Leo weekly horoscope

This week the Sun is in Scorpio, at a square to your sign. You do things wholeheartedly or not at all, and you would rather be seen trying than be safely invisible.

At the middle of the week the Moon is in Virgo, which runs tidy and faintly critical, soothed by sorting one real thing out. The Moon is a thin waning crescent, the end of the cycle. Rest is the productive choice here, which is a sentence you are allowed to believe. It is 14 per cent lit and shrinking. The Moon crosses into Libra on 5 November, and the mood turns over with it.

Leo is ruled by the Sun, which governs where your attention and your energy go. It is currently in Scorpio, which takes that part of life deeper and makes half measures unbearable.

Mercury is sitting right on top of the Sun, your ruler, about 2.1 degrees off and just past exact and widening. A conjunction concentrates things. Whatever that planet does, it does it to this part of your life at full strength and without much subtlety.

Mercury is retrograde, which means Earth has overtaken it and from here it appears to track backwards against the stars. The old advice holds up better than the superstition around it: reread before you send, confirm the time and the address, and expect conversations you thought were finished to come back round. Venus is retrograde, which happens far less often than Mercury doing it. It is a reviewing stretch for what you value and who you want near you. Old names tend to resurface. Hold off on the big purchase and the big promise, and just notice what you actually want. Saturn is retrograde, so the deadline pressure eases off a little. The work does not go away, it comes back for a second look when Saturn turns direct, which is the argument for doing it properly now.

Give one thing your whole heart this week instead of five things a slice each. Half hearted is the only register you are genuinely bad at.