Horoscope Today

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The constellation of Sagittarius, the Archer

Sagittarius horoscope today

The Archer, 22 November to 21 December · Fire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter

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 reading list you never open

There is a thing you keep saying you will do properly one day, and today is a surprisingly good day to do a quarter of it. Not the whole plan. Twenty minutes and one page, before the evening disappears.

Love

Honesty has been your instrument all week and it needs tuning. The person you were straight with on Monday heard the content and the timing, and only one of those was kind. A short message today, with no defence attached, fixes more than you think.

Work and money

The interesting part is done and the boring part is what gets paid for. Somebody is waiting on a form, a signature or a date from you, and it has been three days. Ten minutes this morning buys you back the whole afternoon.

Body and mind

You are better outdoors and the week has been indoors. Get out at lunchtime rather than after dark, even for a circuit of the block. If the evening is free, choose the thing that tires your body over the thing that tires your eyes.

If you read nothing else

Send the form this morning and buy back the afternoon

And tomorrow, Thursday 10 September

Check the date in the passport. Plans are cheap in September and expensive in January, which is the argument for doing the dull half now.

Read the Sagittarius horoscope tomorrow

What Sagittarius is like

Sagittarius needs the horizon in view. Travel, study, a new subject, an argument worth having: something that makes the world larger than it was on Monday. Ruled by Jupiter, it is generous, funny and genuinely optimistic, and it lifts a room simply by walking into it in a good mood.

Tact is the ongoing project. It tells the truth as a kindness and is baffled when the truth lands badly, and it can promise on Friday what Monday cannot deliver. Where it is unbeatable is the long view: when everyone else is panicking about this week, a Sagittarius will point out, correctly, that this week is not the story.

Sagittarius in love

It needs room and it needs to laugh. A relationship that turns into a set of rules loses it, while one that keeps a shared plan alive gets its whole attention. It is more faithful than the stereotype, and less good at the small daily maintenance nobody put in the plan.

Sagittarius at work

Best where the brief is wide and the travel is real. Sagittarius sells an idea better than anyone and gets bored during delivery, so it thrives beside someone who likes the detail. Teaching, publishing, sport, anything with a stage or a departure gate.

Who Sagittarius gets on with

  • Aries: Both go first and apologise afterwards, if at all.
  • Leo: Warmth and scale, with nobody playing it down.
  • Aquarius: Two people arguing happily about how the world ought to work.

Virgo and Pisces slow it down for opposite reasons: one wants the details checked, the other wants the feelings acknowledged.

The other eleven signs, Wednesday 9 September