Cancer — today

There's someone you're quite fond of who you've been slowly, patiently editing out of your life, and the *Moon* sitting in Capricorn is today casting a very cold light on exactly how you've been doing it. Not dramatically. You've just been… less available. A bit busier than usual. Your replies have acquired a slight administrative quality, the kind that signals interest without offering anything to grip. *Mars* in Cancer makes this feel purposeful rather than passive, which is how you've managed to convince yourself it's not unkind. You're not pushing them away. You're merely not pulling them closer. *Venus* opposing *Saturn* is where this gets uncomfortable: *Venus* in Libra still wants the friendship to feel good and reciprocal and properly tended, while *Saturn* in Aries is pointing out, with all the warmth of a structural survey, that you've already decided how this ends. You decided sometime last month. You just haven't announced it, because announcing it would require a conversation, and a conversation would require you to explain why, and the reason isn't quite bad enough to say out loud. It's just that they need things. And you've started keeping count.