I don't have the answers yet, but I have learned enough to be dangerous, and ask better questions..

Someone forgot to tell the cats the clocks changed.

The sun is up and my mind is up, but my body is still sleeping.

Do you know that tomorrow is not only the day of the election, but is also the day of the dead? So honor your loved ones who have passed on with some flowers and candles and sweets, and then get out and vote. Wonder if this will be the death of the current administration? Or if we continue our empire ways and march onwards  to our own death?

You know, death is never the end, though. In the tarot deck, it's a card of putrefaction, disintegration, but also the clearing of the way for something new. Take a walk in the forest sometime, and you know this is true. Any dead animal feeds the carrion eaters, and the remains become fertilizer for new growth in the spring. Dead leaves form the forest floor and become the mulch that makes the ground fecund.

This time of year is also the time of Scorpio - the sign that also concerns itself a great deal with death and rebirth. The patterns of scorpio are very easily observed. Take Hillary Clinton, a famous Scorp. She experienced a total death of the self as the president's wife when the Monical Lewinsky affair came out. I had a lot of anguish over what happened to her, but we already know my view on affairs in marriage - they're a disaster. I then watched her crumble into the ruins of that image, putrefy in it, and experience a total public death of the self.

But what happened next? Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, she then experienced a dramatic rebirth of herself in far more powerful form as a senator. This form actually is a great deal closer to her true ambition (also a hallmark of those sexy scorps) and serves her far better than the earlier role as merely wife of a powerful man.

Painful as it is when you undergo it, sometimes these things are also very liberating, wouldn't you say?

If you are experiencing a "death" in your life, whether it's a death of your identity, your marriage, your career, or other form of something dying, grieve and do what you must, but know that this is never really the end. It's time for something to die because it no longer works in this form. Give whatever has died a proper send off, but don't cling in fear. Rather, allow it to happen so you can clear the room for something new, and hopefully far better, to grow.