This is the first year young lilac bushes planted by our westward neighbors smell strongly aromatic. The blooms near our screen door perfume our kitchen and this week evoke memory of a different college town with a mature lilac on Race street around the corner from our residence on Delaware in a house where a Swedish couple on sabbatical lived, which is the first time that particular bush at their squat corner house with overgrown garden comes to mind, but not the first time recalling its interior space, especially one night as babysitter reading The Cay by Theodore Taylor at a booth in cramped kitchen — just booth and book — and recurring more often than one would imagine for two details subdued.
Author, June 23, 1921, Statesville, NC, 00:00:
Mercury 20° 43′ Cancer
Monarch, April 21, 1926, Mayfair (London), ENG, 02:40:
North Node of Moon 20° 28′ Cancer
Capricorn 21° 24′ rising
Link: Recent webinar with British astrologer who works with planetary nodes via Astrology University. Corresponds to 2013 article with detail and “bunching” (quoting Rudhyar) of planetary nodes at Cancer/Capricorn.