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The 18th is a Good Day To . . . excavate what’s really on our minds, delve into what we really care about, and to ‘shake the tree’ to make sure the roots are deep and securely grounded. Today our power and ability to affect our surroundings comes directly from having clear values, operating with Love, and communicating with Truth (the kind that just is, that carries no ill intent, not the kind that gets a wee burst of delight from shredding others!) Pure intentions, and acceptance of reality without a negative emotional judgment of it, will take us much farther than we think we can go.

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

‘Shadows’ By Charles Courtney Curran 1887 {{PD}}

The 17th is a Good Day To . . . ask ourselves why our instincts and intuitions seem to be so unreliable today? We’re sensing change, trying to parse it out through intuition and instinct, and yet the conscious messages we’re receiving tell us things are set in stone, going nowhere, and even that our values are flawed, and need modification–and that causes us to doubt our senses and our feelings, and makes it seem that we’re called to fight every issue that enrages us or that we’d hoped to ignore. Let’s just say these assessments are inaccurate. But there are two things we can count on: attention to relationships and financial realities will ground us, and that in reality, our thoughts/ communications can change worlds–just be aware of their power, and know that this shaping can’t be consciously driven; we’ll be lucky if we can dodge any unanticipated ill effects, while at the same time we have an equal chance of taking advantage of serendipitous ones.

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

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.