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When Chimpanzees Dream Astrology*

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Fluffball spat out his Piriton 4 times 🤦‍♀️ we try again tomorrow.
New normal colour wig for if I need to do Publicity for the Memoir when it comes out Soon!
Book by Amazing astrologer who spoke at the conference I attended on the astrological signs of different artists and architects and how this affected their work. Also he is very handsome and has sexy Berlin accent. Birthday 🥳 present from one of my favourite uncles.
Card for the day from my new Tarot Illuminati – birthday present from my bipolar male bestie Leon.
Card for the day for Mary. I love this deck 😻.
A second card for the day. I love the Prince of Wands in this deck. It’s one of my Heart 💜 Decks definitely 💚.
Look how stunning even the box is 📦!
This 😂

Go to sleep yesterday afternoon. Wake up at five o’clock for supper. Go back to sleep. Mum wakes me up and gives me my night time meds 💊 at nine. Sleep till six o’clock this morning.

Am upset as the Barre crew am at a Real Life Class that my darling teacher is now running at the new expensive sportswear shop in the village: Boutique 8. I’m not allowed to go because COVID-19 🦠. Cry 😭. Return to bed.

Speak to Mary. Feel a bit better. Go to Destiny Rising at the farm and buy some Energy Incense. In the farm shop purchase:

  1. Lemon 🍋 curd
  2. Cook 👩‍🍳 Asparagus, pea, feta and Parmesan tart which have for supper and it’s excellent 😋.
  3. Chocolate 🍫 ice cream 🍨 with chunky bits.
  4. Cook 👨‍🍳 Mexican Three Bean Chilli.
  5. Freshly squeezed orange 🍊 juice 🧃 and freshly squeezed cloudy apple 🍏 juice by Folkingtons.
  6. Iced coffee ☕️ in cans.

Speak to my psychiatrist Dr Stein and he waves his magic wand 🪄 and everything seems better.

Talk to Leon and Mary again. Am cheerful today.

Sit outside in the garden in the sunshine 🌞 with Mum and Fluffball. Wear sun hat 👒 and dress 👗 and Fit Flops 🩴. Walk to post box 📬 with Mum. The house martins are back from Africa for the summer. They return to the same house 🏡 in Beech Avenue every year. It’s a miracle.

Call GP surgery to make an appointment to talk to doctor 👩‍⚕️ next month: she wants to speak to me every month. Talk to Rosie – well-being coordinator at my synagogue 🕍 who used to be at Mind and she’s coming round on Friday morning. Need the extra support as really ill ATM 🤢 🤮 😫🥶😰🥱😴😪🤧🤒🤕😷.

Tidy bedroom a bit but it’s a losing battle.

Cuddle Fluffball. Try to assemble my new Lego knights but they’re fiddly and I’m too tired.

Talk to parents whilst they have supper.

Now finally am writing this. Going to sleep a bit later tonight as am determined to have a lie-in tomorrow: fifteen hours of sleep last night was good: I need More Sleep Every Night.

Just have to write my Tarot Card of the Day post now.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

*2004. By Alexander Graf Von Schlieffen. An introduction to the quadrants of the horoscope.

One Day In May*

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May A to Z

Asparagus, artichokes

Bluebells

Camellias, chemotherapy restarts today on a lower dose. So far: haven’t vomited 🤮

Dying to Get Out and socialise.

Exercising outdoors

Fluffball sleeping in my bed as I write this.

Green

Hellebores, House Martins

In Bloom selling lots of copies 🙏

Jersey Royal potatoes 🥔

Knights – adult Lego ones are coming.

Loving life, lemurs at the Zoos.

Morphine dose increase

Nothing will help me except a Positive Mindset, which I cultivate.

Often wishing it would just stop raining

Pansies still going strong, Petunia time soon fingers crossed 🤞

Querents wanting lots of Tarot Readings

Robins raising their chicks 🐣 in the Laurel hedge.

Salvias recovering at last and new ones coming 💃 spring cleaning: tidy my medicine 💊 cabinet: see photo above.

Tits: Great Tits, Coal Tits, Long-tailed Tits are all raising their chicks in the hedge or at the least, very close.

Underneath the ground in their warrens, baby rabbits 🐇 will soon be up and about.

Volcanic eruptions 🌋

Writing the Memoir and am finally, as of this week, adding new material. Aiming for five pages Every Day this month

X-rays to see what the cancer’s up to in my spine and bones 🦴

Yellow clothes and accessories. Daffodils are in their last period before death.

Zolpidem is making me sleep: something is Working at last.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

*2010. By Catherine Allier. Rural romantic novel.

Writing Down The Bones*

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Achievements Of The Day:

1. Sleep from nine o’clock last night until five o’clock this morning.

2. Do two Tarot Readings for a customer.

3. See oncologist who says we are starting on a lower dose of chemotherapy on Tuesday.

4. He arranges for me to stay at my hospital on Tuesday after chemo until Friday. Am relieved to be avoiding A & E.

5. Go to the farm with Mum to purchase provisions for my weekend at the flat.

6. Meditate 🧘‍♀️ and sleep.

7. Draw a flow diagram for the Memoir of the fallout from the end of my relationship with Seb.

8. Have a Marks & Spencer Cheese and Celery sandwich 🥪 for supper. My darling Auntie procured it yesterday.

9. Cuddle Fluffball.

10. Receive money for another Tarot Reading which I will do tomorrow.

11. Feel happy and relaxed about new chemo plan.

12. Love my parents So Much.

*1986. By Natalie Goldberg. How to write book. A classic.

The Best Awful*

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This time four years ago I was with Dolly at the top of Primrose Hill in the hot sunshine 🌞.

Today I wake up at 5.30am and have a very functional morning:

  1. Do my Tarot Card of the Day with my rarest deck, the Minchiate Etruria from Florence.
  2. Have bath 🛀 where I…
  3. …Wash hair.
  4. Put E45 cream on my burning 🔥 back.
  5. Put a wash on.
  6. Do my nails 💅🏻.
  7. Talk to my darling cousin and have a proper catch-up.
  8. Clean my bathroom sink 🧼.
  9. Wipe the kitchen surfaces 🧽.
  10. Talk to Suzy.
  11. Watch a bit of an episode of Hemlock Grove.
  12. Attend Live Crystal sale.
  13. Tidy bedroom and put away clothes.
  14. Get dressed.

I’m So Proud of myself for coping So Well at flat. Dad is coming to pick me up at six o’clock but I really hope to be back here soon now that I’m feeling a bit better. Love being in the calm and quiet of my own space. Even manage to write a bit of Memoir yesterday.

Looking forward to returning to my Fluffball though. Find Carrie Fisher’s The Best Awful. Going to reread it to help with writing ✍️ Memoir as it’s a semi-autobiographical novel in which the heroine has a manic episode and it’s really funny. Love Carrie Fisher’s writing So Much.

Happy Sunday everyone!

*2004. By Carrie Fisher. Novel starring a manic-depressive heroine.

The Lion’s Mouth*

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Photograph of brother and me in our matching burgundy tracksuits. Aren’t we adorable 🥰.

Achievements Of The Day

  1. Am not sick again last night.
  2. Sleep from half past nine last night till half past five this morning.
  3. Wake up feeling refreshed.
  4. Fluffball is allowed out and has a great day in the sunshine 🌞.
  5. Finish going through Memoir so now Mum can type up the changes.
  6. Have CT scan for radiotherapy.
  7. Which will take place tomorrow!
  8. Start reading The Sober Diaries and am enjoying it.
  9. Pleased with the Progress of Memoir now.
  10. Personal Training at one o’clock. Work hard and teacher is pleased with me. Feel so much better after my exercise as usual.
  11. Have lunch.
  12. Go for walk with Mum around the garden.
  13. Meditate and sleep.
  14. Wake up and have my pineapple 🍍.
  15. And then my supper at four thirty.
  16. Dad takes me to St Albans for my second vaccination 💉: I’m now fully vaccinated which is a relief.
  17. Cuddle Fluffball. His eyes 👀 are running a bit, but he’s much better and more cheerful now that he’s been out.
  18. Clean my lenses.
  19. Wear my new lion 🦁 socks 🧦 from Whipsnade.
  20. Talk to parentals whilst they have dinner.
  21. Now I’m listening to Claude Challe in my bedroom.

Happy Thursday everyone!

*1999. By Anne Hoult. A Hannah Wilhelmsen detective novel, book 4.

The Family Legacy*

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Have a terrible evening last night. Am sick a lot after supper. Then I’m sick again in bed 🛌 at ten thirty into a plastic Tupperware box. It’s So Horrible.

Meditate and drop off to sleep at about half past eleven. Have a good sleep: don’t wake up until six thirty this morning.

We are keeping Fluffball in as his allergy is so bad. We have cuddles this morning. Let’s just go and see him now. Here are the photos that they took of him at the cattery two years ago, when we were in Abroad.

Astrology Conference today is brilliant again. Watch five talks and learn a lot. I’m So Proud of myself for:

  1. Being able to focus and concentrate and make notes and get into a flow state whilst I’m studying.
  2. Pushing myself to work So Hard when I feel So Ill.
  3. How much progress I’ve already made since October: I can read charts with confidence now which is Amazing.

After lunch have a drive with Mum through Shenley and up to Sopwell and back. We toy with the idea of walking at Shenley but the car park is full.

Make it home at two forty and decide to attend one of the three o’clock lectures. Mum brings me a Kiwi 🥝.

This morning I start my new anti-sickness pills 💊. Let’s hope that they work. They have terrible side effects but nothing has happened yet.

Have a new Tarot client who has just paid me so I’ll do her Reading tomorrow. She’s one of my Barre friends and wants to know about her career which is good: I really enjoy Career Readings.

Astrology Conference is now over which is so sad. I love Astrology: it takes my mind off my aches and pains and reminds me that everything is connected and this too shall pass. As above, so below as we say in the esoteric community. The planets 🪐 speak to us and we can understand the music of the spheres.

I’m tired but it’s a good sort of tired from using my brain 🧠.

Sixteen year old brother and sister cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛ have gone missing in my road. I’ve befriended their owner on Facebook. Please let them be found and returned home unharmed.

I must not let this vomiting 🤮 business control my life and my thoughts. Now I’m going to do my Tarot Card for the Day. Please ask the Universe to not make me throw up again tonight.

We’re watching the Men’s Doubles Final from Monte Carlo earlier today. Sadly, we already know that Dan and Neal lost to Pavic and Mektic.

Happy Sunday everyone!

*2016. By Brian Clark. Astrology book.

Came Back To Show You I Could Fly*

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Spring A to Z

  • Artichokes, asparagus, Aries ♈️ season, astrology.
  • Baked apples, broad beans, British Summer Time, Boat Race 🚣‍♀️.
  • Cat Tarot Readings, crocuses, Chiron in Taurus, Clocks 🕰 forward, chemotherapy.
  • Daffodils 🌼.
  • Euphorbia, early sunrise 🌅, Easter, Elijah, End of Shielding.
  • Fluffball’s allergy 😿, French Open 🎾.
  • Goldfinches, Good Friday.
  • Hyacinths.
  • Intuitive Tarot, irises.
  • Jokes.
  • Knights of Swords, Cups, Wands and Pentacles.
  • Love is in the air.
  • My birthday May 15th.
  • Nest boxes are full 🥚.
  • Overeating green vegetables 🥦
  • Passover, Palm 🏝 Sunday.
  • Querents, Queen’s Birthday.
  • Rhubarb, Roland Garros 🎾, radiotherapy.
  • Springwatch yay! St George’s Day, Spring Bank Holiday, Smokey Quartz 💎.
  • Taurus ♉️ season.
  • Umbrellas ☔️.
  • Vernal Equinox, vaccinations 💉.
  • Waking up with the birds.
  • X-rays on jaw – haven’t yet got necrosis 🦷.
  • Yachts 🛥.
  • Zebra 🦓 foals.

Happy Saturday everyone!

*1989. By Robin Klein. Brilliant Young Adult Issue Fiction novel.

The Story Of A Fierce Bad Rabbit*

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Oh G-d I’ve had an awful day!

  1. Wake up too early again and do this reading which the client is really pleased with:
  2. Miss Pilates as have chemo at nine o’clock.
  3. Spend Three Hours on this reading for a friend:
  4. Don’t sleep for long enough this afternoon.
  5. Am distraught that Symbolic Doorways has now finished.
  6. Write to the tutor asking if he will do a chart reading for me and if he will include me in a group for Dream Work. Tell him that I really connect with him as an astrologer and have never had a chart reading before. Please everyone cross your fingers🤞that he has space for me as a client.
  7. Just Can’t Cope with missing my morning exercise class as it ruins my chance of having a long sleep in the afternoon. Exercise really is the best medicine, particularly Pilates which is my favourite 💜.
  8. Have a bad headache.
  9. Need 2 extra doses of morphine as back is so bad today.
  10. Finally relaxing with Mum in front of the tennis 🎾 and starting to unwind.

Tomorrow will be a better day. Thank G-d for Barre and my lovely teacher and exercise chums. Thank G-d for Fluffball too.

To ensure that I don’t miss Pilates again I am having chemo at two o’clock next Tuesday.

Talking to my psychiatrist tomorrow about starting some proper sleeping pills 💊: really hope he will prescribe some. The chemo fatigue is so severe: I wake up early full of energy and excited for the day ahead but by about one o’clock I need to sleep and spend the rest of the day creeping between bed and the sofa before going back to bed for good at about nine o’clock. I just really need to sleep for about twelve hours per night to function at all.

It’s not all doom and gloom as I see a baby wild rabbit hopping into the hedge at the cancer hospital and have two satisfied customers who say they will recommend me to people. It feels good again to be earning some money for something I’m good at and enjoy. Tarot reading is really draining though.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

*1906. By Beatrix Potter. Brilliant children’s book.

Murder With Peacocks*

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Achievements Of The Day

  1. Do a paid Tarot Reading.
  2. Do another paid Tarot Reading.
  3. First customer so pleased with her reading that she posts on the Barre and Pilates WhatsApp group.
  4. Another customer results from this.
  5. And there are two more new customers waiting for a slot.
  6. Go for a walk round the block with Mum in my new peacock 🦚 blue wig.
  7. Meditate.
  8. Try to sleep but Fluffball is in my bed taking up most of it. He manages a good long sleep and I achieve ninety minutes, so it’s better than nothing.
  9. Write my incomings and outgoings in my journal 📓.
  10. I don’t know quite how my Tarot powers have returned – they disappeared when Fluffball was missing in October – I’m just glad they’re back.
  11. Back in bed now. Need an early night.

Happy Mother’s Day everyone!

*1999. By Donna Andrews. Book 1 in the Meg Lanslow murder mystery series.

The Valentine Estate*

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Achievements Of The Day:

  1. Work hard at Barre.
  2. Watch Fluffball walking around the garden: he is a good boy and comes in after lunch. Then he has a sleep in his cat basket:
  3. Have lunch.
  4. Meditate.
  5. Sleep.
  6. Finish reading Ultimate Prizes.
  7. Do my Astrology homework.
  8. Now am watching the Doubles Final from yesterday with Mum.
  9. Leave my psychiatrist a message to call me: am not feeling good, perhaps due to the chemo.
  10. Although feel a bit better now that have accomplished some things.

Happy Monday everyone!

*1968. By Stanley Ellin. Tennis murder mystery novel.