I am just back from having an open MRI. While I think I am a relatively mild case, I definitely suffer from claustrophobia and just can’t cope with the regular machine.

Lying in the open machine today, I was able to turn my head and see not only out but out a window so there are no issues but if I turned my head so I was looking straight up, the top of the machine was very close in my face and it’s just amazing the feelings that come up.

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With the Sun and Moon in Aries squaring Mars no less, I had a very Mars-y day. I went to work with a soldier on a flatbed truck loaded with steel beams that were slung around with a crane… I was surrounded by Mars in every direction which of course I love. But anyway, first we had to unstrap the steel beams so they could be taken from the truck.

This requires someone to climb on top the load which was inordinately tall. I knew the soldier had an inch of clearance under some bridges with this load so I guess you could say the load was tall as a load can be so I asked, “Do you want me to get up there?”

“Well yeah,” he said.

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