Taurus weekly horoscope

This week the Sun is in Scorpio, in the sign opposite yours. You take your time, and what you build tends to stay built.

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.

Taurus is ruled by Venus, which governs what you value, who you are drawn to, and how money and affection move. It is currently in Libra, which makes that part of life about other people, fairness, and what looks right. 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. Because it is your ruler, that applies to you more than it does to most people.

Jupiter is at a friendly sixty degree angle to Venus, your ruler, about 0.5 degrees off and just past exact and widening. 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. 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.

Spend the week on one thing you can actually finish. Steady beats clever, and you have more steady in you than most people have clever.