Capricorn Will Buy Flowers "for Tuesday", Pisces Will Send a Link to Their Own Present

Aries

Today Aries will be assembling a new shelf and, against every habit they have, will read the instructions first - from the first page to the last. They'll line the screws up by size on the rug, like a surgeon before an operation. The shelf will stand straight on the first try, and not a single "spare" screw will be left in the box.

Taurus

Today Taurus will remember something their partner mentioned in passing a month ago - that they'd run out of their favourite tea - and bring it home for no reason at all. The partner will look at the packet longer than an ordinary tea deserves. Taurus will act like it's nothing.

Gemini

Today Gemini should answer the messages that have been sitting in the inbox since September. It'll take the whole morning. Write "sorry for the late reply" once, on the first one, and don't apologise on the rest. By noon the inbox will be empty for the first time this autumn.

Cancer

Today Cancer will allow themselves a bad day, without hiding it behind "everything's fine". When a colleague asks how they are, they'll answer "not great" - and that will be enough. She'll pop out to the bakery and come back with burek for two. No more talking will be needed.

Leo

Today, at the market, Leo will haggle for the first time in their life - over a jar of honey. The seller will knock off a hundred denars, more out of surprise than persuasion. Leo will carry the jar home like a trophy and that evening will tell the story for longer than the haggling lasted.

Virgo

Today Virgo should take a walk by the river without a watch and without the app that counts steps. They won't know the number. Their head will be clearer than after any record-breaking week.

Libra

Today Libra will take down from the shelf the Italian dictionary they bought before a trip long ago and learn ten words. They won't need a single one of them this year. But when they say them out loud in the kitchen, they'll sound like someone who's leaving for somewhere soon.

Scorpio

Today Scorpio will hand a colleague the project they've been running alone for three months - with all the passwords and notes. They'll feel the urge to check in every half hour. By the end of the working day, they won't have checked once. Tomorrow they'll see it was done differently from their way - and that it was done all the same.

Sagittarius

Today Sagittarius will call the aunt they haven't seen since their cousin's wedding and arrange to visit her on Saturday. The conversation will last three minutes. The aunt will start planning what to cook before she even hangs up.

Capricorn

Today, on the way home from work, Capricorn will buy flowers - not for a birthday, not for an anniversary, but because they'll see them on the stall outside the post office. The seller will ask, "What's the occasion?" Capricorn will pause, think, and say "for Tuesday". At home they'll put them in a jam jar, because there's no vase.

Aquarius

Today Aquarius will make ajvar - the Balkan roasted-pepper relish - with their mother for the first time: peppers on the stove in the yard, peeling up to the elbows, smoke in their hair until evening. They'll complain about their burning hands every ten minutes. In the end they'll take six jars home and count them more often than necessary.

Pisces

Today Pisces will tell their partner straight out what they want for their birthday, instead of waiting for them to guess - with a link, a size and a colour. The partner will sigh with relief so loudly it'll be heard down the phone. There'll be no surprise, but no disappointment either.