Where Do We Go From Here?
On October 3rd, an event of major astrological significance took place: Taylor Swift released her 12th album. Each of her albums has its own distinct character, much like the zodiac signs. A piece on The Everygirl breaks them down by sign, with Life of a Showgirl reflecting Leo energy. If you’re curious which album matches your sign, check it out.
Today, October 6th, marks the full moon in Aries. The Sun in Libra sits directly opposite the Moon in Aries, with Earth perfectly in between. The zodiac signs of Libra and Aries are constellations that sit opposite each other in the sky, six months apart in the solar year. This alignment – Sun, Moon, and Earth anchored by these zodiacal constellations at either end – creates a cosmic line dance that has repeated annually for billions of years. On the surface, it suggests our solar system is a closed one. But is it?
In addition to the buzz around Swift's latest album, there's news this week of only the third known visitor from outside our solar system: 3I Atlas. First detected back in June, this interstellar comet, over three miles wide, is traveling 130,000 miles per hour straight toward us. The comet will pass just inside Mars' orbit, reaching its closest point to the Sun around October 30, 2025, before reappearing on the other side of the Sun by early December. (The other two known interstellar visitors, discovered in 2015 and 2017, were far smaller.) We don’t know where 3I Atlas originated, only that it has been traveling our way for millions – if not billions – of years and could be as old as 10 billion years.
Our solar system, by contrast, is relatively young – about 4.5 billion years old, forming nearly 9 billion years after the universe began. As UC Berkeley researchers describe, a cloud of interstellar gas and dust once drifted quietly in our corner of the Milky Way until a nearby supernova’s shockwaves caused it to collapse. Most of that material condensed to form our Sun, while about 1% remained in orbit as planets, moons, and asteroids.
These astral bodies – stars, planets, comets – have been cosmic citizens of the Sun’s gravitational field for billions of years. Humans, by comparison, are newcomers – only around 6-7 million years on the scene, the lifespan of a fruit fly in cosmic terms. Yet we’ve always looked to the heavens for meaning.
Astrology today is often misunderstood as fortune-telling, but it’s more about symbolism than causation. It doesn’t make things happen; it mirrors them. Think of it like Google Maps – the map doesn’t cause the traffic, but it can help you choose your route.
With today’s full moon in Aries, energy both culminates and begins anew. Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, embodies initiative and courage – the instinct to ask, “What’s next?” As one lunar cycle closes and another begins, we might each pause to ask the same:
Where do I go from here?
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