Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Leo horoscope today
The Lion, 23 July to 22 August · Fire, fixed, ruled by the Sun
The sky Moon in Leo, then Virgo from 8.34pm · waning crescent, 4% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon on Friday at 4.27am, two days away.
The last of the warm light
The Moon leaves your sign this evening and the week gets quieter after that, which is not a loss. Anything you want said with your name on it is better said today than saved for a more convenient Thursday.
Love
Somebody has been generous with you lately in a quiet way that does not announce itself, and you have been too busy being the generous one to notice. Return it precisely today. Naming the exact thing they did is worth more than a grand gesture.
Work and money
A leaving card, a thank you, a piece of credit passed to whoever did the unglamorous half: today is built for that, and you are the only person in the office with the standing to do it. It also does you no harm at all.
Body and mind
You have been running on adrenaline and coffee since the weekend and the bill lands about five o’clock. Eat properly at midday. An early night tonight is not a defeat; it is what makes Thursday worth having.
If you read nothing else
Name the exact thing they did, and do it today
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
Show someone how you do it
A day with rather less audience than you would like, and a better use for you than being watched. Somebody nearby wants to learn a thing you can do without thinking about it. Passing it on is not a step down; it is the version of showing off that lasts.
Love
Attention and attentiveness are different skills and you are excellent at one of them this week. Somebody at home has been talking to the back of your head since Monday. Sit opposite them tonight with no screen between you and ask about the thing they mentioned on Sunday. They noticed that you did not. They will not say so.
Work and money
The unglamorous half of what you do is the half people quietly rely on and nobody puts in an email. Write down how it actually works, in order, so that the next person does not have to come and ask you. Your standing tends to grow in your absence rather than in the room.
Body and mind
You have been generous with everybody and impatient with yourself. Iron the shirt tonight rather than at seven tomorrow; the morning version costs an hour of temper you will spend on somebody who has not earned it. Eat something green before Friday, purely as an experiment.
If you read nothing else
Teach it to one person rather than performing it to twenty
And tomorrow, Thursday 10 September
Show someone how you do it. A day with rather less audience than you would like, and a better use for you than being watched.
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.