Horoscope Today

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The constellation of Scorpio, the Scorpion

Scorpio horoscope this week

The Scorpion, 23 October to 21 November · Water, fixed, ruled by Pluto, and Mars before it

The week's sky 10/9: Venus moves into Scorpio today. 11/9: new moon at 4.27am, in Virgo. 11/9: Mercury moves into Libra today.

Finish, clear, then begin

One item on your list has been carried forward since July and it will not improve with keeping; this is the week to end it rather than move it again. On Thursday Venus moves into your sign, which changes the temperature of everything close to you for a few weeks. It is worth arriving at Thursday with a clear desk and nothing important left unsaid.

Love

Something has already been decided in your head and not said out loud, and it is the silence doing the damage rather than the decision. Say the true version early in the week. If you are the one waiting on somebody else, ask the plain question instead of assembling the case against them.

Work and money

A thing agreed in the summer no longer makes sense and everybody has been too polite to say so. Be the one who says it, in two lines and without the autopsy: what changed, and what you propose instead. You are always more persuasive when you sound uninterested in being right.

Body and mind

You store tension in the places that do not complain until they are serious. Move properly at least three times this week, and put the phone downstairs at night. Sleep gets deeper the moment the thing in your drafts is either sent or deleted, and you know which it needs.

The day to watch

Thursday, when the temperature changes at home