October 2024 horoscopes: What the spooky season has in store for you
Welcome to October, my babies! With a new moon solar eclipse in Libra on Oct.2, a Jupiter retrograde and death daddy Pluto going direct in Capricorn midmonth, the spooky season does not deign to be easy or breezy this year.We’ll spend the bulk of this month, through Oct.
22, under the velvet-clad, beauty as balm, romance as anesthetic influence of Libra.Symbolized by the scales and balances, Libra is the only zodiac sign represented by an inanimate object.
As the sign of partnership, Libra defines and expresses itself in and through its relationship with others.While last month’s lunar eclipse in Pisces was a time of revelatory endings, the new moon solar eclipse in Libra on the 2nd could bring back and push forward people and themes from the past.As the brilliant astrologer Evan Nathaniel Grim of Inner Worlds Astrology tells The Post, “This solar eclipse is conjunct the South Node, which is more of a releasing energy, more of a purging energy, more of a reflective energy.
“It’s not a Mercury retrograde, but because Mercury is conjunct the south node, it may feel like one.There’s a reevaluation of a partnership that may have ended or begun last October or last March,” Grim maintains.
“We naturally have to let go because every beginning has an ending and vice versa.So I don’t think that people should not expect the eclipse to specifically be an ending or a beginning but rather a transition and a shift in perception.”On Oct.
9, Jupiter — our drunk uncle planet of good luck and glad tidings — will begin his solemn four-and-a-half-month retrograde in Gemini.Two days later, Pluto, our death daddy planet of transformation, shifts direct into the pivotal late degrees of Capricorn for the last time in our lifetimes.
The somewhat conflicting energies of Gemini and Capricorn could have us volleying between extremes in the weeks to come: the urge toward inner work and the urgent need to prove our purpose.Mercury, the planet of the mind and the m...