ArchiveSaturday, October 17, 2026

The general horoscope

Saturday is the day of the stuck jar lid. You twist, it holds, you twist harder and your wrist files a complaint. The Moon in Capricorn, not quite half lit, squares Saturn, and that is the lid: one stubborn thing between you and the rest of the weekend. Force is the obvious move and the wrong one. Mars is still close to its trine with Saturn, which favors method over muscle. Run the lid under warm water. Tap the rim on the counter. Use a dish towel for grip. Mercury, sextile the Moon, is good at small fixes like these, though its tightening square to Jupiter will make you describe the struggle at length. Venus, retrograde, squares Pluto, and someone nearby will want to take the jar from your hands to prove a point. Let them try, or don't. Either way the lid comes off sooner when nobody is angry at it. The frog has opened many jars. She has never opened one by glaring.

Signs on this day