Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 15, 2022

Maybe the horoscope got the dates mixed up.

A star-crossed response…..

Celestial bodies hundreds of millions of miles away.

any of you astrology aficionados ever had an inaccurate horoscope?

Because you can’t always get what you want.

Your mistake was thinking it is a science, Calvin. It’s not.

No doubt, you should double down on tomorrow’s read

Horrorscopes never apologize

Cue Weird Al’s “Your horoscope for today.”

“Have you heard, it’s in the stars,

Next July we collide with Mars…

Well, did you evah? "

—Cole Porter

I had noticed many years ago that horoscopes were basically the same for every astrological sign.

That’s when I quit reading horoscopes.

You must wait for a while, Calvin!!

To answer Calvin’s question: pseudoscience, a word I picked up from Norman Lewis’s “Word Power Made Easy” in 1971.

I always check my horoscope before I go buy a lottery ticket.

I am sure that any scientist would give you a categorical answer, if they can keep a straight face…

So in your case, it turned out to be a "horror"scope?

It’s always easier to believe what you want to hear. Sometimes you’ll hear what you want to hear even though it was never said.

Accepting the truth is more difficult.

The human mind is funny that way.

When it comes to horoscopes a loose interpretion is generally the best policy. Get too detailed and disappointment can result.

Nope. Tomorrow’s will be startlingly similar today’s. The outcome, too.

It’s easy to read the stars. All you have to do is learn their language. Few are able to put that much time and effort into learning to speak star. They deserve whatever coin they can get from people who “need” their translations.

See, this is what I don’t understand about astrology. Calvin is six years old and he’s already figured out that his horoscope bore no resemblance to reality. How are there people who get to be adults without ever having the same realization?

maybe mom is the same sign and HER polices were enacted.

…categorical, and at the same time SCATegorical.

Love Hobbes brushing his hair in the first panel.

My spouse was miffed yesterday cause the newspaper omitted the Leo “horrow” scope.

The answer is in the stars… ;-)

This whole thing sounds familiar. Climate Crisis?

Perhaps you should check a different newspaper.

Oh, but Calvin’s horoscope DID come true. His actual key policies were to do homework, take a bath, and go to bed on time for school the next day. Calvin just had it kind of backwards in his head.

Nancy Reagan, who ran the country while her husband was sliding into dementia, was a firm believer in astrology.

Cancer’s never apologize when it’s the Age of Aquarius.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDhxcIaC23k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw

Don’t hold your breath. Calvin.

I figure all known horoscopes are kept in a hat, and they just take them out and copy them in the newspaper every day

Be ready tomorrow. Things are about to ramp up for Calvin.

Gee Calvin, it’s almost like astrology is just hokum.

it’s so far from scientific the distance is astronomical

You make your best efforts regardless of other circumstances. Horoscopes are beyond BS.

The horoscope writer had a bad moon rising.

Good luck with that, Calvin!

Pseudoscience, it’s found mostly on Social Media these days.