JULY 2020
After joining the Power Company Alumni page on Facebook, I posted a few videos I remembered from my favorite gay bar in North Carolina in the 1980s and early 1990s. I loved that the club’s DJ remembered me dancing to his music.
Five months of my second Saturn return were now behind me. I continued checking in on Ahote and Tuwa at Hopi and various other friends to ensure they were okay. Everyone was still safe. Ricardo and I continued to make huge improvements around the house. Ricardo must have spent nearly $2,000.00 on new trees, flowers, and yard plants. We worked feverishly during the first week of July, planting as many plants as possible. I sent out the following message to all of my friends on Wednesday, July 8.
Astrology And COVID-19 – Saturn (the planet that represents restriction, confinement, jail, and rules) was passing through the final degrees of Capricorn in Jan, Feb, and Mar of 2020. Capricorn is Saturn’s home sign, so all those restrictions are multiplied by 100. And the final degrees of Capricorn can be painful. Saturn moved into Aquarius on March 21, and everyone finally sighed in relief. The jail term appeared to be over. Saturn went retrograde and moved back into the final degrees of Capricorn on July 1. Suddenly, the COVID-19 virus exploded once again, sending everyone back into their prison cells. Saturn will not leave Capricorn until November 2020. Can you withstand another five months of confinement, rules, regulations, and strict guidelines? Let’s see what we’re made of.
On July 10, 2020, a friend of mine reached out to me to pray for a friend’s father. Looking out over the entire Bay Area I performed my third prayer that night.
Starting around July 12, Comet NEOWISE will also be visible in the evening, Lecky Hepburn says. About an hour after sunset, it will appear near the northwestern horizon. As the month progresses, it will rise higher in the sky, moving from the constellation Lynx toward the Big Dipper. On July 22 ( my birthday), the comet will reach its closest point to Earth—103 million kilometers—before continuing its cosmic flight. However, whether it will still be visible to unaided eyes by then is uncertain. – Source
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, a mother Turkey, and her two chicks paid me a visit at the house. The symbolism of Turkey focuses on the connection with the Earth and the abundance it provides:
- Abundance
- Connection with the spirit of the land, with Mother Earth
- Blessings from the Earth
- Forms of nourishment in our life
- Harvesting the fruits of your efforts and your work
- Importance of Community
- Generosity, sharing
- Having enough in our life, satisfaction
As I walked outside to photograph the turkey, I heard a hawk circling over the house, making a very loud screech. Something was up. Later that afternoon, a couple of people from the neighborhood where I grew up friended me on my new Facebook page, which prompted me to create a map of all the kids who grew up in our neighborhood.
The next day, my nephew sent me two photographs I had taken when my dog, Nike, gave birth one Halloween night in the late 1970s. Nike was my personal Dire Wolf.
Needless to say, this brought a lot of bittersweet memories. I continued posting my childhood memories at 1467 Morningside Drive on this Facebook page, the period before starting my autobiography.
On Monday, July 20, 2020, I drove to a clearing near Lafayette, California, to view the comet NEOWISE. It took me a few minutes to find the comet, but when I finally saw it, a charge ran through my body.
The image above, taken by Bill Dunford at NASA, gives a pretty good example of what I saw, but it is somewhat fainter.
I returned to the same spot two days later, on July 22, 2020, my 59th birthday. It was time to leave Tarot’s Temperance year and quietly transition into The Devil year.
This time, I took in the view of NEOWISE with four strangers who could not locate the comet until I pointed it out to them. Sharing the comet with four strangers made the experience that much more meaningful.