Your Personal Horoscope 2018. Joseph Polansky

      October

      Best Days Overall: 4, 5, 12, 13, 14, 22, 23, 31

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 8, 9, 15, 16, 29, 30

      Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20, 21, 29, 30

      Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 10, 11, 20, 21, 25, 26, 29, 30

      Best Days for Career: 6, 15, 16, 24, 25

      You’re still in a yearly love and social peak until the 23rd of this month, but love is much more complicated now. Venus, your love planet, starts to retrograde on the 5th and will be that way until November 16. So social confidence is not what it should be (or will be). You’re going out more but don’t seem certain as to what you want. Existing relationships can seem to go backwards instead of forwards. This is not a good time to be making important social decisions one way or another. Rather, this is a time to put this area under review and to gain mental and emotional clarity. See where things can be improved. Then, when Venus starts moving forward again next month, you can put your plans into action. The same is true in finances. Avoid major purchases or investments from the 5th onwards. Put your financial life under review. Your financial thinking is not realistic right now, although this will change next month.

      Health and energy are not up to their usual standards this month, so, as always, the important thing is to get enough rest. High energy levels are the first defence against disease. Enhance the health in the ways mentioned in the yearly report. Until the 10th you can add hip massage to your regime. A herbal kidney cleanse might also be a good idea. After the 10th detox regimes become more effective, and sexual moderation is also important (especially from the 28th to the 30th). Happily, health and energy will improve after the 23rd.

      In finance, like last month, it is good to keep the financial interest of others in mind – even to put it ahead of your own. And it is still good to ‘detox’ the possessions, to get rid of what isn’t useful.

      Mercury moves into your 8th house on the 10th and the Sun will follow on the 23rd. Venus and Jupiter are already there. So this is a strong house from the 23rd onwards. Your finances might be slow, but your spouse, partner or current love is picking up the slack. He or she is having a banner financial month (in fact the whole year has been good). Even though your financial planet is retrograde at the moment, this is a great period for tax and estate planning (if you are of appropriate age). It doesn’t mean that you have to finalize anything, only start investigating and making plans. Tax efficiency seems very important on the financial level this year.

      November

      Best Days Overall: 1, 9, 10, 19, 20, 27, 28

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 4, 5, 11, 12, 25, 26

      Best Days for Love: 4, 5, 14, 15, 23, 24

      Best Days for Money: 4, 5, 8, 14, 15, 19, 21, 23, 24, 22, 27

      Best Days for Career: 2, 10, 11, 12, 21

      On September 22 the short-term planets began to move from the bottom half of your Horoscope to the upper half. Now, 80 per cent (and 90 per cent, for half the month) of the planets are in the upper half of your chart – the sector of career and outer achievement. This is a huge, huge, percentage. Career has been the major focus since that time and the trend continues. You’re in a very successful period now (and it will get even more successful next month). Doing right is more important than feeling right. You will feel in harmony when you’ve achieved your outer goals. You have the aspects of someone who is very career-driven these days. If moving the family and disrupting the home advances the career, you will do it. (There is probably a price to pay for this further down the road, but you don’t seem to care.)

      Health and energy are much better than last month. They could be better still, but Saturn won’t move out of Capricorn for another year or so. However, they are at their optimum for the year. You can enhance the health further by giving more attention to the thighs and liver. Thigh massage will not only strengthen the liver, but the lower back as well.

      Jupiter has been in your house of regeneration all year. On the 8th he makes a major move into your 9th house of education, thought and travel. This is a happy transit for you. First off it will bring prosperity for the coming year. It will bring success to the children and children figures of your life. Career is still going to be important, and you’re still going to work hard, but you’ll also find time to play – time to enjoy yourself. There is foreign travel in your future. Those of you at university should have success in your studies. Those of you applying to colleges will also have success. If you are involved in legal issues there is good fortune with them.

      Venus will start to move forward again on the 16th, so both the love and financial life will start to be clear. Both the social and financial judgement will improve. Venus spends the month in your 7th house of love. Thus business partnerships or joint ventures (cooperative enterprises) will be happening. Your social grace is not only helpful romantically but on the financial level as well. Friends seem supportive: who you know is perhaps more important than how much you have.

      December

      Best Days Overall: 6, 7, 16, 17, 25, 26

      Most Stressful Days Overall: 2, 3, 9, 10, 23, 24, 29, 30

      Best Days for Love: 2, 3, 14, 15, 23, 24, 29, 30

      Best Days for Money: 2, 3, 6, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26

      Best Days for Career: 8, 9, 10, 18, 27

      On November 16, Mars moved into your 12th house of spirituality, and he will remain there for the month ahead. So you have strong spiritual interests now – more so than usual. Spiritual-type exercises, such as yoga, are very powerful for you now. Mars will be conjunct to Neptune from the 5th to the 7th and you can expect revelatory dreams and spiritual breakthroughs during that period. There will be a meeting with a guru or guru figure in your life.

      For those of you looking for work, there is good news from the 20th to the 22nd. There could be travel involved in this job. If there have been health problems, good news concerning them comes at this time too.

      Uranus moved back into your sign last month on the 6th. For those of you born later in Aries (April 19 to 21) it shows important changes in your life and in the lives of children and children figures. But the financial life gets a bit less hectic. This is, as we have mentioned, a short-lived aspect: Uranus will move back into your money house next year and will stay there for many more years to come. Finances are good this month. Venus is moving forward and on the 2nd she moves into your 8th house. You and your spouse, partner or current love are cooperating financially. If you have good ideas it is a good time to attract outside investors. This is a good period to make money for others and with other people’s money. A good time to borrow or repay debt – according to your need. Good tax planning will pay off now too.

      Love is about eroticism these days. It’s the sexual magnetism that matters more than anything else. Love is intense and passionate, and problems can come from too much of a good thing – jealousy, etc. Love and social opportunities can happen at funerals, wakes or memorial services (most people find these morbid, but this month they aren’t).

      On the 21st the Sun crosses your Mid-heaven and enters your 10th house of career. You enter a yearly career peak. The focus has been on the career for many months of course, but now it is even more so. Your challenge now is to make it more fun – to have fun as you pursue your career goals.

      A foreign trip this month wouldn’t be a surprise.

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