The Week in general is good for the married couples. The early week has an unusually clear warning — often the signs we read as “bad luck” are really just “luck,” but scared clients come back. However, in this particular case the moon and Mercury are lining up in the oppositional position, so we have the single interpretation “chaos/disorder/change making your life worse.” That starts on the 15th and tapers off a bit until it ends two days later. Following that, we have some bonus luck for Libra and then the day after that Venus crosses into Virgo, bringing love/peace into the life of those born then.
Virgo: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
Libra: Knight of Cups reversed – Trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.
Scorpio: 10 of Cups – Contentment, repose of the entire heart; the perfection of that state; also perfection of human love and friendship. It’s alright.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will.
Capricorn: 3 of Coins reversed – Mediocrity, phoning it in, hackery.
Aquarius: 3 of Wands reversed – The end of troubles, suspension or cessation of adversity, toil and disappointment.
Pisces: Queen of Cups reversed – Distinguished woman but one not to be trusted; perverse woman; vice, dishonor, depravity.
Aries: 6 of wands – Victory, great news, hope, inspiration.
Taurus: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
Gemini: 8 of Cups – Joy, 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.
Cancer: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.
Leo: The Emperor – Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.
WTF?
Virgo: Judgement reversed – Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, deliberation, decision, sentence.
The Jeep Cherokee strikes again! Last week front struts. Week before a battery. 2 weeks prior brakes all around.
Today the front right tire blew on I-70.
XJ, ZJ?
Def not an FSJ, no struts there, leaf springs like God intended a jeep to have.
Yikes
Time for a new shop?
You sayin’ the double wide carport isn’t big enough?
Yeesh, my back tire blew on I-75 northbound just outside of Dayton. Scary shit.
Are those issues due to Jeep’s crappy manufacturing, or is it just an old vehicle? I’m scoping out the market for a pickup truck, and reliability is my #1 concern.
Sagittarius: The Magician – Skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; sickness, pain, loss, disaster, snares of enemies; self-confidence, will.
The world is my oyster?
Well, it does feel like we’re getting shelled.
It’s the mortar teams.
Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.
I suspect reading “Mein Kampf” would be sufficiently shitty.
Oh you’re a Leo too? So are Tundra and Mrs. TOK. I’m supposedly the only sign that can tame you people.
I’m having a little fun with it here.
Astrology is only useful in weeding out women for dating. “You think the position of the stars at the time of birth influences a person’s life? Next woman!”
Hahaha, yes!
Also I think you are in a comment section full of Leos.
Considering I have spent the past day ‘perfecting’ my friends list by unfriending anyone celebrating the assassination (only one so far thank God), this is oddly apt.
I rarely go to FB at all. As an author, I can’t really afford to unfriend people who love my work IN SPITE OF the politics. I also can’t stand to see what the lady who might be able to get me work (I’ve worked for her before) says.
I saw this question on X: If you think someone should be shot for their opinions, why are you crying because you got fired for yours?
Well, it’s because they think their view is the righteous one and anything done in the name of righteousness is okay and if you don’t agree, you’re evil and evil doesn’t deserve freedom. They are RIGHTEOUS and thus, above reproach. Righteous to what entity is the question, though.
Also, this kind of ties in to the arguments in reader/writer land about trigger warnings on books. Like, people, reading fiction IS your safe space. If you want to kill people you see as Nazis, do it in a book.
XY was the one who told me Charlie Kirk was shot. He said he’d have been shocked if I HADN’T known who Charlie Kirk was. He seemed to be agnostic on the subject of Kirk himself (“don’t agree with some of what he says”) and didn’t seem to like his being shot or the fact that everyone around him was happy about it, but I made sure to remind him that the principle of free speech is to protect speech you DON’T like. He said he understood that, but he’s lived in a deeply unpleasant place for a year, and he’s been managing people for the last two, so life seems to have straightened his thinking quite a bit.
protect speech you DON’T like
hear, hear
I’m amazed by how people post shit on Facebook that they would NEVER say out loud to someone’s face in real life. Social media is haram to me, but my wife sometimes relays what people posted (against my wishes) but then those same people meet in real life and appear to get along great. I don’t know if the vicious Facebook persona is the real one and being nice is just a farce, or if being nice is real and Facebook gets them in a temporary mood of pure catfight nastiness.
I do think the stupid picture-of-text memes are not intended to do anything except make the “other side” angry.
Well said Mojeaux. They really think they are the good guys, fighting the evil Nazis. It was only a matter of time before those with nothing to lose started acting on it.
Akira:
That is something that offends me to the core. If you think I’m a monster, have the balls to tell me that to my face, not behind my back.
“ Cancer: 4 of Coins reversed – Suspense, delay, opposition.”
Orgasm denial it is then!
For whatever reason, football is not interesting to me. Dude haz a sad.
I think it’s because the Chiefs played on Christmas Day, and we left right after the game to go to my uncle’s funeral in *drumroll* Orem, Utah but never made it past Evanston, Wyoming because blizzard (why, no, I am NOT driving down Echo Canyon in the dark and snow; I may not even do it in the daytime on a highway that hasn’t been plowed or salted). Then my Mom got sick and I sat there in Feb watching the Chiefs lose while I’m stressed about my mom and the cunty aunts.
I left the bar shortly after the half. I could only take so much more suffering.
I haven’t seen the score yet but I did notice the Browns were the only team getting double digit points vs the spread. Yow.
*checks*
Not totally horrific. Why the Jets were only getting 5.5 vs the Bills, I dunno.
My Bengals are 2 and 0! Now both Burrow and Stewart are out with injuries, the O Line appears about as athletic as I am, and our defense largely consists of the Browns and Trevor Lawrence not being very good. But hey 2-0
football is not interesting to me.
Football is mostly just color and motion at this point, for me. I watch, but it’s about like watching the waves on the beach. I don’t much care who wins or loses.
Except the Ravens. I definitely want them to lose.
My brain is missing the circuit that makes sports interesting. But I’m not really a “team player” in most things and prefer to just do my work alone, so that’s probably a factor.
But when people are talking about sports, I do enjoy getting them worked up by just gainsaying everything as if I know what I’m talking about.
As a Bears fan for some reason I keep on watching them even though they make me angry/sad.
I always knew you were a good person.
Rampant political violence
Charlie Kirk’s killing came amid a rise in political violence in the US, the kind now so frequent that it moves swiftly out of news cycles it would once have dominated.
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In the first six months of 2025, more than 520 plots and acts of terrorism and targeted violence occurred, affecting nearly all US states and causing 96 deaths and 329 injuries. This is a nearly 40% increase over the first six months of 2024, according to data from the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.
Show your work.
In the first six months of 2025, more than 520 plots and acts of terrorism and targeted violence occurred,
I’m reminded of that list of “374 school shootings” that circulated a few years ago. It included things like school cops firing the guns by accident, gang members killing one specific person for gang-related reasons, and an ex-teacher shooting himself in his car in the parking lot at night.
I’m guessing a huge amount of those “terrorist plots” were underground groups comprised of 9 FBI agents and one lonely disaffected man who they goaded into detonating a fake bomb.
I just had a longtime friend text me Friday evening about the shooting saying that it was deserved because his rhetoric has created situations like ICE grabbing people off the streets. I said that no one deserves to get shot nor have their kids witness them getting shot simply because their opinions are distasteful to some.
His response was that the time to play nice is over and people like him need to suffer the consequences for their rhetoric. I didn’t even respond.
My wife deleted her Facebook and has severed contact with many old acquaintances, friends, and family over this.
I haven’t bothered to open LinkedIn, but I’m sure it’s a cluster right now. It’s the only social I have linked to my real name. I did end up deleting X because it was such a dumpster fire.
Your friend could light a continent with that level of projection.
I have just started saying “that is the same thing that MLK’s killers thought.”
At least it shuts them up for a second or two.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/teacher-suspended-after-forcing-10-year-olds-repeatedly/
Oh, 🇨🇦, never mind.
Those who study political violence say the current moment looks similar to the US in the 1960s, when assassins killed John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr amid a time of massive social change and backlash. But two key differences make this era more dangerous: social media and widespread availability of very lethal weapons, said Amy Pate, the acting director and executive director at START.
They just blurt out the first thing that comes into their heads.
widespread availability of very lethal weapons
What kind of firearms are available to civilians nowadays that were not available in the 1960s?
What changes in the gun laws have created this allegedly-new “widespread availability”?
The semiautomatic rifles look scarier these days.
🤔 The semiautomatic rifle of the 1960s civilian market… I’m guessing milsurp Garands. That’s a bit more of a punch than an Armalite.
What kind of firearms are available to civilians nowadays that were not available in the 1960s?
What changes in the gun laws have created this allegedly-new “widespread availability”?
GCA ’68 ended importation of “non-sporting purpose” firearms, i.e. most military surplus.
FOPA ’86 partially lifted that restriction.
The fucking Gaurdian. Hey commie shitbirds, you are a british paper. Mind your own fucking business. Your opinion about what we do here iin the US means jack shit.
We are fully aware of your contempt for inalienable rights.
“a rise in political violence in the US”
List of incidences?
“social media and widespread availability of very lethal weapons”
Neither is a new thing.
They are trying to tie the imaginary rise in political violence where one incident with an 80 year old bolt action rifle was used to goose a push for gun control.
You cant have our guns. Go take a helicopter ride.
Widespread? I have a 1906 Sears catalog . Lots of lever action rifles and revolvers that anyone could buy if they had the money. No permit from the sheriff or Mom and dad or psychiatrist needed.
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How was the bra section in the 1906 catalog?
+1 My Life As a Dog
His response was that the time to play nice is over and people like him need to suffer the consequences for their rhetoric.
Righteous moral certitude is a scary thing.
Him and his younger sister both work in DC and are whores for the state. His sister worked for the Biden Administration and now a lobbyist for the MIC.
I remember having lunch with him and his friends at some DC restaurant and the disdain they had for the general public and their arrogance were astounding.
“the disdain they had for the general public and their arrogance were astounding.”
This is not the first time I have heard this. In fact I have heard that from everyone I have known that has been around those people. Especially congressional aides.
My neighbor (rest in peace) used to host a beer-drinking get-together, and one of the guys who came there was some kind of bigwig of building inspections in a moderately large city nearby. It’s odd because he was a nice guy and told a lot of funny jokes, but sometimes he’d go on these rants where he’d talk so disdainfully about the people applying for permits and variances. It was pretty clear he thought they were just fucking cockroaches and they should tremble in fear before him.
Sounds like the average military service member Ed.
Taurus: 4 of Swords reversed – Wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament.
See, this is fantastic. I’m gonna look at my financial situation carefully, and just jgo nuts with it, but I’m gonna be *smart* about it all, so it’s all gonna work out. Things only don’t work when they don’t go *exactly* my way, which is like, all the time. So there. And here.
Seems Blue’s base is primarily made of non-binary tauruses and taurxi who think such.
Prevention programs can assess risk factors – a breakup, a termination, unaddressed trauma, access to harmful online social networks, access to weapons – and seek to intervene. Pate advocates for a public health approach to the crisis that provides people who are vulnerable with off-ramps to prevent violence, which can include counseling services or treatment for substance abuse.
Researchers that tracked some of these online networks have been targeted by Republicans, who have claimed their work runs counter to free speech. Resources that focused on this tracking have been diverted to other places, Pate said.
Tempting as it is, I don’t think I want to see politics turned into a “public health” issue. Especially on the Soviet model.
I don’t think I want to see politics turned into a “public health” issue
Why not? Don’t you remember how well Public Health ™ has performed in recent history?
His response was that the time to play nice is over and people like him need to suffer the consequences for their rhetoric.
The sorting hat is doing its job.
This guy goes onto the list.
This is why I don’t want anyone kicked off social media for this. If someone wants to show their true colors, good. Thanks for letting the rest of us know what a dark, sick heart you have. I’ll be sure to stay away, and if they do anything violent, we’ve got a paper trail.
The funny part is they are shocked that they are getting ostracized and sometimes fired for it. Surprise, this is no longer 2024 and there is no longer a political establishment in power that will cover for you.
I’ve been having a bad time with the Kirk assassination. I’ve reached point where I want to see retribution. I want to see people in orange jumpsuits and belly chains waiting for arraignment.
I’ve been in a funk most of the week and I am right now. I’ve had to revisit a lot of my beliefs. Not really changed, but challenged. I am anti death penalty, mostly because it’s too easy for an innocent person to slip through the cracks. This week my first instinct was, bring it on.
Same with freedom of speech. Is this cancel culture? Maybe? Do I really care right now?
That’s the danger right now. People like us are fed up, and it would be easy to take things too far.
I’m of the opinion that social media platforms kick no one off.
And allow no one to delete or edit their posts past simple spelling and grammar errors.
Thanks for the earworm:
You may put him on the list, you may put him on the list…
and let the punishment fit the crime.
So, what is going to happen if the left loses big in the mid-terms? Lose again in 2028? Will they lose their shit and go all in on trying to start a hot civil war?
Question #2: Why are other countries so concerned about gun control in the US? It hasnt been that long…under Obama?…that the UN was pushing for gun confiscation in the US that they would administer. That is not the only US domestic policy they have wanted to dictate but I do remember them going after the bill of rights specifically.
Because we are too much of a wildcard in relation to their corrupt apple cart. A more contained and compliant polity would give them the warm fuzzies of not needing to worry.
#1: If the Left wants to start a civil war, they would really need control of the FedGov and all those armed men. And judging from the enlisted men I’ve met, it’s not really a given that they would take orders that came down from a Leftist administration to attack the right-wing, blue collar types of people like them (enlisted ranks are disproportionately filled with Southerners and other rural people). But I was never in the military and don’t know the culture and psychology of following bad orders, so I dunno.
Other than that, I don’t think the Left can muster enough armed men to really kick off a nationwide violent conflict. The Charlie Kirk assassination was so surprising just because it’s so unusual that an American leftist owns a gun and knows how to use it.
#2: Probably a sense of snobbish superiority combined with a desire for one-world government. Just like junkies developing tolerance and needing more intense stuff to get their thrill, the powerful always want more power. Ruling over a nation-state is good for a while, but eventually it won’t do it for them anymore. The next step is supra-national bodies like the EU and UN, and possibly the whole world.
They don’t like that there’s this incredibly rich and productive country that cannot be gobbled up. Furthermore, the “gun behind every blade of grass” means that any invasion would be a very, very Pyrrhic victory, if not an absolute humiliation.
This is not as true as it used to be.
That was never true. It doesn’t take millions of expert warriors to start a low level terroristic civil war. It takes no more than a few dozen people willing to set off a pipe bomb, dump poison in a subway, or snipe at high profile targets. And once that is ongoing all bets are off.
My unit (support) would have largely shot crowds of unarmed citizens.
They by a large margin hated civilians and saw themselves as the building inspector up thread.
They are like cops, they know where their paycheck comes from and know that they can’t make it without Uncle Sam feeding them.
The left knows that the state will back them up and be their lethal arm if and when the right retaliates.
@Threedoor from the dead thread “I regularly CC a Mauser” – is that a Mauser in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?
Wife, like the media, was speculating about that rifle and how it was carried, concealed etc so I got the identical rifle and let her hold it.
It does not disassemble easily, it is heavy and long.
At least one purported video of the assassin walking onto campus showed him walking with an awkward gate, and it appeared he was sneaking the rifle in by concealing it down one leg of his pants.
Remember when the Obama admin nixed the re-importation of M1 Garands from South Korea because he didn’t want them “dumped in inner cities” to be used in gang crimes? Like the Crips and Bloods are going to just slip that rifle under their hoodie and walk around?
Yes Akira, I do remember, and a shit ton of 1911’s as well.
Both.
Just sayin’, we should not execute Tyler Robinson. First, we dont need a martyr. Second, life in prison being Bubba’s bitch is far worse than death.
I don’t know what the right thing is. Successful RICO cases, jail time, and reclaiming universities from communism would be nice.
I’d like Tyler put in stocks for people to throw garbage at for the rest of his life. Killing him would make him a martyr for the retard crowd.
Good list. I’d add, somehow make people accountable for the lies, hoaxes, and extreme rhetoric that is brainwashing the left. They all know what they are doing. They push things right up to the edge, then when something like this happens, they deny responsibility because “I didn’t TELL someone to shoot those evil Nazi fascists who will end democracy and throw you in jail for being gay.”
If we live in a sane world, that will happen with a seismic shift in the Overton window. Once marxists are seen as the dangerous, brain damaged individuals they are instead of productive members of society we might just find a use for all those mental hospitals Trump keeps talking about.
Related:
Stochastic Terrorism
I think he would like bubba.
I’m not-so shocked to see Bill Maher rag on the Left for celebrating Kirk’s death. He’s been leaning a bit, and though I still remember his own nastiness, I’ll take any turn for the better.
Thought: Is that what’s needed to turn this shit, Blue figures outing the deranged majority of his own team? It would help, but I don’t see it happening en masse, especially not now. It hurts to be first through the wall. And now?.. uh. The formerly Useful Idiots have terrified their own figures out of showing the masses the ‘light.’ Yep. No instances of that occurring in history. Nosireebob.
I s’pose what gives me most ‘comfort’ is the ‘Right’ being *far* better armed. But far more polite, less willing to use force, to begin with. That’s an unfun line in the sand, but all said ‘n done, I’m pleased I align with the 2nd Amendment folk.
Yes, that’s needed to happen for a long time. The far left crazies have had the megaphone, and then the power, in the Democrat party, and the rest of the party is afraid of them. The moment Hillary stopped trying to court the working class and called them “deplorables” was telling. The party had shifted to a new base.
It is telling that the people with the most guns, and a President in office who allegedly looks the other way when they misbehave, aren’t killing anyone. Like I said, we are in a far different country than we were last year. I hope “normal” people are noticing the difference.
Same with freedom of speech. Is this cancel culture? Maybe? Do I really care right now?
As somebody already pointed out, we’re bombarded by stuff no sane or civilized person would say face to face, due to the very real possibility of getting knocked on his ass.
In principle I oppose punishing people, even in the private sector, for political statements. But cheering the murder of an entirely peaceful guy, in front of his wife and toddlers, because you don’t like his beliefs is more than a political statement, and it definitely raises valid concerns for an employer when their employees are effectively calling for open season on half the country. But more importantly than this navel gazing argument about principles; I think that getting the scum saying these things fired is redirecting what was likely to be a violent response into a reasonably peaceful, and probably effective in persuading the less vehement Democrats and Independents, activity.
“I’m happy this person died, he deserved it, and here is a list of other people I want shot” is a far cry from “I don’t think this vaccine works” or “That politician is lying.”
I have always been for punishing people in the public sector.
I do not want my labor goi g to support that that want me dead.
See unions.
Wife is saying everyone is getting Charlie Kirk syndrome: that is realizing that there is no compromising, being polite or candy coating things anymore. She is seeing a lot of people finally telling the truth without regard to how it will be received: the truth is the truth.
Maybe that shitbird leftist who finally admitting being wrong about trannys in women’s sports is an example of it.
I definitely feel the shift. People have lost patience. They want to play for keeps? Fine. So do we. And it won’t take the form of rioting, looting, or some other temper tantrum.
This. After a day at church, the general feeling was “I hope we can figure out how to respond to this without destroying our own dignity in the process.”
If there’s any question in anybody’s mind, the Christians see Kirk as a Christian martyr, killed for his applied faith.
The less christian online haunts I occasion seem to be gearing up for arrests at the least and physical conflict if the arrests don’t come. Whether that’s bluster or real, I dunno. I’m guessing more bluster than not.
I’m listening to 99 Luftballoons. The translation from German is quite a bit darker than the English version. I like it.
Ninety-nine ministers of war
Matches and petrol canisters
Regarded themselves as clever people
Already on the scent of a hunt
They shouted, “War,” and wanted power
Man, who would have thought?
That someday it would come this far
Because of ninety-nine balloons
Ninety-nine years of war
Left no place for winners
War ministers don’t exist anymore
Neither do the fighter jets
Today, I stroll around
See the world in ruins
I’ve found a balloon
I think of you and let it fly
What? You thought it was an upbeat song about baloons setting off the nuclear apocalypse?
The 80’s in Germany were a lot different than the 80’s in the US.
Last day before my weekend, and I’m pleased my ‘Fridays’ are the most chill days at work. No Boss-boss, and weary customers at their office rather than rummaging for supplies in ours. Blissfully clear aisles.
Hope your real Monday goes as well as my fake one, which totally identifies as a Friday so ya know it’s true. Well. I do have the next two days off, and I think a mission to Michigan to skirt the WoD is a good way to fully meet my new ride. Onward and upward, troops.
HA! Showing its continued relevance, Colbert won an Emmy for some reason. That’s purposeful blindness. Yeesh. Read the room.
“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” won the award for best talk series for the first time, just months after learning it was being canceled.”