Scorpio daily horoscope

Today the Sun is in Scorpio, in your own sign. You go all in or you stay out, and you can usually tell when someone is only half telling you something.

At the middle of the day the Moon is in Libra, which runs sociable and conflict shy, at its best when everything is even. The Moon is new, sitting with the Sun and giving no light at all. Cycles start in the dark, so this suits a quiet beginning and suits a launch that needs an audience very badly indeed. It is 3 per cent lit and shrinking. The Moon crosses into Scorpio later today, and the mood turns over with it.

Scorpio is ruled by Mars, which governs your drive, your temper, and how hard you push. It is currently in Leo, which makes that part of life warmer, louder and more willing to be looked at. It is moving forward, so nothing is being held up at that end.

Venus is at a friendly sixty degree angle to Mars, your ruler, about 1.9 degrees off and still closing in on exact. A sextile is an opening rather than a gift. It helps if you act on it and it passes quietly if you do not.

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.

Do not act on the suspicion yet. You are reading the situation accurately and reading it further ahead than the evidence goes. Let one more fact arrive.