Weekly Horoscopes for the Week of October 4 by the Cut

Author Eileen Chang, a Libra.
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images, Wikimedia Commons

On Wednesday night, a new moon in Libra asks you to consider what kind of community — be it solidarity or sweet, simple friendship — has been missing from your life. This is your chance to begin addressing the absences, to fill the empty places in your heart. Then, on Thursday morning, Venus moves into restless Sagittarius. Love doesn’t have to feel so intense anymore, so all-consuming and liable to tip over into anxious obsession. It’s possible now to remember how delightful, how rewarding and fun it can be to reach out to others without any pressure or expectations, only a genuine desire to connect.

Sometimes, boredom is best remedied by learning to see your life anew — to appreciate the ordinary pleasures that fill your days and find the wonder hidden in your routines. Other times, though, it’s a signal that you need real change, that the path you’re on isn’t big enough. Only you can know which is the case for you, but either way, it’s important to remember that your dissatisfaction isn’t unreasonable, and doesn’t mean you’re being ungrateful for the comfort and safety you have. This week, you’re allowed to want more, to seek purpose, adventure, joy.

When you’re feeling pessimistic, you may conclude that giving others the benefit of the doubt only ever works out to your disadvantage. There are so many ways that people can take and take without ever giving, so many ways for your goodness to go unrewarded. This week, though, when you extend grace and compassion to others, they will be repaid. Relationships will balance out, and your unselfishness will be reciprocated. When you approach misunderstandings in good faith, they can be constructive: a way to build trust, not destroy it.

Your lively intellect has been a defining part of you for so long that it’s easy to think of it as an innate quality — something you were born with, a fully formed gift from the universe. Really, though, it’s possible to cultivate your curiosity, to treat your sharp mind with the same care as you would a garden. This week, your task is to tend to your inner life by reading instead of scrolling, or by spending time with the friends who light your mind up, or just by moving through the world with your eyes and heart open.

It can be tempting to conflate complexity and wisdom, to imagine that the more convoluted an argument is, the more weight it carries, or to convince yourself that nothing simple can be trusted. But placing too much value on difficulty can lead you to invent unnecessary complications, to create tangles and obstacles where things would otherwise have been easy. If you’ve been making certain situations (or relationships) more challenging than they had to be, right now is the time to step back, reassess, and accept ease when it is offered to you.

Being honest with others…