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.
The dishwasher, loaded the other way
Practical and unhurried, with the Moon in Taurus keeping everyone’s feet on the ground: you are at home in a day like this. Use the calm for one job that matters, and let the small ones stay small.
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Love
Whoever you live with may have loaded the dishwasher their own way again: bowls on the bottom, the big pan blocking the spray. It still washes the plates. Leave it as it is for once, and thank them for doing it at all. Rearranging it in front of them is a speech they have already heard.
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Work and money
A presentation may need finishing by four, and you will see six things to improve. Fix the two a client would notice, the misspelt name and the wrong date on the cover, and leave the rest. The font and the column widths can stay as they are; the people reading it want it right, not prettier.
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Body and mind
Small print and small numbers tire the eyes before anything else. Every half hour, look out of the window at something far away: a roof, a tree, a crane. Tonight, put on a programme you have seen before, one that asks nothing of you at all.
If you read nothing else
Fix what a client would notice, and leave the dishwasher alone
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.
Three achievements before any faults
Mercury is still travelling backwards, so expect today’s small print to need a second look: the time on an invitation, the attachment that never attached. You are good at catching these. Catch them without comment, and move on.
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Love
A friend may ring for advice about their landlord, listen to every word, and then do something else entirely. Your counsel was sound; what they do with it is theirs. Ask on Friday how it went, and mean the question, with no trace of “told you so” in your voice.
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Work and money
Your self-assessment for the annual review may be due by Friday, and the temptation is to list every fault you have noticed in yourself since March. Write the achievements first: three, each with a number beside it. Your manager is likely to read the first paragraph closely and skim the rest, so put the best of your year there.
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Body and mind
Your wrists and fingers may do more work than the rest of you today. Once an hour, stand up, shake your hands out loosely and roll your shoulders back twice. Eat lunch somewhere with a window, and make tonight’s supper something that does not need to be exactly right.
If you read nothing else
Write the good things first, and leave the faults for someone else to find
And tomorrow, Wednesday 28 October
Three achievements before any faults. Mercury is still travelling backwards, so expect today’s small print to need a second look: the time on an invitation, the attachment that never attached.
Virgo is useful, and it means that as a compliment. It is the sign that reads the terms, spots the error on page four, and has already booked the appointment you were dreading. Ruled by Mercury, its intelligence is practical: it wants to know how a thing works so it can make it work better.
The famous fussiness is really anxiety with its sleeves rolled up. Virgo is hardest on itself, holds a standard nobody set, and can spend an evening improving something that was finished at six. It is at its best when the work matters to someone, and at its worst when there is nothing to tidy and it starts on itself.
Virgo in love
Virgo courts by being useful, which is easy to miss. The mended thing, the reminder, the tea at the right moment: that is the declaration. It is shy about the words and careful about who it lets close. Praise the effort rather than the appearance and watch it soften.
Virgo at work
The person the place would fall over without. Virgo raises the standard of everything it touches and is chronically under-thanked for it. Its risk is taking on the tasks nobody claimed until the week is full of them. Delegation is a skill, not a betrayal.
Who Virgo gets on with
Taurus: Steady, practical and unhurried in the same direction.
Capricorn: Both would rather be respected than liked, and both are.
Cancer: Cancer supplies the warmth, Virgo supplies the order.
Sagittarius and Gemini move too fast and leave the details lying about, which Virgo experiences as being asked to clear up after strangers.