Good morning dear friends {Smile}

I was going to leave a post in here last night on the way to Neptune land but I was a little tired as was up very early yesterday as Paul had to go to the doctors for a blood test so decided that bed was probably the best place for me {smile} Actually it is interesting because usually I have suffered with the clock changing (as you would know from postings over the years) yet this time it isn’t too bad at all. {smile}

I have got to go to the hospital this afternoon for my pre-op checks etc in readiness for next week though as it isn’t a major surgery I am fairly lost as to the reasons why they have to take blood tests and do ruddy ECG’s! {chuckle} Anyways ours is not to reason why but I do not like needles so blood tests are not my favourite things so sending out the request that the nurse will have a good skill with finding a vein! Bleurgh at the thought so will change the subject now! {smile}

Would ask you to hold dear {{chakhotay}} in your thoughts as he has managed to get a little upset tum bless him. He is now getting so creaky but is still enjoying life and my wish is for him to at least have the summer time as this winter seems to have gone on forever so it would be lovely for him to have some warmer weather with sun on his back. It is still cold with a goodly frost this morning yet at least there is blue sky and sun shine out there though we still have that East wind. I think the weather is going to get a little warmer next week so that will be good and at long last! {Smile}

{{{Diana}}} oh thank goodness re dear {{Loralee}} {Smiling} I had been sending out energies and kept checking back in here so what a relief to see your message this morning and know that all was well with the surgery for her. I hope that she takes note of her instructions and does take it easy for her own recovery and healing post op and am sure that you will probably have pointed that out to her anyways. {smile} Please pass on my good wishes to her and wish her a speedy recovery. {{Loralee hugs}}}

Well talk about the Universe providing in the form of dear {[Ed’s}} doctor! At least with him deciding to go for the treatment (even though he now can’t start it) it has been recorded on his records the problem with your living accommodation so that is brilliant and it also means that should his health circumstances change before September that there is something extra there in place for you both to be found alternative accommodation quickly. Of course I hope that his condition doesn’t get worse in order for that to happen and in fact am sending out some extra {{{energies}} for him to help him keep going til September when your lease is up. Also sending out a little request to the Universe to come up with somewhere lovely for you both to live sooner rather than later {smile} So just think if he hadn’t decided to go ahead with the chemo then this wouldn’t have been noted on his records {smile} Sending out an extra dollop of {{{healing energies}} across the Pond for him as I write and another lot for you also dear friend as I know you will need some together with {{{warm hugs}}}}.

{{{elfina}}} I do hope that you are feeling a little better after a good night’s sleep dear friend. I was so relieved to see your message last night even though I didn’t post and I did also send a dollop of {{{energies}}} across the Sea to you before I went to sleep as you felt so ~flat~. There is no need to apologise as we are have busy ~nows~ or indeed just don’t have time or energy even to post but just a line to let everyone know that you are ok is fine else as I have said up there I go into ~worry wort~ mode {grin} Aww that is lovely to have your daughter and grands there for Easter though I know how tiring it can be having youngsters around even though it is enjoyable. The children and grandchildren came on Easter Sunday here and we had the Easter Egg hunt which was great fun. I get Paul to organise it and also to organise the children with the clues etc and he enjoys it too even though he doesn’t always admit it and can be Mr Grumpy before the event and then admits that he did enjoy it afterwards! {grin} With the weather getting a little kinder we hope to start spending time on the boat which he will enjoy. Right now with his own health issues and his fear of possibly having to have surgery has made his blood pressure go sky high so had to go for a blood test yesterday and will see his doctor later this week for the results to find out why. Hopefully it is just because he has got used to the same dose of blood pressure medication over the years and that needs adjusting. How is Pat doing with his health now? Hope that all is ok as he was going through a bout of it wasn’t he? Am sending out another dollop of {{{heaeling energies}}} across the Pond to you dear friend so that you have some in reserve for the duration of the family’s visit {{{hugs}}} Will look forward to hearing more from you as and when your own ~now ~permits sweetie {smiling}

{{{kermit}}} putting out a little call for you to leave a line. I hope that all is ok with you – here I go again into worry wort mode! {smile} Sending a nice lot of {{energies}}} across the Pond to you as well. Sheesh I feel positively bouncing with them this morning that’s for sure! [grin}

Whilst I also think of it has anyone heard anything from dear {{Haggar/Maggy}}}? I know she was going through a challenging time both with Dan and also herself. Sitting here sending {{{healing energies}}} Down Under for them both with a little request to the Universe to let them know we are thinking and concerned for them {{Maggy hugs}}}}

Hokey dokes I think I had better pop this post in for now as it will be time shortly to go and wake Paul and I will then take the dogs out for their walk before breakfast as Nelson has decided that he will only faff about with his food first thing so better to do the walk first and then I can relax with a cup of tea and my own breakfast whilst they then eat. {Smile}

I will look back in later this afternoon so til then am leaving a little ~thought~ for the Day together with a {{{warm group hug}} to {{all}} who may enter {smile}

~No good is higher than Truth and Compassion~ (Teachings of Buddha)

with love always

mermaid…xxx

PS I have also got more pages finished and uploaded to the esoteric site which is great. Details are in the esoteric message board/guestbook. xxx

Hello dear friends {smile}

The Universe provides does it not? {Smile} Yesterday as you may have noticed, I popped a little ~thought request~ for dear Haggar/Maggy to be in touch and this morning opened FB (which is unusual for me in the mornings) and lo and behold Maggy had left a post there which I will copy in here for those who don’t use FB. She posted it yesterday

“Margaret Klein
Back again ! I tripped over something in the lounge room and fell, hitting my head-beloved husband says he is still repairing the hole !!Anyway ,went off to the hospital and was admitted-so I had my rest-but not the way i wanted it.Dan had people coming in as usual every morning,lunchtime to get his lunch and then at dinner time.Someone is still coming in to cook the evening meal as i can't stand for too long.Dan also fell-the am I returned from hosp.-he fell out of bed. Pressed his button; Harry,the dog met the ambos at the door, escorted them to D's room and supervised them getting him back to bed-he never barks at them. Never a dull moment here.
cheers margaret”

sitting here sending out some {{{extra healing energies}}} for both her and Dan as they have really been through it for the past couple of years.

It appears we are back into winter here as yesterday it was snow blizzards again though fortunately it hasn’t settled. We had to go to the marina in Ipswich for a meeting on ~Spirit~ and also to run some errands in town and it just snowed and blew a strong North Easterly! The weather people are saying we might (just might) get into double figures later next week – yesterday it was only 1C but felt colder with the wind! The poor boat is filthy on her decks because of all the carbon etc in the snow but there again all the boats are looking the same at the moment. Spring will arrive at some stage I am sure but in the meantime it was lovely and snug to sit by a roaring log fire last night that Paul had lit when I was out. {Smile}

I will write a little more later as looking at the time I have to make a start on my day. Paul is off to the doctors first thing to get the results of his blood test and I have to catch up on work as I have been at hospitals, dentist (snapped a tooth again!) and osteopath in the past couple of days – think once the warm weather arrives then we will both be able to shake off the health stuff! {chuckle). Michael was here all day yesterday so he walked the dogs for me and saw to the sheep so at least I didn’t have to do that once I was back from the osteopath. Just have the surgery to come through next Wednesday and then all things being well should be as right as rain after a week or so {smile}

Hope all are well and will be back a little later… til then leaving a {{{warm group hug}} to {{all{{ who may enter together with a little ~thought~ for the day and sending out a goodly amount of {{{healing energies}}} for those who need them...{smile}

~Be calm like a great tree in a storm~

with love always

mermaid…xxx

Good morning dear friends [smile}

Well at long last it looks as though we might have a bit of spring on the way at long last! {smile} There is a beautiful blue sky out there this morning with a golden sun shining – yippee! It was also lovely yesterday as , although the temperatures are still down, the strong north easterly winds had died down so it did feel warmer. Actually I suppose it was feeling like the real temperatures of 7 to 8C rather than wind chill factor taking it down to around minus 4 or 5C! {smile}.

There is a bit of a white frost out there at the moment though that is forecast to soon melt off and we are supposed to have a nice sunny day. That will be great because we are going to spend a few hours on the boat this afternoon airing her and doing a few little jobs so it will make a lovely change to last Thursday when it was white out blizzards and howling winds! It is so lovely to have sunshine after what seems like an eternity of grey cold weather. They said that Thursday was the coldest recorded day in April for thirty years and I can quite believe it. Everything is so late now in the garden – the daffodils have finally popped open down the drive (as that is south facing) but all the others have a way to go. Hopefully Robert can get the apple trees pruned next week (they are usually done around mid February!) else we won’t have any fruit this year. We went and bought some seeds yesterday as Paul has got the vegetable garden plan done and we can finally think about planting although that is a month behind as well. Still I suppose that could now mean that summer will go on a lot longer instead – now there’s a thought! {smile}

They are forecasting some rain showers next week (April showers bring May flowers) which is just as well as although it has been so cold with the snow and snow flurries we haven’t had rain for a while and the ground is very dry. Also the Atlantic weather front bringing the rain will also help it to warm up.

Paul’s blood tests came back fine so his worry about what could have been going on with his blood pressure has eased up somewhat. He is now cleared to go and see the consultant about the problem with his neck so once I have had my op done and dusted next Wednesday then hopefully that should be me ticked off the list and then he can get sorted out. Hopefully h will just have to go the injection route as he is terrified of hospitals but that is for the Universe to decide and for him to perhaps have to face his fear. {Smile}

I wanted to also thank you for your {{energies}} for Dave and Angie – I had a nice long chat on the phone with her (as they have had to stay at home for all his recovery time so haven’t been up our way) and he is continuing his recovery though he is having three visits to the hospital a week at the moment. They might be up to their boat next weekend and if they are then hope to catch up with them in person for a little while on the Sunday afternoon.

It is Olly’s 40th birthday this coming Tuesday and we are going out for a family only dinner then which will be nice and then there is going to be a big party next Saturday night. Paul’s sister and her husband are coming up from Kent and will stay overnight with us. Mind you I have said that I probably won’t be able to be late (and Penny and Bob don’t want to be late out either) so we are showing our ages methinks! {grin} Actually I am not sure how my knee is going to be after surgery and poor Jacqui is having her first bout of radiation treatment on Tuesday as it appears they have got all the tumour out (thank heavens) so what a lot of ~crocks~ we will be! {grin} Still all things do pass and hopefully with the arrival of spring time we can leave all the medical stuff behind us. {Smile}

Anways that is probably enough of a ramble from me for now as it is getting close to having to make a start on my day. I hope that everyone is well in their own ~nows~ and am sitting here sending out {{{healing energies}}} to all those who need them and leaving a {{{warm group hug}} to {{all}} who may enter… together with a little ~thought~ to ponder for the day {Smile}

~Where there is great love there are always miracles~

with love always

mermaid…xxx

Good morning dear friends {Smile}

Just popping in quickly this morning as I have a bit of running about to do today so that I can get things in and organised before Wednesday. I realised that I probably won;t be able to drive for two to three weeks so I have to get myself into Ipswich to pick up animal feed this morning (as Michael will be here to help unload etc.) this means I probably won't be back til this evening so thought it better to pop a quick post in now before I start my day. {Smile}

We had a nice time on the boat yesterday afternoon bumbling about and getting little jobs done and seeing what needs to be completed before she can go out down the river and out to sea. I now has a little list and Paul has a longer one (he loves doing lists!) Hopefully Stevie (who does quite a lot of the heavy maintenance work on her) will be able to perhaps get her topsides power-washed off this week because she is absolutely filthy after all the snow this winter. Mind you at least with him not doing her a couple of weeks ago it has saved her getting more carbon on her from the snow. It was lovely getting her aired out and the generator up and running and putting things away that the workmen had left lying about from getting jobs done on her in the winter. We got the dinghy moved from the foredeck back to the flying bridge deck in readiness for it being re-inflated and I got the cabins sorted and the galley cleaned. It was a good afternoon's work {smile}

I also must get back to my studying for navigation exams as have been severely remiss in not keeping up so quite a bit of revision is going to be due. So my resolve for the next couple of weeks at least is to get back to charts (marine not astrological) and navigation software whilst I have the opportunity to do it. {smile}

I hope everyone is well and am leaving a {{warm group hug}} to {{all}} who may enter together with {{haling energies}} to those who need them. I also want to leave a little ~something~ to ponder as we start the week {smile}

~Walk on a rainbow trail;
walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty.

There is a way out of every dark mist,
over a rainbow trail.~
(Navajo song)

with love always

mermaid...xxx

Liz and friends. I truly don't know what is wrong with me. I have no energy and no will to do anything. I am sorry I am not myself lately. I don't even have the energy to re read all the posts. Liz, may all be well tomorrow for you. Now I better post this before I just leave it. I am trying to pull out of this and pray it will be soon. ***

{{elfina}}} aww thank you sweetie {smiling} I hope to be back home tonight so will pop another post in then all being well. {smile} Just had a thought re how you are feeling - Saturn is currently in Scorpio so would suggest that he has been affecting your Sun as he can sometimes be a bit of a wet blanket! {smile} I will see if I can take a look at your transits in the next day or so as there is bound to be something that you can use to help with those energies.

I wanted to write a longer post this morning but I have been running a bit from pillar to post with Robert here doing fencing, Dorothy here as well and Paul has now just gone off to the Nuffled (same hospital as me) for an appointment with his consultant and then will go to the office to pick up some mail. Fortunately I have a taxi coming to pick me up as Paul can't get back here in time to take me in and he can then come back to the hospital from the office to see that I am checked in ok. He will then come and collect me early this evening after my procedure all being well. {Smile}

So til later dear friends - I hope all are well and am leaving a {{warm group hug}} to {{all}} who may enter...with a little ~thought~ for the day {smile}

~Instead of seeing
the rug being pulled
from under us,
we can learn to dance
on a shifting carpet~

(even with a walking stick perhaps?) {Smile}

with love always

mermaid...xxx

Wishing you a speedy recovery...I hope all went well. ((((HUG))))

Dear Liz,

Have been adding energies as well for a safe and effective procedure, as well as for a rapid and thorough recovery {{hugs}} Please rest up as much as possible.

Elfina, sending out some boosting energies your way as well.

Kermit, I really hope you're doing ok.

Waving to Hathor, Robynne, and Maggy as well as all others who stop by.

Love,
Diana

Hello dear friends {smile}

Just splashing through to same am home again and got home about an hour ago. My poor knee is swollen up like a small football at the moment and am full of painkillers and morphine so a bit blurry... {smile}

{{elfina and diana}}} Thank you so much dear friends for your thoughts and energies. I came whizzing out of anaesthesia in recovery but they wouldn't let me back to my room until the oxygen levels had sorted out. They had also kept popping more and more morphine into my vein which didn't seem to be doing much good on the pain management and then when I said what painkillers I normally used they said that morphine wouldn't really mix with them! like duh!?? (especially as they knew what I was already on because I had had to complete a form saying all this!) Anyways your energies were much appreciated and have helped tremendously. I have taken my own pain relief stuff (plus two vodkas and tonics) at home as it doesn;t matter if I get sleepy as am about to go to bed! {grin}

I will write more in the morning as I will go and lie down now so til then thank you both again... {{{big warm hugs}}}}

love always

mermaid...xxx

PS please excuse if this post is a tad ~bleery~ hopefully normal service will resume again in the morning!{smile}

Good morning dear friends {Smile}

This post is for you dear {{{elfina}}} and I will write up another general post later today. I did have a good night's sleep (must have been the cocktail of painkillers I took last night together with all the energies that have been sent for which I thank you all) {smile} Anyway without further ado as I have been concerned for you dear friend...{{{hugs}}}

{{elfina}}} I had a look at your chart and transits this morning as I was up at 5.30 and I was right about transiting Saturn only you have a double hit at the moment as not only do you have Saturn coming up to conjunct your Sun (only a degree away from being exact) but also you have an exact Saturn square Saturn as well! Remembering our ages it is not the first time you have undergone both of these transits but hopefully you will understand the energies more. He really can feel like a bit of a wet blanket sometimes but he also brings stability and structure. You will also be feeling this energy more strongly because the Sun is your chart ruler as well and usually Leo rising people have an abundance of energy to get things done (my own Leo Ascendant helps me with this because of natal Mars getting somewhat submerged in Pisces {grin}) so really no wonder you are feeling like you do. {{{hugs}}}

Today and a bit of tomorrow you also have transiting Moon square Saturn which can make you feel more so in the ~depressed energy~ mode so probably time to just either chill out – how about going on your boat or taking a wander on the sea shore to revitalise yourself and go with the flow. (Your Pisces Moon will appreciate that {Smile})

I can type up some Robert Hand interpretations for your transiting Saturn conjunct Sun ~hit~ that is building up and in the meantime will leave here (courtesty of copy/paste) the Robert Hand interpretations for Saturn square Saturn.

“Saturn square Saturn: Soul-searching – From Mid-December 2012 until end of September 2013: This is a critical period in which several aspects of your life and experience will be tested, especially those that began to be important about seven years ago. Most often this influence is experienced as a sort of identity crisis in which you begin to question what you are doing. You may suffer a crisis of confidence at this time, fearing that you have made the wrong moves in life or committed yourself to some course of action that will not be good in the long run. During this period you will think about and question all the long-term trends in your life. You will not be thinking about trivial matters.

Sometimes a particular event triggers off this period of soul-searching. Others may create difficulties for you, especially in your public and social life. Perhaps they detect the first signs of insecurity that will afflict you during this period. If they are people who naturally compete with you, they may try to take advantage of your apparent weakness. People in authority may also sense your feelings of insecurity.

You must recognize that some aspects of your life need to be questioned at this time. But don't stand in one spot quivering about your life. Examine it and make whatever changes are possible and seem appropriate. Any project you started seven years ago or any new aspect of yourself that first surfaced then that is truly worth continuing will still be worthwhile after this period. This is a time of testing, and anything that withstands the test will be better for it. Things that do not pass the test are well got rid of. Shortly you will enter a period of stability and fruitfulness that will justify the events that take place now. In fact, if you are truly conscious of your life and your objectives, you will not undergo a real crisis at all. You will only go through a period of examining what is working and what is not. Your difficulties with the outer world at this time are signals about what you should be doing.”

It really isn’t all doom and gloom though as you also have some lovely Jupiter ones coming up in a couple of weeks! {smile}

What you do have to remember though dear friend is that all things do pass and this will also. Saturn transits are not everlasting and we should find them a little less challenging at our ages. Take the opportunity to go with the flow and see what other things you can be doing that you might not have considered before.

There are some lovely articles on Saturn and transits at Café astrology that you might like to read up. These can be found at :

http://www.cafeastrology.com/saturntransits.html

Now just so you remember that for every Saturn transit there are always others that help as he is not the only planet in the horoscope! {smile}

Currently you have Uranus trine Saturn with an activity period end of May 2012 until beginning of February 2014 and this is exact today. Here are Robert Hand’s translations:

“Understanding limitations *** Valid during many months: At this time in your life, discipline, order and responsibility can lead you to understanding and freedom. You will learn to understand and respect your limitations and work with them so that they are no longer so limiting. Everyone has limitations, but they can be used in a positive way and actually become tools for managing your life.

Your approach to life is very methodical and thorough, but you are not satisfied with the status quo. At this time you will seek out ways to constructively create changes, taking a very definite course of action to achieve what you want. Not satisfied with abstract formulations of principles, you want to know exactly how to do something, so that you can immediately get to the task. Therefore this is an excellent time for studying any difficult but practical technique.

If you are still active in your profession, this is a good time for learning new ways to advance in that field. You may appear ambitious, but you are really working carefully to expand your world and avoid undue limitations on your life. Whatever your motivation, you will win favor from your superiors, because they can see that you have balanced hard work and discipline on one hand with innovation and originality on the other. For this reason you may get a promotion of some kind now, which will bring you greater power and authority. But even if you achieve a new position, you are not likely to cease working for change within the system that you are part of. You will continue for some time, perhaps always, to work for reform and new ways of doing things, but always in the practical manner that got you there in the first place.”

Shortly you will have some lovely Jupiter transits with the first one (Jupiter square Moon: Magnanimity) building up now an arriving 27th April until 7th May. Again from Robert Hand:

“This is usually a very favorable influence. It gives your emotions a great deal of power, so that you feel them much more emphatically and are more in touch with them. At the same time you want to establish empathetic relationships with others, to hear their problems, to help out and play a protective role toward them if possible. This influence may make you feel very sentimental about and attached to your surroundings and to familiar objects. Your past is very important to you now, and if there are events in your past that you find uncomfortable, they are likely to come up. There is often a need to confront the unconscious areas of the psyche during this time, but you should regard this as an opportunity to be healed of the wounds made by these energies from the past.

In emotional relationships, this influence can create a tension between your desire to be close to someone and the desire to be free. Be careful to give your loved ones the same freedom that you want, and do not try to be unfairly possessive of them. Also, confrontations with the unconscious aspects of yourself mentioned above can affect relationships adversely during this time. In such cases it is necessary to cultivate a sense of detachment and not become so wrapped up in your emotions that you cannot see beyond them.

This influence gives an enormous concern with social and individual justice. You are easily outraged when you see someone getting the short end of the stick, but your emotionalism may make it difficult to see a good solution to the problem. Try to avoid feeling self-righteous and intolerant. You will need to have a very open and generous point of view in order to clear up any conflicts that occur at this time, and emotionalism masquerading as righteousness will not accomplish anything useful. Instead, take advantage of the ample positive side of this energy by helping those who need it. Protect the people you can protect and succor those who have been hurt. Magnanimity is just as much in accordance with the meaning of this influence as are extreme emotionalism and self-righteousness.”

This to be followed by Jupiter conjunction Uranus from 14 May 2013 until 23 May 2013 (I can leave those interpretations here if you want), but the following coming Jupiter transit also shows light at the end of the tunnel as well which is:

Jupiter trine Jupiter from 31 July 2013 until 9 August 2013:

“This influence usually represents a time of optimism and positive thinking in your life. You seem to be at a quiet point of balance that enables you to look over the affairs of your life and get a good perspective on them. Therefore, it is a good time to make long-range plans and to reorganize. You should use this time to gain new perspectives through education or travel or by participating in one of the consciousness raising activities or groups that exist now.

This is a time of psychological and physical equilibrium. If you have recently been ill in either body or mind, this influence will help tremendously with the healing process.

This is also a good time to examine your ideals and your goals, for it may be possible to actualize them in various ways now. At other times there is too much tension in your life or too much resistance from others. If you are involved in any movement for reform, now is a good time to take some positive action. Or you might become more involved in religion or philosophy, because you need to know much that is beyond the apparent order of things.

It is quite possible that you will do nothing during this time, because it gives you a feeling of balance but no drive to do anything in particular. You have an unusual sense of ease and relaxation now. This is also a good time to travel, both for relaxation and for educational reasons.

The important point to remember with this influence is that it is fundamentally an opportunity. You will not feel driven by any energies, nor will you feel any resistance to your efforts to do something. You can make great use of this time, but you have to take the initiative.”

So you see there is always something to help in dealing with whatever energies the transits bring us. If we have a Uranus transit which is breaking free from limitations, revolutionise everything etc then the energies of Saturn can help structure it all into something that can work properly. Everything has its positive side even though we sometimes wonder where it is {smile} And remember too that whatever transit we are undergoing that is only one planet in the group of 10. So there is always other things going on at the same time just sometimes one or two feel stronger than the others. {smile} I can also run a Solar rEturn report for you sweetie which will show what this solar year is bringing you if that would also help. Just let me know and I will do it and email to you. In the meantime sending you a big dollop of {{{extra energies}}}} as thank to all the ones I have been getting these past 24 hours I am zinging with them so only fair to help pass them around! {grin}

Heck have I rambled on this morning or what? {chuckle} I think I had better pop this post in and go and make a start on my morning. I will sit and write up some more later this afternoon or evening as I have Dave coming round to help get Paul’s internet connection working. His router is quite temperamental at the moment (which he does not enjoy!) so we will put a new one in and get his computer checked out whilst he is out at a business lunch today so least amount of disruption for him (and me!) . {smile}

Whilst I think of it {{{kermit}} check in please even if only a one liner! {{{hugs}}}

Leaving a little ~thought~ to ponder for today together with a {{{warm group hug}} to {{all}} who may enter [smile}

~The humble ant shows us how to work;
the bees how to live in harmony~

with love always

mermaid…xxx

PS I am not going to proof read as I have to make a start on my day but I hope it is fairly understandable {grin}