One of those rare weeks where everything is going on. Apparently this is an important time, since we’ve got literally everything except Mars all tangled up together. But the core of everything is home. Hanging off of this, we have three different branches. The first is of the most positive type – Venus and Jupiter. Love and Laughter. Kindness and Righteousness. Home Cooking. The second is one of the ones that astrologers love to tell their clients about to encourage them to active aggressively and tip generously — Mercury and the Moon. Change and more change. Magic and Mysticism. Chaos and instability. And then the last branch is usually problematic — the Sun and Saturn. Power and Ending. Growth and Harvest. That last one is usually a bad sign but in context with the others I think this all just points to a very big change, but for the better. The end of an abusive relationship, completion of a prison sentence (or a not-guilty verdict), graduating from a squalid grad student existence into a high-paying job, that sort of thing.
That’s the week overall. Most of the negative aspects of this transition should be over by Wednesday when we see the breakup of the Earth – Saturn alignment to be replaced with a Moon – Venus one signifying a transition to a better state. But I’m getting ahead of myself. The worst part of this will come on Monday when the moon moves away from Mercury but into that mean ol’ Saturn.
Aquarius: The Fool reversed – Negligence, absence, distribution, carelessness, apathy, nullity, vanity.
Pisces: 5 of Coins – Destitution, love and lovers, concordance, affinities.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity.
Aries: 6 of Wands reversed – Apprehension, fear, treachery, disloyalty, indefinite delay.
Gemini: Knight of Wands reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord.
Cancer: The blank card – all oracles are currently busy, please try again later. Your future is important to us.
Leo: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
Virgo: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
Libra: The Sun reversed – Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment, but not as much as if the card had been drawn upright.
Scorpio: Queen of Swords – Widowhood, female sadness and embarrassment, absence, sterility, mourning, privation, separation.
Sagittarius: The Tower reversed – The worst possible draw. Fill in the details yourself.
Capricorn: Strength – The best possible draw (arguably). Fill in the details yourself.
😳
Sagittarius: The Tower reversed – The worst possible draw. Fill in the details yourself.
Oh, goody! I love surprises.
Cancer: The blank card – all oracles are currently busy, please try again later. Your future is important to us.
Da fuq?
ORA-00404 – Divination Not Found
Better than the last few draws we had, which were sadly spot-on. I’ll take a week of nothing.
Virgo: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
Good, I could use some good news
Love the vids. Looks cold!
Leo: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety. It is also a caution against indecision.
Yay?
We had a severe thaw last week, but it’s gotten below freezing again which is good.
There’s an unpopular trail called “Hemlock Trail” which as you can guess is a swamp filled with
dead philosophersmosquitos and ticks. But in the winter it’s pretty great, just as long as everything stays frozen. There is some predator scat out there, but the only problematic wildlife we’ve encountered so far has been a porcupine. Fortunately Lily did not get too inquisitive.Be careful for the ghost of Socrates along that trail.
Why?
He and Pele are kicking a ball around in heaven now.
We, thankfully, have had almost no snow here this winter.
No kidding. My buddy’s lab got too inquisitive and it was no bueno. Porcupines don’t mess around.
“Here, you hold the dog, I’ll pull out quills with a pair of pliers. Why? Because it’s your dog”
“No, the porcupine is not mine, it belongs to god and he is not available so you hold your dog”
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Haha! You’ve been there, too!
Looks like a nice day in Emily. Enjoy the sun!
We didn’t have porcupines, we had cholla. When a dog gets into a good stand of jumping cholla you better have a comb with you. You have to comb the balls of cholla out and hope the don’t reattach to the dog or you.
A bigger treat was rattlesnakes. I had a Lab that went in to sniff a buzzing rattlesnake in the Tucson Mountains. I yanked her back so hard she flipped.
A bite on the nose probably wouldn’t have killed her but her pain would have been tremendous. When I was in high school a friend had a dog bit on the face by a rattler. The dog was in pain, head swelled up, lost control of her bowels, etc.
https://shihtzuexpert.com/snake-bites-in-dogs/
For the non-Sonoran Desert Glibs out there. Cholla are a family of cactus common in the Sonora. The baddest cholla is the jumping cholla.
Jumping cholla can get 8-10 feet tall but generally run 3-4 feet tall. The plant propagates by budding. Too spread success the buds try to hitchhike on passing animals to be eventually dropped. Each “ball” is covered with numerous long spines that are thin and needle sharp. So if a bud brushes you it gets in, it gets in with multiple spines.
https://kensphotogallery.blogspot.com/2011/02/jumping-cholla-of-eldorado-canyon-nv_18.html
(Picture 3 shows the buds on the ground.)
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Yes, cholla is the Hate Plant That Hates.
I have some. I am spreading their nodules/buds along the road that runs past my house. Someday, I will have a cholla hedge along the road. Proper Glibs landscaping.
I always wear leather gloves when hiking
because why not
and it seems I always somehow barely touch something that I thought I had skirted or didn’t see at all that goes in easy but comes out hard
What are they gonna do, vote for a Republican?
Republican strategist Sarah Longwell spends a lot of time these days talking to swing voters.
“They’re pro-Biden, they like Biden,” Longwell said, describing the current mood of focus group participants who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016, but shifted to vote for President Biden in 2020. “And in our most recent focus group, they liked [Biden’s] State of the Union.”
And yet, six of the nine participants in that most recent panel did not want Biden to run for a second term next year.
“I hate to say it and sound like an ageist — his age is getting really up there,” said one member in the focus group, a video of which Longwell Partners shared with NPR. “Do we want to elect a president and have him die in office?”
“I agree,” another panelist chimed in. “Give that man a break!”
Longwell said this is a constant theme in her weekly focus groups. Biden’s age is regularly brought up, unprompted, by the swing voters she talks to.
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Biden’s response to all this is often, “watch me.”
“The test of whether the president is capable of being president is watching the president be president,” said White House communications director Kate Bedingfield.
Bedingfield told NPR she’s confident Biden’s track record in office can overcome any concerns voters have. And, she argued, there’s a flip side to Biden’s half century in office. “I think we live in a volatile world. We live in a chaotic world,” she said. “I think people are looking for stability and strong leadership. And I think that experience and wisdom is part of that.”
Those stupid voters will get what we decide to give them.
An NPR story that did not make me want to rage:
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157398947/the-golden-rule-of-dog-sledding-dont-let-go-of-the-sled
President Biden’s advisers are confident that voters are more worried about the return of former President Donald Trump than they are about Biden’s age.
Propaganda works!
Non dog video
OTTERS!!! 🥰🦦🦦
Otters weren’t wearing masks but the feeder was, what’s up with that?
Pine_Tree. Late to the thread as usual. I liked your one paragraph description of Jimmy Carter. I would certainly enjoy an article on him.
OK. I’ve long wanted to contribute an article for posting here. Will give it a shot.
Little Kim decided to rattle his crib and throw a toy out. He must be feeling “ronery” like his father.
https://apnews.com/article/politics-us-national-security-council-south-korea-north-d6781836ad90388ca62381368712017b
Earlier in the week Russia launched an ICBM test, and we recently tested a Minuteman III ICBM. Both nations used the prelaunch notification protocols and fired over the usual trajectories. Business as usual in other words.
Kim does none of that. No notifications. At launch the trajectory has to be calculated to see if it is a threat. This high angle launch was not a threat. Kim likes depressed trajectory tests as well. Those tests overfly Japan and take much longer to resolve if they are a threat.
We need to ship him more pate, cognac, and chocolate ganache cakes so he can stroke out or succumb to his T2 diabetes.
Neither Lil Kim nor his daughter look too healthy. Needs to go on the People’s Diet.
Not making the domestic news. The catholic-lite nation has to report this probable murder in LA.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11768861/Catholic-LA-Bishop-shot-killed-home.html
Authorities said they responded to David O’Connell’s four-bedroom, three-bathroom $1.07million home in the Hacienda Heights neighborhood
A Catholic priest can afford that?
Owned by the diocese. Similar to the military providing senior commanders with homes while they are in command. The house is tied to the position. Once you are out of the position you are moved out.
We need to ship him more pate, cognac, and chocolate ganache cakes so he can stroke out or succumb to his T2 diabetes.
He brought his daughter into the public eye recently. I wonder if his sister is about to have an unfortunate encounter with gravity, via a high window.
Too Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfVMQ6g_hW8
I’m buzzed ar my favorite brewery and there’s no way in hell this meme isn’t appropriate to at least a handful of regular glibs
https://twitter.com/6Voodoo/status/1627037618843299840?t=7Hw4q94uBccO3gtAXmdiNg&s=19
LOL. (Looks around nervously)
I am not a commie.
Clearly a fraud.
Fucking perfect. I’m sending this link to my old man.
Oh, this morning I found out that Settle Down Easy brewing has a tasting room right down the street. Not sure how I missed this before, but I’m gonna fix that shit tonight.
“Grow up and buy a Sturmgewehr 44”
I’m not a collector, but I’d love to have one of those. Even crippled to semi-auto only.
I agree. That would be a fun gun to own.
I believe the Daytona 500 will commence shortly. I feel some quality dozing coming on.
Indeed. The drone of NASCAR is a most excellent nap inducer.
Big tarot buff here. Loling at the sag pull, which is l0b0t.