Lily and Banks wrestle

 

This week continues the trend of the last two, being choc-a-bloc with yummy chewy portents, and then… suddenly emptying out into the cold vacuum of space between the stars.

This week begins by retaining the Mars/Venus conjunction (which necessarily means that they’re aligned with the Earth).  Usually, the focal point of any construction is the Earth because that’s where we live, duh.  But in this case, the focus is Mars (war).  This arm of the construction (hausfrau, love of home, love at home, gardening, brothel) continues until Thursday.  Also focusing on the war, Mars is in an additional alignment (at an amplifying angle to the first arm) with the Sun (power, growth, burning, truth) and Mercury (luck, magic, news, chaos).  But this arm of the construction only endures through Tuesday.  That’s when a new catnip mouse gets tossed in front of the media?  But wait, there’s more!  On Monday, both of these are linked together by the planet Saturn (endings, time, slowness, death) via us from the first and Mercury from the second.  That’s five of the seven planets involved.  Can we get more?  I’m glad you asked.   Very briefly, at the very beginning of this we get the moon in opposition.  So the tides will have delayed whatever naval maneuvers will have been going on here, but only for a day.  Maximum intensity/complexity occurs on Monday, and begins breaking up by Tuesday.  By Friday, none of the planets are even on speaking terms with each other.

 

ZOOM!

 

Otherwise, it’s all about the aquatic life.  Aquarius starts off the week gaining the Venus/Mars conjunction so all sorts of good stuff.  It also holds on to Mercury for the first part of the week, but on Wednesday it crosses over into Pisces.  That day will be an absolute bonanza for Pisces which is already having a pretty great month, what with hosting Jupiter and all.  If you’re going to place bets, Wednesday is the day to do it.  Also a fantastic day for fishing.

 

Lily pins Daisy without too much trouble.

 

Pisces:  3 of Swords – This card just sucks.  I ‘mean it’s not as bad as The Devil or The Tower, but as far as minors go, this is pretty much just “everything is shitty.”

Aries:  Justice – Equity, rightness, probity, executive, triumph of the deserving side in law.

Taurus:  5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.

Gemini:  10 of Wands – Oppression, fortune, gain, any kind of success — and then it is the oppression of these things. False-seeming, disguise, perfidy.

Cancer:  Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.

Leo:  10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family.

Virgo:  The Emperor reversed – Benevolence, compassion, credit, confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

Libra:  Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption, the loss of a benefactor, many contrarieties, failure of marriage projects.

Scorpio:  7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.

Sagittarius:  8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury, a skilled enemy.

Capricorn:  Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything, great force in love as well as in hatred.

Aquarius:  The Magician reversed – Physician, Magus, mental disease, disgrace, disquiet.

 

This is Denver, one of the next wave of puppies. Not to be confused with Aspen, who is a three-legged pit bull.