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.
One useful job, then sit down
With Mercury retrograde, a figure you copied once this autumn may be worth copying again, slowly. Saturday has room for that. It also has room for an afternoon off, if the morning goes to plan.
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Love
Someone you visit this weekend may be struggling to keep up: a friend with a new baby, your father since he moved into the flat. Do one useful job without announcing it: the washing-up, the bins, the bulb in the hall. Then sit down and stay for the conversation. The sitting is the part they will remember.
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Work and money
The self-assessment form is not due until January, which is exactly why a quiet Saturday morning suits it. Put everything in one folder: the P60, the interest statements, the mileage log. Fill in what you can, check each number once against the paper, and close the laptop at noon. Good enough today is still months early.
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Body and mind
Play something this evening that you cannot win by being careful: charades, a dice game, the silliest board game in the cupboard. Your mind deserves an hour in which precision is no help at all, and you may laugh harder than you have all week.
If you read nothing else
One folder by noon, then a game you cannot win by checking
The sky Moon in Scorpio all day · waning crescent, 1% lit · Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 7.02am.
Bowls facing the wrong way
Nothing much is demanded of you today, which may be the hardest instruction you get all week. A few small jobs, then stop. The house will not notice the difference, and you might.
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Love
The dishwasher, loaded by someone else tonight, may break at least three of your rules: bowls facing out, the big pan wedged across the top. Leave it. Close the door, press start, and go and sit with them. Clean is clean, however the plates got there.
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Work and money
A reading list looks its longest on a Sunday, if you are studying. Pick the two chapters the essay actually stands on, read them properly with notes in the margin, and skim the rest by the contents page. A real grasp of two books beats a nervous grasp of eight.
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Body and mind
Put your phone on charge in the kitchen tonight, not on the bedside table. You may reach for it twice in the dark out of habit, to check the time or tomorrow’s weather. Let your hand find nothing. Rest comes easier to you in a room with no screen in it.
If you read nothing else
Let the dishwasher be wrong, and read two chapters properly
And tomorrow, Sunday 8 November
Bowls facing the wrong way. Nothing much is demanded of you today, which may be the hardest instruction you get all week.
Virgo is useful, and it means that as a compliment. It is the sign that reads the terms, spots the error on page four, and has already booked the appointment you were dreading. Ruled by Mercury, its intelligence is practical: it wants to know how a thing works so it can make it work better.
The famous fussiness is really anxiety with its sleeves rolled up. Virgo is hardest on itself, holds a standard nobody set, and can spend an evening improving something that was finished at six. It is at its best when the work matters to someone, and at its worst when there is nothing to tidy and it starts on itself.
Virgo in love
Virgo courts by being useful, which is easy to miss. The mended thing, the reminder, the tea at the right moment: that is the declaration. It is shy about the words and careful about who it lets close. Praise the effort rather than the appearance and watch it soften.
Virgo at work
The person the place would fall over without. Virgo raises the standard of everything it touches and is chronically under-thanked for it. Its risk is taking on the tasks nobody claimed until the week is full of them. Delegation is a skill, not a betrayal.
Who Virgo gets on with
Taurus: Steady, practical and unhurried in the same direction.
Capricorn: Both would rather be respected than liked, and both are.
Cancer: Cancer supplies the warmth, Virgo supplies the order.
Sagittarius and Gemini move too fast and leave the details lying about, which Virgo experiences as being asked to clear up after strangers.