Sydney Harbour taken from under the Bridge

There are some days when out of the blue it just feels like it should.

You know, that whole milk of human kindness, mushy, dare I say it, happy sort of feeling. It hit me this morning walking around Circular Quay under the Harbour Bridge on my way to have lunch with a very dear friend. The sky was blue, the harbour was sparkling, the ferries were doing the chuggy thing that they do and all felt seriously good with the world… or it could just have been that I had one helluva hard step class this morning and was feeling grateful to have got through it!

In any case, there is no astrological reason for my mood. The Moon is halfway through her jaunt in Cancer, but has cleared yesterdays trouble zone. She has just passed a supportive link with more is more Jupiter (something that had more than a few peeps commenting on Facebook today how they just felt like eating), and has now also passed safely through the alley where all the Aries planets are lurking in bad boy position just waiting for something vulnerable to pass their way.

The next 24 hours will be much the same, so whatever it is you have planned for your Saturday/Saturday night, enjoy. Personally, I have poured a red wine, there is a curry on the stove and I will be curling up on the couch to watch a movie or two. Gotta love the Cancer Moon.

Which actually brings me in a round about way to the point I sort of wanted to make, and didn’t quite get there- sometimes there is no astrological reason for a good mood, there is no astrological reason for a bad mood. It just is.

Sometimes I get asked what would have caused a particular thing to have happened…and you know what? Aside from curiosity, there is often no reason to look for something to blame when we should either be enjoying it (if it is a good thing) or working out how we handle it (if it is a bucket of sloppy brown stuff left far too close to a fan).

That’s all.

Photo credit unknown.

That celebrity I mentioned yesterday with the super strong Pluto? It’s….wait for it…Justin Bieber. OMFG! Seriously?

Yep, at the risk of completely decimating any street cred I happen to have left after all of my confessions regarding my theory that there is a Pet Shop Boys song for any and all of lifes little situations, here is the link to the post I have just done for Yasmin Boland’s Moonology.

Today has been a bit of a Sun-Pluto day.

My Sun-Pluto opposition was the subject of a conversation with a (astro) friend at lunch today- or more accurately how I never really struck her as being as Plutonic as I am. I fake it well, but underneath…well, you don’t need to know all of my secrets.

Then this afternoon I did an Astro profile on a celebrity as a guest post for another site. This celebrity is seriously Plutonic and seriously powerful and inspiring…but that’s all I’m telling you for now. Let’s just say you may be surprised when I reveal the subject…

And in the sky we have a Sun-Pluto square.

The Sun is about ego and Pluto about power. When these two square off against each other? Well, sparks aren’t the only things that are likely to fly.

This transit is one where things tend to break down. As you know, Mercury is still retrograde, and things tend to break down. Hmmmmm.

The Moon has just moved into Cancer, so will face off against Pluto over the next 24 hours. This can only inflame the situation, so all I will say is think before you speak, think before you act, be aware of anyone wielding undue amounts of power, authority or axes and…step away from the chocolate.

It has just occurred to me that I haven’t updated this in a few days.

I have been in deadline disaster zone, but that is, at the moment, an extremely good thing. What else? I have had a friend over from the other side of the ditch ie New Zealand, and that was an extremely good thing. And I have had TTMs birthday (she just turned 14)…another extremely good thing.

What do you get the newly turned 14 year old with umpteen planets in Aries and a Capricorn Ascendant? Aside from a custom made phone case with One Direction…sorry 1D…on the back, that is. (I haven’t told my husband yet, but I think she has taken a fancy to Harry). A gym membership. Yep, not content with swimming mile after mile along a black line at the crack of arse too many mornings a week, she has been hanging on turning 14 and being able to go to the gym with me. Awwwww. I reckon the time will come when she doesn’t want anything to do with me, so for now, if we sweat together, we stay together.

TTM has this whole Aries thing figured out. She knows that she operates better all round when she is training, and especially better when competing. Whatever is bothering her tends to get left at the end of a heavy butterfly session and she emerges with smiles and dimples ready to fight another day. The strength and fitness she has gives her a body confidence that fitting into whatever size is currently fashionable never would. Sometimes kids just get “it”. To be honest, I’m sometimes just a tad envious.

Anyways to the skies.

The Moon is now in curiouser and curiouser Gemini. Let your monkey chatter take you wherever you need to go over the next 24 hours. With Mercury, the ruler of this Moon, in retrograde in Pisces, it’s gonna go there, so you may as well enjoy it.

On the good news front, if you have been impacted by Mercury retrograde, we have less than a week to go. So to the friend who has been holding off signing an extension to her employment contract, they have a week to get it right…finally.

To the major corporation who today decided to change a core system with all associated processes today? Well, maybe next time your Change and Development team might mark Mercury retrograde in their calendars- it could save the thousands of staff around the country who had to deal with the fallout a lot of angst….remember the golden rule- test, re-test and test again…and do the same with training.

Oh, the photos, I’m running behind, so the photo at the top is the view from where my friend & I had lunch the other day on Sydney Harbour, and below are the stupendously amazement red velvet cupcakes that I made TTM for her birthday- complete with edible purple glitter.

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat…the definitive how to (or how not to) guide to your Aries Boss…with all the usual disclaimers & fine print…

The link is here.