I should have taken my own advice.
Last week’s do’s and don’t’s emphasized rest, taking it easy, incremental progress, and not beating yourself up for not reaching the stretch goals.
And whoo boy, did I beat myself up! and otherwise marinate in self-recrimination for how chronic illness kept me inside, bed-bound and not writing. Still, I was angry at myself for “not working”; the moping was the stuff of legend. As my Grandma Kadlec used to say, “we could throw a pity party on that lip.”
I’ve been talking a lot over on Instagram about the difference between a limitation and a flaw — how a flaw is something you can work on, but a limitation (like chronic illness) just is — but this last week has been a humbling exercise in just how much I have yet to fully internalize it myself. Summer is the hardest time for me: the heat and humidity mean that, even with preventative meds and emergency meds and ice packs and air conditioning and all the home remedies in the world, I still wake up with a migraine every day. It’s miserable and monstrous and someday I will have good enough health insurance for a neurologist to actually prescribe me the expensive interventions that I need, but in the meantime, all there is to do is to live with it and through it.*
Which means the writing goes more slowly. Which I hate, especially when I’m on deadline.
Which is to say that perhaps you, like me, were dragged through the last week kicking and screaming, only to find yourself now at a place that looks something like begrudging acceptance.
… Just in time for some Major Astrology.
The week begins with a New Moon on Tuesday (which will get its own newsletter, as always), but come mid-week, the outer planets start talking to each other in a once-in-a-generation kind of way. This week, Uranus is talking to Neptune and Pluto, which will be felt more on a collective level but which very much forms the scaffolding for what our efforts are working within.
Wishing you all a safe, healthy, as inspired as is humanly possible week. And now, below the paywall, the week ahead!
*= I am not looking for medical advice. I have had disabling migraines for 30 years. You do not have the silver bullet. Any tips/advice will be deleted and blocked. ✌🏼
Subscribe to Astrology for Writers
Become a paying subscriber to plan your writing schedule and set creative expectations with week ahead forecasts.
Upgrade
