Re-Feminist History (aka Bitchstory)

 Katie Weaver and I came up with this list of ways to make yourself feel better right away!  Listen to your favorite song from 5th grade Wear some fancy clothes (even if just around the house) Go for a walk Cook one of your grandma’s recipes Do your make up Drink something warm Learn a new language (even if just a few words) Watch videos of babies laughing (at dogs) Read a good book Take a bath Meditate Brush your teeth Eat chocolate Hold a baby Crystals (rose quartz and rhodolite, blue kyanite, larimar) Research a day trip Fresh flowers Watch/listen to some stand up comedy (YouTube/Netflix Try Brian Regan & Jim Gaffigan - clean) Listen to the sound of rain or running stream or ocean Decorate something: a cupcake, a room, a scrapbook Rearrange your furniture Hug a tree (heart on tree) Put on lotion Talk to an old friend or an older relative Smudge yourself/your space Verbal clearings/affirmations A cup of tea Look for feathers View art Take a drive Diffuse or wear bergamot...

Rrrrriiing ring      Hello? Hi, is this Ms. McClain?     Mmmm, who dis? We are calling from the Astrological Fuckery Department of the Cosmic Forum of Earth Fuckery. We are calling today on behalf of Mars, planet getting shit done.      Oh. I…. We would like to know if you’d like a 2 month subscription to demotivation?     Well, not re… Great! We think you’ll really love Mars retrograde. AND what’s more, with that subscription you get almost 2 more bonus months of frustration for absolutely no charge!     I don’t think I’m …. Fantastic! We’re so happy we could fuck with you. We’d also like to offer you 3 hours today of cleaning out drawers of junk you haven’t looked at in a decade in as a way of distracting yourself from the actual work you need to do. Doesn’t that sound great?     No. it sounds dusty and pointless! Awesome! Please enjoy your 3 hours of wasting time, procrastinating and feeling...

The big news this week is Mars stationing retrograde on Wednesday. This retrograde is less common than the other planets’ retros and only happens once every 26 months. It packs a good deal of punch and we have a tendency to gloss over its impact. Mars has been in its home sign of Aries since June 27th. He normally spends about a month and a half, but his time in Aries has been extended because of where he is in his orbit. Mars’ path will start at 28° and back up to 15° where it will turn direct on November 14th. What’s interesting to me is that during this most powerful Mars position in its home sign, where he is more war-like, we won’t see it reach its full potential. We don’t get a 29° of mars in Aries! He has been fueling our anger, our initiative, our passions for months; he gets right up to 28° then he starts retrograding. Then in November he goes back over the degrees from 15° forward. But we don’t get 29° of Aries until the 5th of January! I would liken this to collective...