This is an extremely long forecast so get prepared. Sit down a while. Take off your hat. Get off the phone. Prepare for the changing of seasons.

You, Libra, have been working hard on Saturn's lessons - all in the first house areas of self, your body, your looks, and your behavior - and it is starting to pay off.

Big time.

As beautiful Autumn slides in you will have a sense of the wonders awaiting you: Saturn finally rewards, not punishes!

And guess what? Everything is in your first house. Six whopping heavenly bodies. Yes, all in your sign of Libra! Your ruling planet.

Plus your ruler Venus, planet of love and beauty, is even in your sign: double whammy.

It makes you gorgeous - extra gorgeous. It makes people be in love with you.

Put your ideas out now. Write that article. Have that business meeting. Argue your point with a family member.

Even purely physically, no matter what you weigh, you attract everyone, are at a high peak of attraction, and this lasts, this super-strongly, until Sunday, October 9. You can expect the afterglow to linger on for a week following - so really until Monday, October 17.

Then it's back to business as usual.

Venus in Libra, from Wednesday, September 14 - isn't that when a partner started loving you more? And people started finally calling you back? - until, let's say, Monday, October 17. Your time to shine. No business as usual.

It's also not business as usual in your home. Transformational Pluto just went direct here on Friday, September 16 and starts his rumblings about changes in the home. Property. Even family.

There will be changes here brought about by you. It is your own, inner work that transforms your home. These are good changes. Out with the old, in with the new.

Even if it feels uncomfortable. You have to push yourself. Pluto burns away all that is not necessary. It is certainly not business as usual.

Now, this is how I feel about business as usual.

One of the five times I was arrested at a political rally at Cornell - as a student - as were all my professors, 1,200 of us got arrested - I was holding a giant poster that screamed, "No More Business As Usual!!!"

Yes, and I am a Libra, like you.

So, you see, I don't really agree with business as usual.

But I must accept that, often, it is a part of every day life. And we cannot escape it.

Not every day will you feel inspired. Not every date will feel like the very first. Not everyone will adore you and say yes to you every single day...so, so many things.

Life, Chekhov style: endure, endure, endure.

Prevail. (Uncle Vanya.)

That's what it's felt like several times for the past few months - since Saturn has been kicking your ass.

Kicking your ass?

To do what?

To clean up your act. To get all pretty again. To smooth the highs and lows. To stop being addicted to:

Dreamy relationships. To smoking. Yes, smoking everything. To pot, to cigarettes - I don't have any crack readers, but that's what I would be advising the Libra public at large - to drinking, to lack of proper exercise, to not doing your meditation faithfully, to not dieting efficiently.

With Saturn in your sign and first house until October 5, 2012 - that's my birthday, but that probably doesn't dull the pain of that statement - that is long to wait. Yes. Waiting is the hardest.

Saturn kicks your ass in these areas of the first house:

Self

Body

Looks

Behavior

Demeanor

Self-confidence

Leadership

Self-faith

Courage

Fearlessness

Until October 2012. From the beginning of this year, and before. Pushing yourself to be stronger, more bold, less self-douting, to take care of yourself, to dress yourself properly...and quite a lot of PR activity, actually.

Well, someone's got to do it.

So that means all those boring things: exercise, meditation, dieting, not drinking, not smoking.

Or else Saturn will wham you in the face.

I don't know how else to say it.

But that's the way he does it.

Debbi Kempton described Saturn's punishment as, " a slow horror show", which sums it up very well as well. It's a slow horror show - home movie - of your life like the Ghost of Christmas Past. And then the Ghost of Christmas Future.

Terrifying. So, no, you don't want to go that route.

Saturn rewards you if you study. If you do and learn the lessons. He only punishes you if you don't do the lessons. If you don't, wham in the face, slow horror home movie of your life.

And if you do - and learn - the lessons, indescribable rewards of the sweetest most benevolent nature come. Like the Turkish Delight in Narnia, but even better. Feeling so deserving, gracious, thankful. For all the good things.

He makes you wait a long time - think the turtle not the hare and remember who won the race - and likes to reward you when you have really gone through it.

A hardcore planet. The hardest one we have. Army, almost.

But very, very smart! Wisdom, actually.

Saturn rules wisdom. He is the planet of Wisdom and Karma. And Past Lives.

Your past can haunt you. What you did - or didn't - do. How you would have done it differently, if you could just step back in - just for a few moments - as you are now -

You have a very creative, imaginative mind, dear Libra. And you can use it to absolutely torture yourself. Please stop it, dear.

And I do see that past lives, also, have been coming up for you. Might be time to have a reading...think about calling me.

The entire Saturn transit in your sign of Libra lasts October 29, 2009 until October 5, 2012.

That's a long time.

Three years, minus three weeks.

Of challenges with partners, feeling ornery, all the exercise/meditation/dieting/smoking/drinking issues, wishing to be somewhere where you weren't, and many of you achieving masterful coups in the creative world, the political world, the jousting world, the party world, and in your field.

You have a very reputable reputation by now. You've earned it. Well done. 

So it's time to come back. To come back to the public! Just for the next month or so.

In your first house of self and looks and behavior you have:

Almighty, life-giving Sun, surpassing all

your ruler Venus, planet of love and beauty

karmic and wise Saturn (as discussed)

adoring Juno (and worrying Juno - Juno was the wife of Jupiter, King of the Gods, and was always fearing he was unfaithful (which he was))

brilliant communications Mercury as of Sunday, September 25

and an exciting new Moon - in your sign of Libra - on Tuesday, September 27!

So your first house is extremely active. Until Thursday, October 13, you can't just sit in the house.

After this time, sit all you want.

But this time - end of September, through mid-October - you must be listened to, seen to, talked to, you must shine, and behave.

It's a star-making moment!

So get out there, take your trips, make your appearances, go to those parties, hand out your card, before October 13, if you can. Schedule a trip in now, if you have to. 

Don't wait.   

I'm not saying you have been out of circulation, it's simply that you've been feeling rather down. And this month, you come out of that. For a long time.

As September ends - except for a slight kerfluffle with a loved one around the new Moon of Tuesday, September 27 - and as October begins, and all through October, you are shining.

Positively shining.

Your best, cleaned up, shined down, dressed, gussied up self. You in the time of your Royalty. Think, Kate Middleton when she got married.

Now, sometimes, one party is all it takes. You don't have to go out every night. You can't. There's too much work to do. And all the other nights you can't drink or smoke. So - if it's one night only in this month that you have your big gala moment, go for it.

Just keep doing the meditating, the exercise, the diet, the rest of the time, and to get ready for it.  

Also, there are questions of money and love.

Money: sorry, but you have to make more. You are very skilled at what you do, you put a lot into it, you're naturally talented, and people love you. What more could you ask for? More - mulah.

I see it getting better, but I see you have to be careful, Libra. No extravaganzes. (Except for the trip.) It is a self-beautifying time (Venus in Libra) but be frugal  with cosmetic procedures. If you must have one, shop for the best one. Don't just settle for what you first find.

You will have great success with this: actually, bargaining, negotiating, from Sunday, September 25 to Thursday, October 13. So bargain and negotiate then!  

And, finally, love. Yes, LOVE.

Love is sublime, and it is for you.

It is so good to see so many Libras finally hitched up who resisted for years. You have good partners. You can finally relax.

Relax. Enjoy.

Those who are still searching, well, I will tell you a secret. This is the time for you to steer the ship. To chart your course. To drive that chariot.

To what - or whom - you want.

But also be very independent.

Because, as I've already said, this month is very potent for you in terms of attractiveness and attracting. This would be the time to draw people in.

I see this culminating at the full Moon of Tuesday, October 11, in your seventh house of partnerships.

I'm hoping to meet someone at the Metropolitan Museum in New York that day! Even though I'm married. You see, it doesn't have to be a new life partner if you're already with someone, but it will be a new friend. 

You can - and should - go with an old friend if you're going out to anything at this time. As I am. With my best friend Mark who got married to his true love, Owen, on 8-8-08 in northern California.

Mark is a mathematical genius from Long Island and we met in graduate writing school in 1989, so a long friendship, twenty-two years.

It should be a friend like that.

And, of course, we have had our falling-outs. Not speaking to each other for months at a time.

And you have this too, and no more than during a Saturn transit. Three years, minus three weeks. That's why people seem to disappear from your life at this time. Ucky old Saturn transit.

The wise way to look at this is to say that it's all about your behavior.

But sometimes it isn't. Sometimes people are just too distracted, side-tracked, brainwashed by their own lives, to really care properly.

I hate to say that, but it's true. There are a lot of assholes out there.

And, god knows, we've all been an asshole - at some point, some time in our lives - haven't we?

So, let everyone be on their own path, at their own appointed times, and you carry on on yours. Let that love that didn't last, or that career opportunity that didn't materialize, or that missed opportunity in whatever area of your life, go now.

Forgive yourself. Move on. You are in the best place, at the right time.

You are standing behind the curtain, on the red carpet, waiting for it to open, and for you to see the audience.

And what do you want to present to them?

This is the question of now and October, and you will answer it.

Extremely satisfactorily.

Soak up the admiration that surrounds you this October.

You deserve it.

Just do the work!

Call me if you need a pep talk...212-631-5844.

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I look forward to reading you, dear Libra.

YOUR LUCKY DAYS! Libra Sun and Libra Jupiter, your times of destiny are:

(Eastern Time) Tuesday, September 27 from 12:51 AM; all of Wednesday, September 28; Monday, October 24 from 11:49 AM; all of Tuesday, October 25; Wednesday, October 26 until 11:08 AM.  

Check both your Sun sign and your Jupiter sign: double your fortune!

Take care.

With love,

Madalyn Aslan