…and the confirmed predictions keep rolling in! Between the Glibs engagement, hookups with hotties, and the fishing fotos we have further proof that the stars never lie.*
What do we have for you this week? Well, as always, some things stay the same. The sun is still in Taurus, so that’s good for ranchers. We still have Mercury in Aries harshing everyone’s mellow and making my job harder. And we still have a retrograde Jupiter in Scorpio. But…

Celestial Ying-Yang
This week we have an odd alignment of that retrograde Jupiter with Sol and our own Terra Firma. That amplifies the Jovian effects out the celestial ying-yang. So it becomes more important to get a handle what Jupiter is actually doing as it’s spinning the wrong way through Scorpio. I think in this case, it’s crucial to get some context from the rest of the chart and how it relates to this. So as above, we’ve got the Mercury in Aries thing. This tension/ambivalence simultaneously makes our interpretation both easier and harder. It indicates that both of alternativeinterpretations will be true, but that we won’t be able to necessarily know how they are applying. The conclusions are:
- Your OCD is going to be worse than usual.
- You should spend some time focusing on your genitals.
- If you have the opportunity to cloister yourself with someone (actually two someones, see below) for said genital-focusing you should take it.
- Said time should involve “unnatural acts.”
Venus in Gemini indicates it’s a great time for three-way lovin’, twincest, and/or mirror use. Related to that, there is also an alignment of Venus with Sol and Mercury, so if this is your first time with said twins, take it. Actually, why would you need me to tell you to accept the offer of a threeway with a set of twins? What is wrong with you?
In non-hot-group-action signs, we have an addition to the sports betting signals that have been hanging out for a few weeks: the moon comes into conjunction with mars. This is a change sign, so if you’ve been lucky betting on a particular team, this week they will let you down.
Tarot update: I suck at image editing, and I’ve been busier than something that is extremely busy in folksy analogies. If there is anyone out there who is competent and enjoys this sort of thing, let me know.
There is a reason the Rider-Waite deck is so popular: it’s got a ton of detail to fixate on and inspire drug-assisted mental connections. So sometimes (barring the intervention of actual artists) I’ll be just adding things onto existing cards, like so:
So here, it’s a simple matter of replacing the scepter with a banhammer and adding Her initials to the shield. We get to keep the reclining position, the crown of stars, etc. that are used for interpretation cues.
While I do like R-W, it seems more appropriate for The Tower to use one from The Cthulu Mythos Tarot:
Of course, this brings up a good question: How do we communicate the glibness of the Arcana? The SPempress is relatively easy, as is The Sun, Reversed:

Hello, Rufus!
But for SF, should we use the current hedobot avatar, or the earlier Snidely Whiplash? Hedobot with a Snidely Whiplash mustache?
If anyone has a preference how they are to be represented, please let me know, or better yet, send me the artwork. Honestly, an actual photo of Yusef with a bindle walking along the edge of a wall at Slab City would be AWESOME.
the Glibs engagement
Whaaa?
Venus in Gemini indicates it’s a great time for three-way lovin’, twincest, and/or mirror use
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to list when it isn’t a great time for above?
You should spend some time focusing on your genitals.
I highly doubt a shot at twins, so manscaping it is.
Well, not with that attitude.
I already spend time focusing on my genitals. Do you want me to spend *more*?
The trick to cultivating repeat clients is to give them advice they were already inclined to take.
Now that I have progressive lenses, I actually can focus on my genitals.
Hey Q! You’re late! We need twins.
Twins, and beer
I think the photo that would fit me, since I suggested last time I could be The Hermit, would be a stock photo of a man alone in a movie projection room with a shaft of light from where the projector is hitting the dusty air.
Like this, only without Gloria Swanson.
I only ban the deserving. I’m not sure it should be my primary symbol of identity. I am, after all, exceedingly, even supremely, tolerant of most of the Glibertariat.
This saintly forebearance continues to astound us too.
Which is why The Empress is reclining. If she were a ban-happy figure, she would be standing.
UCS gets a blank (matte, not gloss) card in the tarot deck.
Well, the primary symbol is the woman. In order to distinguish it from all the other women (Liberty, Justice, Columbia, etc.) you add the attributes (such as Justice’s scales, sword and blindfold). For The Empress, the attributes are the diadem, the scepter, the shield and the couch.
The scepter is redundant with the crown of stars, and a hammer is funny (see Looney Tunes, et. al.)
I thought your primary feature is being an eleven-year-old coder.
I know I’m at a Dead thread, but I’ll see what I can do for the Fool and send it along
I tried my hand with smoking pork belly this weekend and I will be doing it again and again. I sliced the slab into thirds and tried different rubs. Smoked with Apple Wood and a small hot of hickory.
Slab One: Basic Texas Rub…salt and pepper.
Slab Two: Sweet and Spicy Rub.
Results were great. Smoked both to 203 degrees and wrapped them to let them rest for 2 hours. They were divine. Melt in your mouth tacos were made from slab two.
Slab One is going to be used for pork belly BLTs in the future that is today.
That sounds great. I live in an area where I have never seen pork belly in the meat coolers. I know it is big in other regions and have had it on other continents but in my area you are out of luck in the retail markets as far as I can tell. I might just not be looking hard enough though. I am getting ready to chuck a 34ish hour sous vide brisket in the smoker as soon as it cools down a bit more.
It was at Sam’s Club. Your Brisket can come by my house and be enjoyed if needed.
Sams is where I got the brisket. I didn’t look around much as I was on a mission and it was fri evening and shopping was delaying my drinking. Our Sams now carries Prime brisket for 3 fiddy a pound. Grocery stores around sell choice for 5 if you can even find it. Ridiculous prices. I will look into if our Sams carries pork belly thanks.
Nice buy. My wife wasn’t a fan of pork but that was her upbringing of overcooked hard as a rock chops. I have shown her the light…if you know what I mean
I cure and smoke my own bacon. I’ll never buy it at the store again.
I am headed down that path. I’m not sure I will ever buy store bacon again
Storebought stuff cannot compare with even a halfway experienced home cook.
One day in 2009, I decided to try my hand at making bread. As soon as I took a bite of that first baguette, it was all over – I never bought a loaf of bread at the store again.
I’ve hot-smoked tasso ham, Canadian bacon, and my homemade sausages, and they were all amazing.
smoke my own bacon
These euphemisms.
Hey, if you could, you know that you would.
What was Slab 3? Don’t leave me hanging like G.R.R. Martin! WHAT WAS SLAB 3?
Frozen. Haven’t decided what yet to do with it. I am thinking though to smoke it, then fry it up to prepare it for some homemade Ramen.
I just don’t know yet. You were the only one that wondered about slab 3 though
I figured if you were too embarrassed by the outcome of Slab 3, I’d let you keep your secret.
It was [REDACTED].
The trick to cultivating repeat clients is to give them advice they were already inclined to take.
Well, to be honest, women really do find me mysterious and fascinating.
Now Ghouliani’s gruesome grimace is plastered all over the news. I’m beginning to think his nonsensical jabbering about the hush money is a gambit hatched by Team Trump to muddy the waters to the point where nobody will be able to decipher the truth. That, and he (Ghouli) loves him some teevee time.
Someday we’re going to unleash Deblasio on the rest of the world and you’ll look back fondly on Giuliani just like we do.
I only ban the deserving. I’m not sure it should be my primary symbol of identity. I am, after all, exceedingly, even supremely, tolerant of most of the Glibertariat.
So you might take umbrage at the thought of being portrayed as a headsman?
Well, that looks gruesomely cool.
Based on your advice last month, I got a copy of “Data and Goliath”. I started it this morning while soaking up sun and drinking, and Im about 1/3 done (other chores intervened).
Truly frightening. Thanks for recommending it.
You’re welcome. I like to share my paranoia.
Someday we’re going to unleash Deblasio on the rest of the world and you’ll look back fondly on Giuliani just like we do.
Ouch. That’s just mean.
Oddly enough, I was just reading a big article about Cynthia Nixon and Andy Cuomo on Business Insider. Mostly about real estate lobbyists, and inside
baseballDemocratic Party politics. My takeaway is that this ninny washed up actress is apparently unaware of the existence of the greater State of New York, and believes herself to be running for governor of NYC. Everything she wants to do appears to be solely focused on the Five Boroughs and a few surrounding counties.That’s true on NYC in general.
Of or for, not on. Lousy auto-correct.
My wife wasn’t a fan of pork but that was her upbringing of overcooked hard as a rock chops.
That’s what the applesauce is for.
This is so accurate it’s scary. I actually did go to the horse track yesterday and bet money! Time to find some twins!