This week is (again) dominated by Venus retrograde (strife, failed relationships, bad or nonexistent sex). It seems more likely to be of the strife/conflict variant early in the week since Mars and Mercury are also involved, though Mars falls out midweek and Mercury shifts into conjoining with the moon on Saturday to make an especially chaotic day. The 16th is a particularly terrible day to have a date.
Beyond even that nonsense, the loading up of Virgo with dynamic (read: belligerent and obnoxious) planets means a week that starts off with no chill, and becomes even less peaceful as it progresses.
Leo: The Lovers – Bow-chicka-wow! Honestly, from a pure augury standpoint, this is fascinating since it is the exact opposite to Venus retrograde which is actually in Leo. Leos tell me next week how it went (the card are usually more right than the stars on an individual normal person basis).
Virgo: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Libra: 6 of Cups – Past connections are of service.
Scorpio: Ace of Coins reversed – Mo’ money mo’ problems.
Sagittarius: 7 of Coins – Proper stewardship pays off.
Capricorn: 2 of Coins – Successful projects, planning for the next endeavor
Aquarius: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
Pisces: 6 of Coins – People asking you for help. Upright the card indicates that you’ll make good decisions about who to grant favors to.
Aries: King of Cups – Priest, scientist, lawyer, bartender.
Taurus: Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness.
Gemini: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
Cancer: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success and honors.
Notice where Gertie chomps on her and the beginnings of the Mud Mane
Interesting combo…
BTW, I’m still waiting on my “really good news” from last week. Your horrorscopes are 100% guaranteed, right?
It depends on how you interpret them.
Or your money back!
Speaking of that, sometimes difficulties in life are the result of cursed money. Fortunately, I know the ritual to break the curse. First, withdraw all of it in cash…
The cards have gone back in time to my college years.
Scorpio: Ace of Coins reversed – Mo’ money mo’ problems.
So, ghetto lottery?
Isn’t that the other way around?
Sagittarius: 7 of Coins – Proper stewardship pays off.
I don’t even like boats.
Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
That actually explains a lot right now.
Just bombed my medical coding final. I still have one test to be graded an an extra-credit assignment to be logged, and then I’ll be done. Over 90% for the course, but I really just don’t understand this shit at all. Brain does not work that way.
Also, this profession (if I stay in it) (if I manage to get a job) is going to nickel-and-dime me to death with association fees and certification fees and CEU fees. I didn’t know any of this before I started and I didn’t think to look.
*sadly watches money float away in the wind*
Sorry.
That sucks Moj. From what you described on Zoom, I’m not sure how anyone passes that test.
People who think that way do, for sure, because lots of other people do just fine. The problem is not the course. The course is fine and it was what I signed up for. The problem is me and … something about the way I think. Or don’t. Good thing I didn’t go to law school after all.
From your description, it the system seems very inconsistent. I would never be able to figure it out, either, if that’s the case.
It seems that way to me, yes. The questions are all from real life, transcribed, coded, paid, but I’m pretty sure the same person didn’t code all those cases, so the inconsistencies are baked in. What was upsetting was the instructor had the attitude of “Well, of COURSE they’re inconsistent! They’re from real life!” Ummmm …
The final was graded all-or-nothing. No partial credit on a question with several answers. (For instance, one question had 26 choices for codes; let’s say there were 8 that were correct. You had to get ALL of them EXACTLY right to get the answer marked correct. I missed one of those 8, so no joy for me. Also, there were multiple choice general knowledge questions that I either didn’t understand, didn’t read right, overthought, or otherwise felt like I blindly guessed.)
My therapist and drug dealer have both reassured me it doesn’t work that way in real life, but now getting a job is the next hurdle. The MT place I work at also has coders. They have a new coder (been there 1 year), having no luck with training, and saying “never again” to n00bs. I see posts everywhere by new grads of various courses who can’t get jobs. So my next goal is just to get a job. If I get one and don’t like it, I’ll stay only long enough to recover my costs of the course, tests, supplies, and association fees.
I’m not hurting for money and now I have 2 MT gigs, one of which just reinstated my giant raise, so I can afford to be patient and careful. What I canNOT afford to do is go into an office full time. XY will be needing rides to doc offices, and I have to be available for my mom and my aunts.
My slight familiarity with coding is that real world, whatever gets the claim approved and paid by insurance and doesn’t cause a fraud investigation, is golden. Move on and do the next one.
And my husband’s so laid-back about it. “I’m not mad about it because a) it’s a legit profession, b) you really tried, c) you were doing it for the family. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. Oh well.”
I hit the jackpot with that guy.
He’s a keeper.
That sucks Moj. I got ten bucks all the certs and associations and blah blah blah were all lobbied for and pushed through by the people who give the certs, run the associations and blah blah blah. When you are done can legally braid my hair?
Oh, I can’t WAIT to get you into cornrows!
Your horrorscopes are 100% guaranteed, right?
Double your money back.
Pisces: 6 of Coins – People asking you for help. Upright the card indicates that you’ll make good decisions about who to grant favors to.
I have my reply all ready: Someday – and that day may never come – I’ll call upon you to do a service for me
I was supposed to be playing golf today.
When I got up, the sky had that color that says rain is impending. So I checked the radar. The entire western half of Iowa is covered by heavy rain, and it’s moving eastward.
So, I called my dad and we cancelled.
Five hours later, the rain has come and gone. Three fucking hundredths of an inch of rain at my house. I am so fucking tired of this drought.
I was going to mow the lawn after lunch.
Rain.
You can have some of my rain.
More dispassionate evenhanded factgathering from the AP
Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power in an October parliamentary election.
Mateusz Morawiecki announced the referendum question in a new video published on social media. It indicated that his party, Law and Justice, is seeking to use migration in its election campaign, a tactic that helped it take power in 2015.
Poland is hosting more than a million Ukrainian refugees, who are primarily white and Christian, but officials have long made clear that they consider Muslims and others from different cultures to be a threat to the nation’s cultural identity and security.
If I didn’t know better, I might think questions can be constructed in such a way as to affect the outcome.
but officials have long made clear that they consider Muslims and others from different cultures to be a threat to the nation’s cultural identity and security.
Xenophobic rubbish! Look at how well Sweden has been doing since it let several thousand Muslim refugees who have no intention to culturally integrate into their country!
“Cancer: Strength – Power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity, complete success and honors.”
I can live with this.
Likewise! First positive one I can remember for our sign. About time, too.
As well as disagreements over migration, Law and Justice has long been in conflict with the EU over a perception by the bloc that the Warsaw government has been eroding democratic norms.
Not doing as Brussels commands is undemocratic.
For those who like the word “artisanal”: Artisanal mining.
Leo: The Lovers – Bow-chicka-wow!
Oh, yeah.
I just got a refund check from Albany Medical Center… without having to ask for it!
This could only be the result of supernatural forces working for me.
Lily got super fluffy! Love the videos.
Gemini: 9 of Coins – Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment.
I’m calling bullshit.
What I am doing with part of my day. I just finished part two and need to light the grill for lunch, but plan part three after. I am not sure I have words…………
Whatchya grillin?
Burgers. 4 half pounders. One for today, others for lunches.
Do you reheat your leftover burgers? If so, how? I have never had success reheating grilled burgers and retaining the grilled flavor. If I grill chicken or steak and I have leftovers, I don’t reheat, so it still tastes like the grill.
Reheating is done via microwave at work. Not optimal at all but beggars and such. If at home I would reheat in the oven. I think that would retain grillness.
My wife reheats them in the oven and they come out almost fresh off the grill tasting.
I reheat in oven and microwave and both retain flavor. But I use a charcoal grill going in so a bit thumb on the scale.
I’ve seen some of that series. It’s pretty good.
Hand to dog, this is where I will spend next summer.
https://ibb.co/9bGT6PQ
I just installed a new sewer pipe after the park manager stepped on the old one and shit sprayed everywhere when I dumped my tank. It’s, like, 90 degrees outside and my sewer location is not shaded. Fuck the South in summer. Fuck it straight to Satan’s butthole.
I.e., return to sender?
Shit still stinks at 68F and 10,00ft. Just sayin.
Yeah except I don’t go blind because sweat is literally gushing into my eyeballs.
Nice dog videos.
Bow-chicka-wow! Honestly, from a pure augury standpoint, this is fascinating since it is the exact opposite to Venus retrograde which is actually in Leo. Leos tell me next week how it went (the card are usually more right than the stars on an individual normal person basis).
Prediction: The week will be sufficiently shitty.
OT: Ammunition described.
Some people will understand why I’m laughing hysterically.
I have to admit I don’t get it.
It’s set up very much like a good joke, with the punchline coming at the end.
.22 rimfire picture found
https://en.hespress.com/68488-vegan-raw-food-influencer-dies-of-malnourishment-at-39.html
Lol. Goin’ to the range now.
Legit LOL at 7.62x54R
New dogs at the park today, “wooly coated” huskies. The 1 year old is named Volodomyr. Yes, that’s why. Good dog though. And the owner is doing a better job at keeping his weight under control than I am Lily’s.
I am starting week 3(?) into a new to me dog. We have yet to do a dog park.
Track season means a lot of out-of-towners bringing their dogs. This is usually a good thing, since people who make the effort to vacation with their dogs and take them to parks have usually worked on training them.
I am working on the training part. He comes from trainable stock.
OT: New Oglaf book in the works.
Gig Economy tooth fairy is hilarious!
Notice where Gertie chomps on her
Our Corgi pup routinely goes for the ears when she plays with our other dogs.