12 Signs Get Halloween Costume Guidance for Oct. 29 Week

The weekly horoscope lands Wednesday, October 29, with costume suggestions attached.

Aries readers are told to study the Japanese craftspeople's ethos called shokunin kishitsu, a devotion to skilled work and lifelong learning, and to pour extra focus into details regardless of applause. Halloween calls for a blacksmith, artisan or eccentric inventor.

Taurus is pointed toward the longevity tactics of old trees, which bend in storms, slow growth in droughts and cultivate alliances with fungi. The suggestion is to experiment with yielding strategically rather than resisting reflexively, then dress as an ancient oak tree, forest guardian or mushroom spirit.

Gemini is invited to treat curiosity like archaeologists handling artifacts, where each object helps explain another and knowledge accumulates through chains of association. An archaeologist, paleontologist or crime scene investigator is the suggested costume.

Cancer readers hear that researchers studying wolves have found play remains essential to them throughout life, with mature wrestlers and chasers strengthening trust and cooperation. A playful wolf is the costume option.

Libra is told that regret over a friend taking credit for a best idea may lose its hold, and that an opportunity handed to someone else may return as recognition in an unexpected form. An exorcist costume is offered.

Scorpio enters its high holy season, described as the time when the veil is thinnest between this world and the other world, with the power to perceive what is concealed amplified in coming weeks. A psychopomp, a keeper of the threshold who walks between the living and the dead, is the costume.

Sagittarius is reminded that early balloonists could not steer horizontally but changed altitude to catch different winds, and the suggested costume is a hot-air balloon pilot, comet rider, sky pirate or the Hindu bird god Garuda.

Capricorn hears from philosopher Simone de Beauvoir that life must both perpetuate itself and surpass itself, and the costume prompt is to dress as the person you will be three years from now.

Aquarius is told that inventors describe breakthroughs arriving after weeks of seemingly unproductive tinkering, with subconscious minds continuing to work on puzzles. A time traveler, benevolent extraterrestrial or eccentric professor is suggested.

Pisces is placed in a liminal zone where will-o'-the-wisps arise as gases from decaying matter that ignites in night air, though folklore calls them spirit-lanterns or lamps of the dead. The costume is a will-o'-the-wisp made flesh.

Virgo receives advice from an advice column addressed to a reader called Drooping Purist, who catalogs details at 3 a.m. and tinker with systems that already work fine. The autumn season is named as the teacher, with the harvest in and fields meant to lie fallow, and a scarecrow standing serenely in the harvested field is the costume.