This week, the swelling Moon in your sign instigates personal growth. But it defies your present desires and your preferred methods of investigation in order to do so. This will likely result in a couple of uncomfortable days, but when it’s done you’ll walk out with a newly renovated and roomier internal space in which your soul can continue to expand.

What the stars are up to:

• Saturn and your ruler Neptune are both retrograde in your sign.
• The waxing gibbous Moon in your sign creates a trine with Mercury.

What it means:

Your feelings go up and down while the Moon parades from Sagittarius to your sign. The waxing crescent Moon in Sag causes you some emotional strife when it fights with Saturn and Neptune in your sign, but the First Quarter Moon in Capricorn smooths out the drama with sensations of acceptance and peace. At the end of the week, you welcome the waxing gibbous Moon to your own sign and grow talkative when the Moon immediately befriends Mercury.

What the stars are up to:

• Chiron and the North Node are retrograde in your sign. (The North Node is always generally retrograde; that’s normal.)
• Your sign ruler Mars is in Cancer.
• Venus creates a trine with Mars.
• Mercury and the Sun oppose Chiron.
• Jupiter forms a sextile with Chiron.
• Mars squares off against Chiron.

What it means:

Healing: it’s a difficult endeavor to undertake, and sometimes you sustain fresh injuries while you’re doing it! You’re strongly motivated to accomplish your goals this week, but several obstacles loom along your path. Communication, self-perception, and your signature charge-ahead energy are not helping with your attempts to fix your current problems. For now, your strengths might actually serve to make the situation worse. But the outlook isn’t entirely bleak: Lucky Jupiter grants a small boon to assist with your ongoing journey of healing! It might be unexpected, but you’ll recognize it by the sense of satisfaction it brings.

What the stars are up to:

• Uranus is retrograde in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Venus is in Scorpio.
• Venus creates a trine with Mars.

What it means:

Venus, the ruler of desire (and you!), is in Scorpio. Mars, the leader of action, is in Cancer. At the dawn of the week, the two join forces in a pointed partnership that will prod you over the edge to dive deep into an overwhelming new obsession. How fun! You won’t be able to focus on much else in the meantime, but October is a great month to indulge a fresh fixation.

What the stars are up to:

• Jupiter is in your sign.
• Your sign ruler Mercury begins the week in Libra, where it creates a trine with Jupiter, opposes Chiron, and squares off against Pluto. Then, Mercury leaves Libra and moves to Scorpio.
• Jupiter turns retrograde, then forms a sextile with Chiron.
• The Sun creates a trine with Jupiter.

What it means:

This week, your sign ruler Mercury loves luck, neglects healing, and hates disruptive life change. Then, in spite of that last item on the list, Mercury suddenly decides it’s time to start Halloween early and hops over from Libra to Scorpio. You’ll probably feel correspondingly devious for the next three weeks until Mercury sails on to your sibling sign, Sagittarius.