The best Winter Wonderland scenes happen in Spring.

 

A mixture of signs this week, leaning towards the unsettled side.  The conjunction of Mars and Venus is still present, but breaking up.  They always do that.  Deciding to hook up in the same house as Saturn is always a bad idea.  At the same time, we get a Sol – Mercury Saturn alignment which is generally a sign of bad luck, bad news, news of endings, and cumulative neurotoxins.  A bright spot is on Wednesday, when we get a maximum of a conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury (Mercury gets around) which is the opposite of a Mercury-Saturn interaction.  In this case, it’s good luck good news, changes for the better, news of rulers and governments, chaos moving towards order — though that last one can also be read as a conflict sign, which ties into the second part of our astrological observations which we’ll get to after the pic of Lily standing solemnly in the snow-covered woods as seen below:

 

I protect these woods. To pass by, you must give me a treat.

 

So back to conflict signs.  This week the moon starts off in Libra which has traditionally been seen as an unstable confrontation between stability and change.  There is an increasingly popular school of though which interprets this combination as being all about feminine energy, but the members of that school also believe in the astrological significance of the outer planets, the freaking asteroids, and of course the black moon Lilith.  So you know they’re a bunch of charlatans.  And they drink too much.  The rest remains the same as last week.

 

It’s impossible to overstate how much some dogs love the snow.

 

Pisces:  Knight of Swords reversed – Imprudence, incapacity, extravagance.

Aries:  King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.

Taurus:  Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil news, indecision, instability.

Gemini:  The Hermit reversed – Concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.

Cancer:  8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.

Leo:  Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise, principle, beginning, source, birth, family, origin, penis.

Virgo:  10 of Cups – This card is a picture of a man with his arm around the waist of a woman, a couple of children playing nearby, with a rainbow and ten gold chalices.  It’s a pretty good card.

Libra: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment, sunburn, growth of weeds, insomnia.

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

Sagittarius:  The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.

Capricorn:  Queen of Cups – Good, fair woman, loving intelligence, the gift of vision, success, happiness, pleasure, wisdom, virtue, a woman who is to become pregnant.

Aquarius:  6 of Swords – Journey by water, route, way, envoy, commissionary, expedient.

 

If you won’t play with me, I’ll find some other way of entertaining myself.