Sun & Rising Sign Horoscopes for October 2024

Adam Elenbaas
This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today, we are doing your sun and rising sign horoscopes for the month of October, and we're going to be focusing on the Solar Eclipse in Libra that is happening this week, as well as the Grand Water Trine that's forming, and trying to give you some really focused horoscopic forecasts for the month ahead. I'm really happy, as always, to be joined by Alex Amorosi and Dana Solera, who will both be helping me break your horoscopes down today. So we'll bring them on in a second and dive in.

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Adam Elenbaas
All right. So, um, as always, I want to hear, like, just broadly speaking, what were your highlights? How was your Pisces Eclipse? How were the big transits of September? Anything you guys were really noticing or feeling well? Where to begin?

Dana Solara
I told you guys that the eclipse was two degrees from my son. And I have a Pisces stellium, so all of these planets moving through Virgo have been opposing my son, my ascendant ruler, Venus, my Mercury. And I had this really profound realization right around the eclipse of this, like this 12th house problem, that I need to know and have certainty about and how that is actually the problem. The problem is not needing to know; it's that you think you need to know if that makes any sense at all. So yeah, 12th house moments for me. How about you? Alex,

Alex Amorosi
I'm having a big eighth house party right now, so I'm getting kind of a masterclass on, old karmic debts and how to resolve them and dissolving them. This is where the eclipse landed, right at the tail end of my eighth house, but I also have the South Node sitting right on my moon right now. So I'm not even sure if I'm on planet Earth. I could be. It's even money I got, like, this Neptune Eclipse window, plus the south NOTAM. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm just kind of like, here, man. Yeah, that eclipse was really interesting because it felt, for me, rather subtle, and as I think of Pisces Eclipse with Neptune wood, but at the same time, it's kind of like doing pranayama.

Yoga is like doing breath work, where it feels very subtle on the surface, but it has these very deep effects on a much lower level, and especially, I think, in the eighth house. So I'm just kind of rolling with it, and eventually, I think the fog is going to clear. But it's been an interesting couple of weeks.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, for sure, yeah. These were two things that really stood out to me. The lunar eclipse was in my 11th house, and with that Neptune configuration, I finally made the decision to get organized and start an in-person monthly meetup here in Minneapolis for people in the nightlight community and also my wife's herbal community because there's quite a few people in our neck of the woods now that want to connect.

So I was like, Oh, here's an 11th house Eclipse. And I booked the space for a solstice event in December. And so I was like, Oh, look, there's the community 11th house stuff showing up. That was pretty cool. But then, obviously, once Mars entered Cancer, and I was just mentioning this to you guys off camera, but like, that was, I should have known that for a person with Mercury in the sun and Cancer like that, Mars and Cancer would bring up a lot, and it's brought up a lot within my family and extended family. And so I'm just sitting back and going, okay, yeah, I'm not in control. Can't? There's not a lot I can do.

But, you know, bear witness and try to be the best brother, you know, the best brother, the best son, the best cousin, whatever, in all these different family dynamics, just be the best I can to love and support people when they're going through stuff. But yeah, it was like Mars and Cancer. I've noticed, for a lot of people, it was a big part of the month, in addition to the eclipse. So, it plays an interesting role in this month's astrology, too. Let me put it up on the screen so we can start taking a look at it. So we're going to be looking today at the upcoming Solar Eclipse in Libra, which is happening this week on Wednesday, October 2. And there you can see it forming. Mercury's right in the middle of it, too. So Mercury's just coming off the cazimi with the sun. But what I find really interesting about this eclipse is also taking into consideration the ruler. The ruler is Venus. It's an Eclipse in Libra, so Venus is the host, and Venus is moving into a Grand Water Trine.

Now, it's not perfect between all three planets at once, but it's close enough. And so this amount of water behind a Libran Eclipse tells me that not only are relationships shifting, which is a very Libran Eclipse kind of thing, but they're shifting with some pretty deep emotional territory within some pretty deep emotional spaces. These watery planets all coming together suggest a deeper level of vulnerability or a deeper level of emotional catharsis, the deeper level of emotional intelligence or maturity that might be needed to navigate the changes ahead or the immaturities that we have to look at and face.

Those are some of the initial thoughts that come to my mind about this Libra and Eclipse; given the background, that's what we're gonna be looking at today. But before we do so, I'd really love to hear your thoughts about this eclipse and about this month, as well as anything that comes to your mind before we get into individual horoscopes.

Alex Amorosi
You know, I think what's so interesting with Venus and Scorpio ruling this eclipse is, you know, Libra. And as I was mentioning, it's the Libra moon, and I can speak from experience, on this, there's a desire to keep everything kind of like balanced and harmonious and nice, and even on this, on the surface, everything looks like it's kind of copacetic and we're okay, but Venus and Scorpio is going to demand the truth. It's not going to care whether it's balanced, whether it's fair, whether it's whether it keeps the peace.

Venus and Scorpio aren't interested in that. And so I think that there's a really interesting mix this month of diplomatically addressing maybe some pretty challenging but healing truths. Because Scorpio, you know, we can, yes, it can be intense, and yes, it can be very dark, but there is that transmutation quality to Scorpio that's really important, too.

And I think for Libra; there can be kind of a relief of, uh, not having to, you know, not having to be the fulcrum of the scale all the time, not having to be the person who's juggling everything in the air, and just being like, you know, here, here's the truth as I see it, here's what was personally relevant to me. And sometimes, if you let go of trying to keep the balance, you know, kind of keeping control of balance, there's a broader, more, sort of, I don't want, kind of cosmic balance, or bigger balance that can come into play that's much more organic and you don't have to be responsible for that. That's kind of my initial thoughts on that.

Dana Solara
I also love that I'm thinking about like a shedding of skin, the new moon, but the south node is here, so it's like the death and rebirth kind of what's ending so something new can begin, and when I think about Venus and Scorpio, I think about how sometimes to get to balance. Because you have to, it has to be shut up, like we have to get way off balance in order to get back to that point of equilibrium, where we have to unearth what is deeply off balance.

Maybe on the surface, things are fine, but there's actually a lot of turmoil going on underneath. And what's that all about? We're not really balanced or relating on a deep level if I'm, you know, not fully showing up, or not being honest, or whatever the case might be. And I guess that's what we're going to get into as we talk about Horoscopes. But that's kind of what's coming up for me.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I love the pairing of a South Node solar eclipse with almost a place of resolving past issues and, as we've done so, starting off in a new direction. It has that feeling of bringing something to a close while we are intentionally, you know, opening a new door at the same time. I think, for example, about a simple story from my own life. I have this happening in my sixth house as a Taurus rising, and we have two employees. One of them they are a married couple, and one of them received a big promotion, so she's not going to be able to be as present any longer, which means they're leaving Nightlight and two new people will be coming in. So it's like, that's, and that's the hiring process for us will start right after the eclipse.

So it's like this exit followed by a door opening. I really think that kind of energetic exchange is like saying goodbye to something in the past, tying a ribbon around some cycle from the past, and really opening ourselves up to a new cycle. Is it just super appropriate for the South Node, a solar eclipse, which kind of pairs crystallization of old cycles and insights along with a new beginning?

Alex Amorosi
You can see, too. Adam, I was just thinking along those lines. What I love about the South Node, too, is that Scorpio is involved in this, which is a thorough clearing out of long-standing stuff. Scorpio will clean out the sub-basement of the sub-basement to get down to whatever's there. So it's nice this feels like a particularly emphatic South Node Eclipse.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Are you guys ready to dive in? Let's do it. Yes. All right, we're gonna go. We're gonna go, Aries. You know what we're gonna do? I'm gonna throw you guys off a little bit. I have had so many people complaining that we never, ever, ever get to start with Pisces. What if we just went crazy and went backward?

Dana Solara
Let's do what Mercury is opposing Neptune. Let's just throw, dude.

Adam Elenbaas
I think we ought to do it because, seriously, there is a whole host of Piscean people throwing like they're picketing outside. We're gonna go backward. So we're gonna go Pisces through Aries today, just to mess with everybody and give our Pisces and people some love, and maybe we'll even switch it up so we go Pisces through Aries and Aries through Pisces alternating months or something; I don't know, feeling a little crazy today.

Alex Amorosi
You never know what's gonna happen on these horoscopes. People just never know. Buckle up, as always.

Adam Elenbaas
I want to remind you, guys, that if you want to connect with Alex and Dana at the end of our material today, I will make sure to promote them and tell you where you can follow them, book a reading, and all that good stuff. So stay tuned for that later. But let us start with Pisces. Alex is taking our mutable signs today. I'm taking fixed, and Dana's taking Cardinals. So we're going to be moving backward in the order. I guess we all thought we would be. But surprise.

Alex Amorosi
So Alex was ready to sit back with my coffee.

Adam Elenbaas
Man, I was like, No, I'm going to highlight, and I will just draw for every single one. I'm going to draw a circle around the Eclipse point, which lands for Pisceans here in the eighth house, and Alex take us away.

Alex Amorosi
Pisces
So this is interesting. I think, you know, I want to tie in Saturn in your first house to this, too. But I think that if we look at a self-node, Libra eclipse in your eighth house, this is something about releasing a long-standing pattern of older, more deeply tied, energetic bonds or really caring what other people think. Is another way I would say this, like, it's not just the eighth house, which how you know, how you see other people see you, but also Libra, which tends to have a sense of like, I want to keep the harmony by being beautiful and harmonious on the surface. And I think with Venus and Scorpio in your ninth house and Saturn in Pisces in your first house, there may be a call here to in a really, I guess the word emphatic is the one that's coming to mind, because the south node is on my moon, and I'm only having one word come to mind.

But there's a sense of really saying, like I can no longer hold the balance. Or I can no longer give the esteem of other people priority over my own beliefs and my own sense of self. And I think that you know, especially you guys, have had neps here in transiting your house since 2012, which kind of doubles the Pisces, so to speak.

There's a sense of merging, and there's a sense of diffusion of boundaries. I think that this might be a call to stand up for what you really know to be true and what you really know to be right for yourself, and then a concretizing of Saturn in your first house here, of your own sense of identity. Who am I, and where? Where really are the boundaries between me and you, but it comes from this sort of release of the need to hold a sense of harmonious balance and diplomacy, where it might just be like, you know, this is me, man, and you gotta deal with it, that kind of feeling, yeah.

Dana Solara
Yeah, what you're saying about the ninth house stands out to me. I think Pisceans, whether you're a Pisces rising, Pisces sun, Pisces moon, yeah, there's, there's no, you know, technical connection between Pisces and Libra, I guess. But they're similar to me in the sense that they're very caring and like, Well, what about you? How are you doing? And that Venus in the ninth house in Scorpio was like, No, I really need to say my piece now, like, this is what's important to me.

This is what I believe, and I think about this uncomfortable, like Adam, what you said at the beginning about vulnerability as it keeps coming up for me as I think about the different my different cardinal signs that I'm to talk about today there, it's scary maybe to say, like, Well, no, I don't agree with that. Or no, I can't really be this way in this dynamic anymore. But that's what the moment is calling for. And there you get Saturn in the first thing I got to stand on my own. I need to be who I know myself to be and move in this direction where it might be uncomfortable, but this is what I have to do.

Adam Elenbaas
Hmm, yeah, yeah. I Look at this, and I think about how I've been developing my masterclass series for 2025, and I'm breaking down the houses that are all connected by trines, whole sign trines, which Indian astrologers group together in philosophical categories. So the first, fifth, and ninth, where these watery planets are for Pisces, are all called Dharma houses. And that has to do with the purpose for which one is born. And so I look at this, and I go, there could be a radical reorientation of your sense of sole purpose and what you are born for, especially as you disentangle your own sense of what you are born for from the purpose or role that you fill in other people's lives.

It's like, well, actually, I do a really good job of filling other people's needs in the eighth house or of, you know, part of my function and purpose exists in this relationship and the needs of other people and what other people value. And then maybe there are some deep realizations happening right now about where you're going to go, you know what? But that's not my purpose, you know. So that's what comes to my mind.

Otherwise, I also just think of clearing karmic debts and deepening our understanding of how karma works, which, for lots of us, comes when we disentangle ourselves from certain key relationships. It's like when you get through a breakup, you kind of go, Oh, my God, I like I have some insight about how karma works. I need to be really careful with the next kinds of contracts I get myself into so I can see that kind of reflective awareness being born through a moment like this for Pisceans right now.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, let us continue to Aquarius

Dana Solara
Pisces people are blowing my mind.

Alex Amorosi
We are. We're so wild, we're crazy.

Adam Elenbaas
Aquarius
So we have the, I'll take this one. I'm on the Fixed sign. So Aquarius has also got mad at me last month because I was out of, we were running short on time, and I didn't comment on Aquarius, and I had, like, seriously angry Aquarians. So I was like, I'm gonna take the fixed signs this month so I can give Aquarius some love. No, but so we have for Aquarians a solar eclipse in the ninth house, which, to me, reflects the important turning point in a cycle of your life with respect to your knowledge and understanding of things; it's like the culminating experiences that lead to a deeper and clearer understanding.

Now I know something more about life, about myself, crystallized insights or. The wisdom is born out of experiences. What kinds of experiences I look to the ruler Venus, and I think about public and social relationships, and I think about power and power dynamics, and I think about what kinds of relationships we have that are advantageous to us in terms of our ambitions and our goals, as well as those that are not and also to what extent the relationships that we have are rooted in soul level connection, versus maybe more materialistic goals or concerns, like we want kindred spirits in our life that help us grow and advance our ambitions, but we don't want, we also want our ambitions to be in line with something of spiritual value. And so I just look at Aquarians right now, and I think, yeah, you're learning something new.

There's a kind of turning point within a process of wisdom and understanding, which is what the ninth house is all about. It's also maybe related to getting clearer about what kind of person you want to be and what kind of people you want to be around with respect to your goals, talents, and ambitions in life. So those are the kinds of that's the pairing that comes to my mind with the ninth and 10th house, and it could also be something as mundane as, you know, developing new skills or abilities or gathering new educational experiences for the sake of developing professionally because your goals or your values are changing around your profession as well. That's what comes to my mind. What do you guys think?

Alex Amorosi
You know, I'm seeing Venus in Scorpio in the 10th house, the stuff that might be coming up around work or the career house. In your 10th house, this ruling, this eclipse. I think this is where you want to trust your gut. There may not be something that's immediately apparent on a cerebral level, but Venus, you know, Scorpios, have an incredible bullshit detector, like they really have, and they are no tolerance for, like, any sort of fakeness or anything like that. There's just this amazing ability just to bore it down to the truth. And I think you know, and this is dependent on your chart, of course, you know.

But you know, for Aquarius rising, the desire to order the systems of information, you know, cerebrally, kind of put the chessboard together in your mind, is a wonderful skill, but Venus may be asking you around the shift and change in values and beliefs to be trusting your gut, and maybe some more intuitive or non-rational guidance that's coming to you that could be really helpful. Yeah, yeah,

Dana Solara
I'm definitely, you know, thinking about it in those ways. There's some kind of discord between who you are out in the world and what you know to be true. And I am thinking too about Mercury and the fact that we're coming off a Kazimi the day before. I wonder what you realize about what your values are and what's important to you, and how that might be in conflict with your public roles and who you are in the world, and this feeling like I can't fake it, I can't fake it anymore, and maybe this is the start of a new chapter in that regard.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I love that. It's so interesting that the ninth house is a place of Dharma, and we're really trying to understand Dharma in relation to the ninth house, which is like the big Dharma. You know, the first house is the personal Dharma. So, what is my purpose? And then the ninth house is, how do I understand the purpose of reality itself, you know?

So when we look at the 10th house, when we think of the house that was called arta by Indian astrologers, which is basically your work in the world, your profession, as well as power, money, wealth, mastery, fame, notoriety, stuff like that, it's as though we're trying to reconcile our work in the world with our understanding of reality, of Dharma. And that's not easy to do because, in some ways, the two spaces are averse to one another. They don't see each other.

They're like, well, you know, people quite frequently say, for example, Oh, you do astrology for a living. It should all be free. You shouldn't earn money at all. But that's the ninth house, not seeing the 10th as though everything that has to do with worldly earning of income or having a job is by default, not spiritual, you know. Obviously, there can be hypocrisy and other things. But the point is, right now, for Aquarians, it's about trying to bring together the understanding of higher dimensions of truth and reality with very worldly pursuits and ambitions. And how do they work together or not? Yeah, yeah. Let's. Are you guys ready to keep going? Yeah, all right, going backward. Capricorn, okay, Dana's got this one. Here it is on the 10th.

Dana Solara
Capricorn
Here we go, Capricorn. So this is a 10th-house eclipse ruled by Venus in the 11th. So it's a death and rebirth in your career or in your public roles and who you are in the world. And for me, I'm thinking about your role in the group with Venus on the 11th. I think about not being, being unwilling to be that person in the group, like, perhaps there's a role that is your default role in your work or in the groups you're a part of, and you're just kind of done with that, not I want to do that anymore. And to think about, like, I think about Mars in the seventh here, bringing in that vulnerability of, like, I need to speak up for what I want, even though, like, Capricorn is ruled by Saturn, and I tend to think of Saturn as very like, self-assured, and I can stand on my own the Capricorn risings. I know it's a little hard for them to speak up for themselves.

I think that there's a desire to be perceived as, oh, I can do that. I can handle it. And maybe this is a time where you're like, No, I don't want to do that thing anymore. Please sign me up for something else. But you're going to need to speak up to do that. So that's what I'm thinking about for my Capricorn risings: a shifting of responsibilities and the importance of speaking up for yourself. There is one more thing I feel like it's it matters: Pluto is back in your first house right now, just because it's not going to be there very soon, ever again, while you're alive. So I wonder how that plays into it for you, what you're ready to compost in your self-concept, and how that shows up in your relationships.

Alex Amorosi
It's funny you say that, Dana, because I've been thinking a lot about a relationship between, particularly for Capricorn, the relationship between Pluto and Venus in the next few weeks. And I think, you know, with that Venus, I love everything you're saying. I don't think that Venus in the 11th house, too, is like, this is maybe looking at, like, the bonds in your network, so the who's an ally and who's not, like, who's really got your back?

Because if a Scorpio has your back and they have your back, that is like, that is serious loyalty, um, and also looking at like, you know, is there are, are there people within your networks that are not exactly what they appear to be, or undermining them in some way that there could be like with the Scorpio in the dark too? But I actually think that this is something about, like you were saying, releasing this idea of, like, I have to do this role or have this role be a certain way. Who's going to really support me in that? Who maybe isn't supporting me in that? Doesn't always have to be nefarious, just some people sometimes don't support you in that. And I, you know, obviously with Pluto there, there's something going on with this last little tying up of a deep, transformational process-oriented shift in your identity, too.

Adam Elenbaas
I've been looking at those triads of houses like I was just mentioning and developing a series because I've really been trying to work with groupings of houses and their juxtapositions more in terms of bigger universal themes in the birth chart.

So, for example, Indian astrologers looked at houses 711 and three as places that pertain to human relationships and the pleasure or happiness that we obtain from human relationships. And I've been, you know, I've been playing with a lot of those themes, blending them with Hellenistic themes and stuff like that and trying to make sense of them. One thing that I've noticed is that you can really look at the pursuit of pleasure in relationships through each of these three houses in different ways. The 11th house, where the ruler of the eclipse sits, is really about the kind of pleasure that comes from being in touch with people who we feel are advancing our feeling of success in the world, you know.

So that was called The Joy of Jupiter. And you know, people that we feel are beneficial for us bring us joy and satisfaction, not only because there's camaraderie on some level but also because there's advancement happening. And that's the, basically, the ancient view of the 11th in a nutshell, but when you look at that, and then you also consider the Grand Water Trine forming in the other houses, where the seventh has so much to do with intimate pleasure and relationships bringing happiness that is more intimate, like marriage, for example, in the third house, it's so much about our almost like the everyday village life, which we don't really have anymore, but it's sort of like the culture. Does the culture bring you happiness and connection through friends that feel like family, sort of like that?

When I look at these three houses, sort of pinging off from each other with the Eclipse in Libra in the tent, the thing I think to myself is there are real questions going on right now. How happy are your relationships making you, how advantageous or beneficial Are they really, or to what extent do your relationships feel contrived, or what pressures are they straining under right now? And what are the deeper emotional spaces you're looking at in terms of all the different levels of relationships in your life and whether or not they're actually bringing you happiness? That seems such an interesting thing to be considering, as there's also a solar eclipse opening up in the 10th house, which is the place of your work. It's as if you're being asked to consider something new around the workplace that's being informed by a lot of really deep, emotional, and introspective processes happening around all the levels of relationships in your life, and whether or not they're, they're satisfying emotionally. So I don't know exactly how that all comes together, but it's like you can't just put the career piece for Capricorn apart from all of the emotional, relational processing that's happening.

Adam Elenbaas
Okay, let's anyone want to add anything else? Or should we keep going?
Okay, yeah, let's back it up by going backward. I love it. It's a retrograde addition. Yeah, let's go to our double-bodied Sagittarius rising with the eclipse in the 11th

Alex Amorosi
Sagittarius
All right, so my Sagittarius risings, this is interesting because it's kind of the way I'm going to frame this. It's a kind of public eclipse with a very private processing in the background. And so there's a sort of, you know, the solar eclipse in your 11th house, which has a feeling of bringing to an end cycles of, as Adam was saying, the different types of relationships that might bring you advancement, allies, friends, networks. That's how I always think of networks in the 11th house. That's kind of where my brain goes to it.

But you also have an interesting space for Venus in your 12th, Mars in your eighth, and Saturn in your fourth, which are very private houses in my mind; these are spaces that are not necessarily either in your conscious awareness or visible to the outside world. And so what's interesting is, I think there might be something that feels like on the surface or above the surface of the water, a fairly major new beginning that coincides with a release of very old patterns within your social groups or within those who help your career or advance your career.

That also happens under the surface of the water, some very deep, maybe some, and maybe it's difficult to get a handle on emotional processing that's going on underneath the surface.

So, in other words, I think the better way to say that is water signs, which are often all about emotional intuition but often have a difficult time differentiating what the emotion is. They have to take time to be with them, sit with them, and work with them. And, you know, if they're having a fight, they have to go away for a day to, like, you know, from the fight, to sort of figure out what they're feeling and then come back to it because it's like, sort of separate out all the ocean drops of what's happening.

So I feel like they meet. This may be a time where there are some, on the surface, very big changes happening in those network areas of life, but in the more private spheres of your inner emotional realm, there's a need for some real discernment and contemplation about very deep emotional shifts going on underneath the surface. Yeah, it's so good.

Alex Amorosi
Thank you.

Dana
You're welcome. I think you had me thinking about vulnerability again. If there's something new happening in the networks and the friend groups, and that's putting Sagittarius rising, sort of in a new position within those groups, the processing beneath the surface seems to have to do with the vulnerability around allowing yourself to be in a relationship. I'm looking at Mars in the eighth house and thinking about sad risings in general as just being people who maybe want to do things their way and be independent, and that it might be hard to merge with another person in a meaningful way with that and like, truly let go in that, if that makes sense. And so I wonder if the benefit of surface processing is like, how do I really allow myself to be in a relationship with people and not maybe be so guarded? I'm thinking about the Nine of Wands for some reason right now.

Adam Elenbaas
I love that I think about the eclipse on the 11th, specifically with Venus on the 12th. One of the things I was reminded of is that you know. Some things about the 12th house that are really difficult, and there are other things about the 12th house that just involve this merit very, very basic human experience of needing solitude, or needing like, to sort of be alone and to even get away from ourselves, you know, like the everyday person we are, the everyday life we live, which is why we all take, like, spiritual retreats. And there's actually some historical relevance to that. It's not just a modern 12th house, Pisces conflation, right?

That says, well, the 12th house is a place of taking time apart for spiritual retreat. This was one of the Moksha houses in Indian astrology, which meant liberation. And it could imply things like, you know, vows of silence, or austerities, or departure from the world temporarily. And so I think about this, and I go, like, right now, if you're not sure about what's going on socially, and you need a retreat from a social scene or a social situation, you need to just take a step back from a group of friends or an organization or just to really feel into it. That wouldn't be a bad idea.

And also, if there are things that you can start to sense that are going on beyond the behind the surface, right? Whether that's some level of deceit or dishonesty or manipulation or gossip or whatever it is, if you're sensing that there is some drama beneath or behind the scenes of some kind of social setting in your life, it's also not a bad time to just step back and think about it, reflect on it, feel into it, and trust your intuition about what you're feeling or sensing that might be happening on a subtler level, and if you give your self-time to honor that, it's possible that you'll be better informed to make choices about how to move forward within certain groups or relationships.

Alex Amorosi
I love that you know Adam, just on that point you were making, too. I think it's interesting that the ascendant ruler, Jupiter, is in the opposite sign. I'm about to move retrograde this month, too, which I think adds to that feeling of, you know, Sagittarius is explorational but not always experimental. I can say that from experience, especially as a Sagittarius who's in a relationship with the Gemini. But there's a feeling here that you might need to be, you know, withdraw and kind of review things in a more experimental way. This has to change in some way. It has to be a little bit out of the box. So I can see Jupiter's period of retrograde from October to February, or something like that, accent what we're talking about.

Adam Elenbaas
Scorpio
That's interesting. Yeah. Okay, let's see here. So that's Scorpio. I'm almost gonna move us backward again. So now we're on Scorpio. Scorpio on the ascendant. Okay, so this is me. Let's go to the solar eclipse here in your 12th house, with Venus in the first. This is interesting because, to me, this would suggest that you are becoming consciously aware of unconscious material. When the rulers are in the first, and the eclipses are in the 12th, it's like you have something like a periscope. You can look up from the depths of the unconscious and see yourself through or vice versa.

You can reach down and see what's down there. I think that this probably has to do with the way you have been seeing yourself versus maybe a slightly more accurate or revised version of what's really there, which doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing. That might mean you're underestimating yourself, to whatever extent, you're also overestimating yourself, and a little bit more work needs to be done. That's really not a bad thing. It's really, really, actually amazing to be in touch with what is real about ourselves; as long as we don't shame or judge ourselves for needing to work on things, that feedback could really be helpful. I also look at this, and I think, yeah, there are questions right now, again, in the Dharma houses about what my purpose is. What What role do I play? What purpose do I have in life?

And I think that some of the 12th house eclipse suggests that you're going into a period of time where you may have the opportunity to reflect at a really deep level about why you're here on this planet in this lifetime and the role that you play as an individual, and what's going to make you feel good and connected meaningfully to other people. Those all feel like very promising things, but probably a deeper level of spiritual reflection. And I would also encourage Scorpio's time out for self-care to allow that reflection space to happen in a way that's not, I don't. It just doesn't need to come up through chaos and, drama and stress. You know? It doesn't really have to go that way. I don't think you should go. We're having a staring contest. I want to be polite.

Alex Amorosi
No, I want to be polite. The Libra is rising in the Libra moon, duking it out, too. You know, I love that Adam and I, you know, I'm just what always comes up for me, especially with, I know this is a transiting sound, but sun in the 12th house was just, this has been actually hitting me a couple for a couple of signs now is looking at like, are you really being true to yourself and your own esthetics and values?

Is there something coming from dad that you kept following or a primary paternal caregiver that might be coming up of saying, like, you know, I was following a path somehow, even unconsciously, that came from my family that came from the primary male caregiver in my childhood. And is it possible, with Venus in the first house of being like, to end that cycle? Doesn't always have to be bad. And being like, I'm striking out on my own esthetic, my own truth about what I feel to be right, from my own sense of pleasure and harmony in the world. That's just something that has been kind of gnawing at me the last couple of signs with the solar eclipse.

Dana Solara
I don't know if this is a cliche, but what I'm thinking about is the ability to love yourself for Scorpio Risings. We keep talking about this intensity with the Water Trine, and I feel like Scorpio risings are well equipped for it. You can go there; that's where you naturally live anyway. And this Mercury cazimi with the eclipse in your 12th is like, yeah, an awareness of a blind spot. And maybe that blind spot is like, how do I treat myself? Maybe I can give myself the love that I need. Maybe I can, yeah, maybe I can be there for myself when I can't trust other people the way that I need to, to let them in, or maybe I'm learning how to let people in. But that's kind of what I'm thinking about here, right?

Adam Elenbaas
I could also see this, by the way, as being about revelations to do with the body and health and self-care, you know, like if, if there's something in the 12th house happening and then the rulers in the first, it could be that you're coming to understand, oh gosh, there are choices I make or patterns that I live in that are contributing to my wellness or my feeling of stress, or what have you, that maybe some beneficial awareness of those things, like, oh, you know what? More of this, it makes me feel good, or, oh, you know what? Less of that; it's not making me feel so good. That could be an interesting benefit of this eclipse with the ruler in your first, for sure. All right, let us back this train up in here's Libra on the ascendant now.

Dana Solara
Libra
Oof, okay, Libra risings, my people, here we go. It's all about us. Yeah, just start it like that. Okay, so a transformation, a death and rebirth, a new beginning with our sense of self, our identity, particularly because Venus is in the second house, regarding what you have to offer, and I think your sense of personal value. It could also be more literal, like it could have to do with how you value your resources, whether that be what you have or your money. Do either of you know the band? Bright Eyes? Connor Oberst, oh yeah.

Okay, like my love, like my favorite band, probably of all time, but I think I'm wide awake. It's morning. It is the song my mind races with all my longings, but I can't keep up with what I've got. That's what came to mind for me when I thought about this, like, Well, what do I have to give to the world? And maybe, how am I selling myself short? I think Mercury in the first is about a new self-concept, like a new understanding of who you are and what you can give to the world. And we've got Mars in the 10th and Saturn in the sixth. So it does feel like it's about your work too, and about who you want to be in the world, about maybe wanting to be known for your work and what you do. That's Mars in the 10th. Like, hey, I have something to offer.

Like, I have a goal, I have a thing I want to do, a place that I want to get to, and Saturn in the sixth is saying, like, there's been a lot of hard work behind that. There's been consistency and discipline, or the call for consistency and discipline, and so you're working very hard. But where are you? Maybe making it harder on yourself by not recognizing, like, the full scope of what you have to offer the world. So I think this is a reckoning, and like your you being fully aware of your gifts and what you have to give, that's what I'm thinking.

Alex Amorosi
Hmm. Yeah, love that. Love that. You know, it was occurring to me, too, with Mars moving through the 10th house in Cancer and coming to the eclipse. You know, Cancer, 10th house, often can be a very caregiving profession externally, and Libra has a rising sense of it. Libra tends to be like this, too; the other Virgos and Libras are very much about the other and focus on the other. And I'm wondering if you know, as you're going through this radical new beginning of your sense of self with this eclipse, if Mars, moving through Cancer, is maybe needling, like if there's a if you're working within a profession that's very Cancerian and sort of caretaking, and the other focus then having to expend your energy towards others.

If Mars and Cancer are needling that a little bit, it doesn't mean it necessarily needs to change. But I think that there's a really profound relationship here between Mars and Cancer, sort of saying, like, are you taking some time for yourself? Is this radical in re-understanding yourself? Saying like, you know, balance also means that I'm in balance. And God knows, for those of us that do healing or caretaking work, that's a that's a balance that gets out of balance really fast.

So I would say, like, you know, just be mindful of what's needling you, maybe on that emotional level that, like, you can't quite put words to it, or you can't quite define it. It may be surrounding, maybe surrounding your career or how you're known in the world, and just investigating that a little bit, going down into it, and seeing like is this, is this feeling trying to tell me something, because there may be something that's trying to get your attention with that Mars and Cancer in the 10th, around this eclipse,

Adam Elenbaas
I'm looking at this and thinking about the connection between the changing direction of Jupiter in the ninth, which Alex mentioned just a little bit ago, and the eclipse in the first. And the way again in which I've been studying very closely the connections between the Trine houses. So if you think about it, as we individuate, I see a solar eclipse in the first house as an indication of a great moment or opportunity for further individuation, like I'm growing as a person, but for the purpose of Dharma, right?

It's like I'm not just growing as a person, I'm growing as a person in terms of getting more closely approximating what I was born to do and who I was born to be, and individuation is about more closely approximating that as we sort of refine our focus and our direction in life, and our sense of what we're here to do or what role we're here to play. And so this is a great opportunity for Libras to refine that. But what I like is that you see Jupiter turning retrograde in the ninth house simultaneously, and that house is also connected to the process of developing our understanding of purpose, but it has to do with the alignment between understanding the purpose for which all of creation was made, right and the purpose for which I was made.

And it's as though a turn in your individual understanding is coinciding with a period of reflection upon or further refining of your larger philosophical understanding of the universe. For example, if we put it very simply, the universe was made for love and for the purpose of all created beings to, you know, evolve in their consciousness.

Let's just imagine it. I don't know if that's true, but let's imagine it is. Let's imagine that reality was created for the purpose of love and evolution, spiritually speaking, for all beings everywhere, and that reality is always facilitating that for all of us. If we're also individually trying to evolve in meaning and purpose and our spiritual evolution, then it makes sense that as we grow in our understanding of personal purpose, we will also deepen our understanding of that higher sense of what reality is for. And I love the potential here for Librans to sort of match up personal Dharma with an evolving or some kind of reflection upon their larger life philosophy.

So, for example, I think of someone saying, I want more in me, in my role, in my purpose in life. I want to be more closely wed to my understanding of reality itself. It's like an opportunity for personal evolution that's being informed by spiritual growth in understanding on a larger level. So I look at it that way. Well, that's really exciting for Libras, it is. It's a really powerful turning moment.

Adam Elenbaas
Wow. Yeah, right. I mean, it's a fact. It's amazing that that clip literally triggers the turning of Jupiter retrograde in the ninth for Librans. I think that's just like, wow. That's a pretty big deal, really, if you even extend it a little bit with Saturn in the sixth for Librans and the Jupiter retrograde, coming back into square with Saturn. There's also some, there's some sense that your purpose and your adjusted understanding of reality will. Require some level of further work and sacrifice, or certain sacrifices will have to be made in order for your purpose to align with your emerging philosophical understanding. You could even go that far, but no more. I'm done with that. No more. Saturn, please.

Adam Elenbaas
Dana, you just got an extended reading. Oh my gosh. Okay, let's move to Virgos because Libra just got a lot of attention there. Let's move. Make sure we don't end up here for two hours with Libra.

Alex Amorosi
Sorry, the Libras need to get their tissues.

Adam Elenbaas
If you're the sign that has the eclipse in your first house, you're going to get a little extra love this month. It's got to be all right, so Virgos, we have the eclipse happening in the second.

Alex Amorosi
Virgo
All right, I may be oversimplifying this, but for Virgos, it's okay for you to have your own things. It doesn't make you selfish. It's okay. And I'm just, I've dubbed myself the Virgo whisperer because I have so much Virgo on my chart that I get. You know, energetically, you bring people to you who tend to have similar signatures in their charts.

So, I have a lot of people with strong Virgo in the chart. And one thing we talk about a lot is that you're not selfish for having things for yourself. That there's such a generous impulse in Virgo. Do you know that wheat sheath? It just feels like that wheat sheath is the ever-giving wheat sheath. You are just giving and giving and giving from the harvest. And I'm wondering, you know, I think that this eclipse could be a big blessing in the second house, just because it's a South Node Eclipse.

So a long-standing pattern of maybe trying to keep harmony, or trying to, you know, feel like, well, if I have this, and this person needs to have this or this part, there's a sort of like, needing to equal, make everything equal in terms of the resource of being like, it's okay for me to have for me, it doesn't mean it's depriving anybody else. When I have, when I put wheat back in the sheath, and I'm referring to the consulate, people don't know the constellation of Virgo, which is the wheat sheath, and the arm of the Goddess, when I put something back in the cup, I have something to give.

I just keep getting that really strongly for Virgos and, you know, Venus in Scorpio, in the third house ruling this eclipse, may ask you to dig into the roots, or of the sort of cultural roots, or the beliefs that are so ingrained that you don't realize their beliefs around money and resource right now, because sometimes, there are sometimes where we don't realize we've believed something or thought something. Maybe we got it from our family or our ancestry.

Maybe it's just something we picked up along the way; unconsciously, that belief becomes so impacted and solidified in our consciousness that we don't realize that we're acting out of something that just feels familiar and that can be changed. So there may be those sorts of ideas coming up, but you know, that's just, that's my big push for Virgos this month, is it's okay for you to have for yourself, because when you have for yourself, you have more to give. And that impulse to give is beautiful, and you just have to have that balanced out, nice, similar.

Dana Solara
I mean, I think that is beautiful, Alex, I think I would. I'm also thinking about time, maybe as a resource. Thinking about the third house is like your day-to-day, your comings and goings, and maybe a sense that, like, your day is devoted to other people in some way, like there's, as you said, you're doing for everyone else. What are you doing for you? I wonder if, with the Kazimi in the second house just before this happens, what kinds of conversations you're having about resources that might clue you into where you're feeling pulled too thin, stretched too thin. And I need to reset the scales so that I'm a part of this equation, too. But honestly, Alex, I think you kind of nailed that. I don't know if I can add a whole lot more to that.

Adam Elenbaas
I would with this one. I'm also going in the direction of thinking about the whole of the watery triad again and just thinking, okay, like again in those houses, three, seven, and 11. We're really looking at, you know, we want relationships that feel fulfilling and that bring happiness and connection. Like, I don't know what people, I don't know anyone who, if you ask, like, what are relationships for that they would say, they wouldn't say something like, love. You know, one, one way of putting it, or another. It's like, Well, why do we have relationships at all to connect?

Well, why do you want to connect to people because it feels good? Why does it feel good? Because? I don't want to be alone. Why don't you want to be alone because of love? You know, it's because it feels good to love and connect. So if you think about the emphasis on all the water signs in these social houses where we seek out love and connection, and some of these are difficult placements right now for Virgo and me to look at, then the second house, which is a place of material. Resources and an emphasis on shifting something around material resources that's happening at the same time where there are some difficult evaluations happening in all levels of your social life.

Okay, so, for example, I'll just give you a simple one. You know, Virgos can be very diligent people and not typically, people who are in love with power or wealth, like, just not typically, um, but sometimes there will be also, like a, I don't want to what's the right word, almost like a servile quality, almost like degrading or diminishing yourself too much, and sometimes a shift in values or a reprioritization of what you're worth, and almost like elevating your standards, your personal standards, will mean that you're also going to shift relationships, because if you're undervaluing yourself, it's likely that your relationships will not value you, your people you're in relationship may not value You, or may suck a lot of your emotional resources, or something like that.

And so I just wonder if there's some kind of evaluation of self-worth that's going on that could have, like, financial implications, but just also just that self-worth element of it that is, is, you know, on one level, it's like, it's material, it's about time, energy, money, and resources. But on another level, it's about a value shift that can also bring needed changes into the social dimension of your life.

Alex Amorosi
Could I just say that I think this is kind of like a Hallmark movie for Virgos, and I say that I might have to explain this to Adam? I don't know. I don't know if Dana, I'm not making I'm with you. I'm making the assumption that I've seen a lot of homework. Okay, okay, then that was. I was just checking. You know, at the beginning of those movies, it usually starts with a young woman who's just kind of vaguely dissatisfied, right?

There's an emotional thing that she and she's always dating, kind of like a semi douche, you know, he's not terrible, but, like, he's like, whatever. He's like, whatever, you know, like, not the type of guy that you're just gonna go for a long term with. And there's that feeling of reevaluation of what I want, right, what I'm looking for, and what's actually in my best interests. And then, of course, she moves to the country, and there's some super hot guy in a cabin in a town with Christmas all, all year round, happily ever after, like that general theme. I actually was thinking that earlier when I was looking at this. And I'm just glad, Adam, you got my brain back there because it's very important to share that.

Adam Elenbaas
Leo
Yeah, that's funny. Um, okay, let's go onward, and here we go to Leo on the ascendant. This is me. So we've got the solar eclipse in the third house, and then the ruler Venus is in the fourth boy. This is interesting because the connection between houses three and four is, you know, really fascinating. The third house, to me, is about how we've lost touch with this because we live online these days. And so our culture, our village, is like devices, and, you know, apps, and so, like in the ancient world, this would be the village that you live in, which is why I always use the analogy of the fish tank, like you have your little rock in the fish tank that you live in, that's your fourth house. Everything else in the fish tank that you swim around in all day is like your third house.

For us, typically, that would mean village, neighborhood customs, and culture. And so what I find really interesting is that something in your everyday culture, your everyday village, and just bring that into whatever that means for you in this modern age, is shifting, and however, what's really interesting is that it's shifting as you're also looking at things that are in need of addressing in under the rock, right?

So, the fourth house is like that: a really intimate, personal sphere of our existence, our home, our bedroom. It's the real intimate, private sphere of life where also things like family and ancestral karma and stuff like that live. But I see this as a cultural shift that's connected to deeper explorations within the private sphere, home, and family. It could be interesting, like, here's a creative interpretation. You know, if you marry someone who comes from a very different culture, neighborhood, village, psychically speaking, racial, ethnic, religiously speaking, from a different part of the world, whatever the case may be, that is going to be really significant when you move in together, you know, like, think about moving in with someone who grew up in the Bronx, and you grew up in, you know, a little town in northern Minnesota, like I did, you know what I mean? Like, huge cultural differences, and now they're being asked to find peace.

Despite some real edges, you're being asked to acclimate and bring in a different culture and balance it with your own, and you know, so that's kind of what I'm saying. That's just kind of like an illustration of how I could see this going for Leo's, where it's like you are taking on the task of adjusting and adapting the everyday culture of your life because of the relational atmosphere in the most private, intimate part of your life. I think that's the one. That's the combination I feel most confident about. But there are probably other possibilities. What do you guys think?

Adam Elenbaas
Right, yeah, that's right, yeah,

Alex Amorosi
That's why I was crossing my fingers. I'm like, Oh, shit, what's he gonna say? No, because I've been living this in so what's in you here's, you know, very sort of light example of this is my partner, Michael. Grew up in the Philippines. He's from Manila, and he moved here about ten years ago. We moved in together in June, you know. And we are just recently, you know, because we've been, you know, settling everything and getting everything kind of organized, and like, two people living in the house now. And what's interesting is that we've been cooking a lot now, a lot more now, as the weather's getting cooler. And one night, we'll have Chicken Adobo that he'll make, and then I'll make Boone a sauce the next night. And like, we're learning hot, and then we sometimes integrate ingredients into different each other's cooking, but like, there's this amazing way that we're learning a lot about each other, and also where each other came from, from are the food that we're preparing and talking about there, and where we learned about it. And so, like, I am living that experience in a really amazing way right now, but I hadn't heard it described in that way. That's exactly what's going on.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's that's a really nice example. I love it when it hits like that with like something so specific. That's really cool.

Dana
Yeah, that's beautiful. I am thinking about how something that might seem really mundane or just like your ordinary life again, like your day-to-day, the Starbucks you go to, the whatever, like the regular everyday experiences you have, somehow brings up something a little bit deeper, like, there's something about the rigamarole and the things that we do on a day to day basis that like almost become confronting. And maybe it's not that dramatic, I don't know, but you are bringing up something deeper. I know the fourth house is like the house of home and family, and I also think about it as just this deepest part of you, and you've got the 12th house activated with Mars as well. So, what are you learning? Leo risings, about your blind spots through what's going on at home, or just the daily activities that maybe you take for granted are somehow teaching you something right now.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah, that's nice. Yeah. Also, like, you know, when you have that Mars in Cancer in the 12th house, I do suspect that the shifting in the kind of cultural atmosphere of the third house is probably connected to family karma right now; there's something about home, family spaces, family backgrounds, and maybe even the way that they're blending. You know, it's so one of the things that I just look back on, and I go, yeah. Like the reason that I would say that everyone needs, and I'm just kind of dogmatic about this, I guess, but I'm like, everyone needs, like, at least a couple of years of living and being together with someone, probably before being like, yes, let's, you know, let's tie the knot and get married. This is just my humble opinion.

It is really profound how bringing in one person's family, karma, trauma, and background with another's, and just throwing them together in a blender like that takes a while to sort out and make a smoothie from just, yeah, it's just like, it's natural, like, I'll see people, like, we just moved in, and I'm experiencing stress. I'm like, Well, yeah, of course, you are, you know, like, like, yeah, the so, anyway, it just, I like the idea right now that for, for, for Leos, there's, like, you know, there's some kind of careful alchemy that's happening and a modification of your space and Making it peaceful and serene, while also having to address complicated, subtle histories that are all at play. Yeah, all right, let's go on to Cancer Rising, where we have this eclipse in the fourth.

Dana
Cancer
Okey dokey. So we've got the eclipse in the fourth with Venus in the fifth. So, it is a change, a new beginning, and what it means to feel at home, which is such an important feeling if you're a cancer rising, underscored by Mars in your first house. Gosh, I. About, like, hold on, because there's, there's so much to talk about. And I'm, like, a little all over the place here in the fifth house; Venus tells me that there's a creative processing that can be very helpful in sorting out these big feelings that might be coming through. It might be hard to talk about. I wonder, with this cazimi in the fourth, if it's this felt sense, this thing I know internally, and maybe I'm not really ready to talk to you directly about it just yet. I'm not ready to confront perhaps you are because I wonder, with Mars in the first, if you're just like, hey, let's let's get it out there. Let's rip the band-aid off.

But there's something about what feels like home, whether that's your literal home or feeling at home in yourself. But perhaps that can be worked out through some kind of fun. What would it be like to just have fun and not need to know or have certainty? I think that creative processing could be very, very helpful right now, and it might kind of come back to what matters most to me. And I'm thinking now about Saturn in the ninth house. What are your values? What are you being called to stand for in terms of your values, and where might you need to uncomfortably assert yourself? Maybe you don't have to do it just yet. Maybe you can find a creative way to do it. But I think we're probably for a cancer rising being called to eventually say something that we may not feel comfortable saying but needs to be said.

Alex Amorosi
I mean, I love that Dana and I, you know, there's so much of what home means to us here that comes from our families and comes, you know, of any of, any of the signs now that I would say, like looking at karma related to your mom or dad or primary masculine, feminine caregivers in childhood, it would be this with the eclipse happening in the fourth house, and I'm wondering, too, with Mars moving through the first is maybe looking at places within yourself, where, for whatever reason, you felt unsafe, or you felt like there wasn't, some something wasn't quite right, or something was, you know, like Mars and Cancer, to me is, is sometimes blows and there's a big Mars and cancer moment.

A lot of times, I feel like Mars and Cancer are just like little bubbles on the top of the pot. It's like, there's something that just kind of is simmering here inside of me that's looking to be addressed, and it may be related, you know, with the reception to the eclipse around something that comes from ancestry, from your mom or dad's, you know, ancestral line. So there's just something about that that just calling my attention as we were going over this, yeah,

Adam Elenbaas
I'm gonna say something a little crazy here, which is that I feel like there's going to be some cancers out there who are getting pregnant. Oh, and the reason I say this is because you got a solar eclipse in the fourth house with the ruler in the fifth, and it's a fertile water sign, while Mars is in your first house. Let me say this. I would not be surprised if, for some Cancers, you just got news during this cycle or in the next several cycles ahead that you were pregnant. And for some people, that's going to be like amazing news.

It's going to be fantastic, in which case, the Mars Retrograde in the first house that's coming on the heels of that, for again, just a handful of cancers out there, is really going to be about the process of adjusting and preparing yourself psychically for becoming a mom and like that. That might be difficult, you know, but some people are going to experience that as the individuation process of I was if you're Cancer rising.

There are some women out there who are, when it comes to Dharma, they're like I was born to Mother, you know. And not only that, right, but that's going to be like my wife is a cancer rising. She would tell you that she feels like a Cancer rising like a significant part of her life. Identity is to nurture and care for plants, especially plants, but also for our kids. Um, there's going to be some women out there, especially, I think, who go through a process of being like, I'm going to get pregnant, and I have to go through this identity shift while I'm in my pregnancy, of preparing to be now a mom. It's like the maiden-to-mother archetypal identity shift could be taking place.

The other thing I'll say is that for some women, I could also see this as a surprise pregnancy that you're not planning for, and then you have to make hard decisions, you know, and also maybe, you know, adapt to something that you maybe thought you were done having kids, you know what I mean, like, so on that note, also use protection kids if you're not wanting I mean, you might as well just be honest about it, like this combination, like if you don't. Want kids? I would be careful around it because it's a very fertile place for Cancers right now. But I could also see this now.

Let me go in a slightly different direction and say that I feel like if you're looking at your identity in relation to family and in relation to something like sexuality or pleasure that could also be a thing right now. Where Venus is in the fifth, Mars is in the first, it's like, you know, unfortunately, for a long time right now, and I think this is a lot better nowadays than it used to be. But I think back to, you know, the 40s and 50s, like my grandparents' era and stuff. And, you know, if you were a mom and you showed any sense of a sexual nature that was bad, people would shame you for that; my grandmother was so afraid of stepping out of that role of the maternal to show anything like an independent woman or a sexual woman.

And I also think about liberating some of the maternal archetypes from a Cancer rising, for example, to allow yourself to be more sensual or more playful or creative, or erotic or dark, or something like that too, where it's like, there's the sometimes Cancer is like, allergic to being seen as anything other than tender or Sweet, so maybe liberating old family karmas around what the maternal or Cancerian looks like in a woman, for example, could come up during something like this. Anyway, I'm just going on, but those are some thoughts that come to my mind.

Alex Amorosi
You know, Adam, that is exactly what I say whenever a benefic moves into a water sign in the fifth house; I'm like, have fun, but have fun, kids. But if you're not ready for something, just make sure you're all prepared for that.

Adam Elenbaas
All right, let's move on to Gemini. Since we're starting to run short on time, and I don't want anyone to get under treatment here, we've got the Libra eclipse in the fifth.

Alex Amorosi
Gemini
For Gemini risings, you have this beautiful, big new moon in your fifth house. This is definitely a new moment of creativity that comes from Venus ruling it from the sixth in Scorpio, maybe the release of a little like what you were saying before, Adam. Like, what are the expectations or the social mores that were placed on me that inhibit my sense of being able to have personal pleasure or creativity? Was there something that made it hard to get your head above water and really feel like this is me? This is what I want. This is how I want to express myself, whether it is artistically or sexually or just in a way that feels creatively or personally pleasurable to you. There's a sense with this eclipse, I think, with the South Node, jettisoning some kind of old. I have to keep that nice Libra smile the whole time and just be really amenable. And it's okay if you want this because I want that too, to keep this balance and be like, you know, Venus and Scorpio are not concerned with that. Venus and Scorpio are like, this is what I want. I want this.

And with the sixth house, particularly, I often find things planets in the sixth house have this sense of, and I haven't been able to express that, or I felt like I'm not worthy of expressing that, or I've been held down from expressing that. And there's sort of a with Mars even moving through Cancer in your second house, a re-sort of the eruption of self-worth that says, give me what I want, what is pleasurable and right for me, and okay from and that feels right to me, and expression of my soul as opposed to like what I need to do to sort of look like I'm experiencing pleasure or creativity, but it's not what I really want. Is there something around here that is all tied together for me?

Dana
Okay, I'm going to try my best to explain this: Mercury Neptune opposition is happening today. I feel like my brain is sorry, so I'm going to do my best. But, you know, we were thinking about, or we were talking earlier, about how you have to get really off balance sometimes to find balance. And I think especially thinking about Venus in detriment like that really feels relevant. There's some kind of thing we have to go around to ultimately get back on the path. And in this case, I wonder if it's being immersed in drudgery sixth house to find fun. Like, here's what I really hate doing. What do I really want to do? What feels good? And how can I access that? Or, you know, not totally throw my responsibilities out the window. We have Saturn in the 10th house, too. So there's there's an emphasis on discipline and responsibility. We need to be doing that. But also, how can I have fun at the same time?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I look at this and one of them. Interesting pieces that Indian astrologers would point out about the fifth house. And I've been, what I've been doing is that, you know, ancient Hellenistic texts are sparse compared to ancient Indian texts, like, we have more of the ancient Indian textual tradition because it's been passed on culturally in a more consistent way, right? It's like India's very open to astrology. In the West, we've gone through all sorts of turbulent blackout periods where it's like astrology is bad. It's not rational; it's anti-Christian. It's just it's lived in India the whole time. And so I've been looking at some of the ancient designations of the houses in India to try and enhance my understanding of the smaller fragments we have about the houses in the West and see if I can, you know, draw them together more closely and with the fifth house, what I find really interesting is that Indian astrologers would say that sometimes this is because it's a Dharma house, it's trine to the first, and it's about the development of skills and abilities that are creative in nature on some level, but that enhance your ability to do what you were born for.

Like, that's really interesting. I liked it when I heard that take. I was like, Wow, that really gives me something new to work with. And I love that whenever you find a new way of working with something you've talked about a million times when I think about it right now, so if you take it from that standpoint. And you see that Jupiter is in Gemini in the first house for Geminis right now, also about to turn retrograde. It feels to me like Geminis are loading up on new skills and abilities, new understandings, new techniques, or new skill sets, and maybe ones that are more creatively rewarding or fulfilling. And you see that? Because, look, there's some level of emotional dissatisfaction going on in all the workhouses. We've got two debilitated, watery planets in the second and sixth and Saturn in the 10th. It doesn't feel like Geminis are completely satisfied, or at least not slightly bored with their work or something like that. And so I wonder if we're retooling right now for Geminis.

Adam Elenbaas
Taurus
All right, let's go to Taurus. We have the eclipse on the sixth. I told you my story earlier as a Taurus rising. One of the things that I like about the sixth house is that anything of great value in life is typically something that we decide is worth working hard for. I don't care what it is. If you're like, I want to be a therapist. Great. You're going to go to school, you're going to learn therapy, you're going to do hundreds of hours of observations. You know, there's going to be a sixth house element to it, and that's really the thing that we shouldn't be scared about when it comes to the sixth; of course, there are many things that we also suffer, and we carry, and we sort of, we often collapse under the weight of that we shouldn't be carrying, you know, or that we didn't choose to carry, or that feels like a burden and not a great work like it's a magnum opus.

There's something about the work that we know is required, and so there's a willingness, but when it's not something we choose, like a chronic illness and we have to carry it, that's not a fun sacrifice. So what I like here is that there is an opportunity for reflection on what is and isn't worth the great work. You know, it's like, is this a great work, or is this a great burden? Simultaneously, there's a reflection on the satisfaction of our relationships. What kinds of relationships do we want? And they better be ones that aren't contributing to the feeling that life is just this drag of a burden that I'm just struggling to carry.

On the other hand, new, new work, the right kind of work, the great works with great sacrifice that we know to be goodwill also help Tauruses right now to amend and revise the relationships around you on all levels socially. So that's what comes to my mind. And, of course, I'm reflecting on that as I'm also thinking a lot about, you know, we're building out our staff of donation-based clinic readers. We, you know, we're in trying to make sure that if I'm going to work so hard doing something like nightlight astrology, then I want it to be something that is worth the work, and that is with the right people, you know. So, that's how it's working out in my chart as a Taurus rising right now. But anyway, that's kind of how I've been seeing it, but I could also be reading my own situation into it. So I'm very excited to hear, you know, what both of you have to say.

Alex Amorosi
You know, here's what the word that kept popping through my mind here was. Adam was accepting, and you know? And there was something about this idea of, like, the burdens we carry that was like, yeah, thank you for that burden, because now I got to this thing that was really worth getting to, and then burdens we carry that are like, this fucking sucks. I didn't ask for this. I didn't want this. And there's something about, I think, a South Node Eclipse, particularly a solar eclipse, where there can be a new beginning. And I think this kind of goes with the Eclipse window that's coming from this Neptune, this Pisces. Neptune eclipse of this acceptance of where I am, and maybe not a place you expected to be or wanted to be, but at least having this when we settle with it is what's happening right now.

There are often a lot of solutions or ideas that can appear in the struggle; one of my favorite books is The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiason. He describes this as a hike way into the Himalayas, like, you know, a three-week hike from Kathmandu into the very, very deep part of the Himalayas. And he met the Lama of the Buddhist monastery out there, who had severe arthritis in his legs and was never going to leave this isolated place. And he asked him, like, you know, how can you possibly be happy here? Like, you know, with your situation, he goes, Well, I have no choice. So I, you know, like, there was this real acceptance of, like, of course I'm happy here, you know. And I'm not saying that if you're going through something really tough, you've got to be happy about it. I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is, there's this, there was this base level. Like, this is what it is, and it might be tough, but how can I, in some way, when I put down the struggle, maybe things will appear that I didn't see before in the struggle. Yeah, yeah.

Dana
I'm thinking similarly to that. Alex having a sixth house, stellium, I've thought a lot about it, and it's been coming up a lot for me through Virgo season, as these planets have been, you know, opposing all of my natal stuff. I think when we're in a challenging situation, it's really hard to just be in it. Do you want to think of a solution? Well, what do I do? How do I get out of this? How do I fix this? And what's been coming up for me over and over again is, and it's funny because it's not just like in my head like people will say things to me in passing that are like, along these lines, which is the mess is where you are alive like this is where you do life, right? I think about, like, I have a one-and-a-half-year-old son; he's getting into tantrums right now.

He's, like, in his tantrum era, and, you know, he'll just be screaming his head off and crying. And there's a part of me that's, like, resistant. I like, Stop, you know, of course. And then, like, lately, there's another part of me that's like, I have a baby, like, I'll never have a baby again, you know, like, there's, there's something really beautiful about being able to be in it. What can you learn from just being in it? And that's, it's, it's challenging to say, because, like, you don't, if you're if you've been given a burden that, like, as you said, is some kind of chronic illness like that. I don't know if that can change things, but there is always something to gain, even when it feels really, really hard.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, I said that was really moving for me as a Taurus rising up and hearing all this. I read Snow Leopard, by the way, when I was in graduate school and loved it. That is a great book, by the way; just shout out because if people want to read a really fantastic book, that's a good one.

Alex Amorosi
About six times. It's one of my favorites.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I should read it again, too. That was such a good one, yeah, you know. And the other thing that comes to my mind is, like, this idea that, you know, we're in for, and this is for all signs, really. This message could probably be applicable to every single horoscope this month, which is that there are renewable stressors in our lives. This is something my wife says she learned from a friend of hers. The renewable stressor is like the dishes; they will never end. They will never end. The laundry will never end. You know what I mean?

Like, there's certain renewable and so it's really important that we do not live our lives like, I'll do the stuff that I want to, or I'll do the stuff that's meaningful, or I'll do the self-care after the renewable stressors are over because they don't ever end. And so we have to just learn how to sort of accept that the dishes are always going to be there. And in a sense, there's a lot of life that's like that. And if, as you said, if you're just able to be like, this is a screaming baby, and I'm going to be in this for a while, so I might as well just still allow myself to take care of myself and feel okay. It's like a jiu-jitsu move in our heads we have to do somehow. Yes, anyway, I love that. That just made me think of that renewable stressors thing. So, I wanted to add that in. Here we go, Aries, our last sign. I'm sorry, Aries, you don't get to be first all the time.

Dana
Aries
My God, they're going to be in the comments. Okay, Aries, we're in your seventh house with Venus in the eighth, and then we've got Saturn in the 12th and Mars in the fourth. I just kept thinking about relationships. Obviously, we're in your seventh house. Yes, but this negotiation of who holds What, what's mine, what's yours, and that potentially being a little uncomfortable or confronting, I think the eclipse could bring some kind of transition in with your closest relationships, and it might have to do with responsibilities, having the load be even, whether that's, you know, the tasks of the house, or, I think about not from personal experience, except definitely from personal experience, like, who apologizes when there's a fight, who's the one to come back and be like, You know what? Let's talk about this. It's probably not you a lot of the time. So maybe that's part of this, right?

Alex Amorosi
But there's Sorry, sorry, the fire signs. It's spirit for the fires. Yeah, as agile, just put that up there. Yeah.

Dana
So I, that's what I'm thinking about, the connection with Mars in the fourth and Saturn in the 12th. It just feels like it might be very activating, like this; this negotiation might be bringing up a lot for you, thinking about Pisces in the 12th house, too. Just generally speaking, the blind spot is like letting go, perhaps one way as one way to think about the 12th house, and maybe allowing or receiving rather than pursuing all the time. I think this is a good time to reflect on what Saturn in the 12th house has been teaching you and how that might be a part of this somehow. And so that's what I'm thinking about.

Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I love that with all the all the Eclipse stuff. Danny, you know, I what it's been adding to that, just noticing Mars in Cancer, your ascendant ruler moving. You know, in an aspect of this eclipse, Aries is predicated mostly on the action. I want to do that. It's immediate. Your ascendant ruler being in Cancer is more of a sit back and be with and feel and take some time with something, which is not always easy for an Aries rising.

Of course, this depends on where Mars is in your chart, but there's a sense of needing to slow everything down and slow your roll a little bit, and taking a look at the inner emotional soup that may be driving some of the some of your actions, especially with the North Node, you know, just finishing up in your first house now, and I think that that that might come up into, into the eclipse, in a sense of, you know, if there is that idea of, like, you know, who's going to come back first in the fight, or who's or what's causing the conflict, or what's causing the the the need for recreation of balance, which would be the sense of Libra, is like it might involve not needing to solve whatever it is, whether it's interpersonal or whatever, immediately, but taking a beat and just going into that space like, what am I actually feeling? What's driving this? And maybe, if it comes from, you know, the fourth house, it can often come from family and ancestry stuff like that.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I'm looking at this and thinking, Gosh, you've got your ascendant ruler going to go through a long retrograde in Cancer, the eclipse in the seventh. I think this is about relational healing and ancestral work that is going to be pronounced between now and April, just over the next six months.

I think this eclipse points to a period where relationship karma is being balanced out and sorted out, and family dynamics and family karma are coming up at the same time, which could also mean that the connection between close or intimate partners and their families is also present somehow in relationship dynamics. But it's all about relationships and home and family karma overlapping, I think, probably all the way through April while Mars stays in Cancer.

Yeah, fantastic. We made our way through all 12 signs. I want to point you to Alex and Dana's work. You can find Alex at alex@alexamorosi.com, or you can book a reading with him. Get on his newsletter list, all good things. Instagram. It's Alexamorosihealing, where you can follow him often doing live streams and talks on astrology on the Instagram channel. And then for Dana, I want you to find Dana on Instagram @selfhelpwitch, where she also does a lot of awesome astrological content on a regular basis.

And then, if you want to book a reading, check out all the other good things that Dana is up to. It is selfhelpwitch.com. I have, by the way, gotten a lot of feedback from people who have been following and interacting with you guys, some people who've done some readings, and nothing but absolutely glowing feedback, and that's exactly what I would expect.

So yeah, thank you both for being a regular part of what makes this channel and show special every month. We really appreciate you. I know everybody listening appreciates you guys. And we will be back next month to break down the transits for November. And I guess we're probably going to be doing that a little bit in advance because Alex will be going on vacation, so we're going to be, I think, recording that one a little in advance, aren't we?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, well, you're gonna have to tell us all of your adventurous stories of travel when you get back because everyone's wondering how the transits are while you travel. It's always such an interesting thing. It's like when you're in different places in the world, and then the transits are reflecting your experiences in these other countries. Or, yeah, I love that. That's a really fun piece of astrology.

Alex Amorosi
We just happened a time when Mars moved out of Cancer for that brief period, my ninth house ruler.

Adam Elenbaas
So I'm like, oh yeah. I just turned down a travel opportunity because I looked, and I was like, oh look, Mars Retrograde in Cancer will be exactly on my son while Uranus is on my ascendant? Do I want to travel then? Nope, nope. We're not going to do that anyway. Thank you everybody for listening. We appreciate you. After I sign off, if you want to hear about the upcoming year one program, please stick around for a little informational video. It's about 10 or 12 minutes long, I think, and you'll hear more about that program.

If you have any questions after you listen to it, email us at @nightlightastrology.com; otherwise, have a great month and a great eclipse. We've got more great content coming up this week on the eclipse as well. So stay tuned for more, and we will see you again next month. Bye.