Weekly Horoscopes October Week 2
This week marks the last stand of luminous Libran energy as we prepare to go full-throttle into the nocturnal gemstone mining of Scorpio season, and it’s a powerful moment for gaining perspective on all the pieces of ourselves before we plunge into next month’s intimate deep sea missions.
Think of this week as a glittering opportunity to integrate and assimilate all that you’ve learned in “human collision 101.” Where have you opened wide to meet another being exactly where they are, how they are? What did this frictional encounter reveal about your desires and challenges? How have you softened the contours of yourself during these fusional encounters without losing one bit of your essence or identity?
Most of all, let this week feel easy, breezy, beautiful, astro babes. With a New Moon in Libra on October 19th, and Mars moving into Libra on the 22nd, this is your moment to open the windows wide to it all as you look out upon the sun kissed landscape of your own life. There will undoubtedly be battlefields up ahead but for now, treat your own evolution like date night and plan a delicious evening out with the parts of yourself that you’re learning to love for the very first time. Romance them. Dance with them. And cover them with rose petals. While it certainly can take two to make a thing go right, we’ve got to get right with every last “self” we contain first before we learn how to tango.
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Rallying Cry:
Fighting for all facets of myself magnetizes what I desire.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars gracing your house of identity and self-expression, it’s a week to wander the halls of all the “selves” you’ve been and simply notice these different representations as unfolding facets of a person who’s always in a state of becoming. Have an imaginary conversation with an earlier version of yourself and let that chat soften you to exactly who you are now. And know that you don’t have to even envision the next incarnation yet. You’re already becoming the person you’re meant to be and “fighting” for yourself simply means showing up to bring the magic that flows through you when you get out of your own way. This is a gorgeous week for dropping deeply into the present moment and trusting that the more you feel into that space, second by second, the more blank canvases you can create. Love up on the full paint palette this week, Libra. You deserve to bring forth everything that’s inside of you and so much more.
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Rallying Cry:
Mining my dreams creates a clear plan for action.
Power Moves:
As you prepare for your birth season next month, Scorpio, and with Jupiter now traveling through your sign, you’re learning to mix your darkness with light in some super potent ways. Think of this week as a kind of sensory deprivation tank where you can simply float, suspended, through the more mysterious parts of your experience and just notice what becomes illuminated. The answers are found beneath the ground, under the pillow, in the nocturnal realms of whispers and shadows, and you don’t have to go into anything remotely resembling “combat” mode to find them. With the New Moon and Mars moving into your mystical 12th house, this isn’t the shadow world of primal passions and raw, soul-shaking pain that you’re sometimes accustomed to. Instead, this is a space of softness and allowing where you simply let what needs to arise arise, and trust that it will bring shape to what needs to be birthed. Get curious about the shapelessness before you can even begin to see the contours of this new birth and simply float on.
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Rallying Cry:
Joyous group collisions fan my future’s flames.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars entering your arena of future dreaming and scheming, it’s time to get messy with roll onto your life’s canvas in full body paint. This is a week of expansive expression for you and you’re most powered up when you’re colliding with like-minded individuals. You may have to smash a few things to shake up past patterning and become the radical creator we know you can be. Treat this like a pinata party and crack it on open and let the possibilities rain down like candy. Brush up against diverse viewpoints and futuristic imaginings that you can’t even fully see yet. Envision what you want as a distant, glittering dot and then let it reel you in towards the dance party. Just keep that dot in your sights and trust that sheer momentum and exhilarating excitement is all you need to get there. Let it sparkle through your body and ride on.
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Rallying Cry:
Seizing power sometimes means ceding control.
Power Moves:
Oh dear Cappy, you’ve been learning so much this year about loosening the controls, being cared for, and letting yourself get steered without losing any of your potency. With this week’s New Moon and Mars stepping out in your zone of self-sufficiency, let your life feel like not-yet-formed mounds of clay. Be attentive to this feeling of beginning. Before you start a project or a partnership, notice where you start to grip into the “shoulds” of how it has to be. Notice where you take on more responsibility than feels good in your body, because of fear of powerlessness, failure, or ridicule. Trust that power isn’t about anticipating everything in advance and developing fail-safe plans. In this moment, it’s about sitting with the blankness of something that’s not yet been born and summoning the kind of courageous self-sufficiency that allows you to truly leap. Be a baby queen this week Capricorn. The inheritance is yours if you simply slip on the crown and begin.
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Rallying Cry:
A new way into an issue paves wide-open roads.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars lighting up your zone of adventurous truth seeking, this is week for mixing intellect with instinct as you travel beyond the known into some abstract expressionism. You’re one of the zodiac’s premiere smarty pants astro babes, and your flashes of genius give you much needed perspective. Yet there are different ways of knowing available to you right now Aquarius and first, you’ve got to engage in a little bit of unlearning. This doesn’t mean a full-scale overhaul of everything you know to be true. It just means that your field of vision can widen. Treat an issue that you’ve been obsessing over like a children’s fairytale and know that there are other ways in if you simply choose to enter through a new door this time. Trust that you are the protagonist in an epic adventure. Power up. Pack your snacks. And then let yourself be totally and utterly surprised by who and what you meet along the way.
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Rallying Cry:
Initiating intimate encounters can soothe my soul.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars sliding into your underground zone of intimacy and instinct, this week brings you into the boudoir for some serious night moves. As the zodiac’s psychic sponge, you have the capacity to hold incredible reserves of all kinds of touchy feelies. Yet sometimes this is an enormous source of pain as the burden to hold it all leads you too far down your own and others’ rabbit holes, Alice-In-Wonderland style. This week lets you hold it all with more levity, without losing one drop of the medicine. All you have to do is commit to not shutting down right now. Say yes to the things that make you feel strange and curious, and let the electrical sensation of inviting your urges to truly lead course through your veins. You can stay with the so-called “difficult” right now without escaping or retreating. Let this process of plunging give you new water wings you never thought were possible to inflate.
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Rallying Cry:
Reaching out for another’s hands is the way I want to leap.
Power Moves:
Sweet little lambskins, this has been your month for refining your approach to partnership and as it closes out, the New Moon and Mars invite you to settle on down and assess just how far you’ve come. The concept of “letting” is huge for you right now and with your ruler, Mars, hanging in your zone of relationship, the battle you’re fighting is to know when to hold your cards and let another have the first move. Take a guided tour this week. Just listen in to another person’s curation of what they’d like you to experience and let yourself follow their course for a change. Respond rather than react. And notice when your urge to initiate is sometimes borne out of the need to protect your heart. When does being first mean staving off the potential feelings of helplessness that come with being “wronged” or hurt or left behind? Know that you cannot be wronged right now. The only right is to reach out for another being and, in that process, to let yourself be the lovingly innocent little cuties you’ve always been deep down inside.
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Rallying Cry:
When I learn body language, I build a solid base.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars inhabiting your zone of daily rituals and purification, it’s a health and wellness week for feeling into exactly what kinds of embodied practices are feeding your expansion. Start oh so gloriously small, Taurus, and build your base from there. Notice the micro movements of your body as much as you do your thought process and let yourself be truly guided by your flesh and blood. This may sound strangely magical but it’s actually the most grounded, pragmatic way of movement for you right now and as the zodiac’s original earth babe, it’s the perfect method for re-finding your center. Detach from your thought patterns for even one second and listen to what your organs have to say. A small twinge of excitement in your stomach or a tension in your shoulders can give you all the vital information you need to change course, make a decision, find solace. Start a deep dialogue with this channel and listen in as your body talks.
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Rallying Cry:
Celebrating simplicity expands my creative container.
Power Moves:
With the New Moon and Mars hanging in your house of innocent self-expression, it’s a week to fight for your right to party as you strip it back to the basics of what you really love. Initiate a grand romance with the simplest pieces of your life and let yourself dip back into the sandbox of your first loves. We often hear about returning to your “inner child.” But this doesn’t need to be about mining your past for lost techniques or engaging in some kind of forced “play” that doesn’t fit your adult self. Just let yourself be led by the things that seem lightest. Choose the easiest solution not because you’re ducking out from soul growth class, but because the easiest solution is sometimes the one that truly makes your heart sing and your eyes light up like Christmas. Know that letting it feel easier is exactly the push you need to create the life you crave, and then get to work without it feeling one bit like work at all.
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Rallying Cry:
Fighting for my right to revise the past constructs the present protection I need.
Power Moves:
It’s shell building season for you Cancer, and with Mars and the New Moon entering your zone of roots, the past, and emotional security, there’s an opportunity to hold past traumas at arms length as you fight for your right to release old stories, and forge ahead with new forms of security and stability that aren’t one bit tied to externals. Maybe it’s about retreating to your home space quite literally, but what if it could be about finding places to rest in the wide open world? Think of those celebrity interviews where stars talk about how they bring familiar candles with them on round-the-world voyages to create instant sensations of rootedness and belonging. See where you can create your own mini homestyle pop-ups wherever you go and then tuck on in.
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Rallying Cry:
Observing my thought patterns helps me uncover what’s real.
Power Moves:
As Mars and the New Moon enter your zone of perception and communication, the week presents a ripe opportunity for standing apart from your swirling thought patterns and engaging in a flavor of “realism” that actually lets you reimagine what you thought was true. Think about the artistic process of representing experience, whether through visual art, dance, or film. The second someone commits to representing a moment, a gap widens between the original experience and new act. This is a week to really get curious about the creative act of remembering, Leo. Let the different versions of events liberate you to construct your own reality. Even if you feel like it’s silly, start to work with mantras and messaging. Leave little notes around the house for yourself with the words you want to hear. Speak to yourself softly before you go to bed at night and see what resonates in your body. There’s a powerful opportunity to say it true and say it right this week, but first you’ve got to learn some new language.
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Rallying Cry:
Remembering my resources lets me claim my worth.
Power Moves:
As the New Moon and Mars settle into your zone of financial and emotional worth this week, there’s an opportunity to dig your heels on in and get super solid. Tie up the loose ends. Lock some things down. Start to birth some fledgling dreams and half-formed visions into material form. Really delight in the tangible, whether it’s the items that surround you in your house, or the things you know to be true of yourself or loved ones through time. In your endless search to tweak, refine, and process every last detail, sometimes you lose sight of the delicious sensation of sticking with it and just letting it be as it is. When you pause in your process, you can start to feel into the core of your values. And while everything certainly changes and shifts, there are some things that are worth staking a claim to in all their solid gold glory. Trust that you’re absolutely worthy of this kind of security, Virgo, and then settle in for a long breakfast in bed.
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