Well, it’s finally here.  The Mars-Jupiter-Saturn alignment is breaking up.  We have officially* gone beyond maximum hysteria.  And while the skies are otherwise not terribly informative (or has been mentioned, my brain may be working sub-optimally) there is at least a little (if transitory) good news as the Earth flits through a Sun-Mercury alignment Tuesday-ish (check your local time zone for details).  Which means Tuesday would be an excellent time to have a party if you can find an excuse.  Thursday will be an EXCELLENT day for homeowners as you have the “Enthroned in Perfection” (Sun-Earth-Moon) intersecting through the Earth with Jupiter and Venus (love and happiness).

There is finally a bit of normality as Taurus finally gets a planet (this time, Mercury).  Good luck to those of you born under that sign, and vim et celeritas for everyone else.  If you are a USPSA shooter, and if you have access to a match, this would be a good one to shoot major power factor in.  Venus in Gemini has contradictory meanings (as does most things in Gemini) but if you were trying to conceive twins, this is s good a time as any to give it a shot.  Jupiter in Capricorn is getting a little bit interesting.  Right now as it’s slowing down, it is emphasizing the success in adaptability aspect of the sign.  Also possibly being a bit less of the intellect booster that it usually is.  Even more importantly, in a couple of weeks, we will see a day in which every major decision you make will be wrong.  More on that as we get closer.

The skies are looking better, but the cards say this is going to be a bad week to be a man.  There are five cards representing men/masculinity/phallus and they are all reversed.  Just to really drive the point home The Hierophant was drawn reversed next to The High Priestess.  (These are gender-flipped versions of each other, in earlier decks called “The Pope” and “The Popess.”) So avoid battles of the sexes if you’re a guy, force one if you’re a chick.

Taurus:  6 of Wands reversed – Apprehension, fear, treachery, disloyalty, indefinite delay.  This one seems to be coming to the top of the deck an awful lot lately.

Gemini:  4 of Cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations

Cancer:  10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation

Leo:  The Hierophant reversed – Society, good understanding, concord, overkindness, weakness.

Virgo:  The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, silence, tenacity, mystery, wisdom, science.

Libra:  The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.

Scorpio:  Ace of Coins reversed – The evil side of wealth, bad intelligence.  Physical comforts that are to your disadvantage.

Sagittarius:  3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion

Capricorn:  The Star reversed –  Arrogance, haughtiness, impotence.

Aquarius:  Ace of Wands reversed – Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, bastard child takes revenge.

Pisces:  Knight of Cups reversed -Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.

Aries:  Ace of Swords reversed – Pyrric victory, excess leading to disaster, conception, childbirth, augmentation, multiplicity.