You’ll feel much lighter if you examine (and so exorcise) those wounds. ‘Wings of the Morning’ By Edward Robert Hughes {{PD}}

The 25th is a Good Day To . . . embrace our hurt, and look closely and with compassion at exactly where that injury came from. I know! Sounds like precisely what we’re trying to get away from, right now–but maybe that’s the point: in facing what’s actually caused hurt, we take the power away from the imprint, the memory, the situation, and re-claim it for ourselves. We do this today and gain, as well as take a step toward supporting our mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional health–and it’s especially vital that we do, as the 26th shines a bright and unforgiving light on our wounds–and that requires us to access two ‘guides’ to actions, choices, and behaviors: we must listen to our own instincts and accept that wispy info that we ‘know but don’t know’, and we must respect both genuine authority (we know that when we see it!) and Mother Nature herself. Both show us the way to heal. Trust yourself, trust your authentic inner voice (rather than the ‘borrowed’ ones we’ve allowed to build a home in our heads), and don’t listen to the ‘crowd’ or succumb to the pressures of the social order.

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

A special and heart-felt Thank You to all who reached out through the comments on the last post. It was lovely to hear from each of you. Be well, my friends.

‘The Voice, Summer Night’ By Edvard Munch 1896, The Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway {{PD}}

The 22nd is a Good Day To . . . to respect the unique inner voice we all have, the one that can save us at the last moment, steer us in the right direction, that can channel our most positive attributes into ‘statements’ of action and choice that can define for others (as well as for ourselves) who we are at core. See it as an opportunity to create the changes you want; what you value, what you love, automatically aligns you with your highest values, and so guides choice. The best part is that the inner voice, the wisdom, and our own originality combine to form tomorrow–so if you want to know what’s coming, take careful note of what you do, say, feel today.

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

‘Watchers of the Stars’ Artist Unknown, 16th century {{PD}}

The 21st is a Good Day To . . . watch out!! Hurt (or even the equivalent of a guilty conscience) is propelling at least some of our choices or actions, and that makes for spontaneity, originality, and unique approaches, but also for accidents, rebellions, and erratic behavior. The more easily we can accept all facets of ourselves (the more open we are to the dimensionality of our Beingness, to what we might judge light and dark, good and bad, positive and negative)–that is, the less judgmental we can be about ourselves, the more likely we are to act in ways that are both empowered and in-line with our ideas of who we are at our best. A few pointers: facts matter, whether we like it or not, the social sphere does have an impact, whether we want to acknowledge it or not, and our strength comes from both acceptance of and understanding of our past, and what important ideas and experiences we’ve brought forward from it.

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

‘Dream’ By Joan Brull c1905 {{PD}}

The 20th is a Good Day To . . . take advantage of what you know, specifically to make dreams happen. Today features a lovely convergence of opportunity and creative essence; dream big, and view the social landscape in terms of ideals (and judge ‘the facts’ by those, too). Do that, and refuse to be moved to action or to choose based on the influence of all those things you want to deny or that enrage you; that is, don’t be destructively reactive out of avoidance. Do your best to respond out of positives, reaching for a goal, attention on what you want, not on what you don’t.

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

By Kgbo – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79438533

The 19th is a Good Day To . . . apply your most creative energies and inclinations to those areas in life where you hold absolute power. That may affect many, or may only be relevant to you as an individual, but in any case, the day calls for idealism and imagination actively and cleverly applied–and you’re more than up to it, just as long as you’re not looking specifically for the benefit or payoff to your creative efforts. Forget about what it might bring you, and indulge the dream in its most perfect, and perfectly creative, form; accompanying thinking is smart and practical, though of course, during the retrograde best applied to review and refining, rather than to new commitments.

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

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

Ramon Casas i Carbó ‘La Carga (The Charge) or Barcelona 1902’ though the picture was apparently done 1899-1900. {{PD}}

The 18th is a Good Day To . . . curb all impulses, because the inclination is to charge ahead, no holds barred, and that could result in poor expressions of power and unwise or impractical decisions that reverberate far into the future. What should we do? Be willing to think about how asserting ourselves will affect the road ahead, and as the Sun moves into Pisces, use our imaginations to see what could be, in an ideal world. Oh, and don’t do anything blatantly unhealthy–we’re too susceptible to out-sized impacts to the physical well-being, right now.

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

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

By Azro Art Village, Morocco – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76674582

The 17th is a Good Day To . . . marry your effective power and real-world efforts to achieving ambition fulfillment and to addressing with the intuitive senses any ‘blind spot’ material that comes forward. The values and standards we believe we hold may be challenged by what’s actually wise or practical in the moment–and we need not to be so proud that we can’t bend to a smarter course. To prevent chafing, be flexible when the evidence suggests modification is needed, and really put your shoulder to the figurative grindstone–with the right attitude, mountains can be moved.

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

See commentary on the retrograde of Mercury on the 16th here–

‘Studio Lunch’ By Henry Siddons Mowbray c1900 {{PD}}

The 15th is a Good Day To . . . heal the Self through straight-out indulgence of the senses, and then take that sense of renewal and put it to work to expand what you know, to make beliefs into facts, to get the social sphere on your side, to learn–to enhance whatever means of successfully contacting and intermingling your Will with the world fits the bill. We may feel a bit rudderless, but it’s nothing to panic about–instead recognize that it’s a fairly effective way to keep your mind off matters you’d rather not deal with anyway–appropriate to drift and dream a bit, even as you enjoy the pleasures of living in a body, and experiment with reaching out and impressing yourself on your surroundings.

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