they tell me Virgos are going to get a break in 2010 . . . .

2009 on the down side: I lost my job and income. I lost $10,000 in one day. I lost my beloved cat. I lost my house. I lost my career (like losing my identity). I lost my longest known friend to a cross-continental move and a strange emotional distance. I lost my father. I lost my grandmother.

2009 on the plus side: I gained a husband. He is my soul mate. I gained knowledge of things like astrology and finally embraced spirituality. I learned how to crochet. I moved back to the state I’ve wanted to live in for the past fifteen years: I gained lots of trees (very important to me). I lost weight, which is to say, I regained my body. I restored my health. My nails grew back (which to me is a sign of no longer having an injured first chakra).

I’m still waiting for the big boon: I’d like one steady income — doesn’t even have to be me — but in six months neither my husband nor I have been able to find work day in and day out searching for it. One of us should really be employed, and soon, or we will be in a very interesting pickle! And most of all, I’d like to move from this very thin-walled apartment back to a house. (Can you believe that will actually be cheaper?)

That’s my wishlist for 2010! It’s got to get better this year, right?

I've finished, for all intents and purposes, my Saturn Return. Uranus will move out of Pisces over the decade, and Neptune will replace him. Saturn will move on to Capricorn by the end of the decade -- his proper place in the Zodiac -- and I'm supposed to get my Jupiter Return this year. All very good signs. I'll be as hopeful as a skeptic can be . . . .