Horoscopes for 2-25-2025
“I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that I fear me will never out of my bones.”
Trinculo in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (5.1.279)
Horoscopes for 2-25-2025
- New Moon 9° 40’ Pisces 2/27 6:44 PM
- Venus Retrograde 10°50’ Aries 3/1
Pisces
Under the cover of the dark of the moon is the best time for the witchy stuff. Plot, plan, and I really should link to my version of the Eye of Newt, plus everything that is associated with that incantation, and the spell it can bring about. Plus there’s the bad luck and trouble associated with the play itself, the curse of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play. Happy Pisces Birthday, huh? The near future holds much, but the old crystal ball is a bit murky at the moment. Will stay that way for the foreseeable future, and the problem being, this isn’t a challenge that even the good Pisces can surmount. What you can do is prepare and fortify, and that’s about the best kind of action to take. Have enough supplies on hand to see you through any kind of minor, dramatic event. Like Trinculo, as above, you might find yourself in a pickle, and the best way out? Have you tried not doing anything?
Aries
One of the most useful ideas I’ve ever come up with? It’s a culmination of using a number of different systems and these stretch back for almost forty years, trying different ways to be productive. But that wonderful idea? It’s a combination of elements. The first part, some kind of note-taking device. In my example? Simple enough, a paper notebook. It’s like a journal or a daily reminder, but it’s different. Like the old Day-Timers, only, again, slightly different. The idea was conceived on the back of an envelope that a bill had arrived in, and I would sketch ideas, numbers, bullet points, and outline ideas on that kind of format. Only, over time?
Over the years, I discovered that the very zen-like lack of attachment to the scraps of paper, while noble in itself, I would lose ideas, concepts, phone numbers and sometimes, the billing information I required. That gave way to the idea of a notebook. I toyed with versions of the “bullet journal,” and its burgeoning communities, the ideas and outlines, but that was too structured. For Aries, for now? A simple notebook, blank pages, lines, no lines, dots, grids, whatever is easily available? Start with that. It’s simple. It’s easy. We are going to change directions, but the next few weeks have some wonderful ideas and these ideas, concepts, wire-frame designs, all of that needs to be recorded someplace, and I suggest someplace that you don’t throw away. Like I did.
Taurus
One of the very first “classes” I took, more like a workshop, for learning astrology? It was called “Experiential Astrology,” and it included tastes plus textures, hence feelings, for each of the signs. What they liked, what worked, and what didn’t work. “All generalities are false,” as the old saying goes, which is where that class ran into its issues, as the individual signs weren’t always adequately represented in a tactile fashion. The recent past, for Taurus, has some rough edges. This next few days is a chance to knock off the bigger portions of those rough edges, but beware, and this is a straight-up warning, get the fine-grit sandpaper. Get the tiny jeweler’s file. There are some sore rough edges, and this takes a deft hand, a gentle touch, and maybe, instead of sand paper or any kind of gritty method for smoothing that out? A soft polish cloth might be better, just looking ahead for Taurus.
Gemini
I learned, some years back, when the little planets (Mars, Venus, Mercury) do things, like go retrograde? There’s a detectable change and influence here on Earth. Sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes disastrous , and sometime, no matter at all. For gentle Gemini, there’ s a shift fast occurring, and it brings up unbidden material bubbling up from the depths of the Gemini subconscious. Weird stuff. Half-baked dreams, and partial snippets of fantasies without context, and therein is the problem, for gentle Gemini, working without the proper setting or context? Can present an incomplete picture. As quickly as you realize that imagery you employ, in the next few days, weeks, even month or more? As long as you realize that it is an incomplete image, you’re fine.
Mars Retrograde • Venus Retorgrade
“I didn’t get the whole picture, but it’s enough that you can see how this might work!”
Cancer
Some years ago, I got a rock, a more than a pebble, less than a chunk of stone, and I found place that would engrave it. The rock says, “Not.” The rock doesn’t say anything, it can’t speak, but the lettering reads, “Not.” It’s “Not” engraved in stone. I had further designs for this idea, and I’ve used this as an example before, but my great ideas never came to fruition. That doesn’t stop me from launching that idea out at the Moon Children, the sign of the crab, my special Cancer friends, as an idea — that’s all. What it means, as Mars comes off his stationary position, but doesn’t really pick up discernible headway? Nothing is set in stone, or, like my desktop paperweight reminder, now available online? “Not” engraved in stone.
The Leo
Two words? Can I boil down a message for the majestic Leo into just two words? “Conserve resources.” I’m unsure how that translates, across the board, to all of the majestic Leo, but at least one understands, about conserving resources, and how it’s important to not use unnecessary time to fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Conserve those resources, and sometimes, time is the most important resource. How to manage it, what you do, what you don’t do, and how that time is spent? Might be the biggest message. Conservation of resources, and how that plays out, individually, will vary, but watch how you spend your time.
Virgo
There is so little Latin that I retain. I’ve gotten used to using online translations to check what I think I know. I consider this “fact checking,” when, it’s really more just making sure I got the correct translation. One example, a single Latin phrase, comes to mind, about tastes, and the way I remember it? It was used as an example of the various tenses of the Latin language itself, and the construction of the grammar, verbs, subjects, objects, objectified, past, present, pluperfect, all of that. I’ve forgotten more than I care. But the expression itself, I think I’ve been quoting it slightly incorrect for years, and I won’t let that bother me. What does my argument for and with a dead language and grammar have to do with perfect Virgo? It’s about looking up a frequent statement and checking to see if that really means what you think it means. This is less about “fact checking,” and more about determining if you’ve been using that expression correctly, ipso facto, Virgo.
Libra
This could very well be a function of age, and I’m not sure, but the way I think about it? It was gesture that became a habit, and from there? It hasn’t stopped. I traveled extensively in the arid confines of West Texas, New Mexico, and school in Arizona. By chronological middle age, I got in the habit of carrying a chapstick of some sort, whatever was available, and that developed into a habit that I carried something every day. Part of the gear — what goes in my purse. One buddy shudders, “It’s a man-bag, not a purse.” I don’t know, cross-body carry, got crap in it, sure, “man-bag,” but it looks like a purse to me. Call it what you want, it’s what I got used to having on hand, at all times. I keep a spare stick of inexpensive lip balm in bag, just a matter of form. I also buy in bulk, so it’s the cheap stuff, knockoff brand, and it doesn’t always last as long, but in volume helps. Started some years back, just habit for a kind of protection, and this is what it’s become. Habit? Protection? A measure of mercy for the lips? I’ll let Libra decide. You do have spare, don’t you?
Scorpio
There comes a time when a certain amount of Emotional Intelligence is what’s required. It’s not about being able to intellectualize the crap out of a situation, no, it’s about understanding that simple empathy, or a degree of sympathy, without falling into bathos and pathos? Like, feel the pain, in a symbolic form, but you don’t have to hurt yourself because the other person is suffering so. I’m not sure that makes sense, but the easiest example, was “holding space.” To me, and I’m not that emotionally aware, but for me? All I did was sit with someone tied in an emotional knot, and I didn’t say anything. I was present. “Do you want me to hold you?” No. “Talk about it?” No. So I sat there. It helps, and it helps share the load without taking on the problems themselves. Think of this as a test of the Scorpio’s emotional intelligence.
Sagittarius
As the Moon gets smaller and smaller, eventually becoming nothing more than a sliver in the evening’s sky? Our Sagittarius selves face creeping doubts. There are questions without answers, self-criticism, uncharacteristic uncertainty, and general lack of direction, all of which is compounded by the push from Pisces. Sotto voce, one Sagittarius brethern shrugs, “Push? More like a shove. More like hard hip-check over the edge.” He left the allusion lingering, and I wasn’t sure what to do with it. That points to the problem, and there is no immediate remedy; however, as noted before, as a Sagittarius myself, I have a work-around to offer up. Right in front of us, there’s something that is a cross between busy-work, and real travail? It’s a task, more like a group of tasks, that needs to get done, and to some of us, this looks like drudge work. Not the fun stuff, but not too challenging, either. Dear Sagittarius: the journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step. Or a nod to a previous company logo? JFDI, “Just Do It.” The F is silent; it’s French.
Capricorn
Stop: it’s not going to look good. My first thought, glancing at a couple of these elements in the mighty Capricorn’s chart? “Stop. It’s not going to look good.” When I looked back over that first phrase, though, I realized that the intent, what I was addressing, and what came out, were two separate entities, two different meanings. Given a choice, I would stick with shabby shorts, sandals, and loose, loud shirts. Not a good look, but one I’m comfortable with, and I think that’s most important for me. Likewise, for Capricorn? It’s about how you dress, and that can be for work, for play, for lounging, for out and about, or for more meditative pursuits. Loose saffron robes with inconspicuous under garments? Sure. My forever beach attire? Sure. Doesn’t much matter, suit and tie? Sure. Doesn’t much matter but you’re going to appear improperly attired, and it doesn’t look good, no matter what you try. Hint: less time worrying, more time doing. That’s a simple solution, and one that works, Capricorn.
Aquarius
I am a notorious discount shopper. Always looking for the deal, the cheapest, least expensive way to get something done. What works, what doesn’t work, and what didn’t work, but didn’t cost very much so it wasn’t a great loss? Or, in this situation, what to look for in the next week? The Moon doesn’t go “new” until next week, so in the time until then? Here’s an example: one year, I found some seed packets at the dollar store. Cheap, probably out of date, maybe genetically modified, I don’t know why they were in the throw-away store. But for a dollar? It was a safe bet. Planted under the new moon in the spring? One bed of flowers turned into perennials and there’s a single pepper plant that won’t stop sprouting, flowering, and producing delicious seasoning peppers. That’s a planting project that started before the new moon, planted under the new moon, and reaped the harvest for years. Because I’m not Aquarius, I was just lucky, but as an Aquarius, this is the time to pull together the disparate pieces, and make it look like it was happy accident — getting ready for next week.
