Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Aries horoscope tomorrow
The Ram, 21 March to 19 April · Fire, cardinal, ruled by Mars
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
An audit you did not order
An audit is not a punishment, though it feels like one while it is happening. Saturn has been reversing back through your sign, going over ground you thought was signed off in the spring. Nothing is being taken away. Something is being checked.
Love
You cancelled on the same person twice and made a joke of it the second time. Ring rather than text, and offer a date you can keep. Being in demand is not the same as being available, and the people who like you best would rather have forty real minutes than three enthusiastic maybes.
Work and money
If a decision you made in April comes back up, and it may, do not defend it at volume. Set out what you knew at the time, in writing, in under a page. Half of it still stands. The other half you had privately stopped believing in July, which is worth admitting on paper before somebody else says it out loud.
Body and mind
Your patience runs out at about half past three, and it is usually hunger wearing a costume. Eat before then. The day has no room in it for the long session you promised yourself at the weekend, so do the twenty-minute version and stop negotiating with a plan that was never happening.
If you read nothing else
Write down what you knew in April, then judge it
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon at 4.27am · Saturn retrograde. First quarter on Friday at 9.44pm, seven days away.
Force is the wrong tool
Mars, which runs your engine, is in Cancer this month, and it does not shove. It persuades, or it sulks. Anything you try to take by pushing will move about an inch and cost you the rest of the afternoon.
Love
Someone in the family has been brisk with you, and you have been brisk back, and neither of you can now remember who started it. Be the one who drops it, out loud, on a Friday, with a whole weekend for it to settle. Not a discussion. One sentence, then talk about something else.
Work and money
The last thing before the week ends will tempt you to clear it by force at four o’clock. Send the short, courteous version instead and let Monday have the rest. An argument begun at the end of a Friday has nowhere to go, and what everybody remembers afterwards is the volume rather than the point.
Body and mind
Book nothing tonight for tomorrow. Whatever you agree to at nine on a Friday, your Saturday self has to carry, and it has been getting up tired all week. Leave one day of the weekend without a shape in it.
If you read nothing else
One sentence at normal volume beats three at speed