Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Pisces horoscope tomorrow
The Fishes, 19 February to 20 March · Water, mutable, ruled by Neptune, and Jupiter before it
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
Slower than the day would like
You are running at a different speed from the people around you today, and the mismatch, not the tiredness, is what makes the morning hard. Do the one demanding thing before ten o’clock, while you still have it in you, and let the afternoon be shallower than usual.
Love
If somebody rings and talks for thirty-five minutes without asking you a single question, you will not mind at the time and will feel oddly hollow afterwards. That is the tell. Ask them one thing back, or ring somebody later who does it the other way round. Listening is a skill, not a job description.
Work and money
You have been absorbing the mood of a place that is not being run particularly well, and filing the result under your own lack of motivation. Look at what is genuinely on your desk. Two concentrated hours today would clear most of it, which is the strongest evidence that the workload was never the problem.
Body and mind
Warmth, water, and a room with the big light off. Nothing after nine that asks you for an opinion. If you have been dreaming vividly and waking tired, the answer is usually a duller hour before bed rather than a longer night in it.
If you read nothing else
Ask one question back, then let the evening be quiet
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon at 4.27am · Saturn retrograde. First quarter on Friday at 9.44pm, seven days away.
A whole record, nothing else
Nothing dramatic happened this week, and it has still been loud, in a way that does not appear on any calendar. You absorbed everybody else’s Tuesday, then Wednesday, then today. This evening is where you put it down, and not necessarily in company.
Love
Somebody rings you when things are bad and rarely otherwise. You have never minded and have recently begun to. Nothing needs ending over it. You can be unavailable once, without an explanation, and watch how little collapses. The friendships that run in both directions deserve the hour you keep saving for the one that does not.
Work and money
Whoever was short with you on Wednesday was almost certainly having their own week rather than commenting on yours. You have been rerunning it since, as though a sharp tone were a fact about you. It is not. If it genuinely was about you, it will come up again, and then there is something real to work with instead of a feeling.
Body and mind
Play a whole record tonight, the long way, with nothing else happening at the same time. No screen, no tidying, no half listening from the next room. Forty minutes of that empties you more thoroughly than the sort of sleep you have been getting.
If you read nothing else
Be unavailable once this weekend, and offer no explanation