An introspective month is ahead, Aquarius, making for an excellent time to be taking stock of yourself. Your immense learning curve continues, with accompanying shifts in perspective and the chance to put together in a new way the transformations of the past nine months. Mercury stands still during the first weekend of October at the very top of your solar chart, indicating that this will be a particularly powerful Mercury Retrograde period for you. Along with missed connections and the other usual symptoms, there is the chance to deeply reflect on what your changes have to tell you. You may wind up turning recent events inside out for a new way to look at them, and marvel at the thought of your life unfolding in just the way that it should, in spite of any and all appearances to the contrary.
As the month begins, you are about a week into the lunar cycle that began with the Libra New Moon of the last full week of September, setting a tone for you of fresh insight into your philosophy of life and avenues of higher learning. You could be finding new ways of approaching your world, including travel, adding to your ever unique repertoire and expanding worldview. With Uranus, your ruler, highlighted in your communications sector, this month is an important one for your connections with others as you review any possibilities you might have been keeping on the back burner.
Because Mercury will just have begun to dive the depths of Scorpio before it stations and begins its retrograde journey on October 4th, lasting into the first week of November when you take the retrograde shadow into account, so too does your mental state begin to dive deep only to be turned around for another look at attempting to gain balance, harmony and a deeper sense of inner clarity. While Mercury Retrograde can be trying to your patience, this period does represent a golden opportunity to look within yourself to see where thoughts and beliefs could be readjusted to be in better balance and alignment with your deepest nature and your highest good.
Communication style and deep connection are emphasized for you this month, as signaled by a grand trine forming between Mars, Jupiter and your ruler, Uranus, in Fire, corresponding to your sectors of relating. This represents a focus and an opportunity. As you connect more deeply with your own inner world you are able to reach out to others around you from a more authentic place and enhance your field of communal awareness.
As indicated by the highlighted presence of Jupiter in your relationship sector, another major area of focus for you this month could well be in partnership — either current or potential — with significant others in your life. You are full of new and clever ways of approaching this important area, combining a fresh understanding of where old patterns might be able to be disrupted with sweet visions and hopes pouring forth. A floating sense of optimism is carried by Jupiter in flowing aspect to Uranus at the time of the recent New Moon, as part of a configuration that included Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in an inconjunct. This could signal a time when you are prompted to dig deeper into any residue of ancient hurt that is preventing you from showing up more fully in your relationship connections.
Examining and re-experiencing the pain that is already there inside you, stemming from prior trauma, without judgment or shame, constitutes a vital step in transforming yourself from the inside out in order to discover more healthful and positive ways to deal with your own wounds. A newfound sense of self-healing and love could begin with this current monthly cycle that will eventually ripple out into all of your most cherished interactions.