I’ll be back in Morengo this week, next weekend’s Horoscope willon on-when pre-cast. I’ll be working stage 8, but probably insanely busy other than at lunch.

This week starts off with Jupiter retrograde and Venus with Mercury in opposition.  This indicates that the cute person you’ve been flirting with is married.  I don’t know if it’s related or not, but there are indications of domestic disturbances on Thursday.  Friday Mercury moves into Libra, joining Mars which is already there.  This means it’s a particularly potent time to be a Libra, and you should bet on red that day.

Libra: Ace of Swords – Going balls-out. Will it work? Unclear.

Scorpio: Death – End, mortality, destruction, corruption. Some wussie readers will downplay this as “change.”

Sagittarius: 4 of Cups – Weariness, disgust, aversion, imaginary vexations.

Capricorn: 10 of Wands reversed –  Contrarieties, difficulties, intrigues, and their analogies.

Aquarius: The Fool -Folly, mania, extravagance, intoxication, delirium, frenzy, bewrayment. 

Pisces: The Moon – Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error. 

Aries: 2 of Coins reversed –  Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.

Taurus: The Chariot reversed – A major loss of status, or of perks or benefits to which you may have become accustomed.

Gemini: Page of Swords – An underling acts without your knowledge. Their motivations are good, nothing is shown about their effects.

Cancer: 8 of Cups – Mildness, timidity, honor, modesty, the decline of a matter, or that a matter which has been thought to be important is really of slight consequence.

Leo: 3 of Cups – Ever been to a party where the drinks are flowing, and the music is good, and everyone is having a good time? This card is like that.

Virgo: 10 of Coins – Gain, riches; family matters, archives, extraction, the abode of a family. 

When Lily achieves a kesa gatame, there’s really nothing Gertie can do.

This week’s music is from the previous album. A bit too late in the year perhaps, but there are a couple of things notable about this: first that it has the most amazing wordplay, both sophisticated (half-whole rhyme schemes) and goofy (assonance stretched beyond any lyrical sense). The other thing is the role that the engineering plays. Some people claim that Jane’s Addiction is a “live only” band. With respect, that’s nonsense. There’s no doubt that the members of the band were absolutely involved in the production choices (I mean, you don’t accidentally multitrack yourself.) So I don’t see how the studio work can be any less “real” than theior live work.