OCTOBER IS SCORPIO SEASON. If you have Scorpio factors in your natal chart then you have signatures to accept or make - about the money, house, apartment, business, valuables - from the final week.
This Scorpio season affects the whole world. October will bring dramatic spikes on Wall Street and other sharemarkets. Huge highs and lows.
Even if you don’t have Scorpio factors, you’ll still be affected by big economies.
THIS IS TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS. Call it six degrees of separation. What happens for you next, as a by-product of Wall Street drama in October, may be about your cosmetic surgery, your brother, your house, your next sexual relationship. Your dog, your Substack account.
THE TAROT IS A GREAT WAY to get straight to the point for you. So let’s go. What is the most important central question of October 2023?
Which of these twelve cards most appeals to you, as a message about October? This is a slightly different way of working with the Smith-Waite Tarot. Normally as you know, the cards are hidden.
Pick one and proceed. (By the way, this is an experiment with retrocausality, the discovery that atoms in the future, ‘cause’ their own past.)
Cover the interpretations up, below. Then look. This is quantum theory, but we’re doing the prac. That’s Tarot.
THE FOOL tells me that you have Sagittarius factors in your birth chart. (If you don’t have your chart, you can pick it up from my website).
Sagittarius rules the Ninth House of your natal chart and shows a journey or move. This will unfold for you, as you travel or receive an important traveller, from the final week of November. So October is the set-up. You, he or she needs to be aware of the risks with this trip or relocation. Don’t just dive in.
THE MAGICIAN suggests you have the financial factors in balance. They are not dominating, they are part of the story, not the entire message. You will be teaching, instructing, guiding or mentoring in October. Or receiving an unforgettable education. Again, it’s only partly about money. It’s in check. You may be helping an intern or taking a Zoom workshop on meditation. It all helps. This is about someone (maybe you) with decent emotional ingelligence.
THE HIGH PRIESTESS is talking to your feminine side. Of course you may be a woman. More women than men believe in astrology and Tarot (Pew Research). I believe Pluto in Capricorn is having a direct impact on your birth chart. This is a very, very powerful woman at the peak of academia, business or professional life. Perhaps you have Capricorn chart factors. If this is your boss, professor, mentor - enjoy the education. If this is you, what is the scroll?
THE EMPRESS is the sexual side of Scorpio season. There is an evergreen phase in a relationship or marriage which never grows old. This may be desire for a former partner which comes back. That can happen. It may also be the rich promise of fresh intimacy with (even) a husband or wife of many years. Venus will eventually go into Scorpio after Mars, the Sun and Mercury. So treat October-December as the time to revive closeness with somebody.
THE EMPEROR suggests Pluto in Capricorn is picking up your chart. You can see the Capricorn goat’s head hidden on the throne. This is an ambitious older man who has made it to the top. Is it you or your boss, husband or potential lover? The issue for any man who becomes boss, CEO or manager is the system itself. The hierarchy puts him at the top - but it’s lonely at the top. There are solutions for this isolation. And options for the highly ambitious.
THE HIEROPHANT is about doctrine. Religion, spirituality, psychology, New Thought, politics or cult-like corporations. Saturn and Neptune in Pisces are likely hitting your chart. The future of power dynamics and control is also being shown, which begins in January with Pluto in Aquarius. A fraternity or sisterhood is indicated. Believers, all. (For now). Yet what happens if mild doubt becomes serious questioning and then outright rebellion in the ranks?
THE LOVERS suggests you have Libra factors in your natal chart. Fate is at work here. The South Node in Libra was last here 18-19 years ago and you, he or she has karma tied to that period in your life. You owe the universe, or you are owed. Perhaps you married or divorced then. In any case, something bigger than both of you is at work in October. You have life-changing choices to make about becoming closer or breaking apart. Clear the confusion.
THE CHARIOT is about going between two cities or two countries. You either do this online or physically commute. In astrology, Gemini and Sagittarius rule the short-haul and long-haul so either or both signs are being set off by the transits of October. How you master dual locations is important. You have the reins; it can be done. If this is another person, then he or she is capable, strong, flexible and will be tied to you in one place, but also be in another.
STRENGTH is healing. If you chose this, I would bet on you having Virgo chart factors, because Mercury Retrograde just ended in Virgo on 30th September. You spent most of August and September dealing with health issues, be it dentistry, anxiety, depression, illness, pain and so on. The good news is, now Mercury is out of his loop, you can be fixed - if you trust. You may also be a healer who has a patient who is at last ready to accept cures.
THE HERMIT points to Saturn and Neptune in Pisces hitting your natal chart. You need to be alone in October to find your soul again. Your spirit. You are searching for answers within. Finding the divine in life takes quite a long time and you will be anti-social while this takes place. Saturn can be quite heavy going. If you chose this card, part of you knows that you need to discover who you are, in relation to what you believe, but pace yourself with this.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE is surrounded by books, laptops, notebooks and the media. You have Sagittarius and/or Gemini factors which are under transit this month. This space of publishing, education, the worldwide web, the press or academia surrounds the most erratic situation. Highs become lows. Lows turn into highs. What can one do, except be philosophical about the swings and roundabouts? Don’t hang on or hold on. Just keep rolling.
JUSTICE is the Libra card. The Sun is in Libra in October and the South Node too. You quite clearly have Libra chart factors which is why you unconsciously chose this Tarot card, which lines up. The law will prevail. This may be lawyers, barristers, juries or judges. It may be universal law, or divine fair play. The scales will be perfectly balanced. Both sides, or both people (one of them is you) are identical - yet so different. Expect a crucial judgement.
A Personalised Tarot Reading for October
PSYCHIC ABILITY OR EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION is something one in three people have. The Ganzfeld experiments have proven this repeatedly. You are also more likely to have E.S.P. if you believe in it and/or meditate.
A personalised Tarot reading for October will add to the card you already chose. This time, of course, it is only known when you click and turn the card. U.S. Games Systems kindly gave me permission to put the Smith-Waite Tarot on my website, and a single card is all you need to turn, to add to your October forecast.
Extra-sensory perception works best with pink noise. So play ocean sounds on YouTube or from your downloads. That’s perfect pink noise. Visit my website now.
The Science of Astrology and Tarot
RETROCAUSALITY PROVES ATOMS ‘cause’ their own past to happen, from the future. Strange but true. We have research at the Australian National University to thank for this recent discovery. Quantum theory weirdness.
The end of your October journey has already been written, thematically. The themes, trends, climate conditions are already here. We are all made of atoms.
The trick is in consciously working with that weather to get what you want. You’ve chosen a card. Now, choose another one.
You can use astrology to look at key dates: this current Scorpio phase will not end until December does. December is already talking to October. So go ahead. The shape of things to come, to quote my friend, dream expert Jane Teresa Anderson, is just that - a pattern. Now, fine-tune the kaleidoscope.
Israel has one of those extreme astrological charts where factors line up at the same degree, Patrice. It's the 28th degree of the zodiac signs and it was just triggered in a pattern not possible for 248 years, as Pluto approaches 28 Capricorn and a number of other transits actually hit 28. She was founded with Uranus in Gemini, which translates as 'revolution with the neighbours' and 'independence from/through the neighbours.' The geography of Israel was thus always going to be crucial, but then I've never seen any evidence that people even glanced at astrology when they decided to formally recognise Israel.
This is great. The second most valuable commodity after attention is clarity. You've given us a key to access it. Priceless !