Horoscopes for October 27 - November 2 2008

**If you know your Rising Sign, read for that as well!**

ARIES: This week is all about experiences that bring adventure but solidify your foundation at the same time. For example, a job or project that brings more work than you’re used to but allows you to travel places you’ve always wanted to go or a new relationship with someone who’s lifestyle is completely foreign but who’s about to bring you everything you’ve been looking for. Chances are good that these experiences will come completely out of the blue. Make sure you’ve got your head on straight and your ducks lined up, and go with what happens. You’re moving in the right direction.

TAURUS: The New Moon in your opposite sign sets off the theme of Ambition. Where do you have too much and what’s it doing for you? What is it doing against you? Watch for something unexpected that gives you a quick and hard lesson about how you’re looking in all the wrong places for something you don’t even need. This is especially important because Neptune – a planet that’s all about dissolving the worldly and material things we just don’t need – is about to turn direct from a challenging sign. Find the real prize, and keep your eyes right there.

GEMINI: Your Mercury ruler makes the last of this season’s three contacts with imaginative Neptune in a fellow Air sign – look for something you’ve been trying to achieve on a creative level since the Fall began to reach its peak this week. Think back to the last half of September and track the steps that led you to where you are now: chances are you’ve come much farther than you’d realized. Take what you’ve been working on to the people who need to see it, hear it, read it or feel it – the energy is right this week for them to do exactly that.

CANCER: Dedicate yourself to the unseen potential. The New Moon in Scorpio, a fellow Water sign brings new life, new love, new ideas all over the place. Anything you imagine can be tapped this week as long as you’re looking for it. It’s all about where you’re letting your feelings take you – whether that’s down to where everything’s safe or out and about to where there’s adventure to be had. Chances are right now you’re leaning in the second direction, and uncharacteristically looking for results that are completely unexpected.

LEO: Be prepared for an overflow of creativity. Mercury and Neptune have one last dance before Neptune turns Direct in Aquarius, your opposite sign. Neptune represents our imagination and the collective unconscious and that planet’s been traveling backwards since the beginning of the Summer – this could well be part of whatever’s been blocking you. The New Moon in Scorpio colors the next four weeks with its energy: the shadow, the hidden, the taboo. Consider how these themes fit into the project you’re currently working on and you’re liable to find a fresh new direction.

VIRGO: The New Moon in a compatible sign is all about fresh starts and resolutions. Take a minute before Tuesday to think about where and how you’d like to get a new lease on a certain situation. Your Mercury Ruler interacting with Neptune gives your creativity a boost, and Mars making a friendly move toward Saturn in your sign gives your energy a giant push to help you along the way. This is the week, and very likely the month you’ll be able to accomplish whatever you set your mind on.

LIBRA: Use this week’s New Moon energy to take a fresh step into your new routines. Neptune turning Direct in a fellow Air sign means your creativity is working with rather than against you. It’s the right time to put something you’ve been wondering about down on paper for once and for all. You’ve got something to give and the more you can express that this week the more you’ll be rewarded. You’ll be on the receiving end as well but try to offer more than you’re taking or it’s bound to catch up with you later.

SCORPIO: The New Moon in your sign is amping your ambition to a whole new level. This is the perfect week to take the first steps toward where you think you should be. Mars in your sign is giving you an extra push toward seeing an extra level of potential. Creative Scorpios may be feeling blocked this week but that should change over the weekend when Neptune returns to Forward Motion. Concentrate on the business side of things until then, you’ll be glad to have it all taken care of.

SAGITTARIUS: The New Moon in Scorpio coincides with a friendly move from energetic Mars toward your Jupiter ruler. If your energy was scattered, or even nonexistent last week, chances are you’re about to get back the gumption and the focus. Neptune returning to Forward Motion helps dissolve any boundaries you’ve put up for alleged self-preservation. The time is right to take big risks you’ve been considering, especially on a creative level: people are ready to listen.

CAPRICORN: The New Moon in Scorpio, a friendly Water sign, is a fresh time to begin a new chapter or readjust something that’s been needing to change. Right now you have the ability to turn your characteristic discipline into something that brings you big experience – but you have to do the work of looking for where that can best happen. This New Moon highlights the resources that we collectively share and this is in perfect alignment with what you’ve been working toward lately: what is it you do best? And how can that help the rest of us?

AQUARIUS: Your temper might be at odds with what you’re trying to accomplish right now– especially when dealing with authority. The New Moon in challenging Scorpio means any themes that surface are likely to persist for the next month or so. Hold your tongue as best you can and wait until next week before taking any action. Neptune in your sign finally returns to forward motion after a five-month Retrograde, and a repeat push from Mercury, the planet that’s all about communication - means your thought process could be on overdrive. Use any extra energy to build on your ideas and be creative; this is the way to avoid any unnecessary temper tantrums.

PISCES: Neptune, the planet that rules you, returns to Forward motion this weekend, helping to push you in the right direction and Tuesday’s New Moon in Scorpio, a fellow Water sign, brings optimal energy for any kind of fresh start. This is a good time to take responsibility for yourself in all the places you’ve been letting someone else be in charge. It’s not that you can’t handle the details, it’s that you haven’t been able to get them straight. But this week brings you a renewed sense of focus and the ability to see what you need to change and the ways you can do it all for yourself.