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.
Praise that comes in practical form
Grand gestures may struggle to find an audience today. People are in a practical, slightly stubborn mood, more interested in cost than in colour. Your warmth still works; it simply travels better in small, useful packages.
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Love
Love may not arrive in words today. Look for it elsewhere: the windscreen scraped before you came out, the last of the good coffee left for you, your coat hung up properly. Thank whoever did it for the specific thing. Being noticed is your favourite gift, and theirs too, though they would never admit it.
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Work and money
Feedback on something you worked hard on may come back as a single word, “fine”, from a manager who is busy, not unimpressed. It may sting. Reply with one question: what would make the next one excellent? Busy people answer a precise question properly, and your next draft will have a target in it.
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Body and mind
You may run warmer than the weather today, with no obvious outlet by mid-afternoon. An hour of squash against someone who hates losing as much as you do will spend it better than the sofa. Then a long shower, and supper at a sensible hour.
If you read nothing else
Thank the practical gesture, and ask what excellent looks like
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 cape for Saturday, glue included
A busy Wednesday, with people competing to be heard and very few listening. Your warmth carries further than any volume today: spend it on one person at a time, starting with whoever holds the lift door.
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Love
A child in the family may want help with a Halloween costume for Saturday: a cape, a crown, wings that actually flap. Say yes, and make it properly, with glue and glitter and a fitting in the hall. You will be the most admired grown-up in their week, and the photographs will outlive the costume.
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Work and money
In this morning’s team meeting, everyone may talk at once and nobody finish a sentence. Let them. Speak third or fourth, slowly, with one clear proposal and the name of who should own it. A room that has worn itself out tends to turn towards the calm voice, and you have a good one when you use it.
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Body and mind
Book the class you keep looking at online: salsa, boxing, anything with a teacher and a wall of mirrors. Your body has more heat in it than a desk day can use, and an hour of being shown how, then doing it well, leaves you pleasantly tired and quietly pleased with yourself.
If you read nothing else
Speak third in the meeting, and say yes to the cape
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
A cape for Saturday, glue included. A busy Wednesday, with people competing to be heard and very few listening.
Leo takes up room, and most of the time the room is glad. It is the sign that pays for dinner, makes the toast, remembers the birthday and turns an ordinary Tuesday into an occasion. Ruled by the Sun, it does not do things by halves and finds understatement faintly depressing.
The pride is real and so is the thin skin under it. A Leo that feels overlooked will not say so; it will get louder or go cold. The best of it comes out when it is given something to be responsible for, because a Leo with people to look after stops performing and starts leading.
Leo in love
Romantic in the old-fashioned sense: gestures, occasions, being chosen in public. Leo gives generously and expects the warmth back, and it would rather have a row than be ignored. Tell it plainly what you admire. It is not vanity; it is how it knows it is loved.
Leo at work
Leo wants credit with its name on it, and it earns it more often than the cynics allow. It leads well, delegates badly at first, and can carry a team through a bad month on sheer morale. Small print and quiet corners are where it wilts.
Who Leo gets on with
Aries: Two fires with no interest in playing it cool.
Sagittarius: Big plans, big laughs, no small talk.