Photo above of two women, a boy, and a baby on a dock is in the cooling weather before a president’s assassination, and located ten miles from a lake where four years prior men who differed strongly in other ways but loved to fish gathered together as guest of a priest, the president of a Catholic university, and agreed on something important about civil rights.
The dock belongs to a cottage, but a simple one: uninsulated with a two-hole outhouse and no sauna. It is loved by many. Though this 47-year-old woman holding the baby and her husband fatigue at maintaining it and will sell it approximately ten years later to be rid of the upkeep burden. They are second-generation Finns. In matters of upkeep, they have high standards.
For the baby in her arms, with whom she shares a birthday, this place near a lake named Mermaid, on one apparently thought to look horse-headed, this will be a magical place for the years through childhood until pre-teen — a place of snakes and crayfish and stars for a girl who spends days around concrete.
For her mother it is a place of many associations including one she will share with her daughter about transitioning to womanhood here, not knowing anything about it, being told by this mother “Oh, I was going to tell you about that,” then vowing to do differently for her own. But she will end up saying those same words in odd context to a different womanhood matter when this baby, nearly teen, on a street named for state of Delaware, is approached by a man one day after finishing her paper route.
The boy in the photo has spent his second year of life in a country known for its funny-sounding language; a linguist in a YouTube video says like a potato is stuck in their throats. In that concrete place shared with his sister, he will be diagnosed as intellectually impaired for dyslexia and he’ll go to a special school on a special bus. The sister will remember him so angry that he punches holes in walls.
Sunday, July 7, 2019, Midwest, 18:14 CDT:
Mercury stations to retrograde past Leo cusp back to Cancer
Family synastry:
Sun conjunct Sun and South Node
North Node conjunct Mars and Saturn
Natal Mercury: Rx, station Rx, post cusp-Leo post-eclipse
…and approximately 20° Cancer