Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Scorpio horoscope today
The Scorpion, 23 October to 21 November · Water, fixed, ruled by Pluto, and Mars before it
The sky Moon in Leo, then Virgo from 8.34pm · waning crescent, 4% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon on Friday at 4.27am, two days away.
The drawer you have not opened
The dark end of the lunar month suits you: this is a week for finishing and clearing rather than starting. One item on your list has been carried forward since July and it is not going to improve with age.
Love
You have been reading somebody’s silence as a verdict and it is more likely to be their week. Ask the plain question instead of building the case. If the answer is disappointing, you would rather have it on Wednesday than assemble it slowly by yourself.
Work and money
Something you agreed to in July no longer makes sense and everybody has been too polite to say so. Be the one who says it, and do it without the autopsy: what changed, what you propose, two lines. The relief in the room will be audible.
Body and mind
You store tension in the places that do not complain until they are serious. Move today, properly, and eat something other than what you had yesterday. Sleep will be deeper tonight than it has been all week if you leave the phone downstairs.
If you read nothing else
Two lines, what changed and what you propose next
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
Being wanted is not a trap
There is a catch, you will assume, and there may not be one. Venus arrives in your sign today, which for you is less romance than exposure: being noticed by people you did not choose. It is allowed to be exactly what it looks like.
Love
If somebody is working up to saying something honest to you, you will feel it two days ahead, as usual. Do not get there first. Let them find their own words, badly, at their own pace. The version you would supply is more accurate and less useful, and it takes the moment away from them.
Work and money
If a piece of work you have been doing quietly gets noticed this week, your reflex will be to play it down, which reads as false modesty to anyone who does not know you. Describe what it does in one sentence and then stop talking. The silence after a plain answer works entirely in your favour.
Body and mind
You concentrate hard and forget there is a body attached. The pattern this week has been the skipped meal followed by the enormous late one. Eat at ordinary times for two days and find out how much of the flatness was ever about the work.
If you read nothing else
Let them say it badly; do not finish the sentence for them
And tomorrow, Thursday 10 September
Being wanted is not a trap. There is a catch, you will assume, and there may not be one.
Scorpio reads the room in about four seconds and keeps the findings to itself. It is drawn to what is under the surface: the real reason, the thing not said, the motive behind the polite version. That makes it a superb friend in a crisis and an uncomfortable one to lie to.
It commits completely or not at all, which is why its friendships last decades and its exits are final. The old reputation for jealousy is really about control: what a Scorpio cannot bear is being managed. Told the truth early, it is one of the steadiest people you will meet; handled, it goes very quiet and then it goes.
Scorpio in love
All or nothing, and usually all. Scorpio wants to be let right in and will let you right in once it believes you. Its opposite is not anger but withdrawal: when it stops asking, something has already been decided. Honesty, even unflattering honesty, is what keeps it.
Scorpio at work
Formidable when the work has stakes. Scorpio is the one who finds the discrepancy, sits through the hard conversation and does not flinch at the difficult client. It is bad at office theatre and does not pretend otherwise, which occasionally costs it a promotion it should have had.
Who Scorpio gets on with
Cancer: Both take feeling seriously, so neither has to perform.
Pisces: Understood at depth without a word being wasted.
Capricorn: Two people who say what they will do and then do it.
Leo and Aquarius come at it head-on: one demands the spotlight, the other keeps things breezy, and Scorpio wants neither on the record.