Hah! More Christmas Music! Really though, it’s interesting to hear the less-produced version where attractive women are trying to sing English without being able to speak it. I guess leather straps are currently in fashion?
I could give you the standard weekly readings, but let’s instead take this time to look at where the skies are on January 1 2026, in the expectation that it will shed some insight on the Year To come.
The Sun – It’s in Capricorn. It’s always in Capricorn on New Years, that’s how cycles lasting one year (like the Zodiac) work. Therefore it’s useless for predicting anything. Don’t @ me about precession. The inner planets are likewise constrained by that whole “orbit between the Earth and the Sun” thing so they are low value in absolute oracular terms but do have some potential in combination with other planets not named Mercury or Venus.
The Moon – Waxing, in Gemini. The Moon is NOT on the same cycle as the Sun which is why (((holidays))) keep moving around the calendar. So in this case, we can read meaning into 2026 from this. Waxing = good, or more or growth. Gemini = The Twins, so duplication/duplicity/deception/two-facedness which then refers to Janus for whom January is named (but January is actually Capricorn and Aquarius, ‘cuz Romans were shitty astrologers). The idea of duplicity/betrayal is revealed by their mother (Leda) conceiving the twins with two different… entities. However Castor and Pollux were devoted to each other despite having different fathers, so this can also represent increasing concord between differing parties. So more change than usual, but generally for the good. I like this sign.
Mercury – In Sagittarius (the Archer). 2026 will be a good year for shooting fast. I like this sign. There’s also some blah blah about prophecy and medicine, but since in my mind medicine + pokey things + mercury = vaccines, I don’t want to speculate further on that symbology.
Venus/Mars – Conjoined in Capricorn. Since Venus can’t wander too far from the sun zodiac-wise, that’s not saying much. Being with Mars however, does. Like I’ve mentioned before, the two of these together was considered by ye olde scientists to be fulfillment/perfection/the natural order in balance, and all of those good things. Capricorn, the sea-goat might have been a nymph, or Pan, or a crocodile, but in all cases except for the crocodile explanation, the half-and-half form doesn’t represent transformation (like we need another change sign in astrology) but adaptation. It’s a story of doing what it takes to succeed.
Jupiter – Retrograde, in Cancer. I do not like this sign. Cancer, I mean. Well, and also the meaning of “Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer.” I don’t know the story behind “Rak,” but the zodiac crab was just some unusually large crustacean that Hercules squished because Hera was being a bitch. Then she put her failed seafood spoiler up into the sky. Very lame. Jupiter retrograde is misrule, jokes that don’t land, things turning out to be less valuable than the appear. Also very lame. The most optimistic way of looking at this would be to say there’s a shitty ruler, but he wastes time/effort on stupid things, so… yay?
Saturn – In Pisces. Pisces is basically the same myth as Capricorn (changing into an aquatic form to GTFO of Typhon’s rampage) but it also incorporates the duality aspect of Gemini. Saturn is literally the same guy as Chronos, who is again the same old guy you’ll see holding the hourglass and scythe with sash reading “2025” this week. At best, this means an end to deceit for gain, at worst a family enriching themselves at the expense of others and/or a decline in fishing.
Same band, same babes, fewer clothes.
Holy reversed cards Batman!
Capricorn: Strength reversed – Despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, disgrace.
Aquarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.
Pisces: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, the crowd, body politic.
Aries: The World reversed – Inertia, fixity, stagnation, permanence.
Taurus: The Empress reversed – Light, truth, the unravelling of involved matters, public rejoicings, vacillation.
Gemini: 5 of Coins reversed – Disorder, chaos, ruin, discord, profligacy.
Cancer: 4 of Wands reversed – A card so nice it can’t be made bad by being reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
Leo: Ace of Coins reversed – The negative sides of wealth.
Virgo: 7 of Cups – Daydreams, lies, bogosity.
Libra: The Hierophant – Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude, mercy and goodness, inspiration.
Scorpio: 9 of Wands – Defense, strength in opposition, delay, suspension, adjournment.
Sagittarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
The negative sides of wealth.
Women like the ones in your videos will think the wealth is fake and have nothing to do with me.
Shit.
Sagittarius: King of Coins reversed – Vice, weakness, ugliness, perversity, corruption, peril.
New Year’s Eve at the casino?
As long as the power doesn’t go out.
I am imagining 1,000 blue haired old ladies screaming, not where’s the beef, but what are the odds!
Virgo: 7 of Cups – Daydreams, lies, bogosity.
Well, I am off all week. But I have a shit-pile of “annual training” I need to complete by 12/31 at 11:59pm
I am surprised no one has had an AI handle that yet.
Its web-based video module things….not sure you could get an AI into it. But what do I know?
One of the other managers found some hacks like playing at 2X speed, or some just let you skip to the test.
Well, you have to interface with it (space docking?), so a program should be able to do what you are doing, no?
It shouldn’t be any different than running a search program.
I have a shit-pile of “annual training” I need to complete by 12/31 at 11:59pm
Or you turn into a pumpkin?
“ Cancer: 4 of Wands reversed – A card so nice it can’t be made bad by being reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.”
I’ve got your wand…right here…
Sounds like I’m in for some good times this week. Giggity.
There was this cute waitress at First Watch this morning who was giving me the eyeball. Wonder if she like to shoot?
“ Wonder if she like to shoot?”
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
We hit First Watch when I was in North Carolina this summer. I was favorably impressed.
There are a couple of them around here. Not bad.
If driving north, First Watch in Johnson City, TN has become our regular first stop for breakfast. Helps that the gas there is cheap.
For a franchised breakfast place, First Watch is solid. Try the Carne Asada breakfast tacos.
Ah, they’re opening one on Boylston Street downtown. That’ll do well.
Cancer: 4 of Wands reversed – A card so nice it can’t be made bad by being reversed – prosperity, increase, felicity, beauty, embellishment.
I am buying a lottery ticket it better wi
Today in idiots in cars i s’pose good horoscope for em
https://x.com/Nocapmedia/status/2005009244589007293
Why did it take an entire year for Taurus to catch a break?
“Aquarius: 3 of Swords reversed – Mental alienation, error, loss, distraction, disorder, confusion.”
It isn’t a prediction if it describes everyday activity.
Today in idiots in cars i s’pose good horoscope for em
The screaming really makes it.
Totally NOT me when I spun-out in the snow on I-77 2 weeks ago.
SCIENCE
Planetary scientists remain flummoxed by the very existence of the closest planet to our Sun. This peculiar planet is tiny, 20 times less massive than Earth and barely wider than Australia. Yet Mercury is the second densest planet in our Solar System after Earth due to a large, metallic core that accounts for the majority of its mass.
Mercury’s orbit – hugging close to our Sun – is also in a weird location that astronomers can’t quite explain. All this ties together into one crucial point – we have no idea how Mercury formed. As far as we can tell, the planet simply shouldn’t exist.
“It’s kind of embarrassing,” says Sean Raymond, an expert in planetary formation and dynamics at the University of Bordeaux in France. “There’s some key subtlety that we’re missing.”
The universe does not conform to the model. The universe is broken.
Weird. I thought it exactly conformed to our model. It is dense because the newly forming sun blew the lighter elements away in the gas and dust cloud that formed the sun and the planets. This is why the inner planets are rocks and the outer planets are icy gas balls.
The world has really, really changed in the last few years.
I am in the Duluth area for the holidays. You would think that a multi-billion dollar fraud would warrant wall-to-wall coverage. The entire state budget is only around $30 billion.
But no…. not all that much coverage. No reporters hounding the governor. No “special report” segments on the news.
They say up to $9 billion in fraud. That is a crazy number.
But the news has it as a mention.
Insane.
Look up PONick while you’re there. He a pretty good guy
Head 100 miles west and stop in and see some old people.
My wife is Gemini, I’m Cancer. Do I just enjoy my good fortune and ignore her horrible week? I need some card guidance.