Dear Friend and Reader,<\/p>\n
As you probably know, we’re now about five days into Pluto in Capricorn, and it’s a long way to 2024.<\/p>\n
In the news, it’s been a heavy few days, packed with the terrorist attacks in India, a man getting trampled to death in Wal Mart on Black Friday (and his fellow customers refusing to stop shopping, ‘cus they had been on line since 4 am) and the ongoing riots in Nigeria — among other things.<\/p>\n
I spent the weekend trying to get away from it all by escaping into art, listening to a local jazz station Saturday night and making some of the worst drawings on record in my sketch book. Yesterday, I braved the gloomy New York weather and went to the Guggenheim, getting back to my queer roots with the Cathie Opie exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s amazing to me how a day in the city can bring me back to life, make me feel connected. Whether it was helping out some people with subway directions, or giving a skinny girl with a large suitcase a hand up the stairs, I got the opportunity to do something after feeling so helpless. They’re just small gestures, but it was all it took to remind me of the good in our communities, that amidst all this violence, we’re able to join together and spread a little help and joy around.<\/p>\n How have you handled the Pluto in Capricorn transition? Did you employ any personal strategies to stay sane over the holidays? How was your time with your family? In what ways did you experience the shift in hue associated with the sigh change of Pluto?<\/p>\n Please drop us a note at editorial (at) planetwaves.net and we will blog your responses through the day.<\/p>\n Yours & truly,<\/p>\n Rachel Asher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friend and Reader, As you probably know, we’re now about five days into Pluto in Capricorn, and it’s a long way to 2024. In the news, it’s been a heavy few days, packed with the terrorist attacks in India, a man getting trampled to death in Wal Mart on Black Friday (and his fellow … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,117,247],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}