Illustrations to Robert Blair’s ‘The Grave–The Gambols of Ghosts’ By William Blake {{PD}}

The 16th is a Good Day To . . . know that our rewards, the treasures, the pay offs, and the Love are all to be found today by dealing unflinchingly with those matters we’ve previously ignored, denied, or that have enraged us. What we’ll discover is that many of the things we’ve been avoiding are specters, illusions, untruths, and the haunting embroideries spun by our own imaginations–and what a relief, then, to find that for the most part there’s nothing so bad to be dealt with, after all.

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

By Max Pfaller – vom Maler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83011898

The 14th is a Good Day To . . . be aware of how subtle the influences are today. We have priorities causing friction with ambitions, the social order promoting what’s less-than-healthy or facts about the health that should be faced, relationships or spending from the past that comes home to roost (and that may be good or not-so), and our communications and the messages we receive about the future are somehow skewed–and all of this may permeate issues without being readily apparent. Accompanying all this is the ability within ourselves to see our own beauty, to see clearly our own worth, to be aware of our talents, and to be conscious of our assets and the Soul as ‘living Love’–and as long as we ‘know’ this, and are able to steep ourselves in the Truth of this–that sense of worth and confidence can guide us and inform everything we face.

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

‘Jewels’ By Thomas Edwin Mostyn {{PD}}

Aside from the Full Moon event this evening Pacific time, the 11th is a Good Day To . . . solidify gains, make Love a fixture of the reality picture, bring values into material manifestation–but don’t go too far. The danger is that we clamp down, trying to shape and handle Venusian energy, and inadvertently slow or cut off the flow, or delay the payoff. Even when Venus comes in a tangible form, a handful of jewels or cash, say, the energy itself remains nebulous; when everyone wants something you can almost feel the way it’s being pulled in many directions, a reflection of Venus’ own desire nature. We want what we want, and today’s energy may bring that thing into being, or stop it’s potential delivery–it’s all in how we handle it.

Communications are surprising, shocking, or in some way unusual, and we may need to change our thinking based on what we learn–and again, the possibilities of what we’re conceptualizing may take solid form. We say it, and there it is–so proceed with care.

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

‘And the Prayer of Faith Shall Save the Sick’ By John Frederick Lewis 1872 {{PD}}

The 10th is a Good Day To . . . count our defensive wounds, as we feel our sense of effective empowerment in the situation before us called into question by our own instincts! Self-doubt may come out of nowhere, based in our response to the unexpected or to the nature of our quirkier tastes and inclinations, or may come as a sense that we are hopelessly out-of-date. Or ‘the group’ may overwhelm us or our feeling may be that we aren’t able to access what we know–it hides just below the surface of conscious thought, making its presence felt yet still ungraspable. We’re just not sure who we are in the moment–and that distrust of ourselves holds the potential for us to ruminate far too much on what we think may be ‘wrong’ with us. Write this down: There is nothing wrong with you. Also: concentrate on mending tattered feelings (your own and those of others), and know that with healing wounds you’ll gain a clarity of perception that will banish any undue Self-criticism or Self-questioning.

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

By Jules Larcher 1889 {{PD}}

The 9th is a Good Day To . . . be willing to modify standards to take advantage of what’s smart or practical, and then be willing to act in accord with this–and contrarily speaking, we must also be willing to modify our standards when we find that for one reason or another they aren’t as wise as we believed–and in any case, we need to be willing to show that we will do what it takes to support the standards we hold, or to achieve in line with the principles we honor.

Too, we may be tempted by something that’s decidedly unhealthy for us, and we’d be smart to avoid indulging for now. What we can pursue, though, is fulfillment of our ambitions. Today the mind sparks on some inventive, original, even genius ways of getting where we want to go, and we’d be smart to put our energy toward goal attainment or desire realization, right now.

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

‘Wing of a Roller’ By Albrecht Dürer 1512 {{PD}}

The 8th is a Good Day To . . . be as conscious as possible of how the past is affecting our sense of our own authority, as well as making us question what territory we can consider ours, and what belongs to others. We’re highly aware of our wounds, and it seems the social order (or perhaps that impersonal entity, ‘the facts’) is out to injure us even more–but that would be making everything much too personal (even though our experiences are of course highly personal, our place in the Universe and its workings is personal only from our point of view–so that seeing what happens to us as a direct rebuke or judgment makes us, incorrectly, place ourselves at the center of the Universe, when we’re really just the center of our personal, known world–but I digress). In short, try to take things impersonally, giving yourself some mental and emotional distance from events; if you do, you’ll be able to see precisely what the possibilities are, and will be able to pinpoint what dreams are best pursued, what fantasies best abandoned, and what mental stance is both rewarding (literally or figuratively) and healthy, offering significant potential for healing, especially within relationships.

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

‘Bulls Fighting’ By George Stubbs 1786 {{PD}}

The 7th is a Good Day To . . . be aware that the mind and the instincts, that latter of which we might define as the ability to know even if we don’t know, will be directly at odds today. Mercury in Scorpio will oppose Sedna in Taurus; it may be a battle between the Truth we accept with our mind and what we feel in the environment. Know that the mental reality is really based on the emotions (Scorpio is a Water sign), and that the instincts are picking up information that threatens the current thinking–hence the battle. Do your best to give yourself a little distance, so that you might get an impersonal glimpse of what’s before you. It might help, too, to tune in to the symbolisms that physically surround you; there’s a message there, maybe many, and though you could find yourself arguing that the information is invalid, that you already know the Truth of things, that passion is definitely defensive–and that means it all warrants a second look, a re-consideration, a dispassionate examination.

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