Weekly horoscope

Week of 26 October to 1 November · all twelve star signs

The week of 26 October to 1 November for each star sign: love, work, body and mind, and the one day worth watching.

The twelve signs, 26 October to 1 November

• Aries 21 March to 19 April Fire

  Seeing it again after dark. A flat you liked online is shown to you on Monday lunchtime, and by one o’clock you know.

• Taurus 20 April to 20 May Earth

  Six years of silence in the front room. The full moon falls in your own sign in the small hours of Monday, a fitting start to a week about something that has stood in the front room for six years without being played.

• Gemini 21 May to 20 June Air

  Forty questions and one disputed answer. Somewhere between a weak moment and a pint, you agreed to write and host the charity quiz at the pub on Thursday.

• Cancer 21 June to 22 July Water

  Eleven years, three days, one spare bed. Your oldest friend, the one who moved to Canada eleven years ago, is back for a few days and asks, on Monday, to stay with you from Friday.

• Leo 23 July to 22 August Fire

  A dragon made of cardboard. Halloween falls on Saturday, and a small person in your life announces on Monday that they will be a dragon, a proper one, with wings that move.

• Virgo 23 August to 22 September Earth

  Building a bonfire by committee. Bonfire Night is next Thursday, and you have joined the committee running the one on the playing field, which is how you came to be holding a list of everything that could go wrong.

• Libra 23 September to 22 October Air

  Fourteen cakes and a scorecard. You have been asked to judge the charity bake-off at work on Friday, on the grounds that you once said something perceptive about a Victoria sponge.

• Scorpio 23 October to 21 November Water

  Knowing on Monday, telling no one. On Monday you are told, in confidence, about changes to your team that will be announced on Wednesday morning.

• Sagittarius 22 November to 21 December Fire

  Spanish on Tuesday nights. Next spring there is a trip to Andalucía, so far mostly described over dinner, and on Tuesday evening you start Spanish at the adult college: beginners, room fourteen.

• Capricorn 22 December to 19 January Earth

  A bucket under the drip. Since the last downpour, a bucket has stood in the back bedroom, keeping time under a gap in the roof you have eyed for months.

• Aquarius 20 January to 18 February Air

  Twelve drills and one shed. Twelve electric drills live on your street, by your count, each used for about eleven minutes a year.

• Pisces 19 February to 20 March Water

  A new desk and forty new names. Monday is your first day in a new job: forty faces, a lanyard and a computer that does not yet accept your password.