Jacques in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (IV.ii.5)

Horoscopes for 11-12-2024

Full Moon 24° Scorpio/Taurus 11/15 3:28 PM
Uranus 25° Taurus

Scorpio

Ever read a book, and then start to adopt some of the characteristics of the protagonist, or using the language, the voices? In part, that’s how the old editor popped in the expression, “Sometimes Kramer thinks he was Shakespeare in a past life,” which is patently not true, but derived from my habit dramatically quoting from certain monologues. This isn’t about me. There’s that bit from a book, a line from a play, a piece of a Shakespeare monologue, where the character infuses your Scorpio soul. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so I’m told. I’ll repeat that to you, and then, let’s see, if you could be any character, like from a book, who would that be, dear Scorpio?

Sagittarius

I’m a typical Sagittarius: loud, blundering, and occasionally immune to my own advice. With the longer-term influence of the relative motion of certain pieces of the puzzle? As we watch what happens? If it isn’t done, now, it probably won’t happen before the end of the year. A smart person would put this as a goal for next year. In order to achieve that Sagittarius target?

Work behind the scenes, work in the background, and work out-of-sight. Think about a gray ghost, not really visible, but then, not really invisible — it’s that Sagittarius flavor — working in the background. Goals, destinations, birthday wishes, skip immediate results. Think working where no one can seem to see us? As an eminence grise, so to speak.

Capricorn

Pause, slow down, and overthink this for a minute. Is there a better way? Sure, if you think about it. Is it better to use that other way? Sure, if you think about it. Or maybe not. Capricorn, in some depictions, is the horned goat-footed person, you know, part pack animal, part grazing creature, and sure-footed despite the footwear. The phase of the moon, Full Moon, and its incumbent fallout? There’s a tendency, a desire to pause and contemplate, think about, or otherwise ruminate on situations. While some folks would suggest you move forward with alacrity and haste? There’s an innate Capricorn desire to pause, wait, and overthink. Look: given the current conditions? Given how many people don’t seem to be thinking? A little overthinking on your Capricorn part is not an unreasonable idea.

Aquarius

You get two tries at this one. Two tries. Not three, and if there is a third attempt made? Might fail miserably, and in such way as to annoy the crap out of Aquarius. Two tries. You’re allowed to make two attemtopsi at whatever this goal, this target, this challenge might be. Two tries. Not three, not five, and if it doesn’t work in those two tries? Put it on the shelf, and we’ll look at possible solutions at a later date. Planets: Jupiter in Gemini, good. Mars in Leo, not so good. Gemini? Sign of the Twins? Two tries, two attempts, and two times to expend good, Aquarius effort. If it works, it works. And if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t and no use grinding on what doesn’t want to work. The Full Moon is “fixed” and that creates a little extra tension so that’s why I’m limiting you to the two tries. I’m on your side, and I’m all for Aquarius success, but limiting the attempts at this time, limiting this to just two? Helps assure a lower level of frustration.

Pisces

I started using this expression, and variations upon the theme of it, many years back, it fits me, and it really will help, I hope, with what is rocking along in Pisces. There’s a sense that there’s order, and structure, a sense that a certain way is what is important, and that specific set of conditions looks like rules, to me. Looks like laws, rules, regulations, and codes being enforced, to your Pisces self, as well. Think like this: “These are guidelines, not rules.” What follows, and I’ve echoed this back forth over the years, but rules? I have to break rules, just look at my grammar and abuse of the language itself, not to mention my astrology and lack of certain professional designations. However, call these guidelines? That easy to follow as it is more voluntary, less imposing, and easier to see the concept behind that rule. Guideline. Why that rule makes sense as a practical guideline, for Pisces. Stay within the guidelines, as that will help.

Aries

To me, it’s an old replay. To me, it’s something I’ve seen, experienced, before. It’s a recurrent, for me, Aries nightmare. It’s a kind of stress caused by repetition. Repeating the same statement, over and over, hoping something changes, or that repeating the same mission parameters, again and again? Hoping that it changes what must be done. It’s the endless repetition of certain phrases, the annoying habit of asking the same question, phrased differently, but still the same question? “1. Know what I mean? 2. No, really, do you know what I’m talking about? 3. Are you hearing this?” That’s three times, the same message has been repeated, and the answer hasn’t changed. Such is the nature of the Sun in Scorpio against the Aries slice of the heavenly pie. It means that we all heard the first time, and the subsequent versions are not required. Ask once. Wait for an answer. Might be a long wait, as in the example? You knew what the answer was; you just didn’t like it.

Taurus

While I understand obsession, I don’t always get it. When a certain Taurus appeared for a reading, I was stuck trying to define the difference between an obsession and genuine, heart-felt interest. Likewise, as this full moon explodes across the Taurus landscape, differentiate between an obsession, and really heart-felt emotions. To be most fair to the gentle Taurus, the obsession can feel like real emotions, and there has to be a tickler, a trick, a mental game we play with ourselves, to tell the difference between the two, obsession and deep emotions. I’ll become obsessed with a book, and stay up late, reading it. That’s obsession. Certain books in my life, I’ve bought over and over, and given away, “You might like this,” or, “you should read this.” If I stay up late, reading it? Then toss the book aside? That’s a simple example of obsession. However, if I save the book, or buy a second copy to give away? That’s more like heart-felt emotional attachment to the contents. For Taurus, it’s about how you tell the difference between the two, nearly identical events.

Gemini

There are breaks we all get, to some, a lucky shot. For the Sign of the Twins, my favorite mutable air sign, Gemini? There’s a way to move yourself forward even as it seems like the odds are against you. If you weren’t the the incredible Gemini twins, then you wouldn’t have what it takes to move this further down the line. The challenge, and I’m not sure a many of you will accept the answers I have, but the deal is that the this is not a complete week. The goals are not all obtained. This is about moving you and yourself, and those Gemini power points closer to completion, even if it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. It is, but only by degree. The outward sign, the symbols, what you use to mark your good, orderly, forward progress? That has to derive from some internal marker, not an exterior point for validation. Use your own, internal measurements, not some arbitrary arrangement foisted upon you by a cruel, disinterested, and coldly aloof society.

Cancer

There is a very confusing set of stimulations for the Moon Children. Part of this is current events, but part of this is current events seen through the lens of the current astrology, and what that spells out? Dealing with the difference between fiction, friction, and facts. Think of this as the “Three Fs. Fiction, Friction, and Fact.” I’ve never officially taken holy orders, I’ve never been inducted in a secret society, and I’ve never sworn a blood oath to an arcane brotherhood, none of that. I understand the appeal, and I’ve been a casual member of a church, but that’s more about moving in concert with my own spiritual beliefs than belonging to some order, sect, or cause. Under the full moon, after a spooky halloween, I’d challenge the watery Sign of the Crab to look at alliances, allegiances, and organizations wherein one might have membership. Or what is structured as a “membership.” To some, a blood oath under the full moon, and to others? “Yeah, I know that guy,” punctuated with a simple roll of the eyes. Facts, frictions, and fiction, which one is it? Can it be more?

The Leo

A special Leo friend was texting me. There was frantic tone to the messages, like, there was an issue and it had to be resolved right in that very moment, and from what I could tell, from the nature of the description of the problem, problems, as they were compounding then cascading together, growing larger and looming in a disastrous way, with no easy outlet for The Leo. No easy resolution, and somehow, this was my non-Leo fault. The fault is not me but in our stars, as the stars above do govern our condition, the mangled lines from Shakespeare. You got it coming from all sides, that much is true, but I have a different solution, as way to work through this. What’s the first problem? Can you fix it? No? Set it aside until, yeah, just toss it to the side and wait for some other sign to get to it. Can’t fix it? Don’t. Move onto the next item in that Leo List of obviously other peoples’ mistakes, and fix what’s next. Oh, can’t fix that one either? Move on to #3. Set aside, ignore, or stick placeholder in it, for anything you have inadequate resources to tackle. Leave it for others. Fix what you can. Skip the rest.

Virgo

It’s the little tricks and tips, and this one is from one of my favorite bookstores, really a chain of bookstores? Half-Price Books. Could be applied to Changing Hands Books, and I suspect, any similar kind of establishment, pawn shop, as an example. I culled my library, as there was a series of books, several authors, and I decided that I really don’t need to collect everything written by that one guy. Enjoy the work, and I’ll make notes when I read one of the books, but I don’t need to buy every copy, new or used. Support public libraries. However, when selling back to the various used bookstores, I’ve found that a few at a time, instead of a whole shelf full? If I take just a couple of the books, I’ll get, let’s say, $5. If I take a box load, a truck-bed full of those tomes? I’ll get the same amount. I understand I have to take these back, a few at a time, more trips, but then, that’s more time to browse. Time to recycle, but do so a little bit at a time, no wholesale, clear-cut, dump it all at once.

Libra

I’m not big on sports commentary, however, at the tail end of the baseball season? There was an analysis that I stumbled into, more as an amusing anecdote, and a collection of aphorisms rather than strict structural study, and the suggestion?

“The game is about who fails the least.”

Baseball, in person, is great fun, and baseball, on the small screen, is equally amusing, if different because I don’t have to pay attention. There are some announcers I’ve grown to enjoy, as the quick quip, and statistical background makes it more pleasurable. There is a difference, though, than the numbers, the hopes, the dreams, the emotional investment, and finally, what happens on the field. The local basketball team, Go Spurs, there was a comment that coach made, similar, was on there news at the time, something about “We won because we scored more points than the other team.” In a perfect Libra world, the winner is the one who makes the fewest mistakes, because that prevents the most points. Either way, the advice stands, as we look down the road at the weeks ahead and the looming holidays.

• 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