Aries Horoscope for October 2024

This is a month when, in the process of understanding your path, Aries, it is yet the important others in your life that are your current lodestone. This extreme focus on partnership is indicated by the Libra New Moon of October 2nd taking place your opposite sign, referencing the relationship sector of your solar chart. This potent New Moon represents a dramatic configuration – with spiritual or mystical implications. Your values are shifting. This month is entirely transformational for you, and important others in your life may help to provide the seeds of change. Deep-seated principles that are entirely your own must be recognized as such by your process of internal growth. Partners may make for significant sources of information this month concerning your own way forward. The attitudes of others around you might help but viewpoints from outside of yourself are only the clues to your own evolving determination. Vitally important as well, you could be getting clear on your own hang-ups and the residue of early childhood wounding, because these can have the effect of holding you back from where you need to be going, as you more fully inhabit your own authenticity. As you explore your inner faith in yourself you will find that the universe has the ability to see you through.


The following was written by our guest columnist Elodie St-Onge Aubut of Ninth House Astrology


October is a big month for members of your sign, and it begins astrologically on the 2nd with a solar eclipse New Moon in your opposite sign of Libra. This on one hand emphasizes a need to find an equilibrium between autonomy and partnership with important others, and on the others is a refresher for your own evolutionary progress as you understand more and more about your pathway forward and, more specifically, the impact of your relationships on that more general goal. There could this month be a significant purging or reset in one of your closer connections or your friendships and social involvement. The eclipse energy is aspecting both Mars, your ruler, in Cancer, currently transiting in your domestic sector, and Venus in your intimacy sector, bringing further emphasis to your key relationships and your partnership agreements which stabilize them. Decisions made at this time could also be motivated by an underlying need for security.

The eclipses on the Aries-Libra axis have been active since the Spring of 2023 and have brought an important emphasis on your interpersonal relationships for the past year and a half. Over this extended time period, you may have experienced a gradual evolution in the ways you relate to others and even more so for the ways in which you relate to yourself. Revelations surrounding your needs and desires could have been plentiful and have perhaps brought you to a reorganization of priorities including what you require from others.

On October 5th, Mercury squares Mars, your ruler, bringing your logical mind into a form of analysis of your situation, perhaps contrasting with intuitional realities that you also feel strongly present.

The First Quarter Moon in Capricorn on October 10th could emphasize divisions within your energy field supporting alternatively the nurturing aspects of your more domestic self, along with partnership inputs, versus the career or professional leaning factor of who you are right now and what you ultimately want from the public sphere. There is progress to be made and also a resolution needed for internal conflicts in these areas. Your ‘’chosen direction’’ could also feel like something of a question mark right now, with Pluto in Capricorn hovering near the cusp of your social sector.

From the 12th to the 14th, tension or uncertainty is possible regarding inner wounding, or the influence of early childhood, as the Sun in Libra forms an opposition with Chiron in Aries and a square with Mars in Cancer. This short astro passage could also help to separate the signal from the noise leading to the upcoming Full Moon.

From the 13th to the 14th, also, Venus opposes Uranus in Taurus, which could bring surprise partnership alignments or the reverse and speaks to your big learning curve that you are operating within where – it may seem – almost anything goes, so that you must stay on your toes to keep up.

The Full Moon in Aries transpires on October 17th, which could illuminate a crossroad at which you stand or choices you have to make to go after what you want. There may be a lot of movable pieces and no easy solutions. Issues of self and other may predominate, together with the idea that while hewing to a particular line might be what one partner of the other might want, there are soul requirements of your own – referencing your evolutionary path forward – that cannot be denied. Venus, the ruler of your opposite sign, is trine numinous Neptune and sextile to the transformational energies of Pluto, and this could presage relationship idealism and as well further changes.

The Sun entering Scorpio on the 22nd may continue to emphasize the support coming to you from others and there may be more benefits in keeping your allies close to you at this time.

On the 27th and the 28th, Venus in Sagittarius forms a square with Saturn in Pisces implying that some of the biggest roadblocks that stand between you and progress could be coming from your own unconscious fears.

From the 27th to the 30th, Mars in late Cancer trines Neptune in Pisces, while also beginning to oppose Pluto, so that this complex combination of outer planet transformative energies represents an other-dimensional ending to this rather consequential October month with more to come in November.