The sky Moon in Taurus all day · waning gibbous, 97% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. Last quarter on Sunday at 8.28pm, five days away.
A slow day for a quick person
Slow is the word for Tuesday. Queues move at their own speed, people want to sleep on things, and the conversation you hoped to finish in ten minutes may take forty. Go in knowing that, and it stings less.
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Love
Someone at home may want to start planning Christmas, in October, at length: who hosts, who drives, who sits next to Uncle Pete. You would sooner decide the lot in four minutes. Settle one fact tonight, where everyone will be on the day itself, and leave the rest for November. One quick agreement buys a month of peace.
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Work and money
Promised dates may slip today: a supplier, a contractor or a colleague who swore it would be ready by Monday. You will want to send something short and sharp. Ring instead, ask for a new date and one reason, and write both down while they are still on the line. Polite pressure by phone moves things that a cross email only freezes.
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Body and mind
Your jaw may be doing the waiting for you: clenched in the queue, clenched at the screen. Drop your shoulders every time a page loads. At lunch, find a staircase and take it two steps at a time, then eat sitting down and slowly, which will annoy you and help.
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Ring the contractor, and settle one fact about Christmas
The sky Moon in Taurus, then Gemini from 1.01am · waning gibbous, 92% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. Last quarter on Sunday at 8.28pm, four days away.
Eleven opinions and one leaving present
Words fly about today, with the Moon moving into Gemini overnight, and most of them will be about things you settled in your head an hour ago. Talk fast if you must. Decide faster, then let the others catch up.
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Love
Whoever you live with may catch you at the door with “Have you got a minute?” You haven’t, and you will say so. Give them a time instead: half past seven, after supper, ten minutes, phones down. A fixed slot is not a brush-off. To someone who wanted your attention, it sounds like a promise.
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Work and money
The office collection for a leaving present may turn into eleven people debating a voucher against a plant. Volunteer to buy it. Offer the group two options and a deadline of two o’clock, then go to the shop at lunch. No one will mind that you took over; most will be quietly relieved.
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Body and mind
Your restlessness may peak mid-morning, with nothing to push against. Keep a skipping rope by the back door and give it five hard minutes before work, then five more at lunch if the day drags. Eat something with protein at eleven; hunger makes you shorter with people than you mean.
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Two options and a deadline, then buy the present yourself
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
Eleven opinions and one leaving present. Words fly about today, with the Moon moving into Gemini overnight, and most of them will be about things you settled in your head an hour ago.
Aries does not wait for things to happen; it goes out and starts them. Ruled by Mars, it has the energy of the first minute: the idea arrives at breakfast and has been set in motion before lunch. That impatience can wear people out, and it is also why an Aries is the person you want in the room when something has to be decided today rather than next Thursday.
The weakness is stamina, not courage. Aries begins ten things with the same appetite and finishes three of them, and learns slowly that the finish counts as much as the starting pistol. It says what it thinks, often before it has finished thinking it, and forgives about as fast as it flares up.
Aries in love
Aries likes the chase and makes no secret of it. It needs a relationship that moves: plans, honest rows, quick reconciliations. Routine dims it. Straightforward affection, offered without a speech, disarms it completely.
Aries at work
Give an Aries a vague brief and a deadline and something will exist by Friday. It has no patience for meetings that end without a decision, and it does its best work where you are allowed to back yourself and be measured on the result.
Who Aries gets on with
Leo: Two fires that understand each other without discussing it.
Sagittarius: The same appetite for movement and the same bluntness.
Gemini: Gemini keeps up and brings the lightness Aries forgets to pack.
With Cancer or Capricorn the tempo is different. One wants gentleness, the other wants patience, and Aries has to learn both the long way round.