Today’s daily horoscopes

A quieter pace may suit you better than the one you're trying to maintain. You could simply settle into the work without announcing how much it demands of you, Aries. It may even prove easier once you've stopped interrupting it to explain the effort. I realise this leaves several people unaware of your sacrifice. They may recover.

Something familiar may feel especially comforting with the Moon in your sign. Enjoy it, Taurus. Venus retrograde can also tempt you to spend the day wishing an old arrangement would return unchanged. Your memory has apparently relieved it of every inconvenience. Very considerate. Before you ask for it back, consult someone who remembers why you wanted it to end.

Something you once wanted to understand may catch your attention again. Mercury retrograde in Scorpio favours returning to a question you left unanswered. Stay with it long enough to learn what you missed, Gemini. You already know how to sound interested. This could be your chance to discover what happens after the first clever question.

The Moon favours Neptune today, making another person's feelings easier to understand. Resist the temptation to explain away what hurt you simply because you can see why they did it. They may be quite happy to let you do that work, Cancer. Sympathy becomes remarkably convenient when it saves the person responsible from having to say anything difficult.

You may hear a criticism that is harder to dismiss than you'd like. Let it sit for a moment, Leo. The Sun's square to Pluto makes defending yourself feel urgent, but being uncomfortable does not oblige you to make everybody else uncomfortable as well. You could bear the feeling privately, just this once.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio favours revisiting an old method. Before you improve a familiar routine again, check whether it still needs doing, Virgo. You may find you've become remarkably efficient at solving a problem nobody has any more. You can stop. You needn't finish wasting your time simply because you've begun so carefully.

An old preference may return while Venus retraces Libra. Before you change your mind again, spend a little time with what you actually like. You may have become rather skilled at anticipating everyone else's verdict. I do hope that has made you happy, Libra. It would be unfortunate to do all that accommodating and still end up disliking your own choice.

An ambition may be taking more from you than you expected. Giving up a little ground can feel worse than the strain of holding it. Look at what you're protecting, Scorpio. You don't have to keep wanting something merely because somebody else would enjoy seeing you abandon it. Their satisfaction is a costly thing to organise your life around.

Under a Taurus Moon, finishing something modest may be more satisfying than planning your next grand departure. Give the ordinary business a chance, Sagittarius, however poorly it suits the story you wanted to tell. Someone has to deal with what your imagination leaves behind. They have heard quite enough about where you're going next.

You may be carrying an obligation that could be shared. Saturn is retrograde, giving you reason to examine an old rule about having to manage everything yourself. Ask before you conclude that nobody else will help, Capricorn. Their failure to volunteer is less persuasive evidence when you've spent so long making it clear that their efforts would never satisfy you.

A softer answer may occur to you today. You needn't improve on every feeling someone confides in you, Aquarius. The Moon's support for Neptune gives sympathy a little room before your analysis arrives. They may understand their situation perfectly well and still wish it hurt less. Try offering a kind response they won't have to translate before it becomes useful.

Someone's distress may be particularly hard to leave alone. You could understand far more than they manage to say, Pisces. Do check whether you've understood them before you begin feeling it on their behalf. Your sympathy can become an impressive amount of suffering built around a misunderstanding. They may have had a rather better day than the one you're having for them.