Aries

Aries will end up at a family table where one of the older relatives repeats an opinion he has disagreed with for ten years. This time he will not engage. It is not peacemaking and it is not maturity - you have simply worked out that the argument was never about the opinion, it was about who gets to close the conversation, and you no longer want that person to be you.

Taurus

Taurus will wake earlier than necessary on Sunday and for half an hour will be the only one awake in the house. Do not fill it with work. It is the one part of the week when nobody has an opinion about what you are doing, and an hour like that is not obtained by planning - only by waking up.

Gemini

Gemini will start reading something long and will actually finish it. All of it. The last time that happened was at the start of the summer. There is no lesson in it - it is just worth noting the day your head held out to the end instead of jumping to the third other thing.

Cancer

Cancer will be asked directly what he thinks about someone's decision, by a person who has already made it. Answer honestly, briefly, and then do not soften it. That second sentence you usually add to repair the first opinion helps nobody - it just leaves the person unsure which of the two counts.

Leo

Leo will be somewhere where everyone is taking photos, and he will be the one holding the phone for the others. Not a single picture from that afternoon will be his. A small thought about it will catch him toward the end of the day, somewhere around seven.

Virgo

Virgo will catch someone in a small inconsistency - what he said last week, what he is saying today. You are right, your memory is good, and now you have two options. Do not use the second one. People who keep a tidy ledger of other people's contradictions for years end up sitting at the table alone with it.

Libra

Libra will choose the restaurant, the film or the meeting time for the whole group, fast and without consulting anyone, because nobody else was speaking up. Nobody will complain. Remember that the next time you spend twenty minutes writing a message offering four people three options.

Scorpio

Scorpio will be in a conversation with genuinely nothing beneath the surface - the person really means what they are saying, and that is all there is. It will be mildly disappointing. Some weeks pass without a single hidden motive, and that does not mean you have stopped reading people well.

Sagittarius

Sagittarius will remember, somewhere around midday, a person he has not spoken to in two years, and will immediately come up with why today is not the day for it. Call. Two years of silence are not explained by a good reason but by no reason at all - and on the other end the silence is identical, waiting to see who gives up waiting first.

Capricorn

Capricorn will get through the week without a single finished thing, and will know it exactly. Nothing has collapsed. The only person keeping that account is you, and that person has not allowed himself a free day without an internal invoice at the end of it for six months.

Aquarius

Aquarius will be in a situation where the usual workaround will not get the job done and he will have to do it the way everyone else does. It will be faster. This is not a lesson for the future, just one week in which the straight route happened to actually be the right one.

Pisces

Pisces will have a week in which nobody asked them for anything - not to listen, not for a favour, not for understanding. Instead of relief, a strange emptiness will show up around the afternoon. What bothers you is not the silence, it is that for years you have measured your place in other people's lives by how often they need something.