Today’s daily horoscopes

Mars joins Jupiter, and the difficult attempt could look worth making at last. Choose a challenge with a result you actually want, Aries. You have enough energy to prove something, which makes it particularly important to decide what. Being able to endure an inconvenience is a surprisingly poor reason to volunteer for one.

A little appetite is useful, Taurus. It may remind you what you’ve been settling for merely because it asks so little of you. Venus favours Mars today. Try the more satisfying option without demanding an assurance that it will never disappoint. You’ve been quite willing to accept that risk from the familiar one.

You understand why the work ought to be simple, Gemini. Try doing it. A practical attempt has a decent chance of holding your attention today, particularly once you discover where your fluent explanation stops helping. Learning the awkward part would be useful. Reassuring somebody that it is straightforward will leave them very much where they were.

You have enough feeling about the matter to do something useful, Cancer. Put a little of it into the first practical step. An intense Scorpio Moon needn’t occupy the whole day in private consideration. You can return to explaining why this matters once there is a result for somebody else to notice.

The useful work has another obligation ready, Leo. Take the enjoyable hour before you accept it. You have found an impressive number of reasons to postpone this particular pleasure, and today has enough initiative to make the attempt. Your account of being too busy will remain available. I do wish you sounded less proud of it.

Would they like to see you, Virgo? They are the person to ask. You have enough courage for an invitation today without establishing that every possible inconvenience has been removed. Declining on their behalf has saved them some effort, I suppose. It has also left you remarkably little evidence for the conclusion you seem determined to reach.

Offer the piece of help you can do well, Libra. You don’t need to make the whole problem disappear for the gesture to count. Venus has Mars’s support today, giving goodwill a practical use. Taking on everything would certainly demonstrate how much you care, particularly when somebody has to rescue you from what you offered.

A private ambition is ready for some effort, Scorpio. Mars joins Jupiter, and you can put conviction to work without explaining how far you intend to go. Try the difficult part while the appetite is there. Keeping the plan undisclosed has protected it very well; eventually you will need to risk discovering how much you can do.

Let yourself be a little more ambitious than your recent evidence warrants, Sagittarius. Jupiter meets Mars today, giving an attempt some force. That does require an attempt. Describing how quickly you would improve with the right opportunity has become a comfortable substitute for accepting one that might expose the current standard.

Ask the inexperienced question, Capricorn. The person explaining seems willing to help; today would be a useful time to let them. Looking as though you already understand has become a remarkably effective barrier to finding out. They can hardly explain the missing part while you keep agreeing that the whole matter is perfectly clear.

Test the proposal on a scale large enough to learn something, Aquarius. You have room for a bolder attempt today. Retaining control of every condition may make the result easier to defend, though it will leave you much less to discover. At some point an experiment ought to be allowed to surprise its author.

Choose where to put the energy, Pisces. Jupiter’s conjunction with Mars can make several possibilities seem worth pursuing at once. You could complete a useful part of one before offering yourself to the rest. Your enthusiasm is welcome; somebody will eventually want to know which of its commitments is actually going to arrive.