October is a month where you can mix business with pleasure. Innovating on your existing material will be easier if you follow your natural curiosity. Get creative with a new technique or incorporate something you learned about on your recent travels.
Make it a party! After Venus enters your eleventh house of friends and groups on October 17, your social circles will be buzzing with life and invitations to mingle. If you sense an opportunity to network, take advantage of it. However, there might be some initial social awkwardness to overcome until Venus completes her square to Saturn on October 28.
Pisces Rising: This month is great for learning pursuits, especially when it comes to engaging with the culinary, artistic, and academic traditions of other cultures. Mercury’s transit through Scorpio beginning on October 13 will facilitate your exploration into the unknown. Venus’ presence in the same part of the sky during the first half of the month can also enhance your journeys and help you connect with others more easily while traveling.
Your ruling planet, Jupiter, stations retrograde on October 9, bringing you into the next chapter of deepening your understanding of where you came from and loving where you live. It’s normal for doubts to arise when living in a new place or experiencing forward momentum in life.
The solar eclipse on October 2 closes out a grief process that has been ongoing over the last year. It may involve some sort of tangible shift in your financial circumstances as well. If you’ve been dealing with debt or finding new income streams as former sources dried up, this eclipse will advance that plot and potentially bring it to a conclusion.
Enjoyed reading about what’s in store for October? Look back at September’s horoscope to see how things lined up.