• Horoscopes for 4-7-2026
  “Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears.” Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona (II.iii.1)

  Horoscopes 4-7-2026

  Mars into Aries 4/9 2:37 PM

  Horoscopes 4-7-2026

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  Aries

  Standing at the edge of a lake, I was throwing bait out, not having much luck. Didn’t bother me, the shortage of fish and the lengths of the time spent fishing, but not catching. I looked at the water, and the recent spring rain flushed the shorelines’ detritus into the lake, and then, the lake’s water was rather murky and muddy. Bass just got done spawning, be my guess, and the bass should be hungry again. But with the troubled water all churned up and murky, muddy, almost no visibility that I could see? I would have to guess the fish were still on the bottom, waiting on the dust to settle. Happy Aries birthday. Like this fish, though, maybe we should wait for the water to clear before trying to move forward. It’s all a bit murky just yet. Let the dust settle, let the particulate matter clear out before charging forward.

  Taurus

  One of the peppers I’ve learned to work with is Habanero. Usually, a bright pumpkin orange, and quite hot in a pepper way. Really hot. In order to effectively work with these — I think they are also called Scotch Bonnets — peppers, I’ve found a trick that seems to work well for me. What I’ll do is slice the pepper’s flesh, the outside parts, and keep the seeds away from the pan. Diced into a tiny pieces, the pepper’s flesh gets cooked first, fried to within an inch of its life. What this does? It disseminates the pepper’s heat with infusing the oils with the pepper’s flavor. Despite the heat quotient, the peppers have a distinctive flavor and it’s possible to tease that out. Blends well with tame spices like paprika and lime. I used to dump whole habanero into chili recipes. Too hot. But just using the flesh, and cooking it down, first, that’s been a big secret. Take a few extra steps, and handling peppers that hot require a layer of caution unto themselves. In the flavor arena, and with my pepper pallet, it is worth it. But like my cooking with those hot habaneros? There are a few extra steps required and failure to pay heed to the usual cautions? Might bring tears to your Taurus eyes.

  Gemini

  One of the “self-help” gurus I listened to, or that I lent an ear to some of the material? “The quickest way to write a book: get experts to contribute a chapter.” In other words, let a handful of people all contribute texts then assemble the texts into a book, and it’s an instant novel-length manuscript with very little effort other than coercing and collecting other people’s work. While less common these days, I was approached a few times to contribute, and I did decline. The effort didn’t equate to proper recompense. “But you’ll get recognition!” Yeah, I’d rather be paid. Gemini: two pieces here. One of the parts is about that idea of collecting a bunch of short pieces from other people, then call it a completed project. But the second part, if someone approaches you about being a contributor? I’d get a lawyer to look at the contract, make sure you have proper billing and a name on the cover. Either way, if you’re going to do the work, you should be recognized.

  Cancer

  For a brief, shining moment, I could clearly see, in my mind’s eye, a way to make all of this look so simple, yet different, and cohesive. Plus, just as an idea, I wanted it to look like a typed manuscript. To start, I needed a monospaced typewriter font. Then, some kind of background that looked like a heavy typewriter paper, something that reflected a high rag cotton content. But I didn’t want this yellowed, as that looks aged, and while I might be aged, I didn’t think I wanted the page to look like that. With electronic submissions these days, I wonder how many manuscripts are actually typed. Printed, maybe, but even then, the old format of double-spaced, monospaced font, 12-point, clear and concise, and yet, easy to read? It’s an idea. The further I played with the concept, though, the manuscript-style on a computer screen, then, most of what everyone reads is on a phone, so, how does that translate to a phone or tablet’s screen? This is the time to play with the idea before we think it all the way through.

  The Leo

  Roll the dice. Shuffle the deck. Take a spin on the wheel. As The Leo, you can use any kind of metaphor and allegory to fit your personal space, whatever you’re comfortable with, but the essence is about examining the evidence, then going back to look at the data again. I like the idea of shuffling the cards, laying them out to see what they say, then gathering them all up again, shuffling, and laying those cards out again. Part of this is a seeking a consensus. Part of this is understanding that an aggregate amount of data is more useful than a single source. Part of this is just magnificent Leo busywork, looking then looking again. But the original idea, aggregate information, not a single source, but multiple sources, or like the idea I started with, rolling the dice? Then rolling the dice a second and third time to see what the numbers are.

  Virgo

  One of the tools I was taught? One way to deal with overwhelming and expensive decision trees? Looking at a problem that compounds, and splits, mutates and grows larger, looming in the Virgo rearview mirror of life? You glance it up, and it’s getting closer? Overthinking is the problem, and the simplest way to slow this issue down, the quickest way to divine an answer? Start with a quick list. Since I’ve run into these issues before, I can perform this exercise in my head. Two lists, plus and minus. Or two lists, “pro” and “con,” or, two lists, “yes” and “no.” The way it works, for me, I can list the “should” and “shouldn’t” in my head pretty quickly. No need to drag out paper and pen, no need to open a list-making app on the phone, no, no need for anything like that. But the list, “do” and “do not,” two simple columns hold the answers. To be honest and fair, even if the reasoning to not pursue a certain objective clearly outweighs the reason to chase after it? Never stopped me, but then, for Virgo, I’m a very good example of what not to do. What does your list suggest?

  Libra

  I’ve worked alongside a number of professional psychics, readers, seers, fakirs, and fakers. Mostly good, but a few that are questionable. One of them didn’t like the verbiage I was using, and she kept attempting to manipulate me, coerce, and otherwise get me to change directions. There was some phrasing that triggered my own, internal alarm system, and I shut down, instead of leaning in? I leaned away. Simple enough, just a matter of listening, then analyzing the structure of what was said, and understanding that the words were a subtle attempt at shading then pushing me in a certain direction. Pushing me in a direction I didn’t want to go. Kind of an obvious ploy, but then, this isn’t my first rodeo. I was not unkind, nor snappy, satirical, or even brusque. I did back away, though, as I felt like the manipulation wasn’t in a direction I wanted to go. Thinking about that interaction, though, and Libra? There’s a time when this kind of overt ploy doesn’t work, if you stop and listen long enough to figure out the gambit. Won’t work if you don’t let it.

  Scorpio

  The question, and I would challenge all my Scorpio brothers and sisters with this, but the challenge? “Does it have practical application?” That’s a simple enough question, and there will be flights of fantasy, notions, plans, dreams, and hopes. Hopes for the future, dreams that this can work out, and notions of Scorpio success. But the question, and I present this week as a challenge, “Does it have practical application?” The illusive nature of reality versus some of the empirical evidence of non-reality, the way all of this runs together, and then? The idea of ideas that spring forth from the Scorpio mind? Just pause long enough before pursuing a certain avenue, and ask, “Does it have practical application?”

  Sagittarius

  This is one of the “less glamorous” Sagittarius times. “Less Glamorous” sounds almost ominous when I say it out loud, but in my mind? It’s about toiling away in the background, not where anyone else can see what we’re doing, but the results of our efforts? About ten, maybe eleven or even twelve days away, then, and only then, do they see what we were doing. How what we did, then, now, is part of the building, maintaining, and sustaining the future’s foundation. But for now? Toil away in relative obscurity.

  Capricorn

  There’s a recent term I stumbled into, “Process Addiction.” We’ve all seen the articles on the inter-webs about how using the inter-webs too much is a form of negative behavior. Cruising social media too much? Maybe that’s it. Comparing what one sees on certain social media and then thinking that it is real? Again, points to the illusive nature of reality and what befalls the Capricorn Mind. I’m less worried about other aspects of the Capricorn life and lifestyle, at the moment, but I do think that “process addiction” is worth a glance. It’s that compulsively checking social media, that one site, looking at certain pictures, and mostly, this involves the inter-webs. Therein is the problem, and the solution.

  Aquarius

  I kept thinking about this, and I tried a draft version, and it sounded like I was trying to craft a message. I have several scratch pads, places where I can work out ideas, play with words, before launching the idea itself. This is a week of Aquarius rough drafts. It’s not bad, it’s not anything, it’s just a rough draft. There are times when the ideas are sound, but the execution of those ideas leaves something to be desired. Sounds good, but doesn’t seem quite right. In part, this is that pesky Moon in her positions, but in part, this is just the planets themselves, suggesting that you try out various versions of that message before you blurt it out. Rehearse, draft, revise, edit.

  Pisces

  This is about what we use to define who we are. Earthly possessions matter very little, anymore. I like having a good-sized personal library, and writing tools, but other than that, a few fishing poles that are more sentimental than actually used? I have a couple of beat-up reference texts that I like because they are just that: beat-up and used reference texts. But what I liked that really defined me? I own sport sandals, just a few pair, and two pair of cowboy boots, dress boots for state occasions, and more informal boots for the odd time when closed-toed footwear is required. I think of the boots as useful for “Marrying and Burying,” and I’ll wear sandals the rest of the time. Cowboy boots or sandals. There’s not much else. In a simple expression, it’s about how we define ourselves, as seen through the lens of what we own. This is a simple example, but it works well for me, so the question is, for Pisces, what defines who you are, and can it be simple?

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