Cancer

Home and family remain your central theme, and this week they get a practical follow-up. A question about housing, renovation or shared household arrangements finally moves, most likely on Wednesday or Thursday. The start of October is well suited to launching what you were already discussing back in the summer. The weekend will bring the feeling that you are finally where you belong.

Family conversations go more easily than usual this week, as long as you do not open them with a reproach. A relative or someone close will say the thing you have waited a long time to hear, so take it in without analysing it. In a couple it is worth talking through the shared household: who takes on what, and why. Single Cancers may grow closer to someone from an old circle, in familiar surroundings.

Spending on your home is justified this week, but choose consciously between what you need and what you simply want. From Thursday, when October begins, write out the month's expenses and leave a reserve for household surprises. A refund or a recalculation in your favour is possible if you remind the other side that you are still waiting. A larger purchase for the house is better moved to the middle of October.

Concentrating will be harder than usual, because matters at home keep pulling your attention away. Plan the most demanding work for Tuesday and Thursday mornings, when your head is clearer. Do not agree to extra load at the end of the week, as you would overestimate your strength. A colleague you have had friction with will meet you halfway this week.

Your stomach and digestion react to nerves and irregular eating, so go back to proper mealtimes. Warm home cooking will do you more good right now than any diet. Water restores you best of all: a pool, a bath, or simply a walk along the water. By the weekend your sleep will grow deeper if you put the phone away an hour before bed.