The inner planets get the most attention in this column because they change the most often. They are not any more astrologically significant than the big boys, but those last two move so slowly it gets really boring to talk about them doing the exact same thing week after week. However, when they are giving influence not related to the interaction of the inners then it lasts for a while.
Like this week. Tuesday through Saturday, we’ll be under the influence of Jupiter. I’ve covered this before about how our ideas of what “good” is v. the ancients’ ideas were and how they were more concerned about stability and order than sheer benevolence. So while this week will be better than usual, it’s not about having good luck, but about how things proceed according to expectations. Solid plans will work, but gambling won’t pay off any better than the odds would suggest. Within this overall period there are two briefer events which nevertheless need to be mentioned. On the twelfth, we’ll see a shift in a conflict situation (Mars-Moon) and then the day after an abrupt ending (Mercury-Saturn).
Aries: Death. Kind of appropriate for sheep on Easter.
Taurus: Page of Cups reversed – Taste, inclination, attachment, seduction, deception, artifice.
Gemini: 8 of Coins – Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
Cancer: 7 of Cups – Sentiment, imagination, some attainment but nothing permanent or substantial.
Leo: 5 of Coins – Love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.
Virgo: 7 of Wands – Valor, discussion, wordy strife, negotiations, barter, competition, success.
Libra: 6 of Wands reversed – Apprehension, fear, treachery, disloyalty, indefinite delay.
Scorpio: The High Priestess – Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed, silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.
Sagittarius: The Fool -Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
Capricorn: Justice – -Equity, rightness, probity, triumph of the deserving side in law.
Aquarius: 7 of Swords reversed – Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.
Pisces: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
Pisces: Knight of Swords – Skill, bravery, capacity, defense, address, enmity, wrath, war, destruction, opposition, resistance, ruin.
So, don’t pick any fights this week. Got it.
Sagittarius: The Fool -Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
I’ll get right on that.
Looks like I have one hell of a week ahead of me.
Sounds like fun.
In today’s installment of “how am I just learning this now?” Instant dry yeast and active dry yeast taste completely different. Of all the interminable discussions about how they make the bread rise differently, why did nobody mention that instant dry just tastes bad?
For the same reason that no one talks about instant coffee?
Depends on the brand as well, I think. I like and use SAF Red IDY. Keep it in the freezer and lasts forever. Red Star Quick Rise is supposed to be the exact same yeast but there’s a difference to me.
I was using Fleischman’s instant dry, and was unhappy.
I don’t know how many actual different variants there are or if they’re all produced by the same fungal factory and given different labels.
I prefer liquid ale yeast over dry ale yeast.
You’re not supposed to eat the yeast straight.
“why did nobody mention that instant dry just tastes bad?”
The wetter the better.
Somewhat related… last night we had a campfire, and for about an hour we saw a series of satellites traveling along the same path. Never seen anything like it. I looked it up, and it turns out Starlink satellites will do that for days or weeks after a launch, until they position themselves in their final orbit.
Love and lovers-wife, husband, friend, mistress; also concordance, affinities.
Doesn’t sound shitty. I’m suspicious.
There is an alternative reading of poverty, if that helps.
Well, the “indefinite delay” part certainly tracks with all the bids I have out for more project work.
Hang in there: today’s plans are tomorrow’s victories!!! – Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr
Death. Kind of appropriate for sheep on Easter.
That was last week – damn near run over crossing a street in NJ.
Justice – -Equity, rightness, probity, triumph of the deserving side in law.
So this means I should have the wife talk to the lawyer about our problem in VA, doesn’t it?
“Good advice, counsel, instruction, slander, babbling.”
Idk how this relates to yesterday when the neighbor’s ill-tempered German Shepard got loose and was harassing people, including the gf. I must have looked really silly standing in the driveway in my pj’s with my Angler Royale model 15 fishing rod in case the dog decided to fuck around while the gf got groceries out of the car.
A-plus rationalization
He said that while he’s happy he no longer lives in the US, he wishes that the US’s education system was more affordable and that kids in generations to come won’t go through the challenges he’s had.
“You know, learning is curiosity, and we really prey on that,” Squitieri said.
“These are predatory institutions that prey on kids to give money to these big corporations for their small number of shareholders at the expense of so many people,” he continued. “And I don’t want to support a country like that. I feel I would rather stand by my values and live overseas and not support this.”
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The growing interest is a primary reason many borrowers like Squitieri find themselves with a balance that’s much larger than the amount they originally borrowed — so when they’re ready to restart payments, it’s a much bigger burden.
“I’ve never been able to afford it,” Squitieri said, “and I won’t be able to afford it in my lifetime at the rate that I’m going.”
Interest never sleeps.
Did you sign a contract? Yes? Were the terms in that contract? Yes? Then shut the fuck up and pay your debts.
What a maroon. Also hilarious he studied criminology and forensic psychology and tried to get a job at the school or the peace corps. WTF did he think he was going to do with that degree?
The guy acts and looks like a shitbird. I’m ready to bring back debtors prisons for people like him. $135k is a chunk of change but is completely doable in far less than a lifetime. If that asshat paid $10k/year, he’d almost be paid off by now. Instead he chose to be a tourist and fuck off for the past 15 years. Teaching English. Bullshit. That’s a job for a year or two to get your foot in the door or until you figure out what you want to do.
Antidote
https://youtu.be/SojCsMV5Bvc
For all the Portlandia stories, Scott is the typical Oregonian that I’ve always known. Still around, but not quite as numerous as they once were. He reminds me too of many of the old timers I once worked with. Before I became the (fake) old timer.
Somehow, in days of old, maybe 5th-6th grade, we learned about interest and compounding and stuff like that. I hate to pay interest, I do like to use someone else’s money a month at a time though.
Hey now, Evan might overhear you.
If by shitbird you mean the emcee in Cabaret…
@Brooksie re CRX <3
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve begun readying myself for WW3, and that includes nukes.
It’s a sobering thought on Easter, but I’ve come to the conclusion that unless the powers that be in DC, NATO, and the EU admit defeat in Ukraine in the near term, it means they intend to go to war. If they do throw themselves and us into that war, Russia will most likely and almost immediately respond with nuclear weapons. I draw attention to this speech by Putin in February.
The statement can interpreted as to mean that an active war between NATO and Russia meets the Kremlin’s doctrine for the use of their nuclear arsenal.
Sorry to be a downer, but the reality is hitting me. If you’re praying today, pray I’m wrong. This is the outcome I feared from the beginning of this fiasco, that the Western powers would underestimate Russia’s resolve and in doing so, would commit all of us to a war that neither side can afford to lose.
I’m still holding out that the desire to save their own skins will win out over the stupidity
Lindsey Gramm was just on Fox, he wants to to war everywhere ’cause no one respects us. Ukraine/Russia, China, Mexico. Kick ass and take names, he’s out of chewing gum.
He’s just a reminder that evil exists.
Never once did he think that people don’t respect us because we have people like Lindsey Gramm in power…
Make sure you’re vaccinated and be sure to social distance in the fallout shelters!
Work, employment, commission, craftsmanship, skill in craft and business.
Wait, I’m retired, dude.
Cancer: 7 of Cups – Sentiment, imagination, some attainment but nothing permanent or substantial.
I can live with this.
In other news, I am completely covered in bruises from the neck down to the waist. I mean, COVERED. I look like the LAPD has been interrogating me with a phone book. I love BJJ.