A much better day today.
Dad is doing well after his procedure yesterday, however, he is in a funk today. No surprise after sleeping in until 2:18 pm...yep, I'm still writing down his actions like a mid-level manager looking to write a performance review.
It is difficult not to do this behavior tracking. It's my behind if he gets ill falls, wigs out, or whatever and with him not eating and taking meds on schedule we are headed straight to that outcome. I'm covering my ass tight as bark on a tree these days.
Every knife and letter opener in the house is hidden now. I'm waiting for the lock box to arrive so I can lock them up properly. I have no clue why all of a sudden he wants to play with knives...after the shotgun incident I ain't taking no chance with a knife or club.
Last night, just before wind down to bed he was threatening me with his 2x2 and demanding I find Sandie. That's rough on me when I'm standing in the same room as him and he can't recognize it is me. Stayed out of reach tho and hid the damn sticks after putting him to bed.
My younger sister witnessed it Thursday when Dad got up. He was quite rabid and demanded we again find Sandie. He calls me the boss to her when I manage to escape before he gets out of bed. I'm hoping he cures his ills because I won't be taxed like I was on Christmas Eve.
Since Monday I've had Wildlife Rescue, Department of Soil & Water, a home blood draw, food bank delivery, two days in a row of my younger sister here to watch Dad so I could get my hair cut and didn't get past fielding a dozen calls minimum per day, oh, and a tree surgeon here to assess how many trees have to come down.
I count six, he says 11 plus the little dead ones. Undermining from the storms and snow runoff has really damaged the creek bank. He could stand with arms up under a large maple. I'll be sad to see the other big maple go. As a young girl I climbed to the tippy top of that one. It must be over 50 years old because it was thick then. Now it's girth must be 4 or 5 feet thick now. Really it has to go. It's dangerous with hanging only by finger roots. Not to mention, it will make a big mess if it falls across the creek into the yard.
Today reached 86°. Tomorrow's prediction is in the low 90's. I was stuck today and could not get out for groceries. I'm on point to make a Mac salad and brookies for my friends funeral luncheon on Monday...not looking forward to running the oven lol. Fingers crossed Dad gets up early tomorrow and we can get out and back before the day heats up too much.
My younger sister called me last night right at tuck in time, grr...she had great news. She and her son are buying my dead uncle's property, which is 10 minutes away. A week ago she was moving over an hour away from us...one way.
I try very hard to understand her when she's on her meds, now that she's off them it's work just to understand her flip-flops in mindset. Wish she wouldn't do that.
I've been researching North Node placement. Since nodes are seldom direct because they represent intersection points on an axis of north-south latitudes and are symbolic of different polarities of consciousness...points of crossing, clashing, and gates opening and closing, moving backward, seemingly retrograde, Nodes are "shadows", and unlike planets and luminaries, cannot be "seen", rather they are simply mathematical points in an individual chart. In Hindu mythology they are Rahu and Ketu in a horoscope (same as a chart in Tropical or Palladis Astrology). Nodes are moving through each sign for 18 months but it takes 18 1/2 years for them to move through the entire zodiac.
My north node is in Taurus, south node in Scorpio. Taurus is the sign of ownership, self-worth, individual value and embodiment or form. On the other end of this axis, Scorpio, my South node placement, energy burns away at the self via tuning into the transformational truths...Scorpio is a sign which is tuned into the primordial powers and relationships that define us.
I'm grateful Scorpio governs my South node energies, because South node represents gifts and talents for the things that come easy to me. The current awakening of social injustices are the work of Scorpio (and Pluto, a generational planet). The proverbial snake in the garden of eden, here to deliver us all our truth, regardless how ugly, lol.
Taurus is contrary to all that Scorpio destruction and is the effigy of fertility and creationism. Taurus hounds with questions like how do I want to shape my identity, or my sense if value. It's a bull when it messes with my sense of self-worth, however, that is one of the lessons of my North Node Taurus placement. Finding the long kept scars and scores that are meant to come to the surface, analyzed, and the imbalances corrected. Sort of feels like a purgatory.
So to take my own sage advice of there is nothing standing in my way between me and the power that comes with knowing my worth and what my standards of emotional and physical integrity are I will continue to ...
CLEANSE, CONFRONT, AND CREATE
A note to self about life purpose...the Nodes hold keys to your destiny and purpose...South Node energy is where you visit to feel a sense of place or belonging. ♡