Horoscopes for 5-13-2025

“You are an alchemist, make gold of that.
Out, rascal dogs!”

Shakespeare’s Timons of Athens (5.1.115-6)

Horoscopes for 5-13-2025

• Sun Conjunct Uranus 5/17 27° Taurus
• Sun into Gemini 5/20

Horoscopes for 5-13-2025

Taurus

With great knowledge comes great responsibility. Bit of a tired trope, but I’ll run with it, as the way it looks, what the nominally gentle Taurus has been through, lately? Yeah, great knowledge, but then, there isn’t a slot, a place, a location, a way to use that knowledge fruitfully. Here’s where I earn my keep: wait for it. There is a time, and place, for the new information, for the brilliance you’ve just stumbled through, and the time, the place, the situation where you get to shine like the rockstar Taurus that you are? It’s not quite yet. It’s coming, but we need to give this great deal of information a little rest, and let it get comfortable with you as the host. Or you can be understanding, and let this new information become comfortable within your own Taurus mind. Time and space. Or time, space, characteristic patience that seems a little uncharacteristic in this springtime pressure? That’s what this is about. Time and space. Need both time and space to get comfortable with what you now know.

Gemini

My particular method of working? It is way too slow, and way too pedantic for a typical Gemini, but my method holds merit this next week. Especially this next week. Critically for Gemini, my way of doing this holds strengths that are required, this next week. Maybe ten days or a little longer, but in this next few days? My way of working is what works best — for gentle Gemini.

What I do? I start with a scratch pad, and it has a few rough notes. Then I transfer those notes, transcribe them, really, into a word processor tool that works with the cloud, and across all my devices. I take the really rough sketch, and I manage it with typed words until I’m happy that it arrives at the destination where it is supposed to go. Then I transfer that to a website backend. Scheduled rough draft, in place. Finally, and this can be seen to this day, that post goes “live” at a scheduled time, and I often make last-minute corrections, through a web-based interface, for a final edits, as need be. So the process? Paper to word processor, word processor to web backend software, software to live backend scheduled post, to — eventually — live. I’ve simplified the process enormously over the years, but there’s a built in step, each point along the way, to make sure the words are spelled correctly and the diction is correct. Grammar? Not so much, but the delivery is as close as I can get. Paper to word processor to web software to live on the web, four steps — at least — with a chance to correct mistakes at each point along the way. That, dear Gemini, is the whole point. At least four chances to correct mistakes before it goes live.

“It’s good enough; just hit send.”

But is it? All four steps?

Cancer

I clicked through on an article, but the lede? “Who wants a home that looks like a sports bar?” I got, maybe, one buddy who thinks this is a good idea. But the rest of us? Sure, there was a time and place when that might’ve been an attractive look, but think about that over time. Long-range, personal impact, fragile sports memorabilia, and a space that is only useful during whatever season it is? If it look like a sports bar, one drunken friend wants to play catch with that autographed, collectible piece of sports memorabilia. Again, this is a cool look if there really is time and space, but in practical application? So, that one idea, for the way to decorate a crab’s home? The ideal Moon Children, Cancer decoration? Is it really ideal, after all, who wants a home that looks like a sports bar?

The Leo

I tend to use the expression, “Don’t get married” as a way to express a certain kind of energy. This isn’t about actually walking down the aisle and tying the knot, so to speak. This is about permanent decisions that have long-lasting effects. This is about big-deal choices. Maybe, not saying for sure, but just maybe, after that full moon, maybe this isn’t be the best time to just walk into a car dealership, and say, “I want one of those.” Or to plunk down way too much of available resources on a new homestead. Thoughtful, and long-considered choices are all right, but hasty, last-minute decisions? The archetype of the decisions I’m warning about? “I just met her, three days ago, and we’re flying to Vegas to get married.” These types of events, while hurried, rushed, tinged with sexual excitement, and looks like a good idea — at the time? They tend to fall apart, later. So, looking at The Leo chart? Now might not be a good time to get married.

Virgo

Some famous author made a big deal out of how to decide to keep things. The expression that entered the zeitgeist, “Does it spark joy?” Simple as that, hold an object, and ask yourself, “Does it spark joy?” It’s not that simple, and it will never be that simple, and other signs just don’t get it, but there are circumstances, conditions, probable causes, and extenuating issues that make this a bigger deal than it is. In other words, we can’t reduce life to a simple, binary equation, “does it spark joy?” The motion of Mr. Mercury in Taurus, and the inevitable egress of the Sun in Gemini begs these questions about what does bring joy, happiness, and contented fulfillment in the most perfect Life of Virgo. Right now, next few days? Just hold onto it, whatever “it” is. Just because it doesn’t pass the “It brings me joy” test, doesn’t mean now is the time to toss it.

Libra

One side suggests, “There are no absolutes.” The other side of that same coin, though, to pluck on an older metaphor? There are certain absolutes. In terms of the Libra charts, and what’s ahead in the next few days? It’s a tricky point between what is absolutely set in stone, and what can be erased, modified, changed, adapted, and otherwise mutated into something new. Some is rigid, and some isn’t. Some is set in stone, which no hope for change, while some is more malleable, bendable, or otherwise able to be reshaped into something new. New, better, built on that solid foundation of absolutes that won’t bend or change. The tricky part? Figure out what’s bendable and what’s not. Is it written in stone?

Scorpio

Sitting in the airport departure lounge, crowded spring-break (like) flight? Across from me was a young woman, and I watched as she was working on a laptop. She was clicking, looking, reading, then composing something. I wasn’t sure what, nor, in that situation, I wasn’t about to inquire, looked like a creepy old man. But I did observe, surreptitiously, looking down at a book I was reading, then looking up, and I was fascinated, as she was mouthing something, reading aloud, almost, at something she’d either written, or a reply, or a question. Don’t judge hastily, Scorpio, don’t rush to judge. My most effective way to proofread something I’ve written is to read it back to myself, out loud. When in public, this is a long-term trick, but in public, I tend to use earbuds of one flavor or another, so it doesn’t look like I’m talking to myself. But it doesn’t have to be earbuds, or anything, just reminder, now that Mercury is firmly in Taurus, opposite from Scorpio, remember to read it back to yourself, like that woman was doing. I think. Maybe it was new stuff, a reply, “I hope this e-mail finds you well,” &c.

Sagittarius

I’m pretty much against flavored coffee. Had some, wasn’t bad at all, but the sugary, overly sweet smell of the various aromatic blends? Kind of ruins coffee for me. But that’s just me. I prefer the nuanced and sometime barely detectable differences in the shade-grown, estate-grown, various harvesting methods, and geographical locations. As an agricultural product, coffee tastes like the soil and water it is grown with. So, “no” on the flavored stuff, not for me. But that is merely an indication of my own tastes and proclivities, and how I like my coffee, my preferred way to partake of morning brew. To apply this snobbish appeal to all Sagittarius? Doesn’t fit. Some like the coffee with cream and sugar, diluting and effectively hiding the flavor while others like the heavily nuanced mixture of a single-source origin-type of brew with no adornments. There is no one right way to do this: they all have similar results, coffee, go juice, get up and go, liquid motivation. How you take your coffee? That’s an individual preference. Tastes are all over the place, but the idea of getting it done?

Capricorn

There’s a reason I’m not a farmer. I don’t think I can plow that straight line. In my own, various gardening activities, I’ll scatter seed, almost in a haphazard fashion, hoping for the best. I’ve been variously rewarded with my efforts, some seeds grow and last for several seasons, and others become bird-feed. In part, this is pure luck (or fate), but in part? This is by my own design. I know I can’t plow a straight row, so I make no effort to do so. Before we move much further, in the astrological seasons ahead, stop and assess what your good Capricorn self is best at. Like me, I know I can’t plow a straight row, so I don’t even try.

Aquarius

There’s a weird — even by Aquarius standards — energy at play. It’s that sense of running into something, thinking, “This is new,” when it clearly isn’t new data, new information, or even a new situation. But it feels like a new discovery. The best way to integrate and enjoy the new collection, new-feeling set of information points? Act like it is new. Pretend this is the fresh data that you were seeking. Take it in as new information rather than spending time digging around trying to understand where you knew this before. Could be intuitive, could be “psychic,” could be old age, like me, I knew it and forgot it, and then learned it again. The approach can vary, the outcome remains eerily similar. “Didn’t we cover this already?”

Pisces

In as much as the Sun is going to eventually be in Gemini? That doesn’t fix this situation in gentle Pisces. There is the strident desire to reduce the problematic issues, the challenges in the immediate week ahead, the little foibles of life? There’s a strong desire to use reductive logic and then make all of this a binary question. It isn’t binary. It isn’t a simple “yes” or “no.” It’s not “on” or “off.” There are extenuating circumstances, changing conditions, emendations, and editorializing that requires adaptive behaviors. In other words? Pisces — we’re making some this up as we go since “things” keep changing. New data is streaming in, even now.

Aries

Look: this is a problem. This is a very Aries problem, too, but it’s one that I know rather well, myself. The problem is speed. Look at what those planets made me do! With the approach of Gemini, I’ll break this down into two, distinct yet separate pieces. Part number one is the smart Aries brain, and number two is the smart Aries mouth. The problem being that the second part, the Aries mouth works faster than the first part, the Aries brain. Me? I blame the planets. Aries? Be aware that you can awkwardly answer faster than the brain works, and that can create a “situation.”

“I mean, I meant to say it, just not like that.”