Horoscopes for 12-2-2025

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”

Hamlet (IV.iii.22)

Horoscopes for 12-2-2025

Full Moon 5:14 PM 12/4 13°4’ Sag./Gem.

Sagittarius

Since my own birthday is now over, I pay scant attention to the rest of the Sagittarius revelers, other than to share a message of hope and optimism in the face of daily reports. Still, there is the perverse optimism, and one time, I heard this called “Toxic optimism.” Still, it must persevere. The full moon is quickly over, but its effects are lingering, like trash blowing in an empty downtown street. The Xmas lights are up, maybe a few burnt out bulbs, and there’s a cold, north wind whipping along, with stray leafs and odd trash. In some places, there will be blowing snow, but that’s rarity at this time of the year in my neighborhoods. Not unheard of, just rare. But the image is the same. There is a stark, harsh, winter beauty it all, though, and that’s what we have to celebrate, once we get past that lunar cycle. I might even have to pull on long pants for the weekends ahead.

Capricorn

Of Shakespeare’s works, the plays that are most commonly cited are Hamlet, Richard III, and King Lear — spurious data, not fact checked, but recalled from the greater minds of the inter-webs. Seems about right. However, in my own work? I’ve favored the entire canon, and even then, I’ve leaned a little more towards some of the lesser known works, the oddball stuff, and reluctantly, some of the apocrypha. Moving past that, though, I would tend to quote a passage from Henry V, whereas use the one-liners from Henry IV (1 & 2). I suppose a statistical analysis isn’t too far away.

In the last few years, I’ve tried to get more “pure” with my quotes and their sources. While rich in material, there were couple of plays that — academically speaking — might not be a total Shakespeare play. Might’ve been included as padding, might have collaborative authors, or might just be a fluke. Still, since I know which plays are suspect? I tend to avoid them, now. Hasn’t always been that way. for me, and Shakespeare, I’m more than a hobbyist and less that a scholar. Not sure what that makes me. Capricorn? I was originally grinding on about how I use certain plays more than others, but these days, and for the last few years, I’ve tried to stick to the accepted canon for a resource. Capricorn? Try to stick to what you know is original material, however that plays out for you.

Aquarius

It’s a little bit of a shuffle, but not totally, just in part. It’s matter of taking stock, so we know what we have to move forward with, as the time arrives. If I don’t have it done by now, don’t plan on having it done anytime too soon. Just the nature of the times, and that weird Neptune/Saturn thing in the night sky. Saturn is way overhead after sunset, and Neptune isn’t really visible, but the influences are clear. Or not clear, as that’s Neptune’s job: obfuscate the matters at hand. Reality and the dream world on a collision course, and what to do? If it isn’t done by now? Maybe wait this one out. Sit this one out. Wait for it, no, wait…

Pisces

Long-term target-date? February 14, 2026. Short-term vision and plan? Get ready. It’s simple, it’s not complicated, and there’s a bigger goal in mind, but don’t get caught short with the immediacy of the issues. So while everyone else is wrapped up in the current holiday madness and crap-fest associated with it? Long-term. Look down that road. Plan for next year.

Aries

For many years, my favorite “reading” app was Apple’s iBooks, which then became books, or something, I haven’t paid attention. My least favorite was the native Libby software, as I never figured out how to get it to scroll, but I could send a library book to kindle, and that was a second or third favorite app. Bexar BiblioTech used cloudLibrary as a reader, and the first few iterations, I didn’t like at all. However, over the ensuing years and the gradual development of the software itself? I got to where that cloudLibrary software, with all its antiquarian foibles, proved to be more useful — and enjoyable — as a digital reader. While ubiquitous, kindle was too invasive, the two or three other book-reading apps were kind of off, and the cloudLibrary reader had a unique feature I’m really very fond of: page numbers. While it wasn’t an exact one-to-one correspondence, the page numbers would be within a single digit or two of the exact location in the hardback copy of the book. Turn off the stupid page-flipping animation, and set to scroll? Almost as good as the iBooks thing. But this is about taste, and then, the other element is page numbering that lines up with an actual book. That page-numbering thing? That’s important because Aries needs to find corroborating evidence, fact-checking, or even a second source before making a decision. Or, like me, reading in a digital book, but then finding a corresponding page in a real, printed tome. Think of it as evidence.

Taurus

At the one trailer park, the trailers themselves were parked in sort of a U-shape. The open end of the U, the top of the letter? It faced the lake, which was really a river, but called Town Lake at the time. Got a good enough image? What was weird, to me, at the time I lived there, and still an aural conundrum? The loudest side of the trailer was the side that was furthest away from the street. It was from the center of the U that the noise seemed to echo back, reverberate, and it always seemed louder inside than outside. With only one or two exceptions, I’ve always lived close to a major highway, usually an interstate. The background noise is part of my landscape. It was just weird, to me, how the most noise seemed to be the echo off the inside of the U shape rather than outside, like in a direct line. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but sitting in a kitchen, listening to morning traffic, brought back those old memories, and how one side, against the grain, seemed louder. Taurus: one side seems louder. Goes against convention, but it fits a pattern if you look for it.

Gemini

I’ve gone on at length about this, and it costs me some money, at one point, but the best Xmas movie? I still think that Die Hard is one of, if not the, best Xmas movie. But I was looking for an opening quote that fit with this week’s Full Moon on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis, Sun in Sagittarius, Moon full in Gemini, and I got off on a tangent, thinking about the best Shakespeare play. Or the best of the comedies, or, the best Shakespeare Xmas play. 12th Night, when done well, is amazing, and even when it’s down badly, it’s still has some resolution at the end. I get the stupid, “Ah, and they live happily ever after” vibe — almost every time. The Xmas holiday connection is that the title derives from the plays purported first showing, the 12th night after Xmas — the liturgical Epiphany. I’m hard-pressed to tie in elements from the play itself, except, as a comedy, it ends in happy marriages, and they do live happily ever after. The connection is tenuous at best, and Gemini? The connection is tenuous at best.

Cancer

One of the problems, and this is trap I barely escaped from myself, but one of the challenges face gentle Moon Children, the sign of the crab, the Cancer corner of the night sky? The promise. Better yet, “The Promise.” The promise includes the idea that there will be a fresh influx of cash after the first of the year so go ahead and spend lavishly on credit, hoping to be able to pay for it, sometime in the future. It’s a tricky thing, and there is a promise of an influx of cash in the near future, but how much? When? How soon and how much? I can’t read that unless I look at individual charts, so it kind of depends. Also: from hard-won experience in my own life? That promise isn’t so strong we should expend non-renewable resources, even now. The notion of, “I’ll just pay for this later?” That isn’t the best way to get through this week, or even the next.

The Leo

There are no quick fixes, there are no “One size fits all,” and the are no easy answers. However, much of this next week or two is dictated by your attitude. The Leo Attitude is different from regular attitude because The Leo Attitude is bigger, more pervasive, and dare I even suggest it, better? There’s a situation up and coming, and there are two ways to see the likely outcome. “That didn’t work, so I am a failure and a bad person.” Insert a frown face here, sulk away in disgrace. Or? “That didn’t work, so what’s another way to tackle this task?” Either abysmal failure and that reflects poorly on your version of how you see your usually regal self, or? Or it is a learning experience, a trial run, an experimental hypothesis that proved it wasn’t the correct answer at this time. All how we look at it. More important? All how The Majestic Leo chooses to look at it.

Virgo

The conventional method for numbering a Shakespeare citation, is the play’s name, followed by parenthetical numbers. Originally, the way I was taught decades in the past, the play’s act number was capital Roman Numeral, the play’s scene number was a small Roman Numeral, and then the lines themselves counting from beginning of the act, were Arabic Numerals. I’ve encountered at least two other systems, one is very similar, and a more modern scholar I tend to cite, she follows that system of just all Arab numerals, act, scene, line number(s). There’s a third system and only one or two of the resources I use employ this system, but it’s the line number, as counted from the beginning on the play. While possibly more pure in format, and hewing to the original construction of the plays themselves, the line number alone is more difficult for me to work with. Still, I respect that it’s the system some scholars use. I tend to use a standardized app for all my play references, and it let me choose the numbering, citation style as a preference. I like the old style, best. But that’s me, and I’m not Virgo. Faced with choices in the next few days? Full Moon and so forth? Doesn’t really matter which reference point you choose, but choose one.

Libra

There is a flicker in the eyes of the Libra, a moment of concern. Bright eyes dim, the corners at the eyes tighten, the worry lines etched deeper. This kind of a full moon pushes an internal Libra button of sorts, and there’s a momentary panic, tinged with concern. “Fraught with an emotional weight not of your own making,” what I would observe. It’s you but it’s not you. It’s the other person. It’s OK to be concerned. It’s alright to worry some, but this level of consternation and pain? Figure that some of this is vicarious, or you’re really just feeling our pain, and it’s not really Libra’s anguish. Holiday season, the worst is over, I mean, it can’t go bad from here? And it won’t help not forget next few days. Let go of other people’s pain.

Scorpio

What’s the easiest route for administration? What’s the simplest way to make sure you keep everything you’re supposed to keep, filed, filled in, placed, and in a way we can all access it when needed? It’s an administrative nightmare. Recent events forced this to light in nominally gentle Scorpio, that question about how to access material, how to store, and how to make it accessible — more for yourself — than anyone else. Still, this is an administration issue. What I strive for? Simplest, easiest way to get from where I am at to where I want to be. Least amount of filing and paperwork, some is still required, and anymore, isn’t most “paperwork” just computer files? Anyway, it’s the administration, and back to the simplest is sometimes the easiest. I had to lay my hand on a file from the beginning of the year, basically a receipt, while I had a digital version, being able to produce a paper version settled the question faster. It’s all in the administration, and what’s easiest. What’s easiest for Scorpio?