Fortunately, it’s supposed to cool off a bit by the time I have a hike scheduled, plus the route is mostly under the forest canopy.
Portents are mixed, though generally positive this week. The week starts off with Venus-Sun-Jupiter holding over from last week, plus a nudge from the New Moon. Wednesday things start getting a bit more active, and a bit more complicated. On that day, we get a significant sign of bad luck or bad news with the Messenger of the Gods (Mercury) aligning with The Eater of His Own Kids (Saturn). That’s tempered a little bit with “increase in love” with the waxing moon in Venus and then a couple of days later Mercury has moved out of alignment with Saturn (which is good) and into alignment with Mars (which is bad). However, that could just symbolize “news regarding war” which is kind of mundane at this point.
Do you feel shortchanged Gemini? You are, but next week will be better.
Gemini: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.
Cancer: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.
Leo: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin.
Virgo: Page of Swords reversed – Spying, the unforeseen, unprepared state, sickness.
Libra: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
Scorpio: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed.
Sagittarius: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Capricorn: Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury, unfavorable news.
Aquarius: Judgement reversed- Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Pisces: Queen of Coins – Opulence, generosity, magnificence, security, liberty.
Aries: Ace of Cups reversed – House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
Taurus: 3 of Wands – Established strength, enterprise, effort, trade, commerce, discovery.
Sagittarius: 7 of Coins – Money, business, barter, altercation, quarrels, innocence, ingenuity, purgation.
Sounds like clear sailing.
Aquarius: Judgement reversed- Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
I got everything I wanted! – McCarthy
Gemini: 8 of Cups reversed – Great joy, happiness, feasting.
BBQ and Harleys, baby! – Mike Pence
Leo: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin.
now, if I were president………. – Vivek Ramaswamy
Scorpio: Death reversed – Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism, hope destroyed.
Well, if it’s one thing I learned to cope with in Afghanistan, it’s disappointment – J.R. Majewski
Capricorn: Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury, unfavorable news.
With friends like this, who needs enemies? – Ken Paxton
“Cancer: Queen of Swords reversed – Malice, bigotry, artifice, prudery, bale, deceit.”
I’m not getting laid?
Page of Coins reversed – Prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury, unfavorable news.
Ace of Cups reversed – House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
An inauspicious week at House Imprudent.
Who’s the brindle? Good looking pup! Do you have to bathe Lily every week?
Leo: 4 of Swords – Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin.
An existential h-scope.
Time, I think, for Henri.
Been sitting in the backseat with the kids for a few hours on the way to Santa Fe. Tomb and coffin works.
R.J.: did you say you’re coming through Colorado?
Yes! Colorado Springs and then Estes Park. Spaniard and family in tow.
Colorado Springs is tomorrow.
Make sure you visit Garden of the Gods. Spectacular!
Also, I think they are still doing timed entry at RMNP, so make sure you get your reservation.
Got it: wrong side of the Rockies for me right now!
OK
She: Aries: Ace of Cups reversed – House of the false heart, mutation, instability, revolution.
He: Aquarius: Judgement reversed- Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Huh. Maybe not a great reading for my special visitor this week. Nevertheless, he just boarded the plane and will be here in 3 hours!! I have to shower and get fancied up. We will probably be obligated to join a group for dinner tonight though.
So, HE, getting gussied up and having a good time? Good for you! Enjoy your friend and the dinner group.
Yes, I’m sitting in my robe letting my hair air dry so I can poof it up.
No idea what the dinner plans are but I suspect that a rack of lamb is in my near future.
💕🐑
Not sure I want to know what the rack of lamb is a euphemism for.
Heartwarming: Dog Finally Reunited With Owner Who Left For 30 Seconds To Grab The Mail
Can confirm.
“Dogs are amazing creatures, but also quite dumb.”
Also true.
is it Killdozer Day ?
It is.
I was just through Granby last weekend and couldn’t for the life of me remember why the name was so familiar.
We drove through Granby just a few days after it happened. The guy made a damn good mess of things. I used to hunt elk and mulies in the area, so was pretty curious to see the damage.
Little sign of it left now though.
The apocalypse pepper free has been put back outdoors. It was tricky getting it through the sliding glass door.
Warning
A federal consumer watchdog this week warned(Opens in a new window) consumers that money held on mobile payment apps like Venmo, Cash App, or PayPal could be lost if the companies fail since the funds are not automatically insured by the government.
“Popular digital payment apps are increasingly used as substitutes for a traditional bank or credit union account but lack the same protections to ensure that funds are safe,” says Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra.
If a digital payment company like Cash App or Venmo fails, it could lead to “money [being] lost or tied up in a long bankruptcy process,” the CFPB says. As a result, the agency advises consumers to move money held on digital payment apps to traditional banks and credit union accounts, which guarantee federal deposit insurance.
The consumer watchdog points to the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank this year. “These banks experienced a run, but insured depositors could have confidence their money was safe,” it says. “Similar protection would not be guaranteed to customers who store money on nonbank payment apps.”
Totally not a threat.
Doesn’t affect me.
Cannon fodder in the culture war
Salespeople promoting Bud Light for a Florida–based distributor have grown accustomed to car horns, middle fingers and jokes amid a weekslong boycott, but say they have struggled to ignore thousands of dollars in lost commission pay, two sales supervisors at the distributor told ABC News.
A typical salesperson at the distributor made roughly $2,000 less in May than he or she would have over each of the previous two years, suffering primarily from a decline in Bud Light sales that reached as much as 60% over the week ending on Memorial Day, the sales supervisors said.
“This has really, really killed a lot of the guys who are commission-based. That’s who it’s really hurting,” one supervisor said. “There’s nothing they could’ve done — this was thrown in their faces.”
They’ll make it all back from sales to those hard partying trans community activists. They love Bud Light. Drink it every day.
Maurice Schweitzer, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business who studies consumer movements, said the losses for some salespeople at Anheuser-Busch distributors mark an unanticipated result of the consumer boycott.
“This has a disproportionate effect on a handful of people who had little or nothing to do with the decision that triggered people to be upset,” Schweitzer told ABC News. “It has this cascade of unintended consequences.”
No shit, Shirley?
I am unconvinced those consequences were entirely unintended.
The pictures look a lot like my yard but the doggies get to enjoy more grass.
Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. Well, shit.