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As October begins we are gearing down for a big shift of energies. Your focus over the last year or so has been primarily about your own education and belief systems. You’ve hosted Jupiter the planet of expansion, abundance, happiness, good luck, and higher levels of education in your ninth house. The ninth house covers the exact same topics. Jupiter rules the ninth house so he was even more powerful in your chart than some others because in essence, he felt right at home. Libra governs this section of your chart for you and Libra loves all things that involve luxury, beauty, love, fairness, justice, splurging, and is especially fond of couples and partnerships. In general, Aquarius loves to accumulate knowledge and to travel the globe even if only through books and foreign studies. You have a great love of learning about other peoples, cultures, and belief systems. You are able to do so without judging them as right or wrong and you easily hold true to your own beliefs without becoming lost in the vast amount of information the world has to offer. Your ideal partner understands this about you and is just as thirsty for exploration as you are. You are often accused of being a rebel, but people don’t realize that you really don’t mean any harm by brining an eclectic belief system into the world. You really do find truth and beauty in many different philosophies, theologies, and cultural teachings. Your personal eclectic blend is not meant to be disrespectful to anyone. It’s your way of honoring all that is beautiful in those societies that you relate to. You show your love by sharing your vast collection of trivia, knowledge, and teaching stories with others. So when you focus on your ninth house of higher education and foreign travel, it’s not necessarily from a traditionally educational frame of mind. You are simply trying to make sure that you get to know everyone, as the world is full of friends we haven’t met yet.

The new moon on October 3^rd is in this same ninth house ruled by Libra. New moons are typically a time for launching new adventures, starting businesses, beginning new projects, and such. This one is also a solar eclipse. I did some reading about eclipses and depending on whom you read, it’s bad news coming or it’s simply changes coming. For me personally, they usually mean that a light is shone on an issue and in so doing the truth of the matter comes to light. Truth often causes us to want to clean up, fix, or alter our current situation. The truth can cause us to see flaws but in so doing we are able to make up our own minds about how we might like to address those flaws. So I would not call this a bad thing. Think of it more as a cosmic cleaning out of the closets. We just don’t need all of those old broken things any more. Some of it can be let go and some of it can be mended and kept. Since you’ve spent the last thirteen months focusing on the concepts of education, philosophy, publishing, travel, teaching, and theology, you should have a pretty good idea as to what you serves your highest good and what is simply holding you back. Launch a final house cleaning of your personal belief systems so to speak. Go over your list of personal laws, dogmas, and rules that you live by with a fine toothcomb and decide which are right for you. Then, let go of those beliefs that no longer fit within your vision of what is in the best interest of the greater good. This energy will be fairly strong over the next month, so don’t stress about having to get it all done right this minute. Take your time and allow the light of truth to shine over your personal philosophies of life.

This same new moon solar eclipse is working smoothly with Neptune who is still hanging out in the humanitarian sign of Aquarius which rules over. You could find that you experience some intuitive knowledge bordering on almost psychic knowing of what needs to happen between you and the rest of the world. You have an almost magical opportunity to see the truth in how global studies pays off by giving us more self-awareness. The Sun and Neptune will continue working together until the 10^th.

At the same time that the new moon is causing a solar eclipse, Mercury and Jupiter are joining together to become traveling companions until Friday the 7^th. They are both still in this ninth house of Libra and higher learning. Together they create excellent intellectual potential; your communications skills and ability to discern fact from fiction should be in peak form at this time. Considering all of the travel and in-depth studying going on in your life right now, this couldn’t have come at a better time.

You are due to have a bit of a rough weekend leading up to the full moon on Monday the 17^th. Beginning Thursday the 13^th, Mercury and Saturn square off causing you to be hard on yourself regarding business partnerships and high profile romantic relationships. Venus and Uranus square off causing relationship troubles between you and a friend or group. It looks like someone is being dishonest about money matters. However, Mercury and Uranus are work together to try bringing about bright ideas, imagination, and inventive concepts to help aid you in your attempt to come to replace the missing money. It should all blow over before Monday morning.

Monday the 17^th we have a full moon partnered with Jupiter. The Sun will be escorting Jupiter out of Libra and into Scorpio over the next ten days or so. Normally, full moons are a time when things we’ve been working on come to an end. It’s a time of accomplishment, letting go, grand finales, and other types of endings. So this would be a great time to finish up those educational, legal, publishing projects you’ve been working on. Jupiter’s involvement in this full moon makes it extremely lucky and full of good fortune. Optimism and abundance are the keywords here. The moon itself is in your third house of local travel, local community, primary education, communications, negotiations, siblings, and neighbors. This could be a good time for reflecting on hometown communities and what that means to you. Saturn and Venus are also working well together at this time but they will only bless financially responsible events, so don’t go off on any crazy schemes. Do your homework and make sure you’ve double and triple checked your financial dealings with partnerships and large groups so that you’ll have the added blessing of Saturn and Venus during this time.

The weekend from Friday the 21^st through Monday the 24^th has Mercury and Mars opposing each other. Mercury rules communications, negotiations, commerce, and business contracts, as well as siblings and neighbors. Mars rules energy, drive, work ethic, and warrior aspects. These two are in your private life and public life sectors. All forms of family versus work, privacy versus publicity, and home versus community at large are aggravated. They bring about an increased mental energy, but there’s a good chance for a great deal of tension caused by overworking. It feels like you are torn between your family and your career. On Monday, the Moon sends over a bit of help and smoothes out your powers of concentration so that things are resolved and back to normal from then on.

Late Tuesday the 25^th or early the 26^th, depending on where you live in the world, Jupiter officially changes signs from Libra to Scorpio. The entire week will feel the transitional energies as our focus of joy and happiness changes. As I said earlier, Jupiter brings expansion, good luck, abundance, and joy to all it touches. When things are good, they are really really good. When things go bad, they go really really bad. However, in general Jupiter’s main goal is to have everyone happy and getting along with great prosperity and joy for everyone. In Libra that meant that partnerships, justice, diplomacy, art, music, intellect, diplomacy, and love were blessed. It also meant that when planets opposed or squared off with Jupiter that there was a tendency towards indecisiveness, laziness, and snobbery.

As Jupiter moves into Scorpio the focus will be quite different. Scorpio rules sharing and the concept of “our survival.” Many people don’t understand why Scorpio’s can be so revengeful and dangerous when crossed. They rule over truth as it applies to trust, which is essential when sharing resources, sexuality, personal phoenix rising moments, and such. To break trust in these areas is absolutely unforgivable in their eyes. This is also why they are so good at ferreting out deep dark secrets. Passion is also theirs to watch over because without a passionate connection to another human being, there is no motivation to actually share what you have with them. Taxes, inheritances, bonus checks, royalty checks, spouse’s income, and such are covered in this area because it’s about trusting that the other person will share with us as promised. The natural cycle of life, death, and rebirth are also covered by Scorpio because it looks at the big picture surrounding “our survival” as a species. They are not fascinated by death from a perverse wicked mentality but from a place of wanting to truly understand the deepest aspects of what it means to really live life and what it means to die. The result is that they go through a number of personal rebirths during any given lifetime. So, Jupiter will bless all these areas over the next 13 months or so.

For you personally, Scorpio is in your tenth house of career, publicity, fame, work ethics, rewards, public recognition, and a sense of duty. You will have the Midas touch in these areas but you will also find that at times when Jupiter is crossed the wrong way, these areas could become quiet hostile and ugly. Trust and truth are very sacred things to Scorpio and you will have the opportunity to experience the beauty of these two things working together in your professionalism sector.

The day after Jupiter moves into Scorpio, the Sun will send it’s warmth and light over to your ruler, Uranus, the planet of humanitarian causes, friendships, groups, committees, clubs, electricity, and the Internet. Originality, magnetism, alertness, and enthusiasm will light up your professional life and personal wealth sectors. Halloween should be a wonderfully fun, sexy, and upbeat night for everyone. It’s the one night when you can be really eccentric and crazy without everyone giving you a hard time. In general, folks should be in a good mood and you’ve got three planets in your house of socializing so don’t be surprised if you are out on the town tonight.

Skye Thomas is a philosopher, published author, astrologer, and freelance writer specializing in inspiring leaps of faith. After twenty years of studying spirituality, metaphysics, astrology, personal growth, motivation, soulmates, and parenting, she has come to understand that there is a time and a season for everything. She writes horoscopes for those who wish to navigate their way through life giving them a preview of what is around the next bend in the road. For more information, go to www.TomorrowsEdge.net. To read more about Skye and to sign up to receive her free weekly newsletter, go to www.SkyeThomas.com. To purchase her books and other inspiring gift ideas, go to www.CafePress.com/TomorrowsEdge.