thawing from winter to spring

Kangaroos at Galada Tamboore

In the last hours with the Sun in Virgo, and Venus in Libra making the last square to Pluto in Capricorn in our lifetime, I walk through Galada Tamboore (creek waterhole in Woi-wurrung). I stop at the edge overlooking the floodplains and spot several kangaroos. In the distance, I see the Hume Freeway. A dozen planes fly above my head in the time I am there.

On my way back, I decide to buy an ice cream. I have spent the last three days in bed recovering from a cold, wiped by the lunar eclipse.

Ice cream is not logically the cure, but my inner child is craving this. I buy her/me a gelato flavoured tolak angin - meaning to ‘repel wind’ - an Indonesian herbal remedy for colds, with mint and ginger and honey.

I pretend each lick of my ice cream is healing my cold and walk to the bookshop.

I sit down and start reading Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living. When I look up, I realise it’s the mythology section. A book on Venus and Aphrodite catches my eye.

Further afar, I spot a vinyl cover of a beautiful woman with a pearl hairpin and white eyeshadow.

As the bookshop turns off the music, a polite indication that the shop is closing soon, I walk towards the record section and note the name of the record: Bewitched: The Goddess Edition.

At the turn of the equinox, from Virgo to Libra, from winter to spring - I play Laufey’s record before drifting into my dreams.