“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”
Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II
- Horoscopes
by the Fishing Guide to the Stars
starting 1.23.2014
Aquarius: There comes a time when clear-cutting, scorched-earth processes work best. There is a time when reducing the entire object to the pieces, like maybe even down to a molecular level, and starting afresh. There is a time when total annihilation is the best way to start over. This isn’t one of those times.
The urge might be there, but total and complete destruction in order to start fresh? Not a good idea. I’ll suggest you have the right to choose, but I’ll also suggest that a total and complete tear-down isn’t required.
This week requires some fine tuning. Sometimes, it’s not the big deals, sometimes, it’s not the “total and complete wipe-out” that’s required. Could be a few, minor details need to be tweaked. Adjusted. Modified, a little bit at a time. Even a single gesture and modification can fix much of the problems. Not scorched earth. Think: Fine-tuning, and happy birthday.
Pisces: Birthdays are not here yet, and number of folks you encounter are upset. Slow down. I can pretty accurately bet that this, or something similar, will happen in the next few days, to a Pisces who reads my material. You’re motoring along in the middle lane on a freeway, let’s call it the freeway of life. An older mini-van, driven by someone’s head you can’t see, maybe there is smoke coming from the tailpipe. Maybe the driver is smoking a cigarette, but there is “skin-rash” rust on part of the mini-van’s undercarriage. Smoking, accelerating, then slowing, and doing so with no tempo.
The van careens up on the Pisces left side, slashes in front of you, brake lights flare, then the driver, still can’t see him, her, the driver hits the accelerator, and the mini-van narrowly misses a car to your right, as the van exits, sharply, almost missing the turn. It’s harrowing experience. The dreaded mini-van with a too-short person driving — exiting across three lanes of traffic. “Never a cop around when you need them, huh.”
You can’t avoid the dreaded mini-vans on the freeway of Pisces life these days. You can, however, slow down when one lurches up quickly from your blind side. Let them pass. You don’t need to hitch a ride, a problem or any other association with the troubles — let them pass you by.
Aries: Best trick I’ve seen for these conditions in Aries? Take out the plastic credit card, maybe the plastic credit cards, and place them in a small dish of water. Put that in the freezer. Freeze your credit cards. That simple. Pains me as it might, as I’d love to get paid for a reading, let’s face it, you need to freeze the Aries spending for a little while.
Old trick, new use. Freeze your credit cards. Way this works? If it’s something you really, really want? Or need? Or think you need, but down inside, you know you just want it? You have to take that block of ice out of the refrigerator, then you have to wait until it thaws, so you can get to the numbers on the card, so you can rack up more Aries debt.
Old trick, nothing new here. However, it does give you a chance to pause. It’s the last part of the first of the new year, and this weekly scope starts with a symbolic New Moon in Aquarius. Do something with that. Freeze your spending, if only for a little while.
Taurus: The fairy tale, then parable, then cartoon, of the tortoise and the hare? Really applies here in Taurus, this next couple of days. Let me refresh the tale, there’s one guy, zippy-quick all the time, the hare. Then there’s the other guy, plodding, slow, dependable, the tortoise. They agree to race, and as it turns out, the race isn’t about who is fastest, as the tortoise eventually wins by being plodding, slow and dependable. Speaking for the hare, though, we have more fun shooting ahead, then dawdling, then taking a nap, then rushing off in another direction because a bright, shiny object that catches our attention. Taurus? Taurus would normally be associated with that tortoise of plodding, gentle strength and willingness to gradually works towards a single goal, patient and steady. For a few days, why not live in the hare’s fast lane? Might not got anything accomplished, or, you might gets much done, just not working towards the original goal. For a few days, maybe not for forever, but for a few days? Try the hare-like approach, zippy-quick. Think: Gemini (or Gemini-like).
Gemini: I adore how my Gemini buddies always go shooting off in a variety of ways. Any given minute, there’s a new and more important issue that requires, absolutely requires the Gemini attention. No, now over here! Look at this!
When I looked at your chart, I thought about a recent fishing expedition with a Gemini buddy. I’d just call it a fishing trip, but with him? It was a big deal. I’m sure details are in the blog or something.
Guy I fish with, he likes to run, on a good day, six or eight poles with lines in the water. Perfect for a typical Gemini set-up. However, instead of trying to watch all, or even some, of those poles? Instead of watching and waiting for a single tip wiggle? Consider, like my successful Gemini buddy, he just held onto the one pole, and he was ready for a fish, on that one pole. Pictures speak for themselves. Focus on just one thing. What’s in hand.
Focus that Gemini attention on one thing.
Cancer: I didn’t set out to make career of this, but the first book I had published was about relationships. I’ve had a chance, over the years to look at a large number of good relationships and see what works — and what doesn’t work. Improbable combinations stick together when obvious opposites should repel each other. Instead, they stay glued together like sticker burrs.
On the outside, it makes no sense — whatsoever. I’ve taken apart the charts and examined the details and found the glue — astrological glue — that holds the combinations together. Sometimes, it pays to examine the details, the underpinnings, the foundation that holds a relationship together. Especially now. There’s a sore point and instead of letting this fester and get ugly, starting with the Aquarius New Moon, it’s time to figure out what’s broken. Rather, I don’t see this as broken, more as damaged. Not irrevocably damaged, just dented. Need to pop the dent out.
Pretty simple solution, starts at the beginning of this horoscope’s duration and lasts for seven days.
Address the source of trouble.
The (mighty) Leo: For the July Leo crowd? This is your half-birthday. You’re halfway through the Leo year. Instead of worrying about stuff like New Year Resolutions, and other pointless endeavors, stop for a moment. Pause. Stop the headlong Leo rush into the future and sit.
I get an image of one of those dogs that are shaved like a lion? I get that image of the dog, stopping to scratch his ear, in a very dog-like behavior, and then, after the dog is done, it’s back to being a lion-looking creature. Just a pause. Stop and pretend to scratch your ear. It’a about taking an assessment of where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’d like to go. First, pause. Just sit down for a moment. What is the next, most correct step that will get your Leo self headed towards that nebulous “where I want to be” goal? Single step. Rest for a moment and figure out what the next step is. Half-birthday, should be a recognized holiday for Leo.
Especially this week.
Virgo: Just about every January, in Texas, we’ll get a couple of days of clear, warm weather. Soft, deceptively gentle atmosphere. Nice weather. I’ll pull on pair of walking shorts, my standard attire, and head out in the middle of the afternoon, only to be caught a little short because the sun still sets early. I’m not really sure I want to be out, after dark.
As a Virgo, you’re going to get lulled — like me — into a false sense of security. It’s spring, the trees will bud soon, there will be wildflowers and the brown grass will start to turn verdant hues. I can put away my cold weather gear for another ten months or so, and then, much to my chagrin, there’s another cold front. Ice, snow hail, freezing rain, or just cold weather. That’s how it plays, here. This isn’t about Texas weather, though, this is about astrological weather. There’s going to be a cold snap. Don’t get to thinking, that everything is all roses and spring-like, not just yet. I didn’t say, like me, you should enjoy the warm weather, but let’s not put away the cold weather (Virgo) gear yet.
Libra: As a published author, I’m not a fan of used book stores. The royalty has been paid, so no matter how often it gets resold, I don’t make any more money. However as an avid reader, and a sometimes collector of books, I love used book stores. It’s how I fill out old collections. It’s how I find material I thought I had. It’s an adventure, and being close to a couple of reasonably good used book stores helps.
The advantage of bookstore over a library is that purchased books have clues. One page with a good scene, there will be a coffee stain. Dog-eared, tattered covers, bent spines, all clues. There are myriad of planet clues this week, but we’re looking for something on the cheap. Not expensive. Not a big deal, on the sly, on the cheap, down and dirty. Kind of like an old, used paperback, a mystery, romance, thriller, could be any of those. It’s all torn up. What seems to be the most popular page? This week requires a little digging, and your Libra self might feel a little put out. Still, it’s worth the effort.
Scorpio: I always tend to regard Saturn as a cosmic report card. Check up on what is happening. Takes a look at where you are in your personal, Scorpio development and then, Saturn tends to illuminate areas that could use more work. Unless, of course, you’re perfect the way you are. Which you might be. In that case? Saturn will just apply a little pressure to make things feel weird for the time being.
There’s a single area where you want to start improving yourself, a single, previously unattended area that requires some work. Could be a simple adjustment to diet. Can be a simple supplement to the diet. This doesn’t have to be difficult, but Saturn, right now, is pointing a way for a small, seemingly insignificant change. And really, with a Scorpio, is anything ever insignificant?
Sagittarius: There’s quite a bit of machinery that makes this place run. The odd bits and pieces of a formerly cobbled-together set of systems, one new-fangled gadget layered onto the next? Looks, from the backside, like a Rube Goldberg machine. Or did.
With the New Moon in Aquarius, start of this horoscope, I’ve undertaken a little bit of streamlining. Not so much big steps, but series of small, forward motions that make the whole process work faster, smoother, more efficiently, and most importantly, to me?
Fewer moving parts.
That’s our simple goal. Fewer moving parts. The less complex the system, the less chance some arcane piece will snap off, and mess everything up.
Simplify.
This is a tall order for Sagittarius who, like me, we all have extenuating circumstances. However, just making one step easier, reducing the overhead in one area, maybe looking and stripping away a feature that was unused?
It’s that easy.
Clarify.
Capricorn: I’m no fan of bumper sticker wisdom, but as soon as I twirled your Capricorn chart around, and when I lined up the parts? I kept thinking of this one farm vehicle I saw the other day, “Trust your neighbor, but brand your calves.”
Texas, home-spun wisdom.
Trust your neighbor but brand you calves.
What it means, and the other way I’ve seen this, actually heard it from a mom, “Trust but verify,” and she was talking about a young, teenage son. Not Capricorn.
As a Capricorn, please, take our word on that we’re good for it, but get the pledge in writing, too. Better yet, get a check. Better yet, cash. Make sure you count it, too. Trust and verify, or, as I like to think of it?
“Trust your neighbor but brand your calves.”
