October Horoscopes

Astrology of October
Current Configurations
Past Months

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

October 2006

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Moon is in AquariusThe Disseminating Moon is in Aquarius: All day
	Moon Void of Course 9:24 pm to 6/9 3:14 am
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

October Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Taurus Horoscope (April 20 - May 20)
Fixed Earth. Your ruling planet is Venus.

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.