It showed up, and I got a graphic image of it, the Tower Card, of the “Lightening Struck Tower,” or maybe any other host of names it gets called.
Some days, life deals us a hand we don’t like. That card came up the same time there was another mass shooting, like the El Paso shooting, on familiar terrain. Midland/Odessa was one of the first of the stops that I loved when I toured West Texas, back in the formative stages of this career.
But my remorse, I realize this nowhere even comes close to what is happening elsewhere, was an incident a little earlier. A simple email communication from the lead developer of the astrology software I’ve used for all these long years — retiring. EOL for my preferred software. The latest rev. was “long in the tooth,” with some idiosyncrasies I just worked around.
My biggest problem, with the next Mac OS, my old astrology software won’t run on the update. I will be making a few changes, adjustments, to my style, and what I offer.
The question, and I started on a migration pathway to just using an iPad for traveling and work, but at home? I’ve got 20K in charts on file. Just names and birth data, and not much else of use. In some cases, just the first name, and then various monikers.
Over the years, like, when I first embarked on this voyage, I was going to make money by selling chart reports. Anymore, that stuff, there is a wealth of available data freely available. My own work is more fun with horoscopes, the weekly, and seeing individuals.
I’m unsure if I want to go through the process to import and update the tens of thousands of charts I have. One of the programs I’ve been using has a cross platform capability, and a built emphasis, and while somewhat awkward with certain duties, it works better. Charts aren’t as pretty, but I can make do.
I’ve been through a half-dozen chart programs for the iPad and iPhone. Haven’t found just one that works. But I do know that this might be the drive that makes me shift completely to just tablets and stuff. So much easier, portable, too.

The Tower Card

The Tower Card represents sudden, unexpected change. Oftentimes, change not of our own making.
The tragedies in El Paso, then Midland/Odessa, combined with the devastation of a hurricane? Change.
Makes my changes appear insignificant in the bigger picture.

• “Suck it up, buttercup.”