• Horoscopes for 10-21-2025

  Horoscopes

  “The bonds of heaven are slipp’d, dissolv’d, and loos’d” Troilus in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (V.ii.152)

  Horoscopes

  • New Moon 28°21 Lib. 10/21
  • Neptune into Pisces 10/22
  • Sun into Scorpio 10/23
  • Mercury into Sag. 10/29

  

  Scorpio

  The deal is? Scorpio is best served if we put off the actual purchase for about six weeks. Said it before, and I’m standing by that suggestion, even now. It’s a timing thing, and it’s a confusion thing, and most of all? It’s about what you want and what you need. Since there seems to be a small problem discerning that desire from factual needs? Let’s just kick that idea down the Scorpio road a little further. Kick the ideas around, but maybe have good birthday and forget about the big purchase just yet.

  Sagittarius

  Since before the dawn of this career, I’ve maintained a small “altar space” of some ilk, in my home. Living arrangements have changed, but the notion of a small area, sometimes just a little slice of a bookshelf, adorned with objects that are sacred to me. Because I lived online for so long, one place? I had a spare wireless router set-up with just a name, not connected to the internet or anything, and that was part of my sacred space. I usually have chunks of crystals, a mineral sample or two, and lately, I’ve included holy water from a shrine out west. Sometimes there’s incense. What goes in your own, Sacred Sagittarius Space is determined by faith, belief, and accretion. Digging deep, in a trailer park in old Austin, I had a candle that I left burning in the middle of the stove top, just as a symbolic gesture. I mean, it all depends. But that sacred Sagittarius space is the focal point the moment. It’s personal. I might have a picture of family. There’s a piece of fishing tackle that has no intrinsic value, but hold great sentimental meaning for me. See how this works? It’s about a space that we collect whatever it is that is of value to our lives. I’m not defining it for everyone, but using my examples of what works for me. This is about individual definitions for that space.

  Capricorn

  If the motions of the planets worked like a light switch, then this would be so easy. On certain occasions, I’ve found that the planetary movement does work like that. The best example was the moment the Moon shifted from one sign into another. I was working in a hotel ballroom and the shift, that very moment, it was palpable. The background din, the number of people, the general temperature and emotional content of the room changed. But it’s not always like that, and these are big planets with subtle shifts. It’s pervasive, but sublime. Less of kick in the pants, which would be nice, and more like a gentle “Fade to black.” Or, fade to black… less distinction. I can’t paint pictures well enough to convey the imagery, it’s both strong, and not strong, pronounced yet demure. There are changes just up ahead for Capricorn. Approach the coming week, the weeks with a light-footed willingness to adapt, and you’ll do just fine. Just be aware, some of the symbolism might be a little less clear than you’re used to.

  Aquarius

  Can a simple catch-phrase work for the next few weeks? “Let me take that under advisement.” It’s simple, it acknowledges the other party involved, it indicates a both a pause and a consideration of the details, and it can buy Aquarius a little bit of extra time. Do you need extra time right now? “Let me take that under advisement.” You might. You might not. You might not be sure of what direction is the most correct, or some of you might already have an answer ready, but is this the time to deliver that answer? “I know what I need to say, but look: the other person? Not currently receptive.” Which means, if you know the answer? Maybe it isn’t time to deliver that answer. Maybe you want to weight a few more options before delivering a clear “Yes” or “no.” How to buy a little time for Aquarius? Or, what are you going to do with this information from this horoscope? “Let me take that under advisement.”

  Pisces

  If the last few years have taught you nothing, then there’s nothing to look forward to. But if you paid attention, especially with my meandering, apparently pointless, seemingly directionless ministrations? There was a cogent thread in the last few years that had to do with the Pisces Magic that you have. That special, undefined, no one can quite understand, that certain “intangible” quality that you can bring with you. I tend to call it magic, although, I doubt that’s really it, but it appears like that to rest of the of non–Pisces types. “You do that voodoo that you do.” One example? I’ll write down a goal, a wish, and then? I’ll start figuring out what steps, what action, what momentum, I need to get to that goal, to achieve that wish. As I’ve intoned before, “A lot of hard work goes into making this look easy.” But that special, Pisces Magic that you can do? New Moon, new start, a kick in the metaphysical shorts from Neptune? You have goals, targets, destinations, now, how to get there? What steps?

  Aries

  I was standing on a small foot bridge that crossed the fabled San Antonio River. I was wrestling with a personal issue, and it was a situation with no right answer, but the most correct course of action was the road I didn’t want to go down. Didn’t mean it wasn’t the best route, or the most appropriate, it was just a way that I — personally — found distasteful. Hint: I didn’t like it. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t right, and doesn’t mean, in my higher mind, I could see, despite my own discomfort, it was the best way to go. Accepting a situation, a solution, for what it is? That doesn’t mean approval, just means, “We’ll do what is necessary to get this finished in good order.” While, in my example, it was the smallest of decisions to push ahead with an answer to a question that was personally uncomfortable, but morally, ethically, dare I suggest, karmically correct? At the end of this horoscope, there’s a very Aries issue that bubbles up and the correct decision is just that, the correct decision. “I don’t like it, but it is what’s best for all of us involved.”

  Taurus

  Top water lure was an unusual fall selection, but I had one on from the summer, so I just tested it. It was few inched long, hard plastic with some ball bearings rattling around inside, and two sharp treble hooks dangling from the underbelly. As I dragged it across the submerged weeds, a fish exploded upwards and snagged the lure. Reeling him in, he was thrashing like a teenager caught red-handed. Certainly not a keeper in my mind, once he was landed, I had to unhook the hooks. The front one had two barbs through his jaw, and the back hook, although it wasn’t hooked when I hauled him ashore, his repeated thrashing caught him on that bottom hook. Took time, patience, and I was talking to the fish, trying to calm him down, “Look. Stop. Look, if you just stop thrashing, let me get a picture, I’ll let you go back to what you were doing.” Taurus? “Look. Stop thrashing, let me just do this, then you can go back to what you were doing.”

  Gemini

  Some years back, maybe a dozen years or more, I suggested that instead of a resume, or a CV, just look through my decades of horoscopes. With more than three decades of weeklies now available, online, I’ve found that it can be a two-edged sword, allowing all my old material set free. I’m sure it chokes some machine-language-learning software, but that’s not the question. I’ve long thought about trying to gather a “best of” series, and even that doesn’t work, as I get into the archives, I get hung up, marveling at the wording, the phrasing, the vigor in the past, and my lack of common sense. I still think the resume, CV, whatever, stands on its own as the body of my work, the horoscopes themselves, as separate and distinct volumes. There’s an arc, a curve, a bend, and obvious shifts in that volume of work. But I build on what has gone before, and for Gemini? This is about building on what has gone before. Simple as that, look at the accretion, of work, career, whatever it is that defines you, look at the whole of it, assembled in logical order.

  Cancer

  My various websites, and by extension the various media presences I have? While I enjoy staying in touch with my software/technology roots? I’ve long believed that the purpose of the technology is to make life easier, not harder. Less work, less heavy lifting, and most important, less repetitive calculations. The purpose of the original spreadsheet was to have a computer compute numbers, do the math, so to speak, and populate the columns, rows, with the answers. The problem being, the machines can only do what they are told to do. Error with input? The machines derive the incorrect answer. The way I work, I tend to let the machinery do all the redundant tasks, the boring stuff, while I concentrate on the fun, the challenging, and most important, the parts that I like. But to get the machines to do their jobs? I have to keep a hand in technology, the software, the engineering side. Best current practices? Newest hardware? Latest software? I have more than a casual flirtation, but less than a full on relationship with this material. My relationship with the technology? “It’s complicated.” For the wondrous Moon Children, the Cancer Crab Corner of the sky? What can be automated, and what do you need to keep an eye on, just to be sure?

  The Leo

  There is simple symbolism drawn from centuries past. In an agrarian society, the autumnal preparation of the fields followed the fall harvest. Some places, like South Texas, there’s still another season of growth, but other places, like north of here? The frozen stalks of the crops, brown and withered, are being turned over, plowed under, and the earth prepared for winter. Along a similar pattern, the pepper plant I had last spring? It’s starting to turn yellow, and I’ll trim it back to nothing then quit watering it. Winter beds need to be prepared, and The majestic Leo would be well-served to get a head-start on the task of “winterizing,” however that shows up. Fishing, in mid-October, I usually pass through a small town on the way to the coast. There’s a forever image I’ve got, a wind-farm, a pump-jack, a cotton field, and grazing cattle. Sort of a tableaux, but passing through that scene, speeding along towards the Gulf? The fields are brown up and only shattered stalks remain visible, everything having been tilled under. That’s the kind of seasonal, fall, winterization action that is best for The Leo.

  Virgo

  Wrestling with an issue over which I had the perception that I had no control? I kept toying with answers, following one long-winded but ultimately useless suggestion after another, trying, looking, poking at the problem with no real solution. I kept prodding, like, think with a stick, just tapping the issue, not really hitting it, but stumbling around an answer until I almost gave up.

  Virgo: never give up.

  I didn’t give up, but I resigned myself to a flaw in the material, a rent in the time-space continuum, or just an existing bug that would be fixed in future releases. But I didn’t give up. Then while looking at a possible work around, just on the off chance that someone, somewhere, knew something I didn’t know? I hit upon the simplest of changes. All I did was stack the material in a different order. Problem solved. What does that mean for Virgo? Virgo should never give up. “All I did was stack the material in a different order.”

  Libra

  Carefully weigh the options. This can go one of two ways, and it’s up to you to make the best possible decision, in the moment, for the time being. “But this could be permanent!” Yes, yes it could. I had a buddy in the tattoo business for a number of years. Several, really, but never mind that, anyway, one of our favorite exchanges was images of old tattoos covered with new ones. Usually, the old tattoo was a script name, and the new was some kind of symbolism, or colorful imagery that depicted happier times with no reference to the previous name. The cover ups always amused me, a “before,” and then, an “after” image. Seemed like there were a lot of names, some male, mostly female (sounding) names, and I’ll be the first to admit, this was not a scientifically statistically satisfactory sampling, just observations from a tattoo parlor in Austin. Now, what this is about? That permanent decision? It might be less permanent that one would be led to believe, like a tattoo. Still? Carefully weigh the options.

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