Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Capricorn horoscope tomorrow
The Goat, 22 December to 19 January · Earth, cardinal, ruled by Saturn
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
Leave you have not taken
Thursday is a working day and you will work it; that was never in question. What is in question is whether anybody has told you lately that what you carry is unusual, and whether you would believe them.
Love
You are the one who arranges things, and arranging has quietly replaced enjoying. Let somebody else choose the restaurant, the film, the weekend, and resist improving on their choice out loud. The people at home want your company more than your competence, though they have long since stopped expecting both.
Work and money
Find out how much leave you have left this year. If the number is embarrassing, book one day of it before the month ends, on a Friday when nothing will collapse. Not a holiday. One day. The place will cope, and you will learn something useful about how indispensable you have decided to be.
Body and mind
The strain you carry tends to show up on a Saturday morning, when you finally stop and feel dreadful for no visible reason. Midweek is the cheapest time to rest and the hardest for you to permit. Half an hour tonight in which nothing whatsoever is achieved.
If you read nothing else
Book one day off before the month ends, then actually take it
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon at 4.27am · Saturn retrograde. First quarter on Friday at 9.44pm, seven days away.
A rule you set yourself once
Old rules deserve a re-reading while Saturn is retrograde in Aries, and you are carrying one you have never questioned. Something about not asking, or always being the last to leave. You made it in conditions that ended years ago.
Love
One friendship of yours only ever happens in a work context, and it is better than you have admitted to yourself. Suggest something for Sunday: a walk, a pint, an hour with no agenda and no email afterwards. You are allowed friends you did not meet through obligation, and you are allowed to ask first.
Work and money
Somewhere in your week sits a report, a meeting or a summary that has continued since about 2022 because nobody ever stopped it. Ask who reads it. If the answer takes longer than a minute to arrive, you have the answer, and an hour a week back. Ending something is work too.
Body and mind
You will finish at seven and then find one more thing, because stopping first feels like an admission of something. Stop at six. The place will survive without supervision for an evening, and that evening is the only stretch of the week that is genuinely yours.