START NOTHING: 3:59 pm to 4:35 pm Sun., 7:51 am to 6:02 pm Tuesday., 2:43 pm to 7:06 pm Thurs., and 3 pm to 9:18 pm Sat.
(NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, AS BRITISH COLUMBIA HAS ABANDONED PACIFIC TIME, and will use Mountain Standard Time year-round. Pacific Daylight usually would end Nov. 1, but B.C. has rejected Pacific Standard, and will now run as Mountain Standard, year-round.)
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BTW, I don’t edit or proof my writing. In addition, I use Apple’s dictation app, which usually manages to insert the wrong word or phrase every 10 lines or so. (It thinks for itself, but it’s surprisingly stupid. For example, I just dictated “it thinks for itself,” which Apple changed to “it thanks for itself.” Like I said, rather stupid.) So please forgive any typos — they occur, courtesy of Apple, even when I type. (Also, Apple, likes to, insert, a comma, between, almost every, word. I try to correct these, but sometimes miss. It also Loves to Capitalize words Without Reason, here and There.)
WEEK AHEAD — SUN SIGNS:
As noted last week, the planet Venus is retrograde, and will stay that way until November 13. TAURUS and LIBRA will be most affected. In general, love slows down, or returns from the past.
Mercury retrogrades Saturday, October 24 to November 13. So DON’T start new projects now to mid-November. Acquaintances, ideas, projects, and communications from the past might now enter. Commit to nothing new.
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ARIES, the month ahead brings secrets and the need for investigation, strong sexual lures, big financial and lifestyle questions. But take no significant action, make no commitments in these areas. On the bright side, the weeks ahead will be filled with relationship pleasantries – even significant relationship openings if it concerns a person from the past. Early week focusses on money – be careful Monday, buy nothing. Midweek is for communications and paperwork and casual friends — all is good. Head for home Friday/Saturday. Watch temper Friday.
TAURUS, four weeks of relationships, opportunities/agreements, opposition/argument, public appearances and relocation themes begin now. One rule through November 13: ONLY deal with people, opportunities, etc. that are from the past – new ones will fail sooner or later. You’re full of energy and charisma early week — but avoid arguments. Collect money, buy/sell midweek — good luck, ease accompany you. Friends, casual sex, errands Fri./Sat.
GEMINI, a month of work and health concerns has just begun. Usually, this would be a good time to buy machinery or appliances, but you should do nothing new and buy nothing important before November 14. You might want to revisit an old health concern to finally get a cure. The drudgery of the weeks ahead will be relieved by a sweet romantic atmosphere — and your gift of gab, which is already running strong this autumn. If you are looking, someone from the past is a winner; a brand new attraction will be a loser. Sunday is social early. Retreat to rest and contemplate Monday/Tuesday. Careful Monday – challenge no one. Midweek, your energy and charisma urge upward. Chase money but spend cautiously Fri./Sat.
CANCER, the month ahead fills you with creative ideas, romantic leanings, and the search for pleasure and beauty. All these will yield promising things if you are reacquainting yourself with the past, a past project or a past person. However, everything and anyone new will probably wilt, even disintegrate, after awhile. Your home/family will bring you joy and affection. Early week is ambitious and social – be careful Monday, when socializing could mean fighting. Retreat to rest and contemplate mid week. Your energy and charisma shoot skyward Fri.Sat. (But that Friday idea/meeting might be a dud.)
LEO, the weeks ahead feature your home, family, real estate, security, and basic things such as food and TP. You will not be a hermit, though, as many pleasant meetings will take place. You might also travel to visit former haunts. Commit to nothing before November 14. Early week turns thought into ambition – but remember nothing new and no commitments. Be very cautious Monday – allies scatter, and bigwigs turn on the power. Mid week is happy, social, even romantic. Retreat Fri./Sat. — rest, contemplate, seek advice. Do not make long-range plans. In the weeks ahead, you will be more assertive and determined than usual – be careful, Leo, look far down the road before acting.
VIRGO, you face several weeks of messaging, travel, casual friends, and paperwork — most of this will emerge from or concern the past. (The “brand new” here will likely be a non-starter.) Be very careful with these (and with legal matters) Monday. Generally, early week is good for intellectual, travel, legal, media, and love involvements. Be ambitious midweek – the aspects favour you. Friday/Saturday are for socializing, groups, flirting, and playfulness. Ignore a person who wants to argue Friday.
LIBRA, your high energy month has ended, but you still remain in a good place emotionally and physically. (Yes, you’ll be indecisive, but you can live with that.)The weeks ahead will focus on money, earnings, spending, and perhaps casual sex. Brand new actions, commitments and projects here will likely fail, but those that return from the past could contain very viable “life.” Early week is sexy, secretive, and features, finances, investments, sex, and lifestyle choices — beware Monday. Midweek is gently loving, intellectual, and might involve you in legal, travel, media or religious activities. Friday/Saturday is for home, kids, security, real estate, etc.
SCORPIO, you’re the star for the next four weeks. Your energy and charisma will be at a peak. Unfortunately, this won’t do you any good if you start a new relationship, project or major purchase before November 14. Until then, welcome people and projects from your past – one of them might have something special for you. Now to November’s end, higher ups can be temperamental, impulsive, and not really on your side. So be cautious — in relationships also, Monday and Friday. Otherwise, this week runs pretty smoothly. Early week, you are ambitious and relationship oriented. Midweek piques your curiosity: sex, assets, surgery or a lifestyle change is top of mind. All’s favourable. Gentle love, far travel, media, law and intellectual pursuits. Call you Friday/Saturday. Be cautious early Friday.
SAGITTARIUS, take a nice long rest over the four weeks ahead. Rest, contemplate, examine your past and how you got here, seek advice, and handle overdue government related chores. But don’t make medium or long range plans – they’ll probably change. Before November 14, avoid starting any important relationship or project. These are great weeks for research. You might start Sunday, feeling romantic, but soon chores call you, into Tuesday. Eat, dress, sensibly. Relationships, agreements, relocation themes – these enter midweek with a minor helping of good Fortune. Secrets, sexual temptations, major finances, investigation Friday/Saturday. Be cautious the first half of Friday.
CAPRICORN, a month of fun, flirting, socializing, of wishful thinking, optimism and confidence, of enjoying the little lucky turns of daily life. It will be a great time to invite people from your past — maybe have one great blowout party! But until November 14, don’t bother to embrace new groups or apply for admission to anything, don’t start a new love affair, don’t even make new wishes. All these, if they link to the past, can be very successful. (Even past wishes can come true now.) Early week is romantic, creative and pleasure oriented. But be very cautious Monday, when everyone is feeling out of joint. Tackle chores mid week — you’ll succeed. Eat, dress sensibly. Friday/Saturday is for relationships – be diplomatic Friday.
AQUARIUS, the four weeks ahead focus on your ambitions, prestige relations, worldly standing, and involvement with authorities. DO NOT start projects (nor new relationships nor major purchases) before Nov. 14. Until then, viable projects and good relationships might return from the past. Your past performance might be examined. (If you did well, you’ll be rewarded in December.) This week has two rough spots: Monday, when domestic problems could overwhelm, and Friday, when work, machines, health need “realistic caution.” Otherwise, early week is domestic — take a rest. Midweek promotes romance, beauty, creativity — and all is favourable! (But remember, a brand new relationship won’t survive.) Friday/Saturday bring chores, health “signals.”
PISCES, the weeks ahead promote intellectual progress, far travel, law, religion, media, and gentle love. However, don’t start anything new in these areas (or generally in any area) before November 14. Anything born now to November 13 will be like a plant that got too much water: it will collapse on itself. But someone from the past MIGHT be exactly what you want or need. Early week is friendly and filled with errands or paperwork. Be very careful Monday, speak little and observe rather than getting involved. Midweek is for home, children, security, real estate, and a quiet rest. All is well, all is beneficial! Friday/Saturday brings romantic notions, beauty, pleasure, and a creative urge. But take care the first half of Friday, when rejection seems to be in the air.
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AFTERWORD:
Food – the media reports that the Houthi army is 300,000 strong. 300,000 men without meals for seven days are not going to be much of an army. So cut off their food supply. Even better cut off their water supply. (Of course, as usual, they won’t follow my advice.)
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I don’t know how far back the Adam and Eve story goes. In biblical timing, Eve didn’t bit that applel around 4500 years ago. (Or was that 4500 years before Christ? It would take me hours to look at my notes so I’ll leave it up to you. Such timing, I’m sure, is rejected by historians.)
The point of the story/fable is that seeking knowledge is bad and leads to evil. And to give them their due, Catholics and other Christian sects have practised this very assiduously.
Is it possible that the story of Adam and Eve, discouraging the pursuit of knowledge, emerged around the time early civilization was at a crossroads? To be relevant, it would have to be a crossroads between sticking with traditional values and paradise (early Republicans) – or pursuing the unknown, new knowledge (early Democrats). The fable calls this pursuit evil.
This is too easy a slam at the Democrats, and at knowledge. It would be hard to argue that knowledge has brought us evil and unhappiness. The pursuit of knowledge has brought us every machine imaginable, luxuries from around the world, preservation of food, longer living, easier lives, intricate and astounding medical knowledge, putting mankind on the moon.
That last one – men on the moon – feels like a statement of our aggression… Is this aggression , this ceaseless seeking of knowledge and technological advance really only leading us into the opposite of heaven? Perhaps it is already coming true: we see the vast beauty of life here on earth; but we also experience dark stretches, such as the hatred of Jews fomenting intimidation and violence everywhere; this hatred has even invaded the UN, and leaves it sick and weak as an organization. (The Nobel peace prize was awarded earlier this month to the head of the International Criminal Court, a woman, a Jew-hater who wants to throw Netanyahu into prison, and demands Israel give up the Gaza strip, Samaria and Judaea. This dog is carrying too many fleas.)
That’s the fear – that our knowledge-based species is leading us steadily but surely into a vale of pain and emotional hollowing out.
But who among us would cast off the easy, comfortable life knowledge has given us?
(Also see the last item below, wherein a biblical prophet foretells the end result of mankind’s knowledge seeking.)
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That thing about the timing of the Adam and Eve story:
All I know, being a terrible historian, is that it might have emerged around the time of some crucial turning point in humanities development. The only date we have is 4500 BC.
It is doubtful that the Egyptians were aware of or would believe in such a myth. The people who built the pyramids were not a society that banned knowledge. Also, the Egyptian religion would have easily repulsed exterior ideas/stories.
But outside the Egyptian empire populations were starting to coalesce. Buildings were being erected, and agriculture was developing. There was probably a great feeling for nature, and a great joy in nature, but much of this had existed for hundreds of centuries.
Languages were probably gaining in sophistication, and writing/recording symbols were being developed – proto alphabets. But with an expanding population came leisure for some, and learning to write can lead to new ideas – what the church would call knowledge – and could it be that one faction here – the dominating faction – decided that the pursuit of knowledge was evil (and politically threatening)?
I doubt that the story was created to try to keep a population in line and prevent them from pursuing knowledge; instead, like nursery rhymes and fairytales, the story of Adam and Eve, the snake and paradise – although why is a snake in paradise anyway? Has God put a snake in everyone’s paradise? So Adam and Eve seems to be more an encapsulated comment on the times than an “instruction.” Like “Jack and Jill went up the hill” might have been a comment on English politics at the time.
There are some subtexts going on with this fable. Eve is a woman. She is tempted by a snake, one symbol of a penis (also an occult symbol of wisdom). The snake promises her knowledge. So she bites, and the first thing she learns is that heaven isn’t forever, not to knowledge seekers.
This is actually a little reminiscent of the tower of Babel, in which the knowledge seekers and their towers were destroyed by heaven’s lightning. But it also is an odd reflection of the oedipus story — he could not see his lover was his mother. Just as Eve cannot see that the Apple is herself. Fleshy, plump, round, like breasts and vaginas. Not protuberant, like a man.
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To continue the biblical stuff around Adam and Eve:
Just as Oedipus was not aware that the woman he was taking to bed was his mother, so Eve, biting on the apple, might not be aware that she is biting on herself, on her soul. Biting, perhaps, her mother — who is herself because none preceeded Eve – eating herself so she can gain the knowledge of who she truly is, for her mother is her. She can gain not only self knowledge, but access to the great storehouse of knowledge her Apple/mother contains. There are sexual avenues here also, but I’m not exploring them.
In a Catholic view, the proper punishment for this would be the menstrual period. In a less constrained view, it would seem that Eve chose adventure, the adventure of learning, and of experiencing new things – such as the taste of an apple – over remaining in an eventually boring (because artificial) paradise. If paradise is filled with growing plants and beauty — and snakes — then it is no different than the Earth. And that’s why in this way, Adam and Eve frolicked in an artificial – or you might call it earthly – paradise. Nowhere in the Fable do they make their choice as incarnate beings in the afterlife or otherlife. They are definitely and specifically human beings, not spirits. nowhere are they granted psychic foresight. In other words, they were to make a choice based only on advice, with no interior conviction. It is obvious that the actors here are merely extensions of whoever is in control. Major questions of belief and faith enter at this point, but let’s leave them aside, maybe for a more energetic day.
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Relevant to the Eve/knowledge stuff: in the Old Testament, one of the prophets (Zeparia? Can’t remember, it’s a minor profit mentioned in my Bible article in “Platforms.”) — speaking for God, he said that when mankind can turn night into day, and escape the bounds of the Earth, God will retreat (benevolently) and let mankind have more and more rule over itself.
Surely we are at that point now. Probably more than 100 astronauts have been in space. Maybe a dozen have walked on the Moon. The space station alone carries multiple people for multiple months. And now Super Intelligence starts to blossom just when we might need it for star-bound journeys, Mars explorations/settlements, etc.
And the achievement of fusion will occur before 2040, allowing relatively tiny reactors and space engines that could last 2000 years, or to the limits that friction imposes. This is the energy that AI data centres need; it comes a little late, so now and in the near future Elon and his buddies will be depending on electricity. But by a decade or more from now they will either be kicking themselves, or building new, second generation data centres that run on the almost perpetual energy of fusion. These new data centres, because they have virtually no energy limitations, will flow into a second level of AI, whatever that might be. The most important time in AI is now.
The prophet says we will become first like priests and second like gods. So Eve’s sentence was not perpetual.
(BTW, notice that Eve and the apple are associated with knowledge, not Adam. A good thinker could have a field day with that.)