Just one alignment, but it’s an interesting one. Mars – Moon – Venus. This is a classic “forces opposed, in tension” situation since on one side you’ve got male/war and the other side female/love and in the middle you’ve got (what is typically) the sign of instability/change (and also variability, falsehood, betrayal, the sea/salt water, motherhood and all sorts of other things that may or may not be applicable here). Ordinarily I’d just go with the first level interpretation and be done with it, but it’s been a while since there’s been anything to look at and besides I’m really bored at the moment. So we’ve got two oppositional states and a change sign. The next step is to try and determine which direction if any the change is occurring. Since these signs are on opposite sides of the moon, and the moon is close to Earth, this necessarily means that they are also on opposite sides of the sky (more or less). If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Mars has been in Aries for an awfully long time. Venus is not directly opposite it, and in fact is moving from Libra into Scorpio at almost this exact point in time. Times of transition are particularly important, so this means that we should probably be paying a bit more attention to what is going on here. There are two observations: Venus is doing the transition, not Mars and it’s moving from Libra which further indicates that the instability/change is on the part of Venus. In olden times, this would be an indicator of a broken alliance or the beginning of a war. Today, it could still mean that, but with the modern implication of transition, we might want to be on the lookout for a princess who is about to have a major life change. As a SCIENCE!tist, just like any other Expert(tm), you get used to relying on your intuition, which is a self-indulgent way of saying that I typically don’t bother checking my assumptions. That habit would have bitten me in this case, because all of these things this all comes from the unstated assumption that Mars and Venus were originally in some sort of balance and the moon indicated a shift in power between the two. But looking at the moon indicates that this idea is in error. Because the moon at this point will be in a quarter phase that is half-illuminated and this a symbol of balance. So all of these things actually indicate that Venus will be shifting into a position of equality with Mars. The fact that the moon itself is transiting between signs at the same time all of this is happening is further confirmation that it is the moon that is the key to this whole thing. Astrology, like all other SCIENCE!s, can be dangerous if you try to apply it with a shallow understanding.
Other than that, It’s a particularly good week for Scorpios.
Scorpio: 5 of Cups – Loss, but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations
Sagittarius: 2 of Wands reversed –
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Capricorn: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb
Aquarius: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension
Pisces: 4 of cups reversed – Novelty, presage, new instruction, new relations
Aries: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace
Taurus: Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise, principle, beginning, source, birth, family, origin
Gemini: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance
Cancer: The Sun reversed – Withering, retreat, confusion, diminishment, unwanted surveillance, inopportune revelations, heat stroke
Leo: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science
Virgo: King of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness
Libra: Knight of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
“Cancer: The Sun reversed – Withering, retreat, confusion, diminishment, unwanted surveillance, inopportune revelations, heat stroke”
I’m gonna get caught wanking?
?
You made me laugh.
#metoo
Sean made you laugh, or you’re going to get caught wanking too?
You assume those are mutually exclusive conditions for them.
“MOM! I told you to knock!”
Pulling forward from last thread, a good article at Substack about the vote changing machine:
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/debunking-hammer-and-scorecard-a
I have no knowledge of these people, so I dunno. But it seems credible.
my response, pulled forward:
This is a good read. I find it entirely plausible that the Trump machine latched on to something like this and sold it.
Also – confirmation bias for me. Because if you have a machine that flips the count, you don’t need mail in ballots. And they hung their hat on getting mail in ballots this year – and waited to count until after the results were in elsewhere – exactly what you’d need to do if you needed to add in 20 or 50k votes and not have it be found. Also matches the bizarre Pennsylvania Supreme court ruling that signatures need not match and postmarks are not needed. That certainly makes a large scale fraud operation a lot easier.
None of that has anything to do with a vote-counting level computer fraud. Plus, a vote counting fraud machine is completely defeated by a hand recount (in states that have paper ballots)
Which really raises the question: Why is team trump not focusing on those mail in ballot signatures. Surely coming up with 20k invalid signatures should be easy if widespread fraud occurred by mail in ballot. Either they have a “forge a signature machine” filling out ballots, or they’ll have a bunch that fail the human eye test.
Although I wouldn’t put it past them to deploy a machine that fills out ballots using information from voter rolls. That’s something my team could definitely put together. They were willing to invest a couple billion dollars in this election. Spending a million or 10 on machines and code to forge ballots is kind of small potatoes in that environment.
Supposedly what’s her face is going to release information pertinent to this by Friday. If they have the goods it’s going to be absolutely earth shaking, if not it’s over. There’s too much background noise and misinformation from both sides right now but we should find out one way or the other soon enough.
The dominion thing is dead.
The Trump team isn’t even asking for a recount in counties of Wisconsin that used them.
Are the signed envelopes retained once they’re verified (or not) and the actual ballots removed? Even if you could prove non matching signatures, once the ballots are separated, there’s no way to remove only those votes from the totals so either you accept potentially illegal votes or disenfranchise an even larger number of legitimate votes.
How to protect a ballot’s validity while also keeping a voter’s choices from being linked to which voter is difficult….
Ensure that it’s valid before being counted. But there’s a vested interest in keeping the barriers lowered.
That’s great if your side’s winning. What if your party can’t afford to lose this one election? Validity is way less important, then.
Leo: King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, equity, art and science
Too good to be true.
Virgo: King of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness
I guess there was so much inertia remaining from last week that it bled into this week.
It’s really discouraging I guess I’ll wait for next week.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/new-twist-georgia-governor-urges-audit-ballot-envelop-signatures-look
Getting out ahead of the lawsuits?
This was 1/3 of the components of their election integrity audit. They just dropped it and did not do it for some reason. No explanation given.
It makes one wonder if they needed time to fix 80k envelopes.
“for some reason”
If you have a real audit you might find (more of) something.
I don’t understand why Governor Abrams would want this
Fucking lockdowns and panic. The local has less then a dozen people, and kickoff is only a half hour away.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/pa-26000-mail-ballots-should-have-been-rejected-year-less-1000-ultimately
Nothing to see here. Keep walking, prole.
Something else I noticed about PA is the extraordinarily high mail in ballot return rate for Democrats:
Ballot return rates:
Pennsylvania
———————-
Democrats: 87.1
Republicans: 78.7
Independent: 83.1
Minor: 77.9
For comparison, here are the numbers for Florida:
Florida
———————-
Democrats: 81.6%
Republicans: 80.55%
Independent: 80.26%
This I absolutely believe is true.
The Trump team will lose this legal challenge though. No judge is going to throw out those votes. it’s a great scam.
Aries: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace
I’m a member of the government?
Well, those SOUND like positive things …
Sagittarius: 2 of Wands reversed –
Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear.
Not in equal amounts, I suspect.
Withering, retreat, confusion
This reminds me. I watched the ’70s movie version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, a few nights ago.
What a shitshow. Both the movie and the historical event.
Bring on the empty horses!
Here’s a better documentary on the subject.
The girlfriend just informed me that she is ovulating this week. Time to join a monastery.
Can I suggest this one:
https://www.trappistwestvleteren.be/en/
It’ll be easier to join their American chapter.
The girlfriend saw pictures of Westy (from me), then she learned you could stay there if you were Catholic. She is not, nor does she understand the theology.
Spencer’s does make good beer though.
Both make good beer.
The big cities have been utterly corrupt long before I was born. But, I ignored it because I don’t live in those places, and the problems were pretty localized.
Obama taught the Democratic party that big-city corruption can be played at the national election too.
Trump caught them off guard in 2016.
They were ready this time.
This is just the beginning, and there is no where to hide from it.
I suppose I’ll just spend my senior years drinking heavily.
I spilled my scotch in the bedroom last night. I’m cut off from drinking there now.
Alcohol abuse.
Spilled scotch demands some kind of penance.
Depends, was it blended or single malt?
Teacher’s. Saturday night calls for the high class stuff.
Teacher’s?? Carry on.
That’s because you didn’t use it as a reason for marital shenanigans.
I hear you about just turning to drink as The American Experiment crumbles around us.
I don’t want to go out in a blaze of glory if my efforts are going to be censored by the news.
That’s why anything drastic should wait until Skylink satellite system is complete and free Internet is global and not throttled by ISPs or the Chicoms or even Cox or Comcast.
(Im particularly interested in Skylink’s effect on China. It might get worse before it gets better.)
Whatever happens, the next four year should be enough time to devise a fraud-proof vote system. Anyone who says that disenfranchises Black people should be called out as the racists they are.
Good luck. It hasn’t worked for showing ID at the polls.
Really, any tightening of voting security, and it needs to be from registration to compiling results, will disenfranchise current voters in some form or another. And that will be fodder for the opposition to improving the integrity of the system.
Because both sides have no scruples it’ll never be addressed because it requires at least some crossover from the party that’s benefiting more. At least the mirage of your vote meaning a damn thing is being stripped away but none of this ends in a good place unfortunately.
Freedom of movement is far, far more important than voting and that has been made more difficult at all levels of government between REAL ID and other restrictions.
So the”disenfranchisement” lobby can kiss my ass.
I agree. Also gun ownership and use.
But that won’t stop them or their lackey media from using it anyways.
(Starlink satellites, not SkyLink. Or even SkyNet)
“Obama taught the Democratic party that big-city corruption can be played at the national election too.”
This, over and over. I hated the criticism of Obama’s based on “a secret Muslim” and the northern crap.
Obama is a big city machine politician that trades in racial animus. He brought Chicago to DC and DC ate it up because they were craving it.
Bah
Northern should be birther
The fact that Obama chose Chicago to base and launch his political life shpukk lo d have been a major red flag, even within his own party. He was from Hawaii; why Chicago?
Because he needed the Chicago machine to launch himself into politics, and then he took the machine’s reins and steered it himself in time.
Obama was so transparently sleazy, it was disgraceful. I can see African Americans being excited at the first Black (but not African American in the descended from 19th century slave kind) president.
But that just makes it all the more painful: he’s the first Black president, and he admittedly does not like most of America or her history, and he’s a socialist to boot.
And Kamala is both black and African-American as Barack is….
Ugh. I think I ate too much for lunch…
Left over bbq. So good though.
OT:
Don, did you solicit people to play chess a few days ago? I wasn’t able to post. I’m on lichess – name is RoundEarthShill. If anyone wants to play, “add” me there or whatever.
KEEP FEAR ALIVE
Ron Klain, President-elect Joe Biden’s chief of staff, said Sunday that the inauguration ceremony will be altered to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, as cases continue to spike across the country.
“It’s going to definitely have to be changed,” Klain told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week.” “We’ve started some consultations with House and Senate leadership on that. Obviously this is not going to be the same kind of inauguration we have had in the past.”
You didn’t seriously think they were going to abandon such an effective tool for controlling the plebs, did you?
I hope, if he has 20 people all sitting in rental cars again, That this time they have rollerskating waitresses. Oh, and people sneaking in via trunks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1330574079762554881
Meanwhile, in NY…
Kick Cuomo out!
The Luv Guv’s fans are happy to white-knight him in the comments. ?
Not that many people there. Sad.
“ Libra: Knight of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.”
Imma gonna let my freak flag fly.
It’s about time we had some fun.
https://nationalfile.com/scotus-conservative-justices-now-preside-over-every-circuit-court-key-to-trumps-victory/
Seems important.
Virgo: King of Coins reversed – inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness
I still can’t believe I went to jail for that guy . . . and in the end: what for? – Michael Cohen
OT: Is there still a Discord for glibs? I cannot recall it and wanted to check it out. Thanks.