Living in Balance

Okay, I admit it, the astrologer was not paying attention to her own personal astrology.

Transiting Mars was in hard angles both to my natal sixth house and to my natal Uranus in Gemini. We're talking about a possible accident in which my ribs would be injured.

So what happened? I'm raising a young orange tomcat who is absolutely adorable and a stink pot at the same time. When my granddaughter Nicole gave him to me for Christmas she provided a small open litter box and set it up in what she calls "her" bathroom in my house. She even put carpet on the floor one year. Young Dennis the Menace Cat has a ball digging in his litter box, flinging the litter everywhere. I swear he has hind legs as strong as a jackrabbit!

I do not like walking on cat litter, so I put newspaper on the floor under his box, leaving it extending 6-8 inches all around. Then I went in that bathroom looking for my blow dryer which Nicole had borrowed. I was thinking about getting my hair dried instead of how slick newspaper can be when you have 2 or 3 thicknesses of it, or that when you get some cat litter in between the layers they act like tiny ball bearings. I slipped on the newspaper and pitched head first into the bathtub, striking my ribs against the edge of the tub. Ouch!!

Nothing was broken, but those ribs really hurt. So much so that I haven't been able to sit in front of the computer to post to this blog until today. Mars and Uranus are both associated with accidents. When they are square each other, it's almost a certainty. So shame on me for not taking the time to check the transiting planets against my natal chart. I know better. No excuses. Just the circumstance that I was anxious to start writing on my book. Go to the Birthing A Book blog on blogspot.com or to my astrologyandselfhealing website and click on that blog which is my journal about writing this book.

No excuses, just an explanation of why I haven't made a posting recently.

Do you know what the three parameters for maintaining your balance are?
Your inner ear, your eyes and your feet. If you have a cold or a sinus infection the proper operation of your inner ear can be impaired. If you wear bifocals your sight is often impaired, causing you to stumble. If you are diabetic the feeling in your feet is impaired which can also cause to to stumble. If you're fortunate enough to have all three conditions then caution is your watchword. Be careful, pay attention to where you're putting your feet.

I know that sounds like a pain in the butt, but let me assure you that pain (or inconvenience) is much less than having your ribs protest loudly at almost every move you make -- for weeks. Look at it as the importance of living in the now, being conscious of everything you are doing now instead of thinking about either past or future events.