• Horoscopes for 4-1-2025
    “Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! What says th’ almanac to that?” Previously:

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    Mercury un-RX 4/7 6:07 AM I seldom get to hurriedly reuse a quote like that, having just used it earlier this year, but comes a time, and the recent retrogrades make this obvious in a chart — maybe not so much to the naked eye. Saturn/Venus at 25° Pisces, Mercury unwinding at 26° Pisces. Adds unwarranted punch and confusion. I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material.

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    Aries

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material.

    Taurus

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. One of the problems that this poses? What is creative reuse, what is within the nature of the actual copyright holder’s license, and what is clearly theft? This is a problem, a question, and a weighted issue. I should note, just because something is on the web, and can be copied, that doesn’t automatically imply there is a license for stealing that material. Be careful. What I do, instead of overt theft, I keep two files, one is a just a notepad in digital format, and the other is an actual notepad. Physical, paper notepad. With Mercury going un-retrograde, but Venus (Taurus planet) still in (apparent) arrears? The idea of writing down that idea for later use? There’s a moment of very-Taurus brilliance in the next few days, with Venus and Saturn, mixing in Mercury, too. Keep note of that brilliance, but maybe, don’t act on it just yet.

    Gemini

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. I wonder if the original attribution still sticks? “Good artists copy, great artists steal — Picasso.” (See, I think, my collection Pink Cake for more on that question.) But it is about stealing an idea, a comment, a phrase or image, then turning it around for yourself. Example: I kept seeing a meme where it was a Buddha, and the thought bubble? “I did not say that.” I took that idea, took the common Shakespeare image, reversed his direction, and quoted him as saying, “I did not say that — Shakespeare.” Swiped an idea, made it mine. I also, not because I’m worried about any kind of copyright infringement, but I also tend to use a specific Shakespeare image — the Droeshout portrait — and I reverse the image. Again, not worried about any kind of copyright infrequent, the image is certainly public domain, being from 1623. No, the reason I reverse it is because it amuses me, and I like the direction better as an icon for my own material that deals with Shakespeare. Two examples, twin images, on how a good Gemini can rehash or recycle existing material.

    Cancer

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. This next week, next few weeks ahead? These are fraught with stupid little problems. Not major obstacles, but tiny speed bumps that are in the way of you making progress. The Cancer, Moon Children, the sign of the crab does best wrapped in a single extra layer of a flannel shirt. When I venture out, during the warm spring-like days, here? T-shirt, shorts, I’m good to go, but I’ve learned, I tend to carry a flannel shirt with me. In part, this is a nod to style from many decades past, when flannel was de rigeur, and mostly, this is because the places I go will have the AC set to freeze, while we don’t really need it on “freeze your ass off” settings just yet. I might need that flannel inside, I might need it after midnight, never can tell. This weather, and me carrying a flannel shirt with me, it’s just an example of the Cancer’s, Moon Children’s speed bump. Just an extra bit of clothing that — or might not — be required. Best to be prepared and thusly over-burdened, though.

    The Leo

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. For The Leo, I think of this as my own material that grows from the spoils of others’ discarded messes. More to the point, and it is growing season again, around here, more to the point? This is like rich earth that comes from the bottom of the compost. Most of mine starts as coffee grounds, as there’s precious little food scraps I throw away, but used coffee grounds and shredded business papers make a good place to start. That’s the base layer. Rich, dark, fragrant, redolent in the aroma of decay — good starter earth for growing green things. Notice that this is reusing, recycling, and growing something new out of the cast-off material, in theory, of others. Most of this is just my own making, and for The Leo? A lot of this can be recycling, up-cycling, and re-purposing material that you’ve used before, albeit, packaged differently. Good time to start a garden with the old, dead stuff on the bottom.

    Virgo

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. A damn good example? Using, and then reusing that particular quote about Saturn and Venus in conjunction. I’ve already written notes about it, and it’s not worthy of a true academic monograph, but does warrant a footnote as I figure there’s a bit of astrological humor borne inside the commentary from then-Prince Hal, soon to be Henry the 5th. I guess you had to be there? See what I mean about liberally borrowing from other sources? As a good Virgo, though, you have to ask yourself why you should reinvent the wheel, or try to fashion a commentary when someone before us has already said it well enough, perhaps better in that it is more succinct, and therefore, more poignant and pointed. Don’t be above a quick search for an answer and a solution that someone else has already arrived at — the arduous way — and that can save you from having to repeat all the same steps to arrive at the some answer.

    Libra

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. This idea has an amusing backlash, for myself, because I have a pretty strict “no rerun” policy in place with the horoscopes themselves. Not that I haven’t failed, on occasion, and the one time I tried double on usage? That didn’t work, at all. So I stick to the “no rerun” policy, as a guideline, maybe not a hard and fast rule, but as policy in place? Sure, that works. I also refuse to wholesale lift material from anyone else, but if I do, I use quotes, and typically? I’ll build in a hotlink to the original work itself. With the dynamic, fluid, and frankly mutable nature of much of what’s on the web, quoting a website is not always the most reliable, and that makes something look original, but I know if it’s not, and I try to reflect that principle. Likewise, lovely Libra? Even if you lift from a web page that disappears, or scrolls off the social media in a rapid-fire surge of crap? I’ve found that — in the spirit of being fair — when lovely Libra lifts an idea, a passage, quote, something, from someplace? Give credit, even if it just an ephemeral link.

    Scorpio

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. The challenge and possible danger? Recycling or rehashing someone else’s material without acknowledging from whence that material came. Who said it first? There was a quote in a book, a recurring theme, and I wanted to know where it started. Popped it into a search engine. Came up with three or four “possible” sources, but what it amounted to? There was no definitive source, other than it was a piece of practical advice. But no, no one correct source to attribute the quote to. I had — in a similar vein — a common image of Shakespeare, saying, “I did not say that.” I’ve seen this as Buddha, Jesus Christ, and host of other historical philosophers, thinkers, and leaders. So look. So search. Search for it exactly, then search in approximate terms. Find out if that really is a quote, or is it just manufactured.

    Sagittarius

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. But when I use previously used material, I tend to cite sources. I got off on a tangent with T.S. Eliot’s epic poem “The Waste Land.” How I first arrived at that? Sure, it was taught in a couple of classes, but that never really took. However, it gets structural treatment in Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost (a novel of the CIA). More than anything else, that novel tricked me into looking back at “The Waste Land.” This is an example of how a decent Sagittarius should cite sources, and show the circuitous, meandering route we take. It gets us where we’re going, and the willingness to show how we got there, that helps. It’s not just about recycling material, it’s where we got it from, in the first place. Or second place. Or even third place.

    Capricorn

    I’m never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. Never stopped me in the past, and I doubt it will bother me in the future. There are two guidelines I try to follow when I steal someone else’s work. Three, really, if we’re being picky about audio/video, as well, but for the most part? I’m written and visual. So if I borrow either an analogy or an allegory? I tend to cite the original source. Like the Shakespeare quotes, when I cite them there’s a simple Act, Scene, line number (where available). I tend to cite my source. The other is to steal the structure but not the words, or use the metaphor, but not in the original way, or to mangle the original enough that it obviously no longer belongs to its owner. The third, and I think this is purely for audio/video, is to not use more than quick clip, I think a sample has to be less than ten seconds, but I don’t know, and I don’t usually work in that media, so I can’t say, not for sure. Check with your lawyer. The trick, for Capricorn? Keys to success? If you’re stealing someone’s work, mangle it behind recognition — make it your own.

    Aquarius

    I am never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. Never stopped me, and probably won’t. As the planets continue to march around their prescribed orbits, notice that there is a certain amount of material, laid open for Aquarius to use, perhaps this is stuff you’ve seen before, or maybe? Aquarius can adapt a piece of the material, the useful parts, from a previous usage that was similar, but not identical. “It’s analogous, not metaphorical.” Makes sense to me since an analogy is like something, whereas a metaphor stands for something. Don’t be afraid to reuse, recycle, or better I always like the term, “up-cycle” some stray bit that was, or wasn’t, funny, in that first context, but in a similar position can easily be deployed by Aquarius.

    Pisces

    I am never above rehashing, or recycling, someone else’s material. “Have you no shame, sirrah?” (Shakespeare) Less than one thinks, that’s for sure, and that’s also what this is about for nominally gentle Pisces. Recycling or rehashing, or better yet, stealing someone else’s work, and putting it through the Pisces mental meat-grinder to see what squeezes out the other end. I was asked to help with a local not-for-profit, charity-like board. I politely declined. I was gang-pressed, bum-rushed, and other coercions, and again, I politely demurred. I’ve seen what happens. Everyone enjoys the sausage but no one wants to see how it’s made. I’ve been on those boards before, and it’s really not worth my time and energy. Infighting, politically posturing, bickering, personal assaults on character, and other frank crap? No. Just, no. This is about rehashing and recycling, and what to get involved in, and what not to get involved in. What works for nominally gentle Pisces? If it didn’t work before? Probably not going to work again. My final answer? “No.”

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