Horoscope today
· all twelve star signs
Your horoscope today, Wednesday 9 September, is written from the sky that is actually up there: the Moon moves from Leo into Virgo at 8.34pm, waning crescent and 4% lit.
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 twelve signs on Wednesday 9 September
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Aries 21 March to 19 April
Finish it before the light goes. Wednesday hands you something dull and nearly complete, and the honest thing is to complete it.
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Taurus 20 April to 20 May
Nothing has to be decided before supper. Slow suits you today, and the day is arranged for it.
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Gemini 21 May to 20 June
One conversation, not four. Half of what is on your list today is other people’s business and you have been carrying it as though it were yours.
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Cancer 21 June to 22 July
Something for the freezer. You have been feeding everybody but yourself this week, in the ordinary sense and the other one.
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Leo 23 July to 22 August
The last of the warm light. The Moon leaves your sign this evening and the week gets quieter after that, which is not a loss.
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Virgo 23 August to 22 September
The evening finally belongs to you. Your season is at its best after dark tonight: the Moon arrives in your sign just after half past eight, and a fortnight of small unfinished jobs stops feeling like a personal failing.
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Libra 23 September to 22 October
Say the awkward half. Venus in your sign has been making everything look manageable, which is how a small resentment gets to be a fortnight old.
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Scorpio 23 October to 21 November
The drawer you have not opened. The dark end of the lunar month suits you: this is a week for finishing and clearing rather than starting.
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Sagittarius 22 November to 21 December
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.
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Capricorn 22 December to 19 January
The ladder is still in the shed. You have a list of jobs that each need an hour and a second pair of hands, and you have been waiting to have both at once.
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Aquarius 20 January to 18 February
Mend the small broken thing. Something you use every day has been slightly broken for a month, and you have been routing round it rather than mending it.
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Pisces 19 February to 20 March
Take the washing out first. The washing has been in the machine since yesterday and the day feels a bit like that too.
· all twelve star signs
Your horoscope today, Thursday 10 September, is written from the sky that is actually up there: the Moon stays in Virgo all day, new moon and 1% lit.
The sky Moon in Virgo all day · new moon, 1% lit · Saturn retrograde. New moon tomorrow, at 4.27am.
The twelve signs on Thursday 10 September
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Aries 21 March to 19 April
An audit you did not order. An audit is not a punishment, though it feels like one while it is happening.
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Taurus 20 April to 20 May
Boots resoled before the rain. Autumn arrives whether or not anybody has prepared for it, and you are the one who quietly prepares.
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Gemini 21 May to 20 June
The introduction you promised in July. Detail is not the punishment it looks like today.
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Cancer 21 June to 22 July
A friend two hundred miles away. Some days are for cupboards and some are for the people who have drifted, and this one is quietly the second.
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Leo 23 July to 22 August
Show someone how you do it. A day with rather less audience than you would like, and a better use for you than being watched.
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Virgo 23 August to 22 September
One page for the year ahead. Two things about today: the Moon sits in your sign from morning to night, and the new moon follows tomorrow.
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Libra 23 September to 22 October
Answer the invitation either way. The generally flattering light goes off today: Venus moves out of your sign.
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Scorpio 23 October to 21 November
Being wanted is not a trap. There is a catch, you will assume, and there may not be one.
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Sagittarius 22 November to 21 December
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.
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Capricorn 22 December to 19 January
Leave you have not taken. Thursday is a working day and you will work it; that was never in question.
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Aquarius 20 January to 18 February
You are allowed to have changed. Somewhere in the past year you quietly stopped believing something you used to argue about at length, and you have told nobody, because you are the one who holds positions.
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Pisces 19 February to 20 March
Slower than the day would like. You are running at a different speed from the people around you today, and the mismatch, not the tiredness, is what makes the morning hard.
Written for the day, not recycled
Every text is written the evening before for the day ahead, from that day's real sky: the sign the Moon is passing through, its phase, which planets are retrograde, when the Sun changes sign. The twelve signs get the same day and take it twelve different ways, which is the only interesting thing about a zodiac.
There is no sign-up, no lucky number and no reading of your palm. What you get is a daily horoscope for each star sign, tomorrow's as soon as it is written, a look at the week, and a portrait of each sign for when you want to know who you are dealing with.