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: "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
-- Edward R. Murrow

Random Fact: The country with the highest consumption of chocolate per capita is Switzerland, with 22 pounds per person, per year.

Today in History:
1964: 1st game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3
1966: 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1)
1994: "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 72 performances
1951: New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4
1991: Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1925: Paul Painleve follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier
1924: Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer merged to form MGM
1942: 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg
1993: Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights
1977: Christian-democrats win Belgium parliamentary election

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