feb 20th lunar eclipse at 2 degrees virgo

i must say, i did reach a "benchmark" in a certain personal relationship- let's just say, we are closer than we were before ;) other than that, nothing too crazy has revealed itself- except maybe that my car transmission is hinting that it will completely rebel against me if i don't get it checked. hopefully, i just need some fluid or something. (okay, i'm in denial- it may need to be replaced but who knows?)

the eclipse was 6 degrees from my natal north node in virgo and 4 degrees from my natal jupiter in leo, all in my natal 4th house. i guess you can say that i had an emotional illumination through a personal relationship as a result of the lunar eclipse. jupiter rules my natal 7th house.

car accidents and mercury the trickster

so, my dad was in 2 back-to-back minor car accidents in less than 2 days. and i recently learned that he experienced his mercury return on the day of the 1st accident (during this wonderful retrograde). the first accident he rear-ended someone at an intersection; the second accident someone rear-ended him as he was parked at a gas station.

the first thing i noticed was the transiting mercury has activated his natal merc/pluto opposition. i suppose natal neptune is not making things better by forming a trine to natal and transiting mercury. All the while transiting neptune is hovering a wide conjunction with transiting and natal mercury. boo!

(the unknown thing is my dad's birthtime- I have used at 6am for his natal so his natal house positions are not accurate. the lack of birthtime could also throw off the mercury return chart; though, i'm sure the placement of natal mercury is close enough.)

dad natal- outside in red; mercury return- inside in blue

on another note, while i was driving home last night a car flew by me doing at least 100mph. i saw it swerve into the median of grass, do a complete 360 in the middle of the highway and then keep driving. damn you mercurious!

in the midst of the mercury retrograde

current mercury rx cycle: january 28th at 24 degrees aquarius until february 18th at 8 degrees aquarius. since i am ruled by mercury, i find it necessary to add that the retrograde period has occurred in my 9th house and:

• prompted the reunion of myself and my defective dell inspiron with heating/cooling issues (i missed the class action suit)- though i must admit it is working much better.
• made me revisit this blogging thing, as i started a blog during a merc rx back in '06
• reminded me how much i love jethro tull, yes, and pandora radio
• shed light on the fact that i can reconfigure my web browser to run firefox as the default instead of internet explorer
• made me rethink my plans on a new laptop- maybe i don't need to buy a prepacked microsoft bundle so that i can maintain control of my computer
  

and it begins, again

let's see how long i can keep this up. who wants to place a bet on my consistency, or lack thereof, of posting? and i write in lowercase letters because i hate using the shift key. so there.

i finished phillip pullman's his dark materials and was a bit disappointed at the end. however, i'm always disappointed at the end of good stories because i want them to go on forever.

here's a story to start things off:

my brother and i used to share an apartment and one summer evening, he had a new girlfriend over to hang out. we were all sitting around and talking, when i suddenly felt the urge for a fudgesicle. so i went to the freezer to find the fudgesicles behind a huge bag of ice. well, of course i dropped a bunch of ice onto the floor while trying to get my fudgesicle and bent down to pick it up. as i stood up to throw the ice into the sink, i forgot that the freezer door was open right above me, and i knocked the freezer door clean off of the refrigerator!