The sky Moon in Libra, then Scorpio from 10.39pm · waning crescent, 3% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. New moon on Monday at 7.02am, two days away.
Names in pencil on the back
A soft Saturday, and you may be glad of it. The Moon slips into Scorpio late tonight, a water sign like yours, and by bedtime the day may feel easier than it did over breakfast.
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Love
With Remembrance Sunday tomorrow, the old photographs may come out. If an older relative of yours is going to the memorial, offer to go with them. Ask about the faces in the picture on the landing and write the names on the back in pencil while they talk. Stories go missing when no one writes them down, and they want to be asked.
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Work and money
Whoever keeps the family calendar in your house, and it is probably you, may find the next six weeks filling up: parties, the nativity, a visit from the in-laws. Sit down this morning with a pen and block out two weekends in December for nothing at all. Write “home” across them. You can defend them later.
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Body and mind
Change the sheets this afternoon, wash the pillowcases, and open the bedroom window for an hour while you do it. Then shut it, put the lamp on, and get into a made bed early. A clean bed in a warm room is your idea of a restful evening, and tonight seems to agree.
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Pencil lasts longer than memory on the back of a photograph
The sky Moon in Scorpio all day · waning crescent, 1% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 7.02am.
A short call is still a call
Feelings run deep today and, for once, the current runs your way. Home may feel like a harbour. If you can spend most of Sunday inside it, with the people you choose and no one else, do.
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Love
Your son or daughter away at university may ring less often than you would like, and today’s call may be short. Short is still a call. Ask one thing about their week that has nothing to do with food or money, and let them be the one to say goodbye. They tend to ring back sooner when the last call was easy.
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Work and money
A conversation you need to have on Monday, about the rota, the pay review or the colleague who keeps leaving early, may circle your kitchen all afternoon. Write the first sentence on paper, the exact words, and read it aloud once to the empty room. The opening is the hard part. You know the rest already.
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Body and mind
If the house empties for an hour, let it. Feet up, a blanket, a mug of something with the steam still rising. You give a great deal of yourself on Sundays, and an hour with no one needing you is how you fill back up.
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Keep the call easy, and write Monday’s first sentence tonight
And tomorrow, Sunday 8 November
A short call is still a call. Feelings run deep today and, for once, the current runs your way.
Cancer is the sign of the inside: the house, the family, the small circle it would do almost anything for. Ruled by the Moon, its mood has weather, and the people who love it learn to read the sky rather than take it personally. It notices who was kind in 2014 and who was not.
Its shell is not shyness, it is a policy. Cancer opens slowly, and once it has opened it is more loyal than is strictly good for it. Its hardest lesson is that looking after people is not the same as being needed by them, and that saying no early is kinder than resenting them later.
Cancer in love
Cancer wants to belong to someone and have that be safe. It shows it in food, in remembering, in turning up. It will not ask directly for reassurance; it will go quiet and hope you notice. If you love one, say the obvious thing out loud, and say it more often than feels necessary.
Cancer at work
Better at work than it believes. Cancer builds the atmosphere a team runs on and is usually the one holding the institutional memory. It undersells itself in the room and then minds. It does well where care is the actual product: health, teaching, hospitality, anything with people in it.
Who Cancer gets on with
Scorpio: Both go deep, and neither is frightened by it.