Aquarius weekly horoscope

This week the Sun is in Scorpio, at a square to your sign. You want to know why it is done this way before you agree to keep doing it that way.

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.

Aquarius is ruled by Saturn, which governs where the work is, and where the limits are real. It is currently in Aries, which makes that part of life fast, blunt and impatient for a result. 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. Because it is your ruler, that applies to you more than it does to most people.

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.

Pick one group thing this week, a friend, a project, a cause, and turn up in person. Caring in the abstract is your comfortable failure.