“Your Highness
Shall from this practice but make hard your heart;
Besides, the seeing these effects will be
Both noisome and infectious.”

Cornelius in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (I.v.23-6)

Horoscopes for 5-27-2025

Moon conjunct Mars 6/1 5:41 AM 21°17’ Leo

Horoscopes for 5-27-2025

Gemini

The two-minute rule. If it can be done in less than two minutes? Do it right now. I’ll admit, this goes against every fiber in my being. My internal mechanisms suggest that if it can be put off? Then procrastinate. Delay. Obfuscate, if needed, but don’t do it now. However, looking at the Gemini array of planets? That two-minute rule? I like that, well, I like that, for you. If it can be accomplished in less than two minutes? Then do it, now. Do not delay. Don’t dally. Don’t dither. Just get it done. There’s the opposite, and I’m Sagittarius so I am the polar opposite, if I keep putting it off, and it gets worse until I have to do something about the problem? Will I learn anything from my dithering, dallying, and delaying?

Cancer

“That’s a great question.” Watching an interview, the character being interviewed? Asked a pointed question, trying to get the controversy fired up, catch the interviewed person off guard? Best response? “That’s a great question.”

Maybe a half-dozen times in my own career have I been questioned like that, at the hands of a skillful interrogator. The questions, in answer to that “great question?” The questions in my own head, and hopefully, in the person being interrogated, “What’s politically expedient, what’s politically correct, what is within my own framework of beliefs and understandings, and what am I willing to I give up?” Finally, too, there’s the question of what looks like the best answer, or what is the expected direction. The biggest problem in my own experience? I just blurt out the truth as I know it, and then, some poor gentle crab-like, moon child, Cancer-person gets offended. While trying to find that balance point for the right answer? “You know, that’s a good question.”

The Leo

The bifurcated data points and directions are honed with Mars in Leo. It’s always best to understand that there is both division and diversion, but that splittting up includes a need to be reminded that there’s Mars, still in Leo, and Leo is still a fixed fire sign. The best, fixed fire sign, in my book. Better than the rest. The problem is the Gemini influence, and the way it splits up the entities, trying to rent asunder that which had good direction. Do look at alternatives. Do stick to the one course that you’ve chosen for your majestic Leo self. Diversions, and divisions, those are distractions, and the trend to see Mr. Mars — in your sign — as lending the strength that is needed to stay on course. It’s OK to look, to ponder and even pander, but maybe plan on something to anchor yourself on the best course.

Virgo

Left over data? “People don’t want to read on their TV, and they don’t want to watch TV on their computer.” SXSW Interactive, 3.15.2001, per the blog archives. That’s an example, a clear example of a statement that didn’t stand up over time. From my own archives, and while I can’t recall the segment, nor the setting, from the proto-blog look of the entry? I suspect I was at a SXSW workshop. Seems to be notes from the time, and the statement, as suggested, didn’t hold up. This is about trying to grasp, hold onto, and refuse to surrender in the face of odds that keep getting worse and worse. Or mountains of data that don’t support the stated position, and from here? It looks like either a long, downhill roll with an expected sudden halt at the bottom, or, it could be a long, uphill slog, and there isn’t much at the summit to suggest that it’s worth the effort. At the time, and in the place, it made sense, but we must adjust our historical perspective.

Libra

I was in Houston, Houston, TX (Space City, home to world champions Astros). A guy in line next to me was commenting on some of the strange things he’d seen since moving to Houston, like? “Alligator part of nativity.” It was, according to what I heard, one of those live nativity scenes at Xmas time, with a real baby as baby Jesus, a live hippie-looking daddy as Joseph and Mary, all vestal after her recent birth. A horse, a donkey, maybe some chickens, or something, and, in Houston?

A live alligator on a short chain.

I don’t live in Houston, haven’t ever lived there, stayed overnight a time or two, but that’s about it, so I have no way to fact-check or independently verify the “Live alligator as part of a nativity scene at Xmas.” But it sounds plausible, possible, if not factual. A hundred miles east of there? In Louisiana? I would find that almost normal, but the difference, the cultural and geographic changes? Who knows? Maybe a real Houstonian can verify with images next Xmas time. Until then? This is a myth, and the good Libra is well-admonished to recall that it is unsupported rumor, possibly an example of a tall tale, or maybe it is true, but until there is evidence that can be independently verified? “No, really, I knew a guy who knows the guy: they use a live baby gator in his church’s nativity scene each year.”

And they say Austin is weird.

Scorpio

“But there is still so much I’ve got to do!” Sure, Scorpio dear, sure. I can’t be more placating to Scorpio, but I can acknowledge that there’s a frantic level of — to me? It looks like there’s a dancing drum set in the back of the Scorpio mind; that drum-beat incessantly pushing, urging, driving Scorpio forward at a relentless pace, and to an outside observer, like me? I see no purpose to the frantic need to move, sometimes just for the sake of movement. The problem facing Scorpio, the apparent problems facing Scorpio? You see them but the rest of us don’t always understand the urgency, the need, the absolute panic and terror in the voice of the Scorpio. Why? What is it? The real source is the Gemini energy, and that lacerates the Scorpio psyche, and in doing so, splits the attention, thereby doubling down, or doubling up, or making twice as long as, or taking on twice as much, and some of this? Most of this? It’s out of the Scorpio control, and therefore? Not an issue. “But I worry about it.” What can you do about it? “Nothing” (Let Them.)

Sagittarius

It’s really simple. There are two answers. Both answers look like they line up next to each other. Each answer looks like it supports the other answer. Each one seems to be an adjacent idea. Look closely, gentle giant Sagittarius, examine the details. The two answers, the two pieces that appear to be next to each other? Are they really? They probably, not for sure, but probably do support each other in a weird way, but that doesn’t mean that this is truly a parallel structure, an analogous amalgam, or just a metaphor that seems to fit. It’s really simple. The two appear to be adjacent and supporting. Look closely at the given proof, the actual evidence, and note that they do support each other, but the two are less connected than outward appearances. Got to look at this one, a little more closely than the usual Sagittarius quick glance.

Capricorn

I couldn’t find a single CD I was looking for. It’s not a big deal, I’m sure I can stream the material, but I wanted a single lick out of one song, and that was all. In order too do this legally, as I understand the rules, I can rip it from a CD that I own and then use it, in a non-commercial way, for my personal use, as I see fit. I bought the CD, I can do with it as I see fit. (Non-commercial.) I’m not a lawyer, so don’t ask if this is truly legal, but I think it is, more or less, and at least it’s a gray area of copyright law, again, not a specialty of mine. The problem was looking for that CD, I happened across a few other older sets of tunes that I wanted to have included in my collection. Golden oldies, as it were, to some, some more recent from the last decade or so, but still, in CD format? This is where it get unwieldily, and that’s the very Capricorn problem, that searching for that hard-copy is more difficult than just ripping a fresh track straight off the web. But again, legally? Capricorn should always consider the moral implication if not the legal one.

Aquarius

Some days, “reality,” however one wants to define that, but some days? It’s just easier to deal with the real world. Or easier to deal with real world issues. This is the start of a little window for gentle Aquarius wherein dealing reality, whatsoever one wants to call that, dealing with real world issues just seems a little bit easier. These can be quite simple, and I have a few ways to illustrate. I’ve long been a gentlemen farmer with a darwinian approach to various containers filled with dirt, soil, compost, and plants. The strongest survive, and some days, I over-water, and some weeks, I forget to water. One recent batch of pepper plants best illustrate the idea of “real world issues,” as the plants started to droop after being ignored for almost a week. The issue was lack of moisture, and the solution was to turn a hose on. Simple illustration, but the plants are dropping no more, and the relative neglect makes the pepper plants stronger. Better. Hotter. Meaner peppers because I am mean to them. But it’s a simple example of real world issues at hand, and simpler example of how this works. Add water.

Pisces

That was weird. It was a strange cross-section of signs, no real connection other than vendors and shopkeepers. One was a cook. But the commentary turned strangely dark, not mordantly so, but it was about someone’s distant relative, recent funeral, and that conversation brings up my black humor associated with the dead. But there was more, as there was life-affirming stories, as well, sprinkled like a spice. Hopeful. Mordant and dark, yet hopeful. Little of both, some of all? Sprinkle the dark humor in with the spices that make this lively. It’s part of a Pisces process that is ongoing, and brought about by the inception and incipience of the Gemini new moon. Disparate elements come into play. Acknowledge the good with the — whatever.

Aries

Age does not automatically equate to wisdom. I’ve seen this before, watched it acted out in my own life, and I stand behind that statement. “Age does not automatically equate to wisdom.” Now, there’s certain amount of material that I’ve learned, and I’ll admit, I learned it the hard way, not like I got the message on the first try. Or the second, or even the third try, no, that’s not it. I’ve learned, only through trial and error, and mostly, through repeated error, as to what works. Or what doesn’t work. Process of elimination. I’d like the think, “It’s the ‘scientific process’ at work,” but more honestly? It’s repeating the mistakes to the point that dawning understanding is there. Takes a while. The challenge this week presents? We don’t have time to make mistakes, over and over. If it doesn’t work? Can you take the clue?

Taurus

I’m a stand-in grandparent on certain occasions. I like the job, fishing buddy, his kids, and they all get along with me. Since I’m not actual blood-kin to the kids? Expectations are low. I try and maintain the truth with the kids, “I’m the adult-aged one here.” The youngest rolls her eyes. I never claimed to be the most mature, or the most rational, nor, do I claim to be a voice of reason and logic. I still recall the little boy looking at me in a fit of exasperation, emphatically, “You can’t do that; it’s against the rules.” Busted by an 8-year old. I’ll take it because, since I never had kids, this is new and fun for me. Each day is a new adventure, and being able to have some kids on hand, besides being great bait, is useful for learning to look at situations from a different perspective. Therein is the magic, and for just a moment, the breathing space, gentle Taurus pause, and look through the eyes of a child. We need a moment of wonder to see this more fully.