After a protracted break of greater than six years, I lastly returned to my beloved Lucca on August 6, 2023, the place I used to be met on the Pisa airport by my two closest Lucchese buddies. A lot had modified in my outdated Lucchese life in the course of the lockdown, as a number of of my shut American buddies had returned to the US, by no means to return to Italy besides for brief visits. One other very shut buddy died of pancreatic most cancers in Lucca in January 2021.
As a lot of you recognize, the loss of life of my daughter Ruth Seavers in September 2021 stored me tied up in Eire for over a 12 months and a half whereas I took care of her affairs. An extended course of, as Eire stays such a tragic and bureaucratic Saturnian nation to dwell in, in some ways. After countless delays, the affairs of my beloved Ruth have now been accomplished, and the deletion of all of Ruth's private knowledge and on-line artwork inside three weeks of her loss of life is now topic to 'a proper legal investigation.
The return to the creative world has been begging me for a very long time, and Lucca was a metropolis the place my creativity was all the time enhanced with out effort. In my chart relocated to Italy, Neptune strikes from the sixth home of each day routine and repair to the fifth home of creativity. And my North Node strikes from the fifth home of creativity to the fourth home of dwelling and roots.
After I used to dwell in Lucca, I usually labored 9 hours a day as a nanny, (with the added torture of Saturday mornings spent supervising the homework of the identical 4 unruly boys!), whereas growing not solely my images enterprise , but in addition my images enterprise. I observe astrology in my spare time.
And I additionally continued to review astrology in depth, in fact!
This fast-paced, purposeful day-to-day life is definitely simpler than you would possibly assume while you dwell in a small city and all the pieces is shut by. The longer opening hours additionally assist enormously. Like having a Mars Saturn bike with twelve gears! And naturally, the climate.
Earlier than my return to Lucca I had contemplated endlessly what it will be prefer to be again there. However I ought to have apprehensive! Despite the fact that it took me three full days to get my bearings (and I used to be solely there for six!), my earlier life got here flooding again to me effortlessly. This time, higher than ever. Oh sure, there’s laundry service! A a lot wanted service after spending per week on a ship between Sardinia and Corsica! And my goodness, how handy that the hair salon is subsequent door! And bike rental throughout the street!
It took me lower than a day to trace down my favourite store in the entire world: Biagioni's in through Fillungo, which sells all kinds of artwork provides in addition to my gorgeous Fabriano notebooks. Which attributable to Brexit have been unimaginable to acquire in Eire. After all a number of journeys had been made there!
I moved to By way of Fillungo to be within the heart of issues after three days, staying in a stunning cozy resort with an out of doors seating space. I reconnected with much more individuals than I anticipated, which was fantastic. The routes between my favourite locations, most of which had been nonetheless there… got here again to me effortlessly. I painted, wrote a number of poems.
Extra poignantly, I additionally watched Sinead O'Connor's funeral on-line. His loss of life stopped me in my tracks, extra of which in a second.
It was my first actual vacation in over eight years, as my makes an attempt at a vacation in Portugal final October ended up being a part-time job. However not this time!
It was fascinating to see how Venus retrograde performed out so subtly and quietly whereas I used to be there. It turned out that the resort I moved to was lower than 200 meters from the precise spot the place I grew to become an astrologer in a single day…sure, on August 15, 2015, whereas Venus was…is in fact! Leo Retrograde! Mamma mia, you actually can't make that up! My vacation had been deliberate across the week of crusing I did the earlier week in Sardinia, as that was the one week obtainable on the yacht. My two weeks in Italy actually weren't deliberate round Venus retrograde, however look how Venus performed out! My favourite moments in Lucca had all the time been operating at 6 within the morning, taking a look at Venus as a morning star, or within the night, pedaling across the partitions of Lucca whereas Venus was a night star.
As anticipated, I discovered myself reassessing my life in Eire. Sure, I can come again right here, I discovered myself saying, sure, I can't wait to come back again, I discovered myself saying. There was a motive why Portugal didn't work out as I had hoped; God merely had greater and extra expansive plans for me.
And so, as I traveled again to Pisa airport, I discovered myself frantically calling my journey agent in Eire to ask them to e book me again to Italy in September. finished Lucca, I can't wait to see you once more. My return to Italy will probably be in phases.
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My subsequent weblog publish will probably be a tribute to Sinead O'Connor so be careful for that.
