Inner Space October 2013
by Eric Francis
Mercury goes retrograde in
Scorpio on October 21 and stations direct on November 10. This is the third and
last Mercury retrograde of the year, all of which take place exclusively in
water signs. This promises to be a particularly interesting phase in part owing
to the fact that it takes place in Scorpio (rarely ever boring) and also
because there are two eclipses in the neighborhood. The first is a penumbral
eclipse of the Moon in Aries on October18 (the Aries Full Moon), followed by an
annular total eclipse of the Sun in Scorpio on November 3 (the Scorpio New
Moon). This combination of two eclipses and a Mercury retrograde strongly
implies that it would be best to get ahead on large projects and to be
conscious what details you leave for the end of the year. This phase will also
be a proving moment for commitments, which you may discover either deepen or go
away.
Aries
(March 20-April 19)
You will need to micromanage
your joint financial affairs. This would include everything from shared bank
accounts to shared bills to mutually held investments. I suggest you read
everything twice and take notes about all conversations that involve plans or
commitments. If there are contracts or major purchases involved, analyze the
situation and determine how quickly you really need to move—for now, the slower
the better. If a proposed arrangement or deal of some kind encounters delays,
use them wisely, and in any event, make sure you feel absolutely confident
before signing. If you have questions, make sure you ask them. The subtle point
of this astrology involves your most intimate partnerships, and it's not
financial but rather emotional. The general heading is commitment;
disagreements over money are quite potentially symbolic of something else that
needs to be addressed.
Taurus
(April 19-May 20)
Life is an ongoing
conversation, and it always seems to morph into something new. For the next
couple of months, however, you may not be able to agree with anyone about too
much, particularly about how they feel. Yet in one key situation it's necessary
to have minimal mutual understanding. Take those words one at a time: minimal,
mutual and understanding. To you that might feel like you have to submit to
someone else's will, which you seem to both crave and resist the most. I suggest
skipping that procedure and instead understand why it's necessary to have basic
ground rules, and that once those are established you follow them to the
letter. Let that be like the banister that guides you through the dark. Let
that agreement be the place where you are certain you're not compromising your
own values, but rather giving and receiving something of value.
Gemini
(May 20-June 21)
If you're feeling averse to
doctors, I don't blame you—these days they are more like lawyers than they are like
nurses. I suggest you take any medical advice or information as a point of view
rather than as it's usually taken, as gospel truth. Get as many perspectives on
an issue as you can. As a Gemini, one of the most significant things you can do
to take care of your health is to take care of your lungs. If your lungs are
healthy and you treat them well, you're much more likely to experience good
health overall. That also means giving yourself room to breathe, which also
means room to feel. Notice if you feel cramped and do something about it.
Ultimately breath is one of the most significant connections to your inner
nature: inspire, respire and spirit all come from the same root concept.
Cancer
(June 21-July 22)
Get underneath your
sex/romance situation—there is plenty going on below the surface that you will
benefit from knowing. One layer you'll encounter is a pattern that seems to be
stuck in place from the past. This may involve other people’s values that
you've taken on. They might belong to your parents, prior partners, or social
norms to which you think you're supposed to conform. You may notice that most
humans rarely ever break through this layer—and that is all about supposedly
honoring authority. To be free enough to experience your own feelings, you will
need to challenge whatever authority you seem to have internalized. The bravery
involved is not about that challenge; rather, it's about what you will feel and
experience when you get beyond it.
Leo
(July 22-August 23)
The Sun in Libra means new
and interesting adventures in which you're directly involved rather than a
spectator. We live in a world of watchers and exhibitionists; direct
participation is becoming a thing of the past, though clearly you have a
different path ahead. The main difference between watching and participating is
that experience changes the ones who takes part directly in it. There is risk
involved, and risk leaves one open to something new. If you're wondering
whether you're actually part of the scene instead of just looking at it: ask
yourself if you're taking a chance (greater than the price of a ticket). Ask
yourself how an experience might change you. Notice whether you must open your
mind in order to understand or process what comes your way. Get ready for a stretch.
Virgo
(August 23-September 22)
The Sun's trek through your
sign was certainly more than most people were expecting, and you may have been
through more than you were planning. One theme from your birthday season continues—your
relationships are dependent on how you feel about yourself, but cannot properly
be the motive for getting clear about your inner reality. That's a work in
progress—by which I mean both. It will be more helpful to your growth and
happiness to emphasize relationships that are on level ground (friends,
colleagues, creative partners) rather than the ones that involve submission,
power and influence. After a while these will seem like two different games
with different purposes. At this point in your life, the thing commonly called “romance”
may be a diversion—and fortunately, there are much better alternatives.
Libra
(September 22-October 23)
The Sun's movement through
your sign into late October will provide a feeling of completion that has
either been missing, or passing by in fleeting experiences. Since the Sun is in
Libra for just 30 out of 365 days of the year, there are two ways to make the
most of this experience. One is to refuse to take it for granted—count the
opportunities you have now as rare, if not once in a lifetime. The second is to
allow what happens over the next few weeks to reveal what is possible when you
engage fully with your life, with the world and with the events that are
developing in this moment. You've been waiting for this moment for a long time;
there is no longer a need to wait, or to consider every possibility for what
might go wrong. Control is a non-issue—what you have is better: the ability to
make decisions on the spot and get an immediate result.
Scorpio
(October 23-November 22)
It's time to bring some of
your true feelings to light. You seem to be in a phase of deciding that you
feel what you feel, and it's no one else's business. The problem with this line
of reasoning is that eventually, you'll feel like your feelings are none of
your business either. So bring those unusual, dark shades to the surface and
see how they look when they get a taste of sunshine and oxygen. The colors will
change because the elements of your feelings will react to awareness. I'll say
this another way, in case I'm being too poetic: you may think you feel one way,
but once you start to express yourself, you'll begin to make discoveries about
what's really going on. That in turn will allow you to evolve into new
emotional and intellectual experiences, direct rather than the theoretical or
abstract.
Sagittarius
(November 22-December 22)
You seem like you're about
to burst, and it's about time. You've been ready to crack your shell for many
seasons, though the sensation has been like one of those days where it's always
threatening rain, and the thunder is rumbling, but the sky never lets go. There
are precipitating factors in your environment that may bring on a spiritual
love explosion; what looks for all the world like a kind of mystical ecstasy
experience with no drugs necessary. As for bursting, what you may know is that
once you start loving you don't ever stop. The question is why you would want
to. And that is a good question to ask if you need to—though that would not be
about justifying holding back but rather reminding yourself that you're free to
plunge into whatever (or whoever) is inviting you in.
Capricorn
(December 22-January 20)
Part of really being yourself
involves enduring some unpopularity. This is a fact that is left out of the “be
yourself” discussion—or relegated to the fine print. Some of enduring
unpopularity involves figuring out how little so many people know, and, sadly,
how dull they really are. If you find yourself anyplace you don't fit in,
consider the possibility that you're too interesting. That leaves you with
another challenge, which is finding someplace that actually intrigues you. The
fastest way to get there seems to be entertaining yourself rather than going on
a search. The kind of interesting people you want are the ones who don't need
too much affirmation of how cool they are; whose minds are creative enough to
skip the whole social level of awesomeness but who can have fun with it when
they want to. That describes you pretty well these days.
Aquarius
(January 20-February 19)
Use your charm as you
untangle your latest leadership challenge. I can promise that this will not be
your last such challenge of the year—there are more coming, and they get more interesting—and
the whole journey will call on you to employ the highest and deepest levels of
your intelligence. Yet more significantly, you will need a dependable way to
get people working together. Sometimes it's necessary to use your power and/or
authority, but it's energy consuming, and there is often collateral damage.
Being charming and a bit seductive is a way of getting people to do what they
want to do anyway. I would remind you that as the next few weeks develop,
circumstances, motives and rationales involved in your work (and other)
responsibilities will be too complicated to explain to everyone around you. That
won't be necessary, as long as you know what you have to do.
Pisces
(February 19-March 20)
Notice that your long-term
vision is coming into focus. Events and circumstances of the past year have
conspired to enforce this—with many reminders that you simply cannot ignore the
concept of the future and what you want to create with it. That means focusing
ideas and making tangible decisions now, such that you are taking solid,
measurable steps toward what you're envisioning. Over the next two months this
process will accelerate rapidly: both the information and the points of
decision are going to be coming in faster, and you may be enacting your plans
long before you thought you would. Keep your mind in order; use your resources
wisely, which means being ready to use them when necessary. Remember that you
are the only person who can be a visionary of your own life. Notice who
supports you in that, and collaborate with them.
Posted by Chris Hewitt
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