This upcoming month features the last eclipse of the year, and with it comes the mobilization of action towards desires, protection, nesting, and connection.
The Libra Solar Eclipse on October 2nd is conjoined the South Node, Lilith, and Mercury, while Venus is in Scorpio making a grand Water Trine to Mars and Saturn. I read this as the sustaining or maintaining of libidinal energy. Or to plunge in some way into some cooler waters and be refreshed by the sting. The New Moon is seeking for definite release, but it feels generative as long as it is real, raw, and authentic.
Planets move in and out of Scorpio this month bringing an emphasis to the role of Mars in Cancer during this time. Since Mars entered Cancer in early September, conflict has been playing out very close to the heart. There are muddied ties, uncomfortable retreats away, feelings that have a lot of burden, expectation, and history to them. Perhaps you are seeing it play out in the home space or with familial-likes bonds. October becomes a month to try to really come to a new kind of agreement, whether to dig in deeper or to find what needs to happen in order for forgiveness to melt over. With Cancer as a symbolically evasive/non-confrontational sign, maybe the planetary movements this month are giving us the space to learn how to move around others with enough space.
The Full Moon in Aries on October 17th shows the possibilities for conflict. The scene seems to center around the wounds from giving-and-taking, and the necessary rebalancing of a dynamic. With Jupiter in a positive aspect, there seems to be support from somewhere, whether from a friend, mentor, or a community.
In talking about time, I am obliged to acknowledge the time around us. Where does time go when futurity is threatened? It’s not about the stars, but about what we do and how we relate around the structures that are both built by us and building us. As we reconstruct within, we reorient reality. I hope that you will remember and commit to the continuation and liberation of Palestine and its people.
~ October Reading Availability ~
horoscopes (read for rising sign)
Libra
The beginning of the month will bring a big release. Something is departing, and because of this, you will feel a deep draw to rest and recuperate as you acknowledge this end. As you lie on your bed, the sounds outside of the window are portals. You are presented with a box of treasures, the possibility to funnel resource into your life in a more sustainable and nourishing way.
Scorpio
Equivocation, playing both sides, might be a trigger for you this month, as you feel ready to wage war. You move through the world in a passionate manner, and the planetary alignments are assisting with your cause. The energy is especially productive for study, travel, publishing, and creative endeavors.
Sagittarius
Your friendship networks are going through a kind of revitalizing period, while some connections slip away, others will be redefined. The key to this process is your recognition of the feelings of shame, guilt, burden, expectation that have been building up. Most notably, you may have needed to feel needed and have latched on to people in the past, but this bond may need to have space to breath in order to really flourish.
Capricorn
Something in the sphere of your career or job is getting released early this month. It may be a kind of letting go of expectation towards yourself or the end of a big project. You are in the flow of relationships, and this moment actually represents the beginning of some new alliances and partnerships that can emerge out of the end of other responsibilities. You’ve been in a committed struggle towards understanding the concepts of belonging and community, and you get to see the fruit of some of that mental exercise this month.
Aquarius
You are focused more on building up a project, perhaps an actual poetic construction of material. You’ve been challenged this year to focus on how to organize your resources, and October signals a moment of possible flow, where you can use your excess resource to build new structures. You are also out and about this month, reconfiguring your relationship to community, fanning out into long and short distances.
Pisces
You are capable this month of movement forward into a kind of rare self-alignment. Looking around you, you will find inspiration and support towards the new direction you are moving in. Part of this does include some renegotiations of intimacy and shared resources. One chapter of this ends to allow for new doors to open. Insights around you stick to the surface of the dashboard as you move ahead.
Aries
The way you move through relationships will be challenged this month, and compromise may feel especially difficult. Your patience runs low, as you feel a reserve of anger and exhaustion flow through, seeking to flood out the extra noise. This month features the possibility to process a lot of built up trauma and pain, to see yourself more clearly and allow yourself the space to move forward.
Taurus
This month you reconsider a working or lifestyle dynamic. This dynamic may be entrenched through years of compromise or catering to others’ needs, and now it must be undone in order for things to flow comprehensively. You are especially blessed this month in your social life, with friends, new connections, and even possible romance.
Gemini
You’ve been figuring out exactly how to work with a monetary resource, whether because it’s too much or it’s too little. October represents a moment for you to be able to channel it in productive ways. Work may be especially flowing, and this allows for a kind of release/ending/resolution around a creative project.
Cancer
This fall, your energy has been growing, in feral as well as refreshing ways. You’re not afraid to embody your inner snapping turtle, for sure. It’s wise to think about how this energy can be used to nurture the creative source within you. You’ll be inspired, or compelled, to depart from a kind of familial/home dynamic, whether it means to really leave or to change your mindset.
Leo
Friendships and old community alliances will be a space for endings and release this month. You may have already been drifting away but unwilling to cut loose the tie. However, the ways you have negated or tried to ignore your own emotional experience has slowly created an oversight to the way you understand your own world, and then when you finally see around you, you may feel discombobulated. October provides the chance to fix this dynamic and reconnect with yourself.
Virgo
The difficulties of relationships have been a burden for you this year, but October allows some relief. You are especially able to feel a flow or ease in various kind of alignments, group, one-on-one, romantic or platonic, and this ease will allow you to especially make sense of where you belong and what dreams you want to cultivate. Financial resources may also require extra attention this month, as you figure out where you should invest your energy.