START NOTHING: Before 2:24 am Sun., 7:26 am to 2:19 pm Tues., and 6:46 pm to 10:52 pm Thurs.
NOTE: ALL TIMES ARE MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, AS BRITISH COLUMBIA HAS ABANDONED PACIFIC STANDARD TIME.
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ALL SIGNS: avoid over-optimism all November, but especially this week. Be a little cautious, skeptical, but still hopeful. What comes to you is good, but what you chase might dissolve.
WEEK AHEAD — SUN SIGNS:
ARIES, this is your last week of secrets, big finances, medical problems, research, and powerful sexual temptations. You can now go forward in these areas, as the phase of indecision, delays and mistakes ended November 13. Best days to do so are late week, Friday/Saturday. The only trouble is, these two days are the end of all these big financial, sexual and medical interests, so there’s not much time to watch anything. Even so, Friday/Saturday can be a good time to buy some stocks or investigate something. Earlier, Sunday through midday Tuesday is made for fun and frolic. Get out, join a group, flirt, make new friends, and make new wishes. A romance could blossom, but it might be a little too early, or it could be a romance behind which hides a subtle trap. Retreat midweek – rest, contemplate, seek advice and plan.
TAURUS, this is your last week of significant relationship developments. Now that mercury and Venus are direct in motion, you are free to make agreements, oppose somebody, make public appearances, relocate and form partnerships, whether temporary or lasting. All these might’ve been subjects of a decision (which might change) or indecision for you in the last few weeks. Sunday to midday Tuesday is a good time to get ambitious — especially if that ambition includes living in or moving to a prestigious neighborhood. For some of you, this could be a definite turn in your life. Midweek is for fun and celebration, group affairs, wishful thinking and optimism, flirting and happiness. Avoid a major fight – you probably can see it brewing, maybe over several days. Retreat Friday/Saturday — rest, seek advice, plan, future moves, and deal with government or large corporations – there is some lucky turn of events here for you; perhaps you enter a management level.
GEMINI, this is your last week of drudgery and health concerns. But it is also the first week that you can handle chores and health stuff in a decisive and effective way. If you want to buy tools or machinery, do so Friday/Saturday, when everybody is friendly and a “sharing mood” prevails. Earlier, Sunday to midday Tuesday is intellectual, enlightening, tolerant, and might help you with – or even present a major prize in – travel, communications, legal affairs, teaching, and media – and gentle love. You might watch a friend fall in love. Be ambitious mid week, but also be a little careful, as wrong opinions, disruptions, and even anger are sprinkled on everything. Yet you can advance too! Remember, don’t be overly optimistic this month, especially around the mid month period. Don’t let a casual comment or encouragement be taken as a commitment.
CANCER, indecision and delays are essentially over, I’ll go. You might still feel a bit indecisive for a week or so. But you can act now, you can plough forward, especially in romantic, creative, child raising and pleasure zones. Have fun now, as next week brings a month of work. The sexual and financial sides of life emerge quietly Sunday to midday Tuesday. This could be a very successful time in both areas — but make sure the intimacy is allowed, and the finances are understood. Mid week brings mental acuity, gentle love, and a wide, broadening vision – it’s a bumpy interval, but it ends well Thursday with male-female harmony. Be ambitious Friday/Saturday, when good luck or a money opportunity boosts your chances for success. Overall, don’t be too optimistic this month, especially around earnings, buying and selling, casual sex, and regular learning. There is good luck here, and the more ethical/moral you have been in the past, the greater your luck right now. In the eight months ahead, this play between luck and karma will continue.
LEO, read the last sentence of Cancer’s message: you, too, will be balancing or alternating between good luck and difficult karma for the better part of the year ahead. To increase your luck, increase your tolerance, acceptance of others, and your goodness — i.e., be ethical and moral. Before acting on anything of importance, consider others and what effect it might have on them. Also, look far down the road – say 10 years – and try to envision what long-term results your actions might have. Both these will dilute any bad karma. Right now and for the year ahead, basically, you are both the luckiest person in the zodiac, and in a sense the most punished for past actions. Watch Donald Trump: his flaws are your flaws and his virtues are yours also. Sunday to midday Tuesday offers relationship, relocation possibilities, public appearances, opportunities and opposition. Some of you will meet your future mate. For many of you, some kind of prize will hang on a branch – grab it! Mid week is filled with themes of sex, finances, commitment, and investigation. Generally, my advice would be to stay uncommitted, as quite a few bad aspects float around in this soup. You will love Friday/Saturday — deep thoughts, deep understandings, far travel, higher learning, media, law, and gentle love are all favoured.
VIRGO, the general trend is toward communications, short travel, paperwork and casual friendships. Next week, you will start a month of domestic activities, So handle any messages this week rather than later. Also, look at what you are saying or writing – think down the road, what effect will it have? Ask yourself this question before sending anything. Tackle chores and protect your house Sunday to midday Tuesday. You might hear a secret or receive a communication from the government or a large corporation – this might spell good fortune for you, perhaps involving money, ownership, home and children. (Could be pregnancy for hopeful couples.) Relationships loom large and significant midweek. The aspects are not good, so avoid argument, be cautious, but if necessary, stand up for yourself. Friday/Saturday brings secrets, investigation, lifestyle and medical questions, big finances, and strong sexual temptations. Your luck is good here, so do take advantage — invest, seek intimacy, make a dental appointment, etc.
LIBRA, this is your last week of strong focus on earnings, possessions, casual, sexual attractions, and education. It isn’t the easiest or the hardest week. Technically, a decision and delays ended November 13, so you are free to charge ahead with new projects. However, this being the end of the earnings influence, not much may be left to power a new project in this area. Remember, there is good luck in earnings for you now, but there are also traps, so go slow and cautiously. Sunday to midday Tuesday is powerfully romantic. You might even meet a new potential life mate. If so, this person is talkative and a live wire – almost never sits still. Good days also for creative projects, sports/games and teaching children. Tackle chores mid week. Eat and dress sensibly. This is your chance to push for more income. If so, I would leave the push until Thursday, because opposition rises before that. Friday/Saturday bring relationships and opportunities, fresh horizons, public appearances, and relocation themes. Both days are lucky and expensive, so choose your target and send your arrow straight that way.
SCORPIO, you are still in charge, still at the top of the heap, still the star of the show. And at last, that period of a decision, delays and mistakes ended November 13, so you are now free to fly ahead toward whatever goal you have set yourself. Actually, this is only in effect for a week, so you will have to fly soon or rest your wings. Sunday to midday Tuesday accents your home, family, real estate, and general security. Your luck is generally good here, and something big and financially lucky might occur in your job or career sector. If you see it, grab it! (This will be in effect more for Europeans and Western Asians.) Midweek rings romantic, creative, child, oriented, and pleasure bells. But your luck is very mixed, so proceed cautiously – everything comes to a good conclusion late Thursday. Tackle chores, Friday/Saturday. Eat, dress sensibly. You will accomplish a lot as this is a very productive interval.
SAGITTARIUS, my friend, you are still in isolationist mode. So rest, contemplate, examine your past, seek advice and make plans. (Throw out or revise any plans you made in the last four weeks.) Interact with the government if you must, but don’t enlarge anything – for example, if you receive a government contract, don’t try to expand it. Accept what is. Most important is deep rest, because next week starts a month of huge activity! Sunday to midday Tuesday brings errands, communications, casual friends and paperwork. It might also bring a message or meeting with a person who could be a huge love for you, even a lifetime love. Midweek is domestic – hug the family, dig the garden, etc. Don’t attempt too much and be understanding/compromising with your family. Not an easy interval! Friday/Saturday is romantic, creative, pleasure and beauty oriented. Hardly a cloud in the sky… only the whisper that this person might become, eventually, a retreat or a drag on you. However, half of you will experience this restriction, and half of you will not. (If you know you have a water or earth moon, than this Friday/Saturday could be the doorway to happiness.)
CAPRICORN, this is your last week of fun and frolic, socializing, optimism, friendly flirting and just general joy in life. For the last three weeks, this celebratory atmosphere only really worked with people from your past. Brand new people will have danced with you, but left before the band went home. This week, you might pick up an emotional connection, but caution is wiser than impulse. If you go for a relationship now, look far down the road and envision its development. Your money luck is high Sunday to midday Tuesday. Collect it, spend,, learn something, or hug a sometime lover. There might be something very lucky hiding in the weeds. It involves money or investment or a change and real estate or a home or a family member. Mid week is for communications, casual friends, paperwork, and short trips. Drive, speak and write cautiously, as both good and bad luck mingle this entire interval – which however, ends with harmony, especially between the sexes. Friday/Saturday is deeply and very fortunately domestic. It’s the kind of interval when you can drive to Home Depot and actually find what you want.
AQUARIUS, this is your last week of career, prestige relations, ambitions, and worldly standing. During the last three weeks, mistakes, indecision, and delays affected this area. This week frees you from those holdbacks, but there might not be enough energy or time left to push a new project. That said, it is possible that some prize will be handed to you. Sunday to midday Tuesday makes you the star of the show. Your energy and charisma soar. Talk and socializing could lead to a surprising new relationship attraction, a potentially very big one. This can also mean an opportunity or a relocation. But take note: if you strongly pursue someone or a practical opportunity, you’re likely to not succeed, or to wind up in a complex situation that is irresolvable. What is simply handed to you, though, is good and lasting. Mid week focusses on money and possessions — and casual sex. Be careful, as both good and bad luck mingle. Friday/Saturday bring casual friends, short trips, paperwork, and communications. These two days are beautifully lucky, especially Saturday, when harmony reigns between you and others.
PISCES, this is the last week of an intellectual, media and travel, and gentle love phase. These have been “wounded” by indecision, delays and mistakes. However, if a former project or lover, returned to you in the last three weeks, your mutual future might be bright! Still, even this week, doubt go overboard chasing far travel, or an intellectual prize or love, etc. What comes to you is fine and fruitful. But what/who you have to chase, what you have to overcome obstacles to obtain, is almost certainly a negative or a trap. Be restful, avoid the bustling crowd, seek advice, make plans, liaison with government or large corporations Sunday to midday Thursday. There may be something here, a prize or bonus or open door. Midweek, your energy and charisma soar. You will be effective, but try not to raise too many hackles, as relationships look a little argumentative. Friday/Saturday is for money, and is lucky, especially Saturday.
AFTERWORDS:
In general, we should see AI or SI as a benefit rather than a danger. AI is ruled by Aquarius, and has taken off now that Pluto, the planet of super high-tech, is in Aquarius. It entered about two years ago and will stay until 2043.
But SI became a thing in about the last six months. The lunar North node is now in Aquarius. It will stay till March 28. The north note tends to indicate good things, peace, wisdom, and good decisions. In terms of destiny, it means good karma.
So we shouldn’t fear AI.
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If he is smart, Trump will issue a presidential pardon, a preemptive one, for every single person who has ever worked in his White House and who is still working. This would undercut the Democrats’ obvious revenge tour of indicting Republicans. No one will have to lawyer up, except the Democrats, who are trying to prosecute these investigations. Let them have their investigations. Let them spend $1 billion on it. But they are attacking people who are invulnerable, federally.
There is also the prospect of charges brought by individual states against Republicans. Trump’s pardon does not cover state charges.
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I want to write something much more than I have anything to say.
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I think fearing Superintelligence is good to the point at which we erect boundaries, etc. But to fear it beyond that is destructive if it leads to a blunting and turning around of technology advances.
Astrologically, Superintelligence is the biggest disruptor and progressor of technology in 250 years, which takes us back to the 1700s, coinciding with the birth of the industrial revolution, and the last time Pluto was in Aquarius. When it entered this sign recently – about two years ago – I told you there would be huge advances in computing, nuclear, and related areas. I also predicted there would be very stubborn and violent ideologues/terrorist groups. It’s reasonable to worry that these bad actors, who are also under Aquarius’ umbrella, will use Aquarius’s three main tools: computers/electricity, atomic energy, and determination.
The DSA in America has an Aquarian name. And we should look on the DSA as a vanguard to a new political reality. They are bringing the communism/capitalism melange that I predicted a few decades ago.
Essentially, many changes will come out out of this new technology-birthing era. Successes in nuclear fusion and technology will change our lives as dramatically and deeply as the industrial revolution changed the nations it touched.
Think of the huge leaps we have made since the 1700s. We can preserve food. We can overcome famine. We can feed the world. We can land a man on the moon. We have cars and trucks and planes that fly. We have refrigerators and carpeted floors and carefully planned subdivisions and skyscrapers 100 floors tall; we send cameras into the interior bodies of people, and watch what is happening inside them. We can control 1000 diseases. We also have the ability to wipe out humanity – which would go against our prime duty, pleasure, need, love and desire: the instruction to keep the species in existence; ultimately, to exist. That’s why I have always said there will not be a Third World war of nuclear destruction. As far as war goes, generally, I think we are entering a kind of golden age of peace. Gaza and Russia aside, much of the world does seem interested in peace, even – or perhaps, especially – in the Middle East.
It’s funny watching the local reactions to the Iran war. Many of the Arabian nations seem kind of pestered or put out, or like suburban nannies, alarmed by a paedophile in the neighbourhood. Much of this peacefulness emerged from Donald Trump‘s diplomatic efforts. He once bragged that he settled eight wars, in I think one year. And so he did, although I don’t know how many upheld against time. The Brotherhood of Peace is another of his creations, and so far it does seem to be alive. There’s a theory of history – one of Tolstoy‘s favourites – that no one man or woman actually changes the course of humanity, of history. Instead, they say, these major changes such as war or revolution, etc. emerged from a broad base, including the population, weather and environment, various scientific reasons, etc. One person – president, leader – just happened to be in charge when all this occurred.
Trump’s presidency proves that theory false. Trump is the first politician I’ve ever really closely watched, so I don’t know if certain things are unique to him or have been a trait of other presidents. But watching with history’s only front row seat – the present – I am certain, as I’m certain it’s a certainty to others, that many of the historic turns of this presidency and the former, both Trump‘s, were caused by Trump himself. (By himself, I also include his advisors, his staff, etc.)
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Remember how I often wrote here that “J” was a letter denoting an enemy, consciously or unconsciously, of Trump? When I saw that JD Vance was vice president, I thought I would keep my mouth shut. There’s so much other good stuff in their partnership. But that “J” has a way of coming out now. JD is accused of distancing himself from the president when he commented against the Iran war, essentially blaming it – and therefore Trump as its main engine – for the Republicans midterm defeat. It’s an interesting move on JD‘s part. I think its intent was not to go against the president, but to distance himself — that’s essentially a passive or negative move, but not an aggressive one. It’s also a forgivable action: I can picture JD in front of the president: “ oh God I’m so sorry, I wasn’t thinking. I simply was responding to something quickly and I didn’t think I must’ve almost blacked out. Jesus I’m so sorry, Donald.” and so on as much as he needs, to get back in Donalds graces.
He will never get fully back in. Trump is no fool, only at first. He trusts people almost immediately, but he sizes them up at the first sign of disloyalty. So this is what JD loses, a closeness with and deep support of Trump. For example, were Trump to endorse one presidential candidate over the other in 2028, and his only two choices were JD and Mark Rubio, he would endorse Mark. But JD might be calculating that losing Trump‘s support in a presidential campaign is a small price to pay in exchange for the benefits of such a move: first, that price to pay actually shrinks overtime if Trump continues to divide and alienate his base, and also due to the natural discretion of time: over time, people grow retired of the same face. Look how Obama has fallen into a pit of boredom. (sorry, couldn’t resist.)
So JD is taking a gamble, betting that Trump‘s popularity/approval rating will continue to decline or at worst remain at its present low levels for the next two years.
In return for this loss of Trump‘s favour Vance collects many advantages: one, he maintains or paves a broad road of neutrality by siding with the Democrats on a key issue, the Iran war; two, he appeals to the broad segment of the MAGA movement that has started to pull away from Trump and his policies. That flight might broaden after the midterm defeats, but it might well shrink also. Third, it publicly releases him from the loser syndrome that many vice presidents have: many of them appear to be mere puppets for the president, slavishly echoing his policies. As a result, if and when they run for president, many of these VPs have trouble with favourable recognition. They haven’t done anything that stands out, and they strived to be semi faceless for four or eight years. So they end up hollow men, whereas Vance has carved out his distinct role.
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JD Vance is a Leo – 10° Leo sun – with a Leo ascendent at 27° – and a libra moon at – if my memory’s right – 19° libra.
Vance is actually more in love with the limelight than Trump. That compromising and peace loving Libra moon prevents a lot of chest thumping. Also, his sun is behind his ascendant, which can cause shyness or thoughtfulness..
His ascendent at 27° Leo is a problem for him right now, because the lunar south node was on it in late October, but is still close. (And will be in his Leo sign until March 2028.) This visitation by the south node gives a once in 18 year opportunity to make an unwise decision, to say the wrong thing, to insist on your way, to reject advice, to begin projects that might fail, or which demand such correction and patching up and overcoming of obstacles as time evolves that they are equivalent to failure. It often leads to a grumpy mood and self pity. A real once in 18 year gift from the universe! For all of us, this “gift” carries less and less weight the more mature we become – and actually is a good indicator of our maturity, if we compare a time in the past that this node went over our Sun, with a time 18 years later when it went over again.
In JD‘s case, he gets hit twice in a little over a year, because his sun and his rising sign are both in the same sign — so the south note will hit his sun in the second half of September next year.
This nodal contact indicates that despite all the advantages and the great trade JD seems to have made by abandoning Trump on the Iran war (partially outlined in the item above) he might have made a fatal error: a decision made, a stance taken, and a direction chosen, all under the negative umbrella of the south node. From July to September 2027, Vance will have difficulty raising money — or sub scandal might arise from something he’s paid for.
Mercury and Venus were both retrograde when he made the statement about Trump’s Iran war killing the Republicans in the midterms. These two planets rule four sectors for JD.: Popularity, socializing and legislative involvement; money and funding; communications, paperwork and daily organizing of schedules; and ambition – career, worldly standing, reputation, ability to succeed in the chosen career or chosen Path.
For his own sake, he should’ve said nothing.
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Here is what makes no sense whatsoever: Trump has bragged for at least a year that the US is fully self-sufficient in oil – and in fact exports oil to other countries. Yet the Iran war has doubled oil prices to the point at which Trump’s politicians were trounced in last week’s midterms. How, if the US produces more than its oil needs, did it need to boost its oil to world prices? Evidently Russians pay three dollars a gallon and other nations pay far less than the US. How does that compute? Someone is shoving money into their pockets.
Of course, Trump is restrained by the capitalistic structure of the US. He cannot order refineries to make less profit, and he cannot order oil companies to sell their oil for less than the world Price. If he did, it would mean bringing in Price controls, a socialist action.
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The DSA blossoming in the midterms like a rude, vigourous flower, is only the Vanguard.
The Republicans will be making a big mistake if they think this DSA emergence was a one off, or at worst a static condition. Republicans need to look far down the road and consider how to handle this surge of socialism over a landscape of one or two decades.
I say this, but I think destiny is against them.
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What bothers me about America is that roughly half the population is religious,, often passionately so, but the other half simply does not believe in God, spirit, or an afterlife. Even in politics, America seems split. Watching the news, it seems that nine out of 10 midterm races were decided by less than one percent.
To some — mostly Democrats (there is not a liberal woman alive in the US who believes in God. If she did, she would not commit and praise abortion) — to some, life is limited to this earthly sphere, and your entire existence is limited to between zero and 100 years, depending on disease and accident.
So if there is no God and no hell, really you can do what you want. You can try to assassinate presidents, you can assassinate public speakers such as Charlie Kirk, you can pull any dirty trick you want – the latest example is Mary Petola’s dirty campaign in Alaska. (She hunted down and enlisted a man with the same first and last name as her opponent, and paid him in someway or another to file for election and have his name on the same ballot. Actually, “dirty” is a misnomer: it’s just “tricks.” (But isn’t that what prostitutes do?) Thus, too, you might as well worship or invoke Satan and put his statue in City Hall and state Congress (which Democrats have done). Who knows, your request to him/her/it (for Satan is non-binary, I’m sure Tallarico would agree) might even be answered. You have nothing to lose. If there is a God he/she/it might do you some favours, but now you also have a very sexual, earthy, wealthy, and infinitely tricky deity to whom you can pray and hope for help even in the most dastardly deeds. Where is the downside?
Of course, you have to justify your existence and maintain a good self image, so you might avoid the more sweaty tricks and bad deeds, and concentrate on what are easily justifiable stances, or at least more political, intellectual aggressions. These are good, because they are not sweaty, and because they serve a cause beyond the individual’s person, which makes the person feel holy, or courageous or heroic, or at least justified.
There are three big flaws in such thinking: one, the violence option is too often exercised; two, it is easy to believe that the ends justify the means if there is no punishment for wrongdoing. This no punishment for wrongdoing idea has infected the courts and all the legislative spiderweb around them, including all the jackass judges.
If the ends are so noble and beneficial to humanity, and there is no punishment for crime unless you’re caught, then it is right to take on the mantle of the ends justifying the means. So Donald Trump does not govern the way we like. In addition, we don’t like him as a person. We believe he has committed bad things. We believe he’s a threat to true democracy. So it is perfectly OK to assassinate him, in fact it causes us sorrow that the last two attempts did not kill him.
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Democracy is becoming the enemy of capitalism.
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Remember when Meghan Markle and Harry were treated so coldly by Queen Elizabeth? Myself and a lot of others thought this was evidence of the queen’s blatant racism, as Megan was partially black.
But I’ve got to apologize to the queen, dead as she is. Turns out that Megan’s father, with whom she had cut off all ties, was a paedophile with a huge collection of child porn. The police knew this by 2018, I’m quite sure the royal family would’ve known about it long before MM and Harry’s wedding, as they have access to state secrets and to police information.
Poor Megan, what a father!
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A good word, “ situation.” it covers multiple fronts.