To all of you who survived last week’s confluence of crap, there is good news: Venus has returned to direct motion. We still have to deal with MERCURY RETROGRADE, but overall, it’s a real “sold the goat” situation. To all of you who didn’t survive, I’m sorry to hear that and hopefully your benevolent overlords will let you have a nice funeral.
I probably gave the game away with the headline, but things are happening on Thursday. Lately, the planets have been kind of antisocial, refusing to get together in any identifiable patterns that I can use to let you all know what’s going on, but on Tuesday, I’m faced with a challenge of a different sort. Every single planet is lining up to be part of a giant pattern. A pattern that looks like this:
Eerie, isn’t it?
Looks kind of like a hang glider, doesn’t it? Or perhaps a badly-made chair climbing a rope in whatever gym class furniture has to attend. A stick leaning in a corner? We’ll come back to the geometrispacial considerations later, but lets see how the planets are arranged to see what their relationship is. If we look at the prime axis, we have MERCURY RETROGRADE being amplified by the sun, and furthermore we have it pointing from Capricorn to Cancer, or from wisdom to confusion. In other words, the overall focus of the pattern will be to this guy’s benefit:
He revels in it.
From there, we have two other considerations, both of which are additive to the prime axis while simultaneously being in opposition to each other. One of these is completion, complementary sexuality, and radical nonsense; the other is a more straightforward emphasis on additive change, new or growing relationships, rekindling of old flames and the like. Overall, this is a real David and Bathsheba situation or hooking up with a friend’s ex (particularly if they’ve JUST become an ex) Only one of these relationships is going to survive, but it will be considered worth it in the end. The last element of this event is the agent of change, in this case represented by the conjunction of Jupiter retrograde and Saturn retrograde (a failing nation, voided contracts, bad-faith negotiations, puncture wounds, fishing accidents, evacuations, bulk regurgitation).
Now returning to the overall construction we see something that was in balance has been disturbed. So this is a sign of destruction — though not, oddly enough of ending. Whatever remains of this wreckage is going to persist.
This week the sun is in Cancer, which is of course a reminder to wear sunscreen. And while the initial transition from one sign to another is typically the most powerful, in this case Cancer has to deal with MERCURY RETROGRADE. And while this might make things more difficult to deal with, it does not negate the good luck of having the sun in your sign. So look for opportunities.
In other sign of things carefully balanced being given a whack, the moon moves into Libra, disrupting plans and shifting things that once seemed stable. And as the best thing about a motion transition is the ending, Venus returning to direct motion in Gemini is the best time to heal any particularly close relationships that have been sundered.
The cards are drawn mostly (9/12) upside down, just confirming that MERCURY RETROGRADE is a thing.
Cancer: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity
Leo: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Virgo: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity
Libra: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic
Scorpio: Knight of wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration, change of residence
Sagittarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Capricorn: 8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery, what is unforeseen, fatality
Aquarius: 9 of Cups reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections, generosity
Pisces: The Tower reversed – Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin, unforeseen catastrophe, oppression, imprisonment, tyranny
Aries: 2 of Cups reversed – Friends becoming enemies, dissipated goodwill, lies
Taurus: Page of Wands reversed – Anecdotes, announcements, evil new, indecision, instability
Gemini: Page of Cups – News, message; application, reflection, meditation
“Libra: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic”
This one doesn’t even make any sense.
Ahh. “Fuck the crowd, I got mine.”
That’ll work.
Virgo: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity,,
So stay indoors for the next week?
Good choice. Going outside sounds like a lot of severity.
Cancer: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity – wait you are saying I am gonna get even fatter?
I think it means you’re going to join a cult where you think they are throwing a feast orgy, but instead you’ll be sacrificed.
Beware of people who sound like James Earl Jones.
Always good advice.
I’d fall for that.
Sounds like any other day on Glibs. Anecdotal, evil and indecisive unstable announcement: Cartoon is written, but I won’t get around to recording it today, which means I probably won’t get around to animating it until at least mid-week…
Looks kind of like a hang glider, doesn’t it?
I see a broken stick person.
Broken? She’s just giving head.
So emotionally broken?
Yep… 2020 alright.
As usual.
On a related note, the discussion last night about happiness versus contentedness was helpful, comforting, and lovely. Thanks, Glibs.
happiness versus contentedness – who won?
Everybody. The consensus was that happiness is fleeting and/or a myth (my word, not anybody else’s) and contentedness is the prize.
Start here.
Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity
Woohoo!!
Speaking of nourishment…
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/X5e9thF0Ty-MCI843_hmnQ.oDklaJ_-EitDcvQGhyFiLY
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-vp-hopeful-karen-bass-slammed-over-past-praise-for-fidel-castro-report
[Kif sigh]
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U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, a Los Angeles Democrat who heads the Congressional Black Caucus, referred to Castro as “comandante en jefe” after he died in 2016 – and called his passing “a great loss to the people of Cuba,” Politico reported.
The phrase Bass used translates to “commander in chief.”
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There was a time when saying things like that would end a US politician’s career.
Fortunately she’s been getting some push-back from other Dems who are relatives of Cuban exiles.
For the typical Berniebro twat that’s a plus.
As I recall the NYT and swarms of US commies lined up to suck Castro and Guevera’s cocks when they took power.
Oh, look.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/11/new_york_honors_che_guevara_wi.html
Back in the late ’50s and exciting things were happening in Cuba and Africa my barracks buddies and I would talk about being mercenaries. Full of testosterone and BS in our 20s and fortunately for us we already had a contract for 3 hots and a flop. The talk was cheap but the whiskey cost money. Like being a teenager with a curfew.
I missed you by 20 years. We had the same conversations but the asshole of the world was in a different place.
She can go fuck herself.
For anyone looking for television recommendations, I will once again pimp Derry Girls.
Hey, can I get the link to Noelle with Anna Kendrick again? Something went wrong the last time and I wasn’t in a position to deal with it. Thank you!
Try this – https://mega.nz/file/ZKhyDIzC#Cvh0_iN2_BjeDlr2SNSvusXuHeawSeKpNF4kCy6Pxmg
Said the file was unavailable, but that’s okay. Thank you!
Yanno, I coulda found a copy myself if I’d had half a brain. *headdesk* Thanks for the help.
Maybe this one? https://mega.nz/file/MGwR2JxD#Cvh0_iN2_BjeDlr2SNSvusXuHeawSeKpNF4kCy6Pxmg
Yes, thank you! That worked.
Dairy Girl.
Alt-right. Time for bed. Tonight should be the last BS shift, Things are supposed to get closer to normal Monday night. I pass out now.
It’s good that things will get closer to normal for you.
Scorpio: Knight of wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration, change of residence
You’re a month late.
Overall, this is a real David and Bathsheba situation or hooking up with a friend’s ex (particularly if they’ve JUST become an ex) Only one of these relationships is going to survive, but it will be considered worth it in the end.
I’ll be proof none of this happens.
Leo: 9 of Coins reversed – Roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith.
Ahh, a return to normal. So the mask mandate in Nashua will go away and people will stop wearing masks? HAHAHAHAHHAHA!
CPRM, Mojeaux, if you’re out there, I saw some of the discussion on the previous thread about childish things and Harry Potter. Like CPRM, I still have and enjoy some things from my youth like RPGs (not rocket propelled grenades, role playing games). Unless I misinterpreted what you two were saying, I think it can be summed up as “people are lazy”. Which, I think is natural and leads me to:
Hard men make good times
Good times make soft men
Soft men make hard times
Hard times make good men
We’re in for a wild ride.
On another note, does anyone here look at Intellectual Frog Legs? A conservative but with libertarian leanings friend told me about the site. The guy that runs it puts out half hour videos every now and then. Some humor, conservative talk. Here is a recent one. I have to say, I think it is one of his funnier ones. I loved the line, “Clinton is only responsible for some of the herpes.”
You did not misinterpret and I think that’s a fair summation, but I would add that they’re also addicted to fast information, fast validation, fast conflict, and fast drama. Dopamine hits all day, every day. Even here we talk about that sweet, sweet dopamine hit from an approving reply to a comment.
Social media exposed my short attention span. No, it INDULGED it. I’ve lost my ability to write full-length essays on command/spec. I used to write them every day for my blog and then…I stopped. Of course, part of that was that I felt I’d said everything I wanted to say and didn’t want to repeat myself, but repeating oneself is how you sell shit.
I remember when I was younger that oldsters bitched about “instant gratification”. I used to think, “What’s the problem with it? If no one is hurting anyone, what’s the problem?”
At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I now think they might have been on to something.
Yes. Ferris Bueller says, “Life moves fast and if you blink, you miss it” (or something; I’m not in the habit of quoting that little weasel).
But now not only do people need instant gratification, they’re anxious that they’re going to miss out on more. People are trying to keep up.
IIRC, when I heard “instant gratification” the conversation was usually about debt and living (or not) within one’s means.
I’ve heard it in reference to more things.
Why does Bill Clinton wear boxers?
To keep his ankles warm.
L’Oreal to remove words like white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightening from skin care product packaging and advertising:
https://abc13.com/loreal-cosmetics-racism-skin-care/6275525/
Herpidity derpity doo!
Mrs Fourscore is going to be disappointed, she believes (I guess) that all the commercials on TV that promise the fountain of youth are scientifically accurate. She certainly subscribes to them, it seems like its a rather harmless fantasy and I just indulge her. No foul, no harm. I have my own misplaced values, nah, couldn’t be because I’d recognize those false idols.
Be young again. Have a bigger dick that never goes soft. Grow your hair back.
There are people who prey on our weaknesses for things we can’t control.
If I could be young again I would not do it. I dont think I could do all of that again. See these wrinkles and grey hairs? I earned every one of them fair and square and I am proud of them.
Have a bigger dick that never goes soft.
Seek medical attention for an erection lasting longer than four hours.
I’d be seeking the attention of every girl I know.
Well i did my part and wrote an article, since we had a spat of no articles this week.
Good job.
Gemini: Page of Cups – News, message; application, reflection, meditation
About time we get a breather from all the torture and death and misfortune.
Basketball robots: A solution to NBA woes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usgb3BdHRPg
I wonder if there are any tasks a machine could not do.
shape-shifting robot can disperse and reform itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs
Now I know who mothered the terminator in Judgement Day.
https://mobile.twitter.com/stillgray/status/1277276124167303168
Boom. Headshot. ?
Antifa – the people so obnoxious they make *libertarians* root for the cops.
Yep.
Damn skippy right there.
People talking about wearing full face masks so they can’t be sprayed. That’s fine with me. The cops can go straight to stick time then.
The cop is so casual about it.
For all the gaijin glibs – obama means small beach in Japanese and is also the name of a city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama,_Fukui
I thought Obama meant Kenyan Con Artist.
Or maybe that was fake news…
I thought it was Russian for “pay speaking engagement fees to annex over half of Ukraine.”
“ Aries: 2 of Cups reversed – Friends becoming enemies, dissipated goodwill, lies”
This should make for an exciting week at work!
“Virgo: Justice reversed – Law in all its departments, legal complications, bigotry, bias, excessive severity”.
Also, I was born on a Wednesday.
“generosity”
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
I’d love to have the money to remake Milton (&Rose) Friedman’s “Free to Choose” docu-series on free markets and liberty.
Modern production values, titles and graphs, updated stats where applicable. Most importantly, a captivating and credible narrator.
I wonder if such a thing would have an audience on Netflix? Not that Netflix would show anything at odds with their DNC benefactors.
I’d like to give America another chance to see how wealth, poverty, Liberty, personal and economic freedom actually work. There have to be some anti-Che folks out there, right?
On Netflix? The platform that gave Barack and Michelle zillions to produce propaganda as a payoff for changing Net Neutrality rules?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yes there are but all but what you can count on the fingers on one hand are all here.
shape-shifting swarm of 1,000 robots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK54Bu9HFRw
Mr. James Clavell. Basically swam in pussy, I imagine.
Shogun was a good read, but it’s basically John Carter in Japan.
John Carter, Avatar, Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai – all pretty much the same.
I like Lawrence of Arabia better, because although it had the same plot, it actually happened.
Derp is dead to me. If you see him, let him know.
Oh, boo *yourself*.
I still haven’t read any of the John Carter of Mars stories. They aren’t even in my to-read pile. I need to buy them.
I started them a while back. I think I made it through the first three. I prefer my pulp novels in the crime/detective genre more.
Yes, that’s an archetype.
There are only a few, and only a few plots, stories humans have been telling over and over since the beginning of time. What makes each story unique isn’t really the details–although there is that–but it’s the way the storyteller tells the story. Give me a compelling storyteller, and I don’t care what the story is.
Harry Potter has been around since God was a child. See Joseph Campbell.
I like the 7 basic plots and the 36 dramatic situations.
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1.2.1 Overcoming the Monster
1.2.2 Rags to Riches
1.2.3 The Quest
1.2.4 Voyage and Return
1.2.5 Comedy
1.2.6 Tragedy
1.2.7 Rebirth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations
And in kind, I offer you The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord.
I love that list. It’s a real classic.
I forget who wrote it, but the gist was almost every plot from movies and TV would be easily solved with smartphones.
There was a Seinfeld episode where Costanza is mistaken for some white supremacist guru. A smartphone would have quickly cleared up that misunderstanding.
Yeah, you have to get really creative.
I had a problem where I needed to get information between London and Rotterdam quickly, so I used carrier pigeons, but IIRC, I was a teensy bit too early with that technology.
Eh, wiki sez
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The sport of flying messenger pigeons was well-established as early as 3000 years ago. They were used to proclaim the winner of the Ancient Olympics. Messenger pigeons were used as early as 1150 in Baghdad and also later by Genghis Khan.
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The weirdest bird-human activity might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinkensport
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Vinkensport (Dutch for “finch sport”) is a competitive animal sport in which male common chaffinches are made to compete for the highest number of bird calls in an hour. Also called vinkenzetting (“finch sitting”), it is primarily active in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders in Belgium.
Vinkensport traces its origins to competitions held by Flemish merchants in 1596, and is considered part of traditional Flemish culture. As of 2007, it was estimated that there are over 13,000 enthusiasts, called vinkeniers (“finchers”), breeding 10,000 birds every year. Animal rights activists oppose the sport.
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And there are cheating scandals!
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As with other sports, vinkensport has had its cheating scandals, as well as accusations of artificial enhancement. One finch sang a record 1,278 susk-e-weits in one hour, and the owner was later accused of doping the bird with testosterone.[1] After one contestant sang exactly the same number of calls in three rounds, the box was opened and a mini CD player was discovered within.[1]
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larf!
Weirdest bird/human activity?
My brother had a neighbor that was the redest redneck you ever saw. He had a chicken farm. He was also missing one arm. One night we were sitting around a fire drinking beer and I asked him how he lost his arm. Without blinking or missing a beat he said as deadpan as you can imagine:
“Jealous rooster”
Talk about beer shooting out of your nose….
Well, my book was in 1780. I took some heat for a couple of medical procedures (cervical cerclage and general anesthesia), but my heroine’s surgeon is an Arab trained in the harems back home. She goes into the cervical cerclage knowing it’s an experimental surgery, but of course she survives because she’s the heroine. Fun tidbit: He’s granted use of the surgical gallery at the University of Amsterdam as long as he is willing to instruct the procedure.
Anyway, a couple of people took exception to the time in which I did that, but my research suggested medicine was way farther along in 1780 than you’d think, particularly in the Arab world, although the western physicians had mostly caught up.