Libra, as the chill of October creeps upon us and the scale of the universe unfurls its abyssal threads, the day ahead promises more than mere twitches of unease. The balance you seek in life is imperiled by a perilous and insidious undercurrent, a darkness that threatens to shroud you in its bewitching depths. The characteristic Libran calm may have an altogether different effect today, attracting not tranquility but the uncanny. You may decide to confront it, or consider it the workings of an overly fanciful mind, but there is a disquieting sense that your veneer of safety, that warm, comforting blanket you’ve grown accustomed to, has a tear that’ll only widen with every ill-advised decision. There looms a spectre of uncertain change, its gnarled fingers casting unsettling shadows on an already eerie laugh of the cosmos.

Your attachments to your precious equilibrium is set to be challenged, dear Libra, for a malign force that revels in disharmony will try to break the chains of comfort you’ve so painstakingly entwined yourself in. A hideous puppeteer of fear may play its hand too overwhelmingly and the dance of the scales may tremble to that ungodly tug-of-war. Avoid decision-making today, if you can; the abyss you fear might be nigh, and remember, the siren call of its dread song echoes louder in the still calm. Maintain your resilience, your ‘grace under pressure’, and keep your heart immune to the discordant interplay of fear and fascination. The game of lurking phobias is afoot, mind the spectres of dark impulses and the spectral echoes of dread, they hide in plain sight, dear Libra, waiting, just waiting…