Your Horoscope for Aries

Compared to last month (September), October will be a quiet little garden. As an Aries, you crave a certain measure of excitement, but you may be glad to have a gentle month that will allow you to follow your own agenda. You will not have to worry about people jumping out at you from behind potted plants to ruin your best-laid plans, or suddenly seeing manhole covers blowing up on the road while you deftly avoid disaster on the way to work. No, there will be none of that.

You can be highly productive in October, and in truth, it will be critically important that you make a list and follow it. It is hard to tell you this, but I might as well drop the other shoe: November will be a bit of a nightmare for most of us. Here is why.

First, Mercury will be retrograde nearly all month. Although Mercury turns backward on November 9 and turns direct November 29, we always feel the lagging effects of an oncoming Mercury retrograde two weeks before it actually happens. That will wipe out the month, but this is not the main problem.

I have been concerned to see that on the full moon, November 5, Uranus will tightly oppose Mars (a highly inflammatory aspect denoting anger, and this is happening at a full moon, no less). Simultaneously, unpredictable volatile Uranus will oppose Mercury, ruling contractual relationships and commerce (i.e., finding, buying, and shipping holiday gifts). Mercury also rules travel—so as the gangsters would say, “Forget about it.”

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