Hello Everyone,
Sorry for the break in September, I had to tend to some personal things during this time. Now I’m back and more rejuvenated than ever ~ just in time for October which will be quite a ride.
a little personal update: for a limited time until October 7th, I am selling CDs with $2 shipping to anywhere in the US!
This is a big discount from the usual shipping costs of >$30 from Japan.
This is a limited edition run of 100, and each CD has its own unique back cover. Purchase also includes a lyric booklet and will be shipped out mid-October!
Purchase here: https://emiliawang.bandcamp.com/
In October, we are back in Eclipse season. Eclipse seasons are chaotic and feel extra-charged. This window of time occurs twice a year, and they help to usher in changes, realizations, and encounters that are fated. They sweep through everything, collapsing weak structures into a flood of debris and carrying us forward into the next chapter of our life.
We have been in the Taurus-Scorpio set of eclipses since November 2021. We had one eclipse in Aries on April 20th, but in general, we have been embracing the Taurean themes of bodily connection, nurture, and a raw kind of earthy beauty, while releasing Scorpionic armor, weaponry, and intuition gone awry.
This month, we have an eclipse in Libra and Taurus, which means we have one foot in tying up the past and one foot in tapping into the future.
The first eclipse in Libra on October 14th/15th is ruled by a Venus in early Virgo, having just opposed Saturn. Starting from the 9th, we contend with some kind of possible rejection or delay. Pleasure’s elusion, sliding into something that is a bit more dour. We may choose at this time to be less frivolous and more serious about things. It’s important we don’t get too bogged down by where we feel deficient. Venus in Virgo might take pleasure in the deep clean, maybe in analyzing the relationship, but opposing Saturn in Pisces, it seems like something is telling you that even with a desire to get on top of situation, some things are just hard to grasp and slippery. Not everything can be contained or understood through logic. If you can, try not to take anything too personally from the 9th-14th, and wait for the following week to see how what went wrong might have been a blessing in disguise, or have its own saving graces.
The second eclipse which is the Taurus lunar eclipse on October 28/29 is quite the juicy and gallant one. While still ruled by a Venus in Virgo, this time Venus is trine Uranus and opposing Neptune, which means it is ready to fully go spin off into its own trip, regardless of the rules or what reality dictates. It is ready to just be in fantasy land. This is also a moment of culmination, as the end of the Taurus-Scorpio eclipse cycle that started November 2021. What has been brewing for the past two years will get topped off with some extra fireworks to commemorate this chapter of your life. Because of the other planetary configurations, this lunar eclipse might involve some issues around communication, but overall it is defined by bravery and imagination. This is a time where you may be compelled to action, maybe even overdoing it.
Here are your sign-specific horoscopes. Please read based on your rising sign, but you can also read for your sun sign.
Libra
This eclipse season ignites a new cycle, one in which you are understanding the balance between yourself and others. You may have to shed a bit of yourself this month in order to understand this better. There were also some debts or guilt that built up over the course of the last years that are also being resolved or brought to a head. Ultimately, this might be a month centered around spending and getting to know yourself. You might recognize your shoe is untied.
Scorpio
Something is being born in your subconscious or in your secrets, that you will find a way to release over the next two years. At the same time, this month is a big culmination in partnership and collaboration, and issues of relationships that have been on your mind since November 2021. End of the month, you will see where you have been desiring and meeting others. All in all, you are understanding what community and environment you want around you.
Sagittarius
A new phase is being initiated in which you have to release something in community and friendship, which will be the general theme for the next two years. Whereas the last two years, since November of 2021, brought a chapter of a kind of psychic readjustment, a chiropractic realignment of your body, health, loneliness, and self-sabotage. There was a lot of managing, cleaning, all while floating, and you’ll witness where you grew and where you healed end of October. These are all connected to some adjustments you are making in your career or your work title.
Capricorn
You are beginning a new phase (some hints might have already been shown in April), but now you are really contemplating work and career, and how you will release attachments to how you want to be seen by the world. Meanwhile, the phase you have been in since November of 2021 will begin to wrap up. This has been an intense two years of reevaluating community, friendship, creativity, and romance, and the end of the month will bring something to help you understand where you stand now. Ultimately, all these changes may be connected to some travel or a plan to go into deeper study.
Aquarius
A new arena in your life is beginning to show the need for maintenance, release, and renewal, occurring specifically in the house of travel, spirituality, and long-term study. You may begin to undo of the ways you create meaning in your life, so that you can have space for new imagination.
The last two years may have seen you move homes or revisit home and heritage. What you experienced these last two years will reach a culmination end of month, something will be given, adjourned, or allowed. All in all, you are experiencing where you feel undeserving in exchange, where you feel like you may need extra proof that life can be good, magical, or extravagant without you needing to deserve it.
Pisces
The new arena in your life that is being opened up for renewal, but only first through drying up and letting go, is the house of debt and entanglements. I also consider it the place of complicated relationships, trauma, and guilt. Where it feels hard to be clean-cut about things, because here you are feeling the light of the day escaping. Something from the last two years is ending this chapter, mostly around neighborhood, writing, and some local travel. Maybe you will revisit a place that was special to you with somebody. Ultimately, you are going to have to get real about some relationships, whether you can accept that it can be perfect in its imperfections.
Aries
The new arena in your life that is being opened up for renewal, but only first through drying up and letting go, is the house of relationships. A relationship could end, or a way of being in relation with others. Don’t fear what must die, because the main goal of the process is to figure out the right balance of self-assertion this way. Additionally, something around your resources, from the last two years is ending at the end of the month, through a big culmination or reveal. You are experiencing this month a bit of dissatisfaction or hypercriticality around your routines, health, or some kind of grind.
Taurus
You are approaching a new chapter, in which you are excreting things that have become codependent or inauthentic in your health or work routines. At the same time, there have been some big changes in your life since November 2021, you have been glowing up and transforming your identity, and the end of the month will be highlighting the culminating point that this phase has brought you to. Ultimately, this month all the changes are somewhat related to revisions around pleasure, joy, romance, and/or children.
Gemini
October introduces a new set of puzzles for you solve, this time primarily in the realm of creativity, joy, and possibly children if you have or want them. You will need to learn how to balance harmony with a commitment to your own desires, and so first you may need to give up some pretty facades or burdensome compromises. End of month also brings the close of a chapter that started November 2021. This period has included a lot of rumination and facing the monsters that hide in your closet. Ultimately, you are coming to terms with the sense of “things are not okay” that lies in your belly, and finding ways to appease it without denying it its truth.
Cancer
The next few years you may feel adrift from a home base. This month will bring a set of questions for you to understand what you need to feel connected to the ground, whether it be a metaphorical home feeling or a literal house. You may have always tried to be the peacemaker without paying attention to your own needs. This new cycle you enter will push you to find a balance in your self-assertion. Additionally, ending in October are reconfigurations in your community, friendships, and dreams and hopes. You’ll get to see the bud or flower of what you’ve been kindling. These all may be somehow related to a writing or local community project, or possibly a sibling.
Leo
The new cycle you are entering has you feeling initially at odds with what is familiar to you. There is a sharp desire to flee. The last two years, since November 2021 has had you rework the pieces of a home, and now what you’ve been growing career-wise gets its time out in the sun. This will be a big culmination of all the ways you’ve been reorienting your life in this time. Ultimately, you are finding ways of experiencing bounty that exists in spite of tightening purse strings.
Virgo
Your hand might grow a little lighter, as you get braver about sharing. This period might be about giving, but also understanding what you feel obligated to hold onto. Additionally, the cycle of the last two years comes to end with a big culmination around a travel plan or philosophical journey. Ultimately, these are all related to a redefining of the self that is happening and coming into your body. It might be tough early month, but you will ease into it and find some relief especially around the weekend of the 21st and 22nd.