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I will continue to talk to my plants, say “I love you” to my house when I go to work each morning. “See you later” to my bedroom, attic, basement, whichever area I’m in when I’m leaving for a lengthy time period. I hug and kiss my daughter’s two extraordinary dogs when I can. My small 107 year old house is filled with my ancestors belongings, pictures of my late brothers, antique photos of my grandmother as a child w her sisters, handmade quilts that my grandmother and her mother and aunt tirelessly stitched. As Pluto enters Aquarius tomorrow afternoon, I rejoice in being surrounded by these precious items belonging to the time before technology. Thanks to my parents who saved what is so important, I’m wrapped in the spirits of family that came before me. I am grateful.

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I tell my plants I love them all the time. My greeting is, Hello, Flowers! even though there are no flowering plants, they are all in flower pots; they get the joke. Also I am fond of telling my cactus planets how dangerous they are. I get right in their face and remind them that I know.

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I think Neptune concurrently in Pisces was an especial challenge. When structures, foundations are falling away, some prefer to escape. The ones who Work their transits- Create with them. Create new foundations, maintain what continues to be functional, create vision and potential, the self to achieve and handle them. They dream themselves into being. If you used Pluto in Capricorn and Neptune in Pisces That way, you manifested yourself~

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I am working on the Virgo reading now...that idea is going in...thank you

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It's been like being given a clean slate to envision what you wanted. It's a lesson and an opportunity. Now will begin the time to practice. Like finishing puberty and discovering and creating with the new, adult you. Hopefully 'adult'. It's a honing of that, too. And the time of Pluto and Neptune in the signs they'll be leaving- we can tell who became adult and who was stunted, or regressed. The new signs may not care; adult skills will be in play.

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My daughter, born 2007, is writing her college essays. The writing prompts about "tell us about yourself" or "tell us a change of opinion you had" and it's all about her struggle with social media and self image. It hasn't been an issue directly, but lurking over our heads. I caved and allowed access to Instagram during Lockdown b/c how else to "see" friends? I know that was part of the plan - even then. But it actually helped to raise her awareness of real life experiences. Much like how breastfeeing was replaced by powered formula, learning and companionship is replaced by battery operated, highly "animated" toys from newborn on. Try and take away a device from a child at the store - you are going to hear a wail so painful...

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If she needs a pair of editor's eyes, hit me up.

A good essay is rewritten several times so please encourage her not to be attached to her words; she will discover what she is saying in the writing process.

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Yes these essays have multiple versions and rewrites - I'm her "ghostwriter" but they are her thoughts and words.

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happy to hear...a mother daughter moment of bonding in logos.

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