Your daily horoscope: October 9, 2026

IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

Mercury’s influence on your birthday means you must carefully evaluate every offer and opportunity that comes your way. Check the facts and do the math but also pay attention to what your instincts tell you. If it doesn’t feel right, give it a miss.

ARIES (March 21 – April 20):

You may have strong feelings about what’s going on in your world but before you let others know about them maybe you should ask yourself if that will make the situation better or worse. On this occasion it might be easier to keep quiet.

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21):

Mercury in the partnership area of your chart links with Saturn today, which among other things means that loved ones and work colleagues could be moody for no obvious reason. You know that feeling well enough yourself, so don’t hold it against them.

GEMINI (May 22 – June 21):

A method that worked well for you in the past won’t work so well for you today. Fortunately, you are not so set in your ways that you are incapable of change, so be ready to make a major change, maybe even one of 180 degrees.

CANCER (June 22 – July 23):

Something that makes you laugh may not seem in the least bit funny to other people, so watch what you say, especially to people in positions of power. Not everyone has your gift for humour or your sense of the ridiculous, so make allowances.

LEO (July 24 – Aug. 23):

You are who you are for a reason and anyone who tries to change you today or over the weekend is destined to fail. Make it easy for them, and for yourself, by letting them know right away that you have no intention of following their advice.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 – Sept. 23):

You have gone out of your way in recent weeks to please other people and it has cost you a lot both emotionally and financially. Now you must change your focus to what makes you feel good and let family and friends do more for themselves.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 – Oct. 23):

You may be inclined to spend time evaluating your goals and whether or not you are moving closer to them, but the new moon in your sign this weekend makes such self-reflection pointless. Just be ready to move fast when a new opportunity presents itself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22):

You are worrying too much about issues that you cannot possibly change, so clear your head of negative thoughts and aim just to have fun today. If other people want to wallow in doom and gloom that’s up to them, but you don’t have to join them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 – Dec. 21):

If you cannot be bothered to get stuck into that backlog of jobs that has piled up of late then it would be wrong to force yourself. Chances are each and every one of those tasks can wait until another day, or maybe even another year!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 – Jan. 20):

If there is something that desperately needs doing then get on with it and don’t listen to those who say you should wait. The approaching new moon means you cannot afford to be indecisive, not if you plan to move up in the world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19):

If you take the time and make the effort to help a friend or colleague in need today they will take the time and make the effort to help you later on when the situation is reversed. That “later on” could arrive as early as this weekend.

PISCES (Feb. 20 – Mar. 20):

Someone will have a lot to say for themselves today and none of it will be of much interest to you. Don’t be rude about it but do let them know you have important matters to take care of and don’t have time to shoot the breeze. Later, maybe.