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.
Look up what the job pays
Solid ground underfoot today, and you may feel it: a day that rewards patience and plain arithmetic. What you have been building quietly may look sturdier by evening. Check that it is paying you what it should.
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Love
An old friend may be marking a birthday or a leaving do on a weeknight, at a pub across town. You will want to finish the work first and send apologies. Go for an hour. Stand near the door if you like, buy one round, and leave when you choose. Being there at all is the part they will remember.
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Work and money
Find out, quietly, what your role pays elsewhere: two job adverts, one conversation with someone in the same line of work. You may be paid fairly. You may not be. Either way, a figure you have checked is worth having before anyone next talks to you about money, even if you never quote it.
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Body and mind
Let yourself off one job today: the spare-room clear-out you promised yourself by November can wait until spring. Eat lunch away from the screen, and be in bed by half past ten with nothing to read that counts as work.
If you read nothing else
Look up the going rate, and go to the party for an hour
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.
Ten minutes, or forty spent teaching
Small talk and smaller tasks fill the diary today, none of them moving anything forward. Clear what you can by noon, then guard one hour for the job that actually counts.
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Love
If your brother, sister or oldest friend has had one-word replies from you lately, “fine”, “busy”, “soon”, ring them tonight on the way home and keep it short, with nothing to arrange. Your voice tells them more than a month of texts, even if all you discuss is the traffic.
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Work and money
A newer colleague may ask how to do something you could finish yourself in ten minutes. Show them instead, even though it takes forty. It is slower today and faster for the rest of the year, and you are allowed to stop being the only person who knows where everything lives.
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Body and mind
Leave work on time tonight, properly on time, coat on as the hour strikes. Nothing on your desk will spoil by morning. Walk the first stretch home in the early dark with no podcast, and have supper on the table before eight.
If you read nothing else
Teach it once, then leave on the dot
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
Ten minutes, or forty spent teaching. Small talk and smaller tasks fill the diary today, none of them moving anything forward.
Capricorn takes responsibility early, often earlier than it should, and builds the way people used to build houses: slowly, and to last. Ruled by Saturn, it respects effort and time, distrusts shortcuts, and quietly notices who did the work. It ages in the right direction, and its forties tend to be better than its twenties.
The cost is that it carries things alone. Capricorn will decide it is the responsible one and then resent a job nobody asked it to take. Underneath the seriousness is a very dry sense of humour, which arrives without warning and is the fastest way into its confidence.
Capricorn in love
Slow, careful and serious once decided. Capricorn shows love in commitment rather than declaration: the plan, the pension, the standing arrangement. It needs to be told that it is wanted for itself and not for what it provides, because it half suspects the second is the real reason.
Capricorn at work
It gets there. Capricorn is the one still going when the clever starters have moved on, and it is usually running something by the end. Its blind spot is asking for help, and its other one is assuming that the good work will be noticed on its own.
Who Capricorn gets on with
Taurus: The same pace and the same idea of what solid means.
Virgo: Standards, kept, without either needing to explain why.
Scorpio: Two people whose word is the actual contract.
Aries and Libra test its patience: one wants it now, the other wants to keep discussing it, and Capricorn wants a decision and a date.