• Horoscopes for 7-28-2026

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  Hamlet (II.ii.279)

  Horoscopes for 7-28-2026

  Mercury direct 7/23 5:58 PM 16°18’ Can. Moon enters Aquarius 8:47 PM 7/28 Venus square Mars 20° Vir./Gem. 7/28 Moon conjunct Pluto 5:08 AM 4°14’ Aqu. Full Moon 7/29 9:29 AM 6°25’ Aqua./Leo Coming this Sunday…

  Horoscopes for 7-28-2026

  The Leo

  At first, my own family was worried that I would write about them. Later, my own family was worried that I wouldn’t write about them. Either way, a familial example came to mind. I once admitted that I was mixing decaf with regular coffee, some mornings. That was many years distant, or, at the very least, not current. but that also resulted in certain family members getting the notion, stuck in their heads, that I liked decaf. I do not. I did, but over the intervening years, I’ve changed. My tastes and consumptions of various forms of morning beverages shifted, yet again. Instead of what was once a good idea, I’ve changed. But, like this week’s Leo message? Getting stuck on just one way? That’s a problem. Getting stuck where there is no other way to approach a problem? Be willing to bend, mutate, adapt, and most important, between Uranus, Mars, and the Full Moon? Be adaptable to new sources of data. Change. Changes. Change is good for you. Getting stuck on one piece data leftover from a previous millennia? Might not serve your (birthday) Leo self best.

  Virgo

  Early in my career online, I discovered that I could get detailed metrics on every aspect of “Life Online.” There is minutiae and then there is extremely detailed reports of said minutiae. What I want is a snapshot, a quick screenshot grab, the top bits that are important to me, and that tell enough of a story that I can get by with just a few data points. I don’t need every last little infinitesimal point of information. Top three, top five, may be a top-ten list, but out of that, the first couple of points, preferably bullet points, are about all I need. I also don’t need this in an hour-by-hour delivery. Maybe once a week? But that’s just me and my digital digestion. For gentle sweet Virgo? Get this down to a manageable level. Just because there’s a metric, a way to measure, a computer-generated point of data about the single thing, just because it’s available? That doesn’t mean it’s what we need in Virgo-land. Just because it can be measured, doesn’t mean it needs to be to be measured? Or, just because it can be recorded, doesn’t mean it needs to be recorded? Think in bigger terms, and the fixed push, fiery conclusions, all of that? Think: “I just need the top three, maybe five hits for this.” (You don’t need all of that data.) Virgo — just because you can? Doesn’t mean you should.

  Libra

  There’s a simple cautionary note, not consulted, not steeped in myth and metaphor, just a simple note. “Don’t overthink it.” The lunar cycle, the ongoing tension between Mars and Venus, the rest of the world, looking around — gesturing at everything? Kind of a vague image, “Just everything?” Still, the simplest solution, for Libra alone? “Don’t overthink this.” In keeping with that spirit? Perhaps a simpler version would help? “Don’t overthink.”

  Scorpio

  Opened my mouth and then I ran roughshod right over their feelings. Small group setting, and I was an outsider, invited in to share my knowledge of the heavens, and how that applies. Gentle, wounded-heart group. I walked in and ran right over them all. Shrug, “It happens, sorry.” (Not really sorry, I mean, it’s me, what did ya’ll expect?) Two points: I won’t be invited back, and I won’t be making any new friends from that group. I clearly didn’t “read the room” correctly. Oops, my bad. In part, they invited me in to speak, and in part, I am who I am. But the educational part for Scorpio? When the opportunity presents itself, and it will, when you get that chance to open your big mouth and run right over the other peoples feelings? If you don’t ever want to be invited back? Then it’s OK. If you don’t want anyone else to like you? Then it’s OK. But if there are other considerations? I think you know how to read the room a little better than I did.

  Sagittarius

  I can’t pick just one source. I’d like to, but it’s rather difficult. “Pick just one.” I have two or three paper copies of Marcus Aurelius, and likewise, I have at least two, sometimes more, variations of Shakespeare’s Complete Works. Two copies, and assorted separate play texts. Rather than veering off into politicized sacred texts, I try and stick to those two as they could go either way. Sort of “middle of the road” stuff. Better yet, “Subject to interpretation.” For that matter, get all Buddhist with it. Again, subject to interpretation. Which was why I was going with more than one source, and I try to stay far away from religious tracts, as no matter what path one takes? It will offend someone. As a good Sagittarius? Yeah, doesn’t usually bother us if someone is offended by our sources, rants, raves, and recent discourses. However, given the nature of the times, and that odd display of planets? Pick something with at least two sources, two divergent and opposing sources, and then? Look at both of them. I’ve found that some words have a subtle shift from one version of a Shakespeare play to another, just as an example. Never hurts to use more than one source.

  Capricorn

  There was one passage, it was about the great American author Hemingway, and the myth? The writerly advice? Supposedly, and I haven’t been able to locate a corroborating source, so this is now more myth than actual fact, but according to dated sources? What Hemingway did, when he was working on a book? He would start in the morning, and reread everything he had done up to that point, before he started to write new stuff. Everything. he would reread everything. I’m a simple Sagittarius, I don’t work that way. The notion of rereading everything before you proceed further? There’s a very Capricorn feeling to that idea. Whether this is true or not, I mean about Hemingway, I don’t know, but the myth persists, and if that idea worked for him? Might be a good way to move your Capricorn self forward. Reread what you’ve done then start working where you left off.

  Aquarius

  I find it really difficult to reads a book on a phone. Got one buddy, she reads library books on her phone all the time. I don’t get it, but that’s me. Hers is a regular phone, at that, not larger screen, plus-size. However, as I was thinking, as I was about to shoot a note to another writer about favorite grammar references, I realized that, on my phone, I have a grammar reference book spooled up, open to a near-halfway point. It was digital copy I bought, read some, transferred to my phone, and in moments when I have nothing else in front of me, I have a book on my phone. Extra fun because it’s a narrative about grammar, and I think this one goes back one or two phone novels which, in turn suggests I’ve been reading this book for several years. It is not ideal, not in my mind, but I do keep a book on the phone, just in case. Think of this like a pocket book, a book one would carry in his or hers pocket. Don’t need to carry much, but I have to make sure that I’m never anywhere without some reading material. Always have something that is entertaining, and in my example, educational, as it is a narrative about grammar.

  Pisces

  Late one afternoon, sitting on the patio at a certain South Austin TexMex place, half of a basket of chips in front of us? A flutter of black, dusky feathers, and a girl grackle swooped in, grabbed a chip. My fried had gotten up to go to the bathroom, and the chips were on the other side of the four-top. The tablecloth was oil cloth, stapled in place. A little rustic for tawny, tony new south Austin, but in perfect harmony with my dated and faded memories of old South Austin. I always appreciated the grackles, as the current understanding is that the grackle brain has evolved in a two-fold manner. One, they have the native intelligence of, at least, a dog, understanding names, sounds, motions. But a secondary element of that native intelligence? The grackles can be tool users, with an online video someplace, look it up yourself, of a grackle using a stick to get something from the bottom a glass. Another, in a similar vein, was staking shellfish and dropping them from a certain height to break open the shells. Intelligence? Sentience? Not sure they are self-aware, but that’s the hypothesis. Or, like that one, the other afternoon, swooping in to grab a spare tortilla chip from the table in an unguarded moment. Be like the grackles, Pisces, take advantage of whatever is offered.

  Aries

  The usual question, facing this sort of an array of planets and their energies? “Should I or shouldn’t I?” Looking at the question, as an outside, non-partial observer? I mean, I realize I have some to gain by suggesting you should, but I also know that, in the bigger picture, the larger Sagittarius image? The correct answer — we both know — the correct answer is “You probably shouldn’t.” “No,” to be more specific and the eschew an abundance of obfuscating errors, yeah, “no.” At least one will read, the yeah, “No,” as a silent affirmation and permission to go ahead. With the longer-term influences, maybe weigh this decision one last time, and you’ll find the answer is either a simple, “No,” or might be a more protracted, “just not now.” So, either way? Yeah, “no.”

  Taurus

  There will be, thanks to the conditions, a shortfall in required Taurus goods. Could be a supply-side issue, could be transportation, might be demand outstripped available resources. Might be a greedy jerk sitting on a warehouse full of them, unwilling to part with the goodies. Never can tell how this shows up individually, but it’s a very real issue in the coming week. It’s probably too late to prepare for this shortage by hoarding your own, but the next best option? Plan on making do without. Ah, c’mon, you can’t say you didn’t see this as a possible problem, and you can’t say you didn’t have any warning. Look: the shortfall is temporary. No drastic moves to overcome what’s missing the Life of Taurus, no big changes, just go without for a few days. Might not even be that long.

  Gemini

  There’s a notable difference between strange taste and bad taste. In this situation, in this setting, I’m thinking about taste as a matter of judgement over art, design, or culture. I’m not thinking about this as a taste being something that one would do with a tongue. It’s how we approach that aesthetic element. Uranus in residence, basically Mars square Venus for the week, and Mercury unwinding? Taste isn’t so good. Or it doesn’t fit within normal parameters, as if I could ever be a judge of something normal. But as far as this goes? The rolling conjunctions and oppositions of the Full Moon with that Venus square Mars thing? Not a good time to make judgment calls. I gathered up a selection of paint chips, and used those to model what I wanted to do. Didn’t make a decision, though, and I think that should be a good guideline for your Gemini selves.

  Cancer

  The simplest example I could think of? Cop pulls you over, and the usual, first question, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” I have several smart-aleck answers spooled up, but I’ve found that people in a position of possible authority? I’ve found they really don’t enjoy my witty banter and repartee. Time and place, and looking at a uniformed law-enforcement-official, my caustic, sarcastic, flippant, albeit darkly funny material? Not the time nor the place for a comment. License and registrations, insurance, all of that. “Yes sir,” and “no sir” is the only acceptable answer. There was a one cop, in a single instance, he kept looking at me, and my license, and I could see it, “Do I know you? Name seems familiar.” Nope, not me, not unless, well, Austin or West Texas? I was polite, kept my hands on the steering wheel, and didn’t proffer any kind of an excuse. Got off with a warning. So when you’re faced with the probable “Do you know why I pulled you over” scenario? Best keep it polite, calm, and don’t talk back. There are three answers to employ this week, “Yes sir,” “no sir,” and “I don’t know, sir.”

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