Today'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: "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-- Mark Twain
Random Fact: The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
Today in History:
1970: Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft
1984: Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1981: Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1881: Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington D.C.
1846: Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
1750: Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1953: Yankees and Browns use record 41 players in a game
1544: Scottish earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1945: 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1978: Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
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