So last week someone asked what the stars had to say about the outcome of a particular football game. It’s been a while since I’ve written about what astrology is and isn’t so I’ll do a brief overview.
Astrology is actually a couple of different (though sometimes related) things. The first are the astral influences. These are the interactions of planets with the constellations and the effects they have on the present day activities. That’s you’ll see that certain times are good better for making whoopie, others for starting projects, that sort of thing. Now while these effects differ depending on the birth circumstances of the individual, as a general rule the starts shine down on everyone. This makes trying to cast a horoscope for a particular football game kind of pointless. I mean yes, you could determine that Mercury is more beneficial for the more mobile team, or Sagittarius benefits the side with the superior passing game, or Capricorn gives the edge to the better coach, but determining exactly which of these influences are the greatest at a particular time and place is a mug’s game, frankly. The other aspect of astrology is the Celestial Oracle. This is where future events are indicated and can be tracked by establishing where a particular arrangement of signs will be at a point in the future. This is the part where I unfortunately have to point out that almost everything is too unimportant for the stars to take notice of, especially football games. If there is an indication of something happening at a football game, it will be very, very bad. So don’t go looking for that.
Speaking of very very bad, we have a comet in view! These are traditionally the worst signs you can come up with, since they are objects which are NOT behaving in a nice regular, predicable manner. And they move in unnatural ways! Such a random, imperfect entity in the perfect, orderly heavens means catastrophe! So what do we do with this information? Well fortunately, it’s not a terribly bright comet, so it’s not portending the end of the world or anything. Thanks to modern astrology we have the capability to predict where the comet is going to go (this is the one of two major advantages we have over the ancients, the other being porn tracking software.) When this column posts, it’s going to be in the constellation of The Charioteer, then move into Taurus (the Bull) on Friday. So expect a disastrous event involving wheeled vehicles, especially military ones and/or their drivers. Now that Friday transition is very significant in this case because the comet is going to be green. Green is the color of Venus, who is also the ruler of… Friday. With this combination, we’re looking at a flood. Not a cataclysmic one due to the comet’s fading, but still will truly suck for those involved. And there is an agricultural nod here so probably great loss of crops/livestock. It got to be bad to be worth a comet.
The cards agree with the comet — lots of swords and reversed majors.
Aquarius: 8 of Swords – Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
Pisces: The World Reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Aries: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Taurus: 6 of Cups reversed – The future, renewal.
Gemini: Knight of cups – Advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement.
Cancer: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation, news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.
Leo: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
Virgo: 9 of Swords – Death, failure, miscarriage, delay, deception, disappointment, despair. Blame the comet.
Libra: King of Swords – Power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the state, etc.
Scorpio: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, pain, grief, heartbreak but otherwise not all that bad.
Sagittarius: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything; great force, in love as well as in hatred.
Capricorn: 7 of Wands reversed – Perplexity, embarrassments, anxiety.
“Cancer: 2 of Coins – Gaiety, recreation, news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment.”
I’m gonna bang a twink and get a traffic ticket?
I better slow down.
Sagittarius: Ace of Swords – Triumph, the excessive degree in everything; great force, in love as well as in hatred.
Triumph? I’d rather have a Lotus.
An edit proposed from the Pacific. Change to: “Thanks to modern ASTRONOMY we have the capability to predict where the comet is going to go.”
The comet in question known as ZTF is a decent binocular object. The full moon is screwing up that view for the next week or so. On the evening of the 10th the moon will be out of the way and ZTF will pass close to Mars in the evening sky so it will be easy to spot. Expect to see a fuzzy star. If you are in a dark location you may see a bit of a tail.
Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
So a typical work week.
Doggie wrasslin’ never gets old.
Leo: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity.
That does, though. Yuck.
Mmmm….steak.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/GLTgcpjMRliJsb03EoRLMg.Ofnucqe-MUchgQS_3p-SB3
Quarter for scale again. My man hooked me up.
Mine: https://imgur.com/LgrxQg5
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That was Friday. They are deep, deep red now. Don’t usually buy bone-in, but $8.99/lb and bone broth convinced me.
We recently started saving bones for the same reason.
Now that it’s been a half hour:
Yesterday, OMWC mentioned the birthdays of Ida Lupino and William Talman, and I mentioned that Lupino directed Talman in The Hitch-Hiker. I didn’t notice at the time that The Hitch-Hiker is on TCM tonight (Feb. 5) at 9:30 PM ET.
If you haven’t seen the Silent Sunday Nights selection, The Phantom Carriage at midnight, that’s also well worth a watch.
I used to catch those when I lived out west and it was a more reasonable time.
The guy walking away at the start of the video has the correct reaction.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11707233/Spirit-Airlines-agents-seen-trading-blows-passengers-Philly-airport.html
Eagles fans on their way to AZ?
Before 9/11, you could have just sat in waited at the Spirit airlines terminal and waited for the fun to break out without ever having had to buy a ticket. Now you have to wait for Gen Z to come to aid the only way thay know how, by recording it for us.
I was hoping from the URL that the agents were trading blows with each other.
I had to laugh when the fight broke out the second time, they just didn’t want to give up.
Question-
Are beef spare ribs still a (cheap) thing? I’m not much of a cooking person, these days, and I haven’t had them or even seen them in a long long time. As I recall, they’re not much more than a step up from what butchers used to give away as dog bones. But- thinking about what to do with the remainder of this shitty beer I bought yesterday, I wonder if tossing some beef spare ribs in the crock pot with a can of that beer might result in something edible. I’m definitely not going to waste a good piece of animal flesh on this experiment.
Just pour the beer out and chalk it up to experience.
Yep, taking bad wine and cooking with it just results in bad food, I’ll assume the same holds true for beer.
Eh, the wife has had satisfactory results making beer bread out of beer I wouldn’t drink. Possibly the quarter pound of butter had something to do with it,
and speaking of movies-
A couple of nights ago, I awoke at some absurd hour and ended up watching part of Sergeant Rutledge. What a good movie. It’s as if it was written by adults, for adults. It seems unlikely you could get that made nowadays.
It is a good movie. The 9th Cavalry’s heritage is still out in the active duty Army today.
I agree with you. Any remake today would be trash.
Just pour the beer out and chalk it up to experience.
Every now and then I’ll take a flyer on a science project. Who knows, it might turn out okay.
Beer chili? Beer and cheese soup? Quick beer bread?
Also: beef spare ribs here in the Boise-Nampa area are not cheap anymore, in my limited experience. I rarely see them. Could special order them, if I had to.
I blame the popularity of Korean ribs.
Scorpio: 3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture, dispersion, pain, grief, heartbreak but otherwise not all that bad.
Well I do have a colonoscopy appointment tomorrow.
That is significantly vague.
“My herpes are back!”
beef spare ribs here in the Boise-Nampa area are not cheap anymore, in my limited experience
That was one of the things I was wondering about. For example, flank steak used to be a less popular and therefor cheaper cut; not anymore.
Beer chili is where this spare rib experiment would be heading.
Chuck or eye round roast is probably your best bet then. The round is leaner.
Bad news, violent chagrin, crisis, censure, power in trammels, conflict, calumny; also sickness.
I’ve had this persistent cough…
As many as 80K Marylanders
could losedon’t have Medicaid eligibility@Straff, I’m watching Wednesday, and I’m loving it.
When you get slow you get popped: F-22 Raptor Vs China Balloon DOGFIGHT | Digital Combat Simulator
Don’t get cocky, kid. It was a balloon.
Our oldest granddaughter turned twenty today. She’s got a full-ride scholarship to U of IA’s pre-med program and has already been accepted into their medical school. We’re very proud of her.
But just how the hell did I get old enough to have a twenty-year-old granddaughter?
You waited.
You were young when you knocked up Mrs. Animal?
Your plan to die young and leave a good looking corpse didn’t pan out?
Congrats on both! I’m still getting used to having a college graduate.
Before you know it she’ll be graduating med school and the next grand kids will be on their way to careers, etc.
Don’t ask me how I know. Not the med school part but the rest. At least they don’t have any student loans hanging over them.
A meh horoscope. Not sure what to make of the musical accompaniment.
A comic opera?
“Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit, kill daaa waaabbit!”
“Law in all its departments”
But I’m not even in a legal department any more.
It never washes out.
So you’re in an illegal department now?