1. October Astrology Forecast plus so much more
October Astrology Forecast
The primary planetary news this month is Saturn moving into Scorpio on October 5th. This
takes us to the emotional depths for cleansing and healing. Sadly, some of the less than
positive aspects of this shift started coming in with violent demonstrations over the Mohammed
film trailer that offended Muslims. It is not that the movie short caused the violence, but it
triggered deep emotions within people of that faith. Saturn in Scorpio has a good side
too. You eliminate that which is no longer needed so you can be more powerful putting
your energy into that which remains. Beyond that, October looks to be a fairly smooth.
October 1-6: On Tuesday, Venus moves into efficient Virgo until October 28th, so this is a
time to get organized. Beautify your home, buy practical fall clothes, or cleanse your kidneys.
Thursday through Saturday are more intense, so allow extra space in your life.
Jupiter turns retrograde on Thursday until late January, so take a prophetic look ahead
now to see what you need to prepare for next spring. This gives you time to get ready for
the next expansion in your life. On Friday, Saturn begins a two year journey through Scorpio
(see fall quarterly column). Deep feelings and dirty politics are up now. Although many people
do not like the restrictive side of Saturn, he does help you put constructive effort into long term
plans with future reward. Remember not to take life too seriously! On Saturday, Mars enters
Sagittarius until November16th. Isn’t it time for an adventure?
Mark Dodich
Horoscopes | Week of October 1-7, 2012
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Four planets changing signs this week, Aries, is your celestial
signal that a major shift is in the air… and, for you, I believe it points to a progression away from
prolonged (and potentially painful) processing and toward purifying resolution. In other words,
it’s time to aim your arrow up and out of the mud. You’ve given this challenging circumstance
an earnest shot, scraped its more rotten bits off the bottom in an attempt to save its underlying
structure, taken part in awkward or unpleasant conversation… basically, fought for the survival
of a certain arrangement. What more can be done? You certainly can’t sign away much more
of your life on being stuck, paralyzed, and/or halfway underwater. You’ve got to be able
to get beyond here—whether (1) by agreeing to let bygones be gone and, together, committing to
a wholly new dynamic, underscored by an still-unbroken sense of shared purpose, or (2) by
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2. cutting your own losses and reestablishing yourself in a less stifling, more independent
framework. In either case, your road to this beyond-here place will be bumpy, no doubt. But
what’ll determine which bumpy road to take is fairly simple: Which one leads more efficiently
and effectively to where you want to go?
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Reemerging after a passing respite (though ‘respite’ perhaps
isn’t the right word, since your moments away weren’t necessarily restful), you’re ready to
reacquaint the key players with your opinions and desires. In case anybody has forgotten how
personally invested you are in certain developments unfolding according to your specified style,
Taurus, I suppose it’s time to remind them. Of course, if it seems to other participants that
you’ve magically reappeared from a relative absence and are now strongly laying down the
law, they may wonder where you’ve been this whole time (while they’ve been conscientiously
holding down the fort)—and therefore might not take so kindly to your tone, if it strikes them as
overly commanding or too hierarchically top-down. You are not wrong to want to assert your
guidance, especially if you view this whole thing as your‘baby’. Please take care your close-up
attention doesn’t blind you to either the experiential knowledge or the sincere concerns of your
teammates. You have relationships with each involved individual… and your success in guiding
these next developments directly hinges on the respectfulness you practice in each and every
one.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A newly refreshed and refreshing productivity in how you’re
thinking, Gemini, could be in jeopardy due to an impromptu threat of interpersonal conflict… if,
that is, you fall reactively prey to the rather black-and-white interpretation of a potentially
contentious situation being put forth by another party. While your understanding is typically
more nuanced than that, it wouldn’t be surprising if the suddenness with which this situation
(and/or this contentious individual) confronts you brings out your least considered side. Yet,
should you catch yourself before you’re already too far in to reserve your reactivity, you are
under no obligation to actually participate. As I said, you’ve got more productive items to
concern yourself with—as well as a temporarily enhanced ability to come up with workable
initiatives that’ll carry you further toward your goals. Upsetting conflicts or confrontations that
get you all fired up, alas, will only consume large parts of that productive mental energy for fairly
unproductive purposes. (In fact, you’ll probably hold on to the upsetting after-effects far longer
than the other party.) Maybe staying closer to home and/or your desk will help you avoid
anybody hunting for an energy-release at your expense… and keep you on productive track.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): As social energies pick up and your presence is more widely
desired, Cancer, please be aware of how important it is to most actively participate in that which
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3. you enjoy the most… and to prioritize your leisure-time appointments based directly on your
personal preferences, as opposed to any misguided sense of obligation to acquaintances you
feel bad for. You aren’t helping anybody by hanging with them out of pity or fear of hurting their
feelings; you’re merely bringing along an energy of ‘caring’ that’s simultaneously somewhat
condescending. And all the while, you’re filling your precious fun-hours with activities you don’t
necessarily find ‘fun’. That sure sounds like a lose-lose situation to me. Increasingly over these
coming months, you will find yourself growing ever sicker of going through motions in your
social life… as well as becoming worse and worse at faking your pleasure in instances when
you’d rather be doing something else. I suggest expressing gratitude for this last detail, since
‘faking’anything isn’t usually seen as a worthy pathway to greater self-fulfillment. Obvious
lesson: If you’d rather be doing something else, then please do that something else. Those
supposed friends you’ll be disappointing? They’ll live.
LEO (July 23-August 22): An outward focus will not get the real job done, Leo. Even as we can
agree that other people’s impressions do matter to some degree, anybody else’s relative
acceptance of you—which is always based on the partial impressionistic flashes you paint for
their viewing pleasure—is ultimately secondary to whether you’re okay with yourself. In that
light, then, occupying yourself too insistently with attempts to mend fences, reach consensus,
and/or make a deal with another individual is already something of a distraction. I’m not saying
you ought to be totally alone right now; yet, it’d probably behoove you to make the same kinds
of decisions you would if you were alone. It’s much harder to assess the rightness of an
intention or endeavor based purely on whether it feels right to you than to first see whether it
pleases the person(s) you seek to please and then proceeding on that impression. You’ll have
to sort through the misplaced voices of past critics that reside in your head to even get to your
own gut-truths… and this is not an overnight process. In the meantime, you’ve got a chance to
exuberantly show off a side of yourself you are pretty confident about. Please take full
advantage of that, while understanding its immediately enjoyable rewards are not enough to
totally save you from this longer-term work.
VIRGO (August 23-September 22): By midweek, happy-lady Venus will make it to your sign,
Virgo… and, along with a few other planetary sign-shifts, should usher in a mood that’s fairly
distinct from what you’ve lately been contending with. To be more specific, you’re far likelier to
be on the receiving end of desirable and/or otherwise pleasant reactions from people who, just
a week or two earlier, weren’t giving you much to work with. In order to take fullest advantage
of this climate-change, however, I recommend you consciously foster a patient willingness to
(re-)open lines of communication in situations where you might’ve made premature
assumptions about somebody’s thinking (due, perhaps, to your wanting a very particular
outcome fairly quickly). This go-around, due to your Venus-improved likability, you’ll actually
want to take your time with the interaction, rather than rushing head-on toward any certain
outcome. The longer you spend with someone, developing a collaborative rhythm to the
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4. dialogue, the more resonantly they’ll start vibing with you—and once the rapport is better
solidified, they may be quite happy to grant you the favor of agreement. While your inner idealist
may wish to believe your desired outcome should speak its own appeal without personalities
having to come into play, the current reality makes this more a relationship issue.
LIBRA (September 23-October 22): Giving props to ‘the best of intentions’ is totally kind and
considerate of you. Yet, the amount of free rein you bestow upon anyone—whether it’s the
struggling individual you adore despite the tough odds, the bumbling-but-sweet boss who isn’t
adequately fostering your career development, the fun-loving friend who disappointingly can’t
be counted on, or your own fear-frozen self—based on their supposed intentions is quickly
shrinking to short supply. More and more, Libra, you need to see results in order to defend any
ongoing expenditure of your personal energy. Nothing personal; just a rationally-minded
analysis of where your resources are going, and whether they’re being utilized in a manner that
replenishes the pot. I know, I know: ‘nothing personal’ is easier said than done. But
sometimes, difficult choices with very personalconsequences are what’s called for, if we’re
thinking about what’s practically needed to keep all the different facets of our lives in relative
balance. I would make one more valiant effort to communicate your expectation of seeing
tangible results to back up those ‘best of intentions’, expressing a newfound seriousness with
regards to your willingness to act if the expectation isn’t met… which, hopefully, you can deftly
phrase so it doesn’t sound ultimatum-ish (even if it kind of is).
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): The week ahead is incredibly significant for you
Scorpios because it marks the entry of taskmaster Saturn into your sign, where he’ll stay
through the end of 2014. Since this is a longer-term and farther-reaching transit which only
affects you for 2-to-3 out of every 30 years, naturally we won’t be covering its entirety in a
single week’s horoscope. Yet, with Mercury also entering Scorpio alongside Saturn, it seems
an especially apt moment for articulating the kind of person you seek to be… as well as
whichever current aspects of your life are conspicuouslyimpeding upon your realizing that
vision-of-self. Often, you Scorpios are your own worst enemies in this regard, thanks to your
voluntary tendency to make life considerably more difficult or complicated for yourself—mainly
out of an investigative impulse to see how far a situation needs to go to hit its logical (though
extreme) conclusion, so you don’t miss out on any of it. This is not a critique of such behavior,
by the way, since the experience you gain in the process is fundamental to developing your
deep interpersonal wisdom. However, once Saturn shows up, he asks you to accept you can’t
do everything you want to do and do it all in such an all-the-way manner. Time and energy are
both resources with built-in limitations. The question then becomes: Do you concentrate more
fully on one or two priorities you can’t seem to moderate your involvement with, at
the conscious expense of everything else? Or do you learn more about moderation, to enable
yourself to enjoy a broader range of involvements? This question will prove unavoidable in the
coming months. Might as well start tackling it now.
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5. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Too much additional negotiation or discussion
will actually detract from the strength of your position, Sagittarius. Based on the clarity you’ve
already attained over the past few weeks, you basically know everything you need to know to
conclusively proceed as best serves your intent. Any waiting to act should now be over. Those
threatened by your obvious capabilities (and/or by the difference between your wants and
theirs) may try to play to your psychological hot-spots, talking up the worst-case potential pitfalls
which might arise as a result of your continuing onward as you intend. There is no new
information here… just a dirtier method meant to stir your fears, so you’ll pass up yourchance at
a power move and protect their existing standing. That’s why I’m actively discouraging you from
furthering the talks: The rightfulness of your thinking up until now, if it was indeed based in
principles you cherish and/or seek to uphold, ought not to change because someone (with a
very particular stake in the matter, I might add) attempts to convince you. Remaining relatively
quiet and unwavering under such pressure is far harder than picking back up the conversation
or mouthing off in righteous annoyance. Good boundaries are called for.
CAPRICORN (December 22-January 19): Keep a cautious eye on any persuasive peers or
colleagues who seem to be leading you into conversational disclosures or gossip-sessions you
aren’t especially comfortable with participating in, Capricorn. You should know better than to let
anyone else’s fast lips lure you into crossing ethical bounds—with unfortunate consequences
not likely to reveal themselves for a few weeks—just because they are unusually curious to pull
information out of you. Watch for motives: If they are a sincere ally, they’ll be content with
easing up once they sense your discomfort (or, if you want to eliminate confusion from the
equation altogether, once you explicitly tell them you’re not comfortable). But if they continue
pushing the point or attempting to reengage their inquiry using a different side-door tactic,
they’ve revealed their true-blue interest is more in using you than supporting you. Here’s the
thing, though: I wouldn’t make a big stink out of it, should you conclude this certain someone
doesn’t seem to have your back. Taking decisive action to officially break off an alliance isn’t
especially favored, as much as internally accepting this knowledge and subtly planning for your
future accordingly. For the next several weeks, expect to observe plenty of others’ decisive
actions being taken… while you collect the data and arrange your eventual response-strategy.
AQUARIUS (January 20-February 18): You’re just barely at the starting-gate of a ‘make it or
break it’ moment in your career (and/or public-world investment), Aquarius, courtesy of
Saturn’s arrival in your solar 10th for a two-plus-year stay… but the time is already ripe to
publicly take concrete responsibility for steering your ambitions where you feel they need to go.
You must assume authority for asking yourself some difficult questions: Am I achieving what I
set out to do? Are my long-term goals still relevant, or are they in need of some updating
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6. revisions? Where has my stubbornness gotten in my way? Have I been realistic in assessing
my abilities, or must I shift gears toward a role better suited to my unique assets and liabilities?
Am I working hard enough? Or too hard? While the deepest-and-truest answers are not likely to
emerge in just a week or two, you’re presently well-positioned to receive supporting information
that’ll help you see the light—both from apparent admirers and would-be critics. On the critical
front, pay special attention to any uncomplimentary feedback you receive, discerning its
relevance based on who it’s coming from. Criticism received from friends, like-minded
colleagues, or members of a community you belong to (or wish to belong to) should be treated
constructively, even if it wasn’t phrased in such a manner. Criticism from outside your
community, from adversaries or envious competitors, can be ignored or seen as flattery.
Meanwhile, admirers who express interest in collaborating with you should be seen as a positive
symbol from the universe… though I’d wait a couple weeks before inking any deals.
PISCES (February 19-March 20): Moving forward means not getting hooked on any leftover
barbs from the past-two-weeks’ touchier interactions… and instead fixing your eye on
what really matters to you, regardless of whether any certain individual or entity shares your
same meaningful priorities. Do not get caught looking downward, Pisces, staring regretfully at
steps you wish you wouldn’t have taken or obsessing on wounds or scars already inflicted and
on their way to healing. Look up ahead, where the entire rest of your life is going to be lived.
That’s the field where you still hold power to do things differently. You may have to be firm with
yourself, refusing to participate in either glorifying your past or reliving the trauma, in order to
distinctly align with the unimpeded vibration of manifesting newness. One fortunate aspect at
your disposal: Venus is entering your relationship house (the 7th) for a few weeks’ stay, which
promises you additional support and camaraderie from those folks who really do want to see
you thrive as you’d so choose. Just as the negative influence(s) drag you down into the mud
with them, these positively-minded supporters will fluff up your confidence and help you release
the unwelcome hangover from recent unpleasantries. Make a number of dates to be loved by
the ones that love you.
Monday October 1 – Moon Meditation: “I am back on track… !”
Moon in Aries: As the Moon moves through Aries, Mars moves through Scorpio towards a link
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7. to the Nodes. This is quite powerful astrology in its own way. Where in your life do you know
you need to make a better connection with someone? Where could you be more pro-active
about sorting out any issues? Where in your life are you being lazy and staying well within your
comfort zone when pushing outside of it could be just the thing?
Astrology Forecast for October 2012
Ok, gold miners! It’s time to put on your
helmets, grab your pickaxes, turn on your headlamps and prepare to tunnel down into
the bowels of your psycho-spiritual reality and find that gold! Make sure you have enough
provisions; you may need an oxygen tank, as the air gets pretty thin down there, and you will
need to practice deep breathing, and hopefully you have gotten enough rest, as the expedition
may be long and arduous. The month of October may not be the month you have been waiting
for but as a gold miner your unconscious boss has decided that it is. It will be important to
keep in mind that it has been proven that there actually is gold down there at the end of
the tunnel, and that you will return to the light of day in a state of joy, abundance, and
prosperity bringing back to those that you love your newfound treasure, power, and
maturity.
All the astrological aspects are too numerous to mention, but some are worth stating for those
interested in applying them to their personal charts. Both Saturn and Mercury enter Scorpio on
the 5th to join the Moon’s north node (and the Sun after the 22nd), until Mercury emerges into
Sagittarius on the 28th. From the 2nd to the 28th, Venus will transit Virgo while Mars shifts from
Scorpio to Sagittarius on the 6th. Lastly, we will all be feeling a shift (that really began with the
full Moon on the last weekend of September!) in the first week of this month with Mercury,
Venus, Mars, and Saturn all changing signs, while Jupiter stations/retrograde on the 4th.
To put this all into a broader perspective, we are ending the 2000 year Age of Pisces,
sleeping, dreamy, hoping, and praying and entering into the Age of Aquarius, the
awakened, liberated, fully conscious, “enlightened one”. Let’s associate this age with
Prometheus, the mythological light-bearer who stole fire from the gods and descended to earth
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8. to “enlighten” humanity. These mythological figures all symbolize archetypes of the human
unconscious, meaning that we all have a Prometheus in us, and he is now awakening to take
each of us out of the dreamy cosmic realm and down to earth, Gaia, our physical, personal, root
self. This delving down from the heights of our spiritual home (Crown chakra/Neptune) to the
base/root chakra (Pluto/Scorpio) may feel like a crucifixion, death, descent into the darkness of
separation, yet in the long run may be seen as our task to actively participate in co-creating
heaven on earth (starting with unconditional loving of our total self).
So this month will present us with opportunities, which we may label as threatening,
dangerous, unfair, or unreal. Situations, events, and people that challenge us to see our
weaknesses, our faults, our projections, basically, our unconscious patterns that are
buried so deep we cannot recognize them ourselves but need the objective, outside
world to mirror them back to us. One response is the initial“NO, that’s not me/mine!
That’s you/yours!”, quickly followed by the fight/flight response in an attempt to avoid it,
ignore it, and hope it goes away so our lives will return to “normal” and we avoid the change. It
will take all the courage of the spiritual warrior within us to remain in the depths of the inferno as
our new self is getting forged by the fires of spirit (in this case – “the other”).
The feelings of helplessness, powerlessness,
futility, and despair will signal that we are facing old, deep wounds in ourselves, and in
the collective that go back generations, even millennium, and are now to be seen, owned,
opened, washed, and healed. The tendency to judge ourselves and the other will be one
response to resist change, protect ourselves, and cower down in familiar childish patterns that
blame and resent “the big bad world” for making our lives so hard. Seen in another light, it
is an attempt to solve with the head, matters of the heart, to remain in the head and
ignore the feelings which are where evolution truly occurs.
A second common response to self/life/security threatening situations and people is
anger. It’s the big gun in our arsenal of defense mechanisms. Alas, this too shall not serve its
purpose as we deal with evolutionary forces self-created and projected which seek our own
evolution with the permission of our ego or not. Let’s keep in mind that anger too is a
binding force. We cannot truly separate what we hold anger toward, it is self-destructive in the
end, as we know on a soul level the hurt/pain caused, the shame of remaining small and having
alienated and distanced ourselves from a source of self-knowledge, understanding, and
potential healing. In one way, anger is a flag alerting us to the presence of a need for change,
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9. where we need to wake up, dig deeper, process, and get beneath it to the source/root of
what/why/where it came from. It is the revolving red light that signals a “time for
transformation,” would naturally be followed by an alert, awakened response ready to
listen, feel, analyze, figure out, and transform, not an overwhelmed, desperate,
victimized, “Oh no, I can’t, goodbye,” going back to sleep (drugs, the road, addictions
etc.) response.
These energies, as present within the gestalt of our times, will continue to increase in
vibrational frequency; much like the speeding up of molecules that make the temperature
rise! As we continue our approach toward the Winter Solstice, we are like planes circling the
field preparing to land, or better, spaceships seeking re-entry into the atmospheric conditions of
earth. It behooves us to remember the valuable cargo (or newly discovered aspects of our
cosmos) we all carry within us that is seeking delivery to our cohabitants on planet earth. We
must be ready at the controls, alert and prepared to make adjustments, changes, or alter our
course in a moment’s notice as a result of new information gained from our immediate
environment (Jupiter in Gemini wasn’t mentioned). As we grow closer and closer, the
excitement/tension of the touchdown will continue to push us beyond our limits as individuals
and as a collective. As each of us consciously chooses to “Seize the Day!” and keep in
mind the great celebration awaiting the arrival of our Full/True Self we will be encouraged
to stay awake and master those controls!
Keeping these thoughts in mind, the attitude and approach that may best serve us this month is
to maintain equilibrium (thank god/dess for Venus in Libra!), not swinging from one extreme to
the other, fight/flight, in/out, ecstasy/despair, etc. As wizened elders that are preparing to
steward this beautiful blue planet through her amazing birth into a galactic presence, we
make the choices that best serve the whole, be that our relationship, family, community,
country, and/or planet. We are now enough; strong enough, old enough, and have enough
love in our hearts to “know” the “right” thing to do, to put our old selves aside, our fears,
patterns, attachments, and identities that are of a limiting nature and step up to create a new
world. We will emerge from the mine of gold with the shimmering, beautiful material
reflection of the hard won awareness of our divine nature to truly illuminate a world
asking for the light of our fire!
Big days for change are: 2, 5, 6, 8, 15, 22, 25 and 28
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