Week of
The week’s sky 26/10: full moon at 4.12am, in Taurus. 1/11: last quarter at 8.28pm, in Leo.
A new desk and forty new names
Monday is your first day in a new job: forty faces, a lanyard and a computer that does not yet accept your password. By evening you may know more about who is not speaking to whom than about the filing system. Tuesday and Wednesday are for listening. If someone asks you to lunch on Thursday, go. Friday may bring your first real piece of work, and the weekend is for sleeping the whole week off.
Love
Evenings at home may bring requests for a full report, just when you want to say nothing at all. Offer whoever asks one detail a night, the best one, and save the rest for Saturday morning, told all at once. The friend you sat beside at the old job may be missing you; send them the story of the new coffee machine on Wednesday.
Work and money
Keep a notebook on your new desk and write down every name with one fact beside it: the colleague who understands the printer, the manager who prefers a call to an email. Small questions asked in the first week cost nothing; the same ones in March feel awkward. On Thursday, ask your manager what a good first month would look like, and stop guessing.
Body and mind
Being new is exhausting even when it goes well, and the tiredness may land on Wednesday night like a wet coat. Go to bed early twice this week and explain it to no one. On the way home, if someone else is driving, close your eyes and listen to something gentle. On Sunday, find water, a canal or the pond in the park, and sit beside it until the week drains out of you.
Monday, for the first morning and three names learned properly