The Horoscope

This month the Sun travels through Libra, your seventh house, so partnership, the close other, contracts, who you face across the table is lit for the whole month. The month's biggest move is pluto turns direct on October 16. Your seventh house of partnership lights up, the close other, the one you face across the table, the contract and the commitment. The day turns you toward relationship as a mirror. What you find hard to say to the other person is usually the exact thing you have not finished saying to yourself.

Tender Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources, a stretch to review and revisit intimacy rather than force it.

A New Moon rises in Libra, seeding your seventh house of partnership, the place to begin something fresh in partnership.

Transforming Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, freeing your eleventh house of friends and networks, friends begins to move forward again. Your eleventh house lights up, the circle of friends, networks, the community and the long-held hope. The day reminds you that you are built into something larger than your own striving. Tend the people who are walking the same direction, because the future is reached together, not alone.

Radiant Sun moves into Scorpio, lighting your eighth house of depth, debt, and transformation, a season to lean into intimacy.

Quick-witted Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources, a stretch to review and revisit intimacy rather than force it.

Harmonizing Venus moves into Libra, lighting your seventh house of the close other and commitment, a season to lean into partnership.

A Full Moon peaks in Taurus, illuminating your second house of money and values, where something in money comes to a head and is finally seen. The day's weather settles into your house of resources, what you own and what you believe you are worth. Money and possessions are only the surface here. Underneath sits the quieter question of what you treat as valuable, and today you get to feel whether your spending of time and care matches what you say you prize.

New Moon in Libra on October 10 stirs this area; Venus enters Libra on October 25 stirs this area. Watch love most closely around those dates.

Venus turns retrograde on October 3 stirs this area; Sun enters Scorpio on October 23 stirs this area; Mercury turns retrograde on October 24 stirs this area. Watch career & money most closely around those dates.

The month carries The Empress as its number. Under the Empress, the day is for creation and nurture. Something wants to be made, fed, and tended into being, so give your attention to what is growing rather than to what you can control.

This month, Aries: choose the single intention that belongs to partnership, seed it at the New Moon, and protect it to the Full Moon, using the standout days to push and the heavier days to rest rather than force.