Aries Horoscope for October 2012

Your roller-coaster ride continues, Aries. Just as you begin to find some answers, further questions emerge. Everything is mystical and vague; this could all be perceived as less than useful, but once you let go of your preconceptions and stay in beginner's mind, you find it to be an extremely exciting time to be alive. As you recognize that you are voyaging further into wholeness, you can better enjoy the scenery flying past when refusing to engage in concerns regarding your ultimate destination. You may be suffering, but breakdown leads to breakthrough. Partners in your life are important now, and helpful in allowing you to make your stand, even when in seeming conflict. You might seem stuck at times but then again, that could be just another illusion as you continue your journey.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way forward with the wind at your back but with choppy seas to negotiate as your personal evolution enters yet another phase. Your concept of partnership takes on greater importance at this time, with the Sun in relationship-oriented Libra, but your chief focus remains on yourself and your own process of transformation. In addition to the Uranus-Pluto square, hallmark of this powerfully change-full year, still pushing you forward into a different personal universe, you also now have a stronger and more empowered Neptunian archetype to deal with in your twelfth house of dream imagination and inner work. This factor highlights and puts a different spin on the ongoing deep changes in your career and professional life that correspond to massive and sometime abrupt realizations and recognitions, with accompanying identity shifts.

This twelfth sector of your chart is of course the perfect place for Neptune to be hanging out, symbolizing an increase in sensitivity for everyone around you as well, so that you have been feeling the impact of your inner world quite strongly over the months leading up to now. The unconscious side of your personality is hard to imagine and even more difficult to see at all clearly, and yet it is an important factor in everything that you say and do. Saturn is also moving into Scorpio this month and therefore into your sector of personal evolution and intimacy, implying further changes at these deeper levels of your psyche.

You could feel stuck in some ways, for Saturn has this effect; wherever he lodges there is a greater concentration of effort and obstacles to overcome. This could translate into a loss of a certain degree of intimacy so that just as you feel an increase in the important questions, you are simultaneously thrown back upon yourself for the ultimate answers.

Although somewhat difficult, perhaps, this is not altogether a bad thing. Life is an exploration and a process of discovering your own way forward or it is nothing much. There could be illusions or even delusions that now are being popped like insubstantial soap bubbles. The imagination that belongs to Neptune's realm, combined with Saturn's reality check, brings additional facets into your mental viewpoint, and, if you allow yourself to open more fully to what is going on inside you, could enable you to more concretely see, and to integrate, what is truly happening.

Detailed Monthly Forecast

With the Last Quarter Moon of Monday, October 8th, as the Sun and Moon conspire to ratchet up the tension, these matters come to greater urgency. You are reaching out at this time for a new vision and a novel way to understand what has been going on with you lately, suffused with the sense that there must be a better explanation that allows at least some of the puzzle pieces to fall into place. This is a powerful time and you must be prepared to work through illusions and inner fantasies to arrive at an important truth about your situation.

The New Moon that follows a week later, taking place on Monday, October 15th, is a time for new beginnings and for taking a stand. This is an important juncture, one where you are in the midst of other voices, some critical, and yet have the power to remake your world with better vision for a future that is more appropriate to your true feelings. As astrologer Caroline Casey reminds us, in an aphorism that is very true for you right now, imagination lays down the tracks for the reality train to follow.

The First Quarter Moon takes place another week further along, on Sunday evening, October 21st, and including the following day that starts the week, will place you at the launch-point of another time of change as you enter the final months of this powerful year. The solutions that felt almost within your grasp a mere seven days ago now seem more difficult to attain. A stopping point has been reached, and although it is true that surmounting difficulties breeds character, it isn't nearly as much fun as imaginary graceful ease of accomplishment.

With the Full Moon at nearly the end of the month, taking place on Monday, October 29th, the Uranus-Pluto square is again triggered, increasing the pressure to allow meaningful change to flow through your life, even though it might be less than entirely comfortable. There is a fundamental optimism that holds true for you at this time, in spite of everything. You might feel an almost giddy urge to overdo, while potential illusion still runs rampant, but if you are wise you will move forward with studied caution as well as enthusiasm, and with an eye to a future that in the long run works better, both for yourself and for the society around you as well.

Aries Horoscope for October 2012

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