Pagan Village News

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 communications and negotiations. You’ve hosted Jupiter the planet of expansion, abundance, happiness, good luck, and higher levels of education in your third house. The third house covers the topic of “my local community.” That means your siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, and your ability to communicate, negotiate, and make contracts with them. 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, Leo loves their extended family and community. You are often accused of being unwilling to compromise, but people don’t realize how important it is to you that the people in your community are happy, prosperous, and treated fairly. Some in your community love your take-charge ways and leadership skills. Others think your attempts at diplomacy come across as more dictator-like. You always mean to bring balance to your corner of the world, even if they don’t see that. So when you focus on your third house of communications and negotiations, it’s not necessarily from a desire to babble on and on, but an honest attempt to get your point across in a win-win scenario. You should have had a wonderful time negotiating business deals, contracts, and mediating through the larger family dynamics. Success in these areas should have been easier than usual.

The new moon on October 3^rd is in this same third 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 it 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 negotiations, sales, and communications, you should have a pretty good idea what does and does not work for you. Evaluate your communications style and implement any final changes you think are necessary. You can also evaluate the community that you live in -- is it the right one for you? Should you move to a new area with other like-minded people? It’s not unusual for Leo’s to cut all ties with family members if that is what they believe is in their best interest. This energy will be fairly strong over the next month, so don’t stress about having to decide everything right this minute. Take your time and find your own truth.

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 your marriage and business partnerships sector. You could find that you experience some intuitive knowledge bordering on almost psychic knowing of what your partner needs to hear. Your ability to communicate openly and honestly from your heart is quite strong at this time. You should have some creative insight and will just want to double check that all is as it seems before implementing any business partnerships. 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 third house of Libra and communications. Together they create excellent intellectual potential, your mathematical and financial skills should be in peak form at this time. Considering all of the negotiations, business contracts, commerce, and sales meetings 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 pessimistic regarding your home life, Venus and Uranus square off causing relationship troubles with your lover, however Mercury and Uranus are working together to try bring about bright ideas, imagination, and inventive concepts to help aid you in your communications with your sweetie. Stay cool and focus on discussing the issues and 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 negotiations and business contracts 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 ninth house of “global awareness” meaning long-distance travel, foreign cultures, mass media, publishing, theology, philosophy, teaching, and studying. If the contracts and communications you’ve been working on are tied in with a foreign business market or university level education, you should see some great results. Saturn and Venus are 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 plans 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 at 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. You’ll feel like you are in a tug of war between your family and your career. They bring about an increased mental energy, but there’s a good chance for a great deal of tension caused by overworking. 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 fourth house of privacy, residence, home life, and roommates. You will have the Midas Touch in these areas. You could use this time to start a home-based business, remodel, purchase a nicer residence, or redecorate your living space to make it a place of comfort and joy, 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 private life.

The day after Jupiter moves into Scorpio, the Sun will send it’s warmth and light over to Uranus the planet of humanitarian causes, friendships, groups, committees, clubs, electricity, and the Internet. Originality, magnetism, alertness, and enthusiasm will light up your private life, bonus income, sexuality, and sharing sectors. This is a great time to look at how to create a romantic love nest for you and your sweetie or to create a second source of income that you can work on from home. Halloween should be a wonderfully fun, sexy, and upbeat night for everyone and it looks like you have all kinds of passion and fire in your private life sector. You will probably choose to stay home with your sweetie 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.