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.
Neither side, and a fair hearing
Opinions are cheap today and everything else seems to cost more. You may be asked to weigh in on several things before lunch. Give a view where it helps, and where it would only start a quarrel, a pleasant shrug is allowed.
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Love
Two friends who have fallen out may each want you on their side, over separate coffees. You can listen to both without taking either. Say only what you would say with both of them in the room. Your fairness will be worth more to them in a month than your agreement is today.
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Work and money
Your manager’s report and a colleague’s urgent favour may both want doing first, and both are due Friday. Look at which one costs more if it is late, do that one, and tell the other person when theirs will come. A clear “Thursday” disappoints for a minute; a vague “soon” disappoints all week.
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Body and mind
Gym or sofa this evening? Answer honestly. If your body is tired, the sofa wins, and ten minutes of stretching on the rug in front of the television still counts. If it is merely bored, put your trainers on before you can reopen the debate.
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Say only what you would say with both of them present
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.
Two invitations, one Saturday
Conversation comes easily today, with the Moon in Gemini, a fellow air sign, and you may find people more willing than usual to say what they actually want. Most of your choices get easier once someone else has gone first.
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Love
Two invitations may land for Saturday night: a fortieth birthday in town, and supper with your partner’s parents. Both have a claim, and both hosts deserve an answer by tomorrow. Go to the one where your absence would be noticed by name, and offer the other a lunch next week. Trying to do both by taxi tends to spoil both.
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Work and money
If you have interviewed two people for one job, both good in different ways, the panel may look to you to break the tie. Pick the one you would most like to sit beside on a difficult Tuesday in February. Skills can be taught; temperament mostly arrives already formed.
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Body and mind
Ring the salon this morning about the haircut you keep postponing, and take whatever slot they have this week. A good shape at the back does more for your mood than you would admit aloud. Walk there and back, the long way past the park.
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Go where your absence would be noticed by name
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
Two invitations, one Saturday. Conversation comes easily today, with the Moon in Gemini, a fellow air sign, and you may find people more willing than usual to say what they actually want.
Libra wants things to be fair and wants them to look nice, and does not accept that those are separate ambitions. Ruled by Venus, it has an eye: the room, the sentence, the outfit, the way a disagreement is handled. It is a peacemaker by instinct and can defuse a family lunch with one well-placed change of subject.
The difficulty is deciding. A Libra weighing a choice can hold it in the air for months, partly out of fairness and partly because a decision closes a door. It is not indecisive about everything, though: on questions of justice it is immovable, and people who mistake its charm for softness find that out once.
Libra in love
Libra is happiest paired and knows it, which is both its charm and its trap. It is attentive, romantic, and reluctant to start the difficult conversation in case it spoils the evening. The relationship improves the day it says the awkward thing on a Tuesday instead of storing it for Christmas.
Libra at work
Excellent where the job is other people: negotiation, design, law, anything that needs a fair result and a good surface. It works badly in a hostile atmosphere and will spend energy on the mood that a colder colleague would spend on the task.