‘View from the Hohe Warte towards Heiligenstadt’ By Carl Moll c1900 {{PD}}

The 26th Is A Good Day To . . . take a ‘two-avenues’ approach to things, as both are worth traveling: one, think healthy–strive for balance, purity, honesty–and two, open your arms to the relationships and the profits that can come to you from pursuing your goals. Now you’ll notice, you can’t be in a relationship alone (insert your own marriage joke here), and profits have to come from somewhere–so not just being open, but reaching out and showing what you can do, and where you want to go, are what it takes to attract what for at least some of us will turn out to be a surprising level of support.

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

‘Be Wise’ is like ‘Be Best’, but better. By The White House from Washington, DC – Be Best Bowling with First Lady Melania Trump, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78800522

The 25th Is A Good Day To . . . do what’s smart or practical, and leave power plays for another day. There’s inner turmoil, a disconnect between the mentality and our ideas of what we can and can’t do, of how far we can reach, and how capable or outfitted to handle circumstances we truly are–so stick to what you know to be wise, and let all the rest go, just for today.

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

‘Diana the Huntress’ By Gaston Casimir Saint-Pierre latter half of the 19th century {{PD}}

The 24th Is A Good Day To . . . apply a standard of Love to everywhere you want to exercise power, and then be willing to modify your own procedures if they don’t meet the ‘Loving Test’: is it kind? is it loving? does it avoid creating harm? If all the answers are ‘Yes’, you can go forward and power-express your heart out. One caution: instinct can’t substitute for careful thought or that Love test, so don’t use that as an excuse–that dog won’t hunt, and you’ll end up wasting some perfectly good forward-moving energy.

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

By Carroll Jones III, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47083491

The 23rd Is A Good Day To . . . look at what’s hidden away in shadow, what’s been pushed out of sight, what’s been buried with a half-conscious desire to forget, look at the way what we didn’t want to think about offers us a formidable action plan that fulfills at least one very large ambition or desire. It’s no time to be squeamish. Hint for effectiveness: don’t worry about gaining new power, worry about using the power you’ve already got, so that it doesn’t stop responding to your mojo and accrue to someone else.

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

See the recent New Moon in Cancer here–

By Technikum nr 7, Warszawa – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64471321

The 22nd Is A Good Day To . . . look around. The real world circumstances that surround us are showing us, no holds barred, the exact contents of those hidden or denied parts of the psyche that live in our ‘blind spot’ or that fuel our instincts (Saturn trine Sedna). A few things that help us be productive with this: The Sun enters Leo, aiding focus on the Self (don’t be distracted by the blame game, no matter how deserving that other party is!); make a concerted effort to sort thoughts from actual circumstances, and the social influence from our actual highest values (Jupiter opp and contraparallel Vesta, Mercury contraparallel Saturn); and allow room for spontaneity, as that’s how inspiration gets in and originality gets sparked (Merc sxt Uranus).

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

See the recent New Moon in Cancer here–

Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp. Photo By PiccoloNamek CC BY-SA 3.0

The 21st Is A Good Day To . . . imagine greater. We’ve just had a Sun opposition to Saturn and sextile Sedna, with Saturn contraparallel Pallas, which only served to bring reality into a too-sharp focus that allowed no room for dreaming and plenty of room to see how stupid we’ve been or to re-live or re-enact regrets, all spurred by those fears we’ve hidden even from ourselves (a knotty little mess of Mars, Mercury, Pallas, Sedna, Chiron). How to remedy this? We stop undermining ourselves (especially in the health department), to align thinking precisely with our own abundant inner wisdom, and to stop reacting out of fear of being hurt–and then we celebrate (that is, take full advantage of) the Neptune trine to Vesta, which allows us to apply all our creative energy, idealism, and imagination to those areas of life we revere, find sacred, or want to honor through active support and exploitation. A simple formula, but if followed can take you light-years ahead of where you are right now.

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

See the New Moon here–

Silek lanyah, traditional martial arts of the Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Silek lanyah is always performed in a muddy paddy field. Photo By Dody Guci CC BY-SA 4.0

The 18th Is A Good Day To . . . know that Self-assertion centered in a confident and accurate picture of who we are will be highly effective–but assertion that ignores barriers or reality itself, that grabs for power, that skips over inconvenient facts, and that is not based in kindness, will burn us down through our own poor choices. That could make it sound like this is a hide-under-the-covers day, but it’s not; all we have to do to avoid disaster is to refuse to try what we think is a short-cut in the handling of any situation. We may be tempted to cut corners today in an area we haven’t mastered, or aren’t that familiar with–but if we know our strengths and weaknesses, we also know where short-cuts just won’t work–so really, this is about our ability to be honest with ourselves about what we know and what we can do.

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

‘On the Balcony’ By John William Godward 1911 {{PD}}

The 17th Is A Good Day To . . . look at why it appears what we see as wise or practical doesn’t seem to serve ambition fulfillment. We want what we want, possibly quite intensely, and we make the assumption that doing smart things, things that are ‘safe’ and that are well-considered and low risk, should bring us what we desire–but not today. We reach for something, and it moves farther away! That’s because we are acting in only partial integrity–upright and honest as far as it goes, but conveniently leaving out some things we’d rather ignore or deny–and it’s only in facing those that we have a chance in hell at grabbing the brass ring. Acknowledge what is, warts and all, and you’ll be able to move forward very effectively, as the wisdom we’re calling on for guidance will then be truly wise, and truly complete.

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

‘Under the Shade of a Tree’ By Kuroda Seiki 1898 {{PD}}

The 16th Is A Good Day To . . . note that there’s not only no rest for the wicked, there’s no rest for anyone else, either! It may seem like dark forces are out to get us, but the reality is what we’re experiencing is awareness of every single place in our lives where love is missing. If we try to wield power, exercise authority, make things go our way, dig deep or research, try to make changes, or act with an eye on the future, we see at each step of the way how and where we’re failing to bring a loving attitude, to meet circumstances with our ‘Best Self’, where we are polluting our own lives with anger, bitterness, vengeful or resentful thoughts, or just a general desire to experience Schadenfreude.

Though it may feel like the Universe rebuking us, it’s really about seeing that we can’t tell ourselves that we’re loving Beings if we’re busy harboring resentments or wishing for someone else’s failure. Today’s about Self-awareness, and offers us the chance to repair those particular situations or relationships, to make positive change to our own part in things, so that we don’t in future regret our choices.

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