athenian200
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I have Saturn and Mars in Capricorn as a natal placement, which makes the fact that Saturn and Mars were in Capricorn when all this started hitting the US somewhat odd.
What I'm noticing is that the timing of this event so far hasn't disrupted my life very much. I was originally going to visit someone in Kentucky on the 20th of March, but I confirmed the dates ahead of time and they were thinking they might go to Comic-Con that weekend because it was scheduled, and moved it up to the 15th. Incidentally, that Comic-Con was likely cancelled anyway, but it's a good thing the date changed otherwise the hotel might have been unavailable due to mass closures. The main thing I wanted to see there, the baseball bat museum was still open for business at the time I went, though many other things were starting to close at that time. I was also able to try the pizza place said friend recommended right before the lockdowns got serious.
After coming home, I somehow managed to get a physical copy of the new Animal Crossing game from GameStop on the final day they were open for walk-in business in my area, March 21st. My instincts somehow led me to get the game a bit earlier than I usually would have, and it proved correct. It's like I had a sixth sense for how fast the lockdown would proceed and stayed ahead of it in terms of planning out the few things I wanted to get done.
As far as April is concerned, I had originally been assigned to grand jury duty in April, and I would have had to go in twice a week for the whole month. Because of the shutdown, I no longer have to go to jury duty, which means the whole hassle I was anticipating didn't materialize.
Additionally, none of the people close to me are staying home. My Mom is working harder than usual on a defense contract. My Dad is an environmental contractor and he has to help construct various kinds of containment/barriers for the local government. And my friend I went to see works for a retirement home and although it's on lockdown, she still has to go in and take care of the residents because... well, they're elderly and some have dementia. I work on an open source browser project that's struggling to keep up with Chrome, and we're racing to try and take advantage of the delays in Google's development and deployment schedule to catch up on features. It sounds weird to say it, but the virus brought us a few extra months by hitting Google in the pocketbook (they rely heavily on ad revenue) and disrupting their normal workflow, without affecting us in the same way due to how we operate.
Another odd thing is how we've sourced supplies. My Mom told me that although it's unnerving seeing toilet paper missing from shelves, we already had a two-month supply of it because she worries about blizzards and such, and therefore hoards it under normal circumstances. On top of that, my Dad (who doesn't live with us) was concerned about us and somehow managed to get us 20 rolls of toilet paper on top of what we had, and also got us a box of N95 masks in case we have to go out. So we've somehow wound up with a fairly decent supply of masks and toilet paper.
My daily life is a lot like it was before the pandemic. I am usually pretty restricted in my ability to go places because I can't drive anyway, and rarely have any extra income or any friends I'm able to see in real life. My Mom still brings home food from the drive-thru every day on her way home from work because those haven't closed yet. If it weren't for the discomfort of having to listen to the news or being uncomfortable in the awareness that I no longer have the choice to go out places if I wanted to, my life wouldn't be appreciably different.
I am worried that as Mars and Saturn move into Aquarius things could start to look a lot worse for me, because that's the sign on my MC. But for right now, everything is going either average or better than average in my personal life despite the fact that civilization seems to be falling apart.
What I'm noticing is that the timing of this event so far hasn't disrupted my life very much. I was originally going to visit someone in Kentucky on the 20th of March, but I confirmed the dates ahead of time and they were thinking they might go to Comic-Con that weekend because it was scheduled, and moved it up to the 15th. Incidentally, that Comic-Con was likely cancelled anyway, but it's a good thing the date changed otherwise the hotel might have been unavailable due to mass closures. The main thing I wanted to see there, the baseball bat museum was still open for business at the time I went, though many other things were starting to close at that time. I was also able to try the pizza place said friend recommended right before the lockdowns got serious.
After coming home, I somehow managed to get a physical copy of the new Animal Crossing game from GameStop on the final day they were open for walk-in business in my area, March 21st. My instincts somehow led me to get the game a bit earlier than I usually would have, and it proved correct. It's like I had a sixth sense for how fast the lockdown would proceed and stayed ahead of it in terms of planning out the few things I wanted to get done.
As far as April is concerned, I had originally been assigned to grand jury duty in April, and I would have had to go in twice a week for the whole month. Because of the shutdown, I no longer have to go to jury duty, which means the whole hassle I was anticipating didn't materialize.
Additionally, none of the people close to me are staying home. My Mom is working harder than usual on a defense contract. My Dad is an environmental contractor and he has to help construct various kinds of containment/barriers for the local government. And my friend I went to see works for a retirement home and although it's on lockdown, she still has to go in and take care of the residents because... well, they're elderly and some have dementia. I work on an open source browser project that's struggling to keep up with Chrome, and we're racing to try and take advantage of the delays in Google's development and deployment schedule to catch up on features. It sounds weird to say it, but the virus brought us a few extra months by hitting Google in the pocketbook (they rely heavily on ad revenue) and disrupting their normal workflow, without affecting us in the same way due to how we operate.
Another odd thing is how we've sourced supplies. My Mom told me that although it's unnerving seeing toilet paper missing from shelves, we already had a two-month supply of it because she worries about blizzards and such, and therefore hoards it under normal circumstances. On top of that, my Dad (who doesn't live with us) was concerned about us and somehow managed to get us 20 rolls of toilet paper on top of what we had, and also got us a box of N95 masks in case we have to go out. So we've somehow wound up with a fairly decent supply of masks and toilet paper.
My daily life is a lot like it was before the pandemic. I am usually pretty restricted in my ability to go places because I can't drive anyway, and rarely have any extra income or any friends I'm able to see in real life. My Mom still brings home food from the drive-thru every day on her way home from work because those haven't closed yet. If it weren't for the discomfort of having to listen to the news or being uncomfortable in the awareness that I no longer have the choice to go out places if I wanted to, my life wouldn't be appreciably different.
I am worried that as Mars and Saturn move into Aquarius things could start to look a lot worse for me, because that's the sign on my MC. But for right now, everything is going either average or better than average in my personal life despite the fact that civilization seems to be falling apart.