name of keeping the peace or at least dodging criticism. You’ve handled a lot worse lately, sometimes brilliantly–there’s no reason to fold under this weak sh*t now.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.

You may bend yourself all out of shape today if you let your temper get the best of you. Photo By Rudolf Koppitz 1925 {{PD}}

The 5th Is A Good Day To . . . take it really easy. You may feel like shouting every time something happens, “I’m opposed to that!” and your reaction may have nothing to do with actual circumstances. It seems we resist our own values and the obligations we’ve willingly taken on, seeing them as ball-and-chain attachments rather than as positively grounding elements of a balanced landscape; we get aggressive over or even toward our own ambitions and desires, assessing others’ comments as criticism and our own criticism of what we want but haven’t achieved as a complete injustice; and we ponder the costs of the past, all those ways we’ve ‘paid’ for less-than-satisfactory circumstances, that leaves us wishing we had made better ‘investments’ of time and energy.

How do we handle this deep, inner current of anger and dissatisfaction? We must focus our energy and attention on one of three things: 1) health, 2) Nature–get out in it, and 3) on those life areas where we hold personal authority, especially those areas where we are responsible for and to others. Hold in your mind the ideal You as you would like to see yourself in these roles and performing these functions; you also might look to someone you admire, and model your attitude on them. This isn’t a fix-all so much as giving you something important to focus on, that both helps you cut through the veil of anger and discontent, and that will at least in some small way help you re-align priorities and feelings.

A Good Day To . . . is based on the aspects perfecting on each day, Pacific time.