Weekly Horoscopes for the Week of October 3, by the Cut

Serena Williams, a Libra.
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Early on Sunday morning, Mercury retrograde finally ended. While its effects will take time to wear off completely, you can breathe a sigh of relief and exercise a bit less caution in your daily life. For one, you can speak freely again without as much fear of being misunderstood. And if the past few weeks have prompted you to reflect on your life and rethink your goals, you now can (and should!) take action. Then at the end of the week, on Saturday evening, Pluto retrograde ends. Over the past five months, you’ve likely undergone an emotional transformation, if a gradual or subtle one. Now that Pluto is moving forward again, you’ll start to notice that the change isn’t limited to your inner self anymore. Your life is going to change too, so be ready.

Every once in a while, it’s necessary to remind yourself not to jump to conclusions. After all, you can’t see into the future or predict precisely what long-term results your actions will have. This week, a project you’ve long considered a failure may suddenly, surprisingly bear fruit. A plan that seemed to go off the rails may turn out to have led you to exactly the right place. A relationship you thought had withered may come back to life better than before. Don’t assume you can see the full picture just yet. The universe has surprises in store for you — good ones.

If you’ve been feeling discontented lately, it isn’t because you’re unclear about what you want. On the contrary, you’ve spent enough time dreaming that you can visualize your desires — whether a loving relationship or professional success or a peaceful, contented life — in incredible detail. Yet it can be strangely challenging and stressful when the universe actually offers what you’ve been yearning for. It’s easy to get scared, to imagine that you’re not ready, that you’ve changed your mind. So this week, when good things happen to you (which they will), try to accept it. You deserve happiness; don’t push it away.

Investing time and energy into fixing your mistakes rarely seems worth it to you. You can’t rewrite the past, so you’d rather let harmless errors go and focus instead on being more smart, careful, or kind in the future. It’s only realistic to recognize that some things cannot be changed. But this week, you’ll find that others can, and they’re probably much simpler to remedy than you’re imagining. Right now, an apology, a small correction, a few minutes of effort may be all it takes to turn it around.

When you’re not totally sure of yourself because you’re in a new setting, or you’re not well informed, or you simply don’t trust your read on a situation, you’re wise to hang back, to take your cues from the people around you. You can avoid a lot of embarrassment and trouble this way. Just remember that there are also times when it’s best to follow your gut. You…