Happy Yule!

[Pleater]

The year has definitely turned - after months of insomnia and anxiety, last night I went to bed early and slept until noon today - I do not deliberately mark the turning of the year and the changing of the seasons, it is just that they seem to mark me.

So on the first day of the new year, astronomically - Veis heil, or wassail, or go well - or however you express it.

Astrologically, the conjunction of the two great planets moves us out of an Age of Earth into an Age of Air - odd how something defined centuries ago can suddenly seem relevant in a way which ten years earlier seemed to be insignificant. So here I am sending my best wishes over the ether to wherever on the globe you happen to be, and may this next year be less interesting for all of the right reasons.

Anne the Pleater.

[Ninehostages]

The year has definitely turned - after months of insomnia and anxiety, last night I went to bed early and slept until noon today - I do not deliberately mark the turning of the year and the changing of the seasons, it is just that they seem to mark me.

So on the first day of the new year, astronomically - Veis heil, or wassail, or go well - or however you express it.

Astrologically, the conjunction of the two great planets moves us out of an Age of Earth into an Age of Air - odd how something defined centuries ago can suddenly seem relevant in a way which ten years earlier seemed to be insignificant. So here I am sending my best wishes over the ether to wherever on the globe you happen to be, and may this next year be less interesting for all of the right reasons.

Anne the Pleater.

Here is hoping that 2020 is not repleated.

[Ninehostages]

I learned something new yesterday from Lucy Worsley of the BBC. The well known Christmas Carol "O Come All Ye Faithful" appears to be a Jacobite call to arms. Who'd have though?

https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=7328

Anyway, I've done my military service and I have enough kinsman buried in Culloden's field, so I shall give it a pass this year.