Horoscopes for 10-28-2025

“Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us;
Therefore I have entreated him along,
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come,
He may approve our eyes and speak to it.”

Marcellus in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (I.i.23)

Horoscopes for 10-28-2025

Ghost from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet — ghost stories to kick off the spirits’ week?

• Mercury into Sagittarius 10/29 6:03 AM

Halloween. All Saints Day. Samhain. Day of the Dead. Goes by a number of names, but it’s also a good — firm — introduction to Scorpio.

Scorpio

The deal is? Scorpio is best served if we put off the actual purchase for about six weeks. I’ve been suggesting this, and there’s actually sound astrological reasoning behind its motivation, but the problem being, you’re already feeling the Birthday/Halloween/Scorpio noise in the back of your brain. That little gnat-like buzz, hovering just outside of cognition? “Go ahead, get it now.” There’s a companion piece, occurs in about half of the Scorpio I know, “You need this.” I may not be very smart, but I’m wise enough to not argue with a Scorpio. So what I’m suggesting is more a delay tactic rather than a negative, or a firm, “No,” as an answer. Happy whatever you celebrate at the end of October, beginning of November. Personally, I rather enjoy the Dia de los Muertos material, building an altar, festooned with happy pictures of those who have gone before. Could be because I’m in South Texas, and it’s cultural, as much as anything. But have a happy one, and try to put off that one big purchase just yet. I asked for six weeks, three weeks back or so.

Sagittarius

Mercury inclines towards both mental acuity and verbosity. The singular Sagittarius choke point? It’s the reverse order. First comes the torrent of words, the verbosity. Then that massive verbal dump results in clarity. The challenge, again the singular Sagittarius issue?

Talking or presenting in place wherein the target audience wants the clarity but doesn’t necessarily want the verbosity that goes with getting there. There’s a guy in the front row single index finger pointed heavenward, twirling it, mouthing the words, “Wrap it up.” The singular Sagittarius challenge is getting to the point, without boring the rest of the audience, as we wend and wind our way along the massive torrential output required to get there from here. If only there was safe place to practice and arrive at the proper destination without boring everyone else, first.

“So what’s the point?”

Capricorn

One of those images I’ve been stuck with for years? At the old power plant lake, used to fish there a lot? Turkey buzzards hung out near the cleaning station. On a sunny fall day, usually a faux fall afternoon, the fish would be busting the bait someplace, and then a lazy turkey buzzard would gently arc overhead. The shadow of the carrion feeder looked just like an archetype predator, maybe an eagle or osprey? The fish would scatter. It was just the shadow shape across the surface of the water, and in this example, what I would often observe? Fish scattered despite it being a non-threatening bird. Speaks a lot to Carl Jung’s experience of archetypes and embedded genetic memories. Capricorn, are you really afraid of a shadow that is merely a reflection of a harmless carrion eater?

Aquarius

One of the greatest “discoveries” I’ve made in my own life? Despite the desire for sweeping changes, the drive to make wholesale, oftentimes scorched-earth decisions? Despite the desire, what I’ve found is sometimes, just small, incremental shifts, just change a single, tiny element, and then see what happens. Instead of burning it all to the ground then trying to rebuild from the smoldering wreckage that is nothing more than ashes and dust? Try tiny, maybe imperceptible “course corrections,” a single different placement, a gentle shift, some action that is too small to be detected by some. Maybe not visible to many, but in your Aquarius heart, you know you made a change. Sometimes, it’s not the big changes that we need. I know, feels like it calls for a momentous shift in goals, directions, and colors, but what benefits Aquarius the most? Gentle, tiny, small, nearly imperceptible changes. A small shift in direction is much stronger than some big statement.

Pisces

While I’ve used a version of this idea before? I don’t think I’ve used it for gentle Pisces, and I really want to help. Think about it. Script an answer. Rehearse that scripted answer. While some of us are good at speaking extemporaneously? This calls for a scripted then rehearsed answer. You have a few points you want to get across. Won’t take long, and maybe, looking at it in print? Maybe looking at it like that will help you cut out unnecessary words. Can shorten the answer. The metaphor that is one step too far? Ditch that. Might not take more than a minute to deliver the speech, that answer, and then? You can rest easy because you know you did your best to get the point across. Whether the intended audience hears what you were saying? Again, this isn’t your problem. The point of a little, rehearsed Pisces pitch like this? If you have to, you can always repeat as need be to make sure it was heard the way you intended it.

Aries

The stage that Shakespeare originally wrote for? It stuck out into the audience. The groundlings were that first level, cheap seats, which weren’t actually seats. But the stage sticking out? That meant there were at least three sides to that stage, and three sides that needed information, when an actor was delivering a monologue. Most of the more important bits in the plays are written in a way to incorporate that delivery required by that stage. An actor will address left, center, right, with sweeping statements, to make sure the entire audience is captivated. The point is being able to reiterate a message, the point, the device one is using to communicate? Repeat it three times. You have a lot of Aries area to cover, and Shakespeare’s way works well. Repeat three times.

Taurus

Tangible proof. Taurus needs tangible proof. Has to be something you can hold in your hand. Something you can wrap a fist around, or something you can punch with a fist, I’m not sure, that one could go either way. But if I had a preference, it definitely be something you could hold in your hand. Simple, like that. Simple, straightforward guideline. Something you can hold in your hand, evidence. Proof. An object, a relic, a souvenir, or just something that proves, yes, proves you were right. But this has to be “hard” evidence, as in, something you can hold, touch, feel. Make it real, Taurus, make it real.

Gemini

My sister gave me a copy of The Artists Way, and along with it, came allusions to creativity. I recall discussions the idea of morning pages with my sister. I’ve talked with others, as well, but she was a big fan of the Julia Cameron Artists Way material, to the point of workshopping with that author. When I backed into this career, I fell into the habit of writing daily, with a target of 1,000 words, or about four manuscript pages. First thing, every morning, sometimes before coffee. When I went back and looked, the morning pages referred to? Those are supposed to be private. Instead, I published mine as horoscopes. Mine are also wrapped around the position of the planets, like, even to this moment, Uranus at the front door of Gemini, asking, begging, pleading for change. In order to make a change? Figure out what way works for your Gemini selves. I like the idea of writing for a few moments each morning, to try and see a way “Onward through the fog.” (Who gets the old Austin allusion?)

Cancer

There is a very traditional approach that I use when reading charts. No, not the “traditional” reading of the chart themselves, I’m anything but traditional in that format, no, when I look at charts, what I use a is a typical “bi-wheel.” The inside chart is the natal chart and the outside chart is the transition, progression of the planets, as time unfolds. One of my teachers, astrology mentor, what he would do, in order to get a better look at the interaction between planets? He would reverse that image, putting the transiting planets, where the heavens are right now, as the inside chart and the natal chart as the outside chart. While I’ve employed similar, if not identical, chicanery myself, I found that the results were too confusing, and what information I got was harder to discern. In other words? Didn’t work for me. Worked for him, a more traditional astrologer. I’m not one to argue with success. If reversing the other of things seems to work for Cancer, the sign of the crab, the Moon Children? Then do so. Whatever works to get the job done. Happy Halloween.

The Leo

Yeah, being stubborn doesn’t really always work. Works for me, as I’ve made a career choice or two, based upon what requires the least amount of effort on my part. My old aphorism that I still hew to? “A lot of work goes into making this look easy.” But that doesn’t do you much good at the moment. There’s a single point, Scorpio-flavored, wherein your majestic Leo self is being pointedly stupid, obstinate, and obdurate, over a single impediment. “I am not.” Yes, yes you are. Leo is fire; Scorpio is water. Water can extinguish fire. When, and I suspect this week, when you run into a point where you stubbornly refuse to change or even acquiesce to a new set of conditions that are backed by facts? All I’m suggesting is that you bend a little, and accept the new conditions based upon current evidence. I didn’t say like it; I didn’t suggest embrace it; no, I just suggested you work with the new stuff — even if it isn’t your own Leo liking.

Virgo

One of my teachers at ASU (go sun devils?) was, at one time, a world-renowned baseball author. I never delved into his baseball stuff until long after I was out of school. What I discovered, in subsequent examinations, some of the writing about sports, and baseball in particular, is quite good. Eloquent, action-oriented, fast-paced, and damn-near poetic. Problem: not all of it is that good. Some of it is, there are some of the sports writers who’ve been at this a long time, and they have style, panache, grit, and even a tad bit of poetry in their work. I grew up in the shadow of several legendary sports commentators. I’ve managed to find some sports writing, even to this day, that amuses me, the rhetoric, more than anything else. In sports writing, though, the perception of bias is plain and even expected. A certain columnist would be a fan of one team or another, not a mystery — known allegiances. Happy Halloween? We’re working within known parameters, and known what the other person likes? Makes it so much easier.

Libra

The Eagles, the original band, they said they would play together when “Hell freezes over,” and then, a reunion tour was called, “The Hell freezes over tour.” More than two-dozen years in the past, and I still have a T-shirt from then. I don’t collect a lot of concert T-shirts, but I’ve got a few, and that’s clearly an example of one I would hold onto, as it is deeply significant, and historic, too, as that was the original band, all the players. This is about what we save, and what we cut out of our Libra lives. What stays. What goes. I can’t bear the thought of getting rid of that concert T, and it doesn’t take up much space. That’s one I save. I had a dozen black pocket T-shirts that, over the ensuing decades, got worn out. Those? Those I tossed as they became useless. No marking, nothing really sentimental other than I wore them — professionally and personally — for years and years. But no real sentimental value. What stays? What goes? What is something you have been holding onto that it wouldn’t hurt to cut loose of, dear Libra?