October

Your House, Apartment, Family, Household, Home Town or Homeland
Leo, this is your last chance in a long time, to secure solutions or big advantages with your house, apartment, family, household, home town or homeland. Bacchus, Mercury, Venus Retrograde, the Sun and Jupiter all suggest a packed month of pleasure, planning, complicated domestic relationships (which go back and forth into December) and tremendous opportunities and solutions which you only see once every 12 years. The trick is to realise that the complex situation involving a relative, flat mate, tenant, landlady, lodger (or even the council or government) will take you around in circles for weeks. This is less important than the actual paperwork or handshake agreement, though. Try to finalise everything before Mercury, the planet of communication, information and negotiation starts moving retrograde shadow, near Monday 29th October. If you leave it too late you will end up in a cycle which is notorious for reversals or rescheduling! You’ll also be dealing with polar opposites with your home, property, clan or flat mates now, either because you find yourself in two minds about Option A and Option B – or because a key person involved with the family, house, apartment, household, home town or homeland question is taking an opposite position. This is more obvious at the Full Moon on Wednesday 24th October which you may prefer to leave open (allow 24 hours either side) as there are far easier times to make big choices about your people or your place. Anything left hanging near Halloween will still be unresolved in December when you have to retrace your steps, as this is what Mercury Retrograde cycles deliver. Try to time it right this month. Do all you can before the 29th and even then, allow for the fact that nothing is fixed, firm, final or finished with a certain someone until you go into pre-Christmas, and that family or domestic situation started back in September! Sometimes it takes 3-4 months for final outcomes with a relative, tenant, landlady and so on, and it’s very much so at the moment, Leo. If you must pursue a new lease, Air BnB, a mortgage, renovations, family reunion or similar after Mercury begins his Retrograde Shadow on 29th October, read the fine print, get a second opinion and have Plan B and Plan C up your sleeve.

Your Success, Status, Ambition, Position or Mission
Leo, Uranus is the planet of revolution, upheaval, radical change, freedom and independence. We find him in your zone of career, unpaid work and university life – making waves – near October 6th, 10th, 24th (when he is opposed by your ruler the Sun) – and the Full Moon near Wednesday 24th October just emphasises the need to alter course. Halloween on 31st October is the date for a Venus-Uranus opposition, so the month begins and ends with exactly the same question – how are you going to surf the waves of change, when it comes to your success and status? History and astrology tell us that the best thing to do when the world turns upside-down is to spin with it. Adjust, adapt, bend and flex – this is necessary mental yoga, Leo. You are a fixed sign, but this is no time to try and fix your position. Your chosen field, profession, special interest area or other ‘Everest’ of ambition to climb requires brand new tactics. Forget about standing firm, holding fast or clinging to where you just came from. If you are prepared to duck and dive, nip sideways and zig-zag in the electrical storm which is ahead, you’ll gain. What do you gain? Leo – not peace of mind or stability, or even security or certainty.  There is no way Uranus in Taurus will ever deliver that. But – something you have likely never known before is on offer if you are willing to embrace what is shifting around you, in terms of your position, mission and ambition. It’s best described freedom from, and freedom to… Freedom from (insert word here) and freedom to (insert another word here!)

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