Invasion of the Cat Lady Snatchers
Watching 70s horror on Criterion with Grace, drinking ginger tea, wearing a velvet robe, smiling. Because today one neighbor in my building lent me a wonderful book, another installed a new paper towel dispenser in my kitchen, and I helped a third fetch groceries. Which is to say: I feel bathed in care. There have been so many terrible things about 2020, but one wonderful thing is that for the first time in my 27 years as a New Yorker, I have let down my guard and connected to people who live in close proximity to me. Trust me: This is a major shift for this proud domestic isolationist. What happened was this: when the pandemic got real, the annoying millennials in my building left and ones I hadn’t known were lovely stayed and more lovely people moved in, and at first we all acted like a team out of necessity and now we’re just friends with our own text message thread even. I’m sure I’ll be the scary cat lady again at some point when they’re loud and I’m sleeping but for now I have traded the luxury of NYC anonymity for something warmer and cozier, and I am safer and a little more happily seen as a result. This seems like a metaphor for something not bad, it really does. And in a year of so much pain and so much loss and so many cold hearts, all mitzvahs deserve mention and anything not bad must be embraced. That got simpler, anyway.
Astro PSA: New Moon in Libra
If you woke feeling unusually optimistic, it could be more than the afterglow of dueling Town Halls that tarnished Trump’s prospects. A new moon in Libra rises today, with the inevitable hopefulness of a fresh start. As the sun is also in this sign, this lunar aspect highlights Libran values of balance and peace, especially in relationships. The only snag: It’s involved in a hairy T square with that Mars retrograde in me-me-me Aries and tough-love Saturn and Pluto in lone-wolf Cappie. So—especially because this is a supermoon—expect interactions over the next days to be supercharged with tensions and emotions (even for Pandemica). Trust me: It’s all to improve our communication and conflict management. Because to survive and thrive over the next few months, we must embrace compromise without codependency, self-possession without selfishness, and disagreement without bloodshed—let alone the denial of anyone’s human rights. So write down one kinship goal on a leaf, then bury it! Let’s see what love grows.
💕For more insight and guidance during this hyper-charged, hyper-retrograded lunar cycle, schedule an intuitive reading or dream interpretation. Even now, there’s loads of lovely love to download.💕
