Laughing, Lucky Four Leaved Clover
Is a most a atrocious rover;
Doesn’t stay long in one place
Goes and never leaves trace.

According to Carl Jung, the main purpose of our existence is to individuate, to understand that we are completely distinct from other individuals.

Birthdays are your own personal New Year’s Day, when we look toward the coming year. In astrological language this is known as a Solar Return: the precise moment that the Sun returns to its exact position in your birth chart. The Solar Return reading can be used as a way of predicting what parts of your life will be prominent in the coming year (from birthday to birthday).

Today is a good day to ask for abundance in all relations.

One leg shorter than the other.

THE CAKE!!!

“Love’s Hate behind a white veil.” ~Miss Havisham

Miss Havisham has not washed, cleaned or had a change of clothes since
the wedding day,

Pip has one of the guiltiest consciences in literature.

Close to closing chapter 8, our hero has one of the saddest, most miserable days of his short life, with many-many more to follow.

Falling in love is mainly a Western concept of moving from a feeling of neutrality towards a person to one of love. The use of the term “fall” implies that the process is in some way inevitable, uncontrollable, risky, irreversible, and that it puts the lover in a state of vulnerability, in the same way the word “fall” is used in the phrase “to fall ill” or “to fall into a trap”. The term is generally used to describe an (eventual) love that is strong.

“In the little world where children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

In Dickens’ time, and earlier, beer was drank to quench thirst, not water from a well. Tea and coffee were too expensive. Children were served a thin brew.

I was inspired by the way Dickens renders Miss Havisham on this page, as a spectral figure from the darkness that would turn to dust under sunlight.