Horoscopes by Holiday for May 22
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As the cartoons teach us, a monster can come in many forms: scary, friendly, funny, pathetic, human and more. With all the variations, how do you differentiate a monster from your garden-variety everyday creature? The Mercury and Neptune square promises this about the monster on the scene: You’ll know it when you see it.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Success in one area of life won’t automatically bring success in other areas, but certain basic principles will apply universally. The work is best chunked down into small steps and mastered in order.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). No one comes into their own doing whatever everyone else does. As long as you are deeply satisfied by the work you are doing, it’s OK if you don’t fit in. In fact, it’s a good sign.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s a time to keep score, and a time to indulge and share without worrying the least bit about who gave what. Scorekeeping turns giving and receiving into a job or a game instead of a spiritual act or a pure pleasure.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Anything you do to develop and learn about yourself, you do for your relationships. This is why you don’t have to be in a relationship to be working on one.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The umbrella of indifference may keep you dry, but it also obscures your view of the sky. The emotional weather is mild today, making it a good time to lower your protections and feel the cool rain of possibility on your cheeks.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It doesn’t matter what the “it” is; what matters is how much you’re willing to focus on it. Could you focus on it to the exclusion of anything opposing? Could you focus on it to the exclusion of anything at all?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll give and hold out hope that your charity is going to a good place. Don’t worry. In today’s case, the real benefit happens inside your heart as you hand it over. The rest is gravy.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The real deals happen face to face — that exciting place where all the risk is right there and you never do know what the other person might do or say. Artful conversation will separate the amateurs from the pros.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll reach a turning point in your work. Pause here a while to really consider the options. Once you pick a direction, its reversal, though not impossible, will be awkward and time-consuming.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). While you’d rather go into a game with a strategy, those require time you won’t have today. So, the best strategy will be to stay on high alert for clues and trust your instincts.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You possess qualities that seem so indelibly you, yet new styles of being are still a possibility. After all, in the stretch since your first breath, you’ve already been many people and more incarnations will unfold.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Maybe life is fair; maybe it’s not. No single person is objective or omniscient enough to know. But things don’t have to be fair to be good. An unjust moment will be, in the end, a glorious gift.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 22). A rebellious spirit pervades. The rules you break will liberate you. You’ll attract investors. The money helps you get a project off the ground, but there’s even more value in the time and lessons you gain. To repeat this success will bring you exponentially more, so take careful notes, pay attention and be methodical. Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 38, 5 and 32.
COSMIC INSIGHT: Unlike some of the gods, Venus did not technically come from two parents. Rather, her birth occurred as a direct result of an unfortunate domestic quarrel and an incident too gruesome to detail here. The important thing is that for all that Uranus lost, the Greek pantheon gained quite a population including the loveliest goddess of all. Venus arose out of sea foam (her Roman name, “Aphrodite” is synonymous with “sea foam”) and the beautiful flowing-haired maiden in her vehicular seashell was blown to shore by sweet zephyrs. Where her feet touched the sand, grass grew and flowers bloomed. Zeus had one look and said, “Here comes trouble.” That may or may not be a direct translation from Greek.
A lovely Libran lunar trine to Venus and Uranus amplifies the strengths of the love goddess, which include honing an aesthetic that transports people to the otherworldly. Whether you wield your attention in the realms of relationships or art, this weekend will bring astounding results.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: “Orange is the New Black” star Lea DeLaria was the first openly gay comic to appear on an American late-night talk show when she appeared on the Arsenio Hall show in 1993. The award-winning Gemini actress was born when the moon was in Cancer, the sign of intuition and maternal instinct. Listen up for DeLaria as the voice of Miss Fritter in the upcoming “Cars” sequel.
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