Moving: UQ: The Ekka: Imbolc

Everyone is moving at the moment. We moved and then Atratus' house, um, exploded and everyone moved, Pan's moving into our old room at the Coop and tomorrow we spend the day shifting my Da and Jane from their West End house.

I'm partially convinced it's got to be in the stars: everything's in Leo. Our Housewarming (which rocked and thanks to everyone who came) was on the 5th when Sun was in Leo, Moon was in Leo, Mercury was retrograding in Leo and Saturn was in Leo (which is of course where my Saturn was at time of birth and I'm coming up to my Saturn Return next month). And then Neptune was squaring all of that in Aquarius. Now I'm not going to do a detailed analysis but suffice to say when there's that much stuff going on, well, stuff goes on.

I'm adjusting to going to UQ: it's very different to what I'm used to. Atratus says that there are 30,000 staff and students which is more than the whole town of Armidale (population in 1993: 25,000) when I was there. And QUT isn't really that big population-wise, particularly spread across the campuses. So a little intimidating. Of course the xplore-it gene has kicked in and I'm coping and can finally find where all of my classes are (which has more to do with screw ups on si-net, the uq web based thing, than with my direction sense). Greenintestines is also on campus and Arika but I haven't tracked anyone else down and its another place where it'll take a while to make friends and actually I'm pretty good at that.

The Ekka's on and we go past it on the new train line. People reckon that it's flu season with the Ekka - another good reason to avoid it. We won't mention the price. We're talking about a day trip to Dreamworld/Movieworld/Seaworld next month to make up for not going. Oh and actually getting to go on rides. (A history of the Ekka can be found here.)

It's shifted ever so slightly into spring. The light's changed again and you can feel the touch of heat in the sun. The days are a bit longer too. The 8th was Imbolc by the 15 degrees Leo tradition and the 5th by Full Moon in Leo tradition. I bet if I went outside somewhere where there was Acacia's they'd be blooming.