Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Taurus horoscope today
The Bull, 20 April to 20 May · Earth, fixed, ruled by Venus
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.
Nothing has to be decided before supper
Slow suits you today, and the day is arranged for it. The Moon does not reach Virgo until late this evening, so nothing has to be settled before supper and the tidying can wait until after it.
Love
Somebody is waiting to hear that you are pleased with them, and you assume it shows. It does not always. A sentence at the kitchen table costs nothing and lands better than the thing you were planning to buy at the weekend.
Work and money
A price, a quote or a renewal is not what it was in the spring, and you have been putting off the twenty minutes it would take to check. Do it before the new moon on Friday, when you will want to be looking forward instead.
Body and mind
You have been eating at your desk and calling it lunch. Sit somewhere else today, even for fifteen minutes. Your sleep improves the week you stop having the last coffee at four, and this is as good a week as any to test it.
If you read nothing else
Check the renewal price before Friday, not after
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
Boots resoled before the rain
Autumn arrives whether or not anybody has prepared for it, and you are the one who quietly prepares. One dull, physical, seasonal job today buys you a comfortable October: the boots resoled, the boiler booked, the heavy coat found before the week it is needed.
Love
Somebody has been telling you the same story in slightly different words for a fortnight, which usually means the real one has not been said yet. You do not have to solve it. Ask a second question instead of offering a solution, and wait. The third sentence is generally the true one.
Work and money
Money behaves better when it is looked at, and you have been looking at everything else. Not the whole picture today. One number: what the next three months actually cost to run. Somebody may also want a decision from you by Friday, and saying that you will answer on Friday is not the same as being slow.
Body and mind
Sleep has been fine and the mornings have been heavy, which points at the evening rather than the night. Something on your feet after supper, even a slow lap of streets you never usually walk down, and tomorrow’s alarm sounds less like a personal insult.
If you read nothing else
One number today: what the next three months actually cost
And tomorrow, Thursday 10 September
Boots resoled before the rain. Autumn arrives whether or not anybody has prepared for it, and you are the one who quietly prepares.
Taurus is the sign that wants the ground under its feet to be real. It likes good bread, a bed that has been made, a bank balance that is not a surprise, and people who mean what they said last week. Ruled by Venus, it is more sensual than it lets on: it notices textures, smells, the weight of a good knife.
Its strength is that it finishes. Once a Taurus has decided a thing is worth doing, it will still be doing it long after the fast starters have wandered off. Its cost is the same quality seen from the other side: a decision it has already made is very hard to reopen, and it can sit in a situation that stopped working two years ago because leaving would mean admitting it.
Taurus in love
Slow to start, and then extremely present. Taurus shows love in practical currency: the meal, the lift to the station, the thing quietly paid for. It wants to be sure, and it wants to be touched. Jealousy is its worst weather, and it passes if you say the plain thing early.
Taurus at work
Reliable to the point of being taken for granted. Taurus prefers a job it can master and be paid properly for over a job that sounds exciting in the description. It is unusually good with money, other people's included, and it is worth asking for a rise more often than it does.
Who Taurus gets on with
Virgo: Both check things, and neither finds that boring.
Capricorn: The same long view, built at the same speed.
Cancer: Cancer supplies the warmth Taurus is too proud to ask for.
Aquarius and Leo pull in the other direction: one wants to rearrange everything on principle, the other wants an audience, and Taurus wants Sunday to look like last Sunday.