astrology

Saddle Up!

Giddyup bitches. It’s Monday and that means it’s time to get ready to ride. I mean, let’s be real. Are you even living if you’re just sneaking into Monday? Storm that bitch like you’re storming the castle. Let Monday know who’s the fucking boss around here. Guess what? It ain’t Tony Danza.

As it goes, I’m feeling all sorts of energetic which is par for the course for a Monday. I got big plans! Which is also par for the course on a Monday. This is the week I’m going to try to get back onto my daily schedule. I feel like I’m off to a pretty good start considering that I’m actually getting to this blog post at the time that I’ve allotted for doing so. Yay me!

This past weekend was the first in a while that I had no classes to either teach or attend. It was weird, lol. But in that free time, we went for a little jaunt out to Marie Selby Gardens. Quite lovely although there were a few mosquitoes or no seeums that had quite the feast on my yummyness.

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I do believe that I’m starting to find some focus once again. Perhaps it’s due to the gummies I’ve been taking, perhaps not, but finding the focus is all that matters, regardless of where it’s coming from. It’s right on time also as I really need to be getting right back into learning all of this WordPress goodness. Know why? Because I can. It isn’t difficult. It’s truly just applying myself and not being lazy. And not being scared. For once, stepping into my power and owning what I’m good at and monetizing it. I really have to stop standing by and watching other people do the things (and get paid for them) that I know that I can do. Come on, Stuart! You’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and gosh darn it, PEOPLE LIKE YOU!

We had stepped away from the natal chart stuff for a bit because I had some other things to chat about, but let’s get back to that now, shall we? Today’s planetary overview includes Jupiter (my ruling planet), Saturn, and Uranus (insert your own joke here). So, Jupiter is about how I expand (not my waistline, lol) and grow. A recurring theme is that I value freedom pretty much the most. So some good:

  • Open to new methods
  • Intelligent
  • Tolerant
  • Sincere
  • Generous (seriously, you can have money, but don’t waste my time)
  • Work hard, play hard

But on the down side:

  • I get discouraged trying to live up to my own visions and high ideals
  • Cynical
  • Self-contraditctory

SHOTS FIRED!!! If you’ve read this blog for more than this post, then you know that this is true. I live this every single day. Like, right now, I’m thinking about the things that I “should” be doing. Shoulding all over myself. Is it all bad? No, probably not. I push myself and then I push back against myself. It always varies which part of me wins out. But I suppose that too is a part of my personality. From whirling dervish to slug in an instant!

Ok, next up is Saturn, our hula hooping planet. Saturn is all about structure and my inhibitions. How I challenge authority. In my head, I’m way tougher than in real life I’m pretty sure. This one is heavy on the emotional baggage which I’m really not here for, but on on anyway. Quite possibly the most “off” of the planets as it regards to me (I think):

  • Determined
  • Practical
  • Empathetically authoritative

But when the day is shit:

  • Feeling fundamentally unloved and unsupported (monkey brain says this)
  • Fears being without money (nope, not this one)
  • Not always open to others’ ideas
  • Egotistic
  • Will freeze you out physically and emotionally

Yeah, well, nobody’s perfect. Notice me not holding on to this planet. Not trying to hear what it says. LOL. Moving right along to Uranus and more about my swelling ego. Let’s talk about my individualism and creativity. Funny place for it to be shooting out of, right? Uranus? I crack myself up. What you got for me, planet?

  • Independent
  • Creative
  • Spirited
  • Freedon-loving

Ohhh, this is a tough one. There are simply more things that I need to work on, or there are more things that I embrace as negative, lol.

  • Inconstant work efforts (see also, this blog)
  • Undisciplined (see also, any flow art I’m not practicing)
  • Rebellious
  • Indecisive

Yeah, look. I can recognize my issues when they are pointed out to me. Of course that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m going to work on all of them at the same time. Or any of them at any time to be totally honest. Surely I’m a work in progress, but I progress at my speed – no one else’s. Fuck all that noise, for real for real. Just do you, boo!

Ok, that’s what I have for today. Maybe tomorrow I’ll come back and tell you how I did so many things today and felt so accomplished. Maybe not. But I do gotta get a few things done, so see ya!

Oh, hell.

This is the sound of me not getting things done. Damn it! I had 100% good intentions and everything really just flew out the window the moment the work day started. Schedule? Nope, not today. I’m still trying to get work things done in between paragraphs here. Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future.

Holidays are, apparently, bad for my mojo. I really don’t need a day off of my routine because it seems to make it that much more difficult to pick up where I left off. I live in a perpetual catch-22 of ‘do everything and burn out’ or ‘do nothing and be mad about it’. There’s no happy medium. There never is. I’m working on finding it, but I also keep adding things to my list. There are at least 2 other things for my list for today and about 100 minutes to get them done. And those are really just the “I REALLY gotta get these things done today” things. There are other things that are important, but not at this level and unfortunately, one of them may get done first simply because my brain needs a break.

While I break, I still think, I just think about random things which usually means astrology. Perhaps you’ve had your birth chart done, perhaps not, but it’s a fun little thing to do if you know what time you were born. Now, do I fully believe that for each hour period of any given day in, basically, history, that when each of us were born we had a little bit of glitter sprinkled on us that gave us the same traits as everyone else born in that little period of time? Huh. Well, I guess now that I put it that way, it’s kind of a cool way to think about it and maybe I do believe that.

Regardless of what you believe (because this is MY space on the internet, after all), sometimes birth charts hit some things right on the nose. Some things are super off, and of course, some things are a yes one day and a no the next because, hello, have you met me?

There are almost 30 little sections that make up my birth chart from the website where I got it. I think I want to talk a little about all of the sections, but certainly not all at once. I have other things I need to do yet, remember? Let’s maybe look at a few.

Most people know their Sun sign. It’s the sign you identify as if/when you read your horoscope and it’s based on just your birthday. It’s the heart of your identity based on what’s important to you both internally and externally. Each of the sections of my birth chart has a whole lengthy piece with some generalities about positives and negatives and a kind of summary. I’m a Sagittarius. A fire sign.

The good:

  • Enthusiastic
  • Idealistic
  • Warm-hearted
  • Independent
  • Curious
  • Fair-minded
  • Strong negotiator
  • Infectious optimism

The not-so-good:

  • Too adventurous
  • May leave things to chance
  • May take risks that cause problems
  • Rebellious
  • Sometimes tactless
  • Quick tempered
  • Lack focus and can be indecisive

SHOTS FIRED!!

Damn! I guess I gotta take the good with the bad because it’s all me, but those bads are soooooo me. On this round, natal chart: 1, me: 0. Let’s see what the moon has to say.

Your moon sign is representative of your really inner shit. How you take care of yourself and how you show it to everyone else. I think that your moon sign is always opposite your sun sign. Don’t shoot me if I’m wrong. You got here, you know how to use the internet to look it up. My moon sign is opposite my sun sign, meaning I have the moon in Gemini. You know Gemini is the twins, right? And this is my inner shit? Yeah, there’s definitely two mofos fighting it out in there. Well, moon, show me the money.

The good:

  • Witty
  • Well-informed
  • Adaptable
  • Realistically optimistic which contributes to my “luck”
  • Fun to be around
  • Tolerant
  • Generous

And the not-so-good:

  • Restless
  • Pay too much attention to others losing focus on what I want to do
  • Moody
  • Poor follow-up on ideas
  • Indecision

Well, the moon didn’t get the gun out, but social media, no matter how much I need it to be in touch with y’all, is the not-so-good bullet number two. Number 4 is another one that is a real sore spot for me. I know all of these things about myself, but it’s kinda strange to have a piece of paper based on where stars were at the time I was born be so accurate. Oh no! Am I a BASIC SAGITTARIUS?!?! Ha. There’s surely no such thing.

Come back tomorrow when I’ll be ducking shots from Mercury, Venus, and Mars. If I can sustain my well-being, maybe Jupiter too. See ya then!

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