There is only one topic on everyone's minds now.

Even the people who were laughing at panic shoppers yesterday are now stocking their larders with pasta.

I look forward to fixing up my desk, moving it to the window, and working from home, but I don't look forward to the loneliness that will surely descend.

Almost a third of all Berliners live ( Read more... )

L messaged and invited me to a clothing swap on March 29. I told her I would love to attend. I'm not really interested in taking on more clothing, but it would be good to find new homes for things I need to get rid of, and even better to meet and get to know new people.

I've become acutely aware of how I've focused too much on my career, my fine ( Read more... )

I'm having trouble looking away from the covid-19 train wreck that is spreading across the world.

I refresh Twitter repeatedly to see how many cases have popped up in Germany, in the US, in Italy. There are 58 in Berlin as I type. I gape in awe and horror and I know there is nothing I can do about it.

Germany has just cancelled all large public ( Read more... )

Presenteeism: Being at work but not doing any actual work. This is my current state. There just isn't much to do here, it's a really boring situation to be in.

Current inspirations and influences: Quareia, meditation, warm foot baths, oil painting (especially my latest, Picatrix), astrology, Animism, water fasting, Saint Cyprian, Goslar, Tarot, ( Read more... )

I had a talk with my boss and then a talk with the CEO.

And then there was a company meeting and it was announced to the remaining employees that layoffs had been made, and that I was one of them. The company is down to 13 employees now, and has enough money to keep going until October, by which time they think they may be able to turn things ( Read more... )

Insomnia struck last night, stealing my rest and leaving me a walking shell this morning.

In the two hours of sleep that I did manage to get I had a stress dream where a woman shattered a vase that was for some reason of deep importance to me. We had once been friends but now were enemies, due to a misunderstanding that she refused to acknowledge ( Read more... )

Just laid down the pink gradient on Picatrix. Looking good, but I want to see it in natural daylight and when the paint has dried to fully assess the situation. For now I still consider it work in progress, but it's probably finished.


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Spent the day analysing the astrology of 2020 for my rising sign, Libra. It led me down a rabbit hole of immense length and depth, and here I am and it's 8pm.

I also took a hike down memory lane by reading a bunch of old posts I made back in 2004. It was part of the astrological deep-dive - to examine how future patterns may imitate events from ( Read more... )

I was laid off on Friday. There were some strange events that took place immediately before it happened, that I'm going to note here.

• The broken glass and cut finger. I was washing a wine glass and it broke in my hand, leaving me with a severely cut finger, for which I ended up going to the hospital for. This happened Monday night, I was laid off ( Read more... )

Mars opposite Jupiter with Venus caught in the crossfire. Temperatures grazing 38 degrees Celsius. That's 100 F. I'm a refugee from the sun, huddled indoors in the relatively cool confines of my home. Working from home because the office is not equipped to handle a day this hot.

Feeling absolutely lost and questioning the decisions of the past. ( Read more... )