Gemini — Saturday 9 May 2026

Someone in your life has noticed that when things go wrong, you don't fall apart — you *reframe*. Brilliantly, fluently, instantly. You turn a disappointment into a lesson, a rejection into a redirect, a catastrophe into a funny story you'll be dining out on by Tuesday. It's very impressive. It's also how you avoid feeling anything for quite some time. *Mercury* is sitting in *Taurus* today, which means your famously quick mind is moving through treacle — slower than you'd like, more deliberate than feels natural. This is annoying. It's also, possibly, useful. Taurus doesn't let Mercury sprint away from its conclusions. You might actually have to sit with something rather than narrate your way out of it. *Venus* is in your sign right now, which gives you considerable charm and absolutely no excuse to use it as a distraction. The *Sun* and *Jupiter* are getting along nicely in the background, suggesting something good is available — but only to whoever shows up as themselves, not their press secretary. **Fortune cookie:** The story you keep telling about it is the reason you still have it.