Scorpio Horoscope for October 2013

This is quite a mystical month that you find yourself in the midst of, for several reasons. One is that the New Moon near the beginning of the month takes place in your sector of dream imagination and inner work. This is a profound time for you, and one in which you are encouraged to grow in your understanding of inner priorities. Another factor is that, just as the Full Moon of October 18th manifests, your ruler, Mars, moves into your sector future plans and there exactly opposes nebulous Neptune. As the Sun comes into your sign later in the month, Mercury begins to move backward through it as well, initiating a meditative and reflective period of time that lasts, when you take the time of Mercury's shadow period into account, nearly all the way through November. These cosmic indications are quite telling. You will emerge out the other side of these next few months, leading up to December and the Winter Solstice, with a more open attitude toward what you truly hold dear, hidden away on the inside.

As the month begins, you are focused on communication, although not of the glibly talkative kind of which you have never really been so fond. Instead you are aligning with deep soul revealing utterances, which surprise even you at times with their intensity and their glimpses of an even more hidden meaning. Your co-ruler, Pluto, in your third sector of curiosity, of written and spoken communication and as well of teaching and learning, has some very strong connections to both Uranus in your service sector and to Saturn in your identity sector, not to mention Chiron in your sector of creativity and self-expression.

This is a philosophical and an inner time period for you, in these weeks leading up to your birthday time of the year, a period that is inevitably devoted to inner contemplation and the past as prologue to your next phase. Saturn, sitting on your forehead for many weeks and months, represents dour taskmasters who will nevertheless honor you with a deeper understanding of your truth when the time is right. You have felt his sense of isolation and his regimen of enforced limitation and slowing down of your activities in order to gain this understanding; and it is equally to recognize that the rewards of Saturn are there for you as well, although you have to enter into his tabernacle with a rather serious attitude in order to appreciate them.

This serious attitude is merited. You indubitably and irrevocably find yourself, along with everyone you know, in the midst of a series of profound changes. Their ultimate purpose is the only real question. You are discovering the pain of not knowing, and of having to follow your own instincts as a clue, without the comforting safeguard of a more refined and logic-based understanding. Only by painstakingly and carefully following the Ariadne's thread of your own inner process will you come to the center of the labyrinth, there to confront the monsters of your hidden wounding and the pot of gold that is the treasure of your own individuation that you so fervently seek

Mercury is slowing down this month, being about to enter its third and final retrograde period of the year. With Sun moving into your sign, and your co-ruler Mars getting ready to enter your networking sector by the time of Mercury's station on October 21st, you are both engaging in connection and equally shunning it over these last ten days of the month and on into November. It's an odd mix of energy. The Mercury Retrograde time is one when it is best to go slow and watch out for having to repeat an action several times before it's taking hold. This is also a time when you are enacting a more reflective stance, to match the deep intuitional process that has been engendered this month and your preoccupation with inner work. All this attention to your priority tasks as they present themselves will serve you as you continue to voyage onward into the teeth of the storm as one climactic year comes to an ending and another begins.

Scorpio Horoscope for October 2013

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