Today's Horoscope for Libra
May 17, 2026
You may want to have fun and lots of it just now, but this is the pendulum swinging to the opposite side in the extreme. There's no problem with pleasure but when the desire becomes too strong, then the obsessive side of your star sign can override your better sensibilities. Again, the age old saying, everything in moderation, needs to be adhered to.
Power Numbers: 27, 26, 25, 48, 31, 40
Born Today: Edward Jenner, Dennis Hopper, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nine Inch Nails, Andrea Corr
Quick Quote: "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
-- Mae West
Random Fact: The words "abstemioius," and "facetious" both have all the five vowels in them in order.
Today in History:
1980: Paul and Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1969: Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1890: Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
1949: British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
1877: Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1954: Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1881: Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C.
1969: "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92
1939: 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1973: "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 21 performances
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