SOLAR ECLIPSE In Capricorn, coming up soon "like a bag of rocks!"

I'm at the keys with my dark sunglasses on.  It's still not early warm.  JOTS is tucked into a curl on the slantboard, and I've just been to Elsa's  for some good old Community Cousins and perspective on the energy that is swarming.  Astrology will often give me both the practical and beyond logic or science's counsel to life's angst.  I'm in my dark sunglasses as some of you know, because I've had a series of migraine headaches with pain that is way, way off the charts.  One of the things that accompanies migraine is light sensitivity.  Well, with low light Washington the place where I live, I am in my Hawaii-grade glasses so the sensitivity is accute.

A solar eclipse in the sign of Capricorn is heading our way on the planet.  Capricorn will be in its home (in the sign on the zodiac) beginning tomorrow, period! (that's a correction, the eclipse is JANUARY 4TH TOMORROW)  Please see the link to Elsa above for the accurate timing of the eclipse.

Elsa writes:  “This stuff is very COLD when you get right down to it. It is naked and hardcore and uncompromising…”

The eclipse will be packing my 12th House along with a handful of planets including the sun, moon, my North Node, Pluto and Mars not far along in the 1st house.  I often log my astrological findings here on VardoForTwo to note the complexity of life as an oldster living a semi-nomadic life. Living safe and staying safe and sane is not a simple task...things change all the time. These migraines are a new signal for me, and like Elsa says, "...It is naked and hardcore and uncompromising.."  With 12th House issues any and all old habits and self-defeating patterns will fill that bag of rocks.  Elsa reminds me to set my intention for dealing with these old habits and patterns, because in addition to a solar eclipse it is also a NEW MOON.  I need to be unafraid to be responsible for my thoughts and my actions.  Above all else it has occurred to me that "being and behaving kind is important at all times."  I have been right and not kind.  I have expected kindness from others while they fumble with understanding what I need/think.  There is history to correct when Capricorn comes to stay in your house. 

I'm setting my intention to be kind, and include myself on that list of recipients for the intention.

You?

New Year ... shorts only ( if only we could be wearing 'em now!)

JOTS my blogging pal is watching from the slant board. For the time being I am perched on the kitchen stool under a lot of clothes.  This laptop is groaning so let's just hope it's not its last lap.

The cold snap brought in 2011 up and down the Pacific Coast.  The water hose and drains are frozen and I have a new experience to understand, and though I have reluctantly been initiated into yet another club that I would not choose to join ( I have never been much of a clubber), my friend Leslie helped me limp into the arms of those with MCS AND Migraine headaches.  Nights are the worst for me, frigid, dry air triggered the first pain of a different dimension.  Thanks to many friends I learned to:

• add humidity to the Vardo to soothe my sinuses; a boiling kettle from the quonset helps, wet towels hung on clothes line adds some relief; bending my bowed head over that steaming kettle got me through the first couple of days.
• the saline warm water rinse soothed my sinuses; and does so daily
• a nasal spray called XCLEAR is an overthecounter saline and XYLITOL spray that helps

When the headaches came back with colors and patterned lights I called Leslie, and she helped me into the fold of migraines.  Though ironically comforting, this latest initiation is a heck of a way to begin the new year.  STILL, there is something about these trials that amaze and ring through ... "Those that sustain you while you are in need beyond imagination, they are to be blessed.  Mahalo Honey, Pete"

• Dark sunglasses (thank you Maui Jim's) help when light sensitivities requires darkness even at night
• I don't do pain meds, so thank Akua, for now the Southern Remedy and caffeine-endorphin rush from COKE helped me through the night and I was migraine free through my  first night in 4.

22 Degrees outside, and 50 in the quonset.  EMS (electromagnetic sensitivity) is causing problems, and might be aggrevating my old kino (body).  So, this is short, and then there will be more changes coming. It's wonderful how my dreams take me to steaming hot places and clear saltwater and white sandy places at night.  There are so many dimensions of reality. 

Last short

Thank God for the journalists who still keep the news we need to know coming ... JOAN Conrow that would be you.

Joan Conrow thank you for keeping us posted about one of our Kuliouou Valley heroes, Henry Noa.  When I'm able I will  tell you readers about Kuliouou Valley, and among the people of that place there is Henry Noa and the Correa-Reeves 'Ohana.

Never say never to anything.  I'm gonna sip on the second can of coke in two days, after what ... 15, 20 years?  Yup, never say never.

Hauoli Makahiki Hou,
Mokihana, Pete and JOTS