When Venus enters your 10th house of career on 8 October, the post-holiday blues might land like a thud. Though you might receive some extra adoration for your work or your influence in the world this month, it also comes coupled with a little bit of resentment that you’re stuck in this role at all.
Notice where your dissatisfaction is coming from early into this transit, because October’s eclipses are guided by this influence. Around the 14th, the solar eclipse in Libra triggers the part of this equation that involves people and groups – specifically, groups you may or may not feel a sense of belonging to. Whether it’s a friend circle you’re starting to outgrow or a professional organisation, you’re probably not happy about where you stand, or your current level of responsibility within it. The Taurus eclipse on the 28th might just give you the jolt you need to seize a new work opportunity, though, or negotiate a better setup for yourself.
Capricorn rising
Work is never just work to you – it amounts to a creative act, a labour of love. And in October, something about your professional path and your creative output is being redirected, perhaps away from situations that may have been compromising your ethics, or away from frequent work travel you weren’t enjoying all that much to begin with.
On the 8th, Venus enters Virgo and immediately begins applying to an opposition with Saturn on the 10th, the same day Pluto stations direct in Capricorn. Your unhappiness with your current setup announces itself early in the month, but it’s important that you bring any repressed feelings to the surface. Saying the quiet part out loud helps you step into your power more fully.
The Libra eclipse on the 14th is the first in a series that will shake up the trajectory of your professional life over the next year or so. Maybe your favourite boss will leave, which puts your future at the company into question. Maybe you’ll heed the call to surrender your current role in order to make space for the next thing or unburden yourself of having to attend all those conferences.
Around the Taurus eclipse on the 28th, you might be celebrating the arrival of a creative project you’ve been gestating, or taking a distinctive stance with your work that gets people talking. Clearly, you’re not low on inspiration – just the will to keep up appearances.
Aquarius rising
You might not know it yet, but your relationship with travel is about to transform dramatically over the next year and change. As the eclipses in Aries and Libra ping back and forth across the sectors of your chart that involve short- and long-distance journeys, you, too, will be rerouted by your internal GPS.
This plotline advances in October through a series of checkpoints where you’ll have to remove heavy items from your baggage. The first eclipse in Libra on the 14th, plus a series of planets all conjoining the South Node one after the other this month, suggests that October is a month of surrendering some of your bigger plans and confronting all the ways that travel is depleting you.