Ever since the full moon over the weekend I've felt bizarre, something along the lines of mentally/emotionally regressing ten years (approximately). Fully aware of the affliction but seemingly helpless against it I'm tracking the astro weather voraciously. Seems we're on our way to another metamorphic event, this waning moon being the impetus for releasing all the crap that's surfacing. I hate to have to process this but so long as I'm in line with the astro I feel better.

Beach House - silver soul

Oh my gosh look what I did today! This is a chest I've had since I was a kid. My name is written in the lettering of a five year old inside that little cupboard. It was originally painted dark brown (yech!) and then I painted it red maybe ten years ago. Today I sanded it (not the best but well enough) and painted it gold, as you can clearly see. I love it so much I want to paint EVERYTHING gold.
I also started painting the trim in my bedroom ice blue which I'm not sure I love. I was starting to love it until I put the chest back in and now I don't love it so much anymore. It just doesn't go with the warm violet or the gold. I'm seriously considering painting the trim gold now. Seriously.
It still needs new knobs (it has ugly cheap gold or brass tone handles I put on after painting it red) but the ones I want -purple glass- are about $6 each and I need eleven of them (or to fill in those holes, touch up the paint and put on just six, which seems a little more reasonable but still not reasonable enough). We'll see....
Meantime, as my bedroom doesn't get much direct sunlight I'm thinking this might be the spot for my home perfumery. Some shallow shelving or ledges and cubbies on the wall over the chest would be perfect! I had once thought it would be lovely to make this into sort of a vanity with a pretty mirror over it and a small chair or stool but it's in an awkward place to leave a seat and I haven't gotten around to it yet so it must not be all that important to me. Perfumery it is!

Honoring the Full Moon in Aquarius

Though it's a teensy bit after the fact I must, as usual, honor the full moon -especially considering it was in my sign, Aquarius. For whatever reason I felt inclined to offer a little narrative with the usual barrage of imagery so here goes:
This full moon stirred me up plenty. The sun is setting earlier and I know that summer will end soon (though likely not before blasting us with a couple surprise killer heatwaves). Every day has had more insights as to what I'm making of my life and how beautiful and easy it is to keep chasing gut feelings. Weirdly, I'm moved to express that I someday want to spend an incarnation as a little skater boy, sounds heavenly. And finally, even as a season is nearing it's end (not really, we've only recently reached the halfway mark of summer -nonetheless, those halfway points usually do inspire us to think ahead anticipating the next season) and even though the next season is autumn whose color is gold, I was needing something beautiful and vast and green to be my portal into the next beginning.