This week’s skies are dominated by Jupiter, which is kind of apropos since it is the Planet of Dominion. It links two alignments: Jupiter-Venus-Terra and Jupiter-Sol-Mars. Jupiter-Venus is a particularly felicitous conjunction, and although (with all due respect to 5th Dimension) Jupiter-Mars is not, the inclusion of the big fireball in the sky with them does leaven it significantly. So we’ve got good luck, happiness, home, security, stability, defense — basically everything that is good about having a home life is here. Also, with both male (Mars) and female (Venus) aspects being represented here we have good news/good luck/success in parenting.
Aquarius continues to have excellent luck from hosting the Sun and Mercury. There is also a warning about flooding for the rest of us. Aries luck isn’t so good this week — the moon is poking Mars with a pointy stick which frankly isn’t smart. Speaking of not smart, Capricorn (wisdom) is getting thumped with the idiot stick (Saturn) resulting in romantic troubles (Venus). Sagittarius continues to be the boss (Jupiter). I will be paying particular attention to my results at the range this week to see if the archer-aspect of Sagittarius is delivering.
Now onto the cards, there are quite a few powerful ones this week:
Aquarius: 9 of Cups, reversed – This is the libertarian sign. Liberty, loyalty, truth, imperfections, mistakes.
Pisces: Page of Swords, reversed – Sickness. The Page of Swords typically represents a sneaky weasely little bastard who is on your side. Reversed, he’s working against you.
Aries: 3 of Cups, reversed – An expedition. Also an achievement or an ending.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – this was Leo’s card last week, so this week, you get you will experience nourishment and joy.
Gemini: Queen of Cups – This represents a good woman. Alternatively, it indicates unusual insight or vision this week.
Cancer : King of Wands – A friendly dark man. Also a consultant.
Leo: Knight of Cups, reversed – Trickery, fraud, artifice. Someone who is falsely claiming to work for your benefit.
Virgo: The Hanged Man, reversed – You will be mistaken for a Scorpio. Selfishness, crowds, and selfish crowds. The politically pandered-to.
Libra: The Hermit – Possibly prudence, but more typically treason and corruption. Sorry about that.
Scorpio: The Chariot – This one always means something interesting is going to happen. Succor, providence, triumph, trouble, vengeance.
Sagittarius: King of Swords – This card represents the positive aspects of hard power. It’s being better than others, having authority, passing judgment.
Capricorn: 4 of Wands – Prosperity, repose, “country life.”
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Prosperity, repose, “country life.”
I have no idea what that means.
Flyover country
Am I supposed to go there? Is there a pot of gold waiting for me? Should I retire?
WHAT DO I DO?
Go fishing, you’ll have all 3
Wait, they hand out pots of gold to fisherfolk?
When I was a kid, all the good pot was gold. Or tied to a stick.
+1 tied to a stick.
I got a bottle of absinthe from a home-brewer guy once. He made his own label, and the back was selections from Lamentations 3, particularly the part “peace has gone from out of my life; I have forgotten what prosperity means.”
Oh Thank God there is a horoscope for this week. I thought maybe the world was going to end.
I hate hate hate crowds.
I hate crowds of people, and people in general
People suck. It is known.
With few exceptions (Oktoberfest being one), I’ll third the hating of crowds.
Everyone is slow, milling about, looking at phones instead of where they walk, idiots and cattle
HEY YUFUS!
Six-weeks of self-imposed alcohol exile was enough! My Kroger had 24 oz Milwaukee’s Diet Beast 10/$10, so it’s on.
TALL CANS
Great price! Imma sit in the cold and have some stouts,
Tall Cans!!!
I had a lot of stout at lunch at the local brewpub.
Lose any weight? Feel better? Moral superiority?
Ive cut nearly 30 lbs on keto since August, and that was with getting faded every night on cheap beer. However, my triglycerides have always been high, so to see if knocking out alcohol (daily) cut em back, I went dry for a bit. Cut em by 51%.
But enough is enough! Since tomorrow is my ‘off day’ for cardio, Ill go ahead any pollute my body tonight.
You done good, Tres, congrats on the success! You’ve got the power!
Congrats, Tres!!!
Congratulations!
I do 2 weeks at a time.
I should probably look at some bloodwork just to see what the deal is.
Libra: The Hermit
Checks out.
“Libra: The Hermit – Possibly prudence, but more typically treason and corruption. Sorry about that.”
Looks like I’m going to have to cut a bitch.
There is also a warning about flooding for the rest of us.
Flooding of what? Guns? Women? Money? I guess none of those since it is a warning.
Perhaps a flash flood ?
Bloke on the Range posts a new video in his Mad Minute series: SMLE Mk III*.
Ozzy Man on WTF happened in January 2019
Damn your eye! I’m on my fifth video.
Le sigh.
Gun Jesus likes the pistol grip version of the rifle you were looking at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybQRUl_iFEA
Beer day. Trying out the new wort chiller.
Is that cat giving us a narrowed gaze?
He’s a Swiss tabby.
I uploaded the hi res cropped version for use when gazes are narrowed.
UCS, I saw your question on the Tardigrade lawsuit. I was totally unfamiliar with it prior to looking over the link, so I can’t really say anything about it.
Mead day. Started one five-gallon batch of blueberry mead and one five-gallon batch of raspberry mead.
Nice! I started another nano batch yesterday. The wife just rolled her eyes. I have bottles ready in three days, a Cream Ale fermenting in the bar fridge and a single hop IPA now sitting in the guest closet. Raspberry mead on the docket.
A friend of mine just installed a new 800-gallon tank at his meadery. I was a tad bit jealous.
Damn…
800 gallons? That has ceased to be a hobby and become work.
Hey juris, I don’t know if you saw my post a couple of days ago but the dog in my avatar is a Pudelpointer, one of the breeds in the GSP.
Don’t know that one, I know the wirehairs and shorthairs.
Whoops! My bad. German Wired Hair Pointer. GSP actually predates the PP by a decade.
Sagittarius: King of Swords – This card represents the positive aspects of hard power. It’s being better than others, having authority, passing judgment.
Sounds about right. Except the “having authority” part.
I see you’ve met my wife.
You know who else used horoscopes?
Literally, Hitler?
Okay, that’s what I get for commenting before clicking on the link.
Nancy Reagan?
As a Scorpio, am I getting or giving succor?
depends on the direction of the cash flow.
*golf clap*
Cash to me lady.
OK.
https://olps-chalmette.org
I don’t know nothing bout Ace of Cups or Knight of Cups, but in my youth I was well acquainted with King’s Cup.
Still at the youth orchestra.
Gah, the kid on the French horn is flat.
Childhood obesity is a problem.
Well, I don’t know how old the youths are, but many young ladies don’t start developing until later.
I just dropped off my wife at SNA, she’s flying to Memphis. I’m already bored. She won’t be back till Thursday night.
Think I’ll get drunk and restring the guitars. Take apart my drum kit, clean, detail, reassemble and tune it. Bored. Boring.
Just add a bluesy “Ba Da Ba Da Buh” to every line of your comment and you’ll feel like your in Memphis with her.
We had a very productive weekend here – capped with pulling the mower deck off the tractor and putting on the snow blower, finally. Previous snows were a) light and powdery and b) of very small depth. Hoping this and the Groundhog prognostication ward off any further frozen precipitation (which we are actually forecast to receive tonight and tomorrow night).
Should add I am now sipping on 12 yo Glenlivet before dinner.
I’ve been able to get by with just shoveling the walks and not pulling out the blower for the driveway, but it looks like that may change this next week. At least we’re past the time of the year where it stays below freezing for weeks at a time. It never materialized this year.
My usual snow blowing is about 3-4 times a winter. Already at 5 and a few more inches over the next couple days. Unless its 5 inches or so I’ll drive through it, packing it down into ridges that will turn into deep slush when it finally melts in April and keeping all cars with 2 wheel drive out of my yard.
We’ve had a lot of snow, the deer are having a little trouble and beginning to show it.
I don’t miss snow. I hated it when I lived in Indiana and Ohio. Moved to Los Angeles back in ‘93 because I could not stand another winter. Best choice I ever made.
Good luck and god bless.
Mammoth is getting absolutely ridiculous. 11 feet from the last storm alone, and 2 feet last night.
There’s a reason they don’t allow street parking in the winter.
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/51771338_10155203906732395_3240760276047364096_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=07e889fb5347b91b8877f354fbf3140f&oe=5CFA0423
Sierra’s are getting hammered. I’ve got five acres in the Tahoe NF and the map shows eight feet on the ground at 5100’.
The snow level got down to 2000′ here last week. Looking east from LA, everything is…. white.
I’m not sure how long it will last, but it’s beautiful. I guess I could check the freezing altitude at windy.com
The mountains are beautiful. I mean, they always are, but they are just gorgeous right now. And because the snow is reflecting the light, you can really see the topography in high definition right now.
I’ve been in the middle of a downpour for the last hour. It’s apparently invisible to radar.
We used to have season passes for Mammoth. [sigh]
The passes used to be absolutely reasonable. There was a risk of a dry season if you pre-purchased, but…. you could still totally come out ahead.
Now, after all of the consolidation, the IKON passes are ridiculous. So are lift tickets.
I want a pass to Mammoth because I’m CHEAP. I can DRIVE there. I don’t care if the pass works at Vail because I’m not going to drive to Vail.
I need Northern NM to get some serious snow, to feed the trout streams.
Great parade or greatest parade?
https://youtu.be/GBKzPy487XQ
It will do until a better one comes along.
Maple blueberry muffins today. https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/t8bAX1n9Sq-3R2Hxa9J__Q.WMsKqgehP5IYqjHh8tfEKh
Om nom nom.
Yum.
Damn, now I want some blueberry muffins.
I fried up some polenta and topped it with blueberry jam. So good.
Perfect looking muffins. I’m impressed.
I went to pick up my semi-weekly shipment of Pliny the Elder this morning and ended up with the greatest impulse buy EVER:
Jalapeño stuffed bacon wrapped quail medallions.
And… the wife and kids are eating pizza at the Boy Scouts banquet. It’s MINE, ALL MINE!!!!
I’ve never had quail, but I’d be sure to try those.
I love quail. That sounds awesome.
Shred the receipt and stuff the wrapping in the bottom of the trash?
They made their choice. I have nothing to hide, and everything to throw in their faces for making the wrong choice.
I love quail. Except when I chomp down on a shot. Butterflied, olive oil, salt and pepper, two minutes per side on a hot grill. I’ll take three please.
2 packs. Net weight 8oz per. Half of a snack, basically.
What’s getting stuffed, the jalapeños or the quail medallions?
Jalapeño inside the quail. Bacon on the outside.
So something like this with jalapeños stuffed inside?
https://www.melissassouthernstylekitchen.com/bacon-wrapped-top-sirloin-medallions/
Yes, but instead of a cow, it’s a small bird.
9th one down the list.
https://www.plantationquail.com/product-line
They’re boneless, so you’re got a pound of food there.
But they’re pumped. Sodium phosphate solution, so I’m getting cheated there.
Somehow I’ll manage.
Ah. 20%? That’s why I try and gather them myself. Tough little buggers to hunt.
8%, allegedly. Not a big deal, but that kind of added water still interferes with a decent sear.
At least we’re past the time of the year where it stays below freezing for weeks at a time. It never materialized this year.
We have had it pretty easy, this winter, but it has hardly cracked single digits for a week. The sun was out for a while, but it was 1 degree out when I checked a while ago.
I’m freezing to fucking death at 37. I can’t take that arctic shit anymore. For penguins I tell you.
It’s MINE, ALL MINE!!!!
All you need now is a busty courtesan to feed them to you.
I like the way you think.
So, wifey and I ventured out of the house today. Too many damn people, hard to even find a place to park. I didn’t even know that people still go to shopping malls. Apparently, they do. We only went there to have some place to walk indoors, where it wasn’t cold.
We went to a restaurant for lunch and I was observing the state of civilization. It’s much worse than I even imagined. The couple in front of us, what was up with them? Were they from Europe or something? The guy was wearing shorts (it was 37F outside. But it’s not that he was wearing shorts that I found strange. He was wearing ‘hose’, like blue hose with black shoes. I mean they were like women’s pantyhose. WTF? Do guys in Europe wear pantyhose? Then the guy behind us looked exactly like pajama boy and he was actually wearing pajamas! Like red cotton pajamas with cartoons on them. In a fucking restaurant, at noon! We are fucking doomed, I tell you. Gulag Barbie is being overly optimistic on us lasting 12 more years, but it has nothing to do with climate.
Where’d you go? White Marsh?
Towson. White Marsh? Do guys in White Marsh wear pantyhose?
I didn’t think they did in Towson, but hey, I guess I’m behind the times.
*whispers*
I think he was staring out over his lawn the entire time
I mean, get off my lawn, but if I see some guy wearing pantyhose and a pajama boy on my lawn… it’s going to be time for a game of lawn darts.
*waits in ardent expectation for the moment when Hyp realizes that manscara is a thing *
I just wish that ‘mannyhose’ wasn’t a thing. I’ve been traumatized.
When it’s cold, my trainer will wear “mannyhose” under his gym shorts. I mock him mercilessly. I will steal that term and apply it liberally.
Just don’t let your tears mess up your foundation
A lot of the European NBA players wear the spandex leggings. You sure they were panty hose and not those things? I’ve seen guys here wear the spandex leggings with shorts combos.
They didn’t look like spandex sports leggings to me, too sheer. And the shorts and shoes were more dressy like, definitely not sports wear. It was so weird, I just figured they were Europeans of some type.
“Europeans of some type.”
I mean not of sports team, but somewhere they actually dress like that.
Pan-seared ribeyes with onions/mushrooms, steamed broccoli and cheddar.
Jugsy’s plate included lima beans and velveeta shells y queso. God I miss it.
No pasta for you?
I’m already stuggling with the chocolate chip cookies in the house.
But…. you get steak.
#Keto4Lyfe
And with carbs in mind…
also WRT struggles.
I’ve got some prawns that weigh 2oz each. They go on the grill with wild rice and shredded Brussels sprouts on the side.
U-8?
Costco?
Albertson’s of all places. I think I’m bailing on Fred Meyer.
Jungle Jim’s International Market usually has prawns the size of my fist. It’s awesome to get shrimp that big, but unfortunately they’re about $5 a piece. Still, I can imagine them being part of an epic “surf and turf” with a nicely seared ribeye, garlic and cheese mashed potatoes, and grilled asparagus or something.
I have a rough time in there….its far too “busy”, with all the stuff.
I think the key is to have a route that you follow. My friends and I always start in the cheese/olives area and progress (in this order) to beer/liquor, bakery, meats, seafood, then weave in and out of the various international aisles, then go through all the little “houses” in the back.
I generally go in there with a few specific items in mind- the things only JJ’s has that I cant get here.
Then it all goes to shit.
They were on sale but still not cheap. I paid $20 for six of them.
Thank you founding fathers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6687123/Mother-arrested-children-calling-transgender-woman-man.html
That means the tranny reported it.
I’d be getting even
Well the woman claimed he was xenophobe (yeah, I’m using ‘he’ after that dick move), but evidently the police weren’t interested in that.
Europe is doomed.
I wish Britons would rise the fuck up and get their country back from the “progressives”.
I get the feeling that much of Europe has driven any non-prog viewpoints so far out of polite society that the only way non-progs can have a voice is by joining up with one of those asswipe neo-Nazi groups. Not a good situation.
I think quite a few European countries have non-prog (to use your term) parties, but the Swamp Class calls them all far-right populists. The UK seems to be one country that doesn’t really have such a party.
They’d better, and soon. I think it’s already too late.
Wow. And people think we’re fucked up. England is done.
Along with Sweden and probably France.
Wait, can’t everybody outside The UK’s jurisdiction pile on and say troll the shit out of that asshole without repercussions?