For some reason, I sleep like crap when the seasons turn, so I apologize if I can’t see too deeply into the signs above.
In fact, I can only see Saturn lining up with the Earth and the Moon, which could mean either trouble at home, broken locks, or good garden harvests. There’s no definite distinction as to what sort of trouble you could be expecting at home-wise, but with Saturn’s connection to lead and the Moon’s connection to water, it could mean plumbing issues (sorry Mo).
Welcome to the top of the chart, Taurus! Everyone else watch out for tendencies towards behavior for both good (strength, stamina, patience, focus) and bad (anger, callousness, a foolish consistency, recklessness) during this month of being bombarded by bull beams.
Remember last month how Pisces was stealing all of Aries’ mojo? Same shit different sign. Aries gets a lesser version of what it should have had in re: love and luck, and Taurus’ is delayed. The same bad stuff is stable — Mars in Gemini, Jupiter retrograde in Sagittarius, and Saturn in Capricorn; but there is one major shaking things up happening: the Moon is in Aquarius. This is generally a good sign of bounty, unexpectedly large return on investments, assistance unlooked for, that sort of thing. But the overriding meaning is change, so there is also a non-trivial chance of disaster/ruin.
This week’s draw is very male-dominant. All of the Wands are upright, all of the Cups are reversed. The positioning of the court Wands cards indicates Zardoz-disapproved activity, though it reads more strongly if looked at from a male-male perspective, so maybe he’ll be OK with that. There will be an abrupt transition between this week and the next.
Taurus: Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise
Gemini: 7 of Cups, reversed – Desire, will determination
Cancer: 2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, “The sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of the world’s wealth”
Leo: 9 of Cups, reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
Virgo: 5 of Swords – Degradation, reversal, dishonor, loss, infamy
Libra: Knight of Wands – Dark man, probably a countryman, friendly, honest, conscientious
Scorpio: The Blank Card – All possibilities are yours.
Sagittarius: 6 of Wands – victory, triumph, great news, hope
Capricorn: The Chariot, reversed – Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat
Aquarius: The High Priestess, reversed – Passion, ardor, conceit, superficial knowledge
Pisces: 8 of Swords – Bad news, crisis, censure, conflict, sickness
Aries: Death, reversed – inertia, sleep, sleepwalking, lethargy
Why is aries getting bad cards like death. Cut us some slack and give us the lovers!
Garden is being overwhelmed with tomatoes, sunflowers, lemons and strawberries. So harvest is proceeding well.
I don’t know that we have drawn that card yet. It could be confirmation bias, but it seems like swords are way overrepresented, coins under, and lots of reversed court cards and the ace of cups.
Are you forgetting to shuffle the damn deck?
Only once. I’ve actually got a desk upstairs that I only use for tarot (as opposed to the one I use for video gaming and the one for web surfing).
So.Envious. *sigh*
Thanks for picking that Ace of Wands picture. It’s not in the “official” reading but come on I defy anyone to tell me that there isn’t a Freudian meaning with that.
Well, they didn’t choose a wand for a suit for nuthin’.
“Creation.”
Virgo: 5 of Swords – Degradation, reversal, dishonor, loss, infamy
Oh, lovely.
Some people pay extra for that.
Right? Oh well. Been there, done that, survived.
I reserved one of Q’s ladies for you last night. But you didn’t respond. It’s not the stars fault.
Riches, fortune, magnificence, – fine I’ll but a lottery ticket if you insist
OT: Trump was in my neck of the woods last night, heard this bit of his speech on the radio while I was coming home, it’s The Hat and The Hair’s universe and SF is our prophet.
Trump and Pence were both here Friday for the NRA rally. Traffic was a nightmare. About every 2 months Pence comes back to town for a fundraiser and makes traffic awful through downtown, several times on Friday nights. I’m probably voting democrat in the next election solely to make my commute home better.
And if you didn’t keep watching long enough, Pie was there too!
Christopher Titus showed up in my YT sidebar
He used to go to cruise night at the local Bob’s Big Boy. It’s sometimes pretty star studded over there. Leno is a regular.
Bob’s Big Boy
Leo: 9 of Cups, reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections
This is an interesting combination. I can’t tell if it’s generally positive or anxiety-inducing.
It’s easy to show loyalty when things are going well.
A quick search suggests that 9 of Cups is a good thing – contentment, success, whatever. Reversed is an outward appearance of success, but an internal conflict:
Also, I can’t believe I’m doing independent study on Tarot. WTF, man?!?
I now know what SF feels everytime one of use loses their lunch.
Gosh, what a surprise that you are a Leo!
We were? All I remember were doom and gloom predictions.
Yeah, you guys had Mercury and Venus in conjunction for like a month straight. That literally means “get lucky.”
Now before that, you did have MERCURY RETROGRADE, so maybe it took you a while to come out from under that.
After posting, I thought, “I bet it’s just like the weather”; everybody remembers that cold stretch, or the tornado, or the 6 blizzards, etc. But you never remember the 10 days straight of perfect weather.
I don’t want to derail conversation, just wanted to say thanks to Kbolino re: the vaccination discussion. That makes a lot of sense, though i still have some questions from what i read re CDC and my understanding, but perhaps that can be a conversation for another time.
There is no derailing on Horoscope posts. The skies contain everything.
Yay!
Now. now – that’s not the correct internet protocol. Instead of rational discussion, you have to DESTROY or WRECK someone. Then you can live in the glory of the moment knowing you vanquished another foe.
I just vanquished some chicken tikka masala. Yummy.
It doesn’t count as DESTROYING someone unless you use FACTS and LOGIC.
You OWNED him!
I’m wrecking a New Glarus Moon Man. And then I’ll probably destroy another. Sunday Funday!
I’m glad I could be helpful.
I would read anything the CDC says with a skeptical eye, though. Some of their stuff is solid, other stuff not so much.
OT:
Apparently there is a thing called the Conservative-Libertarian Fiction Alliance and their 2019 book of the year award ballot is out.
I have no idea if they are any good, but I’m pretty sure there will be a lack of wokeness.
Huh. Never heard of them. In checking them out I saw this:
Never heard of MeWe either. Apparently they are a Facebook substitute that actually values privacy. Anyone heard of it/use it?
MeWe is great. More options than FaceBook and none of the evil.
I doubt I’ll use it, but I think I’ll sign up just to give them some moral support.
Pretty much what I did.
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“Libra: Knight of Wands – Dark man, probably a countryman, friendly, honest, conscientious“
So a Mexican laborer is going to offer to mow my lawn for free?
These ladies are Queens of Wands IYKWIM.
https://thechive.com/2019/04/28/the-butt-over-back-is-a-classic-in-everyones-book-30-photos/
Yowsa.
Fear the deer
Jagermeister?
basketball
the bucks play like crap
So I’ve been listening to “Across Atlantic Ice” which is a book discussing the evidence regarding the Solutrian versus Beringian hypothesis for the origin of the Clovis people in the Americas. The way it was sold on Audible I expected something written from the conspiracy theory wing of the world, but it turned out to be more of an overlong academic paper which actually admits to and outlines the Beringian evidence as well.
I think a lot of contention regarding the Clovis origins debate gets muddied by modern DNA analysis. The post-clovis beringian artifacts indicate multiple origins and waves of habitation regardless of where the pre-Clovis peoples came from.
Wow. You really know how to, uh, live large on the weekends…
What’s a weekend?
Dynomite!
I can’t spel, it is nown
Solutrean. In my defense, it is French, and thus misspelled by default.
We!
+1 Don Le Cornelius
Well, you’re half right.
I think human history (~300K years) is far more complex than we know. I also think we haven’t changed much over that time and ‘one damned thing after another’ probably describes it well. As long as we have been around there have been hunter gatherers, farmers, cities and villages. Politics has always been the same damned thing over and over.
The enlightenment is probably the single most important event in human history. Could there have been others in the past we are unaware of? Sure, but we dont know about them.
Well, that 300K number is debatable. That includes proto-homo sapiens.
Check out the history of the Late Bronze Age (~1500-1200 BC). When those civilizations fell, it took a while to get back.
So you’re saying it was aliens?
Illegal Aliens. Those Frogs didn’t file the proper paperwork.
I am not saying it was aliens…
While I ponder the soundness of starting day-drinking, some hangover music.
Day drinking on a Sunday would be a good idea if I didn’t need to get anything else done. Then I could pass out at 6:00 and have slept through the hangover before my alarm clock goes off.
That’s my plan. + 1 nap.
The math checks out.
Do it!
Can’t be drunk all day if you don’t start early.
Confining Chernobyl.
Never heard of it. Really impressive.
From the comments: “Why is this not all over the news. Why is this not one of the biggest stories of the year”
I think it was better off without a bunch of idiots saying inane crap and calling attention to every minor problem.
Fuckin’ a. Imagine the hundreds of watermelon groups wetting their beaks if this were an American project.
^This.
YouTube is one place I strictly do not read the comments.
Anywhere that is not glibs* has a “Don’t read the comments” policy.
*Minor exception on Legal Insurrection.
Whereas Glibs has a “don’t read the articles” policy?
/shit-stirrer
Well, it’s more like a cultural tendency than a policy . . .
First!
Saw Avengers: Endgame a few hours ago. Fairly predictable but in a good way. Two thumbs up.
Old lady music.
Not for the people here, at least the ones who drink whisk(e)y.
You know who else had a train reserved for certain people?
Stormy Daniels ?
Gladys Knight and the Pips?
Jenna Jameson?
Brett Kavanaugh?
Ernest and Julio Gallo?
Cat Stevens?
Curtis Mayfield?
Ozzy Osbourne?
Blackfoot?
Soul Asylum?
Dagny Taggart?
James West and Artemus Gordon?
3 way tie.
The Hyperbole
Commodius
Tres
I like this one. Well done.
Kim Jong-un?
AOC?
Laura nyro?One of my mom’s old heroin songs
Your mom had heroin music?
Yeah, is that weird?
Well, she had music and she had heroin. Some of the music was about heroin. That’s this song.
OT, from my TX son
“Check this out. There is a 17 year old kid in Houston named Matthew Boling. Yesterday he ran the 100m in 9.98 seconds. That is the fastest time ever by anybody under the age of 18 (by 1/100th of a second) and only the second time anybody under the age of 18 has run under 10 seconds. Most amazingly of all …. he’s white. If I’m not mistaken, he’s the only person of the anglo persuasion to ever run under 10 seconds. Here’s a 40 second video of him doing it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8i2RsYqcNw
Great googly-moogly. Good for him!
I was always impressed by fast runners when I was a kid — I couldn’t run worth crap.
Holy smokes that kid’s fast!
Does it count? I didn’t see him drink the beer, first.
Speaking of which, rumor has it that the “A” Mountain Challenge is returning this year on Friday, October 18th 6pm, so one could, if one were so inclined, try to best his PR by drinking 13 beers and running 52 miles in 24 hours, then get back to Albuquerque and lead a pace group for the Duke City Marathon on Sunday the 20th.
MOND (one of the theories making Dark Matter unnecessary) isn’t looking so good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0jaE–l0Y
Worth watching just for the picture of Fritz Zwicky (who knew the Swiss wore bolo ties?)
I think we all know the answer, it’s the Langoliers, they ate too much time.
I saw that as a kid. Watched it again last year on Youtube. It does not hold up. Storm of the Century, otoh, was still fairly creepy.
What do the stars say about picking up a Kel-Tec KSG12 on sale at $650?
2019 is a bad year for it. 2022 is better
Compulsory
That’s not a Demi Rose photo.
Libra: Knight of Wands
Must be the chunk of wood that smacked me in the mouth while I was being less than smart with the chainsaw. One split lip later.
I sure hope so because I have to fix this book I wrote and what’s worse, I just honestly don’t like the stupid story.
Sorry to hear that.
I suspect it’s just because I think I bit off more than I could chew. It took me 25 years to write my pirate book to fulfill my vision for it because I knew I didn’t have the chops. I feel like I really don’t have the chops to write this story yet, and that I’m settling for something less than it could have been if I had a little more experience under my belt.
My husband really likes it, so at this point, I’m just going to trust him.
Just add some hardcore sex and a deus ex machina.
So speaking of deus ex machina … that’s kinda what I think I did, and I am not happy with it and not sure I know how to fix it.
Hard core sex … not this story. This couple does not lend itself to the hard stuff.
There was a whole lot packed in to the bit I did read. I wasn’t quite sure how you were going to flesh that out into 500 pages.
Well, me neither. ?
And since I like the thicc chics.
Acadian fetish?
Who knows.
I used to own a 1964 Acadian Invader wagon. I loved that thing. Drove it all over the place. The shifter used to stick in second and I’d have to get underneath and unjam it. Shoulda kept it. Really wanted a 1966 Beaumont SD.
Aquarius: The High Priestess, reversed
Giggity
Perhaps my favorite Quagmire