IFLA: The “Ends Well” Edition of the horoscope for the Week of Jan 15

by | Jan 15, 2023 | IFLA | 45 comments

The game can begin quite suddenly.

It’s nice when the stars show you a problem along with its resolution.  Basically, we’ve got some belligerence going on starting on Monday, with all sorts of domestic discord popping in and out of existence (Venus-Earth-Saturn, Moon-Earth-Mars, Moon-Earth-MERCURY RETROGRADE) building up to a climax on the 20th the alignment of Venus-Sun-MERCURY RETROGRADE is completely changed by Mercury returning to direct motion.  And just like that, loving is good again.

Capricorn finished out its time with that nice bit of Mercury Magic.1

Gertie is quite a bit faster than Lily, though nowhere near as strong.

Capricorn: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.

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

Pisces: 9 of Coins –  Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. 

Aries: 8 of Wands – Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope.

Taurus: Temperance – Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.

Gemini: 7 of Swords – Design, attempt, wish, hope, confidence, quarrelling, a plan that may fail, annoyance.

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

Leo: 7 of Cups – Some achievement, but nothing permanent.

Virgo: King of Coins – Valor, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude.

Libra: Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.

Scorpio: The World reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.

Sagittarius: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.

Lily gets a lot more exercise on our walks than I do.

1That was me testing superscripts in block editor.

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Despite all my rage, I am still just an impeccably dressed rat.

45 Comments

  1. MikeS

    🙋🏻‍♂️

    • juris imprudent

      And the Bro weeps.

      • MikeS

        He’s busy cranking one out.

      • Brochettaward

        I have the power to First when, where, and how I want. I put Firsts in and get exponential returns on them in terms of more Firsts. It’s called arbitrage look it up juris.

      • juris imprudent

        Excuses, excuses.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Sit down Francis

      • Tundra

        You kill me.

  2. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    Activity in undertakings, the path of such activity, swiftness, great haste, great hope.

    I’ll take it

  3. MikeS

    Pisces: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.

    Excellent!

    /heads out to shop to complete a job that has been one hurdle after another for weeks.

  4. UnCivilServant

    It seems the footnotes are still a work in progress.

    Sorry, man.

  5. Penguin

    7 of Cups – Some achievement, but nothing permanent.

    Sounds about right. I’ve started walking, a couple miles around a local lake with a bike/foot path. It’s also near a dog park, so I see a lot of scenes like the one you show with Lily.

    • R.J.

      This is excellent. Weather is weird so I just walked a giant mall. 2 miles down, now having steak.

      • UnCivilServant

        Tis the day for steak it seems.

      • juris imprudent

        That will be dinner here as well.

    • Tundra

      Good job Penguin. Walking is seriously underrated.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.

    Vacillation? Me?

    Never!

  7. PieInTheSky

    that sort of looks like an airedale terrier. my neighbor used to have one. very deep voice. when she was barking around the corner it seemed a lot more menacing than when she would come up to you.

  8. Tonio

    Apologies to NA, and all the IFLA fans. I had this scheduled for 11:00 AM CST, I swear. For some reason this didn’t post on-time and Neph was kind enough to “jiggle the handle.”

  9. DEG

    Great dog videos.

    Some achievement, but nothing permanent.

    Not sufficiently shitty.

  10. Hyperion

    #FakeNews

    #CapricornsRpeople2

    • UnCivilServant

      For a moment I thought we had that pattern plate when I was growing up.

      But it was just the same colors, different flowers.

      • Sean

        The pattern is called spring blossom or crazy daisy.

      • Gender Traitor

        That has to be the most popular Corelle pattern of all time. I know my family had it. I think my oldest sister still has the dishes (and occasionally mentions she’s trying to hunt down missing pieces.)

      • Sean

        Etsy and Ebay.

      • UnCivilServant

        Ours had larger flowers.

      • Gender Traitor

        I can’t even find a picture online of our Corelle pattern – of which we only have three of the dinner plates. Guess I’d have a bit of a time if I tried to round out the set.

    • juris imprudent

      Shouldn’t a polymer frame be paired with Impossible meat?

      • Sean

        That junk will never be in my home.

      • Hyperion

        You will beat your bugs and be happy! /Klaus

      • Sean

        These euphemisms…

      • Ted S.

        Nobody needs 23 kinds of mers.

    • Hyperion

      We’re talking about the future here. What we need to be concerned about, is Big Bug. Big Bug will keep all the good bugs for them! You think you will be dining on Prime USDA Grasshopper, peasant? No, that will only be for these elite, you will be lucky to get Pissant!

    • UnCivilServant

      On the real food side of the conversation, the first of the flatirons turned out fairly well. Should have used a less aggressive spice rub though.

  11. one true athena

    My parents had an airedale when my mom was pregnant with me. And all through her pregnancy until I was about two when he died, he was my guardian. He would plant himself next to me, at home, at the park, didn’t matter. He believed his job was watching over the new ‘puppy’ and didn’t stray. My mom was so broken up by his sudden death she never got another dog.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Aw, poor doggo,
      And your mom

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Sermonizer-in-Chief


    Joe Biden delivered remarks Sunday from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, becoming the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon from the historic church where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. served as pastor until his assassination in 1968.

    “You’ve been around for 136 years – I know I look like it, but I haven’t,” Biden joked, calling King one of “my only political heroes” since entering public service.

    In remarks from the pulpit, the president referred to the current moment in American history “the time of choosing.”

    “Are we a people who choose democracy over autocracy? You couldn’t ask that question 15 years ago, right? You would’ve thought democracy was settled – not for African Americans, but democracy as an institutional structure was settled. But it’s not, it’s not,” he said.

    “We have to choose a community over chaos. Are we the people … going to choose love over hate? These are the vital questions of our time, and the reason why I’m here as your president, I believe. Dr. King’s life and legacy show us the way, and we should pay attention,” Biden said.

    Fuck off, you senile bullshit artist.

    • rhywun

      the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon

      Really? 🙄🙄

    • Not an Economist

      I know this is going to shock people but there is evidence Biden lied in his “sermon”.

      He claimed — again — that he attended a Black Church growing up. Nobody remembers him.

  13. Tundra

    Beautiful Airedale! But that collar is obnoxious.

    Leo: 7 of Cups – Some achievement, but nothing permanent.

    Yeah, that sounds about right.