Cracking nuts with a ruler …

While Northerlies are putting a chill in the air, I'm celebrating the Moon each day of the coming week as it waxes toward full …

The last retrograde of the year continues to Jan. 1, 2024. To help with some of the shifting going on under the Mercurial umbrella:

You have to leave the city of your comfort to go into the wilderness of your intuition. – Alan Alda

Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker was first presented on this date at theMariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Check out this link to The Nutcracker by the New York Ballet Theatre Company (scroll down to the “History”)

Several creative's birthdays today: British guitarist Keith Richards is 80 today and his 40th wedding anniversary; Brad Pitt is 60; Steven Spielberg is 77; and it's the 144th anniversary of Paul Klee's birth. Klee was of the 20th Century's great avant-garde artists.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Begin now doing what you want to do. – Marie Beynon Ray