Oh irony! Garrulous Mercury has finally ended its three-week retreat, but until October 10, it’s hanging in Virgo and your Uber’s mysterious eighth house, which won’t exactly put you in the most social of spirits. But that’s not a bad thing, as this gossip-centric, people-centric air sign sometimes needs a reminder! With the mental planet in such a quiet zone, you have the perfect opportunity to shift from actor status to the role of an intelligent spectator. The eighth house is associated with secrets and seduction, so it may be useful to proceed with the assumption that things that seem obvious at first glance may be completely different. This is like a universe that invites you to stop, investigate, and search for indisputable evidence before jumping to any conclusions.

You’ll really want to take this request seriously on Thursday, October 6, when Mercury makes one of its few annual experiences with transformative Pluto in the twelfth house of the unconscious mind and divine revelations. Watch and ask questions but don’t make assumptions – yet. Your best course of action would be to keep an open but skeptical mind and aim for as many different points of view as possible to arrive at some semblance of “truth.”

Dive into the layers of consciousness gets easier—and can develop into a bit of an obsession—starting on Saturday, when healing Pluto wraps up a disturbing five-month retrograde period in your 12th house underground. Since last April 29, Pluto has been regressing from all sorts of intense feelings about old wounds and conditioned behaviors, pointing the finger at some limiting beliefs and toxic relationships. As the mythology lord of the underworld, Pluto, when receding into your deep dark twelfth house, would have opened the lid into Pandora’s rich and frightening psychic box. We hope you have good friends, mentors, and therapists to turn to for support. Now that you’re moving forward, you have a nice “graduate level” opportunity to apply some of the lessons you’ve learned and act from a place that is more free and less “compulsory”.

Do you need some social ideas? Just wait until this Sunday, when the sky will shine with the only Aries moon of the year. For you, Aquarius, this will turn on the energy in your third house of camaraderie, communication, and domestic activity. Over the next couple of weeks (peak appearance time), you are likely to meet some interesting people, and there are sure to be some fraternal souls among them. You might become a resident of a hip neighborhood event or befriend someone who keeps popping up on your radar. No need to race across the city after work for entertainment, Water Bearer. This third house revitalization invites you to do some digging to find great restaurants, breweries, and cultural centers closer to home. For Aquarians who have been considering a professional or creative collaboration, this lunar elevator can light up the perfect partner. On the flip side, if you’re hooking up with a friend or sibling, set an intention to clear the air for the next couple of weeks, then do whatever it takes!

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