October 2023 Horoscope: Ready Yourself for Eclipse Days, a Chaotic Time to Travel

29.09.2023 - 13:29 / cntraveler.com / Steph Koyfman

September may have left you feeling a bit spoiled by life, or at least satiated and content—but your October 2023 horoscope signals a change in the tides. The winds kick up in the month ahead with the drama and whiplash of eclipse season, alongside a newly energized Mars that will rouse the sleeping dogs and motivate you to go after your goals following its Scorpio ingress on October 12.

Steph Koyfman is a writer and astrologer best known for her work as Lady Cazimi.

For what that means, think back to May of this year: What were the rapid changes, sudden upsets, and radical endings and beginnings taking form in your life then? October’s eclipses are a call and response to that time, except this pair answers to Venus in Virgo. After a summer of uncovering the heart’s most authentic desires (and a lot of disrupted relationships along the way), we get a one-two punch of eclipses that are guided by dissatisfaction. What still needs to change for you to live your best life, but also restore balance to your relationships? These shake-ups also deliver a more pronounced sense of things ending and beginning. The first Libra eclipse disrupts the status quo in our relationships on October 14, and on October 28, the final Taurus eclipse of the series that’s ending might send us scrambling to seize the last of the desserts before someone else can get to them. You might be realizing that trying to make everyone happy has gotten you nowhere, or at best, holding the short end of the stick. Getting what you feel you’re owed, or deserve, can have a profound rebalancing effect on your life.

For jet-setters, this could take the form of revenge travel (especially if you’ve been putting off that dream Maldives vacation to go along with everyone else’s plans). At the very least, it might be time to renegotiate with travel companions, especially if you have a tendency to say “yes” to things you don’t really want to do.

Eclipse days themselves can be very chaotic for travel, so try to steel yourself, or keep your favorite tools at hand for regulating your nervous system, if you have to go somewhere around the 14th or 28th. However, if you must travel this month, the change of routine and environment might just be the subtle tipping point that lets all the big realizations come flooding in. Let’s hope it’s that, and not a sudden, disappointing downgrade on your hotel reservation.

Below, a complete October 2023 horoscope for every sign.

Astrologer's note: Below we refer to your signs as “rising” signs, also known as your ascendant sign. Horoscopes are more accurate when read this way—using your birth time and location, you can quickly find your rising sign online (it takes less than 30 seconds).

September was a fun month, but