Scorpio Horoscope for October 2014

This is an interesting, intense and introspective month for you, Scorpio, providing astrological indications of great positivity and also a good deal of cautious holding back. You are looking to the inside, mulling over where you are, psychologically speaking, and where your life is leading you. There is a great deal of inspiration and yet as well, a studied carefulness to your approach. On the other hand, Jupiter in your career sector represents a green light for positivity and for good fortune in career moves. This is thus a time both practical and impractical. You have a tremendous focus on outer world achievement and also on inner contemplation, and are being pulled in two directions at once. You can fruitfully combine these by forging ahead as consciously as you can, remembering to honor your inner process and the power of your deep intuition to guide you.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the Libra New Moon, from a little over one week ago, that took place in your sector of dream imagination and unconscious process. The New Moon also aspected numinous Neptune currently located in your self-expression sector. The otherworldly energy of Neptune has been active in your solar chart in recent weeks, and carries a similar symbolism to the mystical sector occupied by the New Moon itself. This month therefore represents an interesting cycle for you, when you will get into closer touch with everything that goes on below the surface layers of your consciousness. These less than fully conscious parts of yourself, often neglected in the hurly-burly of onrushing events, might nevertheless prove to be vital factors for you as you navigate your life. This point of view has been garnering increasing sympathy from you lately. Although these hidden places within you are seemingly out of the direct line of practical involvement, in actuality they underlie everything that you say and do.

In another chime with this symbolism, the oncoming retrograde of Mercury in the early degrees of your sign has you re-thinking your spiritual value system. Things are going extremely well for you financially, with the rewards of the material world coming through in an exemplary fashion, and in unexpected ways, and yet something is gnawing at you on the inside, tugging you into deeper connection with your inner world. With Chiron, the Wounded Healer, also emphasized in this current month and located, along with Neptune, in your self-expression sector, you could also be tuning in to hidden areas within your psyche, the result of prior trauma that has been buried away, within you with an ultimate goal of healing these issues. The secret of better self-acceptance is to no longer attempt to avoid getting to know these dark places within you, but to accept yourself wholeheartedly.

Saturn remains a current factor for you, located in your first solar sector and aspected by Jupiter and trickster Uranus. Saturn represents a factor of slowing you down in order that you more completely learn the lessons of this period of time, and thus gives you the opportunity to better connect with your own insides, and to more fully integrate inner and outer as you move ahead.

Pluto is also highlighted in your communications sector, indicating that there is a long-term focus on improving your outreach to others. With the Pluto-Uranus square coming into greater prominence, you are also exploring new areas of endeavor that make a better match with your own deep values. Over the course of this current monthly cycle, you could find it to be profound to more fully express your feelings and deeper understandings to others, as you continue to use the strength of your intuition to better understand where indeed you are headed right now and thus where to focus your energies for the greatest long-term benefit.