The Glibertarian Tarot Project is not dead, though it is taking longer than I had hoped. Part of that is because my cash flow seems to be diverted somewhat to ammo purchases and buying accessories to make sure the range toy is just the prettiest little pistol that ever was. However, while I am slowly working on getting the deck put together, I also have been casually looking for more divinatory techniques to supplement the horoscopes. That’s how I discovered the most profound, most complete, most revelatory Great Key ever produced. I hesitate to share it with you, because a) you won’t need me to cast horoscopes for you anymore as it explains everything, and b) it may lead to teams of assassins armed with Tavors hunting us all down now that we know the secrets. Look at your own risk.
You want the truth? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!
I’ll let one of the other (((Glibs))) go into Kabbalah, since it’s a bit complicated, and I really need to do something simpler first, like memorizing the ballistics of every cartridge ever produced. However, if you’re unfamiliar with sephirot correspondence, you can get an idea here.
Just in case the Illuminati blocked that image from going through, here’s what’s happening in the skies this week:
First there is a lunar eclipse which signifies new beginning/rebirth of an esoterical or spiritual sort/major transitions and portends astronomy geeks standing outside in the cold. By orbital necessity this involves the Earth being between the sun and the moon, which is a very powerful astrological alignment. This eclipse occurs with the moon in Cancer, so it’s time to get your Xanatos on — plotting, scheming, working in the shadows, all of these things will be particularly successful for you this week.
Capricorn is a confused mess. It’s playing host to the sun (that good!) the moon (that’s bad!) and Mercury (that’s… indeterminate but portentous!) The best-case interpretation (and honestly, the most likely one) is that you will see the removal of a mental block, or the way around an obstacle will become apparent. I could really use this — I’ve had this issue with airborne tin that seems to be small enough particulate-wise to go through our ULPA filters that I haven’t been able to find a solution to. Stars, don’t fail me now!
Mars in Aries indicates that it is a good week to stay indoors, as well as a warning about hostility. Now, we mentioned above that this is a good week for subtlety. If you seem to be in a situation where the two tactics are going to come into conflict, which will win? If you have an obvious opponent and you are between Gemini and Scorpio inclusive, blindside them. Otherwise, confront them directly. Reverse those if your enemy is being a sneaky little bastard.
Lastly, Sagittarius is keeping hold of the two luckiest planets, Jupiter and Venus. Enjoy things going as planned.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL FOR LINKS ONLY OR FOR ADVICE ONLY – SO, USING THE MIGHTY COGITATION POWERS OF THE TABERNACLE, ZARDOZ CONCLUDED THAT A LITTLE OF EACH WOULD SUFFICE. THEREFOR, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF ADVICE AND LINKS….GO FORTH AND COMMENT!
Q: My girlfriend and I have lived together off and on for three years. We met at a lesbian bar in Los Angeles, and it was love at first sight for me.
I suspect she has been seeing another woman. She has changed her dress style and even her cologne. When I confront her, begging her to tell me if she’s been cheating, she laughs it off. We don’t communicate well anymore, and she’s sleeping in another room now.
I have cared for her for so long. We were going to be married. Now I feel she doesn’t love me anymore. I have tried following her, but she disappears and sometimes doesn’t come home for days. I haven’t slept or eaten in weeks.
I love her so much. If she doesn’t come back to me, I’ve had thoughts of suicide. I can’t afford a shrink. I hope you can help. — FREAKED OUT & CLUELESS IN CALIFORNIA
A: NORMALLY ZARDOZ IS APPALLED BY “RELATIONSHIP ADVICE” – HOWEVER, YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE PROCLAMATION THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL. THUS, ZARDOZ WILL HELP. ZARDOZ WILL HAVE YOUR PARTNER TRANSPORTED TO THE VORTEX AND HAVE THE ETERNALS GO TO SECOND LEVEL WITH HER.
GO TO SECOND LEVEL AND DISCOVER THE TRUTH!
IF SHE HAS BEEN CHEATING, ZARDOZ OFFERS YOU TWO ALTERNATIVES. FIRST, SHE CAN BE RENDERED CATATONIC AND PLACED IN A PLASTIC WRAP…DON’T ASK, IT IS A VORTEX THING.
ZED, STAY HERE AND MAKE SURE SHE DOESN’T LEAVE.
OR SHE CAN BE SENT TO THE GRAIN FIELDS.
CHANGED COLOGNE, EH?
SHOULD THE TRUTH BE LESS BAD NEWS FILLED – RECONCILE AND STAY TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY.
WHAT A LOVELY COUPLE
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
AND THE LINKS:
ZARDOZ EXPECTS THE PENNSYLVANIA BRUTAL ENFORCES TO BE SWAMPED WITH VOLUNTEERS.
Today is a twofer in the ongoing esoteric education of the Glibertariat. We have reason N+1 why I “never mention your sign” and also concrete proof of the sciencyness of astrology.
Here is the chart for Jan 18. This in NOT the actual chart I use, but one generated by a computer (SCIENCE!) that has many of the same features and can be used as a teaching example.
Want to know the secrets of the universe? Start here.
So obviously, you’ve got the zodiac around the edge, and the position of all the planets and a few other things marked as to where they are. You will notice that everything falls in the range between Aries and Sagittarius. If your sign is between Scorpio and Taurus inclusive, there is literally nothing there. So why don’t I mention your sign? Because you’re unimportant. Your life has no meaning. The cold, uncaring stars don’t even bother to look in your direction, nor do they avert their gaze. They simply aren’t aware that you exist. The eternal empty eons of apathy ignore you. Only the Glibertarians love you, and you can make them love you more by donating at https://glibertarians.com/donate
“But wait!” you may be saying “There IS something on the chart! That weird messed-up pawn shop logo pointing to Cancer!” Well, no. That’s the ascending node for people born that day– it doesn’t actually exist. But it is a great example of how astrology is a true science.
I’ve talked before how astrology was born out of inductive reasoning — taking data, matching events and signs and using them to make a model that predicts the future, just like notable scientists such as Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Brahe and Copernicus did. But as science advanced, so did astrology. Just as the concrete, inductive discipline of practical masonry lead to the abstract, deductive Freemasonry, so too did astrology gain a philosophical, theoretical, deductive branch. Particle physics has “virtual particles” and “supersymmetric counterparts.” Cosmology has “dark energy.” These are things that might not exist, or in the case of virtual particles absolutely do not actually exist, but we keep them around because they are useful to the models and keep physicists employed. Likewise, clients get pissed off when you tell them that there’s nothing in their sign on any given day, so astrology has developed these virtual heavenly bodies to keep the income stream going (just like any other scientist with their research grants.) Sometimes these are actual objects (like the asteroid Ceres) with absolutely no demonstrated astrological value, and sometimes they are completely invented spots in the sky, like the Dark Moon Lilith (indicated by the black crescent and cross symbol pointing into Aquarius) but they need to exist, otherwise astrology wouldn’t work. And since astrology works, they must exist. Q.E. Freaking. D.
Last week’s amaze-o bad luck Rune of Ending from Wizard of Earthsea has broken up, so that’s good. Still some reverberations from it as Saturn remains aligned with the sun and the moon leading to additional good things ending.
One of those good things that ended was Venus’s transit through Scorpio. If you didn’t take advantage of that, too late. This week Venus enters Sagittarius with Jupiter, so there’s an interesting double-path to good lovin’. Your Game will be on this week (On point? On fire? On fleek?) However, even if you don’t have Game, this is one of those rare weeks where being polite and well mannered will get you laid.
Swimming will be more difficult this week as Saturn joins the Sun and Mercury in Capricorn. Also bad luck involving leather goods. Lastly, someone will make a conscious effort to deceive you.
The moon and Mars are in Aries this week, bringing an extra jolt of belligerence and higgledy-piggledy. Ares will enjoy competitive success, but also an increased risk of indigestion. This is an obvious sign that you should enter an eating contest if there is one this week.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IN ORDER TO ENSURE NO CHOSEN ONES STRAY FROM THE TRUE PATH (THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL, GO FORTH AND KILL) – ZARDOZ FINDS IT NECESSARY TO CORRECT THE ADVICE GIVING BRUTAL DEAR ABBY, ONCE AGAIN.
Q:I am having issues with a friend who gets handed most everything he wants. I had to grow up when I was very young, pay my own way for things and take care of myself. I work three jobs to pay my rent in a house with four other people while still pursuing my passion.
This friend is unemployed. He lives in an apartment his parents pay for and goes on frequent road trips. I have reached a point where I have become seriously envious, and I’m not sure how to stop feeling frustrated that he has an easier life than I do.
I care about our friendship, but it’s physically painful sometimes when he talks about these luxuries that I can’t afford. Should I cut off the relationship? Is this something I should talk about with him or something I need to work on myself? — ENVIOUS IN NEW YORK
A: UNEMPLOYED YOU SAY? ZARDOZ CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT… PROVIDE COORDINATES FOR THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS. THEY WILL ROUND UP YOUR LUXURY SPOILED FRIEND AND PUT HIM TO WORK IN THE GRAIN FIELDS OF THE VORTEX!
WE HAVE MEANINGFUL WORK FOR YOU!
THEN YOU CAN SEIZE THE LAZY AND RICH FRIEND’S WORLDLY GOODS AND DWELLING. SEE, ISN’T ENVY AND THEFT PROFITABLE? OH, AND “PURSUING YOUR PASSION” HAD BEST NOT INVOLVE ANY OF THIS…
FORBIDDEN!
OR YOU WILL BE NEXT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Q:I have a friend I’ll call Layla. Her best friend, “Matt,” raped her. She doesn’t want to tell anyone, but I think she needs to. She told me Matt has done it multiple times. I love her, and I don’t want it to keep happening because she’s an amazing person.
Her life isn’t going well, either. Her mom has stage 4 colon cancer and is in her final year. Her stepdad isn’t the best person, and Layla has a disease herself. I’m really worried about her. What should I do? — STANDING BY IN OREGON
A: HOW MANY TIMES MUST ZARDOZ REPEAT THIS – THE PENIS IS EVIL! “MATT” NEEDS TO BE CLEANSED…LIKE ALL OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. ZED SAYS HE CAN HANDLE THIS ONE HIMSELF.
RAPE THIS, “MATT”.
SHOULD THIS “MATT” ESCAPE WHILE ZED IS ON THE WAY. ZARDOZ CAN CALL FRIEND STEVE SMITH – FOR HE IS AN INESCAPABLE TRACKER.
STEVE SMITH SAY “HI MATT!”
ALSO, “MATT” WOULD GET A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE, IFYKWZMAITYD.
AS FOR “LAYLA”, SHE SOUNDS LIKE ONE BROKEN BRUTAL – AS ZARDOZ IS HERE TO HELP, HE WILL SALVAGE YOUR FRIEND. ZARDOZ GRACIOUSLY GRANTS HER TWO OPTIONS:
DOOR NUMBER ONE, GRAIN SLAVERY!
DOOR NUMBER TWO, BAKE GREEN BREAD FOR ALL ETERNITY!
I interact with people all the time who say “I wouldn’t even know where to start” or “I’m not handy like that” when discussing the topic of do it yourself maintenance and repair. I grew up learning from a dad who was quite mechanically inclined (he just finished doing an engine rebuild on a Range Rover with little more than an air compressor), so the question in my mind isn’t whether I can execute a repair, but whether it’s worth it for me to do it myself. Certainly, there are plenty of tasks that are beyond my ken, such as HVAC work, transmission work, and anything that involves heights. However, for the more mundane tasks, I find myself weighing a few hours of my weekend against the hundreds or thousands of dollars it would cost to have a technician out to the house. I also know that I won’t take shortcuts (okay, I’ll take some shortcuts, but I’ll have nobody to blame but myself when they bite me in the ass).
Anyway, we often discuss here on glibs that self-sufficiency is positively correlated to not seeing government as a parent and provider. A big part of self-sufficiency is not having to run to an expensive specialist every time something stops working as expected. DIY is libertarian. I’ve seen a few people with the “don’t know where to start” mentality around here, so I thought I’d give a very basic overview of how to execute an appliance repair.
NOTE: I’m a lawyer by trade, which means that I’m by no means an expert when it comes to mechanical things. There are some experts here on glibs, and they’ll probably correct me wherever I go wrong or inefficient. Read this as an amateur giving advice to complete newbies in the DIY space.
How to Diagnose and Fix a Broken Dryer
Our dryer isn’t really old, but it has been acting funny on and off for a while. It’ll work fine for a few weeks, and then all of a sudden one of the loads of laundry won’t dry. This morning, my wife came up from the basement and told me that it had been 2 runs in a row that didn’t properly dry. *Sigh* looks like I’ll be spending the rest of the day in the basement.
The first thing that went through my mind was a vague intuition that dryers are usually not worth repairing if a part goes bad, so I was bracing for possibly having to buy a new dryer today. However, instead of getting the metaphorical checkbook out and writing a metaphorical check for $700, I wanted to investigate the situation first. The one replacement part that is usually cheap enough on a dryer to be worth replacing is the heating coil, so maybe I got lucky and can replace the heating coil for $75 or so.
Anyway, I pushed all of that out of my mind and approached the situation as methodically as possible. In some ways, engineering school helped with this process. There are only so many times that you can fall on your face after making assumptions before you stop making such grand assumptions. You know what they say about people who make assumptions… they get visited by STEVE SMITH, and by visited mean . . .
So, where do you start when you have to make a DIY repair? There’s a bit of a process to follow:
1) Investigate
2) Research
3) Diagnose
4) Plan the Repair
5) Assemble the tools and materials
6) Execute the repair
7) Deal with any setbacks
8) Verify the fix
Investigate
What the hell is going on? My dryer isn’t drying, so something must be going on to keep the clothes from getting dry. If I didn’t have a basic understanding of how a dryer worked, I’d go familiarize myself with the components in order to understand what’s going wrong. However, I understand enough about the operation of a dryer to begin my investigation without preliminary research.
Essentially, a dryer has 4 components. The clothes go into a rotating drum. A heating coil warms the air in the drum. A blower causes warm, dry air to enter the drum and expels humid air out the exhaust. A control panel controls the operation of all of these components using various sensors throughout the dryer.
What’s my first step of investigation? Why not just run the thing for 30 seconds? This will actually tell me a lot about what’s working and what isn’t in the dryer. I hit the start button and the dryer starts going. I can hear the drum turning due to the tell tale thumps of the dryer balls tumbling. It’s likely not a catastrophic control panel issue given that the dryer isn’t going haywire or unresponsive when I use the control buttons. I stop the dryer and can feel the heat inside the drum from the heating coil. However, when I open the door, I can also detect a whole lot of humidity in the drum, much more than it should have if operating properly.
I’m pretty sure at this point that there’s some issue with the blower. Either it has stopped functioning, or there is a clog of lint somewhere in the system that is keeping the air from properly flowing. To confirm this, I started the dryer up again and went out to the exhaust vent outside of my house. Sure enough, there was no airflow out of the dryer.
Now, before moving on to the next phase, I do a few quick diagnostics/repairs attempts to see if this may be a quick afternoon for me. Maybe there’s a lint clog somewhere. I pull off the dryer vent hose and start the dryer again. No dice! No air out the vent port means it isn’t something as easy as cleaning out the vent hose.
I then take the back off of the dryer by loosening a few screws. Maybe it’ll be something obvious and easy, such as a lint clog in the dryer somewhere that I can just pull out. Nope! Not only isn’t there anything obviously wrong, but none of the components are particularly accessible from the back. I really hope that the front is removable. If it is, it’s going to be more complicated than the back, because there is no exposed hardware on the front of the machine.
Research
Okay, I now have a basic problem statement. Something is wrong with the blower of the dryer, and I need to get into the front of the dryer to figure out what, specifically, is wrong.
First thing I need? Something to begin my search with.
Model No.
The easiest place to start is a model number for the appliance. You may be able to find some very useful information about the specific quirks of your appliance based on the model number. Sometimes, you don’t get very much information at all and you have to use trial and error in the diagnosis phase. This is where having an understanding of how the appliance works is helpful. Thankfully, I found a trove of info online. First, I found the service manual for the dryer, which, among other things, has instructions for opening up the front of the dryer. Second, I found a technical bulletin for a manufacturing defect with the blower.
Technical Bulletin
I’ve done this sort of thing enough times to know that I’m probably not lucky enough to have specifically tailored instructions for repairing the exact issue with my dryer, but I know what to look for, just in case this is the issue. NOTE: I printed the document in B&W, but the original is in color, and is much easier to see than the images in the printout.
Now I feel that I have enough information to start the project.
Diagnose
To summarize, I know that there is an issue relating to the blower on the dryer, and I know that there is a previously known manufacturing defect with the blower pulley. (The blower is connected to a central motor that runs both the blower and the drum using a belt and pulley system)
After reading the service manual, I know that there are a pair of hidden clips that secure the top of the dryer to the front of the dryer. I also know that the front door needs to be open, or else the top won’t come off. The service manual recommends using a putty knife to disengage the clips and rotate the top up and out of the way.
This is a good segue into the issue of tools. Most of the difference between a painful repair experience and a tolerable repair experience is using the correct tools. Usually, for repair and maintenance, a good set of screwdrivers (phillips and flathead), a comprehensive ratchet and socket set (with extenders and adapters), and a set of adjustable wrenches will get you most of the way. A utility knife is also quite utilitarian. . . After a few years of DIY projects, you will begin accumulating the less universal tools. Someday, you may even complete a project without having to buy a new tool!! Just kidding, that never happens.
Anyway, I don’t actually have a putty knife to disengage the clips, but I do have some putty wedges, which are essentially the same thing.
Sometimes, you can improvise and get away with it. Thankfully, no putty knife needed. The clips were exactly where the manual stated, and with a bit of finagling, I was able to get the top to pop up. A couple of hex screws (I used the ratchet and an appropriately sized socket) later, and I had the front disconnected from the rest of the dryer. There was an electrical connector for the door open sensor that I tried to disconnect since it was attached to both the front and the frame of the dryer, but it had enough slack that I was able to just set the front aside without disconnecting it. Again, sometimes you can use discretion and get away with it. I’d much rather deal with the front being tethered than deal with a broken wire coupler.
Now, after spending probably 30 minutes investigating and researching, the diagnosis phase took all of about 10 seconds. If you look in the bottom right of the dryer in the above image, you can see something that isn’t in the bottom left of the dryer.
Right there! That hexagon looks awfully familiar! In fact, it’s shown in the technical bulletin. It’s the blower pulley, and it certainly shouldn’t be sitting in the corner of the dryer like that. Hopefully it just went loose instead of snapping off the blower bolt. The only issue is that there’s a piece of ductwork blocking my view of the top of the blower. Four hex screws later, and off comes the ductwork. The left image shows the removed ductwork. The right image shows the exposed blower with the blower intake facing us.
One quick peek, and I’m satisfied that we’re just dealing with a pulley that got loose and fell off. The blower bolt looks fine:
The blower belt also looks fine:
Plan the Repair
Thankfully, due to the technical bulletin, the repair is planned for me. It says to put blue threadlocker on the blower bolt and then use a 1 1/8″ wrench and a 1/2″ square socket to thread the blower pulley onto the blower bolt. We’ll talk more about this in a minute, but I’ll go ahead and say that I didn’t have a 1 1/8″ wrench, and my 1/2″ ratchet didn’t fit the contours of the blower quite right. I also was out of blue threadlocker.
Assemble the Tools and Materials
Given that I (or rather, Maytag) planned the repair, I know that I need some blue threadlocker, a 1 1/8″ wrench, and a 3/8″ to 1/2″ adapter for my 3/8″ ratchet.
Let me try to explain why I need the 3/8″ to 1/2″ adapter. The entire blower spins freely, it’s just a fan on a ball bearing. The pulley and belt cause it to spin, creating airflow. In order to tighten the pulley onto the blower bolt, you have to somehow stop the blower fan from spinning. In order to help with that, the bottom face of the fan has a 1/2″ square hole in the center that fits the square bit of a 1/2″ ratchet. Then, as you tighten the pulley, the fan will rotate only as far as the ratchet can move in the blower housing, which is only an inch or two. Then, once the ratchet is jammed into the side of the blower housing, you can actually make progress on tightening the pulley onto the bolt.
The problem is that I tried to put the 1/2″ ratchet into the square hole, and I couldn’t do it. The design of the blower housing meant that the butt of the ratchet hit the floor before the bit nested into the square hole. I have a few extenders for the ratchet, but they were all too long to fit into the blower housing. This was a goldilocks situation. I needed something that extended the ratchet just the right length. In my opinion, I was more likely to get an adapter that was the right length rather than an extender. I also have a 3/8″ ratchet, so I just needed to find a 3/8″ to 1/2″ adapter that wasn’t 3″ long.
This was probably the most complicated part of the whole project. I knew that I wasn’t going to find an extender that was short enough, so I had to improvise. I went to Lowes hoping that a 3/8″ to 1/2″ adapter existed, and it wasn’t much of a leap of faith. 3/8″ and 1/2″ are the common ratchet sizes, and I knew that 1/2″ to 3/8″ existed, so it seems to follow that 3/8″ to 1/2″ probably exists, too.
I ended up getting a set of 3 adjustable wrenches and a set of 3 adapters that included a 3/8″ to 1/2″ adapter, as well as the blue threadlocker. All in, I paid $28. Probably could’ve cut the cost in half if I stuck to what I needed rather than what may be useful in the future.
Execute the Repair
At this point, I’ve put about an hour into the project, and I’ve only managed to make a mess. However, I have a plan and I have everything I need.
First, I put threadlocker on the bolt. I put a rubber glove on and just used my finger to spread the threadlocker evenly on the bolt. Threadlocker is a liquid somewhat similar to superglue (I’m sure the chem glibs can explain exactly what it is). It gets in the threads and hardens, “locking” the threads into place and reducing the likelihood of the pulley coming off of the bolt again. You can see in the below photo that it’s literally blue.
Then I inserted the adapter and the ratchet into the blower intake and seated them into the socket in the blower fan. Finally, I started hand threading the pulley onto the bolt.
Dealing with Setbacks
First I tried with the belt on, but it was too tight, so I took the belt off, hoping that I could put it on after the fact. I also had trouble getting the pulley to “catch” on the bolt. Turns out the bolt was reverse threaded (you have to turn it counterclockwise to tighten instead of clockwise). 30 seconds later, and I had the ratchet set up to go the other direction, and I had the pulley threading onto the bolt.
It took about 5 minutes to thread the pulley onto the bolt because the clearance was a bit tight for the adjustable wrench, but I had 10 minutes until the threadlocker set up, so I wasn’t worried. Once I tightened down the pulley, I wrapped the belt around the blower pulley and began the process of getting it onto the motor pulley. Thankfully it wasn’t super tight, so I was able to rotate the motor until the belt seated properly. If you can’t tell, a lot of this is “I know what the result should be and I’m gonna try a bunch of crap until I attain the result”. You can always escalate the amount of force you use to accomplish some task, but with the increase in force comes an increased risk of breaking something. That’s why it’s good to go incrementally. It’s often frustrating, but it’s much less frustrating that causing more damage because you were impatient.
Verify the Fix
I gave the threadlocker another 30 minutes to fully set before I fired up the dryer and confirmed that the blower was working again.
Then, I began the process of reassembling the dryer.
It’s a bit blurry, but I kept things organized as I disassembled so that I could easily reassemble. The piles of screws each correspond to a component, and going from right to left is the order of reassembly. This keeps you from using the wrong fastener in the wrong component, which can cause a nightmare if you damage the component or the fastener. Sometimes the component may have many different sized fasteners. In that case, I usually like to set the fasteners out in roughly the same position as they are when attached to the component. The top left screw goes in the top left corner of the storage area, etc.
Finally, with everything back together, I put the dryer back and plugged in the vent and the power cord. I hit the “go” button one last time to confirm that I didn’t screw anything up during assembly, and that was it! After 1.5 hours and $28 of investment, I was able to avoid a $350 service call from the friendly neighborhood Maytag repairman.
There are some things that you pick up as you go, and there are some things that require trial and error, but DIY is, at its most basic, the application of this process in a variety of contexts. It should be apparent that you can modify the process for construction and maintenance instead of repair, but you don’t need much more than a basic toolset and enough patience to navigate the inevitable hurdles you encounter as a DIYer.
So, big things in the sky. Very big. Also bad. Very bad. Very bigly badly. I’ll take things out of order to address this problem.
Jupiter aligns with Mercury and the Sun, indicating major political news. NOT the assassination of a president major however. This will be relevant shortly.
Venus remains in Scorpio, which is good news for orgasms. This is the last of the good news this week.
Cops will have a good week what with Jupiter visiting Sagittarius. Good news for cops typically means bad news for everyone else, but I guess it’s possible that this will be actual hero cops taking down legitimately bad people without collateral damage. I’m not seeing any other signs of that, though that could be because the rest of the sky is busy sending other messages.
Saturn and Mercury join the Sun and Moon in Capricorn. Warnings will go unheeded. Disregarded prophecies. Or, as we say in the augury biz, “Monday.” Also, hyperchange. Your reasoning will be overclocked, and yet your conclusions will be wrong. Ouch.
Mars in Aries. War, destruction, terror. Buildings collapsing. The Tower Tarot. With the Aries/Ares homophone, the baleful aspects of Mars are doubled.
So each planet, save Jupiter has got some schmutz of negativity rubbed on it. Even Venus is tainted. And ALL of the darkened planets are involved in a single construction. Just how important is this? There are the Sun, the Moon, the Earth, and five other planets. Eight total. Six of them are involved in this. This is death-of-kings level stuff. Except it’s not the death of a king (Jupiter isn’t involved) and it’s not a new war breaking out (Mars isn’t involved). What we do have is a double-legged diagram focused on Saturn. Saturn is bad news. Saturn is endings, death, Father time, the Grim Reaper, Chronos and the metal lead. And he’s leading this thing. And what’s worse, is the two legs are in a 2:1 harmonic resonance, so each are at double strength with respect to the other. Because this is so bad, I won’t even try to personalize it for the Glibertariat — I don’t know if it’s possible for anyone to do that, let alone me. Instead, I’ll spell out what each leg is saying and let you all apply it to your lives as appropriate, or (more likely) disregard it completely (see Capricorn, supra).
