“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!”
Cassio in Shakespeare’s Othello (II.iii.219)
Horoscopes for 5-12-2026
Sun/Mercury conjunct 23° 47’ Taurus 5/14 9:09 AM
New Moon 25°57’ Taurus 5/16 3:01 PM
Mercury into Gemini 5/17 5:27 AM
Mars into Taurus 5/18 5:26 PM
Venus into Cancer 5/18 8:06 PM
Sun into Gemini 5/20 7:37 PM
Horoscopes for 5-12-2026
Taurus
Happy Taurus birthday! Now, onto important stuff: learn to mine the Taurus subconscious. There is a wealth of information, fantasies, facts, fictions, and frictions, all lurking in your subconscious. It’s all just below the level of rational thinking. Trying to explain this, a certain Taurus stuck out her tongue, “See? It’s on the tip of my tongue.” Exactly. Or, exact enough, as I didn’t see a thing. It’s the idea that there is a message, lurking, available, so easy to get to and yet so difficult to see with reasoned, rational eyes. I have several examples of meditation processes that work, and the other is always artwork of one form or another. Doesn’t much matter.
There’s a whole aside, maybe a distinct sidebar item here. A buddy used to do an abbreviated tarot card reading, and he would finish the spread by cutting the cards and flipping over one last card. Other versions are a single card-pull for a reading, and concentrating on just that one card, whatever the imagery and implied meanings might be. As tool, though, this is a way to interact with subconscious imagery. Layout all the cards, but just read the one.
Learn to listen to the subconscious as it speaks loudest next few days.
Gemini
Simple solution? Post-it notes. Or a generic equivalent, or something that works just like that? Post-it notes. Over the years, I’ve used a number of different note-taking, task-management tools. Since there is a rush of old and new material coming at you, in a somewhat unfiltered state? The quick answer?
Post-it notes. I wear prescription reading glasses these days. But before I go to the grocery store, only needed a few things, but before I went, I took off my glasses and wrote down those items on a post-it note, then I stuck that note to the back of my phone. One item they didn’t have was a big container of cayenne pepper, so I only got the other two things. Then I wadded that note up and tossed it. But at least I got two out of three, that’s better than fifty percent success, and I didn’t forget anything. The secret? Post-it notes on the back of the phone. Your mileage may vary but you’ll find that you forget less if you have a simple solution in mind. Gemini: post-it notes.
Cancer
Short aphorism for the sign of the crab, the gentle Moon Children, Cancer? “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” Just because an action falls within the realm of possible, and plausible, that doesn’t mean you should take that action. My favorite expression? “There is no way we would ever get caught!” But your conscience would know, and therein is the problem. In simplest of terms? “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.” My other thought, “but justice would be served.” That might not really be your task, in this situation, serving up cosmic justice. “But it would be the right thing to do!” Just because you can? Doesn’t mean you should.
The Leo
One place I stayed, down at the coast, a fishing retreat of sorts? It had a long pier that stuck out into the flats. Great place to fish. I was there, not long ago, and the conditions weren’t right — the fish were not biting. Still, walking up and down the length of the dock itself, 50 or 75 yards, uneven, weathered boards creating an unstable footing? I was practicing my fishing. Been a while, and I was working with a new reel, a bait-caster, and the light line, the gentle breeze, the lightweight lure, it was all recipe for failure. Instead, what I did? The Leo should take note, what I did? I looked at this as a practice run for better times ahead. I did manage, up close to the shoreline, to catch a few bait fish in better times. What I was doing, though, ambling up and down the dock, flinging a lure out, watching the line unspool, learning how to work with a new arrangement? I was practicing. I was getting ready for better times. For this next few days? Think in terms of practice, not necessarily success. Practice is success.
Virgo
I was taught that there are no bad questions. Alternatively? There are no stupid questions. Now, imagine a triangle, with three circles at each of the corners, and for expediency, just label each one of those points A, B, C. The first Virgo question drives us from Point A to a logical conclusion at Point B. Then, yet another question pushes the answer from Point B to Point C. Logically derived, question seemed a little rhetorical at the time, but, you know, whatever. Then, finally, moments, minutes, days later, there’s a third question, and the correct answer drives us from Point C back to point A. In case it’s not obvious? We’re right back where we started. The prevailing winds, logic, feelings, intuitions, and the stars all guide us back to where we started. Part of this is process. Part of this is infuriating for the non–Virgo people. Then one Virgo pops up, coquettishly, “But don’t you have to ask?”
As ole Hamlet would say? “Ay, there’s the rub” (3.1.65)
Libra
There’s a certain instance that people, non-Libra people, need to move a little faster. Mostly this is a function of Mars, but there are some other players to consider, Neptune and Saturn, but Mars? Mr. Mars keeps insisting that everyone needs to pick up the pace, and no one seems willing to do just that. Or understand the Libra sense of urgency. We don’t get it. “We” refers to other signs not Libra. We don’t get it. You do. You see the reason for the urgency, you understand this needed to happen, like yesterday, and that this is mission-critical, in some terms, and no one else seems to understand that. Urging us to move it along, jump quicker, and pick up the pace? No amount of urging will get this done any faster, it’s you against 11 other signs. Keep moving at your pace and figure the rest will catch up later.
Scorpio
Scorpio? Don’t think about the color purple. There’s a game some people play, and it’s where we are told to avoid a certain item, or situation, and then? That just draws us closer to what we’re trying not to think about. Don’t think about the color purple. There is a less-than subliminal message, more as a demonstration than as any kind of Scorpio manipulation scattered throughout this horoscope. Don’t think about the color purple. What’s the first thing that pops in your mind? What is the subliminal messaging, and how does this affect you? What does this make you see, in the your Scorpio’s mind’s eye? Whatever it is? Don’t think about the color purple.
Sagittarius
The problem is texting. There’s an assumption of immediate access to communication, and there’s an implied intimacy. I text with a handful of close friends, and other than that? I request all digital dialogue be done with other formats. I’ve reiterated this point, time and again, but “reach out on any other platform,” doesn’t matter, and it might take six to eight weeks to get a reply. If ever. It’s that last point, and I was thinking of it because I saw a post online from an old client, and I wasn’t really willing to download a new app to answer the post. I like simple, clean, and direct. This next few days — a number of people are trying to add another layer of something to an already over-nuanced kind of situation, and figuring a third or fourth way to communicate when the old ways work just fine. Resist the temptation. Resist creeping featurism. Take control — maintain control — of your own, Sagittarius destiny.
Capricorn
Get a backhoe, real or metaphorical, and excavate the Capricorn Nightmares, real or metaphorical. I tend to think about a line from T.S. Eliot’s epic poem, “The Waste Land,” about a corpse that is buried in the back yard. There are still buried ideas, and the thinning, sliver of a moon, then the weirdness in the darkness of the moon? This pushes material up from the Capricorn subconscious. What to do with that? Instead of running from it, how about, as I’ve suggested, get a backhoe and dig in. See if that helps. Good time to dig it up, look at it, then put it away, and maybe, bury it for good.
Aquarius
New Moons are about new starts. My best example? Planting new garden stuff. Most of the Aquarius I’m exposed to, though, not so much with the planting and green thumb crap. However, as a metaphor, where an idea stands in for another idea? This is a good time to wrestle an idea into the launch position, and by the time the Sun hits Gemini? You’ll be off to a good start. This is about plowing and planting, real, or metaphorical. This about getting dirty and getting those ideas rooted in a plan action that you can undertake, after the New Moon hits. Preparation, like plowing and planting? Get out ahead of everyone else, and do it now. Preparation and ready that launch item. Also: don’t let the Dark Moon silliness get to you.
Pisces
I never undertook writing in sonnet form. Originating with the Italians and the Renaissance, the sonnet form was 14 lines, with structured verse, phrasing, meter, and beat. In a Romance language like Italian? It’s relatively easy, and sounds great. Shakespeare’s sonnets introduced an English version of the rhyming scheme to accommodate the harsher English language. Still, for all my studies? All my efforts? Never have I tried to write a sonnet. I made an effort, once, and that didn’t go very far. I couldn’t even get out two lines, much less fourteen with a couplet at the end, and the intricate sequence for the meter and rhymes. I listened to a podcast that eventually wound through Shakespeare’s sonnets, and while enjoyable? Sonnets are not a form I want to undertake. However, looking at how the planets line up for Pisces? Consider a sonnet form. Consider wrapping your long-winded message in a sonnet. 14 lines. Couplet at the end to tie it all together, so 12 lines, then a summary.
Aries
For the bulk of my career, I’ve had an astrology chart program that will let me display an astrological clock. It shows the exact location in the sky for every planet that I pick. There’s a group of asteroids that I don’t use, so I don’t include those in a display, but the various computer programs that I’ve used? They do track all the material, the locations, and then, they also allow for me to spin those charts around, by the decade, by the year, the month, the week, the day, an hour, minutes, even down to single seconds. That kind of granular attention is wonderful, but it is set for a particular location, adjustable in the settings, and since I live where I do? The timing is accurate for most of the Central Time Zone. In part, this is because it’s where I spend the most time, in part, I found it to be a good median average, and mostly, because I’m lazy. But this kind of attention to detail is important. Two other well-known astrology resources set their time zones for Eastern and Western, with the actual book resources based on Greenwich Mean Time, the old gold standard. What is best for Aries? Understand where you are, what time zone, and then? Allow for adjustments. Besides, none of this is etched in stone, think of these as guidelines.
