‘Il Bosco Sacro (The Sacred Grove)’ By Arnold Böcklin {{PD}}

The 6th is a Good Day To . . . stick to your highest values, fulfill commitments, and actively honor all that you care about–it will pay off, sometimes significantly. It may look as if those values and sacred areas somehow need adjustment, but that’s an optical illusion–they are excellent just the way they are–and connected to this, it may seem like your ability to affect circumstances is curtailed–but again, it’s a trick of the mind, rather than an accurate perception, and you should instead turn your attention toward honoring values–that’s where spending your energy will really matter.

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

By Pierre Bonnard 1918 {{PD}}

The 5th is a Good Day To . . . wonder just how what was wise or practical yesterday has somehow changed today. Really, it’s not that what’s smart has altered, it’s that we are working out the kinks in our instincts and in those things we ‘know but don’t know’, especially in terms of Love, relationships, or money, and with more information what looks like a wise approach or a smart thing to do changes. Choose based on what you know today, not what you knew yesterday.

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

Just added to links, ‘Spiral Spectrum’, beautiful, astro-relevant calendars by designer Julie Wilder–

‘A Roman Lady (Portrait of Anna Risi)’ By Frederic Leighton 1859 {{PD}}

The 4th is a Good Day To . . . be aware that what’s smart doesn’t empower us–and power is what we want and need, in one form or another. Our way toward a solution is to think about/ face what we’d normally ignore or deny, or deal directly with what enrages us. It’s in taking on the unpleasant face-to-face that we ‘fix’ what’s preventing us from moving forward, that quite suddenly makes what’s smart practical, once again. The solution to the power dilemma is that simple, and that hard.

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

Just added to links, ‘Spiral Spectrum’, beautiful, astro-relevant calendars by designer Julie Wilder–

By Oreste Sercelli – José Rosael/Hélio Nobre/Museu Paulista da USP, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68903897

The 29th is a Good Day To . . .  be aware that words take solid form today, manifesting in real-world consequences or creating limits, restrictions, or walls to scale. People speak of their limits–and they’re speaking of themselves, no matter what or whom they believe they’re talking about–and agreements, promises, and ideas communicated take on a permanence we might not intend–so share with care.

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

‘Tie Me Up’ By Aimeeperezsculptor 2013 This photo released under a Free Art License

The 26th is a Good Day To . . . ask ourselves, just how strict, how restrained, how cautious, must we be in order to gain, to respect our values, to stay or get healthy? We must measure our empowerment options against the true power they offer, and must judge them based on what we know to be wise or practical. Do our choices respect our skills and encourage their use? Do they offer some chance of healing or care that keeps body and soul together? These are the questions we should answer today.

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

This morning’s New Moon assessment is here–

By JanLenardo Wöllert – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5792557

The 25th is a Good Day To . . . stand ready to handle things that have big consequences. The surprise may be our discovery in real-world terms of who holds the power; we may be shocked, and yet easily adapt to any revelations or shifts in responsibility. It’s like a giant floodlight suddenly comes on, revealing the reality situation, warts and all. Taking a disciplined and practical approach to things as they are (once we’ve regained our balance!) proves to be productive and beneficial. Rewards come in tidy packages, or in restraint, and relationships require modesty or a statement of ‘being there when needed’. We get to the end of the day with a considerably different view of our world or our place in it. Just be ready.

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

See tomorrow’s forecast for the New Moon here–

‘The Sleeping Beauty’ By John Collier 1921 {{PD}}

The 24th is a Good Day To . . . look closely at two major aspects that perfect today: Venus conjoins Jupiter late in Sagittarius, and Mars in Scorpio opposes Uranus in Taurus. With the former, we see abundant reward or massive disappointment due to exaggeration of expectations, centered on potentials for social advancement, travel (with emphasis on ‘new horizons’), and knowledge acquisition. Relationship dynamics may be out-sized and imply things are better, or worse, than they actually are, and we may be inclined to over-pay, in one form or another, for what we receive. The belief in Love may ground us, or move us to action, and may ‘come to the rescue’, especially in circumstances where we feel alienated or suffer too much emphasis on philosophy or fulfillment of an agenda in relationships or in creating Art in any form. We get ‘a lot’, somehow, and must deal with it, with the meeting relating directly to the matters of the House in the natal chart where it occurs.

The opposition offers an element of surprise, either at your own choices or actions or those of others. The spontaneity is driven by material/ sensory matters or issues of comfort, security, or need, but the moves spring from a dark place, or one where motives are hidden even from ourselves, and what’s behind those choices and actions may remain a mystery, no matter how hard we look. Circumstances to these events may have roots in or bring about the situation of abundance (and remember, this is just ‘a lot’, so may not be especially desirable!) or may muster conflict from the situation of ‘too much’. Beauty meets ‘the facts’ or a sense of optimism, perhaps with actions exposing the dark and surprising underbelly of things–or maybe it’s a search for Truth that generates chaos, a Higher Understanding, or a revelation that brings an opportunity for prosperity, Love, or profit. There are a million possible permutations–what’s important is our awareness that these factors are related in a way where each will affect, and possibly bounce off of or alter, the others.

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

See the upcoming New Moon here–