Today's Horoscope for Cancer

April 17, 2026

There really is only one effective and at the same time spiritual way to work, and that is to stop watching the clock and throw yourself into the tasks at hand. This is much more easily achieved when the object of your work is to your liking and pleasurable, which does seem to take you out of space and time. The challenge today is to implement this type of state of mind into doing jobs that are not your favorites as well as those that are.

Power Numbers: 40, 43, 33, 12, 34, 45

Born Today: Jennifer Garner, Henry Vaughan, John Pierpont Morgan, Nikita Khrushchev, Thornton Wilder, Isak Dinesen, Daffy Duck

Quick Quote: "Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
-- Gore Vidal

Random Fact: The largest LEGO castle that was ever built was built with 400,000 LEGO bricks and was 4.45 m x 5.22 m.

Today in History:
1982: U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989: 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33
1930: Abkhazian ASSR forms in Georgian SSR
1969: Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1973: 2nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Jacqueline Hansen of CA in 3:05:59
1991: Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1978: 82nd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:10:13
1758: Francis Williams, 1st U.S. black college graduate, publishes poems
1492: Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find Indies
1975: Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea National Day)

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