Horoscope Today

Read from the real sky over London ·

The constellation of Leo, the Lion

Leo horoscope this week

The Lion, 23 July to 22 August · Fire, fixed, ruled by the Sun

Week of

Table nine and a shortlist

There is a shortlist, and your name is on it, and the awards dinner is on Friday at the hotel with the patterned carpet. Monday brings the email and, if you let it, a fair amount of private glowing. Enjoy that. Tuesday is for the jacket, Wednesday for the shoes, and Thursday for writing a single line of thanks in case it is needed. On Friday, sit up straight and clap hard for whoever wins. Your weekend can be for the photographs, whichever way it goes.

Love

You get one guest on Friday. Choose the person who will be just as pleased with you if another name is read out. Tell them on Wednesday what this means to you, in plain words, before the jacket does it for you. If you are going alone, the empty chair at table nine is a fine way to meet whoever sits down in it.

Work and money

Whoever put your name forward has not said so. Find out, and thank them by name on Monday. Then do the same for someone else: the form for next year’s awards is open, and the junior colleague who held your last project together deserves a nomination. Your sentence about them could be the best thing you write all month.

Body and mind

New shoes and a long evening are a bad pairing, so wear them round your kitchen on Tuesday night. Eat lunch on Friday; hotel dinners arrive at nine and consist mostly of a small piece of salmon. Have a glass of water between glasses of everything else, and walk part of the way home if your route allows it.

The day to watch

Friday, for clapping hard at table nine, whoever’s name is read

Next week, 9 to 15 November

Counting the high street down from ten

The local radio presenter has pulled out of Saturday’s Christmas lights switch-on, and on Monday the town council asks you to do the countdown instead. You are second choice. Say yes, warmly: the crowd will not know, and you may well be better at it. On Thursday there is a rehearsal outside the town hall with the mayor, a microphone and a very long extension lead. Saturday at half past five: the high street, the crowd, ten seconds that are entirely yours. Sunday is for hearing about it from everyone who was there.

Love

Bring one person whose face you can find in the crowd: a partner, your niece on your shoulders, the friend who still talks about your karaoke. On Saturday, look for them at the count of five. And whoever is holding the other end of the extension lead has stood in the cold for you too; thank them into the microphone once the lights are on.

Work and money

Wednesday’s pitch belongs to a colleague, and your part is slide eleven, four minutes in the middle. Do those four minutes beautifully. Learn the figures cold, hand back to them by name, and let the credit land where it should. Clients notice the person who makes someone else look good, and so, later, do the people who decide on promotions.

Body and mind

An hour standing on a cold high street can chill you more than you expect, and a frozen voice counts down badly. Wear the thermal vest no one will see under the good coat. Eat something hot beforehand, a jacket potato will do, and on Sunday sleep late, then walk past the lights again after dark, on your own, and admire them properly.

The day to watch

Saturday at half past five, when the lights wait for your word