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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday]  If it thunders today, it portends both prosperity and discord for the common folk.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends moderately good business for an entire year.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)