Aries

At today's meeting, Aries will wait for everyone else to say what they think before speaking up. It will be hard - they'll chew the cap of their pen the entire time. When they finally speak, they'll say half of what they prepared, because the other half has already been said by others.

Taurus

Taurus will teach their mother to send voice messages today. It'll take half an hour and three attempts. By evening they'll have seven voice messages from her, each longer than the last. They won't delete a single one.

Gemini

Gemini will head out today without an umbrella, because the morning will look sunny. October will remind them it's not to be trusted. They'll spend fifteen minutes under a shop awning with a stranger, and by the time the rain stops they'll know where he works, how many kids he has and what he thinks of market prices.

Cancer

In the class reunion group chat today, Cancer will write a short "I won't be coming" and won't invent any excuse. They'll stare at the screen for five minutes, waiting for someone to ask why. Nobody will. The relief will be bigger than they expected.

Leo

Leo will watch the leaves fall from the linden tree outside the building today and won't take a photo. Some things are better when only you remember them.

Virgo

Virgo will call a friend today just to tell her that her favourite chocolate is on sale. The call will last forty minutes, and they'll talk about the chocolate for only the first thirty seconds. When was the last time she called someone for no reason at all?

Libra

Libra should not walk into a shop today "just to look". She knows how that ends: with a full bag and an explanation she'll be working out on the way home. If she absolutely must, she should leave the card in the drawer.

Scorpio

Scorpio will move the sofa to the other wall on their own today, without asking anyone. Underneath they'll find the remote that's been missing since summer, two buttons and a ten-denar coin. The new layout will look strange all evening. By tomorrow morning it'll look like it's always been there.

Sagittarius

Sagittarius will open a map today and start planning a spring trip - five cities in one weekend. They'll count kilometres and compare trains, and by midnight what's left of the plan will be one city and three days. It will be the best plan they've made all year.

Capricorn

Capricorn will leave work today at four on the dot, laptop closed, with no "just this one more thing". Colleagues will glance at the clock as if they'd seen a comet. They'll get home while it's still light and stroll down to the market, without a list.

Aquarius

Aquarius will find out today that a friend from university is coming back from Germany for a few days. They'll immediately start organising a table, people and a venue. By evening there'll be eight names on the list, and the friend will ask whether they could just meet for coffee, the two of them.

Pisces

Pisces will stop today next to an older man struggling with the parking machine. They'll explain how it works, and when it turns out his card doesn't work, they'll pay with their own and refuse to take any money. The man will insist on at least buying them a coffee - and in the conversation it'll turn out they live two streets apart.