This is your month, Scorpio, and October wraps itself around you like black velvet. Venus begins the month retrograde in your sign, immediately making love, attraction, confidence and personal identity major themes. People from your past may look at you differently now, but you may also be looking at yourself differently. This is not necessarily the moment to completely reinvent your appearance or make impulsive romantic decisions. It is a time to understand what you genuinely desire. The Libra New Moon on 10 October activates your private inner world, making rest, intuition, dreams and closure increasingly important. Something may be ending quietly behind the scenes so another chapter can begin. Pluto, your modern ruler, turns direct in Aquarius on the 15th, bringing movement around home, family and emotional foundations. Then the Sun enters Scorpio on the 23rd and your power begins returning in full force. You become more visible, more magnetic and perhaps more determined to live life on your own terms. Mercury turns retrograde in your sign the following day, however, which means your thoughts may travel backwards before they move forwards. Old conversations and unfinished personal decisions could resurface. Venus then retreats into Libra, taking certain feelings behind closed doors. The Taurus Full Moon on 26 October illuminates relationships and can bring an important partnership matter to culmination. Somebody may reveal what they truly feel, or you may finally recognise what you need from another person. Halloween belongs to Scorpio, but this year it carries an extra message. Your mystery is powerful because not everybody deserves to know everything about you. Let them wonder.