Scorpio Solar Eclipse is a primal new beginning

October’s not the month for frivolity, or for celibacy. The fulfillment of our instinctual drive for union, both sexual and spiritual, is pitted against unconscious fears of intimacy and love. The archetypal myths of vampires tell the story of our fears--of the penetrating bite we know will transform us against our will, the primal desires that can only come out in the dark.

October’s intensity builds toward the triple Scorpio New Moon on the 23rd. It’s as if we are novices when it comes to telling the kind of truth being called for now. The truth that acknowledges all minds are joined, and there are no private thoughts. Does it spook you?

“...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life...It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, for you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.”

― James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling

The Force of brazen truth is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of October 19th-25th, 2014

*(Astrology Wonks see below)

ARIES  ☀  (March 20-April 19)

The powerful Scorpio New Moon on the 23rd isn’t going to feel much like a wake-up call to a new beginning. It’s going to feel more like you’re being put gently to sleep. You’re asked by the Scorpio Sun, Moon and Venus to stop a moment, and let go of the things you think you want, so you can hear the quieter voice of what you truly long for. More meaningful choices are arising from the  underworld, your unconscious yet deeply held beliefs about yourself and what you think you deserve. You have a strong psychic connection to what you need, especially for your health and diet. There’s lots of flux in your emotions right now, and your body is reacting with a need for equilibrium. Stick to a routine. You can build a bridge made out of win-win solutions on the 24th, when you’ll get intuitive hunches about solving a problem that’s been bugging you. When mental Mercury shifts into forward gear on the 25th, you’ll get back in sync with logic and reason and off the emotional roller coaster. The delay has been frustrating, but you need it. Otherwise you might grab onto a solution that would fit your wants, but not your deeper longings.

TAURUS   ☀  (April 20-May 20)

The big news is the partial solar eclipse in Scorpio on the 23rd which will be falling in your house of relationships. You’re in for an in depth look at the power of attraction for you from Scorpio. You get an intense education this week in the law of attraction--opposites have a fierce attraction, across all boundaries of reasonableness. Your primal and instinctual drives are being stirred up by three planets in zero degrees Scorpio--Sun, Moon and Venus. All of them opposing your Taurus Sun. This could be one of the most powerful, yet embryonic, new beginnings you’ve had all year. A win win solution for whatever has been plaguing your relationships is possible on the 23rd. On the 25th, when mental Mercury goes into forward gear in Libra, cooperation will be plentiful. Both from you and toward you. Keep in mind that next week, beginning the 26th, when warrior Mars moves into steadfast Capricorn, your ambitions and goals will really take off.

GEMINI  ☀  (May 21-June 20)

The Scorpio New Moon on the 23rd is a partial solar eclipse, but it is powerful for you in another way. It occurs at 00° of Scorpio, and is a triple lineup of Sun, Moon, and Venus. All three planets move into Scorpio just at the power point of the waxing New Moon. For you this is an awkward new beginning because it will feel like you’re being quickly inaugurated into a new office that you don’t feel prepared for. All of this is happening in your six solar house of work and service. You are clearly called to a deeper look at your reasons for doing the job that you’re doing. Is it meeting your deepest desires for your own growth and your future development? On the 24th you get an urge to organize your work life but in a way that helps you see the patterns that are operating. This is what will help you build a bridge to your own new beginning. On the 25th mental Mercury will turn and go into direct motion in the sign of Libra. Projects and puzzles that have been laying on your desk, will suddenly get forward momentum. Still, don’t look for major achievements or big successes until after December 14th. You’re ideas are still in the incubator.

CANCER  ☀  (June 21-July 21)

If you can keep your self out of your sensitive cancer shell, this week has a dynamite Scorpio New Moon on the 23rd that will lift your romantic and artistic desires into a whole new realm of deeper satisfaction and enrichment for your life. This occurs at 00° Scorpio, critical point of regeneration, for not only the Sun and Moon, but also for the goddess of love who enters the Scorpio sign just at the peak of this solar eclipse. Scorpio is your helpful right arm, your wing-man, and helps you express passions that you often prefer to keep hidden. This week the jig is up. You might as well tell the truth, otherwise it will be revealed for you--but in the most gentle way. Still, you want to be the one in charge of your life. This is a powerful new beginning that sets the stage for next week when warrior Mars marches into ambitious Capricorn.

LEO   ☀  (July 22-August 22)

Your intuition about the upcoming week is probably telling you that you’re about to embark on a brand-new journey, but you don’t have a map or the provisions you think you need. The powerful Scorpio New Moon on the 23rd has you feeling as if you’re in a risky venture, that you’re some sort of rebel without a cause, driven by restlessness. What’s really happening is that you’re asked to stop and realign your goals so that they are more in tune with your unconscious instincts about what is safe, and what brings you security. On the 25th you get the gift of seeing or being aware of a conflict or problem that is finding a solution in your psyche, even if you’re not immediately aware of it. This is the day you will have sudden powerful new insights about it. Projects that have been in the works since October 4th, when mental Mercury went into reverse gear, will start moving forward beginning the 25th. You’ll immediately see a cooperative Win-win Avenue to success. However, the pace will still be rather methodical and slow until after December 23rd. That will be the high water mark for actualizing all the good fortune that Jupiter has been bringing you since July 16th.

VIRGO  ☀  (August 23-September 22)

Full steam ahead begins on the 26th when warrior Mars marches steadfastly into ambitious Capricorn, where his power is exalted. Success is ahead, guaranteed if you do the footwork.

This week’s powerful New Moon in Scorpio on the 23rd will energize your house of communications with brand-new ideas and messages that will be unexpected delights. Virgo has a lovely affinity with Scorpio, so this week you feel like a new beginning is sprouting up in the area of family, particularly brothers and sisters. You have an incessant curiosity, and you’re really on the move. Allow some time for quiet contemplation so that you don’t let emotions distort your reasoning. When mental Mercury shifts into forward gear on the 25th, he will be in the sign of Libra, so your focus shifts heavily toward cooperation in your relationships. Cooperation from you, and toward you. Your ambitions and goals, especially those that have been on hold since October 4th, take a giant step forward beginning next week on the 26th. Much more to come!

LIBRA  ☀  (September 23-October 22)

A powerful week is ahead with the line-up of three planets moving together into the sign of Scorpio, just at the peak of the solar eclipse on the 23rd. This New Moon falls in your house of money and resources. The Sun, Moon and Venus in Scorpio have an easy and often unnoticed compatibility with your Libra traits, since you are generally drawn together in friendship with the sign of Scorpio. The new beginning that’s in store for you will require some fearless looking into what spooks you, but it will be well worth the effort. New understanding is germinating in you’re unconscious, and truths that you have perhaps intellectualized, slowly begin to make sense. You’re looking for a win win solution, which is especially possible for you after Mercury moves into forward gear on the 25th. You’ve had delays in your projects since October 4th. Now it’s full steam ahead as Mercury turns direct in your sign. What has been hidden will be revealed this week, either by you or for you.

SCORPIO  ☀   (October 23-November 21)

Hang on to your seat belt Scorpio, this week is the one for lift-off into higher realms of consciousness. The New Moon on the 23rd is not only the Sun and Moon in your sign, but it is also the day that the goddess of love moves into Scorpio. Sun, Moon, and Venus are at 00° Scorpio right at the pinnacle of this solar eclipse. This is a razors edge new beginning for you. The truth Is revealed from unconscious depths, where shame and guilt are now exposed to the light for your healing. On the 25th, it gets even easier. Mental Mercury turns and goes forward in the sign of Libra. This spotlights your relationships for a rebirth of some kind. Things will really take off for you in terms of your ambitions and goals when warrior Mars moves into Capricorn next week, on October 26th. You have now entered a downhill slide into easier times which begins for you around December 23rd. Go ahead and plan a lovely New Year’s celebration. You’ll have earned it!

SAGITTARIUS  (November 22-December 20)

With all the Scorpio activity this month, it’s best for you to just hire your own private detective, because you will never figure out what all the hiding and secrecy is about. That is so alien to your basic truth telling nature. Although the big lineup of three planets in Scorpio--Sun, Moon, and Venus--forms at the peak of a powerful solar eclipse on the 23rd, you’ll feel this new beginning as an easy invitation to turn over a few rocks and look underneath. No big deal. Scorpio’s like a friendly acquaintance that puts you on the defensive because you’re never sure about what’s left unsaid. Everything seems to clear up nicely on the 25th when Mental Mercury turns to forward motion in Libra. Whatever has been laying on the cutting room floor since October 4th, gets reviewed and set into motion. Relief!

CAPRICORN  (December 21-January 19)

Finally you are going to get a break, and some very good news about your astrological weather. Powerful Pluto has nearly driven you to pull your hair out, with all the insistence on change and transformation whether you felt ready for it or not. Now your restlessness gets curbed. This week a powerful New Moon in Scorpio on the 23rd serves as a new beginning for you hopes, dreams and wishes. Just don’t let your motivation fluctuate with your moods, and you’ll do very well. You can expect people to reach out and help you. On the 26th your life gets a successful momentum going when Warrior Mars moves into your sign. The steadfast march to success of Mars in Capricorn is exalted energy, so good for you in terms of your ambitions coming to fruition. Your projects, your motivation, is now full steam ahead.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 17)

Well dear Aquarius, this week has both good news and bad news. The very powerful solar eclipse on the 23rd is a New Moon in Scorpio. Scorpio is a difficult energy for you since it has a repelling force for Aquarius. You have Sun, Moon and Venus entering Scorpio all at once at the peak of the New Moon. The new beginning that wants to happen for you will seem like a trip to Scotland Yard. This is not the way you like to operate in the world. Scorpio loves mystery, sleuthing, and unearthing hidden truths. You would rather read about it in a well written book. But things will be much clearer for you beginning October 25th when the messenger planet Mercury turns to forward motion in the sign of Libra. Since October 4th your mental processes and communications have had an inward twist. Now ideas you had can come to fruition, and knots in relationships can be un-tied.

PISCES  (February 18-March 19)

Your ninth House of the higher mind and spiritual philosophy is activated this week by a powerful solar eclipse and New Moon in Scorpio on the 23rd. This is a beautiful opportunity for a new beginning, like the rising of the curtain for your debut. Instead of having awkward secrets spill out, you can enjoy the poetry and universal love that you swim in as a Pisces spilling out to the delight of other people. This doesn’t force you on stage, unless you feel ready, but the world needs a voice of peace. On October 25th the messenger planet shifts back into forward gear. Ideas that have been brewing in your unconscious mind since October 4th, are ready to move forward. Your focus will be on relationships. But the best news for you this week, and probably for the whole month, is warrior Mars moving into the sign of Capricorn next week, on the 26th. Then you will have and easy affinity with your assertive drives. Projects and ideas that have been brewing in your unconscious mind, swimming in the oceans of Pisces compassion, are ready to be published. Be brave. Hit send.

*(Astrology Wonks)  

Thursday, October 23rd the New Moon partial Solar Eclipse occurs at 2:56 PM, PDT, in the embryonic zero degrees of Scorpio. Here are the details:

1. Sun moves into Scorpio at 4:57 AM, PDT
2. Venus moves into Scorpio at 1:52 PM
3. The Moon in moves into Scorpio at 2:09 PM  
4. Moon conjuncts the Sun at 2:56 PM, forming the solar eclipse.

“We saw a cloudwall hung many miles to the east and hawks floating in the unforced motion that makes you think they’ve been up there, the same two birds since bible times.”

― Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel

Wish you had a free do-over?

The “Two Step” dance of intimacy is up for review and do-overs since mercurial Mental Mercury backed into Libra October 10th. This planet of mental processing is stirring up blame and guilt that’s been hiding in your unconscious mind. Time for a deeper dive, an opportunity to tell a bold truth.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.  Anais Nin

The Force of combustion is with you.

Here’s your horoscope for the week of October 12th to 18th, 2014:

ARIES  (March 20-April 19)

Your seventh house of relationships is where all the action is for you right now. A powerful yet lovely conjunction of messenger Mercury and the cooperative Libra Sun occurs Thursday the 16th. This can light up your relationships with understanding, or at least clear the stale air. But it also asks the question, “What hides in your memories that keeps you from dancing the two-step with ease?” October is a serious peek into your unconscious mind by way of your dreams. Mercury in reverse gear backed into your house of relationships on October 10th, where he’s going to stay until October 25th. Your thoughts turn inward, to ask yourself for solutions, to make a bold decision.On October 17th your concerns about relationships run into a head-on collision with the goddess of love, who laughs and doesn’t mind a bit. It’s like a drive-by Joybomb. It brings a desire to stop and hug someone, to offer a helping hand. On Thursday the 16th the moon roars like a lioness in loyal Leo, and the play is on. This Friday the 17th is not only a romantic bonanza, but also just plain lucky for you.

TAURUS  (April 20-May 20)

The big action this week all falls in your fifth solar house of romance and creativity. Mental Mercury in reverse gear has backed up into your relationships (October 10th) for a deeper look at ghosts you wish were dead, instead they just stir up fears of surrendering to true intimacy and having playful fun. You can think back to September 14th when an event occurred that was a clue to a deep and important revelation that wants to become conscious in your mind now. Friday, October 17th has you and Venus looking your very best. You’ve got a date with a playful Leo Moon, so imitate a lioness and push yourself to boldness. You’re lucky spot this week comes with jovial Jupiter in your fourth house of home. Money from real estate and communications with your family should work out quite well for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

This week your wordsmith genius is coming through the loud speakers in your 5th house of romance, children and creativity. When Mercury retrograde backed up into Libra on October 10th, childhood memories lit up some stale belief you are still carrying about yourself as an artist or writer. It’s not about getting permission to color outside the box, it’s about throwing the box away! Take a moment to think back to September 14th when something happened related to this. It was an important reveal. This week your  lucky break comes through your favorite place, the 3rd house of communications--Gemini’s home. Expect an unexpected message. TGIFriday has never been more fun. Get tickets early.

CANCER  (June 21-July 21)

Dear sensitive Cancer, this week your mind is pulled to a deeper look at certain memories, as the big energy this week falls in your 4th house of home and family. Family is always the place of your most meaningful relationships, and this week it’s the biggest thing on your mind. When Mercury backed up into the sign of Libra on the 10th, these relationships, particularly your mother or your children, became the focus. Now, this week, you dive into your feelings and see the truth about something that was revealed to you around September 14th. It’s an opportunity to make a bold statement of the truth. Your good luck charm right now is in your house of money and resources. Real estate deals work out quite well for you, particularly if you’re investing with a partner. This Friday the 17th, you have mental fireworks, flashes of insight and the urge to hug!

LEO  (July 22-August 22)

Book a playdate for this Friday. It’s a hop, skip and a fun jump toward the 16th and 17th, your best days this week. Thursday, when the moon moves into your sign, you hand your list to the Santa Claus of the zodiac. This lucky sense of well-being, and enormous generosity of spirit adds to your self confidence and self expression. You will be feeling very good about who you are. But there is a pop quiz about something that happened around the middle of September that’s been rattling around in your mind, but you haven’t taken the time to really think about it. This week your house of communications is loaded! Your mental curiosity is so activated that you may consider it a waste of time to look back, but there’s a revelation waiting.

VIRGO  (August 23-September 22)

You have a wonderful and very fortunate week ahead for anything related to money, or personal resources. This good luck isn’t going to knock on your door, it’s more like a gentle nudge. Still, there’s work to be done. An exercise class for your brain comes this week when Mental Mercury stimulates your unconscious mind about an issue that dates back to September 14th. At that time an event occurred that triggered a snowballing revelation that’s hitting you this week. There is a limiting unconscious belief, associated with money and resources, that is leftover from childhood events. Solutions are in your generous spirit, and your ability to empathize with other people. Your hopes and dreams are activated Thursday the 16th when a playful Leo Moon stirs up memories related to mothering, memories of how you were nurtured. Now you can see it through the eyes of that child. Put your healing hands over your own heart. Remember, Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.  Anais Nin

LIBRA  (September 23-October 22)

Since this is your birthday month, you can expect to have a new start and resurgence of energy. And, this week your first house of self-confidence is bursting at the seams with clarity from Mental Mercury sitting there next to your Libra Sunshine (October 10th-25th). What does this mean? It means you’re attitude towards your abilities, your beliefs about who you truly are, are up for a giant review. The Leo Moon ignites romance this Thursday the 16th, and he’s sitting down for a chat with jovial Jupiter in your 11th house, bringing you good fortune from the generosity of spirit of a friend. Friday the 17th that same loving Leo Moon runs right into your charming Libra Sun. Let the good times roll.

SCORPIO  (October 23-November 21)

Scorpio. Your 12th house of hopes, dreams, and visions for the future is loaded this week with Mental Mercury and the Libra Sun stirring up dreams and memories about past relationships. With so much partnership energy this week in your 12th house of dreams, you must get clear about the one thing you really want. You have a very active and even spontaneous way of communicating right now. And your house of career benefits from this. A lucky and generous act by you or for you comes Thursday the 16th in your 10th House of career, it’s here that lioness Leo always acts as your muse and inspiration. The combination of jovial Jupiter and playful Leo can lighten up your ambitions and your attitude toward your career. Your outbox is very full this week. Mental mercury is looking for you to review an event from September 14th that triggered a dream or memory that you didn’t stop and examine. This week you get the opportunity to do that, and it will be a big reveal about your true destiny--the bliss of having your career in line with your heart’s deepest desire.

SAGITTARIUS  (November 22-December 20)

Sagittarius. Mars showed up with your 76 trombones. Your warrior energy is like a big parade, and you want to show everybody how to have a great adventure. All the action this week takes place in your 11th house of friendships. This is where retrograde Mental Mercury is asking you to review an event from September 14th that holds a solution for your current problem. You have something to say about the state of humanity. And like Pachamama, the World Mother, your benevolent good will is spilling out of your words. With Mars in Sagittarius you self-confidence is at an all time high, and so is your pioneering spirit. The eclipse on the 8th opened a door that will serve you for a long time. You’ve got the luck of Jovial Jupiter blessings your travels, whether by plane or by lift off into your higher mind. The 16th is your lucky day.

CAPRICORN  (December 21-January 19)

Capricorn. You have your 10th House of career absolutely loaded with relationship issues this week. Mental mercury has been sending you messages about your career since October 10th. This week it would be helpful if you would spend a moment to think back to September 14th. An event occurred that was meant to bring you a big revelation regarding your ambitions and the path to your success. Libra is the energy of cooperation and partnerships, and is always the muse for your career. This week, particularly the 16th, your communications are about true diplomacy--speaking with the language of your heart. With the goddess of love hanging out in your house of career, you’ve got a friendly playful style that lightens the issues. Help and good fortune comes through corporate money, inheritance, or joint finances. Your ability to take action is somewhat underwater right now, so just relax. The time to push forward comes in November, around the 10th.

AQUARIUS (January 20-February 17)

With Uranus continuing to send lightning bolts through your house of communications, you’re used to those flashes of ideas that feel urgent and revolutionary. Because they are. This week the planet of communications, Mental Mercury, is loading up your higher mind with sudden epiphanies. You’re travels, the path of your Calling, is laid out better than the yellow brick road! You can connect the dots of kismet, and find your way Home.  Jupiter spreads his joviality all over your relationships this week, but especially Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th. Don’t miss the fun! This week is a skip down memory lane without a care in the world, even though a mental review of events dating back to September 14th is being asked of you by retrograde Mercury. It’s your philosophy about life that’s getting stirred up in your unconscious. Can you do one thing this week to end suffering somewhere, in someone? Thursday is your lucky day and Friday is over-the-top romantic fun. You do not want to be alone.

PISCES  (February 18-March 19)

This week is a call to your deepest visionary self. You are the master of hopes and dreams and wishes. Now with the messenger planet in reverse gear, he is stirring up your unconscious desires so they can drift up to the surface. Nothing so startling or quick that it would scare you. Rather, it’s a very gentle looking back, particularly at events around September 14th, just to review what you might have missed because the revelation was only dimly conscious. You’re getting wonderfully generous help this week from coworkers or from an event in your work that helps you take a lighter more playful attitude in your job. This can also mean that a generous spirited action on your part brings healing to someone else. Your healing hands are held by jovial Jupiter this week, and are supported by a the creativity of Thursday’s Leo Moon. Your anxiety gets relief if you stop and have some fun, which will be so easy this Friday.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin