Horoscopes for 6-4-2024
“How long shall I be patient? Ah, how long
Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?”
York in Shakespeare’s Richard II (II.i.163-4)
Horoscopes for 6-4-2024
6/6 New Moon Gemini
6/6 New Moon conjunct Venus 16° Gemini
Gemini
The problem, birthdays and all? The problem is being too short. I knew one Gemini who was “Five-foot-thirteen,” so this isn’t a commentary about stature, or relative height. It’s about being too quick, too hasty, and in too much of a hurry when everyone else is stuck in a summer doldrum. It’s the car in front of you slowing down to look at a sign, maybe trying to see a street name or street number, and that infuriates the normally gentle Gemini, pounding on your steering wheel, “Will you hurry up? Pay attention!” Let’s endeavor to avoid such unpleasantness — let someone else drive. Then, too, you can look at your phone, or the street signs, and converse, all the while not worrying about the slow moving vehicle in front of you. It’s a winning scenario for that business about being too short. Adjust as need be to fit your own circumstances.
Cancer
Cancer, the Sign of the Crab, the Moon Children? Always been a tough one for me. I usually err on the side of being too blunt, too harsh, and too direct. Over the years, I’ve tried to soften that, but I run into that Cancer exoskeleton, the hard carapace that protects that Moon Child’s heart. I’ll bounce ideas off it, and then suddenly, something cracks, and I’m the bad guy. I have yet to find the middle ground, and there’s a reason why there are fewer Cancer birthdays in my chart files, especially when looking at the numbers of other signs.
I tried to unpack that question, the disparity, and some of it is my purely brash, rash, and uncouth style. But some of it also stems from my inability to package up the data into a format that Cancer likes. Have to make it palatable. So far, I guess I don’t package the data points quite right, and I might never get another chance. The take-away from my mistakes? Think through the way you’re crafting your weekly messages; how you interest other people; and how you convey that important information. I don’t think I packaged the information correctly.
The Leo
It’s the presentation of facts, and how that information is displayed. My first experience with assembling a set of slides to teach an astrology class, more just a simple lecture, but my first attempt? I don’t think I’ve even got remnants of the material, but it was good. It was also more instructive for me, rather than anyone listening, because I had to figure out what I knew, what went where, and how to present the huge quantity of information. Take several hefty books, and try to boil that information down to a single slide, a single point, maybe three subsidiary bullet-points, in a presentation. Fast, quick, concise, and most important, short. The attention span of the average human seems to be getting shorter and shorter, and how does magnificent Leo, the best fire sign of all, how does The Leo wrap that material up in a form that is quick and easy to digest.
Virgo
With the Sun/Moon, and so forth? There’s a veritable cacophony of voices inside the Virgo head with directions, suggestions, and obvious limitations. The nominally nurturing internal voice is split and rent asunder with that lunar phase. Great ideas, exploding in the brain. Bad ideas, also exploding in the brain. Bad ideas with effective implementation, are they really bad ideas? Actually, and I’m sure a good Virgo would concur, even a bad idea with effective implementation is still a bad idea. Not that a decent bad idea ever stopped me from making a situation way worse than it was before, but this isn’t about me, this is about Virgo, and all those ideas, echoing back forth, ricocheting around. Look: bad ideas and good ideas exist in harmony, can’t have one without the other. The question and the way to successfully navigate this energy? Which action to take? Or maybe, just tentative steps towards a plan, and see if it is a good idea or bad one.
Libra
The court of public opinion varies greatly. Yet, for some, that is the very place where arbitration about taste, style, and looks comes into play. Over my lifetime, I’ve observed as that court of public opinion is short-sighted, and frequently wrong. However, the public does carry the weight of that opinion, and we have to follow, we have to follow the latest trends, fashions, advice, and other trapping in modern life. It’s a very Libra question, at this moment, about that court of public opinion, and whether you want to listen to them, or not. From my observations, I’ve found that Libra tends to side with the majority, to go along with what is perceived as the best option, and listens to that court’s ruling, for better or for worse. Herein is our weekly Libra conundrum — listen to the masses, and follow along, or consider sticking out on path that might be less popular, but equally interesting to Libra. Stick with what works in the court of popular opinion, what others think, or try something different that might be a little shady to some. As one would sing, “You can go your own way…”
Scorpio
The question is, “What to do about it?” The answer? So many characters turn to the decent Scorpio for an answer to this by question, and the real answer? We both know there is a definitive answer about the most correct course for the person asking the question, but for Scorpio? There might be a singular answer, but let’s look at where the sun is, in Gemini. Instead of a singular answer, how about no answer, or better yet, in answer to the question? Ask another question. “What do you mean?” In answers to the questions, and you usually have good answers, but with the current state of affairs, Gemini and all, maybe answer a question with question? “Why would I want to do that?”
Sagittarius
Personally? I have to watch out for the “Savior Syndrome.” I’ll catch a new client, or someone gets passed on to me, and I hear the “You’re so wonderful and so right about that” kind of praise, and that’s the problem — my problem. I deal with potentials, possibilities, and directions. I’m good with that. I’m interested in the symbolic timing of events. I am not a savior, not the messiah, nor am I the answer to all that ails a body. I advertised as such, at one time, but there was clear implied sarcasm directed at myself, in that kind of a statement. There’s a temptation to elevate a person to a station that is frankly untenable. For our Sagittarius selves, this can go either way. We can hold another person to a higher ideal than is realistically possible, or we get put up on that pedestal, and we’re not able to maintain that lofty height. Either way, it’s about expectations — and I’d like think that is about the unrealistic expectations of others (but it can go either way). The Buddha reminds us that expectations are the mother of all mistakes.
Capricorn
One trope that recently popped up for me? An “art house” or indie film needs to have a long train-ride sequence. There will be either featured song, or a mix of music playing in the background, the imagery flashing from a train rocketing through the countryside, or along the rails at night, or whatever the movie-maker saw as fit to convey the message. But the staple, the train ride? It’s there. Been a long time since I took a long train ride, so I don’t have any recent footage that would even begin to convert the message — but I’m not Capricorn. You are. Stock part of any “art house” film is the long train ride where, lots of things can happen. There’s pensive, inner landscapes, possibly external views, reflections in the train’s windows, and the musical landscapes are almost endless within certain licensing rights.
Aquarius
On the windowsill, here, I was looking at an herbal clipping in a bud vase. Clipped under a new moon, then dropped in water, the plant sprig was starting to show roots already, within days. Yes, it’s part of that brutal Texas summer, but there’s more, it’s lunar gardening, something I’ve been paying attention as an adjunct to my stated career options. Seems to work well, and here it was, the other morning, staring me in the face, on the little kitchenette’s windowsill, roots. As far as being effective, in my very un–scientific observations, the plants do best when clipped at the new moon, and planted 28 days later, at the next moon. Gives those little roots a chance to grown and exert themselves. In particular, this works with herbs, like basil, mint, and rosemary. Most vermin don’t like them, and the stuff survives in my “natural selection” garden, one of over-attention and un-attention. Too much, too little, never just the right amount, and if the plants survive me, it gets to live. One of the operative terms is “drought-resistant.” Kind of sums it all up. But paying attention to the cycles, the lunar rhythms, that might be most important. I saw the roots just starting to sprout.
Pisces
Looking ahead by looking at the past? What I do, most frequently. Ground into my professional sense? An early teacher preached that Saturn worked on a strict, 28-year cycle. Years into my own observations, though, I figured out that Saturn’s cycle tends toward 28 years, but can vary widely, and for now? Look back 30 years, maybe even 31 year into the past. That’s where the current conditions — and how Pisces can best deal with them — are located. The knowledge for your future it firmly rooted in the Pisces past. Where you were then is how it plays out, now. What you didd —then— that worked? What didn’t work? Did we learn any lessons?
Aries
I was dealing with a bit of business correspondence, and I realized that I asked for a buddy to “cc” me on his official response. When I looked, I also realized that my buddy might not be old enough understand the real meaning of the term, “cc.” The history of the office machinery and how we got where we are at? Started with a typewriter, and those beasts were manual, so to make a duplicate copy of a document, there were two pieces of typing paper with a “carbon” page in between, and the operator — the typist — had to hit each key hard enough to make sure that the letters went all the way through the first page, through the carbon page onto the second page. Along came electric typewriters, and eventually, computers. Still, to this day, I see the paper clip logo and its nomenclature, “cc” — carbon copy. The alternative side of this? I saw an ad selling digital copies of books, “Limited to supplies on hand!” Really just a bandwidth limit, but in both cases, the terms used are antiquated — and really don’t apply.
Taurus
There is an extended grace period for Taurus. An extension on the lease, the promises that were made a few days, maybe weeks back? There’s a continuum applied to the dates and the data. This shows up differently for everyone. But the way I see it? I dropped off a device, an old phone that didn’t work, with a repair shop. Quoted me a price for battery, the apparent issue, and I left it that. Turns out that the part that connects to the battery was also un-serviceable, but the store-front repair place quoted me one price, and they stuck with that quote. The bonus, took an extra couple of weeks, but that bonus, and how this applies to Taurus? The repaired phone worked as good as new, and there was an extra, year-long warranty on the parts, labor, and repair itself. Old phone, like new. That’s the Taurus grace period — in action.
- Aperture: ƒ/1.8
- Camera: iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 3mm
- ISO: 80
- Shutter speed: 1/60s
