Aries Horoscope for October 2014

This is the first month of the rest of your life, Aries. You are more attuned than ever in recent weeks to the importance of relationship, and as well of the equally significant demands of your own individual exploration. You are inspired by vision and held to your task by necessity, all the while pondering and reflecting on where your life is currently taking you. For the current monthly cycle, this is especially so in regard to your connection with others. This constitutes the next step for you in a long evolutionary series, which began many weeks ago. Your process continues, and progress is made in a direction that is largely unrecognized, although when you look back with the perspective of time you can perhaps discern the signposts of a guiding intelligence that is not wholly your own.

As the month begins, you are still feeling the energy from the New Moon in your opposite sign that took place about one week ago, near the start of the last full week of September. This current monthly cycle, symbolized by the Libra New Moon, lasts through most of October. Your vital, emotional, and mental energies are burning brightly as you focus more intently on your ability to relate meaningfully to others, particularly in the partnership arena. This is also the area to which you will give a great deal of meditative effort by the time of first weekend, because Mercury turns to retrograde motion from October 4th to the 25th. While this period is known for mechanical breakdowns in and communication glitches which could prove challenging, this stretch of time, lasting well into November when you take the retrograde shadow period into account, also represents a prime time for taking stock and recaLibrating. You will likely benefit by asking yourself where adjustment is required in the way that you relate to others.

Often, in the constant motion and change of life, things may get swept under the rug; this month is an opportunity to stop and look at what has gone unattended, and clean up any aspects of your life that you come to understand as less than ideal in terms of your new vision. As far as relationship this may mean owning up to issues of miscommunication or falling out of integrity in some way. The result of careful consideration to inner issues that you can find within your psyche would be that you show up in a more solid way for your loved ones, and also that you might commence to feel more at ease in your relationship with yourself. Confronting these areas may be uncomfortable, as your nature as an Aries is more likely to drive onward rather than stopping to reassess, and yet the rewards of this endeavor are considerable to the extent that you choose to accept the task.

Even though partly driven to these sorts of inner meditations, your outer world is definitely on fire. Any avenue through which you choose to express yourself this month will likely be bursting with bright lights and inspiration. You could be formulating your sense of identity and your own unique voice in new ways, while directing your creative output into far different channels. Career choice comes into this as well. You may also be yearning to carve your own path through this life in a way that is in service to a higher good, and to helping others. Channeling your energy in a way that serves your sense of identity, quirky now and longing to break free from all restraint, as well as supporting your close relationships and the higher good of all, could perhaps prove to be a tall order, although all these facets seem to be represented in your current path.

The placement throughout this month of your ruling planet Mars suggests that this may also be a time where you are expanding your horizons and questing further into your spiritual education. As you explore the world around you, you may find that the reflection of your inner experience is what you are truly after. Your heightened awareness of the depth and mystery inherent in all of creation may have you with your ear to the ground of your own soul, curious for answers, and quick to imagine a multitude of possibilities unfolding in your inner depths.