Today’s Oracle takes us to the Sagittarius weekly for October 30, 2009.

You are someone who puts enormous emphasis on your social popularity. It’s time to start asking whether this works to your profit or your detriment. When we actually examine how many actual friends we have, usually they can be counted on one hand. The rest of the people we associate with have little influence on our lives, though they serve a variety of purposes: supposedly ensuring an adequate supply of sex or relationship prospects; giving us a feeling of belonging; or ways to pass the time. A moment of maturity has arrived. There’s something urgent about it; you have some solid reasons to focus your social horizons, as well as your expectations from life. The people you associate with need to be the ones who share your values. The goals you profess and work for need to directly reflect those values, for reasons that will soon be obvious.

Mars in Cancer is making some big-news aspects to many planets — particularly Saturn, Chiron, Pluto, and Eris. Eric has not covered these transits in any birthday reading or the INTELLIGENCE readings, but he just dove into 12 spirited, accessible, genuinely useful videos that put the movements of this key planet of desire, drive and aggression, into personalized context for you. These Spring Reading videos — titled Call the Astrologer! — are available for instant access in a 12-sign bundle, or by individual signs. You can see a video introduction here, and watch a sample video here.