Folklore says that October 22 is traditionally a day when losses can be regained, business expanded and the achievement of cherished ambitions attained. Wear red, the colour of success, and your dreams may come true.
Sun Sign: Libra/Venus
Decanate: Libra/Mercury; Numbers: 4, 5
The psycheology of this date is truly romantic, all for the quiet life. They are lovely men and women, whose sheer enjoyment in doing their chosen thing is immensely infectious to others. This can make October 22 a leader in his or her own way.
If they move house to another town, or to the countryside, friends will follow and set up house nearby. What October 22 wants is to enjoy his own version of a good, quiet life and to give that pleasure to those he loves. Frequently, this person will work like a slave in the early adult years to get enough money to enable him or her to do just this. They set up businesses in comparative youth, build them up and sell out at 38 in order to retire. Most of them very resolutely never work again, although they may just take on the odd consultancy task.
October 22 has a powerful sense of what is right and wrong and keeps a sharp eye out in his local community to see if he or she can help. Neither sex will be the one to oppose a homeless hostel in their road, or a home for the insane. They don't value property prices more greatly than people's happiness. Nor do they consider their home some sort of fortified castle. Once they have made their fortune, anybody can come knocking for help, will be taken in, housed for a short while and every attempt made to solve the problem. This is one of those dates which gives refuge to other people's troubled adult children and lonely relatives.
The women will content themselves with their own passions, dog breeding, riding, or growing things. Quite often they will be extremely successful at this and almost accidentally make more money and a second career out of it. When their children leave home they don't feel bereft, simply seeing it as a passage in life and find something else to do.
The charismatic individuals born on the Libra/Scorpio cusp have a knack for drawing people to them. In a romantic union, Scorpio’s intensity added to Libra’s idealism and high expectations makes you rather demanding. Love and sex are very important to you, and you long to be with someone you care about. However, you need to feel comfortable and totally in control of the situation before you will commit yourself. When you’re romantically involved with the right person, you make a warm and generous lover. You know intuitively what your partner wants and needs and you are quite capable of providing it.
You don’t like hurting anyone’s feelings, but as a “cusper” you’re less diplomatic than other Libra natives. Even in the bedroom, you refuse to pussy-foot around the truth as you see it. An enthusiast in everything you do, you have a passionate and intense approach to lovemaking. Although you prefer relying on your persuasive charm to get your bedmate to see things your way, if that doesn’t work you’re inclined to turn up the pressure by making the proverbial offer that can’t be refused.
A lover of natural remedies, October 22 should try the lemon. Long heralded as a diuretic, and astringent, a good gargle for sore throats, a lotion for sunburn and a cure for hiccoughs, the lemon is a tonic throughout the world. In India the common morning drink is two tablespoons of lemon juice and two of honey mixed with an ounce of water. A little over a tablespoon of lemon juice daily prevents scurvy because of its vitamin C content. Lemon juice is an antioxidant, which is believed to ward off ageing. Pectin is also found in the pulp and lowers blood cholesterol.
A partner who is romantic yet open-minded enough to explore new ideas and positions in bed turns you on. You like the physical side of sex, but you also enjoy the romantic niceties of the courtship ritual. You want to be teased, enticed, and seduced into total surrender by a lover who begins slowly and builds to a frenzy of erotic excitement.
Folklore says that October 22 is traditionally a day when losses can be regained, business expanded and the achievement of cherished ambitions attained. Wear red, the colour of success, and your dreams may come true.
You require some alone time to recharge your batteries, and you occasionally feel the need to retreat into total solitude. Because you sometimes say yes when you mean no, and no when you mean yes, you could garner a reputation as elusive and difficult to pin down.
Derek Jacobi, Shakespearian actor, film star. Timothy Leary, LSD poet, 1960s guru. Doris Lessing, author, The Golden Notebook. Catherine Deneuve, French actress, film star. Jeff Goldbium, actor, comic, Jurassic Park. Dory Previn, actress, songwriter, ex-wife to André Previn. Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover.
