YOUR 2010 AUTUMN HOROSCOPES

Due to popular demand, I have decided to continue offering monthly sun sign horoscopes instead of the date format Astro-Insights I provided prior to the Cardinal Event over the summer.  For those readers of my Energies in Action columns, these horoscopes offer a longer, slightly more in-depth version of what is happening during the month ahead, so look to these pages for further information about what to expect each month and how exactly each aspect stands to affect you.

As the nights begin to draw in across the northern hemisphere and we head towards the Autumn Equinox, when the Sun will enter Libra, you may want to begin to take stock over the six-month period between now and the Spring Equinox to see where you're at, what needs consolidating and finishing off, and what should begin to fall away until next year's Spring Equinox. Of the astrological mood of this time of the year, the famous English herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper writes:

The Sun causeth heat and cold, day and night, Winter and Summer. When he arrives at the house of his honour or exaltation, to wit ARIES, then the trees spring, creation rejoiceth, and sickness in the body shew themselves in their colours. Also when he arrives at his fall, to wit LIBRA, the leaves of the trees fall, all creatures are lumpish, and mourn like the trees in October.¹

This is considered by naturalists and ancient healers to be a wetter, more mournful period when the force and vitality of the Sun begins to wane as the declination of its rays begins to decrease, its bright body appearing lower in the sky each day. The forces of cold and darkness begin to take over as we reach the point of equal day and night, after which the balance tips firmly in favour of the latter. The ancient astrologers clearly had seasonal imagery in mind when they assigned the planetary dignities of this great luminary, decided that the Sun was exalted in Aries and in fall in Libra, as Culpeper describes above.  

So, just as the moon has waxing and waning phases, so does the Sun in the minds of the ancients.² The only difference is the time period involved - the Moon's phases take place over the course of a month, whilst the Sun's are spread out over the course of a year, which is you think about it, is determined by the Sun's annual cycle.

As a result, the quality of the Sun's influence at this time is going to be somewhat different to that of it's Spring and Summer phases. Rather like the waning of the Moon, the Sun's influence is now moving from the external world to that of the internal one, and thus it's affect is likely to be more subtle and introverted between now and next Spring. Bear that in mind as you read these horoscopes and move towards the next phase in your own annual journey through the seasons of the earth. These can be accessed by clicking on the zodiac sign icons below.

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