Virgo Horoscope for October 2013

You are in the midst of a process of powerful change, Virgo, and there is no longer any sense in attempting to deny it. As you move through major seismic personality shifts this month you are also focused on the resources that you bring to the table, including your finances. You are learning to see fluctuations there as part of a useful process of integration with other values that you hold dear, although not necessarily at the forefront of your consciousness. Your ruler, Mercury, turns to retrograde motion later in the month in your communications sector, and you might feel almost shut down in this area, and forced back to yourself, which brings your inner work to even greater focus. The world of your vast and yeasty interior has its own hidden agenda that has brought you this far, and from which you ultimately benefit. By valuing the internal process that moves you toward wholeness and integration, you honor yourself at these deeper levels.

As the month begins, you are comfortable in you own skin, with the Moon crossing into your sign. You are also in a meditative mode, still taking in recent information that came to you over the last few days, likely from both external and internal sources, following the Last Quarter Moon of September 26th. This phase, lasting through the first few days of the present month, aligns with a thorough-going reassessment of everything that has gone before it in the lunar cycle, and is a particularly important juncture for your particular sign, because your ruler, Mercury, has been making important aspects to transformative Pluto, indicating that transformation is up.

The subsequent transits of October bring the outer planet energies of Uranus and Pluto more completely into the picture; although in many ways these two powerhouse planets have been active in your solar chart for the last few years. It might be only now that you are beginning to really catch on that the signals are there for you to observe: your world is changing, and in unexpected ways. This is really nothing but a good thing, since stasis is impossible in nature, where everything that lives remains in constant flux.

With Neptune at an angular placement in your solar chart, residing your relationship sector, you might find you're your concept of partnership interaction is idealized and also somewhat confusing, ethereal and misty-vague. You are aware that something about your significant relationship energy has a strong dose of Spirit about it now, and could perhaps be providing an opening for better exploring your own emotional depths. Thus, as your self-concept continues to evolve, partnership issues are idealized and difficult to pin down in concrete terms.

Since Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is also activated in this same sector of your solar chart, it is also possible that old wounds or habitual reaction patterns will arise in the context of interpersonal connection. If so, the best idea is, by silently witnessing your reactivity, to dispassionately explore these areas, likely the residue of unresolved childhood trauma. When you make better friends with your own internal process in this fashion, you pave the way for better acceptance and healing of these wounded places within you.