October is a busy, old month — planetary wise — with two eclipses and Mercury retrograde, not to mention Mars moving into Capricorn and a variety of interesting alignments. So let's begin with the lunar eclipse on October 8.
Mercury turns retrograde on January 21 until February 11 (17?02��1?19� Aquarius). Its shadow period will last until March 4 when Mercury will return to the same degree it started its retrogradation on.
Throughout all of 2015, Cupido conjuncts the galactic center, empowering the energies of the super-Venus expansive love expressed in connection, cooperation, and communication with all living beings.
You have spent a year deciding who you are and who you want to be. Now it's time to manifest that in the physical world. You do it by finding the balance point between giving and receiving — the flow of life energies — and staying there.
The big news this month is that Saturn changes signs. This only happens once every two and half years, so it's a rather important time in the astrological calendar.
As we move into 2015, there appears to be a growing sense of confusion, anxiety, and uncertainty about what lies ahead for humanity. That's probably because we are at a tipping point where our future could go either way: toward destruction or toward profound change and transformation.
