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.
The best seat in your kitchen
Generous plans suit you this weekend, as long as one of them is small. A crowd would happily have you tonight. One person in particular would like you to themselves, and may be too proud to say so.
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Love
Cook the dish you are proudest of, the slow ragù or the pastry you insist on making from scratch, for one person tonight. Use the good plates. Let them watch you do it, and accept the praise without waving it away. A meal made by you is a small performance, and an audience of one has the best seat in the house.
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Work and money
Rehearsal day, perhaps, if you sing, act or play in anything: the choir, the band, the panto that opens in December. Know your part before you arrive, so you can spend the afternoon lifting the people who do not yet. Your confidence is catching, and it does the most good when you lend it out.
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Body and mind
If an ice rink has opened near you for the winter, go skating, badly or beautifully. You may fall once and get up laughing, which is one of the best things you do. Your body wants something cold and quick after a week of warm rooms.
If you read nothing else
An audience of one is still an audience
The sky Moon in Scorpio all day · waning crescent, 1% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 7.02am.
Good work with the lights down
Private days are harder for a sign that likes the lights on. This one wants you at home, out of view, doing things no one will clap. Do them well anyway; someone close is usually watching.
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Love
Pride runs both ways. Your partner, or your closest friend, may admire something you did this week and not say so, because you are not the only proud one in the room. Tell them first what you admired in them: the way they handled their boss, the shelf they finally put up. Generosity like yours tends to come back, if slowly.
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Work and money
That presentation this week may still have one slide that is all words. Rebuild it tonight around one picture and one number, and practise the line you will say over it until it sounds like you talking, not reading. A room remembers a performer, and you are allowed to be one at work.
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Body and mind
Mid-afternoon may bring a flat patch, the kind that comes from a day with no audience. Put a coat on and go for the Sunday papers, or the good croissants, from the shop where they know your name. A warm hello does you more good than it ought to.
If you read nothing else
Say what you admired first, and give the slide one picture
And tomorrow, Sunday 8 November
Good work with the lights down. Private days are harder for a sign that likes the lights on.
Leo takes up room, and most of the time the room is glad. It is the sign that pays for dinner, makes the toast, remembers the birthday and turns an ordinary Tuesday into an occasion. Ruled by the Sun, it does not do things by halves and finds understatement faintly depressing.
The pride is real and so is the thin skin under it. A Leo that feels overlooked will not say so; it will get louder or go cold. The best of it comes out when it is given something to be responsible for, because a Leo with people to look after stops performing and starts leading.
Leo in love
Romantic in the old-fashioned sense: gestures, occasions, being chosen in public. Leo gives generously and expects the warmth back, and it would rather have a row than be ignored. Tell it plainly what you admire. It is not vanity; it is how it knows it is loved.
Leo at work
Leo wants credit with its name on it, and it earns it more often than the cynics allow. It leads well, delegates badly at first, and can carry a team through a bad month on sheer morale. Small print and quiet corners are where it wilts.
Who Leo gets on with
Aries: Two fires with no interest in playing it cool.
Sagittarius: Big plans, big laughs, no small talk.