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Your Daily Horoscopes for Friday, October 9th

Aries

Mercury’s three-week retrograde period comes to an end today, dear Aries, and Mercury will now move direct in your relationship zone, until November 2nd. Some relationship challenges or ambiguity can clear in the coming days and weeks. Remember, however, that communications can remain confusing as Mercury changes direction, and perhaps even more so. Slow down and get your facts straight today. Save the bigger decisions for a little later, and ease forward your projects. Going forward, relationship endeavors, and relationships themselves, should resume “normal” speed. Today is good for thinking breakthroughs on work projects and methods, and it’s also very strong for personal magnetism.

Taurus

Mercury ends its retrograde cycle today, dear Taurus, and over the coming days and weeks, certain stalled projects begin to move forward or you are ready to make decisions on what to move forward and what to put behind you. You might also receive the news you’ve been waiting on, particularly related to money, work, and health. For today, be as clear as you can in your communications, as we’re in a transition period as the shift occurs. Emotionally speaking, today you are in no mood to deal with mundane affairs – you need some excitement and freedom of movement. Personal magnetism is strong today, and interactions can be animated, although you could be attracting some tension in love relationships.

Gemini

Mercury, your ruler, comes to a station today, dear Gemini, as it changes direction – from retrograde to direct. While today may be a little chaotic, this shift in direction can bring improved communications, more decisiveness, and more clarity in romantic and creative affairs in the coming days and weeks. Today’s energy is a little withdrawn and contemplative, but lively nonetheless. Save important or tricky conversations for a better time. If you need to address issues, it is vital that you choose words carefully, as Mercury’s change in direction today can initially stimulate a fair amount of confusion. Be clear on directions and appointments as well.

Cancer

The end of Mercury’s retrograde cycle can point to improved communications with friends and family in the coming days and weeks, dear Cancer. While you’re unlikely to see immediate results today, you can look forward to more clarity in your relationships going forward. You’re likely to return to previous conversations that were confusing or getting nowhere, this time with more clarity. It’s time to come at problems from a new angle. Some plans you’ve made recently may now seem less important or even necessary, and others deemed worthy to bring forward with you. Today, you can be excited about plans and news can come through that you’ve been waiting for.

Leo

Mercury ends its three-week retrograde cycle, stationing today in your communications sector, dear Leo. With direct motion, there can be forward motion in projects after possible delays or editing work. Over the coming days and weeks, you are likely to feel clearer headed and more decisive. Transportation, financial, and educational difficulties are likely to clear up, and friendships or group connections can be more straightforward. Today, you’ll need to be especially sensitive when it comes to choosing words to express yourself. Get back into things slowly but surely.

Virgo

After three weeks of retrograde (or apparent backwards) motion, the planet of communication, Mercury, which happens to also be your ruler, begins to move forward today, dear Virgo. This means that over the coming days and weeks, tricky problems and indecisiveness will begin to clear up. You’re more likely to give off clear signals to others and less inclined to hesitate. As the shift occurs today. take special care in your interactions with others. You may be missing important details. More clarity is around the corner, particularly surrounding financial and business or career matters. Some projects or ideas could be scrapped, while others regain momentum. You’ll have lots of help from Venus, softening your manner and highlighting your more likable qualities.

Libra

Mercury turns direct today after almost three weeks of retrograde motion, dear Libra. While this is a signal that communication problems are likely to clear up soon, don’t expect it to happen all in one day! Slowly but surely, others will find it easier to understand and to communicate with you, and you with them. Part of the reason is that you and the people around you are likely to be clearer and more decisive. Some of the tension you have been feeling of late can dissipate as you take a clearer look at things. For now, take care with the words you choose to express yourself. Misunderstandings are quite possible as Mercury, the planet of communication, shifts directions today. Mercury will continue to move through your sign, now in direct motion, until November 2nd, and you are communicating with more presence and getting noticed for your ideas and intelligence. The Moon is in your privacy sector all day, and you’re likely to really benefit from some time to yourself detoxing from stressful situations.

Scorpio

The planet of communication, Mercury, ends its retrograde cycle today, dear Scorpio. Mercury has been moving through your privacy sector throughout this time, and will continue to do so, now in direct motion, until November 2nd. Over the coming days and weeks, recent communication problems will tend to clear up, although you’re likely to continue to do some ruminating. New information can come to light and you have a stronger sense of how to deal with troubling issues from the past. However, right now, with the shift occurring, there can be some confusion and possibly frustration. Avoid focusing on what’s said or not said today. Choose your battles carefully. A Venus-Mars parallel aspect can enliven your romantic or social connections.

Sagittarius

Mercury’s three-week retrograde period comes to an end today, dear Sagittarius, and while the shift itself can cause some initial confusion, as you go forward, recent projects that have halted or slowed down may begin to move forward. Many recent misunderstandings are likely to clear up in the coming days and weeks. Avoid important conversations or sensitive topics just for the time being, as misunderstandings can be frustrating. Approach your projects slowly but surely, and relationships may require a little space as well before they regain momentum. Even so, this is a strong day for career thinking or method breakthroughs.

Capricorn

Mercury ends its three-week retrograde period today, dear Capricorn, and you’ll begin to feel the fog lifting in the coming days. You are likely to become clearer in your goals, and career matters tend to resume or pick up speed. For now, confused plans and communications are still likely, so be as clear as possible or avoid serious discussions temporarily, as any shift can have the effect of initially magnifying problem areas. However, with stimulating energy in your adventure sector and Mercury moving forward, this is an exciting period for learning, sharing, working, and connecting. You can feel especially hopeful and motivated today.

Aquarius

You may need to deal with communication or transportation breakdowns today, dear Aquarius, but while these things may have been more frequent in the past few weeks, many of these problems will begin to clear up over the coming days and weeks. Mercury turns direct today after just over three weeks of retrograde motion. Matters surrounding travel, education, creative direction, and romance are likely to become clearer and more straightforward. The Moon’s alignment with Jupiter and trine to Pluto today can promote some feeling of excitement and motivation for future plans. You can experience a breakthrough of sorts in thinking.

Pisces

Watch for miscommunication and fuzzy thinking with Mercury coming to a station today, dear Pisces. The bigger decisions should probably wait for a clearer time. Financial matters are a bigger concern for you these days, but soon you will have a chance to see matters more clearly. This is also a good time for repairing relationship woes, if necessary, or of coming to a better understanding of your relationship situation. Recent dilemmas of an intimate or financial nature are set to smooth over or clear up in the coming days. There can be lively interactions today, but it’s better to keep things light just for now.

If You Were Born Today, October 8

You possess a highly creative mind. You are likely quite good with language and/or languages, and you have an unmistakably goofy sense of humor. You have a wonderful sense of judgment. Although you will entertain some attraction to the mystical, you are largely logical. You can be a charming conversationalist, making each person you talk to one-on-one feel very special. Although you are capable of much hard work, leisure time is very important to you. You are more decisive than the typical Libra personality. You are creative, witty, and fair-minded. Famous people born today: Chevy Chase, Matt Damon, Sigourney Weaver, Jesse Jackson, Paul Hogan.

Source:
Cafe Astrology

Your Rune For Today
Kenaz

Kenaz foretells the coming of clarity and knowledge. It is time for you to grow by exchanging knowledge with others. Opportunities are upon you.

Additional information about Today’s Rune, Kenaz

kenaz : torch

Phonetic equivalent: k (can also be used as a hard ‘c’)

DIVINATORY MEANINGS:

wisdom, insight, solution to a problem, creativity, inspiration, enlightenment

MAGICAL USES:

for creative inspiration, aid in study, fertility, dispelling anxiety and fear

ASSOCIATED MYTHS & DEITIES:

Mimir, the Dwarfs, Muspellheim

ANALYSIS:

In modern usage, the Scottish ‘ken’ means to know or understand, and this is the sense in which the rune should interpreted. Today, light, inspiration and knowledge are often associated, as in ‘gaining enlightenment’ and ‘shedding light on the problem’, and even in the image of a lightbulb going on over someone’s head when they get an idea. To bring light is to make the invisible visible.Unlike the wisdom gained at þurisaz, kenaz only allows us to take bits and pieces of this knowledge away with us as we need it, usually at the discretion of the Gods. This knowledge will generally come in the form of a sudden inspiration, and we will be able to see clearly the answer that was once hidden from us. This form of wisdom is more closely associated with the right half of the brain than the left, since it does not come through conscious effort but rather through passively opening one’s self to it. Thus, a more feminine element is added to our journeyer’s experience.

 

The act of bringing light into the darkness is also a creative one. Again consider the image of the person carrying a torch , representing the masculine elements of fire and air, entering the cave and penetrating the feminine realm of earth and water. This joining of masculine and feminine elements results in the creation of new ideas. In physical terms, this can be correlated to the application of fire to mold and shape matter – the art of the smith.

Your Personal Daily Tarot Card

Judgment

Judgment embodies those forces which require us to be accountable for our actions. With Judgment truths are revealed, mysteries are unraveled and responsibility is assigned. Judgment unveils outcomes and marks the ends of things. While it is a time to properly place guilt, it is also a time for atonement and forgiveness. Ultimately the process of Judgment should lead to freedom from errors made in the past and a fresh start with a clean slate. To that end Judgment actually promises the start of a new journey on which we can apply what we have learned from our past.