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.
Good boots, resoled not replaced
With the Moon in your sign all day, your instincts about money and comfort are sound. Trust the slow verdict. If something feels too dear, too rushed or too itchy, it probably is, and you need not explain why.
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Love
Plans for a weekend away in the new year may arrive from a friend, with a request for your answer by Friday. Say you are keen, then ask for the details: the place, the cost, who else is coming. Your yes is worth more once you know what it buys, and good friends will wait for it.
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Work and money
Someone may want a decision from you before lunch on something that deserves a week: a new phone contract, a switch of bank, a policy that quietly renews itself. Ask for the figures in writing and name the day you will reply. Taken at your speed, the decision tends to hold; taken at theirs, it tends to come back.
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Body and mind
Take the good boots to the cobbler on your way in, the pair with the worn heel you have been walking crooked on since spring. Your back may thank you within a week. Tonight, a baked potato with too much butter, and an early night.
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Name your reply day, and get the boots resoled
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.
Bread dough and a late payment
After two unhurried days, the mood turns chatty and quick, as the Moon slips out of your sign in the small hours. Let others talk. Your job today is to listen for the one sentence that matters.
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Love
If your sister and her children are staying for half-term, expect noise from seven and a kitchen that never quite empties. Give everyone a job and a time: breakfast at eight, out by ten, back for tea. You are a generous host, and generosity lasts longer when it has a timetable.
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Work and money
A client may still owe you for work you finished in September. Chase it today, by phone first and then in writing: the amount, the original due date, and the day you now expect payment. You need not be cross. Calm and specific is the tone that moves a finance department.
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Body and mind
Bake bread tonight, or anything that needs kneading. Ten minutes of pushing dough about the worktop does for your shoulders what no amount of talk can, and the house smells of it till morning. Eat the first slice warm, with butter, standing up.
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Chase the money calmly, then knead the dough tonight
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
Bread dough and a late payment. After two unhurried days, the mood turns chatty and quick, as the Moon slips out of your sign in the small hours.
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.