Horoscope Today

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The constellation of Taurus, the Bull

Taurus horoscope this week

The Bull, 20 April to 20 May · Earth, fixed, ruled by Venus

The week's sky 10/9: Venus moves into Scorpio today. 11/9: new moon at 4.27am, in Virgo. 11/9: Mercury moves into Libra today.

The clear-out before the new month

The dark end of the lunar month suits your instinct to sort things out, and Friday’s new moon in Virgo is a good place to draw the line. Until then the week rewards subtraction: the standing order you do not use, the cupboard that will not shut, the arrangement you agreed to in July and have resented since. None of it needs a conversation. It needs an hour.

Love

You are better at showing than saying, and this week somebody needs the saying. Not a speech: one sentence, at the table, about why you are glad they are there. If a friendship has gone quiet since the summer, you are the one with the longer memory, so you are the one who picks up the phone.

Work and money

Money is the thread and this is a good week to look at it properly. A price you have been paying since spring is not the price you agreed to. Thursday is also the day to be firm about what you are owed rather than gracious about it. Being liked and being paid are different transactions.

Body and mind

Your bedtime has been slipping by ten minutes a night and it adds up by Sunday. Pull it back from the evening end, not the morning. A proper meal at a table, twice this week, will do more for you than anything with the word regime attached to it.

The day to watch

Thursday, for the money conversation you keep softening