Yesterday's Horoscope for Scorpio
May 17, 2026
Emotional self-control and feelings of distance and aloneness characterize this time. You are coolly objective about your friends and loved ones, and their shortcomings as friends or lovers. You are probably being a bit too critical and hard on them right now. This is also a time for belt-tightening and being very cautious about investments and expenditures.
Power Numbers: 43, 9, 12, 35, 30, 24
Born Today: Edward Jenner, Dennis Hopper, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nine Inch Nails, Andrea Corr
Quick Quote: "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
-- Rene Descartes
Random Fact: Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales.
Today in History:
1975: Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1980: Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1962: Marin County withdraws from BART district
1955: Dutch Government of Drees resigns
1911: 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1970: Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft
1979: 12 degrees F, on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
1958: 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
1803: John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1981: "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 14 performances
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