New Year glitters

 

The New Year glitters ever brightly! 

Distractingly like the anglerfish that swims in the deeper oceans.

Best hope that it's not dangling too good of a promise for your new year.

With kindest regards,

The Translator

Grim and the bear

 

Grim and the bear it.
A friendly little story.

With kindest regards,

The Translator

Todays Horrorscope for Friday December 27 2024

Greeting from the Blotters Blog Horrorscope.

May you have a week of affluence that is copiously full of opulence!

Please remember that this is all in good fun.

Pisces

February 20 - March 20

You are going to have a foggy day Pisces!

Pity be what pity is, such a shame that yesterdays Moon was Empty!

The light that shines upon you is hell with the want of things you will never be able to forgive

Congratulations! Your lucky numbers are 17, 62, 65, 33, 42, 43, 1

A quote for your week. 

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

Aries

March 21 - April 20

Weep for Aries! For their day is to be bountiful.

The Envy moon from yesterday will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be warned.

The light that shines upon you is devoured down to the last drop

Lucky numbers are such a tricky thing! Yet yours appear to be 63, 58, 4, 1, 22, 25, 46

A quote for your week. 

"It was vain to urge that his time was already fully occupied, for the young lady had come with the determination to tell her story, and it was evident that nothing short of force could get her out of the room until she had done so. With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat and to inform us what it was that was troubling her." 

-The Return of Sherlock Holmes

 

Taurus

April 21 - May 21

Oh what a fearful day you shall see Taurus!

Yesterday the New moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be sure to double check your lucky numbers.

The light that shines upon you is bad like the decisions you have made

Be aware! Your lucky numbers are 31, 17, 83, 76, 61, 24, 20

A quote for your week. 

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

 ― Jane Austen

 

Gemini

May 22 - June 21

Oh dear, Gemini. Looks like your day is going to be good? Such a shame.

Yesterdays moon was Haunting. Better luck next time!

The light that shines upon you is spooky like the cold light of a too sterile hospital room

One day your lucky numbers will win a lottery. 46, 40, 57, 35, 84, 44, 50

A quote for your week. 

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

 ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

Cancer

June 22 - July 22

Pity not your luck Cancer! For your day looks like it's going to be spooky. Better luck next time!

Yesterdays Moon was Devoured! Gadzooks!

The light that shines upon you is wistful like a gentle summer storm

No more waiting with baited breath as Your lucky numbers are 64, 95, 92, 41, 12, 20, 78

A quote for your week. 

"Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different." 

-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

 

Leo

July 23 - August 22

Such a heavenly day Leo is going to have!

Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Invisible? Lucky you!

The light that shines upon you is bad in the most general way

Your lucky numbers are 25, 52, 11, 29, 68, 74, 33. But you don't have to take our word for it.

A quote for your week. 

“Time has stretched, so that a few hours are an age; and it has collapsed, so that the events of hours seem to have ended before they began. Turmoil, even when generated from within, can do that to a person.” 

― Steven Brust, Agyar

 

Virgo

August 23 - September 23

Anger and wrath to salvage your day of when The Swamp Hag has blessed you.

Good thing that Yesterdays Moon was Stoned! Or else you might have had to go to work or some other such silly nonsense.

The light that shines upon you is heaven like getting attention from your favorite cryptid

Your lucky numbers look to be 99, 42, 74, 8, 81, 30, 17

A quote for your week. 

“Boss, what, exactly, are we doing here?” “Feeling maudlin.” “Oh. Good. How long are we planning on doing that?” “Don’t you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?” “What?” “Never mind.”

 ― Steven Brust, Dzur

 

Libera

September 24- October 23

Congratulations Libera! Your day is going to be a day terribly full of stress!

Yesterday the Full moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be rested.

The light that shines upon you is relaxing like a good shower

Whispered from the shadows say that your lucky number are today! 33, 32, 36, 89, 88, 31, 34

A quote for your week. 

"I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth." 

- The Sign of the Four a Sherlock Holmes novel

 

Ophiuchus

November 29 - December 18

Hmm, bit of a bad turn Ophiuchus. You are going to have a spooky day.

Looks like you Lucky Moon for yesterday was Doubled! Gnarly!

The light that shines upon you is lustful like an amine character

The Sun and the Moon have whispered to thee, your lucky numbers are 90, 39, 31, 54, 78, 65, 12

A quote for your week. 

“It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.”

 ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

 

Scorpio
October 24 - November 22

The bees have whispered their song to the Sun and Sky! Today Scorpio your day will be swampy and missing frogs!

Your Harvest moon has taken a vacation, please check again later.

The light that shines upon you is haunting as the fall calibrations of fun and is full of whimsy

Lucky numbers for you! 84, 33, 71, 81, 22, 18, 34

A quote for your week. 

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” 

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

 

Sagittarius

November 23 - December 21

As the sun is juggled by the clouds so to will your running from infants day.

Time to start planning a garden for fun because according to yesterdays Missing moon!

The light that shines upon you is one of revenge

You lucky numbers seem to be 30, 50, 12, 79, 68, 62, 34

A quote for your week. 

“as is well known, it is those with the least to say who use the most words, which is why, as the reader has no doubt observed, this historian endeavors, without exception, to limit his use of words to the absolute minimum required to successfully convey the desired thought.” 

― Steven Brust, The Baron of Magister Valley

 

Capricorn
December 22 - January 20

Such a shame Capricorn! Your day looks like it's going to be one that the stars have bequeathed unto you. Better luck next time!

Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Hungry? But maybe things will turn about.

The light that shines upon you is full of finding out

Your lucky numbers are probably 88, 86, 17, 95, 79, 80, 33 but who is to know for sure?

A quote for your week. 

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

"I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety. I read an inexorable purpose in his gray eyes. I exchanged some remarks with him, therefore, and obtained his courteous permission to write the short note which you afterwards received. I left it with my cigarette-box and my stick, and I walked along the pathway, Moriarty still at my heels. When I reached the end I stood at bay. He drew no weapon, but he rushed at me and threw his long arms around me. He knew that his own game was up, and was only anxious to revenge himself upon me. We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds, and clawed the air with both his hands. But for all his efforts he could not get his balance, and over he went. With my face over the brink, I saw him fall for a long way. Then he struck a rock, bounded off, and splashed into the water."

-The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Aquarius

January 21 - February 19

You day will be a day when The Swamp Hag was watching you just as the unicorn farts in the forest.

Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Bountiful? The horror!

The light that shines upon you is heaven like successfully getting true vengeance

Little lucky numbers 7, 28, 91, 79, 24, 12, 47

A quote for your week. 

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart,' said she afterwards to herself. 'There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction: I am sure it will.” 

― Jane Austen, Emma

 

Winters dream crystals

 

Winters dream crystals carried round and round by gentle breezes.

Drifting down from the clouds above, covering tracks on the ground below.

The covered grounds white as bone.

With kindest regards,

The Translator

Todays Horrorscope for Friday December 20 2024

 

Greeting from the Blotters Blog Horrorscope.

May you have a week of affluence that is copiously full of opulence!

Please remember that this is all in good fun.

Pisces

February 20 - March 20

By the stars and their light! Pisces your bountiful day is going to be a delight!

Your Haunting moon has taken a vacation, please check again later.

The light that shines upon you is fearful of what it might see.

Your lucky numbers are 46, 81, 37, 71, 16, 97, 85

A quote for your week. 

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”

 ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

 

Aries

March 21 - April 20

The night is your maiden and the sun is the knife that Aries will 

wield on this day that the stars have bequeathed unto you!

Pity be what pity is, such a shame that yesterdays Moon was New!

The light that shines upon you is heaven like getting attention from your favorite pet.

Be not afraid! For your lucky numbers are as follows! 39, 87, 41, 46, 60, 50, 21

A quote for your week. 

“All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what’s cool.” 

― Steven Brust, The Paths of the Dead

 

Taurus
April 21 - May 21

Forsooth Taurus! Woe to thoughts that cross your path as your day will be cursing the elders!

The Partial moon from yesterday will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be worried.

The light that shines upon you is flickering gently in the night.

Your lucky numbers are said to be 79, 68, 18, 19, 33, 84, 35 by the sky and the stars that soar in it.

A quote for your week. 

“The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-” 

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

 

 

Gemini
May 22 - June 21

The moons will wax and wane but your day will be a day when The Swamp Hag was watching you.

The Hungry moon from yesterday will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be warned.

The light that shines upon you is sharp and sporky.

But don't worry, your lucky numbers are 86, 93, 45, 53, 17, 49, 92

A quote for your week. 

“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.” 

― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards

 

Cancer
June 22 - July 22

Don't worry Cancer! Today your day is going to be running from infants!

Looks like you Lucky Moon for yesterday was Bountiful! Gnarly!

The light that shines upon you is bountiful like the heart.

Congratulations! Your lucky numbers are 43, 19, 72, 57, 14, 34, 82

A quote for your week. 

“And if I find out that I have been singled out for a destiny, I’m going to try even harder to avoid it. If someone or some thing has set me up to be used, then I’m going to go the opposite way, just to mess it up. Do you get that?”

 ― Steven Brust, Lyorn

 

Leo
July 23 - August 22

Your day looks like it's going to be swampy with many frogs. Better luck next time Leo!

Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Spooky? The horror!

The light that shines upon you is hell with the want of things you will never be able to forget.

One day your lucky numbers will win a lottery. 45, 9, 68, 10, 20, 62, 46

A quote for your week. 

"I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." 

- A Study in Scarlet a Sherlock Holmes novel

 

Virgo
August 23 - September 23

Oh dear, Virgo. Looks like your day is going to be relaxing? Well, 
things can't get possibly worse, right?
 Bet you weren't expecting for your lucky moon for yesterday to be Famished? 

But maybe things will turn about.

The light that shines upon you is good like the decisions you haven't made.

By the moons and by the seas! Your lucky numbers here they be! 19, 24, 35, 55, 54, 1, 77

A quote for your week. 

"He smiled gently. "It is of the first importance," he cried, "not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor."

 - The Sign of the Four a Sherlock Holmes novel

Libera

September 24- October 23

Oh what luck! For Libera your day is going to be so rainy with a chance of unicorns.
Hodgepodge and perfect lines. Slimy sneaks and runway models. Yesterdays Moon was Full.

The light that shines upon you is stoned like a 60's college student.
 Be aware! Your lucky numbers are 73, 35, 10, 83, 80, 48, 82

A quote for your week. 

“And all of the late, late-night talks, when you're not stoned, but you're so tired you might as well be, when you just sit there glowing with warmth, and all of those things that you really hope for come out, and you connect with each other on such deep levels that, when you think about it the next day, you wonder if it was real - if the others felt it too.” 

― Steven Brust, The Sun, the Moon, & the Stars

Ophiuchus
November 29 - December 18

These days go by but for today your day is swampy and missing frogs.

The moon is looking like it would have been Empty if not for the clouds hiding it yesterday.

The light that shines upon you is hell with the want of things you will never be able to complete.

Look left! Look Right! And here arn't your lucky numbers a sight? 

Your lucky numbers are 55, 14, 66, 90, 46, 73, 53

A quote for your week. 

“She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called. The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feelings; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced. But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude.--Gratitude not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister. Such a change in a man of so much pride, excited not only astonishment but gratitude--for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not exactly be defined.” 

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Scorpio
October 24 - November 22

The goddess has granted Scorpio a day of hell!

Yesterday the Shiny moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. 

Be sure to double check your lucky numbers.

The light that shines upon you is waxed, smooth and silky.

Your lucky numbers are said to be 49, 36, 45, 93, 14, 81, 70 by the sky and the stars that soar in it.

A quote for your week. 

"Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there."

 -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

 

Sagittarius
November 23 - December 21

You are going to have a hot day! So good luck with that Sagittarius!

Yesterday the Invisible moon will soon bring forth that with which you seek. Be asleep.

The light that shines upon you is doubled like a pair of cat eyes.

Hark! Your lucky numbers scream that they are here for you! 20, 72, 14, 57, 7, 98, 46

A quote for your week. 

“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

 

Capricorn
December 22 - January 20

Congratulations Capricorn! Your day is going to be full of the fury of the ages! Isn't that a gas?

Good thing that Yesterdays Moon was Mysterious! 

Or else you might have had to go to work or some other such silly nonsense.

The light that shines upon you is heaven like getting attention from your favorite animal.

May these numbers 33, 18, 82, 51, 78, 91, 27 find you lucky.

A quote for your week. 

“If you’re trying to scare me,” I said, “it’s working.” “I can do a great deal more than scare you.” Where do they get this stuff? “Um, if I thought all you could do was scare me, you couldn’t scare me, if you see what I mean.” “We’ll see how funny you are in a little while.” I was mildly curious about that myself.” 

― Steven Brust, Jhegaala

Aquarius
January 21 - February 19

Oh woe is be Aquarius! For your day seems to be haunting!

Yesterdays Moon was Partial! Such a shame.

The light that shines upon you is mysterious as the women in the shadows.

Your lucky numbers are probably 64, 90, 53, 87, 2, 91, 46 but who is to know for sure?

A quote for your week. 

“...that the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son; and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year; that he had been sent to sea, because he was stupid and unmanageable on shore; that he had been very little cared for at any time by his family, though quite as much as he deserved; seldom heard of, and scarcely at all regretted... He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him 'poor Richard,' been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.” 

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

Oooh baby

 

Oooh, baby i want to run away! Every day, every day!
But, I can never find the time of day. Anyway, every day!
Oooh, I gotta work for that 401k! Every day. every day.

With kindest regards,

The Translator

Todays Horrorscope for Friday December 13 2024

 

Greeting from the Blotters Blog Horrorscope.

May you have a week of affluence that is copiously full of opulence!

Please remember that this is all in good fun.

Pisces

February 20 - March 20

The light that shines upon you is hungry.

As the sun is juggled by the clouds so to will your day as The Swamp Hag was watching you.

Your lucky numbers are said to be 22, 58, 78, 82, 99, 14, 35 by the sky and the stars that soar in it.

A quote for your week. 

“No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.” 

― Steven Brust, Jhereg

Aries

March 21 - April 20

The light that shines upon you is wanting.

Weep for Aries! For their day is to be cursing the elders.

Lucky numbers are such a tricky thing! 

Yet yours appear to be 21, 83, 72, 96, 1, 26, 35

A quote for your week. 

“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”

 ― Jane Austen, Persuasion

Taurus

April 21 - May 21

The light that shines upon you is lustful.

Forsooth Taurus! Woe to thoughts that cross your path as your day will be good!

Your lucky numbers are 28, 36, 37, 42, 52, 66, 79

A quote for your week. 

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after." 

-The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

 

Gemini

May 22 - June 21

The light that shines upon you is bright.

Such a shame SIGN! Your day looks like it's going to be foggy. Better luck next time!

Be aware! Your lucky numbers are 5, 22, 30, 41, 53, 68, 73

A quote for your week. 

"Winwood Reade is good upon the subject," said Holmes. "He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician." - The Sign of the Four

"Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared." 

-The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Cancer

June 22 - July 22

The light that shines upon you is invisible.

The bees have whispered their song to the Sun and Sky! 

Today Cancer your day will be Heaven!

No more waiting with baited breath as Your lucky numbers are 16, 45, 46, 48, 49, 60, 85

A quote for your week. 

“It is well known…that the military historian is at his best when giving the names of field officers who fell in battle, and at his worst when attempting to explain the reason for the general officer to have made a certain decision at a certain time.” 

― Steven Brust, The Paths of the Dead

Leo

July 23 - August 22

The light that shines upon you is doubled.

The goddess has granted Leo a day of bad choices!

Be not afraid! For your lucky numbers are as follows! 2, 14, 16, 45, 58, 59, 87

A quote for your week. 

“I immediately got six ideas on how to approach it. Once I’d eliminated the ones that would require me to leave the theater, I was left with zero. That was only one fewer than I needed, so that was encouraging.” 

― Steven Brust, Lyorn

Virgo

August 23 - September 23

The light that shines upon you is full of envy.
Pity not your luck Virgo! For your day looks like it's going to be swampy with many frogs. Better luck next time!
Your lucky numbers are 6, 7, 14, 15, 30, 41, 52. But you don't have to take our word for it.

A quote for your week. 

“Makeup Artist: After every night Of entertaining The actors look into the glass. And I always hear The same complaining: Actor: Wrinkles on my face! How did this come to pass? Makeup Artist: They’re always blaming me Which is beastly For none of them can see That I am going through the lotions Trying all the creams Nothing ever works on them it seems. Actors always need To look their finest That is pretty much my goal. But makeup, it’s agreed, It causes dryness” 

― Steven Brust, Lyorn

Libera
September 24- October 23

The light that shines upon you is twinkling gently.
The moons will wax and wane but your day will be Spooky.
Hark! Your lucky numbers scream that they are here for you! 1, 17, 36, 42, 48, 72, 96

A quote for your week. 

"To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory."

 -The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Ophiuchus

November 29 - December 18

The light that shines upon you is haunting.

Congratulations Ophiuchus! Your day is going to be a Bountiful! Isn't that a gas?

Look left! Look Right! And here arn't your lucky numbers a sight? Your lucky numbers are 8, 15, 32, 38, 67, 74, 88

A quote for your week. 

“Snow, tenderly caught by eddying breezes, swirled and spun in to and out of bright, lustrous shapes that gleamed against the emerald-blazoned black drape of sky and sparkled there for a moment, hanging, before settling gently to the soft, green-tufted plain with all the sickly sweetness of an over-written sentence.” 

― Steven Brust, To Reign in Hell

Scorpio

October 24 - November 22

The light that shines upon you is spooky.

The night is your maiden and the sun is the knife that Scorpio will 

wield on this day of Cold!

Here, have these NUMBERS as they have been bequeathed unto you. 

14, 21, 42, 44, 46, 78, 98

A quote for your week. 

“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”

 ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Sagittarius

November 23 - December 21

The light that shines upon you is relaxing.

By the stars and their light! Sagittarius your Haunting day is going to be a delight!

Numbers of fortune! Numbers of Woe! Listen here before you go! 

4, 11, 15, 37, 58, 72, 92

A quote for your week. 

“Men have invented various names in which to measure distance, and have a certain pleasure in assigning units of one to the other, it is the sense that so many inches toi the spans, and so many spans to the league; in the sense that a league in the Sorannah is almost two leagues within the ancient confines of Seawall, that is, within the barony that once held the city of Dragaera, and, at the time of which we have the honor to write, still held a portion of it; yet. for all of this measurement, it is understood by those who travel and by those who listen to travelers that the meaningful unit by which distance can be measured is time.”

 ― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards

Capricorn

December 22 - January 20

The light that shines upon you is cursing the elders.

Don't worry Capricorn! Today your day is going to be Fearful!

Whispered from the shadows say that your lucky number are today! 

50, 12, 20, 26, 57, 68, 88

A quote for your week. 

“The creation of powerful magical tools, generally, is the result of one of three things: the desire to impress a lover; an accident while trying to create something else entirely; or a side project created to assist while working toward something considered more significant by the creator.” 

― Steven Brust, Hawk

Aquarius

January 21 - February 19

The light that shines upon you is stoned.

Oh dear, Aquarius. Looks like your day is going to be Hell? Such a shame.

The Sun and the Moon have whispered to thee, 

your lucky numbers are 12, 24, 25, 27, 38, 48, 86

A quote for your week. 

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that this little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it, there comes a time when for any addition of knowledge, you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." 

- A Study in Scarlet a Sherlock Holmes novel

13th

Happy Friday the 13^th!

Because, why not?

With kindest regards,

The Translator