Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

It's all about relationships this month for you, Aries, both with significant others in your life and with balancing the masculine and feminine parts of your own nature. There are hidden sides to your personality that might come into your conscious understanding as a result of your evolutionary process at this time. We all have places inside us that we project onto others that we meet who hold a special fascination for us since they mirror our deepest dreams for our own development. You may find inside yourself what you look for in others, the ball of pure gold shining in your sky.

As the month begins, you are feeling the energy of the recent First Quarter Moon in your sector of career and professional life, which brings some tension to your activities at this time. Since you are seeking the equilibrium of opposites right now, that tension is a natural part of your process. The resolution comes from challenging the easy answers that seem to limit your growth and once you have given it your best shot from subsequently accepting what after all must be. The entire plan is not revealed at any one particular time.

With the advent of the Full Moon in your sign that comes along the first Friday of the month, on the 6th, you are striking out for a new self-concept both grounded in reality and free to be fanciful. This synthesis is difficult to reach but that doesn't stop you from trying. It is important that you keep faith with yourself and allow other points of view to enter in also, to the limit of their appropriateness, while still making the final determination. This tightrope becomes easier to walk as you go along but you must remember not to look down.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th reminds you once again that only partial answers are ever available here in the physical plane as opposed to the poetry of imaginary solutions. You are delving deep inside yourself for new awareness that permits you to breathe more easily. The paradox is that while everything is entirely contained within our own psyche including our own spiritual evolution, the world outside of ourselves that we must eventually come to terms with is also very real. On into the following month, with the Mercury retrograde period of time and the inner reflection that accompanies that period, you will likely be reviewing the details, but for now the light is dawning on a new synthesis.

When the New Moon comes along on Saturday, October 21st, you are ready to take the necessary action, whatever that might mean for your particular situation, and however that may serve to resolve your dilemma. Partnership interaction is vital to your own process of growth right now, and serves to remind you of what you have had inside you all along and are only just now beginning to recognize.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Welcome to the universe of magical contact, Taurus. The practicalities of teaming up with helpful partners seems to outweigh for the moment the resistance you might feel at losing total control of your situation. You are getting in touch with the archetypal intimate other, which involves a trip to inner realms of your psyche as much as to the relationships with actual physical beings that you actively seek right now. The last ten days of the month may be the occasion for you to begin to rethink your relationship dynamic along the lines of transforming your personal connection with others, and with your own internal guidance system also.As the month begins, you are taking on a service and real-world focus that is essentially productive, although with occasional conceptual difficulties to contend with. Stepping out in style means something very different than it used to, and involves your deep understanding and acceptance of old wounds to your self-image just as much as your fashion sense. You are getting in closer touch with inner feeling places and making them your focus these days, and the very structure of your security is thereby shifting.

When the Full Moon comes along on Friday, October 6th, you are actively seeking a balance point. This inevitably involves partnership with significant others in your life. You find yourself fortunate in your relationship circumstances right now, and yet needing to mediate success with caution, and other-orientation with a creatively selfish approach that includes their viewpoints also but only so much. There is a fruitful third way that must be explored for the full effect of the result that you crave, a result that involves your spiritual center as much as your surface personality and your private side as much as your public one.

The crisis of newfound consciousness is reached at the time of the Last Quarter Moon that arrives on Friday the 13th, and brings all of the above issues to the fore. You may experience the necessary conflicts involved in working out, or even in discovering the ingredients of these compromises.

All this cycle of inner and outer activity leads up to the New Moon of Saturday, October 21st, and the week following, a time when important others in your life are very definitely in the picture, along with all the complexities of modern life and the need to balance.

The last weekend of the month, and another First Quarter Moon, this time in your career sector, accompanies the Mercury retrograde period of time that originates also at this time, and that brings greater self-awareness to your process along with the usual communication and mechanical breakdowns, lasting as long as past the end of November. This will be for you a time of inner reflection and changing perspectives on your progress to date, and on the growth that is still to follow.

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

You are going through some fundamental changes at this time, Gemini. You will find, as you do, that your service orientation takes you far. You are exploring new ways of being in the world and seeking your dharma – that essential purpose that underlies all your actions, and that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. Near the very end of the month, your ruler Mercury retrogrades, lasting through November. After the New Moon of October 21st, you will increasingly find yourself in a space of reflection rather than direct action, meditating on where your life is currently taking you. The winds of change that seem to be blowing you around aimlessly may actually be taking you ever closer to your true destination.

As the month begins, you are likely in a really good frame of mind, feeling blessed by the nature of the events and energies coming your way lately. You are somewhat focused these days on your communicative outreach, and the effect that others have on you, and on the creative thrust that such multivalent contact and inner contemplation can generate. Something is transforming around the idea of how you relate to your life partners, ratcheting up yet another notch in the course of this monthly cycle.

The Full Moon that comes along on Friday October 6th emphasizes these concerns and your process of equilibrium. You are drawing closer to a different and fuller understanding of the role that significant others play in your life, and seeking a balance between willful and service-oriented behavior, and between hiding out in your own inner world versus making yourself more concretely available to society around you.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th may give you pause, coming as it does in the form of a crisis of awareness of the various tides that surge around and through you at this time, and the tantalizing possibility of resolution.

Toward the end of the month, from the time of the New Moon of the 21st onwards, you are increasingly blessed. You are pulled to the inside of your mind, reflecting on how to be of true service in this world, and doing some deep self-analysis in the course of thinking things through.

Right at the very end of the month, your clock is running backwards and you may revisit in flashback recent events that have lead you up to this precise moment in time with wonder or renewed hope for the future. You can never step into the same river twice but the reflections when you try can be entirely illuminating.

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

Your future is calling, Cancer. Preoccupations with home and family and security concerns lead you through this unfolding stretch of time into novel directions for your outer world presentation. You are finding painful progress in relationship considerations as a long-term result, but the major thrust of this period lies in settling into some very different notions of where your angel guidance is taking you, this time around. It can at times be very good to remember that while the structure of your life is changing, the core remains the same.

As the month begins, you find yourself getting closer and closer to your tribal relations that form such an important part of your life. You are nurturing others as you naturally do through maintaining these connections, and nurturing yourself as well through the types of family-oriented activities that you are currently engaged in. You may be reflecting on the ways that your core values form the emotional basis for your security. It also may be that the logjam in your financial picture is beginning to break up, since a shift is in some way indicated during this current monthly cycle. Perhaps it is your attitude toward your material situation that will undergo transformation.

The Full Moon that comes along on the first Friday of the month, the 6th of October, brings the concept of balance along with it. You are integrating your family background and home-based activity with your creative presence in the world, scintillating lately and subject to your most enthusiastic thought and communicative process. Your outer world presentation is depending in new ways on both your internal security needs and your concept of where you are currently heading with your plans and objectives in order to achieve them.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th gives you the impetus to challenge some long-held assumptions regarding the conflict between the practicalities pf daily life and the ideals that you hold dear. Maybe you can't have your cake and eat it too although you won't give up without a fight.

These considerations take place along the way to the New Moon break-through of the last part of the current month. This New Moon takes place on Saturday, October 21st, and presages a different talk for you as well as a different way to walk it.

The First Quarter Moon that comes along a week later, on Sunday the 29th, may however be emotionally stressful, as you see more clearly the drawbacks to your approach. Over the next few weeks, as Mercury retrogrades though your sector of creative self-expression, you will find many different ways to see things, without likely settling on any one of them. It might be best to stay tentative. It is usually not advised to push the river over this period, preferring to take a wait and see approach until after the end of November.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You are feeling your way into a new life structure, Leo. Drastic changes in the way that you think and operate are possible in the weeks ahead as you delve more closely into your own internal workings and discover new attitudes regarding your connections with others around you and your own home base. Communication within your circle is a crucial piece of this reorientation. After the October 21st New Moon, as you also begin to come to new solutions with significant partners in your life, you are finding the pure gold at the end of your particular rainbow, although you might have to dig for it.

As the month begins, you are riding the energy of the previous New Moon in your resources sector, taking a last look at how to make a break-through in this area. Your financial picture is a bit nebulous at the moment, but that will change over the course of this next 30-day period. You can't count on a permanent solution however, as you will be re-thinking priorities at the very end of the current month and on into December. You are passing through something of a narrow gate at the moment, and are challenged to keep faith with yourself in spite of everything. When you do, the rewards will come, although they might not be entirely material ones.

With the advent of the Full Moon on the following Friday, taking place on October 6th, you are balancing the philosophical concerns that you have over life in general with the way that you show up in the world particular, as you fully plunge into the transformation that is taking place in your physical world appearance and the restructuring of both your conceptual and your actual presence. You are seeking the path with heart, and nothing else will serve you at this time.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th may bring a crisis of awareness for your entire life situation and the particular arc of development with which you are currently engaged. You are called upon to take Spirit very firmly into account in everything that you do, and you may heed the call if you choose, or leave it if you dare. The next weekend the Moon is in your sign and you may be ready to break through to a new level of acceptance. At any rate some of the pressure will be off.

The New Moon that comes along on Saturday the 21st presages the retrograde of Mercury in your home and family sector that becomes exact a week later on the 28th. This last full week of the month may be an excellent time to reestablish important links with childhood roots and close tribal connections that are important to you, and that you may have been neglecting in some way or another. You might benefit as well at this time by journaling, as a way of connecting more fully with your own deep center. This is big stuff that you are dealing with and its extremely difficult to fathom but it's also very easy. Nothing could be simpler than following your inner guidance when you give up and step out of the way.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Contact with your circle of intimates is the name of your game this month, Virgo, which involves getting clear on your own reality and making sure that you tell it like it truly is. You are giving yourself one last chance to get it right. Helpful partners conspire for your success in unexpected ways, as you seek a new perspective on finances and the deeper basis for your security. Near month's end, a sense of optimism and empowerment accompanies inner reflection on where your personal interaction is heading at this time, and on the changing landscape of your communication agendas.

As the month begins, you are metamorphosing from the inside out, re-working and reflecting on the last few years with an eye to transforming your core level connection with your tribal and familial unit and most importantly with yourself at the deepest level of your being.

The Full Moon of Friday, October 6th, speaks to you of issues of self and other and the boundary between. Your communication is graceful and positively motivated at this time, while serving a higher purpose. You are actively seeking a new synthesis of heart and hand, mind and Spirit, although coming to no definite conclusion.

At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th, you are drawing nearer to a synthesis, perhaps reaching a crisis of awareness regarding your entire situation. It seems that you must take the darker side of your internal motivation into account in order to find your own way forward.

The New Moon of October 21st and the week following represents a nexus of possibility with important and potentially painful revelations that yields its fruit only after a month or more has passed, as your ruler Mercury is getting ready to turn to retrograde motion and take you into an even deeper period of reflection and inner work. If you try your hand at journaling during this period, it will definitely prove to be rewarding, as will the conversational depth you are likely to experience at this time. Best not to push the river over the next few weeks; any reliable plan of action might have to wait perhaps as long until after the end of November, when Mercury leaves its shadow.

The very end of the present month should be interesting, full of hope but strangely internal, with surprising information coming to the fore from a partnership direction. You will emerge from the tunnel at the proper moment, in accord with your own angel guidance.


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

You are strongly feeling the bond with all your relations, Libra, not forgetting your important connection with the secret ingredients within your own psyche. This your birthday month finds you coming out vibrantly and articulately to others around you, seeking new centers of balance and wholeness and planning for a wiser future. You are drawing gradually closer to significant partners in your life at this time, as a result of a different way of relating to yourself. Your real world presence is truly on the line toward the end of the month as you rethink security needs and face lingering self-doubts. Sometimes how you show up doesn't matter as much as you think, when you just do.

As the month begins, you are likely to be still feeling the tension of the First Quarter Moon over the previous weekend, which hit you strongly where you live and have your sense of identity. This self-concept is changing right now, as you find new levels of discipleship to your Higher Self awareness. There are layers and layers there, like peeling an onion to get down to the very core; only it turns out to be even bigger than when you started. Communication is key, and finding your place in social settings that make sense for your entire life path going forward.

At the time of the Full Moon that comes along on the 6th of October, you are seeking a blend between self and other, especially with regard to questions of equal partnership footing. There is in fact a delicate balance that constantly needs to be renewed between existing for the sake of someone else's issues instead of your own versus finding your place in the mix of energies in an integrated fashion that takes into account the needs of others as well, but not too much.

The Last Quarter Moon that takes place a week later, on Friday the 13th, brings other pieces into the equation, such as how you put yourself out there in terms of career and professional responsibility in a way that remains consistent with your deeper essence, and that allows you to explore the financial and material reflections of your work in the world and their underlying motivation.

With the New Moon of Saturday, October 21st, you are moving into a different sort of balance between partnering portions of your own psyche, as you relate your recent advances in the consciousness of what you are all about to material and resource concerns. With Mercury turning retrograde in your resources sector, you will be reflecting on the deeper meaning for several weeks to come. As you do it may be wise to remember what Uncle Remus suggested long ago, that "it's what you do with what you got that counts."

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

You are on the verge of an important emotional breakthrough, Scorpio. Relationship with significant partners in your life is an involving component, but the real relationship is with your own sense of self. Your work in the world is vital and likely to pay off, but not without challenges to the way that you see yourself and your world. Future possibilities lie in wait for you but first you must solve the basic conundrum of your existence: where and for what higher purpose you are headed.

As the month begins, you are feeling your oats and in a most uncharacteristic fashion for you are a bit jerky with it, all over the place, as you channel surf new possibilities for yourself as fast as you can, only pausing to admire the view from this particular unique perspective before moving on to the next event. You are coming into yourself in some very important ways over the course of this monthly cycle, and not the least is in forming a bridge between the seen and the unseen parts of yourself that together constitute your world.

The Full Moon that comes at the end of the first week of the month, taking place on Friday, October 6th, represents an important balance point between the concerns of the personal the relating self that inhabit your psyche, and in relationship to the deep unknown inner realm that is rich with meaning and only partially conflicted with quandary. The way that you structure your outer world is transforming along with your values, in response to seismic shifts at interior levels. Your very attitude to the material world that surrounds you might be in transition now, as the work you do on your outer presentation ripples through your psyche.

With the New Moon that takes place on Saturday, October 21st, very nearly in your sign, you are entering a distinct new phase. You are more open than ever to the input of helpful partners at this time, both as a way of validating your own approach, which is more multifaceted than usual, and also as a counterweight to hold your balloon down from floating away entirely.

As the last week of the month unfolds and the energy shifts to your birthday sign, Mercury turns retrograde in combination with an optimistic and positive energy that empowers you and at the same time enjoins you to reflect rather than act, and to think twice about previously settled commitments. This Mercury retrograde period is a particularly intense one, and will last into December, counting its escape from the over the latter half of this next month.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

You are continuing your long cycle of changes, Sagittarius, reaching for a new arc of development. This one will not culminate until nearly the end of November, just as you enter your birthday time of the year. You will find that this month's lead-up will be quietly exciting, as you rearrange your life from the inside out. As you do, you may find that the most important contribution that you can make to your own growth is one of service to the larger whole. There is no getting around it, like the pachyderm in the living room that cannot be ignored any longer. At some point you have to give up on beating around the bush and ride the elephant.

As the month begins, you are feeling a degree of tension from the preceding weekend when the First Quarter Moon in your financial sector may have marked some sort of crisis in action there, and nevertheless visioning new possibilities for yourself and the way that you connect with groups and social ideals that you favor. You are coming from a somewhat internal place at this time, feeling stresses and displacements to the basic structure of what you believe to be true, the foundation that conditions how and where you will subsequently show up to be counted. You are feeling stuck at times perhaps, and may prefer hanging out under a rock to joining in the fray, at least for the moment.

The Full Moon that comes your way on the 6th may revive you. You are seeking a marriage these days between personal will and service to the larger whole, and sometimes even finding it.

A week later, Friday the 13th brings transformation and new consciousness of your objective and as well the obstacles that may either prevent its fruition or make it just that much more satisfying when you do cross the ultimate finish line. It is an essentially spiritual place that you are coming from these days, and you may find that your goals are not entirely of this world.

As you enter the Scorpio period of time, with the New Moon of Saturday October 21st and the days following, you might begin to see these goals more clearly and to feel the presence of an unseen hand guiding you onwards. The end of the month is wrapped in mystery, as is appropriate for the season, and full of shape shifting events. Where your heart goes, your head will follow if you let it.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

Adventures in intimacy lead you further into potential clarity this month, Capricorn, as your process of transformation continues. You are exploring new ways of being in the world, especially after the New Moon on October 21st. and as well new ways of becoming closer with important others in your life. When you touch in at the core, you find that paradoxically that's when you really begin to show up in the surrounding outer world. It's like coming home and finally recognizing the place for the very first time.

As the month begins, you are likely to be feeling the divisive energy of the First Quarter Moon from the previous weekend. You might well be experiencing a degree of cross-purposes between your personal intention and your public responsibilities right now, and while this tension of conflicting viewpoints does make for some harrowing moments, the ultimate outcome is creative.

You are quite optimistic at the core of your being regarding your future these days, and it is a future that involves a strong spiritual component and conditions transformative effects on your life in general. You are seeing an important personal component from a very different angle right now, and not the obvious part of your life that is busily engaged out there in the world. That hardly changes. It is rather a deeper more interior intention that you can perhaps only make out the fuzzy outline of in dreams, but which is vital to your continued growth as a human being.

The Full Moon of this first week coming along on Friday, October 6th, releases you in some way and also spurs you on. You are searching for a better balance between public and private concerns in your life right now, and coming to a delicate equilibrium.

The Last Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Friday the 13th, reminds you that others in your field of activity share your concerns and can help you to find a more integrated solution. Another point of view, although potentially challenging, is entirely helpful at this time, especially when it mirrors some important part of your own process.

The New Moon that ushers in the final segment of the month, taking place on Saturday, October 21st, brings you to another vantage point, a new place of vision, and gives you a fulcrum from which to move your world, to the extent that you can open to its possibility.

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

This is a quite exciting and also a potentially trying time for you, Aquarius. Relationship with significant partners in your life is magical for you right now, and holds the key to your own enlightenment. You are turning around in the way that you see things, implying big shifts in your public statement also. Significant movement is possible now, although at the very end of October, and on into November, Mercury retrogrades in your career sector, and you will be wise to hold off on making any drastic changes. This late month period of time is particularly challenging, yet also rewarding long term. Core level shifts in the way you see your future self are emerging, but slowly.

As the month begins, you are at the point of making philosophical adjustments to the way you see your world, based on recent eye-opening events of the past few weeks, perhaps involving partnership concerns. You are transforming at this time in both your relationship dynamic and your own self-concept. Since there are several planetary factors conspiring together in your higher mind sector, you may be thinking seriously about travel or other educational adventures, or at any rate experiencing perspective shifts of one kind or another, throughout this current cycle.

With the Full Moon of the first Friday of the month, coming along on October 6th, you are seeking a balance between activity and contemplation. You are coming from a very idealistic place these days, which may at times involve a level of self-deception but which is fundamentally about allowing a spiritual dimension of life to be counted as equally valid with the practical necessities. After all, what is the one without the other?

The Last Quarter Moon of the following Friday, the 13th, represents a difficult transition, a time when you must give up some part of your prior assumption for the sake of greater clarity of purpose. Work and professional life is going well for you at this time, but with some tension in the air between what you desire to accomplish and what makes concrete sense, including the needs of others.

With the advent of the New Moon on the edge of your career sector, taking place on Saturday the 21st, you are launching yourself into the world in a new way, bringing thoughtful verbal expression to your public statement, with extra punch and charisma.

Over the next few weeks, you are likely to be thinking through your real-world plans in the light of recent awareness, and then re-thinking them all over again as Mercury retrogrades through November, prominent in your energy field. There will be failed communication attempts and missteps to contend with, but perhaps an ultimate putting in place of what was not previously working in your plans and ideas thus far. There are great rewards in consciousness to be gained, as long as you manage to maintain your characteristic alertness to all your possibilities.

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

Your times they are still a'changing, Pisces. It's true to some extent for everyone these days, but for you, massive metamorphosis colors your world more than most. You are entering a transition period for your thought process concerning issues of relationship and self versus other that will shake you up in your very beliefs, as you begin to accept to a new take on what really matters to you. You will likely be even more prone to mulling things over when Mercury turns retrograde at the end of the current month, for a period of time that lasts through the end of November. It's a good idea to take the long view.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the recent New Moon in your relationship sector, finding different forms of intimacy that relate back to appreciating yourself and your own uniqueness. A basic and fundamental big picture approach is opening up for you in the course of this month's cycle of growth and change.

The Full Moon in the first week of the month, taking place on Friday, October 6th, brings up more issues of self and other and of finding necessary adjustments. You have made some surprising turnarounds lately and now are getting ready for at least one more. Your understanding of what you find in others is shifting, as well of course as what you find in yourself as a part of that process. It's like visiting a foreign country and meeting one of its citizens and deciding to adopt their point of view. You still must maintain the consciousness of your own position while you simultaneously search out the common ground on which you can mutually stand.

The New Moon of Saturday the 21st of October brings you toward adopting new emotional and intellectual positions regarding these and other issues that you have been mulling over and which succeed in shaking up your worldview in unexpected ways. There is a balance point to be struck between inner and outer concerns that you have been seeking lately in several different ways, and this last third of the month is all about finding it.

Over the next week as Mercury changes direction in your sector of higher mind, you will spend time reflecting on where exactly your worldview is heading right now. It certainly isn't static. You will emerge from the ensuing five week period of the retrograde and its shadow not older but definitely wiser than when you started.

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Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of October features Venus and Mars, together with Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, symbolizing the enormous degree of cosmic epiphany and transformational pressure coming our way lately. Jupiter and Saturn are also making their last pass on a square alignment that has been off and on all year and especially since last summer, indicating a crisis in action regarding the personal or the social impulse that originated in the spring of 2000.

There are two phases to this current monthly cycle, before and after the late Libra New Moon of October 21st, and in the second phase we tend to look more deeply into our underlying motivations. Venus and Mars are also prominent factors in the skies at this time, beginning with the Full Moon of October 6th when the Sun occupies their mid-point. Their conjunction perfects at the New Moon of October 21st, resulting in a rare quadruple conjunction of Sun, Moon, Venus and Mars. With this Sun and Moon ruled by Venus, relationship with all our kin is therefore emphasized, together with drawing closer to intimate others. The triple conjunction of these three personal planets, minus the Moon, continues into Scorpio up through and including the First Quarter of October 29th, when they are squared by Chiron and the Moon and when Mercury also retrogrades in close conjunction with Jupiter in Scorpio, still squared by Saturn.

With the powerful transformational effects of Pluto also involved in this configuration from the time of the New Moon onward, the last part of October represents an entirely important time of reflection and deep concern with the issues of right relationship in our lives – the way that we treat each other in the so-called battle of the sexes and the way that we treat each other across social and cultural lines as well. Looking back on this period of time from the perspective of the next twenty years, what may well stand out will be our relative failure or our success in treating all men and women as brothers and sisters, part of our human family, whether they are of the same or of different racial make-up and cultures than ourselves. No person is an island to paraphrase Donne, who famously wrote the line as early as the 17th century; therefore do not seek to ask for whom the bell tolls, or the flag waves at half-mast, "it tolls for thee."

Current Configurations

This month's cycle has its basis in the New Moon from last September 22nd, which was also a Solar Eclipse and therefore more powerful. This took place in the very last degree of Virgo, and so it is a purity of completion that we seek right now, and the perfection of all our strivings.

The Full Moon of Friday, October 6th, represents the beginning of the Venus Mars conjunction, since the Sun resides at their midpoint, and since the nature of the Full Moon is to balance. It is interesting that this Full Moon takes place in the signs of Libra and Aries, ruled respectively by Venus and Mars, just as they come toward their triple conjunction with the Sun at the time of the next New Moon. Another balance point is being attempted in the opposition of Saturn and Neptune at this time, another pair of opposite energies, which is emphasized by their T-square to Jupiter as he comes between them and mediates their joint influence. This is a difficult but potentially fruitful combination of energies which again asks us to synthesize viewpoints, and come to a more integrated solution.

The Last Quarter Moon of Friday the 13th might seem to pre-configure the Halloween holiday with its black cat symbolism, but is really all about realizations of what does and does not work in attempting to make progress with our issues and with reaching out for an equilibrium between self and other that are the hallmark of this period of time. The Moon and Sun, at 20 plus degrees of their respective signs, and in square to one another, touch off the outer planet configurations mentioned already and bring up the tension implicit in these contrasting energies. Saturn is also nearing its trine with Pluto at this time, suggesting that something has to give and that structures of our lives must radically transform along the way to a more perfect union with respect to our inner work.

The New Moon in late Libra that takes place on Saturday, October 21st, has Venus and Mars in very close conjunction on either side, and is also accompanied by a Mercury Jupiter conjunction in Scorpio, just as Mercury begins to slow down and turn retrograde. Because of Mercury's much slower motion at this time, these two planets remain in conjunction for over a week, within a degree of zodiacal longitude. Since Mercury is slowing down and retrograding in the sign of Scorpio, it is a time when we will be forced to examine the underlying causes of our internal motivation, especially in regard to the so-called "battle of the sexes." We are moving in the direction of right relationship with ourselves and our partners and with other people in our life, at whatever pace we can creatively manage to maintain. We are thus poised on the verge of entering the Scorpio period, yet still in Libra, and with the rulers of both Libra and Scorpio in close conjunction with the lunation energy. It should be quite an interesting and potentially productive time for us all.

The First Quarter Moon that takes place in the last weekend of the month, on Sunday, October 29th, is interesting in that it represents the first actual lunation with the Sun in Scorpio, although the previous week's New Moon was strongly Scorpio-aligned, and is also accompanied by the retrograde of Mercury in Scorpio conjunct Jupiter. As the Moon squares the Sun from early Aquarius, it conjuncts Chiron as well, so we may be dealing with our early woundings at this time. This First Quarter Square signifies a time when "the rubber meets the road" and when we must "put up or shut up" in getting our point across, a time of tension when we are enjoined to make our total commitment and put our best foot forward, in spite of everything.

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