The Horoscope

This month the Sun travels through Libra, your twelfth house, so retreat, dreams, the unseen, solitude, what you release is lit for the whole month. The month's biggest move is pluto turns direct on October 16. 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.

Tender Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, back through your first house of self and body, a stretch to review and revisit self rather than force it.

A New Moon rises in Libra, seeding your twelfth house of retreat and the unseen, the place to begin something fresh in retreat.

Transforming Pluto turns direct in Aquarius, freeing your fourth house of home and roots, home begins to move forward again. 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.

Radiant Sun moves into Scorpio, lighting your first house of identity and fresh starts, a season to lean into self.

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

Harmonizing Venus moves into Libra, lighting your twelfth house of dreams, solitude, and release, a season to lean into retreat.

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

Full Moon in Taurus on October 26 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 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, Scorpio: choose the single intention that belongs to retreat, 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.