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Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
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Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview
Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling
planet Mars. Top
This
is a month of deep introspection for you,
Aries, not only for your own path but with
regard to significant partners in your life
as well, and for points of view other than
your own. You are mustering reinforcements
in all the corners of your existence for
transformational change in support of an
entirely idealistic vision of what you could
become. This may feel confusing at times,
or perhaps exhilarating and challenging.
It is and just a little scary to buck an
existing system even if it is your own. Although
it's still a bit early to make concrete the
various levels of inspiration that are driving
you right now, it won't be long before the
doors of opportunity swing wide open.
As the month begins, partnership in your life is important and variable. You
are engaged right now in a shifting landscape of relationship dynamics that
stem in part from your own deep intuitional center. You are strongly feeling
your own uniqueness at the same time that you enjoy and benefit from perspectives
other than your own. The trick as always is balance.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, you face potential
trials in the arena of relationship and also with regard to career incentives.
Greater integration is not only possible but concretely realizable and could
lead to success in your work in the outer world. Your focus is still largely
on partnership and this includes business connections which form another potent
set of interchanges at this time.
With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 14th, you are more fully ready to come
at life in a way that includes more of your own agenda but yet does not detract
from working fruitfully with others. Mercury stations in your relationship
sector the next day, so that this entire month may partake of an intellectual
review of your possibilities there. In the last two weeks of the month greater
consciousness is dawning regarding how partners in your life contribute to
your own development.
With the Scorpio New Moon on the last Tuesday of the month, taking place on
Tuesday, October 28th, there are likely to be important revelations. This is
a time when you will be asked to stretch in unforeseen directions, and you
may be asked to give up something in the process. Nevertheless you will come
out ahead on net results when you allow the dust to settle and evaluate the
total picture with the perspective of time.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are in for a roller-coaster ride of a monthly cycle, Taurus, as poignant
possibilities assert themselves strongly in your mental viewpoint. You will
come to find also that helpful partners are very important to you right now
for establishing your own sense of purpose. This is a time of high idealism
and of a vision so profound that it does not really match the way of the world,
and you might also find confusion of motivation as a result. On the plus side,
this is also a time when your ideas may really begin to gel, blending philosophical
and career outlooks. What you do in the world right now has to appeal to your
heart as well as your mind or it simply doesn't work for you.
As the month begins, you are focused on service to others, and to your own
unique path forward that differentiates you from every other human on the planet.
This is an exciting time for you, when you might be getting a better sense
of the task that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. Partnership is important
at this time as well, partly for its own sake and partly in the way that it
furthers your own arc of development. You are also dealing with dysfunctional
aspects of both relationship and control, to a greater or lesser extent, depending
on how well you have been doing your homework.
This comes up most directly for you with the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday,
October 7th, which is a powerful configuration for you. This is a time when
the rubber meets the road in terms of what you are attempting to accomplish
at this time in your life and also with regard to how well you move through
the residue of prior trauma as reflected in the unconscious choices that you
make. There may be knee-jerk reactions to authority that come up for you at
this time, or simply the awareness of how many of the little decisions of your
life stem from the past.
Ancient scripts that were forged in an earlier time may no longer be applicable
to your present moment. You might be able to detect in yourself the commonplace
tendency to wall these feeling off and to refuse to acknowledge their power
in your life, as well as the inherent limitations this strategy. The more that
you can accept yourself in all your beauty and your ugliness too, the more
you can benefit from this time of increasing awareness.
The Full Moon taking place on Tuesday, October 14th, and the days surrounding
it, represent another powerful time. You are fully energized for depth perceptions
that take you out of your everyday life. Your imagination and your sense of
idealism are shining bright at this time, although you might also need to beware
of the potential for self-deception. This is a time when you may be able to
heal the trauma of the past by dwelling in a place of Spirit that is natural
to you, and from which you can draw strength.
Then, the Last Quarter Moon of the following Tuesday, coming along on October
21st, represents another powerful period of time for you. You are coming into
a transformative episode that caps the fluctuations of the last few weeks with
a dawning sense of understanding, so that you may find a third alternative
to a polarized situation. By month's end your heart center may be ready to
open in a new way.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You are in flux at this time, Gemini. Your ruler Mercury is in various stages
of retrograde all month, and in some sense you are in the process of redefining
yourself. Your self-expression is highly articulated at this time, but it is
turned inward as you recreate your world around you from first principles.
You are likely to be optimistic about your changes and seeing them through.
You are learning to see everything not so much from the standpoint of the here
and now only, but allowing the broadest possible perspective, when there is
suddenly room for Spirit to enter into the equation.
As the month begins, your ruler Mercury retrogrades in your sector of self-expression,
meaning that you are likely to be mulling over your situation, re-inventing
who you are at the core, and striving to come to terms with what you believe
at base value. This is a time when you are a stand for a future path that you
can clearly see ahead of you at time, and that also at times seems cloudy and
vague. You only know that you are dissatisfied with what is. A philosophical
distance is created from everything that you have known thus far, erasing previous
conceptions. This uncertainty and divine discontent extends to your career
decisions at this time; with each new conception a new impulse.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, and the days surrounding
it, you are filled with a sense of optimism. The impulse to gamble might be
especially strong, although this time period also represents one peak of the
retrograde period, when you might expect miscommunication and mechanical breakdowns
to become more prevalent, and when you do well to carefully regard any decisions
you make, looking before leaping, and waiting until close to the end of the
month to act on any new ideas that come to you while the retrograde is still
in effect.
The Full Moon time that begins over the following weekend and climaxes on Tuesday,
represents another powerful time period, when a degree of idealism may cloud
the proceedings somewhat. You are attempting to see your way to the next phase,
and your future path speaks to you loudly, but you are also may be seeing things "through
a glass darkly" and not fully discerning your best move.
Again, you benefit if you can wait for the roiling stream of your life to settle.
The last half of the month is a time of gathering clarity. You are perched
on the edge of important breakthrough right now that will manifest toward the
end of the year.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
You are returning to home base right now, Cancer, either physically or mentally.
This is an important period of time for sorting out what really matters to
you in this area. Partnership connections are on the upswing, and prove themselves
to the extent that they chime with your most deeply felt inner truth. The Last
Quarter Moon of the 21st may be revelatory, providing information that paves
the way for breakthrough next month. You are in a state of mystical transformation,
wherein you may find that all that you seek is actually available to you from
the standpoint of an inner perspective.
As the month begins, you are strong for the safety and security of your protected
home environment. You are keeping the hearth fires burning right now, for your
family and also for yourself. Partnerships of all kinds are beneficial for
you right now, and help you to light your own way forward. There is an elusive
almost elfin quality to this monthly cycle for you, as you are changing in
subtle ways that may not become fully clear until the month has almost completely
passed. Your ideals are strong at this time, and lead you forward powerfully
into a new universe of your own making. This period of time is fuzzy and not
easily discerned, so that caution may also serve to hold you back at this time.
It's an interesting balance that you must strike.
With the advent of the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, there are
likely to be cracks emerging in the facade of what you see as your path before
you. A conflict may arise between going forward full steam ahead and more practical
considerations which must also be honored to give the energy of this period
its due. This moment is also one peak of the retrograde period, when missed
connections of both a mechanical and a communication nature may keep your plans
from going entirely smoothly.
With the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 14th and the days surrounding it, you
are making a stand for yourself, no matter what, stepping out with verve and
style into a different world.
At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 21st, transformational
energies are strong in the area of both relationship and service orientation.
You may find at this time that certain aspects of a situation you have been
dealing with in one way may come to light to illuminate a different path forward.
Or the evolutionary pressure of your circumstances may reach a tipping point.
It helps to remember that in every organism change is necessary as a sign that
you are alive, and that meaningful change seldom comes to you except by force
of dire necessity. You can at least choose the moment, and relative gracefulness
of your landing. With the Scorpio Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday,
October 28th, you are ready to make a fresh start.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
You are entering a period of exploring your roots with an eye to growth, Leo,
on the verge of breakthrough in discovering your true nature. You may find
in the course of this month that you come to mystical self-expression in spoken
and written word, leading to great idealism, perhaps confusion, regarding your
own motivation and also that of important others in your life. This is a great
time for journaling and for internal reflection. It is all for the sake of
the eventual transformation of your life goals as you seek to operate from
the standpoint of the highest intention for yourself moving forward.
As the month begins, you are in a highly communicative mode, but from a decidedly
more introspective frame of mind than usual. Instead of capturing the center
of attention with your egoic self, you are focused on deeply perceived soul-level
interaction, and communicating to others around you from this quiet place.
You are also getting more serious about the basis for your security right now,
financial and otherwise. You might find yourself looking for ways to celebrate
the difference between material success and the feeling of well-being that
comes from a deeper motive. You might even be in the process of discovering
that psychological feelings of safety stem from many causes, with finance only
one of them.
With the advent of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Tuesday, October
7th, you reach both an optimistic point of departure from existing norms and
also one peak of the Mercury retrograde cycle. This is a time when you might
expect an intensification of the classic symptoms of missed connections and
communication breakdown. Together with the increase in tension represented
by the Sun-Moon square this could make for an interesting week. It makes sense
to avoid sudden radical departures from an established plan at this time, even
though the temptation is definitely there to experiment.
The Full Moon a week later is another important crux of time, when you are
likely to be making a stand for some set of ideas that you believe in, over
and above the sense of business as usual. You win when you espouse a middle
way between extremes. Taking something from the conservative approach as well
as something from the novel and exciting has its definite advantage most times,
and certainly now, when polarizations are likely.
You also must beware of deception at this time, since the potential for idealization
is strong. You could refrain from giving up on your rose-colored glasses altogether,
since optimistic assessments often motivate necessary change. By month's end
you will be making a fresh start in your core beliefs and in connection with
others around you.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This month you are choosing between the micro and the macro, Virgo. Normally
you specialize in the detailed handling of any particular situation, but the
cosmic energy swirling around your brain right now is gently and sometimes
suddenly inclining you in quite a different direction. While your ruler Mercury
is retrograding through your sector of values and resources, allowing you to
perform a double-take at times on what you hold most dear, a big-picture viewpoint
on who you are and where you are heading is forming alongside your consciousness.
This is unusual for sure, a little destabilizing and confusing too at times
and blows the hinges off doors that you can't be completely sure should be
opened. It helps to remember to breathe and to reflect that everything that
happens to you right now happens for a good reason.
As the month begins, you are taking an idealistic and perhaps almost dreamy
look at where in the world you might be heading these days. Your eventual future
is on your mind and your basic values as well. Although a large part of your
focus is on security issues right now, and their underpinning in finances and
your resources in general, with your ruler Mercury retrograding in that same
sector of your chart you might be taking a second look at these matters.
The mystical truth that underlies all your worldly activity is that your attitude
determines your sense of security and that while consensus thinking keeps that
attitude tied to finances, it is the attitude that takes priority and not the
other way around. Another way of looking at the world around you is fully possible
for you if you can keep your head on straight, no easy task. You win when you
can trust in the universe to provide you with what you need, no matter what.
The First Quarter Moon, taking place on Tuesday, October 7th, is traditionally
a time of conflicting cross-currents of emotion when we might have to give
up on some part of the impulse from the preceding New Moon as it has played
out thus far. For you, this time, there is a sense of optimism that prevails
and a tendency to go for the gold, while you might also feel the pull of a
grounded sense of practicality that is also present in the configurations of
this fall period. This is one peak of the retrograde energy, so you will want
to be aware that outcomes might not match intentions.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, October 14th, and the
days surrounding it, mark another time of relatively high energy, when the
urge for self-transcendence is strong, and when you might also connect more
powerfully with intimate others in your life.
Mercury changes direction the next day, signifying that this period of time
is another important moment in the retrograde cycle and that the factors that
affect the area of your finances and resources are shifting. Mercury will not
fully clear its zodiacal shadow until almost the very end of the month.
The last few days of October, following the Scorpio New Moon of the 28th, represent
another time of heightened optimism when an "anything goes" attitude
may prevail, although a time when the forces of practical common sense have
sway as well, leading up to an interesting and somewhat intense fall period
for you.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is a powerful month for you Libra. With the Sun in your sign in your birthday
time, you are definitely a self-starter, but you also may find yourself in
a deeply reflective space over this time period as well. You are very tied
right now to home and family and the psychological roots of your being, as
you seek to find new value in tribal connection with others. Good fortune also
smiles upon you over this monthly cycle, although it might pay you not to get
too cocky. Old patterns of self-expression could also continue to confuse,
and to present you with opportunities for growth. You are coming into a time
of interior adjustment that takes into account all levels of your psyche, both
the more obvious ones and as well the unseen worlds within you.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the energy produced by the
recent New Moon in your identity sector from the very end of September. This
is not a time to go forward with radical departures based on entirely new ideas
however, since Mercury is also retrograding through your sign for almost the
entire month, when you consider the period of the retrograde shadow. You may
in fact detect a tendency to look more closely at all your concepts at this
time, and to reconsider your assumptions.
With Jupiter and Pluto poised in your sector of home and family and your psychological
roots, you might also be taking a deeper look inside yourself at your interior
dimension. There is enthusiasm within you at this time for delving down into
the vast and yeasty spaces of your internal understanding, and as well for
finding new value in your home environment.
These considerations are also a priority for you at the time of the First Quarter
Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, which conjuncts Jupiter. At this time also, blueprints
of psychological orientation could come up for review which no longer serve
your purpose in the present moment. It is vital for your on-going spiritual
health to transcend these old patterns of behavior and the way to do that is
to recognize and accept these cast-off pieces of yourself, so that you can
move beyond them.
With the Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, October
14th, and the days surrounding it, you are entering into a new arrangement
with the surrounding cosmos. At this time you might find yourself going forward
with your life in a new way, taking on the mystical pursuit of what is largely
unseen, but deeply felt, as a guidepost for your emerging personality. You
are reinventing yourself in some important ways over the course of this monthly
cycle, even though the shift may be a subtle one.
The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 21st, emphasized communicative breakthrough
as well as coming to terms with your core interior process and with what you
discover there. Much wisdom is to be found in the silences and the gaps between
activities, when you take the time to look.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
You are half in and half out, Scorpio. This is in many ways a very internal
month for you, with rich thoughts beneath the surface and with your dreams
alive and contributing to your trance-like habitual state of deep awareness.
Mercury is retrograding through your sector of profound unconscious process
all this month, including the shadow period, and you are likely to put yourself
into a meditative and self-reflective state for at least the first three weeks
of it. A different side simultaneously emerges however in the second week of
October, as your ruler Mars enters your identity sector marking a time of new
opportunity and optimistic, even over-the-top, communicative outreach. The
lesson lies in integration between all your parts. Breakthrough may come in
the last three days of the month.
As the month begins, you are outer-oriented, but delving down into your deep
unconscious, the hidden spaces behind and beyond your conscious mind. This
is a paradoxical monthly cycle for you, when you are pulled to the inside in
a largely reflective stance, supported by the Mercury retrograde period which
is also in full swing right now. You also have at this time a strong urge to
lead out in the world, and to lead from your deep intuitional center.
The First Quarter Moon that comes along on Tuesday, October 7th, may serve
to highlight these conflicting goals. You are optimistically putting your best
foot forward and simultaneously holding back right now, including plans that
you could be making toward what is an increasingly uncertain future. The answer
involves a greater degree of trust in the internal guidance system that points
the way to Spirit acting through you for the highest and in the interest of
all life. Finding your way to this place of faith inside yourself is not easy
but it is rewarding whenever you can do so.
At this time also, relationships with important others in your life could lead
you to examine underlying components of behavior that have been largely neglected
in your conscious assessment up until now. These unacknowledged patterns still
rule your behavior from below, as it were. Getting more familiar with your
blind spots is another potential benefit of this period of time for you.
With the advent of the Full Moon taking place on Tuesday, October 14th, you
are ready to make a stand for what you believe in, and to feel your way forward
into greater wholeness.
The Last Quarter Moon that comes a week later on Tuesday, October 21st, is
a time when you may find the wisdom of choosing your battles, and also of acceptance.
Your finances may be fluctuating at this time but more importantly, so is the
value that you place on these temporary markers. Like the lilies of the field "that
sow not" you might come to find yourself graced with the universe's blessing
and sense of purpose.
All this monthly cycle leads up to the October 28th New Moon in your sign,
when you will have tremendous energy for striding forward in some dramatic
new way. You will feel at this time even more strongly the ongoing push-pull
of staying safely conventional versus making some unique move that takes you
out of existing ruts, and you will make your informed decision each time, proceeding
by gut instinct and the power of prayer to the extent that you can school yourself
to trust in these measures.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
You are coming at the concept of financial security from a new angle this month,
Sagittarius. You are cooking up the recipe right now that will take you farther
down your chosen world-path. Conflicts and reassessments in how you see your
way forward might also come up for you at this time. Idealism and the potential
for fuzzy thinking is very present these days in your makeup and in your communication
with others. This is a great month for visioning possibilities, not so great
for departures from existing plans until your ideas have had a chance to firm
up. This is still an essentially positive time for you; a time when you are
taking a stand for yourself, striking out with no compromise for a future that
you can not only live with but for.
As the month begins you are thinking about your prospective plans with optimism
and verve. Finances and other resources that you need as grist for the mill
of future endeavors come naturally and easily to you now, with your ruler,
Jupiter, in favored position in your second sector of values and resources.
Of course, in addition to the recent New Moon, Mercury also retrogrades through
your sector of wishes and plans, so that anything you come up with at this
time could potentially be revised after the end of the month.
The best way to approach the retrograde is to execute on existing schedules,
fleshing these out with new ideas as they come to you, but to remain wary of
any radical departures from any pre-existing plan. That said, the first two
weeks of this month are an ideal time for visioning new possibilities for yourself
and for meditating on where you would like to be in the next few years. This
is also a great time to journal; months from now you may be amazed when you
look back on the earlier record of your dreams and schemes and to see how much
of what you committed to paper has actually come to pass.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, represents a time when you
will be tested in the perseverance of your vision for a livable future, and
when real-world concerns might threaten to swamp the boat of the future visions
that you are nurturing. It pays to remember that everything worth doing is
worth doing well, and that passing this test of implicit practicality is one
mark of enduring value.
At the time of the October 14th Full Moon, and the days surrounding it, you
are more ready to be a stand for what you believe and to share your maturing
vision with others. This is also the time when Mercury shifts direction and
begins to regain its lost zodiacal ground, and you might also notice one peak
of the retrograde energy in its standstill.
With the Last Quarter Moon taking place a week later, on Tuesday, October 21st,
you are able to gather the wisdom from the ups and downs of the three weeks
just passed, in order to weave a better blanket of understanding for the next
cycle.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
This is a month of possibilities for you, Capricorn. You may wake up every
morning with the feeling that all your days have been leading up to this one.
You are creating a work of art out of your life and of your career goals, thoughtfully
reflective of where your circumstances are leading you, yet alert to where
you can break the mold. Although optimism in your general outlook is definitely
a Good Thing, it still pays you to look before you leap. In spite of all your
enthusiasm, the first half of the month is better for watching and waiting
than for direct action. New career initiatives are more likely to bear fruit
after the 15th, when Mercury shifts direction.
As the month begins, you are feeling your way to greater participation in the
outer world of achievement, where you have your natural habitat. Your perspective
on where you stand keeps shifting right now, and this is a good thing, allowing
you to take advantage of new information as it comes to you, rather than remaining
stuck in the pre-formed patterns of prior success.
A mystical rather than a strictly practical point of view serves to light your
way forward at this time, although this also leads to uncertainty regarding
where your next available resource might be coming from. You are operating
these days in a manner that is at odds with direct action, since Mercury is
currently retrograding through your career sector, marking a reflective period
of time when you will likely be looking more closely into everything that you
do and say.
The First Quarter Moon in your sign taking place on Tuesday, October 7th, signals
a comfortable time for you when optimism largely prevails; you may only need
to beware of too much of it. This time also represents one peak of the retrograde
period, so that every action may reveal in its flowering the opposite outcome
than what was originally intended. You have the ability at this time to resolve
potential conflicts by a mysterious third way that dances between the horns
of the dilemma.
The days surrounding the Full Moon of October 14th represent a time when you
can take advantage of increasing confidence in personal solutions, as separate
from the requirements of the work place or the fluctuations of public opinion.
This is also a time when the mystical side of life may again assert its power
over its practical necessities, and when visionary information informs your
blossoming perspective that is far beyond the run-of-the-mill thinking supported
by consensus reality.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 21st, a reflective stance takes
you along the lines of recovered wisdom. You are transforming in your basic
sense of yourself at this time, and over the next month, in a rather extreme
fashion, as you attempt to incorporate all the new information that has been
coming your way. Breakthrough comes at month's end. Over the next few weeks,
you are caught up in a storm of awareness that must be integrated in order
to become an effective segment of your evolving toolkit for navigating the
tides of change.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
It is an interesting period of time that you are engaged in right now, Aquarius.
With potential confusion over motivation and in deciding just how cause and
effect works its way out in your life, you are tempted to hold back and rest
on previous laurels. But in spite of this you are opting for change instead
of remaining stuck. New perspectives on your life come daily, and some will
not have legs, so that you are beset with uncertainties in the midst of your
essential optimism. The most important task facing you is to have the courage
of your inner conviction, no matter what outer appearances may seem to indicate.
If you can maintain your trust in the universe to guide you, you will find
that things will work themselves out to your ultimate best advantage.
As the month begins, you are coming to a new way of seeing your world, through
actual physical travel or simply through the medium of your everyday experience.
With Mercury retrograde in your sector of higher mind, you are also likely
right now to be continually rethinking your position. You are arriving, by
a process that is as much unconscious as it is conscious, to a sense of participation
mystique with the cosmos, as reflected in your relationship with everyone around
you and even within your own body.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, October 7th, this sense of mystical
involvement may become at odds with the practical side of your nature, which
is also a powerful factor for you at this time. A deep sense of spiritual optimism
pervading your thoughts right now takes you a long way toward a new beginning.
You might also at this time find yourself dealing with old blueprints of behavior
that stem from an earlier era of your life and that do not entirely serve you
in the present moment. In common with the rest of humanity, you may have demons
which you have chosen to wall off rather than to integrate. Revisiting these
archaic patterns could have a positive effect as you come to accept parts of
your personality that have long been shunned and with that acceptance find
healing.
The Full Moon that comes along a week later is important in this regard, since
it signals a time when you are prepared to take a stand for what you believe,
and when you are ready to share your deepest truth with a larger circle.
The Last Quarter Moon of the 21st represents a time to gather the wisdom you
have gained and as a result to eventually come to a greater feeling of wholeness.
You win when you remain in sync with both the surface areas of your mind and
as well with the deep core of your unconscious process. The practical and the
visionary within you are pulling in different directions right now, and the
trick is to come to a balance. You definitely benefit from keeping both perspectives
in mind, potentially conflicting though they may be, and to honor the possibility
of a paradoxical third solution.
With the advent of the New Moon near the end of the month, taking place on
Tuesday, October 28th, you may be moving forward with a quicker step and a
lighter heart.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
Change is in the air for you this month, Pisces. You have been exploring your
options lately, and now in many ways you see your path more clearly opening
up before you. In moving forward you must also exercise caution, because your
priorities may shift as Mercury changes direction on the 15th and once again
as it finally regains lost ground on the 28th. Ideas for a better future and
for making a clean break with the past might have to yield to conflicting practical
concerns, or perhaps vice-versa. It is good to remember, always, that whatever
course you decide upon, the universe backs you up one hundred percent once
you have come to a decision that aligns with your own deep intuition.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the energy for change represented
by the recent Libra New Moon which took place in your sector of intimacy and
personal evolution. This is an important time for you to face up to new beginnings
that are not only possible but necessary and that speak to you from a deep
place within you of compassion and interconnection with all of life. You are
encouraging your independent sense of yourself to flourish, without regard
to the prevailing consensus thinking that may or may not recognize you as the
entirely unique being that you are. With Mercury retrograde in this same part
of your chart you might find yourself in a more internal and reflective space
than usual, tuning in to the interior lands within your soul that are ever-present
but perhaps overlooked in the hurly-burly of this marketplace society.
At the time of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Tuesday, October 7th,
you are energized to make changes in the way that you look at future plans,
although with Mercury conjunct the Sun and retrograde it is well to look before
you leap, no matter how great the temptation.
The days surrounding the Full Moon of Tuesday, October 14th, represents another
peak of the retrograde energy, and a time when you might be more ready to share
with others the ideas that have been percolating around in your brain. You
are a stand for yourself at this time, dealing with your own security needs
in your own way, although still very aware of the effect of partnership in
your life.
The last two weeks of the month will be spent in gathering up the seedpods
of wisdom that you can take from events that have recently transpired. You
are entering into a period of time where competing concerns will intersect,
of self and other, and also with regard to your desire for security and staying
the course versus an almost irresistible urge for freedom, independence and
spontaneity.
The Scorpio New Moon near the end of the month will launch you into these tumultuous
waters with a good attitude and hopefully the necessary preparation so that
your canoe moves smoothly through to your ultimate benefit.
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Overview of
the Planets this month: Top
The
Astrology of October features Mercury, Jupiter
and Neptune. Neptune is highlighted in the
lunations of this time period, beginning with
the Libra New Moon of September 29th. Uranus
and Saturn are also drawing closer and closer
to their exact opposition, taking place next
month on November 4th, Election Day. We begin
the current month in the midst of another Mercury
retrograde period, which started in September
and lasts until just after the Scorpio New
Moon of the 28th when you consider the shadow
period, the two weeks during which Mercury
is regaining its lost Zodiacal ground. The
actual station is on the 15th when its direction
changes. This entire month is therefore characterized
by missed connections and mechanical and communicative
breakdown, which may on the other hand yield
to mental breakthrough as we take time off
from pushing ahead and pause to reflect on
our situation.
The Libra New Moon took place in the last days of September and made a close
aspect to Neptune, while the mid-month Full Moon sextiles Neptune exactly,
meaning that this entire monthly cycle partakes of this numinous and potentially
confusing planetary archetype. Otherworldly Neptune, at its highest, tunes
us in to the multiple layers of reality that coexist with the more obviously
visible world all around us and thus represents idealism, and the imagination
to rise above the unyielding practicality of this earthly plane. These flights
of fancy are well-reflected in the arts, especially music, which corresponds
to a spiritual order that goes beyond what we can see and hear with our normal
senses. But Neptune is not fully at home in the practical world of everyday
events, and its power can also lead to illusion, confusion, even outright deception,
a tendency that may be aided and abetted at this time by the retrograde of
Mercury in a corresponding Air sign.
In another potent chime with the Neptunian energy, the First Quarter Moon of
Tuesday, October 7th, conjuncts Jupiter in Capricorn, a placement that contains
within it the dichotomy of earthly realms versus an implicit faith in the benevolence
of the universe that allows us to rise above. Relationships and the dynamics
of intimacy are also very important in this bridge period between the initiatory
impulse of the New Moon and the relaxation, acceptance and flowering of the
Full Moon that follows it. This crux of the first two weeks of the month is
therefore exciting and magical, with however the potential for misplaced idealism,
and the possibility of over-extending.
The Full Moon takes place a week later, on Tuesday the 14th. In addition to
closely aspecting Neptune, this Full Moon also conjuncts the recently named
trans-Plutonian dwarf planet, Eris. This archetypal energy represents a warrior-like
defensive stance against established power. At this time too, the Uranus – Saturn
opposition is very active, reflecting the same values of taking a stand against
a dysfunctional status quo. We will find ourselves speaking truth to power
at this mid-month time, and perhaps reveling in the discontinuity of speeches
to events. We can and will occupy either side of the polarity, raging against
the machine or trying to reconcile our ideals and our revolutionary goals with
practical concerns.
We are currently seeing the fulfillment of the ancient dictum that asks "let
me live in interesting times." These are climactic days for all of us,
at both the personal and the collective level. The time has come to choose
sides and really step up to the plate, for whatever drives your deepest passion.
We may lapse into starry-eyed idealism or verge into escapism, but we cannot
daydream for very long, since the urgency of the times keeps pulling us back
to the central point of the matter. Life is a game for sure but a game played
for keeps, as we need to recognize both for the sake of our ailing planet and
for the spiritual health of the individuals living within her immense bounty.
Current Moon Configurations
September 29th New Moon
The Libra New Moon that sets the stage for the current cycle makes an exact
sesquiquadrate aspect to Neptune, also aspecting Uranus in Pisces, so that
higher mind is a large factor. With Mercury retrograde in the same sign, we
are intended to be looking more closely into everything that happens to us,
and taking a reflective stance on life in general.
October 7th First Quarter Moon
This is a powerful First Quarter Moon, with the Moon exactly conjunct Jupiter,
and Jupiter still trined by Saturn, while Saturn and Uranus near opposition.
In addition to these powerful indications, Chiron and the North Node are in
close conjunction, aspected by Saturn and squared by Venus. We are likely to
be more aware than usual of old wounds regarding both group affiliation and
control, and relationship, and of the choices that we make that have the power
to transcend them.
October 14th Full Moon
In another potent configuration, this Full Moon aspects Neptune and conjuncts
the new planet Eris as described above. The forming Saturn – Uranus opposition
is also triggered by the Sun and Moon. It is time to take a stand for what
we believe in, even though exactly what that is may be difficult to discern
right now.
October 21st Last Quarter Moon
This Last Quarter Moon aspects Pluto in the last degrees of Sagittarius. Pluto
is getting ready to re-enter Capricorn come November (on the 26th) and we might
get a preview of the action there. Banking institutions are one place that
will likely feel the effects of this important transit next month.
October 28th New Moon
This Scorpio New Moon comes just before Halloween, the Scorpio holiday, and
features Mars square Chiron and also aspecting Saturn and Uranus in the final
stages of the first pass of their opposition, which completes on November 4th.
This New Moon time period is therefore an exciting one, with an exciting November
ahead. Saturn and Uranus oppose each other exactly a total of five times over
the next few years, and Pluto joins in by 2010, exact in 2012, making these
next few years extremely dramatic ones, as many astrologers have indicated.
We are getting the first taste of these amazing configurations in this fall
time frame.
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