October is going to be another month of diverse and contradictory energies, opportunities anddeep challenges between the rational mind and unconscious, alchemical processes.

It is also a month of particular focus on our relating and relationships, about our ability to give and receive love, and the place of creativity and beauty in our lives.

The Libran Sun is lovingly surrounded by Venus and her soul orientated daughter-in-law Psyche in an arrangement that can bring out the very best of that sign and pervade the light of the Sun with the lusciousness and intelligence of the feminine. This is not a passive arrangement however as the three sextile the Moon in Sagittarius who adds a degree of generous, fiery expressiveness to this loving, creative combination. The Sun and Venus will stay close together for the whole month and be highlighted powerfully by an eclipse on the 26th.

This three-way foundation of the chart is also the base of a supportive and empowering Grand Trine with Pluto in Capricorn and Kali in Taurus, adding enormous amounts of tantric and psychological depth to the loving and creative potential of the foundation.

It is also part of an intense and challenging Grand Cross involving Chiron, Medusa and Hekate, that will test all of us around our relationships, especially around whatever is unhealed in us that diminishes our capacity for ever deepening intimacy.

Mercury is also a part of this Grand Trine, giving our minds similar access to great depths of knowing. Paradoxically though, he is virtually stationary in preparation for going forwards on the second but in a prolonged opposition to the nebulous Neptune. So, while on some levels we can access great depth and clarity, on another level we can be completely bamboozled by excessive psychic openness in ways that can make us confused and uncertain, and easily overwhelmed by the complexity of the collective energies at this time.

It’s probably not such an opportune time for making major life decisions, at least initially in the month.

Alas, the highly stressful square between Saturn and Uranus remains exact, maintaining the titanic struggle between the old and the new, the senex and the puer aeternus, the conservatives and the innovative change agents. Continue to take good care of your nervous systems, try to balance the need for dynamic activity with quality rest, between more physical exercise and soothing yogic practices.

Significantly, at least in the Australian chart, Jupiter in Aries and Neptune in Pisces are directly overhead at midnight on the first. Such positions suggest the overriding purpose or purposes of an event, or in this case, for our experience this month.

It strongly suggests that we should avoid getting seduced by some of the struggles inherent in the month by calling on our ability to trust and to have faith in positive outcomes, while drawing from the ever present grace and love so highlighted by the Sun and Venus.

And when deep stuff arises, use the same love and grace to dive deeply with spiritual practices coupled with equally deep and courageous therapeutic intent!

Go well, with love and blessings,

Daniel

Sun in Libra conjunct Venus and Psyche, opposite Jupiter in Aries, sextile Moon in Sagittarius.

Sun in Libra Square Hekate conjunct Pallas Athena in Cancer.

Mercury conjunct Eros in Virgo Square Mars in Gemini, opposite Neptune in Pisces, in grand trine with Pluto in Capricorn and Kali in Taurus.

Mars in Gemini squaring Neptune, trine Saturn and Vesta in Aquarius.

Saturn in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus Exact!!

Pluto in Capricorn trining Kali in Taurus.

Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn and Shiva in Aquarius, square Black Moon in Cancer, trine Parvati in Leo.

Partial Solar eclipse in Scorpio October 25th 7 PM AWST

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