Julius Caesar:

“Let me have men about me that are fat,
I want men around me with some meat on them,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
well-fed men, who’ve had a good night’s sleep.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
That Cassius, he looks skinny, underfed,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1.2.192-5)

Horoscopes for 11-10-2026

New Moon 11/9 1:02 AM 16°53’ Scorpio
Venus direct 11/13 6:27 PM 22°51’ Libra
Mercury Direct 11/15 9:54 AM 5° Scorpio

Horoscopes for 11-10-2026

Scorpio

Typically, I leave a watch charger in the bathroom. Not a big deal, in and of itself, but I’ve found that early morning workouts can leave my watch with no charge. I just like the health benefits of the stupid device, step, heart rate, fall prevention, and so forth. I stepped into the shower, popping the watch onto its charger. When I got out, I noticed the watch didn’t beep, or show any increase in battery. I wondered briefly, what was happening. I tend, old-school safety, to unplug the watch-charger from the wall when it’s not in use. It was still unplugged. Works better if it is plugged in.

Sagittarius

I can write and erase, write more then erase it, and I can delete browser histories, cookies, and so forth, and yet the machines seem to recall certain patterns I’ve left in the digital dust. One pattern that haunts me, shows up from time to time in various feeds? I looked for a short/cheap non-resident doctoral program.

I wasn’t even sure what area I should specialize in. I write horoscopes and I fish, so fiction? Literature? The problem with both those, I’m not sure I could do produce more work in a single year. Business? Not interested. Philosophy? What did Hamlet say about that?

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Shakespeare’s Hamlet Prince of Denmark (I.v.165-6)

Shakespeare studies? I’m more of hobbyist in that area, and formal study would probable kill any joy. Counseling degrees, too, I’ve looked at those, at least at a Masters level. It hold fascination for a short period of Sagittarius time and then? We’re onto new stuff. Being who I am, forged, as I was, in the fires of the halls of lesser academia? There will always be an appeal to seek further education. But in a structured setting? Not very likely to happen. However, the real purpose for the question, more education in a structured setting or not? What do we feed the ghosts in the machine, what footprints do we leave in the digital dust? What will the cookies and search motors recommend?

Capricorn

Every year, seems like, I make mention of something about this. But every year, The King Ranch sends me a catalog. Doesn’t actually send it to me, sends it to “Or current resident,” but that makes it mine. Every year, I flip through the catalog and marvel at the products, artfully arranged, travel gear, cowboy boots in his and hers styles, shirts, and luggage. All it is monogrammed with “King Ranch” brand, I suppose, and I wonder how much is really produced in South Texas. The King Ranch was, at one time, one other largest working cattle ranches, and as an archetype, sure, there is that. I know that there are “King Ranch” branded pick-ups, and the catalog, each year, supposedly shot on the ranch? Sure, that’s a connection. Real cowhands don’t look like those models. Working cattle is dirty and dusty, and everything smells like cow byproducts. What is real, and what is merely marketing?

Aquarius

It’s still one of my favorite lines, and I’ve used time and again, over and over. “He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” As it turns out, in that play, Cassius is a problem. But as a line, in, or out, of context? It works and that’s something to consider as Aquarius motors forward under these conditions. Great idea, overthink an issue. Problem? Overthinking an issue. Slightly tautological, but then, where is the balance point? Looking at Mercury against Venus and other influences? I figure the best action in Aquarius-land is stopping long enough to consider what actin should be next. It might be worrisome for some, but taking a break long enough to think it all the way through might be the breather that you need.

Pisces

I had, at one time, a couple of wireless routers. My own home network was a horrible kluge of various brands of wireless repeaters, routers, and access points, plus, at least two range extenders. Just a mess. I’ve written about this before, so it isn’t entirely new, but what I did? I sat down with a piece of paper, and I drew up the hardware, what connected to what, and how it all worked. Over time, I was able to simplify the material. I think I had two or three cameras running, as much for wildlife observation as for security, and then, doorbell, security, and whatever else. Severs, I ran a back server from home, as much as a test bed for ideas as a way reach the public. Then, too, does any of this matter? Yes, yes and no, and what helps? Take a Pisces break and play network admin on the hardware. The phones, the routers, the wires, the bird-nest of connections, all going from hither to yon? It can be simplified. I have one wireless router, even to this day, not net connected, just running, the broadcast tag is “SWAT Van.” As if.

Aries

“There is no better time than now!” At least one, or more, online sources will suggest that there is no better time than now. As soon as I start with the “There is no better time than now,” I am reminded of image of some graffiti in old Austin, south of the river, a juke joint/dive I used to frequent. The bathroom wall held great wisdom, “There is no better time than now!” And underneath it? “I liked 1992.” I’d have to agree. I think there’s still a digital copy of the image itself, someplace on my various sites. There is a better time than now, but we have to work with what we’re stuck with, and our job, at hand, at the moment, in the present? Our collective goal is to make the best with what’s here, at this time. Yeah, other times might be better, but due to linear, exponential way humans have to measure time? Now is about the best you’re going to get this week, so make the most of it.

Taurus

I think it was Hemingway who suggested that one, “Write sober, edit drunk.” I might have that backwards, too. While Mercury goes direct, into its un-retrograde pattern soon enough? I think that the idea of the idea, according to Papa Hemingway, “Write drunk and edit sober,” I think that applies. This isn’t about alcohol, or other altered states of consciousness, either, it’s about doing a single task with abandon, and then, in the harsh cold light of the next morning, addressing that task and correcting the mistakes. “Write sober, and edit drunk,” think that’s it. For Taurus? The same rule applies, “Write drunk, edit sober.” All I know it is it a Hemingway attribution.

Gemini

A buddy of mine was running point on a gathering. Just supposed to be a handful of friends getting together for an early-bird dinner, although, by my standards, it was a late supper. Group-chat type of exchanges. One thing led to another, and the time, place, suggested menu, invited guests, uninvited guests, friends-of-friends, and the usual plus-ones? The scenario, as expected, spiraled out of control until a single person took over. “Monday, at 5 PM. Got it?” Stragglers were welcome. “I can’t make until, like, 5:30, is that OK?” Sure. But taking a definitive stance, picking, then sticking to, a single time, and saying, “This is the place, and this is the time,” doing so solved a lot of problems. I had to work late that afternoon, so I couldn’t make it on time, but I was there, around 5:15. The group eventually swelled to over a dozen. Gemini, running point? “Monday, at 5 PM, got it?”

Cancer

In its day, I really liked the idea of the “Bullet Journal.” It was a method, part of the system was about carrying forward goals, like “I want to get this done today,” and if that goal wasn’t reached? The methodology allowed to carry that goal into the day, the next week, the next month, and, I would guess, into the next year. A typical Cancer, sign of the crab person likes that idea. It’s like a pre-loaded sense of guilt that there was something left undone, and now, we must write that down, and carry it forward, into the future. Tail-end of this Mercury Retrograde period. Write it down, one more time, and if it doesn’t get done by the end of the week? Rip that page out of the journal, and move on. Got about a week to get it done, and if it doesn’t get done? Maybe think about not carrying it forward into your own future.

The Leo

Buddy’s kid was in Junior Football. It was so worth it. The “quarters” were 8 minutes long, and the kids themselves were at that adolescent/puberty stage, from what I could see. Some kids were as tall as adults, and some were much shorter. But the games themselves, typically one-sided, and more often than not, my buddy’s kid was on the winning side, so that made it a little more fun, but yeah, there was one kid who was almost a helmet taller than the other players. “Watch this,” they’d give it to the big kid, and he would run up the center, or out to the left flank, and if not go all the way? At least make a first down, tackled by what looked like a ravenous horde of smaller people. This wasn’t even high school football, in and of itself, a revered element in my homeland. Most amusing, though, was to listen to the kid talk about the game, afterwards, and how he couldn’t wait until next year, because “They follow a plan.” More organized. In the next month or so, you, too, Dear Leo, will find yourself craving a better situation where folks are more willing to stick to the plan. You know, follow The Leo playbook.

Virgo

At what point do you just give up? With everything that is going on, at some point, though it just gets to be too much, right? So the question remains, when do you just capitulate? Give up? Quit fighting the insurmountable odds, and just cave in? “Fine. You win.” That type of negative attitude won’t work, and there is still much that can be good, going on, but you’re going to have to reserve that negative attitude for later.

“I’m not negative, just prepared.”

A careful detailed analysis — it’s a Virgo thing — but that detailed analysis will reveal that the problems, the weight of the issues are not actually in Virgo, but really just next door. Virgo–adjacent is the term. It’s right next door, and you can take it on, if you want, but at what point, do you just want to give up?

Libra

Playing with the timing? The way I usually approach lunar phases is to give it all a wide berth. I understand that I can time this material down to the second, with the precise elements adjusted for an exact location on planet Earth, but what I’ve found, over the years? Using the Moon for exact timing is preferred, but approximate is useful. While there’s an exact moment for that New Moon, the over-all shift, gentle, pervasive, coercive, and longer-lasting? That suggests a new direction, but the rest of the planetary play suggests we hold for another week. Time to start thinking about moving in a new direction, Libra. Maybe not yet time to move, but think about it. Think it through. Seems like a good idea?