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      Finances will be your main focus at the new moon October 18 and in the two weeks to follow - it is a perfect time to look for a new job or to get a raise. This new moon will appear in your second house of earned income, giving you a good chance  to find new sources to make money to ease your cash flow. You may have already found one over the summer, and now will actually enjoy depositing it in your bank account this month.

       It'll be important that you ask for your raise now, with no delaying (after October 18 plus two weeks), for Saturn will enter this same house on October 29 for a nearly three-year stay. This suggests that you may find it harder to get raises in the near future, so get your money now!

       Be determined to get as much as you can now, just in case you should find future employers and clients to be maddeningly tightfisted. You do have a perfect window of opportunity now, and employers should be fairly generous. I can't see everything in your chart, but from where I sit, I do see a tightening of finances up ahead, but not now. You may say later that you are working harder for the money you earn. Still, the prospect of hard work never worries industrious Virgo. You always work hard for the money! Compared to the past two years, the coming influence will be easier for you, possibly even a snap. Nothing compares to what you've had!

        Here is something else to consider. You have Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, in your house of work assignments. Jupiter has been retrograde since mid-June, a weak position that has proven to be less than stellar. Now, however, on October 13, Jupiter will go to strong direct speed, and you will find it MUCH easier to get work, and to be paid generously.

      Jupiter will not retrograde again until July 23, so don't even THINK about that. Take one day at a time. From October 13 on, it will be easier to find work, and if self-employed, to get new clients. As you move closer to this day, you may even start to see the pace pick up, with some very encouraging signs coming up on October 9-12, for Jupiter and the Sun will work together to help you.