• Horoscopes for 6-16-2026

  Horoscopes for 6-16-2026

  The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw, And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage To be o’erpow’r’d, and wilt thou, pupil-like, Take the correction, mildly kiss the rod, And fawn on rage with base humility, Which art a lion and the king of beasts? Shakespeare’s King Richard II (V.i.29) Where is Kramer?

  Horoscopes for 6-16-2026

  Pluto oppose Venus 6/17 Juneteenth 6/19 Summer Solstice 6/21 3:25 AM

  Gemini

  “Summer stock,” to me, means amateurs playing professional roles. I’ve seen both good and bad, then even in the bad? Sometimes there’s a perfection in the imperfection. One of the reasons I enjoy Live Theatre, each show can be a little different. One time, one summer show, the actors were without a lead role, and as a summer show, there was no understudy, so the fill-in was, literally, reading from the script. There was one missed cue, and reading from the script again, the fill-in repeated the last line, and added gentle gesture towards another player. It was a comedy, and this added to the comical effect. In the mistakes, the gaffs, the missed cues, and the dropped lines?

  There was a merry madness.

  Part of what made it lively, exciting, and that much better. Good actors, not as practiced as some, but the show must go on! Gemini? The show must go on, roll over the mistakes and keep going.

  Cancer

  Buddy was in the office, the other day. He had a broom and dust pan, sweeping up some leftover crumbs. In a caricature drawl, he said, “I growd’d up poor, we didn’t have no vacuum cleaner that worked.” Bit of hyperbole? He swept some imaginary crumbs into the dust pan. It was his exaggerated tone, kind of gave it all away. But he was also coping, in a rather healthy way, with some exigent circumstance beyond his control. Rather than sit and pout? He got after a little extra, light cleaning. Working in a bit of humor with the accent, the drawl, the pretend “Ahm just a simple country boy” worked, after a fashion. Fluent in several languages and master of management skills, in the real world, my buddy was feigning being a simpleton as a way to cope with the current existential crisis. Not bad. Not good. Not anything. But as an idea, and how to tackle this next week, with what’s ahead? Grab a dust pan and broom, real — or metaphorical — and get to work.

  The Leo

  In as much as Venus makes nice? Everything else is stacked up in Cancer, before you, and the Summer Solstice doesn’t do much for the magnificent Leo. You want to be nice, but when you offer up a quip, a smart-ass answer, well, I’ll get it, but I might be the only one and even then, I might be offended until you remind me it was joke, not a serious statement. I’m one.

  There are many who just don’t get it, or find that the humor cuts too close to the marrow of the situation, and I can just hear, “That’s not really funny, man.”

  Two solutions, works for me, either way, one? I keep a spare social media account, not invested in it, just post bad jokes, off-color commentary, and other material that might be possibly offensive to some, not that it was my intention, but some folks are thin-skinned. There’s one place I post that stuff. Off-brand, so it can’t bounce back to me. The other option, as I suggested? Two? Sit on it, and sit until the planets turn more in your favor, and then you can get away with that joke, and it would be even funnier.

  Virgo

  I’m not a fan, not a hater, but not a fan of San Diego Padres (baseball). But one of my favorite baseball shirts is a Hawaiian-print Padres shirt. Typical, it’s palm trees and flowers, tropical paradise, and then?

  The Padres old-school friar, swinging a baseball bat.

  Love the logo. Don’t care either way for the team, the west coast leagues, or any other aspect of the game. Fun to watch, but it was that logo. I had the shirt on, coming out of a thing with some friends, and one of the guys started asking me about the current pitching rotation. I don’t know a thing about who’s on first, nor the rest of the routine. I like the logo because I used to live like a monk. Simple as that. The Virgo desire, need, inner-calling to analyze a situation and possibly read more into that situation than is called for? Like seeing me with a Padres shirt on? Listen, and don’t read any further into a situation other than what is supported by facts. I was wearing a shirt; be grateful for that.

  Libra

  “Follow the rules.” It’s a simple, expedient, logical exhortation. Not one I would usually agree with, but looking at the planets arrayed in Cancer, Aries, and respect for your Libra self?

  Simple admonishment: “Follow the rules.”

  I can easily hear the background noise, more than one Libra lover, “Why should we follow the rules when you clearly don’t?” It’s an older expression, but one I learned the hard way, the first part of this, the easiest way through this mess of a time? Go by the existing, outdated, but extant rules. Instructions, in order, as they are numbered, precise steps that are illuminated in a certain direction, just pointing and hoping? That doesn’t work. Or doing one part of the process then skipping ahead, forgetting the foundation material. All falls apart. I am hardly one to leave an example of always following the rules, but as a place to start? To make it through the next few days? Libra? “Follow the rules.”

  Scorpio

  Some place between, “If you can dream it, you can be it,” and “that’s just an impossible plan,” some point in between those two is where Scorpio can thrive. The challenges, next couple of days, approaching holiday, current events not withstanding, but some place in between is the Scorpio sweet spot. That means, to negotiate that peace, to find that sweet spot, to arrive at the sweet Scorpio spot? There’s a push and pull, a hemming and hawing, a pendulum that swings back and forth before finding its middle point. The image is a simple one, me, with my hands out, palms up, balancing two invisible Scorpio choices, weighing one against the other.

  To some, I might look like I’m juggling invisible items.

  To others, it’s obvious that I’m trying to decide which is more important. To Scorpio? We’re looking for the middle ground. Seek that balance point. “I’m very well balanced as long as you do exactly as I want.”

  Sagittarius

  In an odd way, this has to do with appearance. It’s about “looks,” and what that appears to be. Some would call this “styling,” but I think the more generic term, “looks” is best. It just fits. But whether this is style, styling, looks, or appearances, whatever the term? It’s about how we’re packaging that Sagittarius stuff.

  The package we stuff it into?

  That’s what is important. In most areas of my own life, I tend to favor as little style as possible. No fancy stuff, simply put. I prefer function first, or function-forward, and then, the way it looks? That’s less important other than I prefer clean, simple lines that show function is the primary motivator. Not too streamlined, unless that’s called for in the function. Not too buttoned-up, unless that’s called for. There’s a sense that we’re going to need to be able to move quickly, and there should be a minimum of styling restraints. Function, form, then style, in that order, next few days. Weeks, even, Sagittarius, even for a few weeks.

  Capricorn

  There was a time when I kept thinking that if I just had the right set of ingredients, then it will become clear. If I just gathered up the correct set of equipment, then I would be a better fisherman. I would understand all of Shakespeare’s plays, if I just had the correct literary reviews. Amusingly enough, I also labored under the illusion that a specific keyboard would make me a better writer.

  Three example of chasing after an illusion.

  Three examples of thinking that the next item in line would be the one — the one that could fix all my troubles. With fishing? I found that hook, line, pole, water seemed to work best. With Shakespeare scholarship, there’s always a new angle being tried, and for the keyboard question? I found that old keyboards work just as a well, if not better. Is new better? Does it live up to its hype? Frequently, times like this, using what’s old, tired, but dependable works best. “You still using that old thing?” It works, doesn’t it?

  Aquarius

  Briefly, Venus is opposite from Pluto. That translates into a tense moment or two wherein the nominally good Aquarius taste is questioned. More than questioned, and the way it works, since Pluto is so far off the ecliptic? This doesn’t hit all at once, but it does traipse through the Aquarius sentiment and thereby has an effect on the judgment. While this is more about taste, that sense of taste (style, design, appearances) can effect other judgement calls in your Aquarius life, and therein is the trouble.

  “It’s summer time; it’s hot out, I like it when she wears that.”

  No, you like it because it has a plunging neckline. That Pluto/Venus opposition toys with judgement.

  Pisces

  “Link rot” makes me think of passage from New Wave science fiction, a character was stuck in a vector space, watching the world slowly erode with link-rot exacerbated by bit-rot. While, strictly speaking, there is no real degradation in digital land, practically?

  It happens.

  Up until maybe just a few years ago, I still had snippets of code in the website (astrofish.net) that were originally typed in a text editor, back in old East Austin, before trailer parks and the rest of that history is a murky mess. Still, I discovered that some of my efforts to help others, with linkage or similar pointers? A lot of that has changed, and most of what I linked to disappeared. There’s only a handful of sites that were built with internal architecture that holds up this well. What this means, though, is that I have to dig through the old material and remove — trim? Prune? Weed out what no longer belongs, or is a useless pointer. As an example, there was still some google ads code left behind. Gradually, I have to pull all of that out. It’s an exercise, now, looking at Pisces? Prune, trim, maybe just weeding some? Get a picture?

  Aries

  Many years distant, a seemingly catastrophic hardware failure led to a loss of my accounting data covering about six months. Because I kept, still keep, paper records? I was able to reconstruct the data from extant sources. Because of that single incident, though, I learned to keep back-ups of back-ups, usually three times over. There’s a reason for this compulsive back-up security kind of behavior. In my simple example, it was borne out of exigent circumstances, and I had to do what I said I could do, rebuild the data from paper records. “Pain in the arse,” for sure.

  Lesson learned?

  I’m not sure, but what the very Aries take-away should be? Preparation, then fiddling with the preparation, and then? Like me, these days? A back-up of a back-up, out to three places, at least. Four or five isn’t too many. What would it cost you to make extra-careful-sure?

  Taurus

  I’ve worked with this kind of Mars energy. I’ve played with the planet long enough, and hard enough to get some semblance of an idea on how to handle what’s happening.

  What to do. What not to do.

  What mistakes I’ve made that can benefit your Taurus self? This is about laser-like focus on one item, one project, one goal, one destination, one outcome. Given that there’s still a lingering Uranus influence, and that the Sun is mostly in bifurcated Gemini? Given those unruly impulses? The answer, the way to use this Mars? Laser-like focus on a single finite goal, a single destination, a single outcome that you fervently desire. That’s the goal. That’s the single goal. That’s it. Sounds super simple, and it is. The kicker, and with me, you knew there would be a kicker, but that kicker? That single goal, that single destination, that single outcome? Probably not going to happen. Not in this timeline; however, it will happen. Or, better yet, what is supposed to happen will happen, but I’m depending on you to focus on that one, just for now.

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