Friday Time Clock #3: The Hermit Issue
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Shannon in Things I think about
Photo by Felipe Gabaldón (cc)
The Time Clock started as an offshoot of Havi Brooks’ nifty weekly check-in ritual, now known as the Friday Chicken, over at The Fluent Self. After years in cooking, and because we’re all about the march of time here, my weekly review requires clocks, and usually kitchen notes. If you want you can join me in the comments, too.
It’s Friday the 13th! *spooky noises*
This is sort of anticlimactic for me, though. I had a black cat as a kid, I’m left-handed, I have Mercury retrograde. I already fall on the wrong side of superstition. Big whoop. But I do love numbers, so when odd days or events roll around, I at least appreciate them because they’re unusual. And if it involves fantastic words like paraskevidekatriaphobia, so much the better.
The good stuff this week:
I am a damn hermit right now. And though I don’t really like some of the reasons I’m feeling hermity, I’m liking the act of just being at home and doing my own thing. I’ve officially been in my new apartment for a month now, and it’s finally starting to feel more homey, in its own way. Curtains, a few details, new glassware in the cupboard, some new orchids… I’m accumulating orchids at a steady rate. I may have to start naming them. Stay tuned for this.
On Sunday I got to spend some time with one of my best friends for his birthday, which was super fun. We went window shopping for guitars and yakked it up at a neat little restaurant afterward. I had been there once before and while the crowd is a tad yuppie for me, it feels almost exactly like the kind of place I would have if I were masochistic enough to have my own restaurant. Take a look at the menu; some of it is pretty clever.
Well, the window shopping was compelling enough that after sleeping on it for a few days, I went back and bought a new guitar! Take a look. So my hermity self has a new reason to not be spending so much time in front of the computer screen, which is a good thing for me.
Astrologically, the sun, Mercury, and Venus are all sweeping through my well-stocked fourth house (home, habits, family) right now and lighting up my house-proud streak. It may not be exactly the way I want it yet, but it’s mine and it’s pretty nice and I’m going to enjoy it! Venus will keep transiting my fourth until just after my Venus return in early December, so I’m really enjoying the process of tweaking my place into shape. Just have to be careful to control the spending while doing it…
The hard stuff this week:
The Saturn-Pluto square is stirring up my stuff on the hard side too. With the forced focus on relationships and cardinal energy, I’m really being pushed to weed through a lot of my old relationship and friendship baggage. And it’s hard. I won’t lie. I’m oscillating between enjoying my alone time and feeling very lonely, which is depressing. And Libra doesn’t like being forced to do things alone, so that’s hard at times too. I’ve been experiencing a lot of those wide swings this past week especially.
My bakery schedule is intense right now- long weekends followed by days of double shifts. Thankfully it’s the last week of really oddball hours, but it has been hard to maintain a regular balance because of that. All my routines are out of whack and it’s hard for me to keep reorienting myself.
So that’s my week. What was good for you? What was hard?
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AngelIVXXX
Nov 14th, 2009
Wow, that restaurant sounds interesting to say the least, some great ideas there. Just read about Stilton cheese, I love cheese, made me want cheese, lol, I think I will get back into buying some of the better cheeses for the holiday season ^_^. Cute guitar.
Ah, Libra & loneliness are a poor match, indeed. I know the feeling. We live for others… ’tis our raison d’etre! Get a cat! ^_^ or something, lol. Orchids are so lovely. Have you put up pictures/art yet?
I’m feeling the Saturn Pluto square as pressure to hang on and stand my ground. I have all the foundation work done, just need the inner discipline to stick to the plan, lol ^_^, I have Gemini rising and I’m too flighty by half, I try to fly away in spite of myself!
Enjoy your new apartment!
Shannon
Nov 14th, 2009
@Angel- I’m stalking some art at the moment; I haven’t quite settled on the framing though- is that a sad hangup or what? And my strategy is to find another orchid every time I think about getting a cat… I’m comfortable with being a crazy orchid lady
Along comes Saturn in Libra to bring us that inner discipline! Sounds like you’re prepared though. A lot of people are shouting doom-and-gloom over the Saturn-Pluto (and it is a tough one), but like all dramatic transits it brings good with the hard.
AngelIVXXX
Nov 14th, 2009
Lol, good frames are important!
you’re too young to be the “crazy cat lady!” We Libras need something/someone to relate to, it’s good for our emotional/mental balancing act. Just think of all those needy critters in shelters waiting for someone who needs that friendly face to relate to, lol ^_^.
That Saturn in Libra rules my 5th house & in my Solar chart, I have Saturn there… so, I guess I’m used to the restrictions by now… having a moon in Capricorn helps too, so used to the school of hard knocks, it’s more like bring it on, lol. That’s the Mars in Leo talking.
Saturn is exalted in Libra
I think it’s just the balancing act that we need! And with Pluto in Capricorn, there will be no hedging the bets, so to say, let justice prevail!
Lise
Nov 17th, 2009
Finding that recently have become paranoid (Pluto) about not having enough (Saturn) money! Ok that has been a theme at times in my life but lately its gone ballistic, so much so my back has gone out (lack of support). Ultimately I see all of this ‘breakdown’ as a good thing, its removing old blocks and unneeded stuff in our lives, yes sometimes it takes us kicking and screaming but we as humans don’t like change and sometimes it needs to happen this way.
May be as a precursor to Saturn going into Libra, found out earlier this year my partner had been having an affair. Devastation beyond belief hit me (you will never know the pain unless it happens to you) and whilst I went through so much pain, we have come out of the chaos in a much shinier newer relationship. More open, honest and ultimately free of the old baggage of parental stuff, etc. Feels better than it ever has. It has taken some getting there in counselling (Imago) and workshops etc and ongoing commitment to grow and mature and it does feel quite amazing, never imagined it could be so different!
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