the writer's guide to october's astrology: week 2

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This is a packed packed packed week. Venus and Mars both change signs, and quickly encounter grandmother/taskmaster Saturn for a reckoning. Pluto, too, is off doing things, rifling through the closets of folks with late-degree cardinal placements and early-degree fixed ones, seeing what secrets can be turned up. There is also an eclipse on Saturday, which will get its own newsletter that goes out to everyone. 

Also! Showing Up to the Work: 6 Weeks to a Viable Draft begins this Thursday. If you show up to the work day after day, week after week, eventually, 500 words becomes 5000 becomes 50000 becomes a book.

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Sunday, October 8

9:04pm: Mars in Libra square Pluto Rx in Capricorn

You may still be circling the drain around old stories — or old stories that are new to you — but the key, when

Mars is involved, especially with obsessive Pluto, is to not pop off at the first opportunity. To accept the invitation to do your own good, internal work first, before making it about other people. 

Another temptation when uncomfortable truths come to light, when Mars is in diplomatic Libra, is to both-sides it, to avoid the conflict and confrontation that is essential in order to dig the rocks out of your own knee. But you know better.