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image courtesy of Melissa from Pixabay Monday, July 20, 2026 Waxing Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Sunny and pleasant Here we are, at Monday again! You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here. It’s a very interesting one, mostly court cards. Unusual, but good information in the way it ties together. The hope is that I can just trudge along steadily this week with…

image courtesy of  Pexels from Pixabay Friday, July 17, 2026 Waxing Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Partly sunny, cooler, but humid Wildfire haze We’re almost at the weekend! Woo-hoo! I’m planning a quiet weekend of working on the script commission pitch, reading the scripts for the WAM literary committee meeting at the end of the month, and reading some background information for…

image courtesy of No-longer-here from Pixabay Thursday, July 16, 2026 Waxing Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Hazy and warm You can read the latest on the garden over at Gratitude & Growth. Yesterday morning, I caught up on some email. I realized I hadn’t yet sent my UK producer the requested materials for the next radio production, so I got that out the door, and caught up on a few…

image courtesy of moerschy from Pixabay Thursday, July 16, 2026 First Quarter Moon Waxing in Leo Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Celtic Tree Month of Holly Hazy and warm There’s not much to say on the garden front this week. It’s more about maintaining everything in the heat. Keeping the plants watered, dead heading. The cuttings from the night-blooming jasmine are doing well out back.…

image courtesy of Алексей Громов from Pixabay Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Waxing Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Hazy, hot, humid Happy Wednesday, and I hope you’re doing okay in the heat. It was hard to settle down in the chaos, between a Senate seat being handed to a dead senator’s sister (who has no experience), the refusal of a Dem governor to find out the truth about another…

image courtesy of Stefan Schweihofer from Pixabay Tuesday, July 14, 2026 New Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Bastille Day Partly sunny, hot, and humid Hello, and I hope you had a good weekend. Today is supposed to be brutally hot, and I may pack up and go to work at the library. July 14/Bastille Day is a day I consider my personal Independence Day from something dating way back to…

image courtesy of Kati from Pixabay Monday, July 13, 2026 Dark Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Sunny and warm, getting hot I am headed out the door shortly to the mechanic. Send good thoughts! You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here. It’s, um, interesting. I don’t have all that much out-and-about this week, but I do have a big ghostwriting deadline on Wednesday,…

image courtesy of jacqueline macou from Pixabay Friday, July 10, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Hot and humid And it’s already Friday! Yesterday morning, I tried to concentrate on some work and failed, so I did admin instead. Then, the payment from the ghostwriting came through, so I went over to the mechanic to talk things through, get an estimate, and get an…

image courtesy of L D from Pixabay Thursday, July 9, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto, Mercury, and Neptune Retrograde Sunny and warm I kept thinking yesterday was Friday, but it was Wednesday, making today Thursday, and tomorrow Friday. You can read the latest on the garden over on Gratitude & Growth here. Yesterday started as a very Mercury Retrograde day. I got the garbage and the broken-down…

image courtesy of  Leopictures from Pixabay Thursday, July 9, 2026 4th Quarter Waning Moon in Taurus Pluto, Mercury, and Neptune Retrograde Celtic Tree Month of Holly Sunny and warm It’s been all about the weather lately. The 4th of July weekend was too hot and humid for my comfort, and I didn’t do much except lie on the couch and read during the day, and try to get the temperatures down…

image courtesy of Annette from Pixabay Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto, Mercury, Neptune Retrograde Sunny and pleasant It’s the middle of the week, but it feels like the week has gone on forever. I had trouble settling down to work, between grief at the Nolan Wells situation (and the way the sheriff already participates in the cover-up), and the rage at the GOP pretending they’re…

image courtesy ofAvelino Calvar Martinez from Pixabay Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto, Mercury, and Neptune Retrograde Rainy and cool I hope you had a good weekend. You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here. Neptune joins the retrograde parade today, until the 12th of December. It’s a good time to explore dreams and work with lucid dreaming, rather than trying to…

image courtesy of  Joshua Choate from Pixabay Monday, July 6, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto and Mercury Retrograde Rainy and mild After a rough weekend on the heat-and-humidity front, it’s cooler today, and we will finally get some rain. This weekend isn’t too busy on the out-and-about front, except for Thursday, which as a lot stacked into just a few hours, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.…

image courtesy of pisabay.com Friday, July 3, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto & Mercury Retrograde Hazy, sunny, hot, humid Here we are, at the end of the week. Many are taking today as the July 4th holiday. Some take Monday. Some take both. Libraries are closed today, so today is the day I’m taking off client work. I was up early yesterday, to get all the morning chores done before online…

image courtesy of Jan Simons from Pixabay Thursday, July 2, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto & Mercury Retrograde Cloudy, hot, humid How are you doing in the heat? Staying hydrated? You can read the latest on the garden over at Gratitude and Growth. I had a solid creative morning yesterday. I typed up some Nina Bell notes from the free-write sessions and then wrote about 1000 words on BETTING MAN. I…

photo by Devon Ellington Thursday, July 2, 2026 Third Quarter Moon Waning in Aquarius Pluto and Mercury Retrograde Celtic Tree Month of Oak We’re in the middle of a heat dome (this is day 2 of a projected 3-day stretch). It’s cloudy and foggy this morning, very humid and warm. The plants like the humidity, and I make sure they have enough water in the mornings. I check the plants out back,…

image courtesy of Phuong Ta from Pixabay Wednesday, July 1, 2026 Waning Moon Pluto & Mercury Retrograde Sunny, hot, humid Happy New Month! I always get so confused when a month starts in the middle of the week. Oh, well, that’s why we have wall calendars. I took care of the morning chores. I finally got the green shelf unit out on the back balcony, and brought some more plants out there. I…