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.
The teenager who surfaces at noon
A comfortable, unhurried day, if you let it be one. The Moon in Taurus is kind to you, and home may feel especially good to come back to tonight. Plan the evening around that, and keep the afternoon light.
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Love
If there is a teenager at home for half-term, they may not appear before noon, and then only to empty the fridge. Resist the commentary. Leave a note on the kettle offering a lift somewhere this afternoon, wherever they like. Half an hour in a car is often when you hear the real news, usually at a red light.
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Work and money
A colleague’s mistake may land on your desk: the wrong figures sent to a client, or a room booked for the wrong week. You could fix it quietly and say nothing. Fix it, then tell them, kindly and in private. Covering for people teaches them nothing, and you would sooner they learned it from you than from someone sharper.
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Body and mind
Cold reaches your hands first at this time of year. Gloves on for the walk in, and hand cream by the sink where you will actually use it. Tonight, put your phone in a drawer at nine and see how long you can leave it there.
If you read nothing else
Offer the lift, then wait for the news at the red light
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.
A recipe asked for by phone
Lots of chatter today, quick messages and half-finished conversations, and not much of it will be addressed to the part of you that feels things. Answer briskly by day, and save the slow talking for the evening.
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Love
If your son or daughter has left home, for university or a flat across town, they may ring wanting the recipe for your shepherd’s pie. Give it slowly, every step, and the bit about the Worcestershire sauce. A request for a recipe is very often homesickness wearing an apron, and twenty minutes on the phone answers both.
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Work and money
A reply-all thread about the new parking rota may reach thirty messages by lunch, each a little crosser than the last. Stay out of it. If you have a view, send it to the one person who decides, in two lines, and mute the rest. Your afternoon is worth more than the car park.
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Body and mind
Clear one surface tonight, the kitchen table or the shelf in the hall where post goes to be forgotten. A bin bag and a cloth will do it. You will come down tomorrow to one calm square of your home, and a calm square goes further than you would think.
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Give the whole recipe, and stay out of the thread
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
A recipe asked for by phone. Lots of chatter today, quick messages and half-finished conversations, and not much of it will be addressed to the part of you that feels things.
Cancer is the sign of the inside: the house, the family, the small circle it would do almost anything for. Ruled by the Moon, its mood has weather, and the people who love it learn to read the sky rather than take it personally. It notices who was kind in 2014 and who was not.
Its shell is not shyness, it is a policy. Cancer opens slowly, and once it has opened it is more loyal than is strictly good for it. Its hardest lesson is that looking after people is not the same as being needed by them, and that saying no early is kinder than resenting them later.
Cancer in love
Cancer wants to belong to someone and have that be safe. It shows it in food, in remembering, in turning up. It will not ask directly for reassurance; it will go quiet and hope you notice. If you love one, say the obvious thing out loud, and say it more often than feels necessary.
Cancer at work
Better at work than it believes. Cancer builds the atmosphere a team runs on and is usually the one holding the institutional memory. It undersells itself in the room and then minds. It does well where care is the actual product: health, teaching, hospitality, anything with people in it.
Who Cancer gets on with
Scorpio: Both go deep, and neither is frightened by it.