“These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.”

King Lear (I.ii.57)

Whole passage is here.

Horoscopes for 11-7-2022

• November 8 Solar Eclipse 12° Scorpio/Taurus
• Mars in Retrograde

Scorpio

There’s an almost insane amount of energy that runs with these kinds of astrological portents. Manic, with higher highs, and lower lows is not too strong of a description along with the usual disclaimers, all carefully worded to suggest that we not get too carried away with any one direction. Scorpio is dependable, if not always flexible. “But I’m very flexible,” one Scorpio insists. Sure you are, just change. “But I don’t want to change,” and herein is the problem — and solution — to what is running amok in the heavens. One great thinker suggested that no action in times of great moral crisis is a problem, but the real problem? Inappropriate action. Ill-considered, unplanned, consequences-be-damned, full speed ahead? Happy birthday, but maybe think this one through, and while you’re thinking this one through? Sit this one out. It’s your birthday time, after all.

Sagittarius

“Get the app now!” Seen that sort of line often enough in modern times. Everyone has an app that ingrates into a vertical silo or warehouse for that consumer. Periodically, I get cold-calls from self-styled “app-developers” who want to integrate my business across all platforms, having an app that relieves customers of money while insuring that the clients don’t ever stray from any of my platforms. As if. Two examples come to mind, Amazon and Facebook. I like neither app, and as a matter of form, I don’t have either app. When, and it’s quite rare these days, but when I interact with Facebook or Amazon, I do so through a web browser interface. That’s usually running on a VPN, so it’s a private network connection, just me and the retail giant. I’m staying out of the race.

It’s a Sagittarius rat race of epic proportions — with no happy conclusion. I refuse to “get the app” and I looked into syndicating my work with an app, but the cost of building the app, then the infrastructure to support the app needlessly complicates my life, and the possible monetary gain doesn’t justify the headache. Or expense. None of that works. So when the tag line reads, “Get the app,” or “let us build you an app for that?” That’s the first clue that this is Sagittarius unnecessary complications. Just don’t. “Don’t what?” Get the app, build the app, or otherwise complicate this more than is required.

Capricorn

A while back, an astrological meme floated through, got forwarded to me by a client. The tag line was something like, “Capricorn, what if your love language is money?” Funny, and that one mother of a Capricorn child assures me that money talks, if not fully motivating. So, in that single example this works. Which is what this was about, and more a starting point, as it’s not money that is the problem, but the way Capricorn works, and especially now, as the holidays are on approach? How Capricorn works, maybe while everyone else seem to be playing, or doing whatever, remember that — to some — money is a love language. If that’s the case, then work is most important, and what we should concentrate on, even if no one else seems to care. It’s important — for Capricorn.

Aquarius

I was headed to the coast for same late fall big fish action. I grabbed a handful of fishing poles, unsure of the conditions, at the moment. Spinning, bait-casting, light monofilament, heavy braid, some of that new stuff, the hybrid fishing line? Live bait, plastics, bobbers, sinkers, and few lures, as well as one new fresh-water lure that will be useless by the end of the trip, but might fool a few fish, I was hoping to find out. It’s an Aquarius thing, fresh-water lure in the brackish, salty bay. All those choices, and what did I use? I free-lined shrimp, mostly live, some kind of dead, but that’s just a light spinning reel, long pole, and a hook. I didn’t need six or even eight poles, I used one. I didn’t need any fancy lure, weights, or bobbers, nothing but pole, hook, bait. Results speak for themselves. After all, this is an Aquarius adventure, results are what we’re interested in. You can grab a handful of materials, but what is really required? A single tool, works best. Don’t try to over-think this one.

Pisces

Listening to clients, I hear too much material to keep in my brain. But there’s a common thread, and one them has to do with dreams. Pisces dreams are a big item, but as backwards Mars approaches a point where it creates a tension angle with your current favorite planet, Neptune, there’s a sense that some of those dreams are unrealistic. Wrong word, bad Kramer. The dreams are not unrealistic, it’s just the dreams stack up on each other, and individually, any one of those fantasies is a distinct, and very real, possible iteration of Pisces reality, as we all share. However, that notion that about three of these all happen at once is less than probable. I’ve long learned never to underestimate what a Pisces dreamer can accomplish through sheer will and bending the rules of the universe to fit his or her needs, but again, Mars crashes this party. Not bad, just a time to rein in those expectations and get headed towards more realistic goal, if only just for now.

Aries

Best way to double your money? Fold it over, and stick it back in your pocket. This is not an original thought, but the homey expression came to my mind looking at current eclipse pattern plus a few stray planets in residence in Scorpio. Remember: Scorpio is a compatible Mars sign. Mars is retrograde in Gemini, the eclipse is a doozy, unfurling in Scorpio. But this isn’t entirely about money, but more about how you want to judiciously spend your available Aries resources. Let’s circle right back to that opening comment, politely plucked from other poets, “The best way to double your money is fold it over, and stick it back in your pocket.”

Taurus

“Freeze!” Simple as that. I like to keep this easy to understand, and there’s a deluge of incoming astrological data, mostly the effects of an eclipse, but also Venus/Mercury as toasting Taurus factor, and then Uranus, plus that Saturnine Saturn in Aquarius. Simplest solution for Taurus? “Freeze.” Haven’t seen it many years, and I’m unsure if children play like this, anymore, but I recall a game called “Freeze-tag,” and it was not unlike what I’m suggesting for Taurus. Venus and Mercury will move on and the lunar phase (eclipse action) will recede, but the big deal is how to react to this. Guess what I suggest, for the moment? Take your Taurus time, but think about just freezing, if only for a moment.

Gemini

There’s a cable TV channel dedicated to weather. There’s a national weather service. There’s — seems like — thousands of apps, for computers, tablets, phones, and even watches. There is no shortage of ways to tell the weather. I prefer looking at the astrological weather, but as a reflection for gentle Gemini? Too many sources drive you crazy. Look at my wrist, time and temp are one thing. Glance at my phone, slightly different set of conditions, but similar. Look at the TV screen in the background, and there’s images of a wintery mix, or tropical gale, on various screens. If you limit your Gemini selves to a single, or maybe just two, three sources? You can arrive at a workable middle that fits. All that matters right now. Out of thousands of sources, limit your intake of data. Thusly constrained, Gemini can make better decisions, and move (forward) with alacrity.

Cancer

There is a desire to tell the world. There is a desire to loudly proclaim (insert poignant Moon Child point here). Tell the world! Announce it loud and proud (announce it loudly and proudly, ahem.) And also? Understand you might not be working with all the facts. You are working with what was available at the time, but again, there might be more data rolling towards you. “God is in the details,” or “the devil is in the details,” depends on which one you like. But there is that: the details. There’s a distinct lack of organizing principle in what you’re doing, and therein is the inherent warning. Not really a flaw, but an incomplete data set. From what I can see, and from what your Cancer self can see? Looks good. Make that statement. Just understand, even before Sagittarius and Thanksgiving arrive? There’s going to be more information.

The Leo

Over the years, I’ve worked with a large number of different web hosting environments. Some are simple; some are complicated. Most currently tout, “user friendly” tools and similar “build your own” texts. I’ve run everything from having to tunnel in with secure layer on a command line interface to super-simple, dumbed-down, building-blocks interfaces. Each time, there’s a learning curve for me, each time, I have to figure out what the online-help article means when it refers to the various points, and each time, the “five-minute” background work takes half a day. Think about that equivalency in the majestic Leo life — “Only takes five minutes!” With conditions like they are? Vaunted “5 minutes,” is more like 6 hours. Now that you know this? Plan accordingly. Alternate example? “I saw a ‘you tube video’ — takes five minutes!” Plan for the rest of the afternoon.

Virgo

Always interesting for me to watch, off to one side, feigning my impartial observer bit, as a normally thick-skinned, calloused Virgo gets his panties in a wad over a perceived comment. The British term, “knickers in a twist,” does sound better, and to allay any political fears and blowback? Note the careful positioning of the male possessive pronoun, his. Then there’s me, again,off to one side, seeing this from an outsider’s way of looking at the Virgo issues, and to me? This isn’t a big deal. Isn’t that important of a point, and the ruckus raised by Virgo is not commiserate with perception of damages inflicted. Can’t fix any of this overnight. Can’t fix some of this at all. Can go back to be a calloused and thicker-skinned good Virgo — helps to let some of this slide right off, as I’m prone to observe, “Not my rodeo; not my bull to ride.”

Libra

One of my buddies, he’s a painter. Name of his business, includes a town’s name and the terming, “Painting.” If I don’t qualify that statement, a large number of my friends assume, when I say “painter,” this has to do with fine arts, and oils on canvas, or maybe acrylics, depends on the frame of reference. That’s what this is about, a frame of reference. What we use in Libra land to orient what’s in a name. Not that my buddy isn’t creative, I turn to him for color and some of his handiwork, with hammer, nails, and similar tools? Brilliant, and he’s a master of the creative solution, as well. But this isn’t about his name, or creative skills, it’s about names, nomenclatures, and similar conventions. The old adage, “Parts is parts,” might not apply if the same name is used for different pieces. “Your buddy is a painter? Museum or gallery?” I’m thinking, “Trim, doors, and windows on the neighbor’s place…” when I think of him. There’s a shifting Libra frame of reference.

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