Portmanteau combining scary and variant.
Exaggerated fear of a COVID-19 variant
What scariant is on the menu this week. India? South Africa? Or is it a double fusion super scariant?
by ChrisR41 April 22, 2021
A new variant of COVID imagined by governments to scare the public into complying with new regulations.
Oh look the government had released the new scariant, what must we do next.
Damn scariants stopping ne from getting on planes.
by Russell316 November 29, 2021
“This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government for white men.”
–Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Wikipedia
― William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”. Wikipedia
(astrobutterfly.com)
On September 14th, 2023 we have a New Moon at 21° Virgo. This is one of the most auspicious – and most important – New Moons of the year.
The ruler of the New Moon in Virgo, Mercury, stations direct within hours of this lunation. Something in your life is finally moving forward. You will see real progress or a magic workaround to something that seemed to be stuck or broken beyond repair.
After we mourned Venus in the underworld, after we slowed down to fix what’s not working with Mercury retrograde in Virgo, it’s now time to embrace the lessons learned and move forward with renewed Virgoan wisdom and clarity.
The New Moon in Virgo is engaged in a beautiful Grand Earth trine with Uranus in Taurus and Pluto in Capricorn.
The New Moon in Virgo Grand Trine is the gift from the universe for your hard work.
Trines always follow squares. After we adjust to the challenges of the environment (squares), we integrate the lessons, and we gain something in the process (trines).
Grand Earth trines are the “I got this” aspect patterns. They give us the stamina and practical know-how to establish a strong foundation to achieve our goals.
But there’s more. The New Moon Grand Trine is also activated by a Neptune opposition, forming an aspect pattern called Kite.
Neptune pushes our boundaries and invites us to dream big. On paper, our ideas may seem impossible and impractical. You may hear people saying “This is not going to work”.
In a world of hopeless dreamers and cynical naysayers, be a magician . Set your dream, re-engineer it, and then make it real.
Once you make the decision to follow your dream, the whole universe (Neptune sextile Pluto and Uranus) conspires in your favor.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it! And Virgo’s methodical approach will give you the practical roadmap to get there.
Some of the most influential people in the world have strong Virgo and Earth placements in their charts.
You may think that’s Uranus or Leo placements that are creative – and yes they are – but it’s Virgo’s common sense and diligence that transforms these great ideas into practical realities.
Virgo rising, Capricorn stellium Walt Disney was rejected numerous times before fulfilling his dream of creating the first animated film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” Today, Disney’s legacy is legendary.
Virgo rising, Capricorn Venus and North Node Steve Jobs transformed entire industries and influenced billions of people’s lives with innovative products like the personal computer and the smartphone.
Virgo rising Henry Ford‘s idea of mass-producing affordable automobiles seemed crazy at the beginning of the 20th century. By introducing the assembly line manufacturing process (so very Virgo), Ford made cars accessible to the average person, revolutionizing the automotive industry.
Virgo North Node, Capricorn rising and Pluto in Taurus Marie Curie’s research on radioactivity was met with skepticism and prejudice first. Eventually, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and she’s still an icon in the fields of physics and chemistry.
Virgo Moon Elon Musk not only sent astronauts to the International Space Station, but also launched reusable rockets, drastically reducing the cost of space exploration. Reducing costs and making things more efficient is very Virgo Moon like.
Whatever we seed at the time of the New Moon, will eventually bloom into something beautiful and magical (Neptune).
This lunation cycle, our dreams can come true! To take advantage of this energy, write down your intentions within the 8-hour interval of this lunation.
Here are some Virgo-like intention-setting suggestions:
Set clear goals: Virgo likes numbers, or, if what you want is not quantifiable, make it as specific as you can.
Create a roadmap: what exact steps do you need to take to achieve your goal? Virgo is practical. Visualizations, the law of attraction, or waiting for opportunities to arise won’t cut it. What do you actually DO to get closer to your goal?
Fill the knowledge gaps: the reason you don’t have what you want (yet) may be that there are some knowledge gaps you need to address. Mercury in Virgo goes direct after this lunation, giving you the clarity you need.
Virgo-stellium Malcolm Gladwell came up with the “10,000-hour rule,” which suggests that it takes roughly 10,000 hours of practice or dedication to achieve mastery in a particular field or skill.
Pay attention to details: Virgo seems to be the only sign that knows this, but they DO make a big difference. Details also help us anchor ourselves into the physical world, making the intangible, tangible. David Copperfield is a Virgo Sun, Virgo rising 😉
Create true value: does the achievement of your goal help other people? Or at least, doesn’t harm them? You don’t have to be Mother Theresa (Sun, Mercury and Mars in Virgo) – but you want to create net value.
When we operate from a me vs. them scenario, we fight against other people’s goals and vibrational fields, and it’s very difficult to succeed. When instead we focus on having a positive impact, we create a supportive energy field that is aligned with that of the universe.
Happy New Moon in Virgo!
SEP 12, 2023 (robertreich.substack.com)
Friends,
One of the most important initiatives of the Biden administration is its attack on corporate monopolies.
Today, the Justice Department’s case against Google goes to trial. The Department alleges that Google illegally abused its power over online search to throttle competition. It is the government’s first monopoly trial of the modern internet era.
Later this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will file its lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that Amazon favors its own products over competitors’ on its platforms and uses predatory tactics with outside sellers on Amazon.com.
Whether it’s Ticketmaster and Live Nation consolidating control over live performances, Kroger and Albertsons dominating the grocery market, or Amazon and Google scooping up every operation in sight, corporate concentration is on the rise.
Over the past several decades, giant corporations have come to dominate most American industries, as this chart shows:
[Source: “100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration” by Spencer Y. Kwon, Yueran Ma, Kaspar Zimmermann]
The social costs of corporate concentration are growing.
— The typical American household is paying more than $5,000 a year because corporations can raise their prices without fear that competitors will draw away consumers.
— Such corporate market power has also been a major force driving inflation.
— Huge corporations also suppress wages, because workers have fewer employers from whom to get better jobs.
— And corporate giants are also fueling massive flows of big money into politics (one of the major advantages of large size).
Yet the federal courts have been reluctant to do anything about this and are pushing back against the Biden administration’s efforts. Why? Because of a man named Robert Bork.
Let me explain.
I first met Bork in September 1971, when I took his class on antitrust at Yale Law School. I recall him as a large, imposing man, with a red beard and a perpetual scowl.
He was only in his mid-40s then, but he seemed impatient and bored with us (also in that class were Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton).
We kept challenging his view that the only legitimate purpose of antitrust law was to lower consumer prices.
“What about the political power of giant corporations?” we asked.
His retort: “How do you expect courts to measure political power?”
“But what about the power of big corporations to suppress wages?”
“Employees are always free to find better jobs.”
“What about their power to undercut potential rivals with lower prices?”
“Lower prices are good for consumers.”
“What about the sheer power that comes from their gigantic size?”
“Also good for consumers. Large size means lower costs through efficiencies of scale.”
Bork had an answer to each of our objections, but we were never satisfied. He spouted economic theory based on dubious “Chicago School” assumptions that all economic players have perfect information and face no cost of entering or leaving markets (Bork had attended the University of Chicago and its law school).
Even in our mid-20s, we knew this was bullshit.
Bork refused to recognize power — even though antitrust laws emerged from the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, when a central concern was the untrammeled power of giant corporations.
A few years later, Bork wrote a book called The Antitrust Paradox that summarized his ideas. The staff of a conservative California governor bound for the White House read it and passed it along to their boss, and Bork’s book formed a basic tenet of Reaganomics.
Federal judges read it, too. Most judges didn’t (and still don’t) know much economics and hated getting bogged down in interminable and almost incomprehensible antitrust trials that could last for years. They found Bork’s simplicity and cogency helpful in limiting such lawsuits.
BORK’S INFLUENCE over the courts represented the culmination of years of work by the monied interests to kill off antitrust law. They’re still at it.
Which is why the new view of antitrust now being pioneered by the Biden administration through the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department is so important.
This new view regards corporate concentration as a problem even if it provides economies of scale that might allow lower consumer prices in the short term. That’s because corporate concentration also means less innovation, more wage suppression, predatory behavior, price-push inflation, and increased political power.
Besides their lawsuits against Google and Amazon, the FTC and the Justice Department have proposed new merger guidelines to keep monopolies in check. Not surprisingly, giant corporations are doing whatever they can to stop these new protections from taking effect.
The optimist in me thinks that as the public becomes more aware of the close connections among corporate power, predation, inflation, wage suppression, and political corruption, the new antitrust movement will eventually succeed.
What do you think?
MEANING: noun: The right time for taking an action; a decisive moment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Ancient Greek kairos (a fitting time). In Modern Greek the word means weather or time. Earliest documented use: 1936.
Time as Occasion (Kairos), detail (1543-1545)
Art: Francesco Salviati
(wsmith@wordsmith.org)
The Lord of Gain is one of the cards which usually receives a hearty welcome when it comes up in a reading. At the mundane level it indicates the financial rewards which come from working diligently and dedicatedly on an important project, so it will often mark a stage of completion. In the workplace it will show that hard work is rewarded both by appreciation and an increase of salary. Sometimes it can indicate promotion (though rarely a total change of workplace) earned as a result of loyalty and attention to detail.
As you’ll remember, Disks not only deal with our financial area, but also with day-to-day security in the family environment. So sometimes the Lord of Gain can come up to indicate consolidation and achievement at home. Perhaps an emotional conflict has finally been resolved, or a long-standing problem finally dealt with.
At the spiritual level, this card talks a lot about the principle that what we give to life is what we get back. And here we have confirmation that we have lived as much as we are able in the moment, appreciating the things that come our way, and celebrating the bounty we have. As a result, more abundance flows in.
The card rarely indicates windfalls, or unexpected sources of income. Here we have worked hard to create something rewarding, and the Lord of Gain indicates the results of our efforts.
(via angelpaths.com and Alan Blackman)
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