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.
Two people who never give way
Stubbornness is in the air, yours and everyone else’s, with the Moon spending Tuesday in Taurus, across the zodiac from you. You will see the standoff before anyone names it. Seeing it is the easy part.
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Love
Someone close may dig in on a small point today: whose turn it is to drive, the thermostat, the plans for Saturday. So will you. Before it sets, ask yourself whether you care about the thing or only about not losing. If it is the second, give way first, plainly. It costs less than you expect.
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Work and money
Something you thought was finished may come back with a question attached: a contract from the spring, last month’s report, a decision you signed off in September. Answer it properly, once, with the dates and the paperwork. You may resent the interruption. A full answer is what keeps it closed.
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Body and mind
By evening the standoff may have settled in your shoulders. Go through the drawer that has annoyed you for months, the one with dead chargers and keys to nothing, and empty it into a bag. Throwing things out is a fine use of a stubborn mood. Then an early night.
If you read nothing else
Ask whether you want the thing or only the win
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.
The joint account, in plain figures
Your season is under way, with the Sun in Scorpio, though today belongs mostly to the talkers. Little of what they say needs an answer from you before tomorrow.
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Love
Money shared is money discussed, and today may bring up the joint account: who pays the gas, who paid for the holiday, the takeaway bill that keeps quietly growing. Say what you see in plain figures, across the table, with the statement printed. Couples who can talk about money calmly can talk about most things.
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Work and money
A former colleague may ask you for a reference, and your feelings about them may be mixed. Write it honestly: three things they did well, each with an example, and nothing you would not say to their face. A reference that sounds like you is worth more than a warm one that does not.
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Body and mind
Find some heat after work: the sauna at the leisure centre, or a curry strong enough to make your eyes water slightly. Your body likes intensity in small, safe doses, and a good sweat clears a head that has been reading between lines all day. Bed early afterwards.
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Have the statement printed when you sit down to talk
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
The joint account, in plain figures. Your season is under way, with the Sun in Scorpio, though today belongs mostly to the talkers.
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.