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This is a powerful time for you, Aries, when you will be making a major move toward integration. The wheel is still very much in spin; transformational energies that have been coming down this past year or more are just getting started, and your life from now on will never be entirely the same. These changes may take years yet to complete, but you actually find yourself at the beginning of a kind of plateau now, a place to stand while you reflect on recent developments. Partly as a result of the turmoil, your creative self-expression runs high, and moves in unlikely new directions. This month is also a time when you are extremely focused on significant partners in your life as an adjunct to discovering your own wholeness.

As the month begins, you are finding that the important relationships in your life still have the power to surprise you. This is a powerful time for all kinds of partnership connections when unexpected events could present a shock to your system, and provide surprising epiphanies as well. In the rapidly unfolding events of this monthly timeframe, novel and unforeseen aspects of your connection with others become the genesis of a new way of looking at issues of yours that have long lay dormant. This goes for long-term partnerships, deep friendships and business connections, as well as the constantly evolving and frequently under-acknowledged relationships within your own psyche.

You occupy a crucial and extremely interesting moment in time, wherein your artistic self-expression is peaking and your relationship dynamic with others also. At the very same time, you are also seeing your way through to a new way of being in the world of events and concrete accomplishment. As you grow and shine in your workplace or with regard to career development you are also taking full advantage of the impact that others can make for your own self-development in realms of a private as well as a more public nature.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, hits you a bit harder than you might like, presenting bumps or actual snags in the path of your progress and granting you the ability to rise above. This is a time when the rubber really meets the road with planned initiatives and changes that you are in process of making, as you find out first-hand what unexpected realities might lie in hiding to at least temporarily side-track you. There could be conflicts at this time between your own agenda and that of others around you, which cannot be resolved until you adopt a third way that truly synthesizes both viewpoints. You fortunately have loads of native wit and prescient intuition available to you now, so that novel solutions to ordinary situations are more than possible.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, some form of balanced position is reached, or at least a cease-fire. You are increasingly confident of your own individual stand that you are almost being forced into taking, and beginning to accept this stand as an inevitable one given the circumstances, and yet you are also available for compromise, accepting the limitations inherent in the concept of partnership with others.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, you are entering into a meditative mode of operation where you are reviewing prior events and your responses to them with an eye to a more big-picture understanding that will reveal the true meaning for your life as a whole. You are more fully present at this time to both the forward thrust of your evolutionary imperative and the necessity of bowing to the limitations of your situation also.

The New Moon in the last full week of the month, taking place on Wednesday, October 26th, provides you with fresh energy for the battle.


Taurus   (April 20 - May 20)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are getting serious, Taurus. This is the month when you make an important internal connection between what you do and what you believe. There is a way that everyday life is being made into something rich and strange, to fit in with how you have been seeing the world around you. Health concerns and fitness programs also correspond to this more elevated and intuitive viewpoint which is recently more of a dedicated ideal for you. The challenges and surprises of this time are ether coincidental or else meaningful, and it is by accepting the latter idea that you rock your world entirely. Partners could also come into the picture in a big way after the mid-month Full Moon, and might prove to be extremely helpful in pointing your own way forward.

As the month begins, you are feeling strong on service, both regarding important others in your life and with respect to the surrounding collective as a whole. You are also feeling more strongly called to health regimens of all kinds, diet, environment and exercise, which you might also conceptualize as being of true service to yourself. The energy of the New Moon from the end of last month was very powerful, and it conditions along these lines for you the remainder of October as well. The general theme is your reason for being here, on this planet, which could be considered the discipleship to your Higher Self, as seminal Western Astrologer Dane Rudhyar referred to it. You are more fully engaged than ever right now in finding your true path forward in this world, and in discovering the soul work that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. This involves the work of others as well as of yourself, and a good dose of Spirit that is also in the mix of energies around you now, that comes to you from profound intuitional realms deep inside your psyche.

With the First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, the tension for progress mounts and you might conceivably hit a few snags in the arc of your projected development. You might feel as though you need to make a stand for yourself, but it is a sacred stand that you are making, embodying the ideal of the spiritual warrior. You are in the midst of a gigantic shift in your beliefs and your perceptions and becoming familiar with the notion that the formula just will not jell unless there is Spirit involved in the equation.

With the advent of the Full Moon of Wednesday, October 11th, you come into a time of greater balance of the energies within you and outside of yourself. Partners come more fully into the picture now as well, as an adjunct to your own process of evolutionary growth. This is an extraordinary time of mediating between self and other, outer and inner, and between the practical and the spiritual side of life. In all this you are responding to the intense nature of these times, as reflected in the astrological configurations that are only becoming stronger as the months roll on.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, you are reflecting on where you have been over the prior three weeks of the lunar cycle, and where indeed you might be heading. The events of this time period have been hectic and relatively undigested as they arose, so that this is a good time to stop and think.

Partners in your life are helpful now in bringing this process forward as you store up the accumulated wisdom from what has taken place and prepare for your next stage of development, which will be jump-started by the Scorpio New Moon of Wednesday, October 26th. This later October time period will be a useful one for getting a good handle on your partnership dynamics, and for further sorting out the details of what you are really up to. You are now taking everything into account including those parts of your process that are relatively unconscious ones.


Gemini   (May 21 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

This is a big month for self-development, Gemini, a time when you are walking your individual walk, and yet by that act you are led to examine and clarify your talk as well, and the collective impulse that engenders your expanding philosophy that yet does not correspond to consensus thinking. Your vision for your future has never been clearer or more urgent, although it is perhaps difficult at times to accept because uniquely yours. The strictures of society are very much with you these days, paradoxically both as exemplar and as something to resist. It’s a heady mix of energies that swirl about you now, and the only way through is to consult your innermost angel guides. They are subtly steering you in the direction that you have all along somehow known to be your own.

As the month begins, you are definitely feeling rather peppy. There is tremendous energy for self-expression blossoming within you since the New Moon of late September, stimulating you to more fully inhabit your own creativity. You are in the process of coming into yourself in a new way, and of completely redefining your vision for the future. There is a powerful journey ahead of you if you can get past the limitations of old outmoded habit patterns, the residue of past trauma, and let the cosmic principle of grace unfolding take its rightful place among the formative factors on your life. In this way you are transcending beyond logical thought forms and collective conditioning. The sky is literally your limit is you allow it to be so. Once you have consciously taken the plunge, you realize that you are in the midst of a spiritual transformation so profound as to represent the dawning of a new phase of your life – and of the life of the planet itself.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, could throw you a few curve balls that threaten to derail the arc of your progress but that after all do not prove to be anything that in the end you cannot handle. Difficulties might arise in implementing spontaneous course corrections or with regard to differing points of view on where life is at present leading you, but an open mind is helpful in resolving these issues. This is especially true when you can relax your thinking mind and simply rely on inner wisdom as your guide. You are possessed of a fount of intuitional wisdom right now that you would be hard-pressed to identify with as a source but which continues to surprise you with information that you didn’t even know you had.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, an equilibrium is struck, so that while still enthusiastic about future chances, you are likely to temper your enthusiasm with a good dose of caution and grounded thinking. You are also seeking the balance point between group or societal goals and individual contribution, and between spiritual idealism and practical concerns.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, ushers in a period of reflection and thoughtful consideration of you are truly heading with your life. The events of the past three weeks that took place in such a rush of circumstance might need to be re-played in your mind to get the best idea of what was really going on in the moment, and for extracting from these events and their aftermath the lessons that are there for you and that can be helpful in gauging your future course of action if they can be carried forward.

With the New Moon of the week following, taking place on Wednesday, October 26th, you are in a new ball game as far as your total thought process, with a more actively communicative approach that includes the agendas of others as well as yourself into an even bigger-picture viewpoint of your possibilities, and getting closer to understanding the complex reasons behind your coming into this life as well as the joy of just being here.


Cancer   (June 21 - July 22)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is a powerful month for you, Cancer, and for the evolutionary arc of your development. You are feeling excited and inspired to be moving forward with career plans that continue to shift and modify on a daily basis, while at the core of your being you remain true to yourself and to your tendency to hide away from the world at large. The question is how to pursue these very different agendas, and do justice to each one, without making yourself crazy in the process. The answer might lie in attempting to discern how they interact and feed off each other. When deeply felt, your outer world participation will fulfill your inner goals, and in terms of career, only the path with heart will satisfy you now, for public or for private considerations.

As the month begins, you are really feeling into home and tribe or family concerns. Something new is in the air, and this could involve relationships with family members. These might be up for revisioning or for realignment. This concept could apply to your physical dwelling place, which could also be in the midst of some form of renewal. This is also however a paradoxical time for you, because things are jumping your outer life as well, with loads of enthusiasm for career choices that keep coming up, so that your future direction is multi-faceted and ultimately not a little confusing. There is a spiritual component right now that is an important part of you in all that you do or engage to do, so that you win by making a conscious choice to include this factor in your planning.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, could present you with a few more glitches in your pathway forward along these lines. This is a time that is prone to interpersonal disputes that could arise, and which could actually have the effect of helping to clarify your true objectives in these areas. Although partners have the capacity to change you over this monthly cycle there is the equal chance that your reactions with have the effect of changing them as well, in what is an essentially optimistic and productive period.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, you are entering into a time of resolution and a period of relative balance. Issues of self and other do not entirely disappear but might become sidelined by the more fundamental considerations of survival, with as much grace as can be mustered, in both public and private settings. There is a grounded quality to your search for wholeness now that serves you well as you negotiate the necessary compromise between these two powerful and currently almost equally featured parts of your life.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, brings up the drawbacks as well as the advantages of what you are attempting. This is a time for reflection and contemplation, when the energy of the New Moon is fading and you review what has gone before this point in the cycle for the lessons learned. It’s a terrific time to journal as you seek grater clarity over what has been gained as well as lost over this period. The New Moon of the following week will supply greater energy for your process, and for the integration of the disparate parts of your life. You are creating an ongoing work of art out of the search for wholeness that you will then find yourself still profoundly engaged in.


Leo   (July 23 - August 22)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

This is an interesting month for both spiritual and mental progress, Leo. Although these twin modalities are not often linked they can indeed be one and the same. You are possessed by a fierce and competitive drive for knowledge, and by the realization that knowledge is power. But between the concepts of power over and the power of self-transcendence there is an obvious choice, and it is one to which you are increasingly attuned. Your communication comes fast and furious at times or else goes silent as you move toward the inside to dwell on the responsibility to remain as true as possible to your principles, as you can presently discern them. Through all of this you are gradually coming into better alignment between what you believe and what you actually do.

As the month begins, you are feeling that your abrupt intuitional shifts in perspective are far from over, which makes perfect sense considering the continuing and charged presence of Uranus in your sector of belief systems and Higher Mind activity. You are on the one hand very rationally oriented at this time, intent on communicating with others and on using the powers of your logical mind further dig into the puzzle of how and why you are here; on the other side however you are paradoxically also quite aware that logic does not begin to scratch the surface of the deeper mystery of your existence. There is comfort in being able to acknowledge the spiritual side of life even as you make all the necessary practical moves required to keep up with this running-in-place, fast-paced world we all live in.

The Libra New Moon from the end of last month that symbolizes this month’s cycle also emphasized gentle and subtle Neptune, located at the cusp of your sector of intimacy and personal evolution. There is a strong push within you to explore intimate relationship with others and also to delve more deeply into inner connection between hidden parts of your psyche on the way to a better understanding of your own dynamics in this important area.

With the First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, the rubber meets the road with changes that you are engaged in making. You might feel the constraint of unexpected limitations imposed upon you, as well as the pressure of working through these to a more inclusive sense of life mission. The potential changes in your basic belief system reverberate through to a new understanding of where you are headed with your life, and with new questions that you had not thought to ask up until now.

The Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, brings you to a balance point; you are poised on the brink of unplanned action, which is scary but also exciting, especially if you can step back from your life as a whole and see it as a huge learning experiment. You must in some sense close your outer eyes now and follow your heart. All this eventually leads you to a very different conception of your mission statement and to life style and health decisions as well, as the information that has been slowly building bursts through with a tipping point of one more link in the chain of realizations.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, is a chance to look back on the events of the previous three weeks of the cycle, and perhaps to affirm that sense of inner guidance that can gracefully steer your life almost without your needing to particularly do anything at all but watch and reflect on your changes. This is the seed period for the next cycle.

You are storing up the impressions that will enable future breakthrough that is more informed and longer lasting, starting with the energy of the October 26th New Moon that gives you the impetus to change from the inside out.


Virgo   (August 23 - September 22)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

You are feeling the rush, Virgo. There is a sudden influx of energy in your life lately, which is a beautiful blessing. The blaze of glory is only somewhat shadowed by your own internal demons, an important part of the thorough-going transformation that you still find yourself in the midst of. This includes a radical redefinition of your self-concept and your most basic values. The solution is to trust inner wisdom, which appears as wild-eyed intuitional information from your deep inner core. Life certainly throws you a few curve balls lately. Like a roller-coaster rider you could be thrown off at the turn. But if you can manage to hang on, there is more power residing in these strange places within you than your rational mind can possibly even imagine.

As the month begins, you are consolidating the changes of the past few weeks and preparing for a further onslaught of transformation energy that the cosmos has yet to extend. It is comforting to recognize that the universe will never offer you more than you can handle, very much like the appropriate teacher that shows up just when you are ready. This month, your values and the resources at your disposal provide the foreground of the changes that you are participating in, one focal point for the cascade of new realizations that are coming to you on a daily basis and providing the grist for your ongoing metamorphosis.

Relationship in your life is another area of emphasis, although you are perhaps also subject to an inherent fuzziness regarding what exactly that means to you right now. You might feel like you are idealistically placing your partner on a pedestal, or that the very concept of a relationship partner is an idealization or even an illusion, or else you could be possessed by the feeling that there is a multi-layered factor there that is difficult to get a handle on. Perhaps your greatest life lesson at this time is sorting out what it means to be available for another and yet as well continue to function as an independent individual experiencing a degree of personal evolution.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, initiates a testing period that brings up challenges and limitations for every aspect of your path toward greater growth and understanding, partly as a way of allowing you to affirm the depth of your commitment to your own process. You are more emotionally aware of your creative contribution to the fundamental process that you are engaged in, which you might regard as a process of reorientation and redefinition of self-concept, and also especially alert to the drawbacks you have encountered along the way to realizing your goals in this area.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, you are trying for a better stat of balance in these pursuits, taking a stand on moving forward in some way upon your life’s journey and considering as your frame of reference your concept of a future that you can really live with. It is an idealized vision that calls you forward and that you are measuring your progress up against, which is confusing to the mind but which might be acceptable to the less logical portions of your anatomy.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, you are entering into a contemplative period, one in which you find yourself summing up what has gone before so that you might better understand the true meaning of these events that have already transpired. In considering the future you are also transforming your understanding of the past, hopefully from a realistic standpoint. You are likely to have an adoring audience for your imaginings and that can be both a help and a hindrance to common sense.

The New Moon toward month’s end provides fresh energy for mental gymnastics, and brings out your communicative side, so that you might link with others around you to better explore your vision.

Libra   (September 23 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is truly the first month of the rest of your life, Libra. There have been many challenging events over the past year and therefore many changes also to absorb as you begin another birthday year amidst a radically transforming social order. Partnering with others has taken a new turn as a result of your own rapidly shifting perspectives. You could be seeking a better blend of inner and outer concerns, a greater intrinsic security that stems from meeting your own needs first and foremost. There also comes to your aid the helpful interaction of close partners at this time as well but in a way that does not take away from your own presence. It’s a tightrope balancing act between being there for another while asserting your own independence, but it’s one that you’ve been training for.

As the month begins, you are full of the vibrant energy of the New Moon in your sign from the end of the previous month. This is an important time for you, when many things in your life could alter, although much of what is happening to you now is based on the previous structures you have built. You are steady and grounded in some ways, and yet definitely looking to a future self that jumps beyond the recent past. Relationship in your life provides the springboard for adventurous departure from all that you have previously known. There are likely to be unexpected events in this area that might serve to shock you out of complacency or at least provide you a fresh perspective as you push off beyond the shoreline of where you formerly were able to stand. Your world is changing rapidly, along with the security that you derived from it, and yet there is a new sense of security that is possible even amidst the changing scene of the voyage that you are currently embarked upon.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, is a powerful time for you as well, one in which some of your new-found assumptions and prerequisites might be put to the test. You are drawn to authority lately and yet you also see the drawbacks and limitations inherent in placing too blind a faith there, recognizing the need to assert your own authority in your own way. You could be taking a stand for yourself at this juncture and it is possible that significant partners in your life are able to help you with that, since even if they seemingly oppose you, it can provide you with grater clarity concerning your own position.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th you are reaching for a new form of balance in these areas. This is an important time for you of acknowledging pertinent restrictions on your mobility and also of finding the strength of your convictions as well, which could perhaps be discovered through being projected onto available partners. There is still a wild card in your relationship status right now, but the possibility for sudden flights of fancy is more limited.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, represents a crux in time wherein you will find plenty of food for thought in mulling over the events that have preceded it in the lunar cycle, attempting to find the true meaning and the lessons of this entire period so that you can take these forward into future stages and endeavors. You are in the midst of a thoughtful reevaluation that gives rise to new ways of looking at your goals and societal connections going forward.

With the New Moon energy that comes along on Wednesday, October 26th, you are more determined than ever, and ready to begin again.


Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

This is a tempestuous month for progress, Scorpio, although it is of a unique kind that might be hardly recognizable as progress in the eyes of the world. You are more active in inner realms than outer, although truly the inner feeds the outer. Your perspective is rapidly shifting on your day-to-day life and on your sense of purpose. Spirit calls you to action, and the only conceivable response is “yes,” but you will no doubt come to your own version of that affirmation in your own manner and in your own time. It’s a great time for journaling and for meditation on your condition. You are full of somewhat undirected energy and yet intent on establishing for yourself a new beachhead in a changing world.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave from the New Moon from the end of the previous month taking place in your sector of dream imagination, and that is providing a burst of energy that comes to you from the deepest and most hidden part of your psyche. You are fully engaged in paradox right now, since you have loads of energy as well for real-world pursuits, and yet there are factors powerfully within your psyche that are leading you to question those pursuits, or at least the simplistic way of looking at them that sees no further than material activity. You are apt to be confused by the conflict inherent in this division unless and until to resolve to dwell in the uncertainty of outcomes and viewpoints implied by living in an essentially mystical world. Once you do, the seeming conflict disappears and you are able to enjoy everyday life as a manifestation of the divine energy at play in the cosmos, as a game that rests firmly on nothing but the clouds of illusion and yet can be played for keeps just as though it were completely real.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, throws some curve balls into the mix in the form of conceptual snags for the mind to get caught up in. You are confronting the limitations of your mental process and it is difficult to sort out the actual truth of your experience; however when you are able to do so you gain tremendously in your understanding of what makes you tick in this important area of thought and of communicating that thought to others. You are gradually changing in this area of your life, so that the power of your words is taking on added dimensions through these somewhat dicey explorations.

With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, you arrive at a plateau of sorts in your awareness as you reach out for a balance between self and other. This is a powerful time of contemplation, when you are taking an important stand for yourself in making your own way forward, independent of established models of reality. Rather than putting your trust in any outer authority, you are seeking to establish your own authority, in your own way, and making that work in the context of society also. You are also seeking a better balance between the ideal and the practical at this time, attempting to bring these two fundamental life factors into better integration with each other.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, ushers in a reflective period leading up to the New Moon in your sign toward month’s end. You are assimilating the lessons of the previous three weeks of lunation cycle up to this point, trying to make sense out of them, and out of your experience with significant partners in your life. This is a time when different points of view can collide, and yet with the right approach they can also complement each other to create a more vibrant symphony of meaning.

The New Moon in your sign of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, October 26th, provides a fresh energy for your next stage of development in November, a month which promises to embody an equally profound cycle when new understandings will be revealed that ally with and build upon what has already transpired during the powerful month that is ending.


Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

This is a revitalizing time for you, Sagittarius, and attitude is all-important. Your idealized concept of a future life that you can believe in has never been as fully present to you as it is right now. The cosmos is inviting you to put aside cynicism and despair, and to embrace the possibility of positive change in a way that exceeds previous high-water marks. Just go for it. You must also be aware that in the course of actualizing your powerful vision there will be inevitably chaos, confusion and uncertainty, just as is always the case with any new conception. Your task is therefore to witness everything that happens just as it is, without needing to editorialize from the limited standpoint of your logical mind, which knows after all only half of the story, at most.

As the month begins, you are filled with juicy energy for change. You can literally see the future coming toward you and it is looking good. Rapid movement in self-expression and in self-concept is your trademark now, and acknowledging your inner world is an extremely important and potentially underestimated component of your adventure as you voyage onward. You have an enviable facility for the affairs of this world, but you are pulled backward as though via a shadowy undertow into your depths in order to settle some old business that has long remained hidden away from the light of common occurrence. It might seem a paradoxical situation that just as you are sailing away on the wings of commerce and outer achievement you have to deal with this dark unknown side of your psyche, but then, paradox is a necessary factor in dealing with the mysteries of these relatively unknown portions of the psyche. The good news is that, once integrated, this hidden material becomes a source of greater strength than you have experienced up to now.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, presents you with a few more snags in the road of your progress. This is when you are tested in the depth of your commitment to a new way of seeing and acting in the world, and must face the entire set of possibilities implicit in your original design including the possibility of failing to match your perfect concept. Since this is quite a high ideal to begin with, some movement in the contrary direction is not really very much of a surprise, but in any case this is the point in the lunar cycle for dealing with the drawbacks inherent in your plan of action.

The Full Moon time of the following week, culminating in the actual phase of Tuesday evening, October 11th, is the full flowering of the resultant mixture of optimism and a more restrained thought process, when you will choose the stance that makes the most sense to you going forward, and fight for it if necessary. You are in a potentially confusing time and you make the most of it by following the lead of inner intuition and trusting in the benevolence of the universe. There is always the principle of grace to consider. When you have done everything that you can do, then you must simply relax and let the chips fall. There is indeed a power of cosmic momentum if you are putting your best foot forward; sincere boldness has its own reward.

The Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, ushers in a period of reflection preceding the New Moon in the last full week of the month. This is a time when you might find yourself revisiting your original idealism with a more judicial viewpoint, based on the events that have transpired over the three weeks of the lunar cycle as thus far experienced.

You are now pulling back somewhat and preparing to enter a more meditative frame of mind in the time leading up to your annual renewal of late November.


Capricorn   (Dec 22 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

Your career and professional life is a powerful force for you right now, Capricorn, and you are no doubt reveling in it. Achievement in the eyes of the world really calls to you, but your true assignment lies with internal changes that you are still very much in the midst of. These will ultimately transform your self-concept and your world along with it, since the one reflects the other. This idea does not affect your actions so much as your attitude toward them. Once you detach and see your viewpoint as your own creation things become much easier. Achievement is effortless when not freighted down with extraneous judgments from consensus thinking, and you can relax and simply trust in the beneficence of the universe to sustain you, no matter what.

As the month begins, you are very much in evidence in the world of achievement, a world that you normally thrive in. There is however a mystical factor of your existence right now that is equally important for you to tune in with, and since less obvious, deserves perhaps to have the greater recognition accorded to it. This side relates to music and to art, to whatever brings out the multi-level and other-dimensional picture. The optimistic stance that is a necessary precursor to true and lasting achievement is also bound up in this other side, which encompasses the larger meaning of life’s events. You are in a favorable place right now to take full advantage of these more subtle and soul-oriented messages from the universe that complement your outer world accomplishments, which are also very strong at this intense moment in time. You have the opportunity to make from both these parts of life an amalgam that is unique to your own person, independent of other voices or of the well-worn opinions represented by consensus realty.

The First Quarter Moon in your sign of Monday, October 3rd, is an important slice of time, a testing period that allows you to see the drawbacks as well as the positives regarding your approach. You are combining heart and mind, also personal self and public persona, so that there are bound to be conflicts as well as advantages to this more integrated path. Adding the complexity of an extra layer in terms of a truly spiritual way to seeing things makes for even greater potential confusion. This is a conundrum, but it is a tangle of influences and pressures that is well-worth sorting out; however you can manage that task, you will be the better for it, and the more whole.

You might in fact steer your way into a better sense of the integration of these opposites with the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, taking place in your sector of home and family, and of core psychological issues. This is a time when you strike a blow for honoring all of your various parts, and for balance, at least as you are able to allow yourself to achieve it,.

The Last Quarter Moon that takes place during the following week, late on Wednesday, October 19th, initiates a time for reflection and review, when you are engaged in mulling over the events of the previous three weeks of the cycle with an eye to understanding them. At this juncture, too, the spiritual component of your basic value system which has been stimulated over the course of this period will also be more fully present to your inner gaze. This might come through interaction with significant partners in your life, as a source of fresh perspectives that can bolster or contrast with and therefore clarify your own.

With the New Moon of the last full week of the month, taking place on Wednesday, October 26th, you are once more ready to launch yourself forward although hopefully in a way that provides greater integration and that takes full advantage of all sides of your multiple nature.


Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

You are making your way through to a new sense of freedom, Aquarius, and in the process redefining your very identity. You are also recharging your perspective on life in general. Everything that you have thought and known up to now is subject to change, and sometimes surprisingly rapid change. You are searching for a way into the future that allows you breathing room, and even though this is currently unfolding for you, you might resist novel approaches there and quail at these radically different locks on the doors of your destiny. As you attempt to find the keys to fit these new locks, your core center is activated, as well as the true goals of your Higher Self and of your purpose going forward.

As the month begins, you find yourself in the midst of a powerful alteration of perspective. This is the equivalent of foreign travel, and it could take place within the confines of your own mind, or perhaps more literally. In any case you are suddenly able to see in your situation what you earlier could not, and it changes everything. This new way of looking at the events transpiring in your life partakes of both reality-orientation and wild-eyed optimism, and is setting the stage for the next phase of your journey toward wholeness. You are opening up to a more inclusive sense of the multi-layered surrounding cosmos, where nothing is as simple as it seems, and yet in another way it is. What you see, at the end of all this analysis, is remarkably what you get; only there is a long and winding road that had to be traversed to arrive at the actual point.

The First Quarter Moon that comes along at the beginning of the first full week of the month, on Monday, October 3rd, in this context will likely be a testing time when significant partners step up their active participation in your life. The question is how the different point of view that they provide can be seen as a win-win regarding the prospects for your own arc of development. There is certain to be something to be learned from your own inner reality, and these depths of yours are mirrored in the eyes of those who know you well. You can make the best of things by checking out very carefully whatever comes up for you now, and by refusing to take your first reaction for granted as pertaining to the truth of what is going on for you or regarding your interactions with others.

The Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, naturally brings up the issue of balance. It helps when you are able to hold the most diverse possible set of alternatives in your psyche. Certainly you must take a stand for what you truly believe, but you need to avoid dogmatism and exclusivity, at least to the extent that it is possible to do so. And equally, your communication lines with others around you benefit by staying as open as possible without unduly compromising your position.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, you are in a reflective mode, meditating on what has gone before with the goal of further integrating the rich and ultimately enlightening series of realizations that have been flooding into your awareness. Taking a little down time in this lunar phase is good for the soul, and a necessary pause before the action begins again with the next dynamic configuration toward month’s end.

This next New Moon, taking place on October 26th in your career sector, though not quite as cataclysmic as the one just passed, is plenty powerful for you as well, so that your evolutionary development continues into the following month.


Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 20)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

Your personal evolution takes a growth spurt this month, Pisces. If it sometimes feels as though your process places you squarely in the path of an oncoming train it might be the train of your destiny coming to call on you, that serves you even as it shocks you into greater wakefulness. Your sense of basic security is threatened because you can’t go back mentally to what no longer anymore exists, and this leaves you somewhat helpless in the face of too rapid and too drastic change. In the end it is your connections to others that will pull you through. In plurality lies power. You are supported by an emerging social order that is being born in the wake of your own transformation – as much as anyone’s.

As the month begins, you are figuratively pregnant with possibility. This is the time of your spiritual evolution. Although the developmental cycle that you find yourself in the midst of has obviously been building up for some time, one crucial moment in the long series is now at hand. Of course you are, as always, free to choose a forward or a backward direction for yourself. Fear can drive you away from your eventual goal, although perhaps not for long. Nevertheless, as you ride the wave of the powerful New Moon from the end of last month, there are forces within you conspiring to take you further down the road of your destiny, and they need only a little encouragement from your inner determination to make themselves very evident. There are surprises in store are they do so, however, and perhaps some dragons to slay within the depths of your inner world, in terms of old wounds of self-actualization that have held you back too long from being all that you want to be.

The First Quarter Moon of Monday, October 3rd, could bring some of these issues to a head. This is traditionally the time in the lunar cycle when you get to see the viability of whatever it is that you are up to, as the initiative from the New Moon time comes up against the reality of unfolding events. You are fighting for a future that you can really live with, and you are ruthless in this, letting nothing stand in your way, once you know its fundamental direction. If you continue to be bothered by the residue of ancient trauma that still remains to haunt your current existence then right now is an excellent time to make progress against the tiresome tide of these old issues. You might realize at this critical juncture that whatever arose in childhood that you could not handle back then is no longer relevant to present-tense realities and is no longer able to shut down a portion of your responsiveness.

The Full Moon of Tuesday, October 11th, marks a culmination of whatever has come up over the first half of the lunar cycle, and might represent a safer place for you to stand as you begin to take stock on your psychic surroundings. Even though perhaps not as exciting or as stimulating to the arc of your present development, there is stability for you in this configuration, as well as a certain degree of inherent limitation.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Wednesday, October 19th, you are in a reflective mode of operation, mulling over the preceding weeks and attempting to make sense of them as you prepare for your next developmental stage. This is a relatively peaceful time, when many new realizations are possible, and when growth is still happening but at a slower pace than earlier in the monthly cycle. Your artistic self-expression during the first few days of this week is one measure of your progress.

Then the Scorpio New Moon of Wednesday, October 26th, leads you into fresh perspectives on your situation. It’s an interesting road that you are on these days, and a productive one as well, especially when you can summon up the courage to take full advantage of your opportunities.