Today's Horoscope for Scorpio

May 8, 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 Gibbon, Harry S Truman, David Attenborough, Thomas Pynchon, Peter Benchley, Melissa Gilbert, Josie Maran

Quick Quote: "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

Random Fact: Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby," without any word containing the letter "e."

Today in History:
1823: "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1902: Mount Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1978: Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament
1858: John Brown holds antislavery convention
1962: 1st Atlas Centaur Launch
1925: French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1978: ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
1949: West German constitution approved
1923: Hobbs scores his 100th 100, 116* vs. Somerset at Bath
1967: Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army

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