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The constellation of Aquarius, the Water Bearer

Aquarius horoscope this week

The Water Bearer, 20 January to 18 February · Air, fixed, ruled by Uranus, and Saturn before it

Week of

What to send to 2076

The primary school down the road is burying a time capsule on Friday, to be opened in fifty years, and the head wants your help choosing what goes in. What will anyone in 2076 actually want to know? Start on Monday with a blank sheet. Ask twenty people by Wednesday. Thursday is for throwing out the obvious, including your phone charger, and for writing the letter that goes on top. On Friday, watch it all go into the ground.

Love

The best answer to your question about 2076 may come from a friend you have not properly talked to in months. Ask them over a drink on Wednesday, then ask what they have been up to, and stay for the reply. Ideas are easy company. You may find that the person opposite you is more interesting than the question.

Work and money

An idea you floated in the spring may turn up on Tuesday’s agenda with a colleague’s name on it. Let the name go and keep the argument: write one page on what you would do first, with a date on each step, and hand it to whoever chairs the meeting. People will argue with a page; no one argues with a sigh.

Body and mind

Thinking about 2076 is a fine way to forget you have not eaten. Keep your mealtimes this week, and give your eyes a night off from the screen on Tuesday. On Friday the field will be cold, so wear a proper coat for the ceremony and walk back the long way, past anything that will still be standing in fifty years.

The day to watch

Friday, for watching the capsule go into the ground

Next week, 9 to 15 November

Strict rules for the Christmas draw

You have offered to run the Secret Santa for nine friends, and by Monday evening you have a set of rules: a spending limit, no drawing your own partner, no swapping. On Wednesday, do the draw by email, properly random. By Friday someone may ask for a redraw, with a reason that sounds principled and is not. Hold firm. Sunday, with the Moon in your sign from mid-morning, is for thinking about the person you drew, who may well be the one you know least.

Love

If you drew the quiet one, the friend of a friend who joined the group last year, this is a chance to find out what they actually like. Suggest a coffee on Saturday, on any pretext, and ask about anything except presents. Whoever you live with may try to wheedle the name out of you. Tell them nothing, cheerfully, all week.

Work and money

The office is trialling a four-day week from January, and you are on the group writing the rules. Ideas will be plentiful. Bring the dull one no one else will: who answers the phone on Fridays, by name, month by month. Write it up on Tuesday and send it round before the first meeting, while the rest are still sketching the vision. A scheme like this lives or dies on the rota.

Body and mind

Organising nine people by email is a fine way to spend every evening on your phone without noticing. Do the admin in one sitting on Wednesday, then mute the group thread until the weekend. Cycle or walk to work if the mornings allow; cold, clear November mornings are better for thinking than any screen.

The day to watch

Friday, for refusing the redraw, however principled the reason sounds