- “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
June prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
- Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet [II.ii.129-30]
Horoscopes by the Fishing Guide to the Stars starting 6.26.2014
Cancer: Some days are just better than others. Sometimes, just when it seems like nothing is coming together properly, I’ll get a little hint that I’m doing something correctly. It was a simple task, really, not a big deal, in the grand scheme of life, but I needed a small indication that I was doing something correctly. It was timing on a lunch item I was fixing. The components aren’t that difficult to master, brown a small amount of free-range, grass-fed beef, add vegetables, then, at the last minute, drop chicken bits on top. Three steps. I was working on a Cancer horoscope, realized I needed to drop veggies in, and as I glanced down, the extra time spent twisting and turning the Cancer chart gave the meat enough time to get crispy. Crispy beef, tender veggies, it’s a good meal. This isn’t “cookbook astrology,” though, and certainly not “cookie-cutter” horoscopes. It was the extra time. The Mercury-inspired delay? Might work out to your benefit. Did for me, last time I fixed lunch.
The (mighty) Leo: Welcome to the real world. Or welcome to dream land. Perhaps this is a nightmare factory? It’s one of those, and you get to pick which one you like. The other two are optional. Pick which one you like the most. Real world, dreamland, nightmares. Pick one.
Short term is going to be the nightmares. One or two unsettling, disconcerting, and otherwise problematic thought processes are cropping back up. Saturn and Mercury Retrograde inspired, no doubt. That’s the source of the Leo ire, so how do we work in dreams, fantasies, and get back to the real world? Easy enough, for a mighty Leo, and if you’re reading this, then you are better-looking, better-informed, and just all-around, a better Leo than any other. I doubt we can all land both feet in the real world, but as the mighty Leo? One foot. One paw, maybe just one toe, dipped into the real world. Give it a shot. You can do it
Virgo: Wouldn’t be great if you could “un-send” some emails? Got a Virgo at a wrong moment, and that one Virgo can write some vile stuff about dubious parentage, familial lineage, the fate of the world, and just how all of this is one person’s fault. It’s an email that would make stout men blush at the language, rhetoric and composition. That was an angry, Mercury-Retrograded Virgo email.
Bet you’d really like to “un-send” it. Can’t be done, and that, my friends, is the problem. Image I first got was a guy trying to dig into the blue, US Post Office official mailbox, and tampering with one of those is a federal offense. With electronic messages, though, it’s just as bad. Once that message, email, text message, whatever, is committed, there is no way to get it back. In some geek circles, there is a way to un-send some messages, but if the email has been downloaded? It’s gone. That’s the problem.
Best solution? Wait for it. I know you want to hit the “send” button RIGHT NOW, but don’t. You can email me, but don’t let a brief flash of Mercury-retrograde inspired anger get to you. Technically, it is possible, but the practical approach is that it isn’t possible to “un-send” a message. Maybe don’t send in the first place.
Libra: I don’t keep many trinkets around. Over the years, the moves, the restrictions of living in a trailer in Austin, I got to the point where I didn’t have a lot of “stuff.” Things. Items, mementoes, trinkets, baubles. I’m sentimental about certain books, as that’s my library and reference shelf at home, the material I like to have on hand to facilitate the muses. Even then, I tend to only hang onto books that I really enjoyed, that have some personal connection, or that have material that I will reference more than once. Besides the books, there are few baubles, anymore. Too many moves, can’t let grass grow under my feet, and so forth. I do have one item, it’s a small keepsake, from a dear, departed aunt. It was a cross, like a rosary cross, supposedly blessed by the pope when he was in San Antonio, years and years ago. No way to know if it’s true, or, for that matter, why a staunch Protestant (Lutheran) had a pope-blessed trinket. Holy crap. What to jettison, what to save. What has emotional attachment, sentimental value? Today, this week? You can sort out material you think you want to jettison, but no, you can’t toss it yet. My departed aunt’s cross? It’s been known to keep “evil spirits” away. Plus, it doesn’t take up much space.
Scorpio: Wouldn’t you like to start all over? Just take a giant eraser to the “whiteboard of life,” erase the last few months, especially the last few weeks, and then?
Start all over. Get a new set of “dry erase” markers, and sketch a new plan, plot a new Scorpio persona, get a new lease on the Life of Scorpio, and have this all work out better? Great idea. I can’t provide you with a giant eraser, believe me, I would. Nothing I wouldn’t try to do for the Scorpio guys, but here’s the deal, as quickly as this horoscope launches, there’s a tiny window wherein you can correct one aspect about the current state of affairs.
I didn’t say we could fix everything, but one little aspect, one tiny problem fixed, one problematic irritant quashed? That’s a start. Then, Mercury, then the Moon, and then, well, not everything, but a few more items fall into place. Gets better. To make this happen? Let’s fix one, seems like a small deal, let’s fix one thing, first.
Sagittarius: This last week or two has brought up feelings, memories, dreams and Sagittarius reflections. Reflections on the past, the present and our future. What does it mean? I’d like to think this is about picking a new course of study. Not a quick-study, learn in a single seminar topic, but a longer, more in-depth course, but one that’s picked out for ourselves. Pick a topic and way of studying that suits our humors. Our Sagittarius selves, we need a new branch to look at, get absorbed in, get our interest piqued.
Neal Stephenson, for example (Scorpio, I think), has a huge collection of three books (900 pages each) that are part of a cycle. Then, built on top of that cycle, although the other parts came out first, there are at least two or three more books, again, that fit in the narrative’s frame. Setting out to read the whole “Baroque Series” by Neal Stephenson is an example of a course of study. It’s history, alternative history, literary, geeky, all of that. That’s a course of study I can stand behind. Naturally, us being Sagittarius and all, just start with the first book. Don’t have to read them all at once.
Capricorn: There was the tattoo of a single character on her wrist. It was an ampersand. “&” I couldn’t help but notice. I use that particular character frequently in my own, often digital shorthand, adopted from century-old English (British) typography as, “&c.” (Means “et cetera.”) So I had to ask.
“I’m a philosophy major, means lot a to me.”
That single comment, to me, spoke volumes. After too much time in Austin, I’m used to seeing strange tattoo art, and I’m usually searching for visual cues, “Oh, look, you’re a Capricorn.” Makes me sound amazing, but there’s the glyph, etched into the artwork on an arm, shoulder, leg, &c. The girl with the ampersand tattoo stymied me, and me, at a loss for words? So that’s the clue, this week. Someone is going to leave you at a loss for words. In that situation? The best course of Capricorn action? Follow my lead, “Oh. Cool.” That’s it, no further comment needed.
Aquarius: This week is about component pieces. For me, it was simple, as this was more about older car motors, rather than astrology charts. Across the various model lines, with the big American manufacturers, there would be “component pieces” that would fit any number of makes and models. Think, like the same tires on Chevy as on a Ford. The tires, then, in this example, become the component pieces. Some days, I think astrology charts are similar, just various parts, all swapped out and rearranged in different models numbers, but the building blocks, the components, are the same.
Makes it easier to understand, and certainly, when we get under the hood, and get dirty? This is a lot easier to see. Same alternator on three different models of cars. We have some component pieces that have failed in the last weeks. Instead of replacing the whole motor, or the whole car, or the whole (insert sign here), consider just fixing the broken parts. Component pieces, sometimes, just need to fix a part of the picture for the image to return to a wholeness. Don’t trash the whole thing when you just need to fix a small — probably interchangeable — part.
Pisces: “Dowsing” is an intuitive art, for many years, given where I was raised, and how I was raised? Dowsing was considered a black art with dubious results, useful for finding where to drill for water or oil. Usually done by following a “Y” shaped branch, to figure out where the oil or water was supposed to be. “Drill here,” the stick says so, sure. As it turns out, there’s much more to this art form, and I wonder how much is our own intuition speaking through an implement of some kind.
I prefer a pendulum. I have several, more trinkets than serious tools, and I use them, keep one on my desk, just for “yes/no” questions. Funny, too, how it works. I wanted a “Yes” to a particular question and the pendulum kept saying, “no.” The way it works, the way I figure it works, the intuitive side “speaks” through the dowsing device. I always figured I had control over the way the little chain would swing, but as it turned out, maybe I don’t. As a Pisces, you — like me — want a certain answer. Use some type of intuitive tool to tell you the correct answer.
In my example? “No,” was correct, even though I didn’t like it.
Aries: One of my friends, long-time reader from (way) elsewhere? I got an emphatic message, “Are you OK?” Yes, why thank-you for asking, but why? “I saw there was a Pacific Hurricane/Typhoon/Tornado in Mexico (Florida), and that’s close to you, isn’t it?” I live at the edge of the “borderlands,” and I travel in the borderland area, frequently. However, the Pacific Coast is well-over a thousand miles from here. I appreciate the (Aries) concern, but no, that’s nowhere close to me. At all. Thanks for asking, though. Look at a map. Names and naming conventions aside, I’m in safe place. Not many earthquakes, too far inshore for real hurricane damage, and too far south for many tornadoes. Simple geography, maybe a little geology and meterology, but I’m safe. It’s simple, as an Aries, there’s a simple, let’s chalk this up to Mercury, but it’s really something else, there’s a simple question. Before you ask, take a quick glance at a map, use more than a news brief soundbite as the question. “I saw it on a news ticker, are you OK?” Yes, and thanks for asking.
Taurus: Not too far from where I lived, there’s a couple of “good ole boys” who run an old-school car shop. Mechanics who are akin to the old ways of “shade tree” mechanics. Not quite, but close. Tires, oils changes, inspection stickers, and so forth. I like the place because it reminds me of a previous life in a similar garage. I was talking to one of the mechanics, and I asked what his favorite questions were. “Oh no, this is the best, ‘the car is making a noise,’ and I’ll ask, now?” Customer will say, “No, not now, but earlier. In the motor, I think.” So I’ll ask, “What did it sound like?” “It was sort of a (clicking, snapping, popping, shrieking, screaming) noise. Maybe.” Undefined noises that can’t help anyone diagnose the problem. Sure. Two messages and two guidelines for Taurus: 1, unspecified noises? Can’t troubleshoot what we can’t hear. “It’s making a noise, not now, but it was.” Don’t do that. 2, when they come to you, and they will, in this next few days? “It’s making a noise, not now, but earlier?” When you are approached with similar, un-ponderable questions, beset with their problems? Tread gently.(1)
Gemini: There’s a comedian’s one liner, I’d like to invoke. “I have enough money to last the rest of my life,” he said, “unless I buy something.” (Gemini) Got it?
Or do you need a map?
- (1) What used to happen to me, I’d be someplace, the specific incident was an airplane, but could be anywhere, the person next to me asks what I do. “I’m an astrologer.” So that person upends a palm, or both hands, and says, “So what do you see in my future?” Palm Reading, equally valid art, but not the same thing as astrology. I got to where what I would do is peer at the palm and then ask, “So what’s your birthday?”
