September 2018 Horoscope (Old sign: Scorpio) Choose your allies carefully this month and make a short list of the one whom you want in the fox hole. This person should be resourceful, intelligent, savage and brave to the point of recklessness. The recklessness gives you confidence and you will rise up and go into reckless battle with your meteoric comrade. Despite evidence to the contrary, the thought of your own death enters not your consciousness. Death happens to other people. And perhaps it is true that the dead are the greatest other there is. The dead are 107 billion strong, Earth’s largest demographic by far. One in every 15 people is alive. And the dead are growing in number everyday. When the wars come, those dead generals of old are at the front of every column of the living leading the march and proclaiming that “every war is fought like the last one.” The living learn quickly with the great baleful teachers, Pain and Fear and Loss, that the dead generals are merely lowly recruiting officers.