Today’s daily horoscopes

An invitation may be more tempting than the time you have for it. Venus favours Jupiter, encouraging generous promises; Mercury square Mars can make a practical question sound like interference. Check your plans before accepting, Aries. Someone asking when you'll arrive is allowed to want an answer. Your enthusiasm is delightful until they have to wait for it.

Venus favours Jupiter today, and you may feel unusually willing to be generous. Give what you're happy to give, Taurus. With Venus still retrograde, an old imbalance could tempt you to expect a particular response in return. Let the recipient enjoy the gesture before assessing their gratitude. It loses some of its charm when they discover there was a correct way to receive it.

You may want to explain yourself while someone else wants a little privacy. Give them some time, Gemini. Your account may be perfectly reasonable, but delivering it insistently is unlikely to improve the reception. You won't make your intentions clearer by repeating them louder. At a certain point they are simply trying to get away from the explanation.

You may feel more at home with one person than you do with people you've known for years. A Cancer Moon gives that difference weight. Pay attention to how easily the conversation moves both ways. You needn't keep calling an acquaintance close simply because it is old, Cancer. They may have learned an astonishingly small amount about you in all that time.

A warm reception may put you in a generous mood. Leave someone else a little room to enjoy their own good news, Leo. You don't have to improve on it with a larger example. Their modest happiness was doing perfectly well before you offered to enlarge the occasion.

Mercury is retrograde and squares Mars; a delay may feel less reasonable than it is. Ask what is holding things up, Virgo, before you start hurrying someone. They may need time to check their work. You become particularly tiresome when the precautions you insist on are somebody else's reason for keeping you waiting.

A pleasant invitation may be enough as it stands. Accept what appeals to you, Libra, without immediately wondering who else should be included. You could spend the whole day arranging for everyone to have a good time and discover you were the only person who never arrived at one.

Mercury in your sign squares Mars, and a challenge hidden in a question could produce a familiar argument. You may know exactly how someone will react to what you want to ask. Try asking without the provocation, Scorpio. If you require a useful answer, give them something they can answer usefully. You can hardly complain about their defence when you've taken such care to provoke it.

Someone may do you a favour with less fuss than you expected. Thank them before you explain how you would have managed anyway, Sagittarius. They probably know you're resourceful. It would be gracious to let their contribution matter for a moment, however briefly that interrupts the account of your independence.

A Cancer Moon brings feelings closer to the surface, including the ones you would prefer to deal with efficiently. Someone may need you to listen before suggesting what they should do. Give them that time, Capricorn. They have probably considered the obvious solution. Being upset despite knowing it is an inconvenience you might recognise if you stopped offering instructions.

Concern may be harder to disguise beneath a Cancer Moon. If someone matters to you, let them see a little of it, Aquarius. Your usual distance can leave them doing an unreasonable amount of guessing. A direct kindness needn't be followed by a joke to make it bearable. They might respond warmly. You could try surviving that without making it awkward.

Venus favours Jupiter, and a friendly exchange may leave you imagining more than either of you has said. Enjoy the attention, Pisces, but give the other person time to make their meaning clear. You have a talent for seeing where things could go. They may still be deciding whether they want to continue the conversation you've already given a future.