We have to learn how to pursue what it is that we want. That’s what it means to be a hunter.

Recently, I’ve been rewatching the anime Hunter X Hunter whenever I have some free time. The show is about hunters which are people who seek different things out. Some hunters hunt people. Some hunt rare foods. Some hunt ruins or the mysteries embedded in history. There are even music hunters who seek out rare songs. Amateur hunters hunt to take from nature but pro hunters, highly respected hunters, work to restore and protect nature. This is because hunting isn’t about a destination but about a journey. Hunting isn’t about taking but about giving.

And, as I rewatch Hunter X Hunter, I hear about people around me getting hunted. Just the other day, a man by the name of Ian Roberts was detained by ICE. Roberts, the first Black superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools, which is the same school system that I grew up attending, was arrested in part due to what ICE called a “criminal” gun charge in the state of Pennsylvania. According to a letter that Roberts wrote, a cop approached Roberts at a hunting grounds where he had been hunting deer. Upon seeing the cop, Roberts placed his rifle down in his car so that the cop would feel more comfortable. Unfortunately, this gesture of consideration caused the cop to issue Roberts a fine for having an unsecured rifle in his car which is illegal in Pennsylvania but not Iowa.

Just a couple days ago, ICE stopped Roberts in traffic and then chased him into the woods where they hunted him down before arresting him. In public interviews, Roberts had complained about being frequently targeted by police at red lights before.

Local gossip is abuzz with chatter. Roberts is an award winning educator, an Olympic level athlete, and a celebrated member of the community who spent his time starting library programs to encourage kids to read. How could this happen to someone like him? People are saying that ICE must have targeted him because he refused to allow them to enter his schools to hunt down his students and their families.

So many of us have been feeling like prey lately. But we weren’t put here to be someone’s prey.

So many of us are put into categories that prevent us from hunting—from wanting, seeking, and pursuing. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t have the skills we need to hunt.

Hunter X Hunter has been helping. Not only does fiction do what historian Wang Hui asks us to do in a depoliticized age (repoliticize what we have normalized by defamiliarizing it), Hunter X Hunter also helps me imagine myself as a hunter. A seeker. A pursuer.

October’s full moon is sometimes called the hunter’s moon. This October, the hunter’s moon is in Aries and we’ll be enjoying a strong Mars in Scorpio the whole month. In astrology, Mars is the planet of pursuers. To pursue, you have to know what it is that you want.

Not only is October’s full moon in Martian Aries, the Sun also moves into Scorpio. Mercury moves through Scorpio too and both are ruled by a domicile Mars. Jupiter in Cancer supports strong Mars. So do Saturn and Neptune in Pisces.

Not only is Hunter X Hunter about hunters, it’s also a coming of age story that takes place in an authoritarian world. Our main characters are not learning how to survive in this world by conforming to its rules but learning how to opportunistically create pathways for their own goals. The lesson that Hunter X Hunter teaches us? That we have to learn how to pursue what it is that we want. That’s what it means to be a hunter.

In October, you must work to become a pro hunter. You must work to seek out something that you want and you must value the journey that you take. What kind of hunter are you? What is it that you want?

How will you opportunistically create the pathways that you need to pursue what you want?

October is for the hunters. You can be any kind of hunter that you want—a food hunter, a ruins hunter, a virus hunter, or a hunter who seeks out belonging and family. As a hunter, you will need to train yourself in the arts of self protection, will, and decision making. You will need to know how to fight and how to heal because, if you’re going to fight, then you need to know how to heal. And you will need to use all of your available senses to read your world well.

Libra October 2025 Horoscope

This October, I want you to remember that you are an expert on your own life. You’re an expert on your own tastes and pleasures. You know what you like and what you are trying to do. You have experience. You’ve learned from your mistakes. You’ve held yourself after you’ve fallen and you know what you need to get started and keep going.

Other people will try to tell you what you like or don’t like. They’ll try to inform you about the shape of your pleasure as if you don’t already know because they want your pleasure to fit inside of theirs. Never allow someone’s opinion about you to displace your experience. You know your body. You know your mind. You know your schedule and you know what you have time for and what you don’t.

October is about agency. And you know what makes your agency easier to describe? Figuring out how you are benefiting other people and what kind of impact you want to make on the world that you live in instead of fixating too much on what you get out of places, other people, and situations.

You’re not going to get what you are trying to find inside of yourself from another person. You will feel free when you are allowed to impact other people from what grows in you. You must advocate for yourself and recognize the good that you can do. Sometimes, perhaps even often, you will be prevented from impacting people because of the powers that be but you must try very hard to fight for your right to impact the world as yourself. And you have to believe that you can make good things possible. That will make your agency.

Questions for Libra for October 2025:
How have you impacted another person in the last seven days?
How did that person recognize and appreciate your impact?
How did you recognize and appreciate your own impact?

Scorpio October 2025 Horoscope

Do you know what makes people truly impressive? I think that a lot of us think that impressive people are simply good at things. They’re good at using their words or skilled in their touch. They’re really strong or really fast or they’re really good at solving problems while juggling a thousand different responsibilities. But I don’t think that kind of wearing down of the body is what makes a person truly impressive.

What makes a person truly impressive is the wisdom that is required to accept different types of support—the wisdom to ask for help, to accept knowledge, to learn. People become impressive when they accept guidance from their elders, making them wise beyond their years. They become impressive when they ask for help from their peers, making them the bedrock that connects people in alliance. Every single person who excels at decision making and caretaking, every single person who accomplishes impressive actions, is good at allowing other people to help them. The smartest people are the people who take other people seriously.

You’re usually most impressed with yourself not when you do fancy tricks but when you learn to accept and trust on a level that you previously could not accept. You impress yourself the most then because more becomes possible with more people.

In October, you’re going to be asked to make decisions. You’re not going to rely on your lonely skill or your limited experience. You’re not going to wear yourself down. You’re going to ask for mentorship, ask for friendship, and you’re going to take other people seriously.

Questions for Scorpio for October 2025:
What have your elders have taught you about wisdom?
What have your peers have taught you about trust?
What have those lessons shown you about collaboration?

Sagittarius October 2025 Horoscope

Anytime you push yourself out of your comfort zone, you’re going to run into the you who lives in the shadows. The you who lives in the shadows is the you who you fear. The shadow you is not a more authentic expression of you than the you who you recognize and can describe and feel comfortable performing around other people. The shadow you is just an expression of what you are still denied and the strong emotional appetite that you have for more.

You’ve been pushing yourself to do new things that are challenging to you. You’ve been exploring, promoting, and experimenting. You’ve allowed yourself to have the optimism that you need to try new stuff. That means that you should be running into the you who lives in the shadows a bit more frequently than usual.

You were denied something life giving, something incredibly important to you. That something might be dignity or nutrition or the basic empathy of being seen as human. As time goes on, you are still denied but you grew accustomed to your denial. You started to normalize your apathies, your envies, your most grumpy ambitions and frustrated desires, thinking that those things are just a natural part of you. That’s not true. You were not born to be placed in a state of denial.

Your task in October is to figure out what you are no longer willing to deny. You must articulate the injustice of your denial so that your appetite for more can come alive.

Questions for Sagittarius for October 2025:
What do you understand about the shadow you?
What does the shadow you tell you about what you must not deny?
What does the shadow you ask you to demand?

Capricorn October 2025 Horoscope

I want you to return to the neighborhood of your childhood. What did you learn about safety and risk in that neighborhood?

Were you able to walk around outside or did you live in a place with architecture so hostile that no one could move around other than those who can operate a motor vehicle? Did you have neighbors who you could go to for help or family members living close by? Did you trust the people who kept eyes on your community or did you have to hide because your family was hunted for not having the right documents? Were you free to play outside and were you able to find other kids who could become your friends? Were you able to find food that you could eat or did you have to wait for adults to feed you?

I want you to return back to the neighborhood of your childhood in memory because October will help you renew your sense of home. As you renew your sense of home, you might find yourself retreating back to the relational habits that are most familiar to you. By returning back to the neighborhood of your childhood, you will be able to better see those habits for what they are.

That story that you tell yourself about trust and safety and protection? That’s a story that is told in infrastructure, housing, and policy. It’s a story that the adult you can tell in a different way than the child you can remember. Return back to the neighborhood of your childhood but bring your adult eyes.

Questions for Capricorn for October 2025:
What did the neighborhood you grew up in teach you about belonging?
Why did people build that neighborhood the way they did?
What is different about your home now from the place where you grew up?

Aquarius October 2025 Horoscope

I think that October is going to be a good time to clarify what you are willing to put up with and what you are not willing to put up with.

You know what happens when you put up with things that you’re actually not okay with? You end up feeling really sad. To cover up that sadness, to protect yourself against it because sadness is very hard to feel and incredibly depleting, you start to feel angry. This anger gives you energy but burns you out just like the sadness does. You feel angry not really at the friction between what other people want from you and what you are willing to do but around the sadness, that private denial.

Clarify what you are not willing to put up with. Give it to yourself in words. Repeat it to yourself and try to remember to remind yourself of what you have agreed to when you feel forlorn. This is you taking care of your own sadness. You’re not okay with people dehumanizing you or making you explain why you exist. You’re not okay with exploitative expectations and you’re not going to act like you are.

This month of October is about letting yourself desire control and hearing yourself in those desires. Yes, you can’t control everything about life and shouldn’t but you can control your own actions and expectations. You deserve secure control in your life just as much as anyone else.

Questions for Aquarius for October 2025:
WWhat are you angry about?
What are you sad about?
What do your answers to the two questions above tell you about what you are no longer willing to put up with?

Pisces October 2025 Horoscope

In October, I want you to claim pleasure as a principle. Pleasure is the act of enjoying your personality, your body, and your life as the person who you are. It is the act of witnessing someone else enjoy their personality, their body, and their life and seeing that pleasure grow larger because you are witnessing it sincerely.

Because pleasure is your principle, you will look for it. You will learn to eat food that tastes good and you will advocate for the decisive actions that are needed to make people who have grown too used to suffering feel safe again. You will teach kids cool stuff because that feels good. You will see the beauty in faces and bodies without shame or self denial and you will help people find ease while looking for it yourself. You will tell people when they look beautiful and when they can rest because that is an act of kindness. The point of any kind of political action is to affirm life.

And you will do all of this patiently. In the world of pleasure, slow is fast. You will give yourself enough time to figure out your feelings because you don’t always know if something feels good or is good right away. You need time.

Take it easy in October. Be patient with yourself and other people. As Sarah Kendzior writes about what it takes to live under conditions of fascism: be brave and, when you can’t be brave, be kind. You will know when it’s your time to be brave but, when it isn’t your time yet, you must fully enjoy the pleasure of being kind.

Questions for Pisces for October 2025:
When was the last time you enjoyed your body?
When was the last time you saw someone else enjoy their body?
What do those two twinned memories teach you about kindness?

Aries October 2025 Horoscope

This is my rule of thumb: share your resources with people who are willing to share their responsibilities with you. Share your food with people who are willing to take care of a home alongside you. Share your money with people who are willing to share in the responsibilities of taking care of your society together. With people who share your struggles and sorrows and also recognize that many responsibilities are not individually owned but socially shared, be generous.

Sharing what you have to offer with people who share responsibilities with you will strengthen your support structure and your society. Your generosity will not feel depleting because giving and creating will improve your ability to ask for help.

Pause before sharing your resources with people who neglect their social duties, who are so enamored with self control that they refuse to recognize their collective responsibilities. You have gone down this hill before and you know that exploitation sometimes looks like intimacy and masquerades itself as friendship.

You are extremely generous but your generosity is meant for those who strengthen you back. Giving more to the cult of individualism will deplete you because individualism is a devaluation of your sacred status. Give to those who know you as a friend, a neighbor, a sibling, an elder because these titles are not mere identities but markers of your dignity and status. Learn to withhold and boycott consumerism because you are not a mere consumer. These are skills that you must learn.

Questions for Aries for October 2025:
When you approach giving as a skill, what can you articulate about this skill?
When you approach boycotting as a skill, what can you articulate about this skill?
What has helped you share your responsibilities along with your resources?

Taurus October 2025 Horoscope

If you are around my age or younger, then you probably feel strongly skeptical about work. You probably came of age when the richest people consolidated their wealth not just by exploiting people who work but by limiting who is able to find paid work via opportunity hoarding. You probably had to work several temporary jobs at once without the security of a regular paycheck and you probably made choices that compromised your sense of self.

And, if you are my age or younger, despite all that you still tried to figure out the work that you want to do for the world that you live in because you love this world and love life. Despite your exploitation and starvation, you tried to figure out how to work. Because you know that work isn’t just a job but the care that you put into things that you know to be valuable and important. Because you need to control your future and work gives you control and that control can sometimes bring change, because the work that you want to do for this world is not just a job but something ancestral and spiritual.

In October, I want you to try your best to enjoy your work. There’s work that you want to do and people who you want to cooperate with. There’s people who teach you things about trust by working with you that you can’t learn anywhere else. There’s rivalries that make you so furious because they show you everything that you want to accomplish. There’s the value that you create when you work and your demand to be justly paid for creating something of value.

Enjoy your work. Take pleasure in it when you can and take your fellow laborers seriously enough to enjoy them. Find the value of what you do.

Questions for Taurus for October 2025:
What is your work?
What is your job?
What do the differences between the two tell you about what you value?

Gemini October 2025 Horoscope

Right now, as your ruling planet Mercury zooms through the skies, you might find yourself chaotically busy as well. You flee from appointment to appointment, from work to your kids to the meeting your neighbor asked you for. Your body, just like Mercury, zooms through the world.

I want you to find your sense of playfulness and, when you do, I want you to renew it.

Every time you wait for the bus, make a game out of timing your travels. Every time you have to fill out paperwork, make up a song to ensure that you get the details right. Every time you feel crunched for time, make a game of looking for new routes. Talk to your dishes when you wash them. Do new origami when you fold laundry.

Playfulness helps you keep up with yourself because play is how you learn. When you learn, you’re not just going through the motions again and again but learning shortcuts where they may be and figuring out new ways to do what you have to do. Play makes every task and every responsibility get easier over time. Play isn’t just enjoyment. It’s the rhythm of your education.

So, keep learning and keep playing. You’re going to get everything that you do done. Just remember to have some fun.

Questions for Gemini for October 2025:
How do you make your work outside the home more playful?
How do you make your work inside the home more playful?
How do you make your daily commute more playful?

Cancer October 2025 Horoscope

Your keyword for October is going to be a word that you’re familiar with and a concept that you’re good at: regulation. In October, I want you to keep coming back to the places and people who accept you so that you can regulate yourself. I want you to laugh and cry when you need to because laughing and crying helps you reach catharsis and catharsis anchors you. I want you to know where your emotional center is and how it is adapting.

You might be meeting a lot of new people these days or you might be having some necessary clashes with people who you are already close to. October brings us the debt settling moon and the hunting moon. You’re going to have important conversations about what is owed to you and what you owe. You’re going to go out of your comfort zone to seek what eludes you.

And, you’re going to come back to your emotional home now and then. You will learn from the intimate clashes that you have with your partner now and then when you accept that these clashes will always happen, that people are emotional porcupines, that conflicts between what you want and what someone else wants doesn’t negate the importance of your desires. You will feel curious about people who you don’t know yet and have not clashed with yet out of unfamiliarity when you come home to your own body when you need to.

Regulate now and then to build your emotional stamina. Regulate so that you can hold space for similarity and difference, so that you never confuse yourself for someone else.

Questions for Cancer for October 2025:
How many hours do you need to sleep each night to regulate yourself?
How many hours do you need to space out everyday to regulate yourself?
How often do you need to challenge yourself to regulate yourself?

Leo October 2025 Horoscope

This month, I want you to fight for what is right and win. I don’t want you to fight just for the sake of fighting or debate people inconsequentially when you don’t have any stakes. I want you to fight for something real and I want you to win. Might be small or might be big. Might be something as clear as fighting a bike ticket or something much less clear like fighting for workplace accommodations and setting a precedent.

To fight and win, you will need some leverage. You will need to use your words precisely and not get carried away. You will need to ask for support from other people. You will need to know exactly what victory means to you and refuse to get distracted by the prospect of anything more or anything less. You must know what it is that you want to win.

When you fight something and win, you realize that just a little more is possible than what you had previously assumed. You learn that you have a little more leverage, a little more clarity, and a lot more help than you thought you did. You realize that you do know what you want and what is good for you. You realize that you are able to articulate the benefits of your victory and that what you want comes from a place of goodness.

Eccentric friends and lovers will help you in October. Spend time around them.

Questions for Leo for October 2025:
What leverage do you have?
What support can you ask for?
What is it that you want?

Virgo October 2025 Horoscope

October’s astrology is a bit subtle for you, something that is hugely impactful for most of us that we don’t usually pay attention to. October is about getting closer to people who you already know. It’s not about meeting new people necessarily or about enjoying your best friends. It’s about that weird little movement that we do, almost spontaneously but not quite, when we become closer with people who are already in our lives.

It’s hard to articulate what happens in that phase of getting close to someone. We don’t really understand what makes closeness happen, not really. Sometimes, closeness grows out of the closeness that we already have. Your best friend’s close friend becomes yours too. But not always. Sometimes, we just really hit it off with someone else and we prioritize them enough that we find ourselves sharing the jokes that we reserve for very special friends with them and making bigger plans together.

Honesty brings people together but consistent honesty is what makes us trust each other.

When you get closer with a couple people or just one in October, enjoy it. You’re going to go through the awkward little social fumbles that always happen when we’re not sure if we are oversharing or overstaying because we’re trying out a new closeness in a relationship that is used to being more stretched out. Enjoy the awkwardness and the ease. It’s not something that you get to experience with people who you already know inside and out and it’s not something you get to experience with people who you don’t want to get close to.

Questions for Virgo for October 2025:
Who are you curious about?
What makes you excited about getting closer with someone?
What do you discover about yourself when you do that?