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: "Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
-- H. G. Wells
Random Fact: The Nobel Peace prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, who was the founder of the Swiss Red Cross.
Today in History:
1974: Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 15th String quartet
1973: Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1579: Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1970: Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft
1976: Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
1991: Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1958: Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1944: Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1948: Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha and Telel-Kadi
1986: "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the U.K. pop chart
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