October

Lifestyle, Workload and Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Gemini, do all that you can – even if it is demanding and complicated – to use natural offers, opportunities and solutions which help you so much with your lifestyle, workload and wellbeing in October. Bacchus, Mercury (your ruler), Venus Retrograde, the Sun and Jupiter in Scorpio all suggest it’s time to get on with things, even if there is no perfect answer. You simply won’t have these chances again, as Jupiter – the planet of growth, renewal, expansion, hope, optimism and overdue improvements – won’t be back in this chart zone for another 12 years. There is another reason for getting stuck into things as quickly as possible this month. Mercury, the planet of communication, information and negotiation starts moving retrograde shadow, near Monday 29th October. Even though I doubt you’ll be able to avoid all the pros and cons at the decisive Full Moon on Wednesday 24th October, try to press ahead with whatever needs a commitment, before you head into the usual delays, reversals and changes which come with the Mercury Retrograde cycle. In fact, Gemini, if you leave it too late for choices about your paid or unpaid work, university degree or voluntary role – December could rewrite the whole thing and not as you originally intended. Thus, the need to get cracking. The more effort you put into work (in particular) earlier this year, the more likely you are to find good outcomes in October, but even if there is just something very small to cultivate here, do it with all your might, because Jupiter will deliver again, 12 years from now. Gemini, this cycle is also very much about your physical constitution, strength, energy, stamina and your ‘machine’ – your body – and the shape you are literally in. Checking the condition, that your condition is in (to quote the song) is a smart idea in October. Again, try to push it forward and if possible finalise your goals well before Mercury goes retroshade on the 29th.

Secrets, Your Hidden Side, Your Soul, Your Naked Truth
Uranus in Taurus delivers rather electrifying moments of truth about your secrets, your hidden side, your soul or your naked truth –  near October 6th, 10th this month and particularly around the Full Moon of Wednesday 24th October – followed by another lightning bolt near Halloween on 31st October when you experience a Venus-Uranus opposition. The best way to think about this cycle is in terms of independence. We associate Uranus with ‘freed from’ and ‘liberated by’ and you can complete the sentences in both cases. As the Twelfth House of your chart is very much about your hidden depths and subconscious, as well as your astral body (your aura and chakra system are part of that) you might say October is a highly unusual month. Perhaps you need to be liberated by meditation, for example, or therapy. At the same time, you may want to be freed from – a secret you have been carrying around for a very long time. Uranus has likely not been in your Twelfth House, in Taurus in your mature adult lifetime. It can feel challenging, exciting, confronting and sometimes shocking, all at once. Gemini, you will need more time and space alone to deal with what is going on, and perhaps more sleep. Grounding yourself by going for walks in the park, by water or in nature is a tried and tested way of dealing with the characteristic ‘wired’ feeling that can accompany this cycle. Sometimes, a tremendous hidden truth about yourself can be revealed on a Uranus Twelfth House transit. If this is the case, try to step outside yourself and the situation enough to see that in order to be free, that secret had to be exposed.

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