The Horoscope

This month the Sun travels through Libra, your fourth house, so home, family, roots, the private base, the ground you stand on is lit for the whole month. The month's biggest move is pluto turns direct on October 16. The feeling drops into your fourth house, the foundation, the home, the family line you came from. This is the most private chamber of the chart and today it asks for tending rather than performance. What you steady here, in the root, holds up everything you try to build in the open later.

Tender Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your fifth house of romance and creativity, a stretch to review and revisit creativity rather than force it.

A New Moon rises in Libra, seeding your fourth house of home and roots, the place to begin something fresh in home.

Transforming Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, freeing your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources, intimacy begins to move forward again. The feeling moves into your eighth house, the deep water of intimacy, shared resources, and what is hidden or transforming. This house does not deal in surfaces. Today something asks to be felt all the way down, and the courage is to let the depth surface instead of managing it back under.

Radiant Sun moves into Scorpio, lighting your fifth house of joy, children, and play, a season to lean into creativity.

Quick-witted Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your fifth house of romance and creativity, a stretch to review and revisit creativity rather than force it.

Harmonizing Venus moves into Libra, lighting your fourth house of family and foundations, a season to lean into home.

A Full Moon peaks in Taurus, illuminating your eleventh house of friends and networks, where something in friends comes to a head and is finally seen. 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.

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 love most closely around those dates.

Pluto turns direct on October 16 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, Cancer: choose the single intention that belongs to home, 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.