IFLA: The “Not a Good Omen” Edition of the Horoscope for the Week of July 20

by | Jul 20, 2025 | IFLA | 32 comments

For Hayexplosives and any misguided Okie lurkers out there.

So… MERCURY RETROGRADE. It’s here again. Not what you want to have during a shooting match. Especially not coupled with Saturn retrograde. That gives us bad lead and bad mercury. If we get bad copper too it’s looking like all sorts of ammunition issues. Fortunately, Venus is staying in direct motion for a while so the competitors mostly have to worry about light primer strikes.

Monday is a good day for a date, Saturday is a good day to lounge in the bomb shelter if you’ve got it fully stocked.

Cancer: 6 of Cups reversed – Old friends will try and take advantage of you.

Leo: 8 of Coins reversed – Hard work wasted, or someone is working hard against you.

Virgo: 7 of Swords reversed – Someone makes up ridiculous bullshit against you, but it’s believed.

Libra: King of Wands reversed – STEVE SMITH PAY VISIT, METAPHORICALLY SPEAKING. MAYBE LITERAL.

Scorpio: Ace of Coins reversed – Diddy is probably not involved.

Sagittarius: King of Swords reversed – The police are not your friend.

Capricorn: The Chariot – Triumph, honors, a solution to every problem.

Aquarius: 4 of Wands – Happiness, contentment, especially at home.

Pisces: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration.

Aries: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality.

Taurus: 7 of Coins reversed – Cause for anxiety regarding money, especially investments.

Gemini: 8 of Wands – Great speed, great hope, love.

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32 Comments

  1. Shpip

    Pisces: Knight of Wands – Departure, absence, flight, emigration.

    Eerily accurate. I’m heading to Japan on Tuesday.

    • Fourscore

      Enjoy your pun, ooops, fun.

      How long?

      • Shpip

        My wife says that length doesn’t really matt… wait, what?

      • Pope Jimbo

        In the land of the rising son
        You’ll be the guy with a big one

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. Sun not son

      • PutridMeat

        Uffda. Sun not son

        Japanese tentacle incest porn?

  2. Tres Cool

    Immediately after reading this, my client for the local-ish job called and postponed a week’s worth of testing.
    What next?

  3. Tres Cool

    Those dirndl’s really take the wrinkles out of my love-sausage.

  4. CatchTheCarp

    Leo: 8 of Coins reversed – Hard work wasted, or someone is working hard against you.

    I was planning on doing as little as possible this week anyways…..

    • banginglc1

      Finally an excuse to not do anything!

  5. DEG

    Fortunately, Venus is staying in direct motion for a while so the competitors mostly have to worry about light primer strikes.

    These euphemisms.

    Hard work wasted, or someone is working hard against you.

    Sounds sufficiently shitty.

    The music selections were good.

  6. Sean

    “ Cancer: 6 of Cups reversed – Old friends will try and take advantage of you.”

    Oh, I hope so!

  7. Ted S.

    Gemini: 8 of Wands – Great speed, great hope, love.

    You didn’t predict that I was going to break a coffee mug.

    Thankfully, the mug was empty.

  8. Threedoor

    Virgo tracks.

    Main customer pissed at my bill, floating options to replace me and my equipment, rather than calling me and talking about it. Or offering to buy me out.

    Good luck getting two someone’s to work every weekend and holiday for the next twenty years.

  9. Evan from Evansville

    Taurus: 7 of Coins reversed, – Cause for anxiety regarding money, especially investments.
    Hey! I just got paid! And next Tuesday I’m meeting with my Official Vocational Rehab Dude for the first time.

    Sighting of the Day: A mid-teen boy was with his ~4yo bro, mom and grandma. I was there but not at all involved, merely an observer. They were talking and trying to figuring out what to get to satisfy the youngest. Well. They were all signing it to each other. The oldest boy had somewhat of a voice, but the older women struggled and had strong ‘deaf’ accents. (They were sounding out the signs as best they could as they spoke.) If I gathered correctly, the youngest was kinda complaining cuz he wanted perhaps some specific dessert-thingy, and the family was working on some sort of compromise.

    The strangest and my favorite deaf-sighting was a pair kinda shouting at each other from ~50′, holding their hands aloft as they signed. It was like they were holding up big signs for the other to see over shopper traffic, flashing short sentences back and forth.

    • Ted S.

      So you were eavesdropping.

      • Evan from Evansville

        “So you were eavesdropping.” Oh, I was dropping as many eaves as I could.

        “Tune in, drop eaves *and* your stool with Ev this evening, right here on 103.3 WExLAX.”

  10. juris imprudent

    The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, Yeah, that’s not good… fatality. That’s really un-necessary.

  11. Evan from Evansville

    Oh! I did see a non-uniformed dude open-carrying today, for certainly the first time in the store, and most likely in Hamilton County.
    Things were as they should and nobody dreamed of caring.

  12. Gustave Lytton

    From ded thred, Grummun asked about RM43 for cut vines. That should work, just be careful with spills because it’s broad non-selective herbicide.

    I used Tordon RTU for poison oak, both on the leaf and cut stalks, and it’s very effective. Does have the possibility of soil contamination and is for woody plants, though.

  13. DEG

    PA Sunday hunting ban ends

    BELLEFONTE — After years of debate, Pennsylvania’s near-total ban on Sunday hunting is off the books thanks to a bipartisan push, an unlikely political advocate, and a key policy shift from the state’s farm lobby.

    The new law, signed last week by Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, gives the Pennsylvania Game Commission the authority to decide which Sundays to include when setting hunting season dates. It also includes penalties for hunters who trespass on private property.

  14. hayeksplosives

    “ Aries: The Devil – Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality.”

    Well, crud.

    • rhywun

      inorite?

      *stays in bed*

    • slumbrew

      “Ravage” may not be that bad, IYKWIMAITTYD.

      • hayeksplosives

        Well, boyfriend IS in town…

      • rhywun

        Isn’t that “ravish”…?

      • slumbrew

        Isn’t that “ravish”…?

        Not if you’re doing it right 😉

      • slumbrew

        (But, yes)

  15. hayeksplosives

    On the other hand, thanks much for the Oklahoma state trumpet link!

    That was great.