October Horoscopes: What the Stars Have in Store for You This Month

The Good: You can make significant increases in earnings this year, especially if you play diplomat around the office. By showing your colleagues you care, you can bring in new work opportunities and recommendations for new gigs, as people will appreciate your ability to diffuse drama.

The Challenging: It could be hard for to keep your new found bounty in your bank account. Your desire to splash out on material possessions could quickly drain your savings.

The Takeaway: Keep your focus on making money, not spending it.

The Good: After feeling a bit low energy and isolated for the past year, your confidence makes a big-time comeback. Get ready to take center stage again. Instead of picking fights, you will be a master communicator, able to woo people to your side – especially in love.

The Challenging: You confidence could be so inflated that it could cause your ego to bloom, in equal measure. You should also stick to a strict healthy diet, or you could put on weight at a very quick rate.

The Takeaway: While you may be feeling like the King or Queen of the World, learn a little humility or your subjects may grow resentful.

The Good: The upcoming year will be a great time to relax, recharge your batteries and get back in touch with what really motivates you in life. Home and family will bring you your greatest joys, and you won't mind stepping off the world stage to partake in domestic bliss.

The Challenging: Be careful not to isolate yourself too much, or you could lose touch with friends and important connections. You may feel uncharacteristically shy or introverted, but realize this is just a phase.

The Takeaway: The next 12 months will be a little low key – which makes it a great time to reinvent yourself and renew your faith in your abilities, as 2019 will be your time to shine.

The Good: You will have a jam-packed social calendar over the next year, allowing you to greatly expand your friendship and networking circles. After feeling out of sorts and cut off for the past few years, you will finally feel comfortable in the crowd again.

The Challenging: You may have so many invites, it may be hard to chose where to go. Drama can easily erupt with over sensitive friends, if you are not careful to take their feelings into consideration.

The Takeaway: Get out of your rut, and enjoy life again!

The Good: You can zoom up the career ladder to positions of leadership and renown over the next twelve months, so be sure to keep your nose to grindstone and work hard while this energy is in effect. You could even see a dramatic increase in income.

The Challenging: Success brings its own stresses and challenges. Be careful not to let your good fortune go to your head, or you could get bossy and inconsiderate to those who supported you on the way up.

The Takeaway: Focus on your professional dreams and goals, and you could go far.

The Good: This is a great year to expand your consciousness through travel, study or esoteric subjects. If you are no longer a student, that doesn’t mean you no longer can find joy through the pursuit of knowledge. Take a course or read a book on a subject that inspires you.

The Challenging: If you are a student, the amount of things you have to study could be overwhelming, while business people may need to travel an excessive amount for work.

The Takeaway: You will be trying to find your metaphysical place in the world over the next twelve months, so drink in knowledge in your quest for enlightenment.

The Good: If your love life has grown brittle and boring, it may be time to change partners. You will have a myriad of opportunities to meet an intoxicating soul mate while out socializing with friends or travelling.

The Challenging: You may be swept off your feet with romance so quickly and in such totality, that you may not know what hit you. Don't let true love slip through fingers; when it comes your way make sure you hold on tight and don't let go.

The Takeaway: This is a year when Big Love can be yours if you dare to get out of your comfort zone. This may mean leaving behind a clingy, controlling, duty-first partner.

The Good: If you have your own business, or would like to start one, the next twelve months are an excellent time to seek out funding, especially in the spring and summer of 2018. For those who are employed by someone else, this will be an auspicious time to negotiate for a better benefits package, or move to a company that offers one.

The Challenging: If you do not pay attention to your spending habits, you could quickly amass a huge amount of debt. It is easy to make small, careless purchases using a credit card, but these little expenditures add up over time. Likewise, try not to splurge on big-ticket luxury items, with a buy now, pay later attitude.

The Takeaway: If you do not pay attention to your spending habits, you could quickly amass a huge amount of debt. It is easy to make small, careless purchases using a credit card, but these little expenditures add up over time. Likewise, try not to splurge on big-ticket luxury items, with a buy now, pay later attitude.

The Good: Your career direction has been ambiguous at best for many years. Luckily, through sheer will and lots of hard work, you can impress those around you and land the job of your dreams.

The Challenging: Your career direction has been ambiguous at best for many years. Luckily, through sheer will and lots of hard work, you can impress those around you and land the job of your dreams.

The Takeaway: You may need to make sacrifices to other sections of your life in order to keep up with your professional duties. Keep your eyes on the prize, as this auspicious energy will not come again for twelve years.

The Good: With Jupiter in your romance sector, you will have many opportunities to meet the partner of your dreams over the next twelve months, as well as to rekindle a coupling that has devolved into power games and drama. If single, you could find true love with a foreigner or while traveling, especially in early December, late May or mid-August.

The Challenging: Your focus will be so much on love that you could slip behind on work duties, leading to a dent in your reputation.

The Takeaway: The amour on offer while Jupiter transits Scorpio is for keeps – it could even lead to a proposal or marriage in mid-January, April or September.

The Good: It's time to make your move – quite literally. If you have been wanting to relocate to a new city, find a better rental, or buy your own home, you will finally be able to put down new roots during the upcoming twelve months. This is also a great time to launch a home-based business.

The Challenging: You may have to deal with a lot of issues relating to home and family, which could make you feel a little temporarily unsettled, but it will all be for the best.

The Takeaway: December, May and August are particularly auspicious times for seeking a mortgage or signing a lease.

The Good: While Virgo is often a shy sign, you will be confident and extroverted over the next, and be able to say what is on your mind without fear or anxiety. This can be especially helpful for working out long-standing issues with your romantic partner.

The Challenging: You may have the tendency to literally talk people's ears off. Make sure you make the effort to listen and ask how others are doing. Also, you could come off as preachy and moralizing if you insist on telling others how to live their lives.

The Takeaway: Dialogue should be a two-way conversation.