October Horoscopes

Astrology of October
Current Configurations
Past Months

Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius
Cancer	Capricorn
Leo	Aquarius
Virgo	Pisces

October 2008

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Quarter Moon is in LibraThe First Quarter Moon is in Libra: All day
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

October Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Sagittarius Horoscope (November 22 - December 21)
Mutable Fire. Your ruling planet is Jupiter.

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.