“For slander lives upon succession,
Forever hous’d where it gets possession.”
New Moon 9 Gemini around 6:30 AM May 30. Mercury goes un-retrograde around 3:00 AM June 3. Venus enters Taurus around 9:47 AM May 28. Saturn turns retrograde June 4 around 4:47 PM.
Perfect Mercury Retrograde metaphor, about what wandering minds want to know.
“POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Taken from:
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.
Uvalde, Texas signage. Eerily prescient?
“That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.”
Hamlet IV.ii.10
I’m on my second Apple Watch. I went from thinking it was a useless technical bauble, a status symbol for some, but the device earned my adoration over the years. Took a few tries to understand what it can —and can’t — do, but I’ve gotten accustomed tracking the miles I walk, or the oxygen level in my blood, and what the time plus temperature might be. Texts, while I usually don’t read them, but I like the notification.
On the first watch, a four, I think, the wrist bands took a while to get a comfortable one, but I eventually landed on plain rubber-like band.
So in Austin the other day, a few days in a row? I pulled my watch off the charger one evening, stretched it on, and snapped the wristband in two. Momentary panic, then a quick search of the rental, then a quick search online, and the horrible realization, too late to get one in the hot summer night, at least as far as I could tell. Several chain stores would be open the next morning; it could wait.
I missed the sleep data. Grateful, though, that I walked into a store, and walked out with new band that only cost, like, ten bucks. Ten bucks, ten minutes.
It was my hubris — the astrologer — that I was making it through this mess with relative ease.
That’s not how it works.
It’s not always big stuff. I think there’s a dead tree in my front yard, in the midst of a copse of Live Oak, a single thin, arched stem that has no leaves. Thought about borrowing a neighbor’s chain saw, and then? When Mercury is retrograde?
What could go wrong?
Really should take my own advice.
“Keep thy own counsel.”
Tuesday at Nature’s Treasures.
4103 N. Interstate 35
Austin, TX 78722
Phone: 512.472.5015
11AM – 5PM, appointments encouraged. E-mail.
“It’s really him,” at the rock shop in Austin.
Use the code, “sparkle faerie” at the check out — for applicable discounts.
Price Selection Won’t Be Beat!
“First to arrive gets the best deal.” (Source.)
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