This week we’ll talk about things that may or may not actually happen, astrologically-wise-speaking. Mainly because there’s very little happening otherwise this week, and what there is ties into the whole paradigm of “new stuff in the sky means disaster,” which in and of itself astrological because “disaster” is a compound word from the Greek “aster” meaning “star” and “dis” meaning “to insult.” The first set of Things That Should Not Be There are the Draconids, in which we’ll see meteors falling out of Draco. You’d think that stuff falling out of a dragon would be not necessarily bad, but since celestial irregularity must be read in the worst possible way, we’re using The Dragon as representing Satan, and those meteors being his demons descending onto the earth to cause badness. The demon-spawning should die down by Wednesday.
Before we get into the big event on Saturday, let’s talk a little bit about something that you may be hearing about: a comet. We all know that comets herald the destruction of nations, but just because some guys with automated telescopes and AI software have discovered Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s astrologically significant. Remember that astrology is an empirical science so if Tsuchinshan-ATLAS doesn’t actually become visible, it’s just some random space junk. But if it does, expect a shitty time for Virgos and the collapse of a country or two. I should probably go to one of those prediction casinos markets and lay a few bucks on the end of some of the more-likely-to-be-destroyed-before-Christmas countries out there.
Now that you know when to be afraid, let’s talk about Saturday. Saturday is going to be important. Saturday should be an excellent sign of great bounty, of completeness, of creation, of happiness. Or would be except for one little thing. Jupiter’s retrograde. So the construction of Venus-Mars-Jupiter retrograde isn’t one big awesome party, it’s “a real shithead with power has all their ducks in a row.” And that makes the previously ambiguous Earth-Moon-Saturn retrograde into a nasty destructive piece of work. You have been warned. Now enjoy more of Lily trying to get Callie to wrestle.
Libra: 8 of Coins reversed – Voided ambition, vanity, cupidity, exaction, usury. Also someone with skill opposing you.
Scorpio: Ace of Coins reversed – The negative side of wealth, either of the mo’ money mo’ problems variety or (similar to Libra, supra) a well-financed enemy.
Sagittarius: The Moon -Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Capricorn: Knight of Coins – Utility, serviceableness, interest, responsibility, rectitude.
Aquarius: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.
Pisces: Page of Cups – News, message, application, reflection, meditation, novice, altar boy.
Aries: The Chariot reversed – Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
Taurus: 9 of Swords reversed – Imprisonment, suspicion, doubt, reasonable fear, shame.
Gemini: 2 of Cups – Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sympathy, agreement.
Cancer: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.
Leo: 2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification.
Virgo: The Hierophant -Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness; inspiration.
I’ll take my chances with that one, please.
How much to make a REALLY good Aries horrorscope for the weeks of Oct 13 and 20? $20, same as dowtown?
I’ll give you $25 for specifics:
-Lots of heavy petting the week of the 13th
-Drunken fun the week of the 20th
Sagittarius: The Moon -Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
What makes you think I’m running for office?
Is that front page pic a little something from your personal collection? Yikes.
(No kink shaming)
A demon eating a shoe?
Looked to me like a demon barfing up a shoe.
You sweet, innocent boys…
Uh…I had no idea…
Thanks?
TBF I didn’t know that’s what it was until I did an image search but I think the weekly SugarFree exposure is pushing my brain in a dark direction.
I have no such collection.
They’re expensive and I can’t bring myself to ever use them on someone else after the woman I bought them with leaves.
One of my favorite TV shows is the BBC’s “Have I Got News For You” which has been producing two series a year since 1990. It’s a satirical look at the previous week’s news and very, very funny:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098820/
The show has gotten more partisan in recent years but the emphasis is still on quick witted humor. It’s a lot like another of my favorite TV shoes, the BBC’s “Quite Interesting” or QI.
A few weeks ago a U.S. version of HIGNFY was introduced:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33096993/
Red flags:
– Produced by CNN.
– I hadn’t heard of *any* of the three recurring panelists (The presenter and the two team captains.)
But Matt Welch is a guest panelist on the first episode so I thought I’d give it shot.
I lasted five minutes. There wasn’t a single funny thing said during that time and the political slant was overwhelming, like being next to a freshly killed skunk.
There aren’t many IMDB reviews yet and those are already highly polarized. I know which side I’m on.
Richard, I was one of the lucky recipients of your Honey Harvest care package. Thank you very much!
You’re welcome! Going to Honey Harvest hath its privileges.
That it does.
One of my favorite TV shows is the BBC’s “Have I Got News For You” – you are an insane person and need to be institutionalized for your and other peoples safety.
You’re just jealous that you didn’t get any maple syrup.
Some of the oldsters around might remember “That Was The Week That Was” or “TW3”. Similar theme and back in the days where comedians could make fun of both parties.
There are some episodes of “That Was The Week That Was” on an infamous web site of piratical inclinations. They were broadcast in 1963 and remain funny to this day.
Millicent Martin. (sigh)
QI w Stephen Fry is one of my favorites. I can’t find HIM streaming. The lady now I see, and is very funny and smart, tho seems an impossible act to follow. Allen Davies is also great.
Strongly recommend as well.
I was going to say the same thing: Fry is great, Sandi is fine, but a tough act to follow.
By the way, the wife finds them streaming on BritBox. So, the more you know…
Leo: Riches, fortune, magnificence, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification.
Last night I forgot to to take out my contact lens and when I woke up I had a subconjunctival hemorrhage in my right eye. Stuck wearing glasses for a day or two. Hopefully the riches and fortune arrive before sadness and mortification…..
Just rub some dirt on it.
Wait, no, that might not actually work in this case.
“Forgot”
Someone got drunk and fell asleep.
I just hope you don’t have an insanely aggressive scarring reaction that leaves you functionally blind in that eye for months on end.
Like, err, some guy I know.
I have, once again, decided not to change my struts and wheel bearing this weekend.
Meh….its good for another 6 days.
I started messing with POS Envoy™ yesterday. It has a #1 cylinder misfire, and new coil, plug and wires didnt solve it. I decided that I wasnt thinking clearly and needed beer.
I was putting it away and realized a tire was low. While adding air the valve stem (only a couple of years old) split leaving me with a rough engine AND a flat.
I’ll deal with it next weekend.
I would like to subscribe to both of your newsletters.
It’s just a blank piece of paper with a greasy handprint.
Timing?
Yeah, the timing on that tire going belly up is unusually bad.
There might be a bad ignition signal from in the ECU.
I have someone working on our trailer, regreasing the wheel bearings and he mentions that they were very much in need of it. Oh and I get to put a new set of tires on the trailer – had a bubble on the inside of one and some interesting wear.
Unfortunately this is not a team of orphans, so it will cost me.
JI – sorry I missed your post last thread.
Does your Dad know how to spell?
The lesson was not about spelling.
Ok…thought I’d heard a similar line that actually included words that worked…just wondering ;p
There was also the aspect of “oh, you didn’t find it there? you won’t find it here either”.
“Cancer: The Empress – Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days, the unknown, clandestine, difficulty, doubt, ignorance.”
Sounds like the blindfold is coming out!
Another great Charlie Cooke podcast on Federalism with a guy from the Center for Individual Rights.
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-charles-c-w-cooke-podcast/bring-it-on-home/
Beautiful fall day for a horseback ride – we were out for a couple of hours. Now I suppose I need to do some work around the house/yard.
Still painting doors over here. Never again. I hope this house sells for a mint.
I’ve got my cabin all gussied up, going to put it on the market come spring time. It still has a little cosmetic work to be done but I’ll let the new owner do that. We’ll just negotiate the price a little. Enough is enough.
We’ve had some unseasonably warm weather so our garden is still producing. Yesterday dried tomatoes in the oven, and today I’m roasting poblanos and gypsy peppers.
Sagittarius: The Moon -Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error.
Crap not this again.
Leo: 2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification.
Looks like Mrs. TOK will make some money at the gym, but this doesn’t look good for her roller derby game Saturday.
“You’d think that stuff falling out of a dragon would be not necessarily bad”
I can’t think of a single thing falling out of a dragon that wouldn’t be bad.
If you need fertilizer with high phosphorous levels?
There’s got to be a Pratchett quote along those lines somewhere.
Yesterday I shot a match with a CZ97, a gun very similar to a CZ75, but in .45ACP. It cost a third of what the gun I usually compete with costs. Honestly, if the ammo costs weren’t so high, I might just switch over to this. It is not as good objectively, but once the buzzer sounds you find out how little that incremental improvement in the trigger really matters. By the last stage I had it figured out and pulled off a stage win, even against people shooting optics. Now that stage involved lots of targets close enough that I could point shoot them which is even faster than using a dot, and since the ergos of this gun were so similar to my usual I basically just danced through that thing.
It really is a shame that a proper, manly, American caliber costs so much more to shoot.
At the moment, I am resisting the temptation to get an HK USC (which is on sale at a very reasonable price, as these things go) at the local gun shop, and then dropping ridiculous amounts of money on it to get a proper stock, cut and thread the barrel, and put a suppressor on it. Because a suppressed sub gun in .45 ACP is just something I’d really like to have, since .45 ACP is “naturally” subsonic and a suppressed sub gun would optimize the fuck out of that round.
If I was still ridiculously overpaid, I would probably succumb to this temptation.
The latest science on Male and Female athletes, from Scientific American
https://x.com/Rob_ThaBuilder/status/1842623070990696522?s=19
So women aren’t trying hard enough. Put them next to a man and they’ll just work harder. Wow, is that offensive. Imagine saying that at your job.
Hasn’t really worked for the US Women’s National Team – they still get beat by 15 year old “men”.
“Scientific” American…
Oh well, another one bites the dust.
SA has been chewing the dust so long its nearly six feet under.
Why don’t the female pacesetters just run as fast as the male pacesetters?
Maybe the females are too dumb to figure it out . / not in the article but might as well be
You think that is bad? Peak stupidity – the mountain that can never be conquered!
So how about events where the competitors perform at different times (pole vault, long jump, shot put, etc.). Pace-setting has nothing to do with it. Also, pace-setting is not a thing in sprints.
After church my wife and I drove over to the Greenville Downtown Airport – a small private airport (not GSP).
There was an amazing huge, all civilian logistics operation going on there. We made a monetary donation and will be back tomorrow with other stuff. There was a long line of cars and trucks dropping of food, clothes etc. and a Walmart tractor trailer was pulling in as we were leaving. The volunteers were wrapping the donations onto small pallets to be flown over the mountains to NC by private helicopters and prop planes. Really great operation – thank you Happy Helicopter Tours.
So, a video of Trump at a rally, and someone sitting behind him puts a finger over his lips (as in, “be quiet”), and then draws his finger across his jaw. Not exactly a “slit his throat” gesture, but similar.
There are two videos showing this, with two different guys doing the same thing.
https://truthsocial.com/@Kekedoyoulove45/113255773218282505
From my brother:
“Ugh. I hate that I have to explain this. It’s a stupid gen z meme called mewing. It’s to emphasize your jaw line.”
https://www.webmd.com/oral-health/what-is-mewing
I hate that anymore has to explain it.