Libra September 23 - October 22
Libras tend to be very understanding and witty; these characteristics make the Libra a great friend and an entertaining dinner companion. Take your Libra to dinner.
Dine for America: October 5th
On October 5, 2005, restaurants across the country will band together for "Dine for America," a national fundraising effort to support the American Red Cross and help those affected by the Gulf Coast hurricanes. How can you help? Rally your friends and family to dine out at one of the 15,000 participating restaurants. The proceeds donated by the restaurants will go to the American Red Cross.
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Libra (September 23 - October 22)
Your October Horoscope by Susan Miller
Birthday month has arrived! Rarely will the cosmos shower you with as many radiant fireworks as the ones it will this month! It will be twelve years until you see anything to match the display of cosmic beauty that you are about to see now. With a solar eclipse on October 3 in your sign, along with the Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter all lining up in Libra, you'll shine brightly and you will be a step closer to a long-held dream. It's time to dust off your wish list and to share your dreams with others. Ask authority figures and powerful friends for help - they will be willing to open doors for you. Solar eclipses always emphasize the Sun and the house ruled by Leo - for you, this will be your eleventh house of dearest hopes and wishes, and dear Libra, it's positively on fire! This month will be so potent that the decisions you have now could point you down a new golden path for years to come. Think big! Life won't always be this special, but when it is, you need to use it for all it's worth. You will also begin to see yourself differently, and this will resonate even more strongly for you if your birthday falls near this eclipse, October 3. As a Libra, you are very oriented to pleasing others, especially the person you love, but this month you need to think about yourself a little more. Libras are extraordinarily kind and thoughtful spouses and steady companions, but lately you have been so busy pleasing others that you may have completely forgotten about your own needs. Now forces of change will pull you back on your own path and remind you of what you must do to make yourself feel more fulfilled. If your birthday falls later in the sign, say, near October 17 - 22, lucky Jupiter will be sending all sorts of fabulous goodies to you. ALSO the second eclipse on October 17 will create lots of energy, too. Eclipses push events into quick action in surprising ways. Part of the job of an eclipse is to open a door and to provide opportunity as well as reveal certain truths. The first week of October will bring so many opportunities you may not know which way to turn or what to do. It will be critical that you be decisive about the ones that interest you. Don't assume that you will be able to buy time - you won't be able to do that. Eclipses don't work that way. They compress timetables, not expand them. Eclipses also bring events from the outside world into play, conditions over which you have no control, and that you might assume have nothing to do with you - until they do! As you see, this will be a month of crazy events and unbelievable twists and turns. Don't judge anything as "good" or "bad" this month - just sit back and observe. Sometimes with so much cosmic dust being kicked up, it's hard to see the road ahead. You need to simply have faith that you are moving in the right direction. One of the biggest reasons to be optimistic that you have a corner on luck is that Jupiter will be in your sign all month, strongly protecting all your interests until October 25. Financial benefits should flow to you too, and there are two powerful reasons. With a stack-up of planets in Libra, we need to check activities of Venus. Happily, Venus will circulate in your second house of earned income at the time of the solar eclipse, a good sign that the actions you will take will bring profit. When you read the discussion about Jupiter later, you will see more reasons why I am so optimistic about your future monetary picture. Jupiter is now in his final days in Libra. You've enjoyed a whole year of Jupiter's presence and you probably planted some potent seeds for your future. In fact, you may not know until next year, when you look back, that your whole life changed directions in this your critical year 2005. As soon as this good fortune planet Jupiter enters Scorpio on October 25, for thirteen months, the gestation period of the seeds you already planted will be over, and many of your new seedlings will be ready to come up in your garden. Jupiter won't be back to Libra until 2016. If you still have a dream that you want to make happen, you still have most of October to do so. Keep seeing anyone who will see you! Shout those dreams from the rooftops! When it comes to money, you may be in talks this month about venture capital, a mortgage, or line of credit. Talks about these funds seem to have been ongoing since the end of July or August, as Mars has been stirring the pot in your eighth house of funding since the end of July. This month, Mars will slow down in retrograde action as of October 1 for the ten weeks to come. If you hit a snag on the road to getting your funds, just shrug and see it as part of the process. It will be only temporary, for by December 10 things will start up again. (Actually a weak Mars is not so bad, as you may hold off on some of your monster spending.) You will have until February 16 to nail your deal. Mars' presence in your eighth house may have caused you to see skyrocketing account balances on your line of credit and credit cards. Now, as said, it looks like you'll get relief. Let's not forget that Jupiter is moving in to help your financial picture too - and this is a wow of an impending trend. After good luck Jupiter leaves Libra it will spend thirteen months in your house of earned income. Your year ahead will be filled with enormous financial opportunity. You won't notice things this month, as you will need a new moon to announce Jupiter's presence in this new house, and the new moon will have that pleasure on November 1, so stay tuned about that. One thing you won't miss about Jupiter's departure is the weight gain that usually comes along with this trend. If you battled weight problems in the past year, you will have an excellent chance to finally start to melt those pounds with just a little effort. The eclipse in Libra on October 3 could be an enormous help. Start your exercise program in the days that follow October 3 and you'll be thrilled with results. The first house of the horoscope is the part of the chart that shows how you look and feel - both could improve as a result of the actions you take after that eclipse appears. Another major moment of the month will occur on October 17, with the eclipse in Aries. That eclipse will bring the focus back to your partner. After stating your wishes earlier in the month, you may now hear back from your partner about how he or she feels about your plans. A weak attachment will unravel, but a strong one will make you both come together like two tiny particles that are powerfully magnetized toward one another under incredible high-speed velocity. Romantically, as you see, those ready to commit have strong cosmic vibrations to make the relationship official. If you are single and not dating, you'll feel the glow, too. If you could bottle your newfound popularity, you'd be a millionaire! This month it seems like everyone will want time with you. Alas, time is finite, so you'll have to schedule carefully. Again, it is clear that for once you get to decide what YOU want to do - no need to continually worry about pleasing others! Despite all this popularity, you MIGHT experience relationship turbulence on the lunar eclipse October 17. (Of course if you have no steady person in your life, this won't apply to you.) Certain facts may come to light that may change the way you view the relationship. Eclipses change the status of things and they always seem to bring an unexpected element into the mix. Keep an open mind. Still, the plot doesn't have to go this way. Your aspects are so incredibly beautiful that I know you will come out ahead. Some Libras will choose to get engaged or married this month or choose to form an important alliance, one that has a strong entrepreneurial, risk-taking twist to it. It would be a great time to do so, too. (Eclipses always create action, and will ask you to "fish or cut bait." No more sitting on the fence!) This eclipse falls so close to the meeting of Jupiter and the Sun, a simply astoundingly beautiful aspect. These two bodies will meet in late degrees of Libra on October 22, a day you should certainly circle in red on your calendar. It is due to be one of your very luckiest days of the year. There is some glow around it too, with the three days leading to it glittering brightly, too (October 19 - 21). Some sort of extraordinary luck is about to come your way - that seems assured. No matter what happens, never forget that you will be supremely protected in October, and more importantly, you will have the uncanny ability to turn things to your favor. (Friends will shake their heads and wonder how you do it!) On October 26, Neptune turns from retrograde to direct, and by then you'll see that your love life is right on track. On your planet, there are no dark clouds. On Halloween, the moon will be in Libra. Trick or treat? Best nights for love: October 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 22 Summary: Get ready for your close-up! With the Sun (strength), Mercury (smarts), Jupiter (luck), along with a powerful solar eclipse in Libra on October 3, you'll take the world by storm. Not content to continue walking along the same old path, you'll break out and shake things up enough to make everyone you know sit up and take notice. This will be the most important month of the year, and possibly the most important one of the DECADE. You can finally make the changes you've been plotting for a very long time. Your self-confidence will hit an all-time high, and there appears not to be a drop of fear or insecurity in your voice as you plan what are about to do. By the lunar eclipse October 17 in your opposite sign of Aries, your partner will respond to the plans that you announced earlier this month. Freedom and a sense of independence will become increasingly important you, not a priority that a partner-oriented Libra typically requests. No worries - you'll have all the support you need to shape your life as you see fit. Your present romantic relationship hasn't always been smooth, but this month, with the cosmos dealing you such a remarkably strong hand, you'll be grateful that you are in the driver's seat and steering in the direction you've always wanted. As if this month didn't have enough happening, there's more headline news when Jupiter, the planet of cosmic goodies, moves into your house of earned income. If you feel you've labored long and hard for too little compensation, all that will be corrected soon. Start reviewing your reasons why you deserve a major hike in salary because soon someone will ask to see your list.
