SCORPIO October 24th - November 21st

Perhaps a little retreat may help this month, and behind-the-scenes dealings with be fruitful. If you need things to happen without hitch, the first four days of the month, before Mercury moves retrograde is the time to hit the button. After the 4^th and before the 10^th, frustrations are likely for Scorpios born in the first few days of the sign. After the 10^th and before the 16^th, a sense of intellectual isolation may also be strong. After the 16^th you start to get heard again.

Many of you before the 23^rd could spend time happily behind-the-scenes helping others, without regard to ego, even in the face of some frustrations.

After the 23^rd, all born up to November 3^rd have love and Cupid on their side. Charms and charisma abound and others' affections enhance life. Love and money are favoured. Mars in Sagittarius underlines your natural drive for financial security and after the 26^th those born in the first two days of Scorpio find that their intellectual prowess is on the ball.

If born November 7^th to 14^th, be aware that Jupiter is encouraging much self-indulgence and pushing the boat out a little too far. Arrogance and over-confidence at work can backfire.

However for those born November 12^th to 17^th, Saturn is very much slowing you down, blocking you, bringing reality checks and forcing you to work extremely hard at what you need to do and maybe rather than what you want to do. It is a time of karma and the necessity principle and look after your health. Tiredness is often part of the picture and some humility is helpful.  Pluto, your ruler is continuing to bring incisive, forensic insight and thought to those born November 3^rd –5^th. This decreases in power from December, so value. Meanwhile if born October 27^th-30^th, Neptune still is blessing you with a sense of creative inspiration and a gentleness of soul influences your relationships and decisions more than ever.

The solar eclipse falls in your sign on the 23^rd in your sign and directly affects those born literally cuspal Scorpio (around October 24^th). For this group a sense of a significant new beginning is in the air, a time to sow new seeds.