Victoria Bazeley's monthly horoscopes

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Happy Birthday, Scorpio!

 

For the past couple of years, Saturn in Leo has been pounding your 10th house of career and reputation, but it finally left at the beginning of September. So your birthday this year takes place under a new regime, one in which Saturn is in the more compatible sign of Virgo and has moved off an angular position in your solar chart. What does this mean to you?

 

Well, for one thing, it should mean that if you have been suffering from career angst for an extended time, your way toward getting into a better situation should be clear or at least much easier. For example, sometimes when people have Saturn in their 10th houses, they suffer all kinds of agonies due to a negative work environment, and yet they find it difficult to get out and find a new job. When Saturn leaves, they find themselves able to get a job with a company that is a much better fit.

When this kind of thing happens, there is often a rebound effect in that the person with the new job starts coming up with some new and perhaps more serious goals as a result of the changed circumstances in their lives. It's hard to come up with motivating goals when your first priority has to be to solve an existing problem. Now this is probably not your exact story, but it's an example of the implications of the new Saturn regime. Your way is now intended to be clear enough that you can start updating and getting serious about your ambitions, life goals, aspirations, wishes for the future and so on.

 

That does sum it up.

This is a good thing, not a bad thing, by the way. Saturn is not always a difficult influence. The bottom line is that you now have carte blanche for a good couple of years to a) figure out what your goals really are; b) lay the foundations for achieving them, and c) troubleshoot and debug your long-term plans.

 

Of course, there are a lot of other implications of Saturn in Virgo (for one thing, Saturn will ask you to consider seriously who you choose to associate with) and there are other planets in the sky. But this happens to be the ideal month to get into the thinking-and-planning-seriously-for-the-future/what-are-my-true-goals-anyway mode. Mars turns retrograde in your 9th house of planning for the future, giving you an extra shot of energy in this area; Mercury and Venus spend some time hanging out in your solar 12th house of mulling things over and getting in touch with the subconscious, and the sun is in your own sign, making the energy of the time all about you.

 

In other words, it's time to put yourself first for the moment, figure out what you really want over the next 5 years or so and figure out how to get it. Good luck!