The Ripple Effect

Holiday Mathis
Sat, 02 May 2026 21:00:00 -0700
Lifestyle

When one person yawns, others do, too. When one person looks up, others follow. The lunar aspects to the Sagittarius moon suggest people will be highly aware of what others are doing and susceptible to influence. Our attention is drawn toward what's popular. Maybe that's not the same as what's good, beautiful, and interesting — but it could be! Start the trend.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). People get in trouble overusing their lips, or for not using their ears enough. You'll avoid both scenarios today and be richly rewarded for your choices about what to open and what to keep closed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Today, it's as though the contradictions have a crush on you. They wink at you, neg you, attract you to make sense of them and dare you to involve yourself in their illogical complexity.
Updated: Sun May 03, 2026

When one person yawns, others do, too. When one person looks up, others follow. The lunar aspects to the Sagittarius moon suggest people will be highly aware of what others are doing and susceptible to influence. Our attention is drawn toward what's popular. Maybe that's not the same as what's good, beautiful, and interesting — but it could be! Start the trend.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). People get in trouble overusing their lips, or for not using their ears enough. You'll avoid both scenarios today and be richly rewarded for your choices about what to open and what to keep closed.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Today, it's as though the contradictions have a crush on you. They wink at you, neg you, attract you to make sense of them and dare you to involve yourself in their illogical complexity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You know what mastery looks like and you respect the work that goes into it. Because you're good at what you do, you have access to others who are good at what they do. Relationships of mutual respect will benefit both.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Like most people in the modern world, you don't have to know how a thing works to work it. You only need instructions, or access to the buttons that allow you to start up the trial-and-error process. You're a quick study.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Counting up is tedious because everyone knows what number comes next. Counting down is more fun. After today's "three ... two ... one" comes delicious uncertainty, the thrill, the final reveal, the rocket launch to go time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Though you have more comfort and luxury than the majority of people who ever walked this earth, somehow it doesn't always feel true. It is. What you feel you need more of now is fewer things.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You're about to meet someone who will be important to the way your work unfolds from here. The clues won't be obvious. Pay attention to coincidences as well as the odd details. Things are lining up behind the scenes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The ones you encounter today may be extremely convincing as they present their point of view, and yet their story doesn't represent what's typical. The truth surfaces through diversity. Gather data from the largest possible sample size.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It's said that guns rob banks and banks rob people. Large, systemic impact doesn't always look like crime. Not all harm announces itself with a mask and a weapon. Some of it arrives as paperwork, policies, or "normal business."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Experience is made up of what we notice and for how long. Since you notice so much, there's quite a lot of conscious effort that will go into today's experience. The best relationships and environments don't give you so much to ignore.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Check on people who might have more need than they let on. Don't assume that others are doing their part, enough or even what's necessary. What you can give easily and with pleasure may be vital to the situation.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Sometimes you're given more responsibilities than others because people know you can handle them. But most of the time, you take responsibility before anyone gives it to you, which is often thankless. But not today. Today you'll be thanked.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (May 3). The Empire State Building is hit by lightning several times a year, dispelling the myth that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place. And you'll do your own myth busting in this Lucky Strike Year, when an electric circumstance you had a couple years ago will be repeated and you'll let the good times roll like thunder. Pisces and Libra adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 39, 1, 30 and 6.

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