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.
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.
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.
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.
Teach it once, then leave on the dot