Written each evening from the real sky over London ·
Leo horoscope tomorrow
The Lion, 23 July to 22 August · Fire, fixed, ruled by the Sun
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
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon at 4.27am · Saturn retrograde. First quarter on Friday at 9.44pm, seven days away.
Your name is on it anyway
Most of this one is paperwork and other people’s admin, with no audience anywhere in sight. The temptation is to do it carelessly, since nobody is watching it happen. Your name goes on it regardless, which has always been the whole of the argument.
Love
If somebody close has had a modest piece of good fortune this week, they have probably mentioned it once, quietly, and then moved the conversation on. Make more of it than they dared to. You are the best person in their life at celebrating other people, and tonight it costs you a phone call and a decent bottle.
Work and money
You are being asked to do a smaller version of something you are very good at, and the boredom is showing at the edges. Do it properly regardless, and finish it today rather than in a rush on Monday. Work that carries your name travels into rooms you will never sit in.
Body and mind
Three evenings out in a row is beginning to show in your patience rather than your face. One night in, early, with nobody to entertain and nothing at all to perform. Even you are allowed an audience of nobody.
If you read nothing else
Do the unglamorous one properly; it travels further than you think