Fri. July 26, 2024: Looking Forward to A Fun Weekend
image courtesy of Gerd Altmann via pixabay.comFriday, July 26, 2024
Waning Moon
Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron Retrograde
Partly cloudy and pleasant
Yes, friends, we’re adding another retrograde to the pile. Chiron goes retrograde today until December 29th. Chiron is the wounded healer, so it’s about working on wounds that need attention. For Pisces, this go-round, it’s about healing one’s relationship with self-worth, especially when it comes to money. The A4A workshops set a foundation for that, so now it’s about building on it.
The Chiron retrograde pushes against the Saturn retrograde somewhat. My Saturn retrograde is a lot about boundaries this year, and the Chiron retrograde makes me question if I’m worth the boundaries (the answer is yes, but Chiron makes you reflect and analyze on the worth).
This pile of retrogrades makes it feel like swimming in molasses sometimes.
Certainly yesterday, everything felt like it was at a crawl.
I got the blogs up, made the morning blog/social media rounds, dealt with some admin. I had to do a run to the grocery store; we were out of things like bread and butter and couldn’t wait until today. I got blueberries and blackberries and black plums. Don’t have to buy vegetables often, because of the CSA.
The space where the liquor store I used to frequent until it abruptly closed five months ago has reopened –as a liquor store! New owners, different name. The new owners seem nice, taking time to chat. I was delighted to see that my favorite clerk from the previous incarnation has been hired back. I’d worried about him. The stock is a little different, but has good variety, and the prices are good. I wish them well, and the location is certainly convenient.
When I came back, Bea was out and about in the sewing room. She was calling out for Tessa, who was asleep on my bed. She didn’t want any of the humans; she wants Tessa. And she’s willing to chat with Charlotte, as long as Charlotte doesn’t give her any guff. Which Charlotte is incapable of doing for any length of time, but Bea isn’t at all phased by Charlotte’s drama queen temperament. She’s taken the foil ball and one of the mice under the bed with her, and scattered the other toys.
The sewing room has all the interactive toys the other cats don’t use, so there are things to keep her busy as she’s out and about more.
I proofread 5 more chapters of TAPESTRY, after layering in the new character. In order for the geographical logic to work on E. 6th Street, where buildings tend to be 4 or 5 stories, not 3 stories, I had to add another floor, which meant another tenant. Since I made this individual a semi-recluse, I just have to refer to them, not have actual scenes. An easy fix. I need to look at the lots on the street (hopefully I can pull that up from the city’s files) to see if there’s a small space between buildings, or if the buildings from E. 5th Street back right up to the 6thStreet buildings. I want to know if there’s a possibility for more windows in my fictional building. I need to be realistic; it’s like when someone writes something set in NYC and has stuff happening in alleys; Manhattan has very few alleys, so you know it’s someone who hasn’t done their research or hasn’t stretched geography in a way that makes sense. It’s a good way to turn locals off a book.
I turned around a coverage and read most of a second one; it’s not due until tomorrow, so I can finish it today without stress. I worked most of the afternoon in the sewing room, so Bea could get used to my presence, but she wasn’t interested.
I heard back from one of the proposals I sent out this week. We are going to meet via ZOOM in the fall and schedule my workshop for the spring. Yes, I’m being paid for it. I’m doing what my mentors suggested!
I still have to finish/polish the two other proposals that I hoped to send out yesterday, but couldn’t. I don’t want to send them on a Friday or Monday, so off they will go on Tuesday morning. I’m also putting together a proposal based on conversations with my mentors, although I don’t yet know where to aim that.
We got our ballots for the September 3 primary. We will fill them out and I will take them to the ballot box at City Hall on Monday. I also got my contributor copies of the 2025 SPELL-A-DAY ALMANAC, where I have 24 pieces under the Cerridwen Iris Shea byline. I’ll be posting on Instagram about that later today and this weekend.
Charlotte showed off for Bea about how much affection SHE gets, while Bea is on the other side of the glass all by herself. Bea watched, and watched me pet Tessa, seriously wondering why the other cats were letting themselves be handled by humans. She did let me come right up to the glass doors without running away, which was progress. And she loves the bedtime snacks my mother brings in every night, although she hides until the room is empty.
Tessa was on my bed when I went to bed, and Charlotte snuck on, too. I had to figure out how to position myself diagonally to keep them separated. But we managed. Tessa left at some point, because when I woke up, she was gone.
Bea watched Charlotte race up and down the cat tree. Again, Charlotte is showing off. Bea wasn’t much interested in people, although she was happy to eat her breakfast. I did my meditation and morning tarot card pull with her, but she wouldn’t come out. It will take time. She definitely wants to roam the house at night; she has to learn that until she starts interacting with humans (even though that means she has another trip to the vet coming up), she won’t be able to go beyond the sewing room. It will take a while, but she will learn. She likes toys. I will demonstrate some of the interactive toys she hasn’t figured out yet for her this afternoon, so she can play with them when she wants.
We had a power outage blip this morning, which set me back a bit. I assumed it was Spectrum being awful as usual, but the power in the whole place went down, and I’ve had to reset everything. It was only for a few minutes.
On today’s agenda: writing, script coverage, proposal work, prepping some LOIs to go out next week, a library run. I’m sending the meeting notes to my mentor for Tuesday’s meeting, so it’s not all last minute. Tomorrow, I am going to an herbal workshop given by a friend over at the Clark, and then another friend and I are spending time at the museum. He’s never gone to the museum before, so I’m taking him through as my guest.
Sunday is the exquisite corpse poem – very excited! That’s always a highlight of my summer.
I will test before both, just to be cautious. I think I’m okay; just fatigued from, you know, life and the world.
Monday is back to the grindstone. Only instead of grinding, I want to take pleasure in my work.
Have a great weekend!
