Pisces Horoscope for October 2013

This is a time of new beginnings of an interior variety, Pisces. You are always tuned to subtle vibrations and now you must listen carefully. There have been fluctuations in your finances, and these may be in the process of becoming even more massive, but greater insight is also available to you now. You are going down inside yourself in order to come up to the surface with your faculties more whole than when you started. With Mercury retrograding through your sector of higher mind, you are rethinking the ways that you have come to see the world around you and where that worldview might need to shift. You are being nudged by cosmic forces to find a new way of seeing, and of being, in the world, and it takes an act of faith.

As the month begins, you remain with the aftermath of the Last Quarter Moon of September 26th, which powerfully aspected your ruler, Neptune, located in the early degrees of your sign. This phase is in any case associated with a reassessment of what has been your experience of the preceding three weeks of the September lunar cycle. A grand trine in the Water element took place in sync with that rather difficult and intense configuration included Neptune and the Moon, along with both Chiron, also located in your identity sector, and Saturn in Scorpio in your sector of higher mind. You therefore have a greater degree of focus for delving down into your own unconscious process and for establishing a philosophical distancing from this material that is useful as you continue to attempt to make sense of it all.

This month is a powerful one for you, regarding both your sense of your own identity and the exploration of your inner world. Saturn is activated in your higher mind sector. The highlighted presence of both Uranus and of Pluto, in square with each other, and with Pluto residing in your sector of societal involvement, symbolizes an extreme evolutionary pressure to modify in some way the very structure of your beliefs and your future plans that are based on this way of perceiving the world around you. You could find within yourself a dogmatic tendency to speak out for a cause that you are actually on the point of abandoning, and this could be based on a very understandable fear of the unknown, as your life continues to change in unforeseen ways.

With Mercury retrograding through this same sector of higher mind later in the month, you will likely make many attempts to sort through what is going on inside of you at the present time. At some point you might have to simply let go and recognize that logical analysis fails to get to an entire understanding of the matter at hand, which is nothing less than a thorough reevaluation and recasting of your experience in a way that better integrates the less conscious parts of yourself to make a more well-rounded whole.

As you go through the relatively intense trials of this time period, and your thoughtful reactions to these, you could find that patterns of early wounding also come up for your consideration. There might be places within your psyche that you seldom visit, stemming from childhood years, when trauma that was too painful to remain conscious became walled away behind a veil of obscurity. If so, now is an ideal time to really begin to accept these dark places inside yourself as an important part of your story, and to thereby construct a larger sense of your personality. This will serve you well as you traverse the challenges that still lie ahead.