Snow. Snow is good.

 

Fucking finally!  This is my eleventh winter up here and I still haven’t lost that love for snow that a childhood lacking the stuff inspired.  It didn’t help matters that my great-grandmother was a schoolteacher*, so the house was filled with 19th century primers that always were written from the point of view of New England, maybe into the mid-Atlantic states.  I remember them having little tables about how thick the ice had to be on your pond to go skating on it safely.  I always felt ripped off in winter.  I think I was able to build two snowmen in my entire life.  Well, I guess I could build one now.

Well, the stars this week are showing a series of alignments that could be interpreted as a series of increasingly horrible events, but I choose (based on the maxim that the skies de minimus non curat) as an evolution through time of a series of events relating to one small group of people.  Specifically:

These are based around the progression of the MERCURY RETROGADE – Venus retrograde coupling.  It starts off the week aligned with Jupiter, then shifts on the 25th to aligning with Saturn.  The first indicates sexual peccadillos of a ruler.  Like an Edward VI/ Rasputin banging a Romanov broad thing.  Saturn of course is the planet of endings, so the most straightforward interpretation is that l’affair nookie is publicly revealed on Sunday, but Tuesday is the final consequence (the abdication/assassination in the previous analogy).  So don’t look at this sign as a warning that your relationship is going to end horribly this, but as an opportunity to mock and ridicule “your betters.”

 

Best Friends!

 

So, Aquarius… your month isn’t starting out so well.  You’ve got to deal with MERCURY RETROGRADE which can harsh one’s mellow, but also Saturn, which is a notorious drag on things.  Take the opportunity do to things related to hunkering down, fortifying your place, repairing/reinforcing plumbing, and stockpiling ammo.

Everyone else just has MERCURY RETROGRADE that reinforced with the moon in Libra knocking things out of balance.

 

Just friends

 

 

Lots of Majors drawn this week, and not all of them are reversed!

Aquarius:  Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude.

Pisces:  Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.

Aries:  2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification.  Honestly this overplays the downsides — it’s really talking about “rich people problems.”

Taurus:  8 of Wands – Activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope, love.

Gemini:  The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality

Cancer:  Temperance reversed – Life out of balance, going on a bender.  The implication is you got fucked up/pissed off/jealous/other extreme state and did something disadvantageous.  But these cards were drawn in a different time and place.  Still.  Condoms are a good idea.

Leo:  The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place.

Virgo:  9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair.  But other than that, not too terrible.

Libra:  Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these; principle, beginning, source, penis.

Scorpio:  The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.

Sagittarius:  King of Cups – Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity; responsible, disposed to oblige, equity, art and science.

Capricorn:  The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs.

 

New friends

 

Bonus snow pic:

 

Blonde threesome