Our cats like to pee in the fireplace.

Because it’s warm, I guess? Maybe the residual heat makes it like the fancy heated toilet seats that I wish for at 3 in the morning when our bathroom is so cold my face oil freezes. (True story.) Who knows the mind of a cat? All I know is we find ashy paw prints all over the living room which are equal parts adorable and aggravating.

In case you’re an amateur astrology nerd like me, today is a full moon eclipse and Sunday is a planetary conjunction that only comes around once every 500 years. The last time the skies looked the way they will on Sunday, the Holy Roman Emperor still had a job and Europeans were still ten months away from figuring out there was a Pacific Ocean.

In the 1520s, the world was shifting in ways that still inform our world today. I keep feeling that 2020 is going to be a big year of expansion and transformation, and according to my amateur astrology nerd research, today’s lunar eclipse is in my sign (Cancer) which means - apparently - major transformations and rebirth in all areas of life. All right then. Bring it on, universe.

Meanwhile, the cats are still peeing in the fireplace and responding unfavorably to my attempts to involve them in my dance parties.

When faced with an unknown future and wild shifts, maybe the best thing to do is focus on the one moment in front of you, the one with uncooperative cats.

Before it ever occurred to them that peeing in the fireplace was an option.