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Horoscopes for 4-28-2026
“Very well, bless you for asking. I’ve heard the baker’s daughter was turned into an owl. Lord, we know what we are, but not what will become of us. God bless your dinner!”
Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (IV.v.42)
Horoscopes for 4-28-2026
Venus trine Pluto 4/28 5° Gemini/Aquarius Full Moon 12:21 PM 5/1 11°20’ Taurus/Scorpio Mars square Jupiter 5/4 19° Aries/Cancer Where to find Kramer Wetzel… Uranus into Gemini…
Horoscopes for 4-28-2026

Taurus
Raised, as I was, with my family? Some people treated traffic instructions, rules of the road, as guidelines, rather than as rules. Parameters to be observed, not necessarily adhered to by the letter of the law. Jump forward several years. Many years. Almost a whole lifetime. I was driving in Austin, on a freeway overpass, both sides of the access/feeder roads backed up with traffic. Light goes green. I pause for a second. An 18-wheeler flies through the opposite intersection, and the light wasn’t green. Light wasn’t yellow. Light wasn’t “pink,” the color after red but not really that red. Me in the little hybrid coupe? If I had accelerated right at the moment, like a race driver? I might’ve been flattened by the 18-wheeler with its full load. Austin traffic, what can I say? I tend to be a little defensive, more circumspect, and exercise greater caution just for this very reason. Real event, not long ago, and my abundance of caution paid off. As a reminder, happy birthday, as a reminder? An abundance of caution helps, and despite the Full Moon, and everything? Maybe wait an extra beat in the likely event some darn fool is trying to make that light.
Gemini
Permanence and impermanence, do you understand the difference? More a question as this Full Moon and its inherent energies explode across the Gemini face and landscape. Permanence and impermanence, what’s the difference, what does that mean, individually, to your Gemini selves? The tricky part of this week’s weirdness quotient, the connecting tissues that we look at? What appears set in stone is not, and what appears temporary might be permanent. The problem with a generalization is that it won’t apply across the entire sky to everyone, not in the same way, but as a message from the stars, to the Gemini slices of the heavens? Careful with what is permanent and what is impermanent. “That won’t ever change.” What does your personal history suggest?
Cancer
One simple suggestion, a rule for some? Always keep a piece of paper and a pencil bedside. I’ve long since graduated from a pen and paper to various electronic devices, at first a PDA, then a phone, and a tablet with whatever I was reading on it. Sure, not the best sleep etiquette but I’ve always had bedside books, just mostly digital these days. Or nights, really. Ideas — great ideas — are knocked loose in your crab-shell cranium. Have an easy way to record those ideas. Snippets of a dream? Answers to unasked questions? Portends for the future and the echos of the past? All of that gets shaken up bit, and left to settle as you slowly awake. Just have something bedsides, or wherever, to make note of what transpired. Or what will transpire. Simplest solution for this week? Have a piece of paper and a pencil bedside.
The Leo
While I try to live my life in way that I have no regrets? There is always that one. For The Leo, that one is the single situation about your life that you would like to change, like go back with a giant metaphorical eraser, and get rid of that single “thing.” This launches a loop where the decent Leo gets stuck in a loop of “If only,” and there is no way out of the loop, the imagery repeating itself until the very end. There’s got to be a way to bump your majestic Leo self out of that loop, that repetitive thought that circles and cycles endlessly. The best way to replace that recurrent and annoying, or annoying and recurrent thought? Insert something new.
Virgo
“If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything.” Heard that before? I’d modify the usual version, but then, I’ve got at least one Virgo who will complain, no matter what happens. “I have to say something, don’t I?” No, actually, you don’t have to say anything but it does try to bubble up. Therein is both the problem and the solution, but the idea is that there is stuff burbling, and bubbling, in the Virgo mind. Does this require voice? That’s the question. My suggestion is to not give in to the urge to speak your mind. I mean, I know you’re right. That’s not the question, it’s how you try to correct us.
Libra
Me, personally? I always thought I should get the sticker, “Works well with others,” but in truth? There might be a problem with such a label. I might not work well with others. I’d like to think, “I’m a team player,” but in reality? I’ve been going it alone for so long, I might not be everything that I imagine I am. This might be a problem. Most Libra–types like to think that the term, “works well with others,” applies. Usually, it does. However, there are times, and this is a time, fast-approaching when the expression, “works well with others?” That might not apply. Two choices, two easy options? Either make a definite effort to overcome this rash, quick, and hasty problem of not working well with others, or, as another notion? Avoid people for the next few days. I mean, have you met people?
Scorpio
Two books I’ve carried throughout this career? Adjacent texts, not directly related, but the indirect influences should be obvious? Marcus Aurelius Meditations and 101 Zen Stories, alternately Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. I’ve got a couple of copies of each, but in this week’s Scorpio notation? It’s about that beat-up copy of Zen Flesh Zen Bones. The way to enlightenment with a copy of that text? Either text works, but our Western Zodiac Scorpio does best with a small dose of Eastern Mysticism. Let the book fall open, then look at a random story on a random page, and randomly read that that opening. If it clicks, fine, you’ve got the message. If it doesn’t click? Repeat the step where you let the book fall open to a random page, and you read a random paragraph. If it clicks, there’s the message. If it doesn’t resonate with the hard Scorpio line, then repeat the search, random page, random passage. A good zen koan poses a question rather than providing a simple solution, and that, dear Scorpio, is what this is about, and it’s an ongoing energy. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones | Marcus Aurelius Meditations | King James Bible
Sagittarius
The problem is Ophelia’s descent into madness. Is she love-struck? Is she ex-girlfriend crazy? Was she nuts before and we didn’t know? Does Prince Hamlet really like her like that? Is it love? Questions abound, and I leave it up to the individual show to figure out what it means, and how to convey what the actors, director, company, or troupe wants. There’s a level of insight that the stars bring, and certain kind of clarity available to our Sagittarius selves, if we only open up to that enhanced vision. It’s that matter of opening up, or allowing, or letting something define itself in the current form. This is much like seeing a play, and even though we might be familiar with the script? It still surprises us the way the actors add texture and emotional flavor.
Capricorn
I’ve made note of this before, and I think I included a picture, someplace, as proof. While they evoke images of fear, death, and destruction, locally? Tarantulas are really fairly benign “pests.” Most of the big, brown ones are not poisonous, although, as critters go? They are some of the most ominous-looking predators here. They look horrible and mean, covered with down or black fuzz, more like a fur, and with pincers, long legs, and just generally frightening appearance? Sure. But as a predator, the local variant just eats bugs, like big water roaches. The local tarantulas are not an enemy, but an ally against the encroaching insect world. Would I invite one in? Probably not, but when I encounter them outside? I think in terms of “deferential respect,” alpha predator to alpha predator. Be kind. There is a twist and turn in the week ahead, and be kind. At least, like with those local spiders? Be respectful. Don’t have to hug them, but deferential respect is fine.
Aquarius
More than one of my old Austin buddies moved “Off-the-grid.” I understand the motivation, I get the desire to be removed from as much of this as possible, but there is a drawback. With the desire for solitude comes nothing but solitude. One buddy, perfect Aquarius example, moved out to an uninhabited patch of gentle hills and rolling prairies, only to complain bitterly, “There’s no one there!” If your nearest neighbor is five miles away, doesn’t make for much casual interaction, now does it? There are two choices, maybe more, but two examples come to mind. One? Move closer to a population center, like, move towards town. Two? Embrace the solitude. While the typical Aquarius is not in a dire situation, there are two choices, and think before you decide or answer.
Pisces
The biggest problem with machine learning is that it can only yield obvious patterns. The nuanced, intuitive, subtle signals from the human side of Pisces life? The large language models, the derivative styles, the versions that are merely drawn from similar associations? That doesn’t allow for the human senses, and the essential tastes of people. Some of us have weird tastes, too. Those weird tastes are what drive us forward, and that’s where the real success lies. Guess, educated guess, not based on previous decisions, and then? A leap of faith. That’s what drives Pisces forward.
Aries
For many years, I carried a beeper and kept quarters in my pocket to return calls. That was quickly supplanted by a cell phone, and the rest is murky personal history. However, I still had a beeper a few years back, and found a unique use: strap that to my ankle? Looks like? There are a number of comments it would solicit, but as a demonstrative drastic device? It serves a purpose. Besides, what else can we do with old, dead tech like that? “So they finally caught you, huh.” Street credit, real — or not.