Today’s daily horoscopes

Decide what you’re protecting before taking up the argument, Aries. A Scorpio Moon squares Pluto, giving a small loss more emotional weight than you might expect. There could be something worth defending. The fact that you dislike yielding is worth rather less, however many other principles you manage to assemble around it.

Use the thing you’ve kept for a suitable occasion, Taurus. Venus favours Mars, making enjoyment worth a little action. It may acquire an ordinary sign of use, which is generally what happens to things that enter your life. Preserving the possibility of pleasure indefinitely has left you with some remarkably well-protected disappointments.

Your old words needn’t continue speaking for you, Gemini. Read them again before agreeing to have them repeated. Mercury retrograde gives you reason to revise an account that no longer fits. You can say that you’ve changed your mind without describing your former certainty as something everybody else misinterpreted.

The memory still hurts, Cancer. Does recalling this particular detail help you understand it, or mainly ensure it stays close? You needn’t deny what happened today. Remembering without making a fresh appointment to feel precisely as you did then would be quite enough. Some of your attention could return to the people who are actually here.

The rival is doing splendidly, or terribly, or something you could spend the afternoon establishing. Your own work awaits, Leo. There is energy for an enjoyable attempt today if you leave their progress alone. Eventually you will need something of your own to compare it with. Another detailed account of theirs is unlikely to suffice.

Put aside the old assessment long enough to look at what is here now, Virgo. Mercury is retrograde, and the earlier verdict may deserve revisiting. You’ve become very efficient at recognising the same difficulty. It would be useful to establish whether the difficulty has remained quite as faithful to your account of it.

You were grateful when they introduced you to it. Must you keep going, Libra? A change of taste deserves a little honesty today. Having once been delighted is a poor reason to arrange another evening spent wondering how gracefully you can leave. The gratitude can stay; the invitation needn’t be renewed indefinitely to prove it.

Leave the private detail private, Scorpio. Today’s Moon–Pluto square can make knowing something feel like a reason to use it. Consider what you want from the exchange before making the other person cautious. You might secure their attention quite quickly and discover that they have considerably less they wish to tell you.

A modest pleasure can survive being chosen instead of the most impressive alternative. Venus favours Jupiter today. Give what actually appeals to you a chance, Sagittarius. The interesting account you could give of doing something else will offer rather poor company once you’re there wishing you had stayed with your first preference.

What does the rule still accomplish, Capricorn? That is the useful question today. Your excellent account of why it was once necessary is already familiar to everybody affected. You learnt to live with the restriction at considerable effort. I can see why discovering that nobody needs it now might feel personally inconvenient.

An attachment has begun to interfere with an opinion you thought quite settled, Aquarius. Allow it a hearing. Under the Moon’s square to Pluto, you might discover that losing something would matter more than your practical explanation suggests. You can admit that before proposing an arrangement in which everybody must help you pretend otherwise.

You can recall a person fondly without editing the parts that made the relationship difficult, Pisces. Today’s Scorpio Moon lends memory some feeling. Let it have a little accuracy too. It will be much easier to enjoy what was good if you stop expecting that enjoyment to prove the whole arrangement ought to have continued.