• Horoscopes for 1-6-2026
  “Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee tell her but a worky-day fortune.” Charmian in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra (1.2.37)

  Horoscopes for 1-6-2026

  Mercury 17° Capricorn Venus 24° Capricorn Mars 22° Capricorn Jupiter 19° Cancer Saturn 26° Pisces Uranus 27° Taurus Neptune 29° Pisces Pluto 3° Aquarius

  Horoscopes for 1-6-2026

  Year overview, in short: the long form.

  Capricorn

  Consider whether you want this week to be satisfying or productive. Why not both? Please, Capricorn, we know better. You can be one or the other. Personally, I tend to favor “satisfying” over productive. I’m not Capricorn, either. But looking at the array of the planets? Think along the lines of “You can be happy, or you can be right.” There’s a strong, trailing sentiment, “productive” wins over happy, and “right” is better than being satisfied. The analogies hold up and it’s about choices.

  Aquarius

  There was a year-end piece that caught my attention, from a major publication. I should start over. I’ve been an Amazon Affiliate for twenty-plus years. It was a way to monetize my habits. I didn’t like linking to a title unless there was a possible remuneration for my efforts. Pennies, and most months the chump change doesn’t amount to a full payment. However, looking at a list of, “The 100 Best Books of this Century,” gave me a moment’s pause. Under each of the 100 titles? There were two links: one was an e–book, and the other was a hardback copy, both affiliate links with commission paid to the publication. Cookies, beacons, and trackers in place, I’m sure that generated a tidy commission, just as an adjunct to advertising, subscriptions, and other revenue streams. So how much of that article was about the 100 Best Novels of this Century, and how much of that was about, “Buy this book from us?” Aquarius, check the connections before you click and buy.

  Pisces

  One of the biggest hurdles, as an adult (aged) person? One of the biggest challenges is getting that single, onerous task accomplished, in a timely fashion. I’m not sure what this is, individually, but there’s usually a single job, a chore, a goal, something that has to be done, and Pisces has been putting this off. Wait long enough, and if you’re a Taurus, someone else will fix it, right? Maybe that’s Leo, too. But for nominally gentle Pisces, proper problem procrastination is not an effective way to deal with this one (thing). Goal, task, chore, issue, something you’ve put off for far too long a time, and the more time you spend avoiding it, the harder it becomes to get it done. Now. Now is the time. This week, after you read my little missive, just get that one thing done. I spent six weeks, maybe more, putting this off, and I got it done in less than fifteen minutes. Begs a question, did I learn anything? Can I get back to you with an answer, at a later date? Finish that one thing, no need to get back me with that answer.

  Aries

  When I was much younger, the joke was “Didn’t wake up in jail,” and somehow, that was a positive note to a tough weekend. We could, as much younger people, laugh it off, I guess. As far as goals go, for the immediate Aries future? I think that’s a good one. “Didn’t wake up in jail.” Although, on more than one occasion, while it wasn’t where I woke up, it was where I wound up. Misspent youth, compounding mistakes, usually. Years distant, it’s easy to see that I did what I did, and the consequences of those actions — or inaction — is what caused my brief detained experiences. Some of us have to learn the hard way. When I was much younger, that would’ve been me. Now, looking at the Capricorn array, I was thinking, for Aries, there is an easier way to learn this new material. What I’m trying to help with? See which way this is going? There’s more to it than, “Didn’t wake up in jail.”

  Taurus

  Somebody gave me a dime-bag of killer coffee. Think it was a Xmas gift, and it was that hand-picked, carefully-curated, artfully-roasted, like even to the name of the plantation and farmer’s astrological sign, sure, all there. Ergonomic, too, I’d guess. Superlative beans and done, just right, while I didn’t weigh the exact amount, I did measure carefully, done this a time or two, and I did extract the best cup of coffee. I was on about my third demitasse, so that’s realistically six ounces of coffee, and I was starting to see clearly in a foggy, cold January morning. The planets are aligning, in such way that the next week or two in Taurus feels just like that coffee. Tasty, flavorful, proper balance, and then, there is the promise about the future. There will be a future, and there is hope. These planets are like the coffee, there is hope. When it arrives? When the juice finally kicks in? The planets are good but the satellite of Earth (the Moon), not so much. All I’m suggesting is wait for the coffee to start working correctly.

  Gemini

  The quote, on a scrap of paper in tucked in a notebook? “Valentino’s: worst dining room, dirtiest bathroom, longest lines, and best pizza.” Looks like the spring of 1999. What I remember about that place, and I haven’t been back, suburban growth and myth-making advertising ruined much for me, but the place was on the square in San Marcos, TX — a small town south of Austin, home to SWT (now UT San Marcos). Known in its era, as a party school, and the last line of the old Austin’s hippies still there? Valentino’s was ranch dressing pizza with bacon and tomato. From dank recollections? The tag-line stands up, “Worst dining room, dirtiest bathroom, longest line, and best pizza.” For Gemini? This is about a note that was tucked away someplace, for what might seem like a long period of time, and in my example? That was pizza parlor note from more than two decades past. What’s floating freely in Gemini that requires attention, or at least some inspection, now? Leftover from when?

  Cancer

  Old note from a few years back, about outsourcing. Couple of the outbound links had to be clipped because the data was no longer there. Made me think of gregarious crab signs, the Moon Children, Cancer. Long term stuff here. Over the years, as I’ve faithfully blogged my way along, I discovered that not everyone constructs a pattern that supports long-term growth. There are a few newspaper-like sites that do support this, but anymore, a quick weblog-link is only good for a few minutes, a few days, a month or two, and, at best, a few years. There are exceptions to this, and that’s what this is about, the exceptions rather than the standard.

  The Leo

  “What are the lies you tell yourself to keep going?” There will be a cold snap, an arctic blast of frigid air that drops the local temperatures to near-freezing. Happens every year, and I plan for it with long pants, boots, sweaters, jackets, and heavy flannel shirts. “It will be warm soon enough,” is an example of a lie I tell myself to keep going. A similar lie? “I can fish in this weather.” While that’s partially true, I can fish when it is this cold, I’ve found I really don’t enjoy the biting wind as much as I used to, and no, I prefer not. But to keep going? “I can fish is this weather.” Looking at where the planets are, even now? The question for the The Leo? “What are the lies you tell yourself to keep going?”

  Virgo

  Got behind a car, vanity tag read, “GT TEACHER.” My very first thought? “Grand Theft Teacher.” Like a teacher who taught the video game, if that’s what it is. I never chased the car down to ask what it really stood for, but that didn’t stop me from performing a brief analysis of what little evidence I had in front of me, e.g., the license plate that read, “GT Teacher.” I’ve got one fishing buddy, and one of his kids is advanced, AP, GT, which, as far as I know was Advanced Placement, and Gifted Talented. Took me a while to come around to the idea that the vanity tag might’ve been something besides what I first thought it was, and therein is the weekly lesson in being very Virgo. I’ve been taught that the first intuition is frequently the most correct, but this is a situation — I’ve laid out my process — where that first inclination is merely a reflection of my own position and thought-processes rather than a genuine, clear-headed act of thinking and listening to intuition. I’m tainted. While the example was a quick look at a license plate, I’m sure you can see how that first Virgo inclination might not be right. Might be fun, but maybe not the best idea. Clearly, over-thinking is called for.

  Libra

  There was an old proverb, “The stomach tells you when it is empty, the main difference between it and the brain.” As the new year starts to unfold, remember that, especially here in Libra. There are some problems, and those can be fixed, but how we address the issues, how we tackle the problems, how we start our attempts at correcting the good ship Libra, is what this is about. Before planning an action, or in response to a plan that seems to be thwarted? “Listen to the stomach,” so to suggest. Instead of addressing a hypothetical problem, instead of trying to fix something that requires no maintenance? Listen to the issues, then address those. Empty fuel tank? Fill it up. Empty head? Fill it up.

  Scorpio

  I don’t actually collect sets of symbols, but I’ve toyed with the astrological glyphs for years and years. I stumbled online, across an interesting interpolation of the Scorpio symbols. The first is the standard “M” with a tail, usually pointed, hooking up at the end of image. The other is more straightforward, iconic scorpion, usually with an elongated tail and pronounced stinger at the end. Still, I have seen scorpions in the wild, and that is what they look like, at least around here. So the image I found? It was the classical M with the pointed piece, wrapped around a scorpion’s arched stinger. So it was either a double Scorpio, or a mere conflation of the two symbols. I liked it. Only a Scorpio would be strong enough, or sufficiently stupid enough, to attack a Scorpio. Maybe, though that’s not what it was showing, maybe it’s just two sets of symbols too close together to discern the individual art. What to watch out for in the coming week? Don’t throttle yourself, or, in other words, don’t attack yourself, as that doesn’t end well for Scorpio.

  Sagittarius

  The symbol for Sagittarius is usually depicted as the “Archer.” Another archetype for Sagittarius is a centaur, half-man, half-horse figure. Frequently both of these elements are combined. I tend to use a single upward arrow-like shape to indicate Sagittarius. The Sagittarius archer archetype spells out a kind of blunt honesty, bereft of social lubricants, just direct truth. Sometimes, like the archer archetype, a shot, straight to the heart of the matter with no dancing around and no making nice. There’s a lesson to be learned, in part from dancing around and avoiding an issue, but in part, there’s also a point where being direct and honest is better. The biggest challenge in the next few days? When should we be direct and when should we dance around? I tend to favor the straight shot, but that’s me, and I don’t always have the right answer. Or, right answer but too straightforward delivery?

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