10/13 (Tue). It's reality check time for important relationships of all kinds as Venus (important people in your life) conjuncts Saturn (is this situation realistic, productive and sustainable?). Stabilize the relationships with long-term potential and release (or de-emphasize) those that don't fulfill a real need.
            A Venus-Mars sextile puts additional emphasis on relationships, and radiates a harmonious energy that should make dialogue and connection easier in the midst of Saturn's testing. Venus-Mars aspects are also great creativity stimulators!
            Jupiter turns direct today, a good time to take the past few months' reflections on philosophy, religion, higher learning and foreign travel and put them into action!

10/14 (Wed). Ceres radiates enhanced financial opportunity as it sextiles Pluto.
            Venus, natural ruler of money, is also getting some nice contacts. For starters, she gains power as she enters Libra, one of the signs she rules. And her biquintile to Neptune makes her especially susceptible to visualization and other Law of Attraction activities. Relationships and creativity are also boosted by these positive Venusian contacts.

10/15 (Thu). Even though Venus entered one of her home signs yesterday, she's not out of the woods. Today's square to Pluto, two days after her conjunction to Saturn, can take whatever issues have been arising and blow them up even bigger. Examine what needs to be released or reoriented in your relationships, finances and creative expression. Once you've made those adjustments, Pluto is free to inundate you with its twin blessings: wealth and power! This is also an excellent time to practice sacred sexuality. (On this subject, I enthusiastically recommend Barbara Carrellas' book Urban Tantra.)

10/16 (Fri). Mars enters Leo today for an unusually extended stay through June 6. He's staying so long because of his upcoming retrograde, which starts on 12/20 and occurs entirely within the Sign of the Monarch. If you're called, this is a good time to venture boldly forth into leadership, enhanced playfulness, activities involving children (including your own inner child) and/or thrusting your creative gifts into the spotlight.
            The Sun aspects two "god planets" today, quincunxing Uranus and trining Neptune. It might be well worth the effort to adjust your life to come into accordance with the intuitive flashes you receive around now, and merging with your Higher Self will be easier than usual. Imagination and creativity will also flow easily.

10/18 (Sun). October's NEW MOON is on the 18th (1:33 am, 25° Libra), a great time for new beginnings in relationship, creativity and finance. This New Moon is heavily aspected: it's receiving trines from Neptune and Chiron, a quincunx from Uranus and squares from the Nodes of the Moon.

            Thus, as you plan and embark upon your new beginnings, you will have powerful guidance available from your intuitive flashes and flows. There may even be a sense of destiny: the feeling that the actions you undertake around this time are important in steering your course into greater harmony with your divine plan.

            This New Moon's Sabian Symbol is, "The sight of an autumn leaf brings to a pilgrim the sudden revelation of the mystery of life and death." For starters, this symbol is timely in an obvious way: in Ashville, NC, where I live, the leaves are now turning beautiful shades of red and yellow up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It's also timely in a larger sense, since, with the unprecedented global changes now upon us - environmental, financial, social, and many more - we are truly all pilgrims venturing into an unknown future.
            I believe that much of the reality we currently know will soon die as humanity launches into a wonderful and miraculous evolutionary leap forward. It is now very much time to let die all the ways in which we are limiting our personal growth and expansion, while opening to a new way of life that is breathtaking beyond our wildest dreams. This will probably seem impossible, until, thanks to the Sabian Symbol's "sudden revelation" that awaits each of us, it is clearly seen as inevitable.
        As a reminder that even a transformation of such magnificence may well be accompanied by growing pains, we also have a Mars-Pluto quincunx. It's a good day to practice your anger management skills, or to avoid those who haven't practiced theirs! But if you can jujitsu past this aspect's negative tendencies, it can provide tremendous energy for any endeavor. Energetic physical activity, including sacred sexuality, is especially well supported.