Weekly horoscope
Week of · all twelve star signs
The week of 2 to 8 November for each star sign: love, work, body and mind, and the one day worth watching.
The twelve signs, 2 to 8 November
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Aries 21 March to 19 April Fire
An offer with a Friday deadline. An offer from the other firm sits in your inbox, and it needs an answer by Friday.
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Taurus 20 April to 20 May Earth
A plot of your own, finally. Four years on the waiting list, and the letter from the council comes with a plot number and a key deposit.
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Gemini 21 May to 20 June Air
Fourteen relatives and one Christmas. Who is having Christmas?
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Cancer 21 June to 22 July Water
A shoebox from your aunt’s loft. On Monday your aunt hands you a shoebox from her loft: letters from 1944, a few photographs and a ration book, all belonging to a great-uncle no one talks about.
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Leo 23 July to 22 August Fire
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.
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Virgo 23 August to 22 September Earth
The typo only you have seen. Proudly, on Monday, your sister shows you her wedding invitations, all one hundred and twenty of them, and you spot “reciption” in the third line before you have finished saying how lovely they are.
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Libra 23 September to 22 October Air
The prickly one or the steady one. You have one vacancy and two very good people.
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Scorpio 23 October to 21 November Water
A straight answer for your brother. Two thousand pounds is what your brother asks for on Monday, by phone, without saying what it is for, and you notice that before the sentence is finished.
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Sagittarius 22 November to 21 December Fire
Smiling is not allowed in the booth. A quick look at your passport on Monday, just to dream a little, shows that it ran out in March.
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Capricorn 22 December to 19 January Earth
The list that goes to Bristol. Since your mother stopped driving, you have quietly taken on her shopping, her prescriptions, her bins and the boiler man, and your sibling in Bristol thinks it all runs itself.
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Aquarius 20 January to 18 February Air
What to send to 2076. The primary school down the road is burying a time capsule on Friday, to be opened in fifty years, and the head wants your help choosing what goes in.
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Pisces 19 February to 20 March Water
A den under the stairs. A friend’s old spaniel arrives on Monday for the week, because you are the person who can be trusted with a creature that shakes at fireworks.
Next week, 9 to 15 November
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Aries 21 March to 19 April Fire
Hands in your lap at the roundabout. Your nephew’s driving test is on Friday at ten past nine.
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Taurus 20 April to 20 May Earth
Supper for twenty and a borrowed oven. Twenty people are coming to your friend’s fortieth on Saturday, and you offered to cook, which seemed reasonable in September.
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Gemini 21 May to 20 June Air
Sticky keys until Friday. Somewhere between the kettle and the first email on Monday, your laptop dies, and everything is backed up, mostly.
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Cancer 21 June to 22 July Water
Thursday’s card for your sister. Thursday is your sister’s birthday, and the two of you have not spoken properly since the barbecue in August.
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Leo 23 July to 22 August Fire
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.
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Virgo 23 August to 22 September Earth
Pencil marks in a friend’s novel. On Monday a friend hands you the novel they have spent four years writing, printed out, three hundred pages, and asks what you honestly think.
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Libra 23 September to 22 October Air
Your old desk-mate has said yes. Replies for the school reunion are due by Wednesday, and the evening itself is on Saturday, twenty-five years on, in the hall where you once sat your exams.
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Scorpio 23 October to 21 November Water
A design kept for ten years. A new moon falls in your own sign early on Monday, which suits a week about something you decided long ago.
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Sagittarius 22 November to 21 December Fire
Melbourne at seven in the morning. Six years after moving to Melbourne, your oldest friend sends a message on Monday night: they are thinking of coming home, and want to know whether you think they are mad.
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Capricorn 22 December to 19 January Earth
Sitting in the café window for once. HR writes, kindly, on Monday: you have six days of leave left and seven weeks to take them in, after which they vanish.
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Aquarius 20 January to 18 February Air
Strict rules for the Christmas draw. You have offered to run the Secret Santa for nine friends, and by Monday evening you have a set of rules: a spending limit, no drawing your own partner, no swapping.
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Pisces 19 February to 20 March Water
The drummer through the wall. At seven on Monday evening, the teenager next door starts drumming, and by Tuesday you know the song, its every fill and the bit he cannot quite manage.