Glibertarians.com 2019 Archive

Author: Not Adahn

  • IFLA: The “My Brain is All Melty” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of Jun 23

    Recovering from the oddest sinus infection I have ever experienced.   Way behind on sleep, work, and I haven’t been shooting in a week.  The skies are silent and cold.  They tell me little.  The only alignment is Saturn retrograde – Earth – Mercury signifying a new beginning at home.  Which is — perhaps — somewhat more useful than telling us that the sun will rise in the East (for those living in temperate latitudes).  It will be a really excellent week for Cancers, packing the sun, Mercury and Mars in there for a few days.  The beginning of the week will be extraordinarily auspicious for those born under that sign for success in competitions, and for everyone else, it’s advice to play things defensively if you want to win.  Familial harmony persists with Venus in Gemini, and the Moon in Pisces will make it very difficult to establish anything permanent.  Instead take advantage of the ephemeral nature of events and things.

    The cards say this week is going to be chock-full of obstacles and opposition.  But, they also say that this week is beatable if you use your resources effectively.  So you’ve got that going for you.  Expect stricter monitoring from your superiors.

    Cancer:  Ace of Coins – Perfect contentment, felicity, ecstasy, gold, effective bribes.

    Leo:  Temperance reversed – events or things connected with religion or sects, disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests

    Virgo:  King of Swords reversed – Cruelty, evil intentions, perversity, barbarity, breach of faith.

    Libra:  The Lovers reversed – Failure, foolish designs

    Scorpio:  Ace of Cups reversed – False heart, mutation, instability, revolution

    Sagittarius:  Ace of Swords – Triumph, excess in everything, great love and hatred

    Capricorn:  Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, stagnation, discouragement, carelessness

    Aquarius:  10 of Wands reversed – Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues

    Pisces:  The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics

    Aries:  8 of Wands – Activity, swiftness, hope, new or reawakened love

    Taurus:  The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, vacillation, public rejoicing

    Gemini:  Judgment – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision

     

  • IFLA: The “Maybe it’s a Puppy?” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of June 16

     

    This week has an interesting couple of intersecting alignments:  We’ve got Jupiter (retrograde)-Luna-Terra-Sol indicating change/chaos/disruption at home” with Saturn(retrograde)-Terra-Mercury “News of a new beginning.”  So basically, home life made all higgledy-piggiedy as the result of a new addition to the family dynamic.  This can be an excellent status check, because if you have a birth, new pet, or your SO gets a new FWB, you can  rejoice in the fact that you are important enough for the stars to foretell the events that happen under your roof.  For other celestial advice, expect slander and scurrilous accusations (Mercury and Mars in Cancer) and well, let’s say careful phrasing and selective chronicling of events may prove useful to your love life (Venus and the Sun in Gemini).  The moon in Virgo also encourages subtlety, euphemism, and oblique suggestions.

    The cards this week has a certain indication of something going wrong in a very unfair way.  There is another pronounced but odd sign that… well, the best I can translate it is “violence at an orgy?”  It’s not  typical “you’re going to get rolled by a whore” notification, there’s a much more ritualistic aspect to the whole thing.  Is someone going to attend a Gnostic mass maybe?  An O.T.O. initiation?  And will they be too embarrassed to tell us about it?  There is an overarching aspect of formality and protocol to the week.

    Gemini:  10 of Swords – Pain, affliction, tears, sadness, desolation

    Cancer:  2 of Swords reversed – imposture, falsehood, duplicity, disloyalty, misplaced vengeance

    Leo:  10 of Wands reversed – Contrariness, intrigues, difficulties from excessive abundance

    Virgo:  The Hierophant – Alliance through marriage, servitude, mercy, goodness, inspiration

    Libra:  7 of Wands – Valor, success, discussion, trade war, spycraft

    Scorpio:  Justice reversed – Bigotry, bias, excessive severity, malicious compliance

    Sagittarius:  6 of Coins – Gifts, gratification, attention

    Capricorn:  The High Priestess reversed – Passion, moral or physical ardor, shallow knowledge, conceit

    Aquarius:  6 of Cups – The past, pleasant memories, ephemeral enjoyment

    Pisces:  Judgment reversed –  Weakness, simplicity, deliberation, pusillanimity, sentence

    Aries:  Queen of Wands – Friendly dark woman, honorable, well disposed towards a fat man.

    Taurus:  Knight of Coins reversed – Inertia, idleness, discouragement, carelessness

     

  • IFLA: The “A Day Early” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of June 9

    So this week we have an actual sign in the heavens.  It’s a double leg through Jupiter (retrograde)–which isn’t exactly the best linkage you can have.    One leg involves the Earth and the Sun, the other is the Moon with Mars and Mercury.  Now that first one means “trouble at home, domestic discord.”  The second has the primary meaning of “Drama!” but also has clear implications of infidelity by a male, a soldier receiving bad news, and/or a lie starting a fight.  Usually you should try to figure out which leg is the event and which leg is the influences leading to it, but in this case I don’t think it matters much.

    It’s most likely that a Gemini will be the cause of the above drama rather than the victim of it.  Mars and Mercury in Scorpio means we will get some clarification about something that has been a problem up until now (and boy do I have a candidate for a long-standing issue that needs figuring out).  You will need to work a bit on your self control with the moon in Leo amping up any tendencies towards moodiness.  Venus is transiting between Taurus and Gemini, so if your fantasy is a hookup with twin dudes, this is a great week to make it happen.

    The cards agree:  This week is all about the dudes.  Only two cards of a feminine nature were shown, and they were both reversed.  Not so good for women in authority.  This week, remember the motto of of Clan Gordon: “By Courage, not Craft.”  Indirection and stratagems are contraindicated.

    Gemini:  8 of Coins, reversed – voided ambition, usury, vanity

    Cancer:  Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise, birth

    Leo:  King of Wands – Honest conscientious man, countryman, friendly dark man

    Virgo:  3 of Swords – Removal, absence, delay, division, rupture

    Libra:  Page of Wands – Dark young man, lover, envoy, postman.  For men, this indicates favorable testimony will be given concerning you.

    Scorpio:  Judgment, reversed – Weakness, simplicity, deliberation, sentence

    Sagittarius:  8 of Wands, reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, pangs of conscience, quarrels

    Capricorn:  Queen of Swords, reversed – Malice, bigotry, prudery, deceit, artifice

    Aquarius:  The Hierophant, reversed – Understanding, concord, over-kindness, weakness

    Pisces:  Ace of Swords – Triumph, excess in everything, great force in love and hate.

    Aries:  The Magician, reversed – Physician, mental illness, anxiety

    Taurus:  Knight of Wands, reversed – Rupture, interruption, division, discord

  • IFLA: The “A Day Late” Edition of the horoscope for the Week of June 2

    There are two BARCO alignments which, due to their nature I will summarize simply:

    Jupiter retrograde in Sagittarius (Misrule) + Moon in Taurus (clumsiness) + Sun (greatness) = gigantic fuckup.

    Mars in Cancer (low-level war) + Mercury in Taurus (delayed news) + Sun (greatness) + Saturn retrograde in Capricorn (stupidity) = news about a conflict, but false.

    So, expect a news report from a “reliable” source about a conflict that will turn out to be bullshit.    I know, kind of a lame prediction, but neither of these alignments were very good either.

    Gemini has a good week.  Cancer has to deal with cowardly little shits sniping.  And Taurus-born women will be unusually effective in their endeavors.  Not so much guys born under that sign though.

    The cards don’t look particularly fun this week, either.  Lots of reversals, poor growing, enmity/opposition from both the medical and financial professions, attempts at one night stands will be unsuccessful.  The emphasis is on prudent stewardship of resources and personal/spiritual development.  The good news is, longer term plans made this week will be successful.  Keep company with a dog.

    Gemini:  Ace of Swords, reversed –  Pyrrhic victory, disaster

    Cancer:  The Sun, reversed –  Diminishment, withering

    Leo:  Page of Swords – Supervision, weasley bastard working in your interest

    Virgo:  King of Cups, reversed – A dishonest man, scandal, vice, double-dealing, injustice, pillage, roguery

    Libra:  King of Coins, reversed – Vice, ugliness, corruption, peril, perversity

    Scorpio:  Knight of Wands, reversed – rupture, division, interruption, discord

    Sagittarius:  3 of Coins, reversed –  Mediocrity in work, pettiness, weakness

    Capricorn:  6 of Cups, reversed – Renewal, events coming to fruition

    Aquarius:  Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.

    Pisces:  7 of Coins – money, business, barter, successful investment, harvest

    Aries:  4 of Swords, reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.

    Taurus:  The Hierophant –  Seeking beyond, removing limitations, triumph of the overt over the covert.

     

     

  • IFLA: The “Take a Breather” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 26

    This week the skies are taking a break from all the doom and gloom to go off to a Signs and Portents convention.  As such there are no alignments.  Not a one.

    The regular progression progresses regularly. Welcome Gemini!  And also to you Gemini. You two get the standard good luck package of the Sun in conjunction with Mercury.  Taurus is horning in on your deluxe trifecta by cowing Venus into submission, so you won’t get it this year.  On the flip side, it’s good romantic news for gay men and BBWs.  Mars in Cancer brings general crabbiness and belligerence, but that’s offset by the moon in Aquarius keeping things relaxing.  The retrograde Jovians keep doing their thing, but no worse than last week.  Recommended activity:   drinking at the beach and/or manatee watching, though you will encounter an asshole committing crimes (or at least violations of the civil code) while doing so.

    While the skies may be easing off on the hostilities, the cards aren’t. I’m not seeing a clear event indicator, but plenty of reversed and skewed both to power cards and swords.  The only Major Arcana not reversed?  Judgment.  Oh and in case you’re wondering why there is a Judgment and a Justice, “Judgment” is a shortened version of “The Last Judgment.”

    Gemini:  Page of Swords, reversed – a weaselly bastard working against you, being unprepared, sickness.

    Cancer:  Judgment – Great change, renewal

    Leo:  King of Swords – Command, authority, hard power

    Virgo:  5 of Coins, reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, profligacy

    Libra:  Ace of Swords, reversed – Pyrrhic victory, defeat, crazed ex

    Scorpio:  Knight of Wands, reversed –  Rupture, division, interruption, discord

    Sagittarius:  Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, wrath, enmity, destruction, ruin,war, resistance, opposition, defense

    Capricorn:  The Fool, reversed – Negligence, apathy, carelessness, vanity

    Aquarius:  9 of Swords, reversed – imprisonment, doubt, shame, reasonable fear

    Pisces:  5 of Swords – Degradation, reversal, infamy, loss, dishonor, destruction

    Aries:  Ace of Cups, reversed – False heart, mutation, instability, revolution

    Taurus:  7 of Wands, reversed – Perplexity, embarrassment, anxiety

     

     

  • IFLA: The “Maybe You Should Take the Week Off” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 19

    Just one alignment here, but it’s portentous:  Mars-Mercury-Venus with the Sun in opposition.  Mars and Venus are simultaneously opposing planets (War/Peace, Violence/Love, etc) as well as complementary (Male/Female).  When you have them facing off across Mercury (change) you’ve got a recipe for something big, sudden and/or unexpected.  Good or bad?  Well… that’s where the sun in opposition comes in saying “sucks to be you.”  Wear a helmet.

    Now having said that, the best tactics for dealing with this are as follows:

    1.  Patience, directness and labor will be your allies.  Allies are important.  Strategery double-dealing and various Xanatos gambits are not recommended. (Mercury and Venus in Taurus).
    2. Secrets will be used against you.  Keep your skeleton closets locked up tight, maintain your payoffs and/or threats to keep people from talking (Mars in Cancer).
    3. Precision, subtlety and “proper channels” are not to be relied upon (Jupiter (retrograde) and the moon in Sagittarius).
    4. Plan, don’t rely on improvisation (Saturn (retrograde) in Capricorn).

    The cards also indicate a week full of happy horseshit.  The first six cards drawn were all reversed, and the leadoff one literally means “Bad Luck.”

    Taurus:  The Wheel of Fortune, reversed – Increase, superfluity

    Cancer:  Knight of Wands, reversed – Rupture, division, interruption, discord

    Leo:  The Moon, reversed – Instability, inconstancy, silence.  Lesser degrees of deception and error.

    Virgo:  7 of Swords, reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling

    Libra:  Page of Swords, reversed – A situation for which you are unprepared, a weaselly bastard working against you, possible sickness.

    Scorpio:  5 of Coins, reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, prolifigacy

    Sagittarius:  Ace of Swords – Triumph, excessiveness in everything, great force in love or hate

    Capricorn:  The Tower – Misery, distress, ruin, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception.  The frogurt is also cursed.

    Aquarius:  Death, reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy

    Gemini:  The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, science, a woman you are interested in, silence, tenacity

    Pisces:  Ace of Cups – True heart, joy, contentment, felicity, nourishment, fertility

    Aries:  The Hanged Man, reversed – Selfishness, crowds, politics

     

  • IFLA: The “I Don’t Need PPE for This” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 12

    Between the ERT drills and teaching night classes, I have very little time to make sense of the Celestial Order.  Which is a shame, since there is probably something valuable to be found a few levels deeper than I am willing to go.  To wit:  this week Saturn (retrograde) is aligned with Mars, indicating the outbreak of hostilities.  Where?  Between who?  The answers are there, but I don’t have time to figure them out.  I think it’s unlikely to involve me, so I’m just going to head off to play fireman.

    Good luck/good news for Taurus, as Mercury joins the Sun in its somewhat barnyard-smelling home.  Venus in Aries brings the stereotypical springtime ardor to the forefront.  The moon in Leo brings some instability, mood swings — but more on the oddly friendly than bitchy side of the spectrum (see the Moon in Aries, supra).

    The cards say this week is going to start off strong.  Really strong.  Dominant.  Possibly too dominant as we see people opposing you later.  Also expect a piece of equipment to fail that will lessen your effectiveness.  Some of the advancement will be lost, but not all of it —  indications are for realized gains.

    Taurus:  King of Swords – Hard power, authority, judgment, command, law

    Gemini:  Ace of Wands – Creation, enterprise, invention, birth of a male child

    Cancer:  The Devil, reversed – Weakness, pettiness, blindness, fatality

    Leo:  The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, self-confidence, will, disaster, pain.

    Virgo:  The Hierophant, reversed – Society, concord, over-kindness, weakness

    Libra:  9 of Wands, reversed – Obstacles, adversity, calamity

    Scorpio:  5 of Cups – Loss but something remains, inheritance, transmission, frustration in marriage

    Sagittarius:  7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, investment, quarrels, ingenuity

    Capricorn:  Knight of Coins, reversed – inertia, idleness, stagnation, discouragement, carelessness

    Aquarius:  The Empress, reversed – Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, vacillation

    Pisces:  9 of Cups, reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfection

    Aries:  The Chariot, reversed – Quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat

  • Crackpot Corner: The STEVE SMITH Conspiracy?

    Dobbshead!

    Have you ever noticed that STEVE SMITH doesn’t like to talk about the Yeti?  There must be something there, something that he doesn’t want us looking into.

    Well, what race of humans are descended from the Yeti?  Of course, the Yetisyn, also known as the Subgenii.  But why, WHY would our local cryptids want to keep us away from the slackful?  Is it just because of the high infiltration of douchebags since the fires of the ’70 burned out?  Or is it something darker… pinker… could STEVE SMITH be a member of The Conspiracy?  Could he be shaping the Glibertarians to use as a weapon to drive away the X-ists and snuff out the word of “Bob?”

    Obviously, there is a connection, STEVE SMITH admits he’s a blood relation.  But did you notice which members of the commentariat didn’t pass through the fires of the Englibbening?  That’s right — the (Stark) Fist of Etiquette and Agile Cyborg (who obviously drank deeply of the vaginal fluids of Connie Dobbs).

    So, was STEVE SMITH purifying his church?

    Or are we the baddies?

  • IFLA: The “Stronk, Like Bull” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of May 5

    I’ll keep this brief so you can get back to your holiday drinking.

    The new feature in the sky (and lasting until September) is Saturn going into retrograde motion.  This makes Saturn difficult to read confidently, as it now causes both beginnings and very, very bad endings.  It also take part in our first alignment:  Mars-Sol-Saturn (retrograde) = a war breaks out this week.  Sorry about that.  The second one is much better, we get the Earth aligning with the moon and the sun which signals general benevolence.  It’s not ideal, being the sort that leads to a new moon, but I’ll take it.  Indeed, this particular new moon shows higher than usual potential for auspicious beginnings, so if you were going to start a business or ask out that hottie, this is as good a time as can be reasonably expected.

    Staying on the subject of Saturn (retrograde) it’s still loafing around in Capricorn.  Now Capricorn is the sign of wisdom, tempermentality, and fine leather goods.  For the past far too many weeks, Saturn has been inhibiting our thinking, making it more ponderous than it should be.  Now that it has gone retrograde, we should experience extremes of judgment, both flashes of insight and extremely stupid decisions.  Good luck telling the difference.  With the new moon in Taurus there is great potential — the new moon is the seed, a thing unrealized, the sign of beginning.  But the beginning of what exactly?  Unfortunately in this case, the facing sign is “the hidden threat.”  Find it, catch it, kill it.  Too bad about that whole Saturn retrograde in Capricorn when it comes to correctly identifying what the threat is.  Whether it’s spring or because Venus and Mercury are in the sign of the Goat, you will feel… inclinations this week.

    Taurus:  5 of Swords – Degradation, destruction, infamy, reversal, dishonor, loss

    Gemini:  10 of Coins – Gain, riches, archives, family home, extraction

    Cancer:  2 of Wands, reversed – Surprise, wonder, emotion, fear

    Leo:  The Chariot – Succor, providence, war, triumph, presumption, vengeance

    Virgo:  5 of Cups, reversed – News, alliances, affinity, ancestry, false projects

    Libra:  Ace of Swords, reversed – Triumph, excess in everything, extremes of love and hate… but all of these things are disastrous.

    Scorpio:  8 of Wands, reversed – Jealousy, internal dispute, stings of conscience

    Sagittarius:  Page of Wands – Dark young man, faithful, a lover, an envoy, a postman

    Capricorn:  4 of Coins – Gifts, legacy, clinging to what one has, defense of resources

    Aquarius:  Judgment, reversed – Weakness, simplicity, a reward denied

    Pisces:  6 of cups – Memories, the past, current enjoyment from earlier seeds

    Aries:  Temperance – Economy, frugality, management, accommodation

     

  • IFLA: “The Changing of the Seasons” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of April 28

    For some reason, I sleep like crap when the seasons turn, so I apologize if I can’t see too deeply into the signs above.

    In fact, I can only see Saturn lining up with the Earth and the Moon, which could mean either trouble at home, broken locks, or good garden harvests.  There’s no definite distinction as to what sort of trouble you could be expecting at home-wise, but with Saturn’s connection to lead and the Moon’s connection to water, it could mean plumbing issues (sorry Mo).

    Welcome to the top of the chart, Taurus!  Everyone else watch out for tendencies towards behavior for both good (strength, stamina, patience, focus) and bad (anger, callousness, a foolish consistency, recklessness) during this month of being bombarded by bull beams.

    Remember last month how Pisces was stealing all of Aries’ mojo?  Same shit different sign.  Aries gets a lesser version of what it should have had in re: love and luck, and Taurus’ is delayed.  The same bad stuff is stable — Mars in Gemini, Jupiter retrograde in Sagittarius, and Saturn in Capricorn; but there is one major shaking things up happening: the Moon is in Aquarius.  This is generally a good sign of bounty, unexpectedly large return on investments, assistance unlooked for, that sort of thing.  But the overriding meaning is change, so there is also a non-trivial chance of disaster/ruin.

    This week’s draw is very male-dominant.  All of the Wands are upright, all of the Cups are reversed.  The positioning of the court Wands cards indicates Zardoz-disapproved activity, though it reads more strongly if looked at from a male-male perspective, so maybe he’ll be OK with that.  There will be an abrupt transition between this week and the next.

    Taurus:  Ace of Wands – Creation, invention, enterprise

    Gemini:  7 of Cups, reversed – Desire, will determination

    Cancer:  2 of Wands – Riches, fortune, magnificence, “The sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of the world’s wealth”

    Leo:  9 of Cups, reversed – Truth, loyalty, liberty, mistakes, imperfections

    Virgo:  5 of Swords – Degradation, reversal, dishonor, loss, infamy

    Libra:  Knight of Wands – Dark man, probably a countryman, friendly, honest, conscientious

    Scorpio: The Blank Card – All possibilities are yours.

    Sagittarius:  6 of Wands – victory, triumph, great news, hope

    Capricorn:  The Chariot, reversed – Riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat

    Aquarius:  The High Priestess, reversed – Passion, ardor, conceit, superficial knowledge

    Pisces:  8 of Swords – Bad news, crisis, censure, conflict, sickness

    Aries:  Death, reversed – inertia, sleep, sleepwalking, lethargy