Gemini horoscope this week

The Twins, 21 May to 20 June · Air, mutable, ruled by Mercury

Week of 2 to 8 November

Fourteen relatives and one Christmas

Who is having Christmas? The family group chat has been arguing about it since Sunday, all fourteen of you, and by Monday your cousin and your sister-in-law are speaking only through you. You are good at this, and that is the trouble. Carry messages on Monday and Tuesday if you must, improving each one slightly. On Wednesday, stop, and put the two of them on a single call. By Sunday there could be a date, a table and someone else’s oven.

Love

Has anyone asked what you want from Christmas? Probably not, since you have been busy translating. Tell your partner or your closest friend on Thursday, over something to eat, and notice how odd it feels to give an answer that is not a summary. If you are single, mute the group chat on Friday evening and go somewhere with a band.

Work and money

A small task has been passed from hand to hand since September, and now you have the whole thread and no owner. On Tuesday, write three lines: what is needed, who decides and by when. Send them to one person, not the group. What happens to a job once somebody’s name is on it? You could find out by Friday.

Body and mind

Your phone has been buzzing at breakfast, on the stairs and through the ten o’clock news, and by midweek your head may sound much the same. Take the chat off your home screen for the weekend. Go to a dance class or a climbing wall, anywhere you cannot possibly type. Try one evening with a paper book and see how far you get.

The day to watch

Wednesday, for putting your cousin and your sister-in-law on the same call

Next week, 9 to 15 November

Sticky keys until Friday

Somewhere between the kettle and the first email on Monday, your laptop dies, and everything is backed up, mostly. From Tuesday to Thursday you work on your brother’s old one, which has a sticky letter e and strong opinions about updates. Mercury, your ruler, turns direct on Friday, the day the new machine is due. By Sunday you could be sorting four thousand photographs from the backup, and finding the one that belongs on someone’s mantelpiece.

Love

Buried in the backup is a photograph of your mother laughing on a windy beach, hair everywhere, from a summer she probably thinks no one kept. Print it, put it in a cheap frame and take it round. Why do the best pictures always end up on hard drives? Your brother lent you his laptop without a single question; hand it back with the sticky e cleaned.

Work and money

A slow borrowed machine means one window at a time, and you may notice how much faster you finish things that way. Wednesday’s report could be the first in months written without eleven tabs open behind it. Keep the habit when the new laptop arrives: one task, then the next. What would you get done if nothing else could interrupt?

Body and mind

After a few days hunched over a smaller screen, your neck may complain by Thursday. Raise the borrowed laptop on two cookery books and stand up every time you send something. On Saturday, before the photographs, play something with a ball, badminton or five-a-side, anything that keeps both hands off a keyboard.

The day to watch

Sunday, for the photograph of your mother on the beach, printed and framed

All twelve signs this week