Bump on the noggin

[Jim Eshelman]

Last night, Marion and I ran an event for a friend's housewarming. After it was over and I was lowering a large cart of fur cases of wine glasses down the back stairs, something missed on the last step and I went tumbling, landing on top of the cart and banging my head on a desk and my knee into the concrete slab.

I'm fine. I have a small goose-egg this morning that is barely tender and no signs of concussion. My knee will probably turn purple from bruising and is the most tender thing today. It's not a big deal at all - just another event floating by - except I'm sure I haven't had a goose-egg type bump in, oh, 60 years so of course before I even got off the floor I pulled out my phone and check the time. It occurred March 16, 2024, 10:11 PM PDT. (LA is close enough, but it was in Eagle Rock.)

I already knew that my returns were not set up for an accident; or, at least, that it was a minimal possibility, e.g., t Mars 5°33' from SLR Asc but transiting Jupiter 0°02' from Nadir. It's not an accident prone (though perhaps it shows the lack of serious injury).

But transits at the moment show a slow planet transit brought to a peak by Sun as a timer, and then exactly by Moon completing the picture. Here are the transits:

2°02' Pis - t Sun
2°16' Pis - t Neptune
2°20' Vir - r Asc
2°31' Gem - t Moon

Neptune: The bigh Oops!

There is one other slow transit consistent with falls: I'm in that part of year when transiting Saturn is about to exactly oppose SQ Moon. It's within a degree now. (I'm not looking forward to it being exact in a week: Marion is flying to Juneau to get away from a high accident-prone SLR and I have a critical event at the office to deal with.) For the moment of the tumble:

16°48' Aqu - t Saturn
17°22' Leo - SQ Moon

Overall, it's not a big deal. It was just unusual and surprising. (Where's the Uranus already? <g>)

[SteveS]

2°02' Pis - t Sun
2°16' Pis - t Neptune
2°20' Vir - r Asc
2°31' Gem - t Moon

Interesting, for a couple of reasons, one being the timing for your bump, and the other I have to go through the Sun-Nep stuff possibly with my next Mar 30 SLR. Curious: Were you intoxicated?

[Jim Eshelman]

Were you intoxicated?

No. That is, I didn't feel intoxicated and had consumed (when you add up the ounces) the equivalent of two glasses of wine over the prior four to five hours.

[SteveS]

The main thing---you are ok!

[Veronica]

Fudge
I hate when I fall down.
My mother told me I was going to take ballet lessons so that when I fall down I can at least do it gracefully.
It's kinda hard to fit all that into a "pretend "I meant" to do that" dance move, but it's never to late to add some jazz hands, a big smile and a "Tada!!"

but seriously, so glad your ok and bouncing back so nicely.