Your co-ruler Pluto goes direct in earth sign Capricorn on October 4, setting the tone for a serious month ahead. Past lessons are obvious now, and you might wonder why you didn’t see things this clearly a couple months ago. It’s best to move forward now, Scorpio, instead of dwelling on the past.

Mercury goes retrograde while in your strong, silent sign on the thirteenth, at which point you’ll be able to rely on your intuition to get you out of embarrassing communication mishaps. You don’t like admitting when you’re wrong (because, let’s face it, you rarely are!), but if you screwed up, just say so. It will save everyone a lot of time.

The sun enters your determined sign on October 22, so you should be able to reach some of the goals and accomplish some of the tasks you’ve had on your mind. It isn’t like you to procrastinate, so if there are outstanding projects, there must have been something big preventing you from finishing them.

The second full moon of the month pops up in patient Taurus on the thirty-first, just in time to get closure on something important. Putting the past to bed once and for all is freeing.