Scorpio - October 24th-November 22nd

This is a time when your mind is particularly acute, more than usually, and that is no mean feat, because this month is representative of your solar 3rd house of the conscious mind and communications. Certainly between the 8th and 27th when Mercury occupies Capricorn too, you will all be on a roll when it comes to expressing yourself in writing or speech, notably powerfully around the 8th and 24th.

From the 14th Venus moves into your solar 5th house, directly affecting all born up to November 13th. This brings some rather special moments connected to romance and it really does inspire your belief in the creation of beauty and your aesthetic sense is hyper. It is also quite simply incredibly sociable and there is a party spirit in your heart. Prior to that date, your focus of affection and inspiration is closer to your domestic environment.

Mars is in Virgo all month and this connects to your solar 2nd house of friendships, goals and working with other people for the greater good. Directly benefiting from this will be those born November 11th to 16th. Your actions with others and leadership skills will be based on intelligence and will lead to constructive success. You will be energized physically, spiritually and psychologically. However, after the 24th when Mars moves retrograde there will be holdups and you will have to stop and consider and review your strategies and tactics and you may find that some of those that you work with are diversifying from the goal for their own personal reasons. You may also start to reconsider the value of what you are doing so that you can replace it with something that is more relevant to the times we live in and indeed to the person you are becoming.

Jupiter in Taurus is very good news as it has been on and off for a few months for those born November 24th to 27th insofar as he is bringing very benevolent people into your orbit who are there for your advantage in some way. Negatively it is making you over-solicitous, over-enthusiastic or possibly over-generous or over-trusting of other people who seem to be offering the Moon. The good times are there in terms of relationships, but beware of OTT, over-extravagant, over-indulgent risks when it comes to relating to others. Travel too may be very much part of the picture, and as this same group are feeling rather restless at the moment, there may be some risky behavior when it comes to engaging with people who otherwise you may usually avoid.

Neptune is squaring the Suns of those born after November 19th and will be so-doing until early next month and will finalize nearly two years of some sense of confusion and disorientation for this group of people. This very foggy journey is about to end and you will feel when you get to the end of next month that you have landed in another country that you were always going to find anyway, but you just didn’t believe it or had no faith that you could possibly arrive there. You are now a more redeemed person and uncertainty about your roots and your base will have finally and subtly abated. Part of this journey has been the development of real humility.

Finally, Pluto is under way, bringing and securing a sense of real intelligent power and insight which has been underway for some time for those born October 30th to November 2nd. Pluto has transformed your belief and confidence in your intellect and insight and it has given you the ability and power to influence other people and for you to have a sense that that is indeed what should be happening. With power comes responsibility and what you have been learning is to recognize that you are not the power, but the conduit of it, through what you say and write, but your mind is sharp and incisive and can cut to the chase now, and you will never lose this.

Thought for 2012: If you don’t always get what you want, consider that it may be because it’s not what you need.