Horoscopes for 3-5-2024

“It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe
A troop of horse with felt.

Lear in Shakespeare’s King Lear (IV.vi.156-7)

Horoscopes for 3-5-2024

Horoscopes for 3-5-2024

Pisces

While I might’ve been at this work for many years, I still experiment with style, design, layout, and format. I got stuck trying to figure out how to attach ideas to ideas, and resorted to the obvious formatting trick: the footnote⁵. Cheap trick, but one that works. It’s that addendum, without linking out and away from the page itself. Referring to a point that is still within the document but might not be necessary data, but then again, might be. Personally, I thought footnotes were gone but an early internet renaissance brought them back, as a pseudo-intellectual look, and as a hot-linking after-thought. Tacking on a note where there might, or might not be, a note required⁶. Birthdays, Saturn, Neptune, and extenuating circumstances abound in the the Life of Pisces. With that in mind, the gentle Pisces would be well-served to recall the format, design, and mechanics of adding a footnote, because there are going to be external sources we will want to see. With Saturn, there is some structure required, and maybe that notion of footnotes to any Pisces Birthday documentation will help, antiquated format that footnotes might be.

Aries

I’m not fond of invoking Shakespeare’s King Lear, although it is a play I’ve enjoyed numerous times. It’s largely a cathartic experience because, the full title? The Tragedy of King Lear, that leading “tragedy” should be a clue that it doesn’t end well. Two really good performances always spring to mind, as they were both tear-jerkers at the end. Not like I didn’t know it was coming, Not like the play isn’t over 400 years old, and not like we don’t know this isn’t going to end well. Hint: it’s in the long title. But?

Knowing how it will end is a way to be prepared. This week, for Aries? It does end well, but here’s the catch: this doesn’t follow the route you want it to follow. It gets there, just not the way you think it should go. That means? Be prepared for twists, detours, and “re-routing” — usually spoken in a computer-generated voice, like Siri, Waze, or Google Maps.

Taurus

It’s all muddy at the moment. It’s going to be all murky, and that spreads out over everything that seems to contact your Taurus self. I can’t help that. I can easily predict it, and when you get moments when the clouds part, and the sun shines, and you can see clearly? I am so willing to be wrong. But otherwise, and not what you should look for, but likely what is ahead? Murkiness. Muddy, clouded sight. I had an eye doctor prescribe these eye drops, and right after I would use, as instructed? My vision would cloud up. I’d blink a few time, and then, everything would be blurry, and eventually, it all got better, but first? Confusion, murkiness. One fishing buddy always referred to this as “stained,” as that was a common term for a lake’s water roiling in sediment, and lacking any kind of visibility. Not horrible, just difficult to see through — here’s the Taurus hint — difficult, murky, muddied at this moment. It will clear up. Blink. Blink again.

Gemini

Have to ask, “What is the purpose?” Question popped up, tangential to Gemini at the moment, but then as I twiddled the star charts⁷, I kept thinking, the question is, “To what purpose?” The question, and it is more generalized, but the question is more like a jumping off point of inquiry for Gemini. Action, just for the sake of action doesn’t always work, but action, taken in a specific direction with certain goal in mind? That works. But again, to what purpose, what — or who — does this serve? I ask a lot of question for someone who wanders around in an aimless manner. My aimless meandering routes, though, they have a specified purpose, and that’s towards a certain kind of direction that isn’t always apparent, but I have a plan in mind. A direction, a goal. Looks like meandering and aimless, but it’s not. Likewise, ask your Gemini selves, “To what purpose does this serve?”

Cancer

Ghost Peppers, Carolina Reaper, and assorted other variants are favorites with me. I like food so hot it hurts, and I’m not talking about temperature of the coffee, either. This is about perceived Scoville units. More is usually better, at least for me. However, I’ve learned, albeit the most arduous route, that most girlfriends, and especially the gentle Cancer Moon Children tend to do “not as well” with the superior heats. A single habanero in a large pot of chili is all it takes. Not three or six, or, for that matter, no Ghost Peppers or any of their derivatives. It’s about moderation. There are two, that I can think of, Moon Children Cancers that like it as hot as I do. Outside of those two? And if this is meal prepared for anyone else but those two? Moderation. Or, in fact, I’ll just skip the hottest of the hot peppers altogether. I’ve learned, albeit that most arduous route, that the really hot stuff doesn’t work for everyone. Unless you know the target audience really likes it that scorching hot? Tone it down. Adjust as need be for the audiences you face⁸.

The Leo

One of my little Leo companions was complaining about a certain situation, over which there was no control. “All up in my feels,” was the iterated commentary. I depend on emotional context in my work. It depends on feelings, as well as intuition, insight, book-smart, and some degree of street-savvy. The Mighty Leo cannot depend on just “feelings” at this juncture. Great idea. Good guiding light, but not the be-all and end-all. “But what if I feel like you’re right?” I feel like I’m right, too, but as we all know, that doesn’t make me right. So the feelings, being “all up in my feels,” that’s all right, but can’t let those sweep you away in the decision process. Weight the emotional content against what the rational Leo mind knows is fact⁹.

Virgo

Last time I boarded a commercial flight, I was gripping an expensive cup of airport coffee, barely had a sip, and settled into my seat. Propped the coffee between my legs to keep it steady, buckled my seatbelt, and leaned back. I woke, seemed like a few minutes later, halfway to the destination with the coffee cool, but still “kind of” warm. I opened a tablet and started to read a book I was engrossed with. It’s a learned response, from years of bouncing around, and one I’m happy to enjoy. However, it annoys a certain Virgo travel companion, “I don’t know how you do that.” Clean conscience, clean living, hot coffee. The Pisces pieces cause the nominally Virgo person¹⁰ to over-think. Over-think, over-analyze, over-share, and then, we’re back to over-thinking. I wondered why the problem with take-off, and I got lesson in willing the plane to take off, then willing the wings to not fall off, then worrying about having enough gas to make to the destination, and if we do land safely, will anyone greet us, and then, is the hotel clean? How much of that can I control? None. What do I do? Nap, or read. What do I suggest you do? Follow my lead, that overthinking gets nowhere in a hurry.

Libra

I stumbled into a collection of images from “The world’s greatest bookstores,” and really? Should be “the most visually appealing bookstores,” not necessarily “greatest.” I am biased, but I grew up in the shadow of one great bookstore, and it never makes any of the lists, Half-Price Books. In part, it is a privately held corporation, I think, and in part, each location has a different style, sense, flavor. Each store is unique. There was one in old South Austin (South Lamar) that seemed to expand over time, and the growth was not even, which just made exploring the rows and shelves that much more exciting. However, what sets this small chain apart from the rest of “The world’s greatest bookstores,” is that local flavor. What Libra does best to concentrate upon? Not a homogenized look that reflects a generalized acceptance of everything, but the little, tell-tale elements that capture local color, the neighborhood’s essence, as reflected in tastes of books. Literary flavors, so to speak. This isn’t about grand structures in great capitols, images of “The world’s greatest bookstores,” no, this is about localized elements, what’s underneath those Libra feet.

Scorpio

There are a number of different belief systems that everyone employs. On any given day, I can be looking at one of these myself. They all vary from hard-core fundamentalist religion, with arcane laws about diet, worship, and social activities, to some of the more free-wheeling faiths with fewer restrictions, to no religion, or my Zen-like understanding (at the moment), or one can worship at the alter of modern science, trusting the doctors, hospitals and nurses to fix everything. Again, belief systems vary from one based in structured faith, possibly restrictive in that faith’s rules to modern science, medical medicine that heals all, like a miracle. Fair enough, and belief systems vary. I watched one buddy swing from fundamentalist Xtian to only science then onto a bizarre self-reliance, that looked a lot like a faith, if only a faith in one’s own self, and its mantra, “No one is coming to save you.” I am Sagittarius, so not Scorpio, means I can easily take all these articles of faith, from self-reliance to medical mysteries, and various fundamentalists, all layered together in a blender, hit “shred,” and pour out a concoction that works for me. Embrace, dear Scorpio, embrace that there might be more than one way. Prayer and meditation is good, but that doesn’t mean you should skip the doctor’s orders.

Sagittarius

Every time a certain local team gets any kind of media attention, I think back to a singular event, years ago. The coach was looking forlorn at the after-game press conference. “How did (the other team) win? They scored more points.” It was a simple answer and cut through the hype, the bowdlerizing balderdash, and the other bovine excrement that the press hurls in such situations. We can be on either side of that, the ones heaping the inane questions, the useless rhetoric and trying to tear a hole in the fabric of reality, conspiracy theories and all. Or? In a succinct fashion, we can answer the question. Simple answer, straight to the point, no aggrandizing, or casting of aspersions. Straight talk?

“How did (Team Sagittarius) win? We scored more points.”

Capricorn

I get all excited with the new moon, but there’s a problem, especially for me and my Capricorn friends. There’s a universal law that applies in this situation. I see this more frequently with the parents of small children, but it applies to a much broader cross-section of humanity, and it’s not limited to children, or adults acting like children, or just stupid adults. It applies to all. The chance of the jelly-side of a slice of bread, landing on the carpet, face down? There is an immutable law that governs such action, and it has to do with the twin factors of time and expense. The price of the carpet, the more problematic is it to get that stain out? The greater the odds. Its parallel and similar component in this equation? The amount of time one has to clean up “This mess.” Time, cost, and those two might be related, time is money, to some, and the two intertwine in this situation. The chance of the half of a sandwich landing face down is directly proportionate to the cost of the repair, and the time it might take to fix another, or repair the damage, or both. All three. So don’t make sandwiches this week? Maybe no peanut-butter and jelly?

Aquarius

The expression I’ve heard? “Cherry picking.” I don’t know how this applies in your particular situation, but what I’ve seen — look I’m guilty of this, too — is that we sort through a stack of data points to pick only material that supports the original thesis with no respect for outliers, or other information that might contradict the intended outcome. Use only information, proof, that supports the Aquarius cause, the Aquarius proof. I’ve done this before. I’m guilty of this, only offering evidence that supports my stated position. There are two points here, careful about “cherry picking” data to support your cause, and then, as a secondary notation? Be careful that someone else isn’t doing the exact same thing, selecting just the right pieces to make this look even more appealing than it might really be.

1. Tropical Zodiac, local time ↩
2. Tropical Zodiac, local time ↩
3. Tropical Zodiac, local time ↩
4. Tropical Zodiac, local time ↩
5. Footnote: seen here. ↩
6. Like Saturn and Venus. ↩
7. Really, astrology charts and planets, for details see Barefoot Astrology. ↩
8. See fineprint. ↩
9. See fineprint. ↩
10. Virgo. ↩

• Aperture: ƒ/1.8
• Camera: iPad Pro (11-inch)
• Taken: 29 November, 2022
• Flash fired: no
• Focal length: 3mm
• ISO: 64
• Shutter speed: 1/60s