• Horoscopes for 5-19-2026
  “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” King in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (III.iii.97-8)

  Horoscopes for 5-19-2026

  Venus into Cancer 5/18 Sun into Gemini 5/20 Full Moon 5/31 9°Gem/Sag Year overview, in short: the long form.

  Horoscopes for 5-19-2026

  Last week’s horoscopes.

  Gemini

  From my early years, I’m old enough to remember chalkboards, but for my early years? I would envision a dusty, dark green slate chalkboard, with pieces of chalk, some fragments, some longer pieces, all sitting there, ready. For Gemini? This is an explosive week with ideas bursting forth, literally rocketing around in your brain, but the solution? The Gemini solutions? Do it on a chalkboard. Great ideas. Good stuff. Excellent material. Answers to questions, answers to questions no one has asked yet, but should be asking, and a lot of forward-looking material. The problem? Get this all down. And getting out of your head, onto a usable surface — like a chalkboard. The squeak, the dust, the noise, and the texture, that all plays into this. Plus? There’s the idea that the material is all mutable, permanent but changeable. Just what you need. A chalkboard to get the ideas out, then take a picture with your phone, so you know you have the answers.

  Cancer

  There is a Full Moon on fast approach, but it’s not here yet. Jupiter and Venus, both in the sign of the crab, the Moon Children, Cancer? That pushes that full moon excitement and anticipation up and over the top. However, there is a caution I suggest. Take it down notch. Slow the pace. Don’t rush. “But it’s almost here!” And yet? It’s not here. Just because your Cancer self has a crab-claw grip on the excitement that will unfold? That doesn’t mean you should try and share that unbridled anticipation with everyone else. A smirk, a shrug, a gentle roll of the shoulders? Much better. We know it’s coming, but it’s not here yet. Slow your roll. “But it’s almost here!” I know, but it’s not here yet.

  The Leo

  The problem is Mars, in a fixed sign. The solution is to stay directed. Not normally a problem for The Leo? However, Mr. Mars, slinking along, and causing a minor irritation? That creates a situation where it is easier for The Leo to get distracted from whatever it is that you’re supposed to be doing. One of the worst time thieves is social media, the web, or just taking a minute to “look something up.” It’s that last one, all I wanted to do was fact-check, find a corroborating story that supported the position I took, and then I spent 45 minutes clicking around in morass of advertising and propaganda, with no evidence to either support or invalidate the claim. Most near an hour — wasted. Here: a picture of pets doing funny stuff. Here: an outraged individual. Here: world news about the fall of western civilization. Here: two hours now gone, and we’re no closer to that single goal. The solution? Stay away from your personal distractions, however those show up.

  Virgo

  I followed an artist and self-appointed expert on social media. One recurrent topic was about creating art in difficult times. The clue to creation is not about what one is creating, whatever art form that takes, it’s about continuing to create even when it seems like it is hard. Difficulties are part of the process. There comes a time when merely creating is part of the process. The Tibetan Monks and their sand mandalas, creating an image then erasing it? That’s part of that this is about — for Virgo. Create something, whatever medium. Doesn’t matter much what you use, or how you use it, just something. One of the most powerful tools is a doodle. Hint: I’m not bad, I’m terrible. Do something. Do it badly. Erase it. Do it again, only a little better.

  Libra

  For many years, I did a short audio file at the beginning of the week, mostly for the pay-per-view crowd, but it was an interesting exercise for me. I quit when I was faced with either investing better equipment, like a microphone, and sound-dampening wall-coverings, or looking horrendously amateurish. Then, too, the editing software, bandwidth, and whole production went from “I can do this in my trailer” to needing a purpose-built suite-studio. There comes a time when it is too much, and the investment in both time and resources is too high. I have a large stack of unread astrology books, arcane theories, some crackpot, some genuinely useful, and I’d like to sort through that. Where is my time best spent? As my Libra slice of the heavens looks up, ask that question, “Where is my time best spent?”

  Scorpio

  Over the next few weeks, as Mars scratches his way through Taurus? There’s a technique for working with this energy, one that I found to be particular effective. I use a bulleted list. This is, of course, a variation on the bullet journals, but it is a much simplified form. It is just a list. On that list? Three times to be accomplished in a set period of time. I tend to set three goals, typically business goals, that need to be finished in a defined period of time. Instead of giving it an order, like numbering them 1, 2, and 3, though, instead of specific order, the items just have bullet point, a star, an underline, something to indicate that it is what I need to focus on. Those three items. “But I need to (do laundry, get the mail, go to the post office)…” The distractions abound. Don’t get to give into the distractions until the three items on that original list are crossed off. The little helpful hint is that there is no set order, but those listed items have to be accomplished, and the purpose of the list is to remind your Scorpio self what has to happen, first. No order, just get it done — first.

  Sagittarius

  One fishing buddy, his dog? Some kind of Australian Shepard mix, a herder, really, but that dog? When I would show up, when the dog was younger, one of the first things I would do is step into the backyard and throw the dog’s toy a few times. Now that it’s hot, and the dog’s shaggy coat, I don’t have to do this, but the dog seems to remember me as the guy who would always throw the toy for her. Very little effort invested, on my part, very little effort invested on the part of Sagittarius, yet the pay off is immense. That dog is my new best friend. Granted this was over a period of a couple of years, maybe, but a single series of little efforts, not much in and of themselves, that paid huge dividends in the following years. I show up, these days, and she lies at my feet, tail stump wagging furiously. This was a good deed, a series of small, good deeds, almost inconsequential in time and effort as an investment, that, over the years, paid well. It’s the little things we do now, even small acts of kindness, and those pay off in a big way, later.

  Capricorn

  Ulysses by James Joyce is one of the greatest novels of the last century. My own reading journey with it? Started when it was announced in 1998? Sounds correct. Finished it in 2014? Also sounds correct, my reading notes. That I finished it, eventually? Sure, I get that. In one note online, one famous author suggested that Ulysses was one of the most abandoned pieces of literature, readers start reading, but never finish it. Took a long, cold winter break for me to get through it. The layers upon layers, and constant literary allusion, just makes it that much more difficult. It was worth it, for me, to say that I did it; I climbed that mountain. But that was a personal goal, and it did take a few years to finally get around to finishing it. For Capricorn? Goals, and just how long does it take to get it done? “Hey! I’m working on it.”

  Aquarius

  I got roped into a situation wherein a I was challenged to develop a course, develop a system of study, to build a tool for learning astrology. A school, like, my school of thought about astrology. Accepted, then, under the pretext that another agency would publish, promote, and sell my works? Only, as it turned out, this was more a situation where I did a lot off work and it generated very little actual revenue. However, that being noted, dear Aquarius, the act of sorting through the material, organizing it in a coherent fashion, and building handouts? Doing it as a presentation? Think: PowerPoint? All of that let me know where I know stuff, and how much I learned from disparate sources. While the commercial appeal was non-existent on the short term? The exercise showed how much I knew, and what I learned along the way. Rise to the challenge. Even if it doesn’t have an immediate monetary return, you’ll learn so much about what you know.

  Pisces

  Instead of in-boxes and out-boxes? I borrowed a pattern from a joke. The humor was a zen guy sitting there with a single in/out box in front of him. Zen monk-looking cartoon. Still, I found that it works for me. Offered this up before, and I’ll suggest it again, the singular in/out box. Instead of trying to sort out what container belongs with certain elements in the Life of Pisces, a more simple approach, throw it all together and worry about sorting at a later date.

  Aries

  The source for this idea stems from military service. “Never volunteer.” The reality of the command form of that invocation, “Never volunteer?” That comes from me, and various organizations that I’ve done volunteer work with, over the years. There is one I remember fondly, and then, too many to number that left me irritated. It was people, mostly, people playing at politicking in small groups, and as a volunteer, I shouldn’t have to put up with that kind of infighting. What I learned? No good deed goes unpunished. Looking at the big — and little — players in the current Aries skies? This is not a good week to volunteer. There’s an aside to that, as well, don’t volunteer information (that you’re not asked for, specifically). In short, next few days? “Never volunteer.”

  Taurus

  Lurid headlines. Lurid headlines redolent of sexy scandals, how the mighty have fallen, and there’s just an added element of “How could he!” Not lately, but in the past? We could all fall prey to those same substances and temptations. Wasn’t it a famous Taurus who said, “I can resist anything but temptation?” Not sure, have to look that one up. But the temptations of the flesh, the appeal of breaking the rules, the illicit nature of that forgotten desire? That is merely a flash, a quick hit, a temporary situation, and giving in, these days, might not have the outcome that you desire. Might not be best in your own, long-term care. Fun at the time, but the strength of the desire is over pretty quickly. Then? Then we’re stuck with consequences.

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