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Horoscopes for 3-17-2026
“I have operations in my head which be humors of revenge.” Nym in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (I.iii.48)
Horoscopes for 3-17-2026
New Moon 28°27’ Pisces 3/18 8:24 PM Sun into Aries (Spring Equinox) 3/20 9:46 AM Mercury direct 3/20 1:57 PM 8°29’ Pisces
Horoscopes for 3-17-2026

Pisces
The current astrology app that I use for charts? It calculates the location and time of ingress/egress based up my location, as rendered by the network location. Then it queries an international database to get time zones. I like it because it renders data that specific for my location, like the time when something happens. Between the ephemerides (date/time/location planet tables) and the chart program itself, I ran into an approximation error. Not an error, a discrepancy. Seen above, the New Moon timed out to 8:24 PM (local) and the ephemeris suggested 8:23 PM (local). There are twin problems here. One, it suggests that the app isn’t that accurate. It is, in fact, even more accurate, I just didn’t want to jump through the hoops to make get down to the seconds. Within a minute is close enough. But the second problem is Pisces Birthday time, and how that plays out, with this data. The Moon shifts into Aries shortly before the Spring Equinox, and from there, that shift, that lights a fire, along with Mercury no longer being technically retrograde. But it is. So there’s that. Look: a lot of this next week lines up good, but like that one minute discrepancy I found? Timing is still off a little. Now? Wait. Now? Wait. Now??? (I think you know the answer.)
Aries
I wouldn’t say that denial was viable coping mechanism. However, in my own life, and what I know about the family I was born into? Denial is a very effective way to keep from facing certain undesirable consequences. “Denial: not just for breakfast!” Guess that line didn’t really work, but the allure of deniability is without parallel. It works, to a certain extent, as way to address, or not address, existing issues. Just because I can make this work, for me? Does that mean your Aries self should be living in denial, too? I’m not sure the expression, “Living in denial” works, but a little bit of obfuscation, avoidance, and plain old lying to one’s self? That works — until it doesn’t work. But for now?
Taurus
Hair color is such a fickle topic. It changes peoples’ minds, there’s an unconscious judgement attached to it, and style plays a role. But the focus is hair color itself. One guy, I’d seen his images online, profile pictures, and so forth, with a mound of good, dark blonde hair. Maybe silver at the edges. My own hair color, it was brown, and now, it is shot through with silver and gray. I make no attempts at cover-up. It is whatever color it wants to be. I used to follow around with a colorist, and she used me as a test dummy from time to time, so there is that, but it’s been decades since then. But this one guy, he shows up at a show, spends half an hour talking with me, professional interests, and I couldn’t recognize him. His hair was recently dyed jet-black. The transition, and in part this was web-based social-media images versus a person in front of me, and in part, it was that camouflage of hair color. Style was the same, it was just jet-black. Don’t know what’s real, and what’s not real. But a simple adjustment like hair color changed the whole image. Me? I’m not changing, but then, I’m not Taurus, either.
Gemini
I kept thinking of a song lyric, afraid to show my age, but, “Everybody’s working for the weekend…” Figure it out. Then, too, it isn’t until this week that the Sun and Saturn get past Neptune. Until then, the Neptune Effect is in play. The Neptune Effect is about illusion, dreams, arching fantasies, with no connection to reality as we all understand it. Later, much later, we can find that string, that line, that series of points that make a connection to the real world, but for now? Trying desperately to push ahead under this influence? Yields nothing new. That’s the message for Gemini, too, nothing new. It’s OK to stick with whatever the individual Mercury in Retrograde protocols are. Just extend that past the time when it is officially not retrograde. It’s really Neptune and its subsequent players roiling around, but blame what you want.
Cancer
Some place, buried in the files on my sites, I have an image of a candle deal. This is quite dated, from more than a decade back, probably twelve years, at least. There was a drug store, downtown, and it sold a ton of tourist crap. One sales item I liked? Your current arrangement of planet made me recall this, but that one tag? It was big candles, the 7-day kind, votives to some, and the price tag? Little card underneath a row of candles, “$1.50 each or 3 for $5.” Personally, I like the Virgin de Guadalupe, or St. Micheal with his flying sword and his foot on a dragon’s head, but that’s just me. I was toying with your stars, looking for an appropriate message, and that image of the candle deal popped up gain. “3 for $5, that’s a good deal right?” Or just get one, you only need one at the moment. Can only use one at a time.
The Leo
I was reviewing old material — Mercury in Retrograde in Pisces — what I found? Decades back, the preferred format for web-based images was a certain standard. Now, circling back around, there’s an older format that is currently in vogue. One was better for color and depth of pixels (things), but the older version is equally capable, and the idea that new is always better didn’t hold up in this example. I’m not making any drastic changes, and I’m not going to dig back through decades, or more, of images to convert them to the newer, older format that might, or might not, be better. Let’s look closely, and since these are graphics file formats? Sure, “looking closely” is appropriate. But change, just for the sake of change, is this really a required update?
Virgo
Accent marks and air quotes. Know what I mean, especially about the “air quotes?” There’s an influence, several, a whole bunch of influences, but the way it shakes out in Virgo–land? Imagine every commentary is bracketed with the Virgo–centric motion of adding air quotes to everything. “Air quotes,” like this? Just like that. The problem being, with all-digital delivery, it’s really difficult to insert that nuanced, sly, satire, black comedy, pastiche, or whatever feeling that the air quotes are supposed to provide. You can see it when you’re in person, or even in a video delivery, but in strict digital format, there’s no real way to show this, and that, my fine Virgo friend, is the heart of the problem. “I know, right?”
Libra
In an effort to reduce congestion and ease traffic, the city had a pilot program — dozen years back — where anyone driving a hybrid could get a placard for their vehicle that allowed for parking in all the city-metered spaces — for free. Old girlfriend’s car was a hybrid, I got the placard, clipped it to the passenger visor, and that car could park anyplace downtown, usually for free. Great deal. The purpose was to encourage the ultra-low emissions vehicles. I think three of those smart cars take up less parking space than one of my buddy’s long-bed diesel dually. I liked having a placard, just whip into a spot and flip down the visor, the placard plainly displayed, and that meant “Free Parking.” I learned, the hard way, that parking is an important component to events. Free Parking is necessary for success. Look for free, free parking. If there isn’t any, please pay in advance. If that message isn’t clear? Get placard for the parked Libra car.
Scorpio
Seeing this, as it unfolds? Watching history being made? I tend to think of the term, “Creative accounting.” I’m not sure what the current version of that expression is, “cooking the books?” Don’t think that’s it, either. But I have found that I have to be scrupulous and clear with bookkeeping, financial records, and business data. With accounting, there’s not room for errors. It’s a Virgo thing. Fanciful, “creative,” or less-than-factual? As Mercury unwinds, there’s a very Scorpio plan to take a shortcut, save on energy, lump all transactions as one, or some kind of similar, sweep-it-under-the-carpet idea. While such a gesture should be applauded for its time-saving efforts, good conservation efforts, the creative and cooking version doesn’t hold up to close scrutiny. Therein is the problem. “Doesn’t hold up to close scrutiny.” I’d watch the creative, generalized, and otherwise unscrupulous versions. If it doesn’t hold up to close scrutiny, then it might not be the correct answer.
Sagittarius
The first time I recall reading a passage from Shakespeare aloud in class? I was bad. I read by the book, the lines themselves, no flow, no art, no poetry. Over the years, in production, and in study? I’ve learned, listened, and I can tell when the verse is delivered more properly. I can’t say what’s right and wrong, but I can discern expended effort. It’s about punctuation and breath marks, visual clues as to how the material should run together. Or when to pause, when to continue, what’s required to make it useful. For our Sagittarius selves, this week’s astrology shows up as breath marks, punctuation and the order of the lines. What I’ve been taught, if a script doesn’t have a punctuation mark at the end of the line? Then read it like it was a continuous thread, no break in timing. Follow the internal breath marks on the page, Sagittarius, it works out better. Sounds better, and that punctuation is there for a reason. Know what I mean?
Capricorn
“I have operations in my head which be humors of revenge.” The Merry Wives of Windsor (I.iii.48) The slightly passive version of this works, and works well for Capricorn, and I reiterated that quote because it echoed nicely in my own head, and then, looking at the charts, the way this plays out? Entertaining the notion. Explore your options. Revenge, yes, we all like to see some people get what they really, truly deserve, but it’s not really the Capricorn job to serve up that justice. Or is it? Entertain the notion. Play with the idea. Explore some options on this theme, but realistically? These are merely operations in your head, and while they might be humors of revenge? Action, Capricorn action? Not required at this time. Remember, Mercury, equinox, and so forth?
Aquarius
For the last two decades, at least, I’ve been reliably producing around 120K words for horoscopes, on an annual basis. Not a brag, just an observation. In addition, the weblog, pamphlets, articles, and essays can contribute up to another 50K or 60K of words. Roughly? Round up to allow for everything? 200K words per annum. I don’t think anyone, besides me, reads it all. I’ve got ardent followers of the horoscopes, but folks tend to read their own signs rather than all of them. Then there are the blog followers, but those readers probably read like I do, skimming almost daily, but occasionally dipping in to read the parts that they find attractive. All depends. Something for everyone at my smorgasbord, the buffet of my written word. But look, Aquarius: this is about what does grab your interest. What parts do excite you. What parts are more interesting than others.What directly addresses your questions, and then, where I can serve best. The real question, and it applies to more than just me and my works, but that question? What does your Aquarius sifting and sorting process look like?