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The community-minded Aquarius Moon shifts our frame of reference away from ourselves and into social realms. Nevertheless, personal dynamics are intensified as the emotionally detached Aquarius Moon squares excessive Jupiter in provocative Scorpio. Meanwhile, we may be drawn into a difficult situation where we need to take a stand against oppressive people or institutions as the self-centered Aries Sun dynamically squares evolutionary Pluto.

Your greatest hope is for everyone to work well and pull together today. However, cultivating group cohesion feels like an impossible task when people seem to be pursuing their own agendas. Nevertheless, there are common interests buried beneath a chaotic surface, and you’re the one who can get folks on the same track long enough to make measurable progress. Don’t give in to any single point of view; observing the scene through a wide-angle lens puts everyone in the same picture and heading in the same direction.

Most of the day has gone by while we slept in comfortable dreams. There are a few things that had to be done. Voluntary Tax on the Stupid and a bit of shopping for a few items to add to our supper of tacos. We don’t often eat a supper of Mexican style food. It turned out better than expected with the soft shells, salsa, and sour cream.

It is another morning that I have to save a sputum specimen in a plastic bottle. Three days of samples are hopefully going to reveal the cause of phlegm and sore throat I suffer with. I am still sick as far as I am concerned and nothing has been revealed to be the cause. I have seen all of the specialists there is to see and all of them pronounce my health to be excellent. They all say that I am as healthy as a horse. The only trouble is that the horse won’t plow the field. Right.

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We may feel adrift in a sea of illusions today, or we might reach through the veil to make contact with the spirit realm. A fantasy-prone Venus-Neptune sextile enchants us to pursue beauty in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. Meanwhile, the imaginative Pisces Moon joins Neptune to reinforce the cosmic message. We can escape into our dreams to avoid reality or we can use them as if they are rough sketches of the future we are creating.

People who write you off as wishy-washy may be quite surprised when they are confronted by your firm resolve today. Your key planet Venus is on a mission to fulfill your desires while she travels through practical Taurus and your 8th House of Intimacy. Although your detailed fantasies appear so real, they still may be impossible to materialize. Nevertheless, you are willing to change your life to support your dreams. Whether or not they come true is less critical than the new routines you create now. Activist Arthur Ashe said, “Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.”

Today started off as usual for a week morning. At 4:00 am the alarm went off while I had already been up for five or ten minutes to skulk around. It was one of those times when I had the opportunity to steal a butt. It was my luck to smoke half the smoke before I put it out. I made it inside and half way to my desk when Peter appeared beside me. I had been that close to having been caught.

I shouldn’t have even tried to steal another smoke. It is something I should not be doing as much as it is against Peter’s demands. I do not want to quit completely but that is not my choice. My overall health demands that I have to quit at some point in the near future. Meanwhile I sneak around as best I can to do what I want. It is something that I have had a considerable amount of luck in not having been caught more than once. I do have my timing down very close.

There was a busy day to add to my journal. We drove to Dr. Spees, the shrink, and had another session. We walked in and out much to our taxed breathing. Both of us were very winded and dangerously out of breath by the time we walked back to the van. I am just glad we did it. Then we drove over to the pharmacy. We also had A & W burgers for supper before driving home.