The Horoscope

This month the Sun travels through Libra, your fifth house, so creativity, romance, children, play, what genuinely delights you is lit for the whole month. The month's biggest move is pluto turns direct on October 16. Your fifth house opens, the place of creativity, romance, play, and the things made purely for delight. The day invites you to express rather than to prove. Notice where you have been waiting for permission to enjoy something, because the permission was always yours to grant.

Tender Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your sixth house of work and health, a stretch to review and revisit daily work rather than force it.

A New Moon rises in Libra, seeding your fifth house of romance and creativity, the place to begin something fresh in creativity.

Transforming Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, freeing your ninth house of meaning and travel, meaning begins to move forward again. Your ninth house opens, the wide horizon of meaning, belief, study, and the far journey. The day lifts your eyes off the immediate and toward the larger why. Follow the question that makes you feel both small and expanded, because that is the one your life is actually organized around.

Radiant Sun moves into Scorpio, lighting your sixth house of routine and the body's upkeep, a season to lean into daily work.

Quick-witted Mercury turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your sixth house of work and health, a stretch to review and revisit daily work rather than force it.

Harmonizing Venus moves into Libra, lighting your fifth house of joy, children, and play, a season to lean into creativity.

A Full Moon peaks in Taurus, illuminating your twelfth house of retreat and the unseen, where something in retreat comes to a head and is finally seen. The feeling withdraws into your twelfth house, the back room of the psyche, dreams, solitude, and what is ready to be released. This is the house of rest and of letting go. Today the most productive move may look like doing nothing, while underneath something old finishes and clears.

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.

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 health & vitality 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, Gemini: choose the single intention that belongs to creativity, 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.