22.5.25 - What does mythology have to tell us?

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I had a very odd dream last night of trying to shut off someone talking about the radicalisation of young males, of course it was because I had fallen asleep watching this TikTok about Adolescence. 

I finally woke up at 8.30 am. I love Saturday. It is a day where I don't have to do anything really, but I do. Cos I have been so collapsed over the past three weeks... I have just come out of the chaos of Pisces. 

Now we are in the clarity of Aries. Also, recently the end to a story had occurred and it has now been laid to rest. 

I am now in this beautiful harbour. I am now going to think about the next few months till we go to Singapore. I did have A bottle of wine this week. I think I can have a bottle and be ok. It's not the end of the world. It is a good balance to strike.

Although I do also like being free from alcohol.

It's a good compromise to come to. So now I'm going to go and think about the next few months till the 30th of June.

What is fulfillment? It is to know that the life you have chosen is the life you always wanted. That yes, I did struggle against the tide and now, now I am here, where I have always hoped I would be.

Yesterdays...

What happened yesterday?

Yesterday, I had an amazing day. The lesson plan went well, we learnt more about Factors and we did our writing about Prime Numbers and Composite Numbers. I told the story of Dierdre of the Sorrows and we they cross stitched. After lunch time, we made campfire bread.

The children learnt, they played beautifully and we had a wonderful time. It was just amazing.

I came home and was very tired, so I just watched Shadown and Bone again, and did DuoLingo. I made the late lunch which was pork ribs and some veg and then I fell asleep. Actually I watch Dracula 2020, which I had forgotten I had watched before. I actually don't enjoy Mark Gattis and Stephen Moffat's writing. I much prefer Inside No 9 - or Black Mirror. There is something which is a bit - what, I don't know - just it never gets incisive they way the other two do. White Lotus is also great. If I wanted pretty fluff something like Shadow and Bone. Right now I'm reading the Lives of Elves. 

I have not contacted Aengus Og this week. I have just been so tired and distracted.

The big thing for me was Adolescence. The presence of male anger which I had never been exposed to previously. This entitlement and loss. In such young children. I often think about how being a feminist was something which saved me, which protected me. If I had not discovered feminism, I wouldn't have been unable to hew this life out of the solid rock wall of a woman in the 80s. 

Today I feel the energy of Aries begin to course in my veins. It feels great. So planning, then doing the dishes and laundry and then off to meet this woman. Who knows what she wants to talk about? 

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