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Good Day To . . . 29 August 2020 Observational Lens

28 Friday Aug 2020

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Astronaut Piers Sellers during the third spacewalk of STS-121, a demonstration of orbiter heat shield repair techniques. NASA, Photo By Astronaut Michael Edward Fossum {{PD}}

The 29th Is A Good Day To . . . get out of our own heads. We think and speak too much from hurt if we’re not Self-aware (and who is totally conscious? Most of us are at least softening the edges of reality with a largely harmless observational lens), so being as cognizant of real-world circumstances and details as possible is important. The best (quality and success-wise) ideas are backed by ideals, and we currently have the ability to transmit these to the social order, so do your best to infuse interaction with a big shot of integrity-based decisions, viewpoints, and action. Live Your Truth, and be on the lookout for the kinds of irony, contradiction, and hypocrisy that can overtake us when we stray from our Highest Values.

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

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Good Day To . . . 28 August 2020 Hammer of the Gods

27 Thursday Aug 2020

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‘God the Father Creating the Heavens’ By Jean-Charles François 1760 {{PD}}

The 28th Is A Good Day To . . . talk about the astrological health picture–of ourselves, of the Earth–and Nature’s responses to our efforts to tamp down Her assertions (for what’s a virus but a living thing sent out into the world by Mom to compete for territory and success with other living things? A creative statement, perhaps, or a created statement, generated by the Mother of All Earthly Creation, Ceres.)

There’s a Fist of God (or Thor’s Hammer, for the Norse among us) with a base of Venus-Zeus in Cardinal signs (compelling action because we care–Cancer–about others/ loved ones–Libra) and apex of Earth-Ceres, with the Sun semi-square each factor of the base. This is a picture of everything we care about, everything we reach for and want for ourselves as human beings, in a crisis (square) situation, with the inevitable outcome showing in a difficult relationship to Nature (Ceres) and our material surroundings (Earth), a need to adjust our interaction to the needs of the planet, and a need to take into consideration her other inhabitants, as well.

The configuration itself is a punishing one. A Fist always describes a clash (the base square) between two disparate energies that are trying to find a way to resolve their issues and work together; even if they don’t find a way to mesh, the result is the energy at the apex, and it’s in the way the base energies have either resolved their clash, or failed to, that determines whether the apex energies manifest in a positive or negative manner.

This Fist stresses all that we love (Venus) in its conflict relationship to our own appetites and heedless desires, our thoughtless taking-what-we-want (Zeus), and asks us to consider what needs of the environment (Earth) would cause the response that Nature (Ceres) makes. For instance, in answer to global warming, Nature deploys the current unprecedented hurricane situation in the US gulf; for the first time we’re seeing two hurricanes at once, and storm Laura at the time of this writing promises something I’ve never heard in US hurricane forecasting before: an unsurvivable storm surge of 20 feet. If you are a reader in the storm zone, I hope you made it out of there, and are sheltered, safe, and warm!

So, we’re challenged to both admit how our appetites have affected the natural order, and admit that we are the only ones who can do anything about the disruption; Nature is only responding to our interaction with her and her creations–it’s up to us to learn respect, before we as living organisms are overwhelmed ourselves.

Ad for “Pluto Water” laxative by Pluto Water company. Text at the bottom recommends it as a preventative for Spanish Influenza. Printed in LA Herald Oct 1918. Pluto water contained an assortment of minerals, most notably lithium salts.

The only other thing of which I’d like to make note is the Cardinal square of Pluto to Juno. This simply points to the tension of a power struggle that calls for action (the Cardinal placement). Here we may see the power establishment sparring with the kind of empowerment that comes from cooperative efforts (Juno in Libra). The resistance of the power elite to sharing that power can’t be overestimated. In any case, it’s a day to reflect on all that it’s within our power to do, whether we admit/ recognize we hold that power or not.

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Good Day To . . . 27 August 2020 Creating Drag + A Mini-Lesson on Zeus

26 Wednesday Aug 2020

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‘Dreams’ By Ellen Montalba 1880s {{PD}}

The 27th Is A Good Day To . . . profit from, share, or invest in the Creative and/ or the Ideals. Dreams come True–or do they? It’s a day when our positive fantasies come to life, our dream of Money or Love may materialize, or what we’ve imagined we’d love appears, happens, or we finally have the opportunity to engage in–and we may suddenly be faced with the way fulfilling our desires isn’t what we thought it would be. It’s not that we find out we don’t want what we dreamed of–instead it’s that when we get it we see that it doesn’t actually support our ambitions, that it adds complications to the desire picture, that it throws up impediments to our goals, that it brings forward conflicts we didn’t anticipate, or in some other way doesn’t serve what we’ve been aiming for. The question then is, which needs adjustment, our ambitions or our dreams?

There’s something else important here of which we should take note: when we hold contradictory dreams, imaginings, goals, or even entertain and relate to contradictory beliefs or standards, we set up a dynamic that almost guarantees both internal dissonance and difficulty creating what we want. We can hold the recognition that something can be two things at once, and we can accept that, without causing friction; it’s when we hold two contradicting absolutes in our minds that trouble occurs. If we dream of a life of freelance mountain climbing with no fixed address but also want a life shared day in and day out with our family and to nest at home, we find that these dreams don’t support each other: we find we can’t live a life of ‘no strings’ and also have all the ‘strings’ that come with intimate involvement in family life and the making of a home.

Or something like this: we believe we are good because we are a follower of ‘X’, which/ who teaches that killing is wrong–and yet we’re okay with killing when we judge someone to have broken another of X’s dictates, or even when someone else has broken that prohibition against killing–suddenly we think we should have the power to punish for the offense–but then that makes us killers, too. How can we still judge ourselves to be adherents to our faith (and therefore ‘good’) if we don’t follow the rules (no matter how good we judge the excuse to break them to be)? Therein lies the conflict, one we may successfully ignore for a long time.

Carrying these kind of contradictory intentions/ standards can have the overall effect of creating drag on our ability to accomplish, beyond any internal discord we may feel (and often this discord exists inside us consciously undetected). Influences like those we are under today can bring out the contradictions, the discord, or can present us with certain clashes within our own presumptions, beliefs, or expectations that can (but no longer should) be ignored.

For a few of us, today will feature a major deception or misperception centered in Love or Money; for some others it brings something that feels like ‘True Love’, and to you I say, Enjoy it! Time will tell whether it’s actually the dream situation it seems to be–and I genuinely hope it is.

ZEUS TAPINAĞI Photo By Ali Hakan İlban CC BY-SA 4.0

(To help you understand what’s happening today, the newly perfected aspects are Venus trine Neptune and square Zeus, and Sun semi-sq Zeus. For those unfamiliar, Zeus signifies our ambitions, our desires, our lusts, even, and a certain hubris that accompanies a passionate insistence that our want justifies our taking–think of Zeus swooping down on any number of individuals in order to sate his appetites, many times deceiving in order to fulfill his desire. Zeus also reps the kind of passion that drives a dream, that helps us set goals, that keeps us moving forward. When you read it in a chart, keep in mind both the positive, hard-working ambition to make things better and to achieve, and the pushy arrogance and inclination to just take what’s wanted–either, or both alternately, can be at work. Too, Zeus may carry an added potential relating to someone who holds power such that an individual seeks to access power through relationship to, often when the kind of power desired would be unavailable to the individual otherwise. See a brief example of this here)

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Good Day To . . . 26 August 2020 Action!

25 Tuesday Aug 2020

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‘Runddans i Græsted’ By Julius Paulsen 1909 {{PD}}

The 26th Is A Good Day To . . . put ideas into action. I know! Lately it’s seemed like we can’t move forward without risking putting a foot wrong, but today that changes: action, especially when we channel what we’ve learned to build the future, is supported, and thinking is ‘bright’, purposeful, and empowering. Two caveats: rather than focus on ambitions, seek to affect what you know needs attention, choose to do things that are right; and keep highest values in mind with each choice–that way you can’t go wrong.

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Good Day To . . . 25 August 2020 Mash-Up

24 Monday Aug 2020

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‘Wooded Landscape’ By Albert Bierstadt {{PD}}

The 25th Is A Good Day To . . . take a deep breath; then get your bearings before going forward. Today is a mash-up of numerous, sometimes conflicting, influences; here are some pointers on how to sort it out: trust your sense of uniqueness, of individuality, of originality, as it’s not only aligned with inner wisdom and practicality, but is keyed to support both ambition fulfillment and mental acuity. Don’t count on ‘luck’ to get you through–doing so will end up costing you. Nature is your friend today; the social sphere, not so much. And whatever you do, don’t let negative fantasies overwhelm efforts or send you into a dark place–the operative world is ‘fantasies’, meaning ‘not real’.

That Fist of God I talked about on the 23rd (Saturn-Mars square, apex Mercury) perfects today. Here’s what I said then–just add sparkles: “it funnels a good deal of existing but denied upset, shame, tension, desire for power, and thwarted Will into a critical assessment of what’s before us, including those with whom we interact–no wonder things explode!”

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Good Day To . . . 24 August 2020 Battering Ram

23 Sunday Aug 2020

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Battering ram found in 2010 at a depth of 81 metres in the area of the battle of the Aegadian islands, fought on 10 March 241 BC, during the First Punic War. Carved inscription in Punic letters: “May this [ram] be directed against the ship with the wrath of Ba’al, who makes it possible to reach the mark, may this go and strike the hewn shield in the centre.“ {{PD}}

The 24th Is A Good Day To . . . refuse to be a human battering ram! With Mars square Saturn it’s the Will (and sometimes an angry, temperamental, insistent, I-must-have-my-way-Will) that makes us put our heads (so Martian!) down and run directly at immovable objects. And have no doubt, what we want to shove, topple, or punch today WILL NOT BUDGE. With each body in its own sign, each force is at its strongest–and so each side will spend a great deal of energy, one to impose a want, one to resist any change, a pointless expenditure. We are pushed to act out like this by our own denied inner torment, by wounds we’ve not yet made peace with, and by the way our minds prompt us to do anything other than deal with our issues (Merc sesq Black Moon Lilith, qnx Chiron, and semi-sq Hygeia). Face what’s really bothering you, and you won’t need to storm any walls, or exhaust yourself in defending your own.

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Good Day To . . . 23 August 2020 The Fist of Power

22 Saturday Aug 2020

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Turner, Joseph Mallord William; Barge on the River, Sunset; Tate; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/barge-on-the-river-sunset-202413

The 23rd Is A Good Day To . . . tread with care around Power. I hate having to tell you that, but it seems attempts at communicating our ideas or just going about our business (even when it doesn’t involve or infringe upon others) stirs up some surprisingly pernicious conflict. It’s as if those in power (and in those places where you hold power, this applies to you, too) will see themselves as threatened, even when no threat exists. That suggests that everyone may become aware they’ve somehow exceeded their rightful limits–and what does a guilty conscience do? It reacts as if that’s what’s being done to them! So, cultivate awareness of where your territory begins and ends, don’t overstep it, maybe reassure others you don’t see them as carrying a target on their backs, and a great deal of the tension and subliminal fear might dissipate.

Sources: Merc opposes and Juno sesquiquadrates Ceres–see what I mean? The real corker, though, is the Fist of God with base of Pluto-Black Moon Lilith, apex Virgoan Mercury–it funnels a good deal of existing but denied upset, shame, tension, desire for power, and thwarted Will into a critical assessment of what’s before us, including those with whom we interact–no wonder things explode! This lasts through its perfection on the 25th, at least.

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Good Day To . . . 22 August 2020 The Flip Side

21 Friday Aug 2020

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By Arkhip Kuindzhi 1878 {{PD}}

The 22nd Is A Good Day To . . . be aware that there might be a lot troubling us below the surface. The ways we have strayed from our own highest values, the ways we’ve failed to achieve particular goals, and the ways that hurt has crippled our ability to act effectively and to choose correctly will all be lurking under conscious awareness and so making us see ourselves in a particular, unflattering way. That means we could waste an entire day feeling bad and fearing we haven’t done what we need to do–which leads us to feeling bad about ourselves once again, and around and around.

What we need to know is this: at some point we will become aware of, even begin to obsess over, these whispering upsets, and it’s our job to realize that the lens through which we’re seeing things is shaped and distorted by the fears our imaginations cook up. Awareness that we have moved away from our ideals is a good thing, because it tells us what we need to do; pretending that there’s no way to re-align ourselves, to re-fresh our commitments, or to forgive ourselves for goals not met, is not. As the Sun moves into Virgo, use its bright spotlight to look at ways we can better reach for aims, handle details, assess matters, and better conduct ourselves, and remember: the flip side of criticism is forgiveness.

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A Good Day To . . . 21 August 2020 Unfacts

20 Thursday Aug 2020

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3 September 1967: Road traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right. Jan Collsiöö – Så var det {{PD}}

The 21st Is A Good Day To . . . know your own mind. The danger is that the social order will, let’s just be blunt, try to feed you a line of bullsh*t–and it’s up to you to recognize the unhealthiness of what’s presented. The way the instincts naturally recoil, if we pay heed, will tell us all we need to know about the veracity of the material. The Sun and Mercury will be parallel, though Merc will be in Virgo and the Sun in that last, stressed degree of Leo, possibly indicating some jarring criticisms of the Self that shake us mightily–and, if we accept them, that set us up to swallow the ‘un-facts’ the social sphere will try to persuade us are not just reality, but possibly our only option (Merc sesq Jupiter). There’s a cost to not listening to what we know (Venus semi-sq Sedna), to our inner wisdom, or just to that plain, cut-to-the-chase practical voice that sounds when we must cut through the confusion and find our way.

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Good Day To . . . 20 August 2020 Unsure

19 Wednesday Aug 2020

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‘An der Marktmauer’ By Karl Hermann Otto Müller-Samerberg 1946 {{PD}}

The 20th Is A Good Day To . . . take a step back. As we have so often lately, we’re prompted to invest in something decidedly unwise–but why? We’re seriously alienated from our own instincts; call it a lack of Self-trust, a lack of trust in the Universe, or maybe just an unwillingness to see reality as it is (for to see it would mean we would have to deal with it). Whatever it is, we’re bleeding assets (friends, intimate relationships, money, things we value), breeding unsureness around who we are at core, and prompting ourselves to question our very purpose–and none of that is good–in fact, it’s not just passively negative, it’s actively damaging. Our best course today might be titled, ‘No Sudden Moves’. The inclinations are so subliminally pessimistic that keeping our balance temporarily is key to not succumbing to despair or nihilism. Stick to what you know, and don’t let this overly gloomy lens persuade you it’s the real state of things–it’s just not. No blame of yourself or others, and a little kindness, is the most effective way to get through the day.

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