IFLA: The “Crank ’em and Bank ’em” Edition of the Horoscope for the week of October 4

by | Oct 4, 2020 | Advice, IFLA | 90 comments

This week we’ve got Mars retrograde aligning with the Sun, the Moon, and Mercury.  This means that there will be errors and fuckups involving weapons.  Which is exactly NOT what I want to read for the morning of my last match before Nationals, but hey, the stars didn’t ask my opinion.

One particularly notable thing is Saturn is moving directly now, so it’s just bad news instead of ultra-bad news.  Remember:  Saturn is a dude carrying a sharp farm implement who is pissed off because his junk has been chopped off.  And he wasn’t that nice of a guy to begin with, what with the cannibalism and all.  Still, it’s less shitty to be a Capricorn today than it was a week ago.  Yay!

It’s not just myself that has to be on the lookout for accidents, it’s all of us as that Mercury mentioned earlier is in Scorpio.  This is typically associated with mishaps, and more specifically (but not exclusively) accidents related to acting or moving too quickly.  Watch out for speed traps.  Mars retrograde being in Aries is another warning to chill a little bit, and Venus in Virgo is a carrot complementing the other sticks, as it’s a suggestion that mellowing out will be rewarded.  The moon in Taurus is difficult to interpret in light of all these other happenings.  Typically anything happening in Taurus would build on the whole theme of “slow and steady is good” but the moon is inherently chaotic, so the best I can come up with right now (I’ll edit this if I have any further insights (lol no I won’t)) is that it’s advising not to take “slow down” to mean “stop.”  You’ll still need to work towards whatever goal is on the list this week, just be careful doing it.

Lots of Majors drawn this week, and also lots of cards indicating the same thing.  If the Presidential ballot changes, you read it here first.

Libra:  Wheel of Fortune reversed – Increase, abundance, superfluity.

Scorpio:  Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed

Sagittarius:  5 of Cups – Loss but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations

Capricorn:  Knight of Coins reversed –  inertia, idleness, repose of that kind, stagnation, placidity, discouragement, carelessness

Aquarius:  The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality, that which is predestined

Pisces: 5 of Coins – Destitution, love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress

Aries:  8 of Swords reversed – Disquiet, difficulty, opposition, accident, treachery, what is unforeseen, fatality

Taurus:  The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place

Gemini:  The Hermit – Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption

Cancer:  Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish

Leo:  10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension

Virgo:  Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity

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Not Adahn

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

90 Comments

  1. PieInTheSky

    Cancer: Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish – i have a good feeling about this one

    • Count Potato

      I would think anything called “cancer” in the first place would be bad.

  2. Count Potato

    BREAKING: Joe Biden is Actually Running for Prime Minister of Australia

    “Opponent of the opponent. A former staffer of @JoeBiden
    reveals why the Democrat candidate should never be President. SUNDAY on @Channel9
    , Tara Reade speaks exclusively to #60Mins about claims Biden sexually assaulted her.”

    https://twitter.com/60Mins/status/1311561576189587456

    • Ownbestenemy

      The comments are without a sense or irony.

      “It’s proven Reade never reported any problem to anyone at work during that time. Her story rose years later and details change. Completely debunked story for 5 more minutes of screen time and to sully the reputation of Biden.”

      • Rebel Scum

        These accusations only matter if you have a ‘R’ next to your name.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well fuck. I need a drink after that

    • Brochettaward

      You’re fake news.

      • Old Man With Candy

        That’s because you touch yourself at night.

      • Rebel Scum

        Everyone knows you are supposed to do it in the morning in the shower.

      • Ted S.

        Why not both times?

    • The Other Kevin

      Damn, wish I could put a lid on it at 9am every day. I’d even stretch it to 10.

    • Ownbestenemy

      But he is signing blank papers! /internet slueths

  3. mikey

    “Virgo: Ace of Cups – House of the true heart, joy, content, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, Holy Table, felicity”
    Hey Adahn, you sure your doing this right?
    “fertility”? I sure hope not!

  4. Brochettaward

    I’d like to take a little time today to reiterate that birthdays are for women and children. It is unseemly for a grown man to celebrate in general, but let alone something as inconsequential as the anniversary of the day he was born. Celebrating a birthday as a grown man is the least non-First thing you can do.

    • Brochettaward

      Least First thing you can do.

    • Tejicano

      You might appreciate my father-in-law’s story.

      He was born in Japan sometime in February of 1943. At the time nobody was sure anybody was going to live through the end of the week, much less some newborn kid. And besides, the ward office had been destroyed so there was no place to register his birth anyway. Sometime around August they found a way to register his birth but by then nobody could remember what day he was born on so they just put it down as February 1st. Both his parents had died of tuberculosis before he was 3 so there was nobody to ask about it later.

      We celebrate his birthday as February 1st but he doesn’t seem to GAF about it.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My wife’s siblings all have the same b-day because they were born during spring planting season and her parents couldn’t be bothered to go down and register them. So they all got the same date as when they went in to pay their taxes in the summer. My wife was born in the summer so they went down and registered her with her real b-day.

        Her siblings still think she is totes spoiled for that.

    • Stillhunter

      If you think I’m not going to celebrate 48 years of life (likely with some whiskey and a cigar), you’re nuttier than squirrel shit.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Men can celebrate the following b-days:

      1) 13 (old enough to deer hunt – legally)
      2) 16 (can get driver’s license)
      3) 21 (or 19 in my case, legal drinking age)

      But yes, other than that it doesn’t matter.

      • dbleagle

        I would add the birthday following the birth of your first grandkid. That is the start of you being biological surplus, so you might as well eat, drink, shoot firearms, and plan something extremely adventurous (aka risky) for the upcoming year.

      • DEG

        4) Any birthday that can get you laid.

  5. Ownbestenemy

    Tarus and Libra are the only ones that are going to make it out the next week unscathed I see.

  6. westernsloper

    “slow and steady is good”

    You know what else is good when done slow and steady?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Planing a wood plank?

      • Gender Traitor

        Euphemism du jour?

  7. Mojeaux

    Taurus: The World – Assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place

    Please to helping find the Lost Thing.

  8. The Gunslinger

    Just saw on the ESPN scroll that the SMU student section was cleared from the stadium yesterday during the first half for “non-compliance”. Good on them.

  9. Drake

    “Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish”

    Got that going for me.

    • Tejicano

      Sounds like fun!

  10. Mojeaux

    So it was only Cam Newton who tested positive for WuFlu.

    Chiefs v Patriots on tomorrow at 6:05 p.m.

    Got non-Chiefs, non-Patriots fans coming to KC because it’s one of very few chances to see live football this year.

    • Ted S.

      The French Open tennis is going on, and this is about the only report I could find with direct comments from Novak Djokovic, who tested positive after a charity event in June but has been going gangbusters since the restart of the tour.

      I think everyone here knows, but trying to explain to normies how the media doesn’t want to comment on people who didn’t have panic-enabling cases of the virus is like talking to a brick wall.

      (I couldn’t find anything either about players Grigor Dimitrov and Lucas Pouille’s coronavirus experience either.)

    • Brochettaward

      There’s no actual way of knowing who else might test positive because just like with the Titans, there’s an incubation period. It took days for the outbreak to occur in Tennessee. Here you have a guy on each team who tested positive but the league plans to go ahead as if that didn’t happen.

      Which I’m fine with. That was the plan going in. But the league doesn’t seem to have an actual plan or consistent policies in place.

      • Mojeaux

        I’m pissy because of all the orgs in the country, the NFL is the one that could have shut this whole thing down and it didn’t.

  11. DEG

    Typically anything happening in Taurus would build on the whole theme of “slow and steady is good” but the moon is inherently chaotic, so the best I can come up with right now (I’ll edit this if I have any further insights (lol no I won’t)) is that it’s advising not to take “slow down” to mean “stop.”

    A euphemism?

    Leo: 10 of Coins reversed – Chance, fatality, loss, robbery, games of hazard, gift, dowry, pension

    Sounds sufficiently shitty to be correct.

  12. Rebel Scum

    The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality, that which is predestined

    Is this because I got a new rug?

  13. westernsloper

    I just successfully overcooked one egg while under cooking another in the same pan. Top that!

    • Ted S.

      I don’t consider it a success if my eggs aren’t cooked properly.

      • westernsloper

        I set no such high bars.

      • Old Man With Candy

        This is a prop bet.

    • Mojeaux

      I think I may be mildly allergic to eggs. Things they are in don’t make me sick, such as baked goods or an egg McMuffin type thing. But alone, or where they are the main ingredient (deviled eggs, egg salad), they make me very slightly nauseated. I like eggs. This makes me sad.

  14. Hyperion

    White Supremacists!

    Biden is soaring in the polls again.

    • Hyperion

      lol

  15. westernsloper

    Back ground noise is the usually the radio in casa de sloper. I had to turn off NPR a few hours ago before I threw it through the sliding glass door. On the hate channel they are replaying Fox News Sunday. Holy fuck Chris Wallace is going off on how the Trump family won’t follow the “Covid Rules”. Jesus, I knew he was a prog but did not realize what an authoritarian prick he is.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What is being buried is that his kid…is negative. Send them back to class…for the sanity and livers of all Americans!

  16. mikey

    Well, I can tell Donny is getting the best possible treatment – everyone is wearing spiffy white lab coats.

  17. Rebel Scum

    Cunte.

    “We know Joe Biden has been tag this virus seriously and following the virus. The Trump administration, on the other hand, is not doing that. They are ridiculing mask-wearing and undermining the efforts of governors like me, and your earlier guest Governor DeWine is having trouble getting people to mask up. This virus doesn’t care what side of the aisle you’re on or what state you live in. Joe Biden is modeling the behavior we should all be emulating because our lives are on the line. Why I’m so enthusiastic about Joe Biden as our next president because he has got a plan to clean this up and depiction this mess that the Trump virus response has gotten us into.”

    “When a White House undermines our efforts to protect people, and when they threaten to hold the resources for a state that put them in the White House in the first place, people remember that. This is a moment where we need leadership that is focused on protecting every American, whether they supported who is in the White House or not. The American president should be protecting Americans, and that is where this administration has failed and has failed spectacularly.”

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Sagittarius: 5 of Cups – Loss but something remains, inheritance, patrimony, transmission, but not corresponding to expectations

    I await with baited breath.

    i had salmon and eggs for breakfast.

    • westernsloper

      I had eggs on buttery sourdough toast.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Egg over leftover Thai fried rice.

      • Rebel Scum

        Cold pizza.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Donald Trump stole my Summer, my Halloween, my ability to enjoy life itself for four years and people who would later help him steal the presidency in the first place ruined my professional life and put me in a debt hole I’m still only barely “back” from for years. F*** em all.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1312423045802397697

    • Ted S.

      No mention of any of the governors who shut their states down, of course.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Who?

    • Hyperion

      “Donald Trump stole my Summer, my Halloween, my ability to enjoy life itself for four years”

      Seek help.

      • hayeksplosives

        You stole my childhood! How dare you! HOW DARE YOU!!

      • dbleagle

        I bet she is pissed at COVID since it derailed her gravy train. Good.

      • Hyperion

        Covid is the new global warming. Grettel is like so last week.

  20. Rebel Scum

    Um…

    Erdogan made his public claim Thursday as he addressed Turkish lawmakers during a major policy speech in Ankara. He said:

    In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still possible to come across traces of the Ottoman resistance. So Jerusalem is our city, a city from us. Our first qibla [direction of prayer in Islam] al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem are the symbolic mosques of our faith. In addition, this city is home to the holy places of Christianity and Judaism.

    As the Times of Israel reported, the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem from 1516 to 1917. Modern Turkey, its successor state, has long claimed a connection to the holy city, regularly condemning Israel for alleged attemtps to “Judaize” it and the U.S. administration’s December 2017 recognition of it as Israel’s capital.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Donald Trump stole my Summer, my Halloween, my ability to enjoy life itself for four years

    You obviously weren’t doing anything with it.

    • C. Anacreon

      Imagine living in such a way that your happiness depends on who the president is. Maybe he should turn off social media for a few days.

      • RAHeinlein

        Sadly, if the Dems take all I thinks my happiness will be impacted.

  22. Ted S.

    Robert Lewandowski needs to start scoring again.

    • PieInTheSky

      Why? What would he the point? Does it matter?

    • Hyperion

      “in Florida every supervisor in Florida is dedicated to make sure we have fair and honest elections,” Bennett added.”

      He forgot that Broward County is in Florida.

    • Ownbestenemy

      “I was testing the system” is exactly what someone caught would say

  23. Hyperion

    In today’s horoscope news, all Capricorns get cancer and die in a fire. Wait…. didn’t that happen last month? I’m calling Fake News on this one.

    • SandMan

      Cool, smoking the cigar was a nice touch.

  24. Don escaped Duopoly

    Prudence, circumspection, treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption

    By me or to me? – DJT45