Here’s a little about starting the day in the mind of this astrologer/writer.
It’s a quiet Sunday morning at home. We’d been out with the kids for a celebration dinner the night before (Prince finished year 12!).
The house was still – the kids stayed up watching Titanic after dinner (it seems they hadn’t seen the movie!). Peter and I had called it a night at the point where Leo’s character Jack is teaching Kate’s character Rose how to spit.
So Sunday morning I had a late start due to a late night. After I stretched a little, and let the cats have a quick sniff around the backyard, I made tea, vegemite on rice cakes and settled in to read the most recent edition of Canadian Elle magazine, which had recently arrived in the mail.
An article on ‘The E-Volution’, about the online publishing world, reminded me I still hadn’t read Chad Harbach’s ‘The Art of Fielding’. (A book from a first time novelist 9 years in the writing, that ended up in a bidding war, ultimately selling for more than $600,000, which then made the New York Times ‘Top Ten’ picks of 2011.)
I made a mental note to jump on Amazon and finally order the book. I continued flicking through the magazine, landing 
on the book recommendations for the month. (All the while wondering, ‘How Jupiter in Gemini is this, reading a magazine to get book recommendations?’ Perhaps a bit old fashioned but I am sure I am not the only one!)
As I read through the outline of the highlighted book of the month, I could barely restrain myself from immediately searching online for ‘The End of Your Life Book Club’, by Will Schwalbe. It’s about the books he and his Mum read once she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. (A book, Jupiter in Gemini, about reading (Gemini Jupiter again!) when you know time is fast running out, because you’re about to die, hello Saturn in Scorpio.)
A few other recommendations followed, including an interesting one set in India in the 70’s – ‘A Fine Balance’ by Rohinton Mistry – and one I’d read, loved and have been meaning to read again – ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion.
In the midst of forming the thought to add to and finally order whatever happens to be on my Amazon wish list, another thought emerged. ‘Wait! Most of these books are probably the library. Down the road. Where books are free – and, if in stock, instantly available. Even on a Sunday.’
Saturn in Scorpio’s cautious approach to spending thus became the balance point to my rather overzealous desires for new books and information (Jupiter in Gemini gone wild).
Rather than buying all these things I wished to read, I could still get the mental stimulation and escape I craved without spending any money at all. By borrowing.
Oh la la, wondered the astrologer in me, (yes, I know, it’s busy in my head!) could this be a preview of how the next 9 months will go? With Saturn in Scorpio offering conservative approaches to new experiences? Where learning – Jupiter in Gemini – can be facilitated through existing resources, rather than through the accumulation of new ones?!
Well I wonder. And, I’m off to the library to see what other recent best-selling gems (Steve Jobs’ bio!) I’d wanted to read but missed, and may now find free.
Over to you.
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Are you finding ways to balance Jupiter in Gemini’s desire for facts with Saturn in Scorpio’s need for financial caution?