Sparklefest and Astrology

After my covid close contact and isolation I'm super glad to have spent nearly 12 hours today with my niece and nephew.  First at the beach and then at "sparklefest" where I got to have a good conversation with my sister-in-law while the kids played. We talked briefly for the first time about the possibility of me visiting them in Japan. At the end I said, "Is Japan even open to foreigners yet?"

The answer was, "Not except tour groups," which made the conversation mute.  But that may change.

My brother thanked me for being more flexible than usual, part of that is just knowing my time with my niece and nephew is limited, so I stayed for the fireworks, even though I'd usually go to bed.  My nephew just covered his ears and said they were too loud. I agree, though these were the "small" fireworks, so they were smaller and shorter, which is my preference.

I also just loved watching the end of my niece's childhood.  What I mean is, she just turned 11 and was running around to the bouncy houses and the hula hoops and when we were leaving, "Can we go run on the bike ramps?!!"  All that childish enthusiasm which often suddenly wains into the teen years.  I don't know if she'll have that when she gets back from Japan, so I soaked it in today.

I started the day writing an email to an old friend who emailed me out of the blue yesterday.  I'd been wondering if something is going on in my astrological chart with all the changes, and then I realized he is someone who knows a lot about these things so I sent him a message asking.  Because I was asking I pulled up my chart and transits myself.  I have a very rudimentary knowledge, but one thing was clear.  Pluto which represents intense transformation or creative destruction, looks like it entered my house of relationships sometime around the time I met Michael, and is nearing the edge of leaving it.  It is also sitting on my mercury, which represents communication.

Transit Pluto in 7th House Your close relationships will undergo great transformation during this period of time. You may reach a crisis or turning point in your marriage or love affair that may cause you to redefine the entire nature of your relationship...Any relationship that is not solid will have difficulty in lasting the entire time of this transit.

https://astromatrix.org/Horoscopes/Transit-in-Houses/Transit-Pluto-in-7th-House 

I told this to Michael today as I am hopefully giving him my dad's lawn mower tomorrow so I called him on the phone. He was curious, said if my friend responds to my email he is curious to hear what he said.  I was just telling my sister-in-law this evening how much I appreciated this.  I'm not even sure how to say it.  But I have a friend who once described me as "out there," not in a judgemental way, just his truth.  I would describe the friend who I emailed the question about astrology as "out there."

So there is this spectrum and I just love where Michael sits on that spectrum, maybe a bit less "out there" than me, but always open about it, always curious. That has been a tremendous gift.