Your October 2024 Horoscope: Travel Will Reveal Big Truths About Your Friendships

28.09.2024 - 09:31 / cntraveler.com / Steph Koyfman

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Steph Koyfman is a writer and astrologer best known for her work as Lady Cazimi. She writes the monthly horoscope for Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel.

Your October 2024 horoscope reflects astrology that brings us into a more confrontational headspace than is desirable—but it could provide the truth serum you need. Embracing disagreement doesn’t only show us where the fault lines are, but also where we’ve avoided conflict in the past because it didn’t feel safe. Still, it won’t be easy to be direct this month. It will be simpler to make a mess of things because of how we react to triggers, and much more complicated to work through the resulting knots with patience and equanimity. At the very least, walking into the next few weeks with the expectation that you’ll be digging into some uncomfortable spots might help you resist the process less, and also see your own avoidance mechanisms for what they are.

Even if your travel plans are waiting to whisk you away in what appears to be a chariot of sweet escape, there are times when life demands to be looked at. “Wherever you go, there you’ll be” might be an appropriate mantra to keep in your Notes app this month. This could be a powerful time to go on a spiritual retreat or another kind of adventure that’s explicitly for soul-searching, but don’t expect the truth you’re seeking to come in a pretty package. If anything, personality clashes will be the medium the message comes in. Even the things you learn on your walking tour or museum trip could have a bitter aftertaste, especially if you’re eager to get to know the difficult histories of the places you’re visiting.

October begins with a solar eclipse in Libra on the 2nd, which encourages us to let go of superficial social ties and relationships that can’t pass the smell test. September’s Pisces eclipse activated new stories for many of us, and this final Libra eclipse might be about cutting any remaining cords that are keeping you from answering that call. On October 11, Pluto stations direct, digging the last dregs out of a sandbox we’ve been excavating for the last 16 years. What rises to the surface this month will be hard to look at, but it will be a relief to have it all out in the open. And though the eclipses will be over by then, the October 17 Full Moon in Aries doesn’t have a ton of chill either. Conflict can intensify under these skies, but so can facing the hard things with courage. It might be easier to find pockets of levity in the second half of the month if you need a break from the intensity, but try not to come up for air for too long if you can help it. The deep end is where it gets real—and potentially better on the other side.

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