The Horoscope

This month the Sun travels through Libra, your first house, so self, body, identity, how you show up, fresh starts is lit for the whole month. The month's biggest move is pluto turns direct on October 16. When the day's feeling moves through your first house, the lens turns back onto you, your body, your mood, the face you wear into the room. Before you fix anything for anyone else, notice how you are actually arriving, because today the self is the instrument and tuning it is the work.

Tender Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your second house of money and values, a stretch to review and revisit money rather than force it.

A New Moon rises in Libra, seeding your first house of self and body, the place to begin something fresh in self.

Transforming Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, freeing your fifth house of romance and creativity, creativity begins to move forward again. 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.

Radiant Sun moves into Scorpio, lighting your second house of income and self-worth, a season to lean into money.

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

Harmonizing Venus moves into Libra, lighting your first house of identity and fresh starts, a season to lean into self.

A Full Moon peaks in Taurus, illuminating your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources, where something in intimacy comes to a head and is finally seen. 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.

Pluto turns direct on October 16 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.

New Moon in Libra on October 10 stirs this area; Venus enters Libra on October 25 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, Libra: choose the single intention that belongs to self, 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.