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 broken zip goes first
Big questions feel lighter on a Saturday, so ask one. Not the plan for the next ten years, just the one about this winter, which you have answered differently each time someone has asked.
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Love
The person you met far away this summer, on a ferry or at a wedding in Lisbon, may still be messaging every few days. Lovely, and also unresolved. Ask the honest question, kindly: is either of you planning to get on a plane? You have never minded distance. You do better with it once you know whether it has a timetable.
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Work and money
The tent you used once, the roof box, the ski boots from the trip in 2019: photograph them this morning and list them for sale. Put the broken zip and the missing peg in the first line, honestly. Small print is not your strength, so put it at the top, where no one, you included, can miss it.
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Body and mind
Pick a footpath you have never walked, seven or eight miles if your legs agree, with a pub somewhere near the end. Take a paper map for the stretch where the signal goes. At walking pace, the answer about this winter may turn up around mile five.
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Distance is easier once it has a timetable
The sky Moon in Scorpio all day · waning crescent, 1% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 7.02am.
Everyone with a passport loves travel
Some Sundays are for planning and some are for sitting quietly on the plan, and this is the second kind. You may resent it until about four o’clock, when it starts to make sense. Honest thoughts can be rehearsed in private first.
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Love
If you are single, your dating profile may still say you love travel, which is true of almost everyone with a passport. Rewrite that line into something only you could say: the night bus across Bolivia, the wrong train to the right village. The interesting people tend to answer the specific story.
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Work and money
Thursday’s meeting may still be sitting badly with a colleague, if you said the true thing at slightly the wrong volume. You meant well; you usually do. A coffee on Monday morning can mend it: what you meant, and that you would say it more gently next time. Keep the point. Lose the volume.
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Body and mind
Energy may run lower than you are used to today. Spend the morning’s share on something brisk, a run along the river or a kickabout in the park with whoever turns up, then let the afternoon be slow and sofa-shaped. A low day is not a bad one, and your legs will forgive you.
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Keep the point, lose the volume, and rewrite the travel line
And tomorrow, Sunday 8 November
Everyone with a passport loves travel. Some Sundays are for planning and some are for sitting quietly on the plan, and this is the second kind.
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.