Aries 

Knight of Wands

Love that you’re finally getting your license, just know that Mercury’s in retrograde so you might get banned from all the driving centres in Ontario!

Gemini

Ace of Swords

Instead of jerking off to erotic fanfiction maybe you should try going to bed at a reasonable hour

Taurus 

Six of Cups

Get your roommate flowers! I’m sure they’d appreciate it :)

Cancer

King of Cups

For Halloween, dress as the main character of tonally inconsistent fable about a disaffected crone discovering the joys of root vegetables and warm milk

Leo

Five of Wands

Oh… this is just a mess

Libra

The Lovers

Stop looking for a ““boyfriend”” and start looking for a feywild tree spirit to help you find mushrooms on your urban foraging adventures<3

Virgo

Six of Swords

Pilot a gondola down the St. Lawrence and celebrate National Calzone Day in style! Strega Nona would be proud :’)

Scorpio 

Three of Pentacles

One of these days your prof is gonna ask you why you’re wearing a Teletubbies onesie. Tinky Winky? Really?

Sagittarius 

King of Wands

If you’re going to wear your blanket like a cape, might as well find a nice walking stick and go for a stroll! Majestic :)

Aquarius 

Page of Wands

Ah, I see — or should I say smell ;) –you’re one of those essential oil bitches! Mmmm ylang ylang

Capricorn

Death

Light all the incense you want, but you really need to clean your freezer….

Pisces

Four of Pentacles

I know you said a leprechaun gave them to you, but I think you just had one too many shrooms last night. Babes, it’s chocolate, not “pure gold from ‘neath the kelly green hills”

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OCTOBER

1. Aries 

Card: Nine of Wands

Relax bro. Nobody’s gonna take your breadsticks.

     2. Taurus 

Card: Two of Pentacles

Specialty hats are piling up in your closet like the dirty dishes in your sink… seriously…wash your dishes. And why do you have so many hats?

     3. Gemini

Card: Eight of Pentacles

Buy a planner, Lindseé.

     4. Cancer

Card: The Sun

Strolling through Jeanne-Mance Park naked: performance art or a cry for help? (gototherapygototherapygototherapy)

     5. Leo

Card: The Chariot

You’re not an Egyptologist, you just spend too much time on Reddit.

     6. Virgo

Card: Four of Cups

That lead water won’t drink itself!

     7. Libra

Card: Six of Wands

Look at u, ZOOOOMing around in your new desk chair. 

     8. Scorpio 

Card: Three of Swords

You might have a slight ~cardiac arrhythmia~ (?)… nothing serious… ;)

     9. Sagittarius

Card: Queen of Pentacles

You look great today (:

     10. Capricorn

Card: Five of Swords

Hath a man wrong’d thee? Break his heart and steal his medieval weaponry, ladiez.

     11. Aquarius

Card: Four of Wands

Your BJÖRKSNÄS bed frame is missing a screw… she’s a lil’ wobbly…

     12. Pisces 

Card: The Tower

Good luck, you’ll need it!

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Punisher is a reminder that the past will haunt us anywhere we go. In “Garden Song,” Bridgers returns to familiar corridors and fences, and realizes that she’s changed for the better. But in the song’s final chorus, she sings: “I don’t know how, but I’m taller / It must be something in the water,” only to declare that “I get everything I want / I have everything I wanted.” Bridgers’ final words are undercut by a nostalgia for all that she’s “wanted” – as far as she looks forward, she is pulled back, left wanting something else. In the more upbeat  “Kyoto,” Bridgers considers the familiarity of her own feelings with the strangeness of being in a new city. Reflecting on her relationship with her father (“And you wrote me a letter / But I don’t have to read it”) during her “day off in Kyoto,” Bridgers confesses her hesitation about leaving her ghosts behind: “I wanted to see the world / Then I flew over the ocean / And I changed my mind.” And on the final chorus of “Chinese Satellite,” Bridgers pleads: “I want to believe / that if I go outside I’ll see a tractor beam / coming to take me to where I’m from / I want to go home.” Punisher reveals to its listeners an uncanny world, one that remains haunted with Bridgers’ desire to be home  and  elsewhere, all at once. 

In this new world, all intimacies become tinged with a sly fatalism, as Bridgers admits on “ICU:” “I’ve been playing dead / my whole life / and I get this feeling / whenever I feel good / it’ll be the last time.” This fatalism also seeps through “Halloween,” where Bridgers quietly recalls the destructiveness of an asymmetrical relationship: “Always surprised by what I’d do for love / Some things I’d never expect / They killed a fan down by the stadium / Was only visiting, they beat him to death.” And yet, in “Moon Song,” Bridgers wholeheartedly gives in to her devotion and the inevitability of her self-destruction, over the gentle strumming of a guitar: “So I will wait for the next time you want me / like a dog with a bird at your door.” Amid all the despair, Punisher never feels hopeless. Bridgers maintains a playful self-awareness; she pokes fun at her own fatal surrender to devotion in the ballad “Savior Complex,” calling it an “emotional affair” and “overly sincere.” And that’s what makes it possible for Bridgers to find small moments of wonder in this world, suggesting that catching a glimpse of a star in the night sky is worth the pain of looking up.

Blending the familiar with the strange, and devotion with destruction, Punisher provides no easy resolve for these tensions—precisely because there are none. The album commits itself to these tensions because it is in Bridgers’ naive commitment to devotion that she finds a semblance of hope. In the album’s final track, “I Know the End,” Bridgers revels in the apocalypse: “Over the coast, everyone’s convinced / It’s a government drone or an alien spaceship / […] A haunted house with a picket fence / To float around and ghost my friends / No, I’m not afraid to disappear / The billboard said the end is near.” As the music swells in the song’s outro, the instrumentation explodes: new voices join in, the percussion gets louder, and Bridgers gives a blood-curdling scream. Yeah, I guess the end is here. 

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