Let's do a monthly for October.
This is a VERY BIG and potentially wonky month and I want us to get a longer look ahead and I also want to free up some time on my end from doing the weeklies on Sundays, so I can do more long-term posts and other things looking at 'what the hell is happening' and actually do Part II's when I say I will :)
I am dividing the month into THREE parts. Just keep in mind - October isn't really three separate chapters. It is one chapter/argument that keeps returning to the same places until something changes.
I will write the month in astro first and then in English, since I have been asked for more people-talk/English and less planet talk/astro-babble (BABBLE!), but I should tell you that after all this astrology, English is no longer my native tongue. But I will try :) Expect typos. You have been warned.
October is not going to be a straight line from the 1st to Halloween. Everything circles us back. The same degrees, the same conflicts, and, eventually, some of the same wounds come back around from different directions. What happens early in the month isn't necessarily over when the aspect passes. It gets re-visited, re-considered, re-versed and sometimes felt very differently the second or third time around. Keep this in mind.
FIRST THIRD OF THE MONTH
PART I - October begins with NOISE. On the 2nd, Mercury opens hostilities early by squaring Mars at 2-degrees Scorpio/Leo before dawn EDT, then squaring a retrograde Pluto that same afternoon at 3-degrees. Mind against will. Mind against depth. Mars, meanwhile, catches a trine to Neptune the same evening which tells us there is a softer channel running underneath the friction/fighting. By the next morning, Mars has pushed to an exact opposition with Pluto at 3-degrees Leo/Aquarius.
This is the fixed-cross confrontation that will define the whole month, and it arrives in the first 72 hours!
And on that same morning - this is October 3rd - Venus stations retrograde at 8-degees Scorpio, alongside a Last Quarter Moon at 10-degrees Cancer. The month's real protagonist - VENUS! - enters the picture and she is walking backward.
Whatever Mars and Pluto just detonated, Venus has to face it in reverse (this is kind of making me picture Jennufer Grey doing everything Patrick Swayze did, but backward in pink strappy heels). Venus isn't here to move the story forward. She's here to ask whether we actually want the story we're already in. BIG Venus/Scorpio retrograde question - do I actually want this, or have I become invested in wanting it?
Then Mercury conjoins the newly-retrograde Venus on October 6th at 8-degrees Scorpio. This is mind meeting the retrograde desire-body and Venus is strong and still. Mars keeps moving forward without her, sextiling Uranus on Oct 7th. Then on Oct 10th, under a Libra New Moon at 17-degrees, Venus squares Mars at 7-degrees. A retrograde Venus and direct Mars now actively working against each other, not just near each other.
In other words (here is the complete people-talk version for those who have pressed 1 for English) - the month opens TENSE. It looks like a disagreement between what we think, what we want and what we're prepared to do.
In the first couple days, communication and intention pull in opposite directions, so we might find ourselves saying something and immediately wanting to take it back, or noticing our words aren't hitting the way we meant them to. Underneath that friction, there's also a pull toward something deeper and more honest, even if it's uncomfortable to look at directly. By the second or third day, that discomfort sharpens into something closer to confrontation - old patterns of control, ego or unfinished power struggles come right up to the surface. This can show up as an actual argument, or just an internal standoff. Take a breath. Drive carefully. Slow your roll.
We have to figure out whether we're actually asserting ourselves or defending a position because letting go of it feels like losing. Do we actually want the thing we are fighting for?
Just as that peaks, love and desire turn inward. Whatever we want, whatever we're drawn to, starts asking to be re-considered rather than acted on. This is the moment relationships, attractions and questions of value and money - what's worth pursuing/who's worth trusting, what is VALUABLE - stop moving forward and start circling back. If we've been coasting on autopilot in a relationship or a creative pursuit, this is when the autopilot switches OFF. It may not feel dramatic YET. Maybe it's more like a pause, a second-guessing, a "wait, do I actually want this."
A few days later, our thinking catches up to that pause and starts examining it directly. We find the words for what we've been feeling but hadn't named/talked about. Meanwhile, momentum keeps building somewhere else, more smoothly this time - a project, a conversation, a physical undertaking that's finally finding its rhythm even while the emotional side of us is slowing down.
Then around the New Moon - this is October 10th - that tension becomes unavoidable. What we want and what we're driven to do stop cooperating. We might feel pulled between two things that used to work together - ambition and affection, action and reflection - and have to actually CHOOSE.
MIDDLE OF THE MONTH
PART II - MID MONTH - Pluto stations direct on Oct 15th at 3-degrees Aquarius. This is the exact degree Mars opposed two weeks earlier while the Sun picks up a minor sextile to Jupiter the same day. Mars trines Saturn on the 16th, and the First Quarter Moon happens in Capricorn on the 18th. Then on Oct 20th, retrograde Venus reaches 3-degrees Scorpio and squares Pluto. Meeting the just-stationed planet on the identical degree Mars had already opposed. That's three planets, one degree, within three weeks. Oh my.
Mars- what am I going to do?
Venus - what do I want? What am I attached to? What is this worth?
Sun - what does this say about who I am?
Mid-month brings relief, but complicated relief. Something that's felt stuck, blocked, or oppressive for weeks - a power dynamic, a fear, an external pressure - well, it finally starts to loosen and move forward again. There's real momentum returning here, a sense of "okay, we can act now." But it's happening on the exact spot that caused the confrontation two weeks earlier, so the relief comes tangled up with the memory of what it cost to get here. Around the same time, a smaller stroke of good luck or perspective is happening - something that reminds us the bigger picture is still intact. Drive and discipline start working together instead of against each other, which makes this a good window for follow-through on something we started earlier in the month. But by the 20th, the same inward-turned desire from earlier comes back around to butt heads with that same authority/power theme again, so if we thought we'd already had this reckoning, we are probably now having it a second time - older and wiser?
FINAL THIRD OF THE MONTH
FINAL III - THIRD OF MONTH - The last third of the month is where everything folds back on itself. HARD. Nothing is happening only once. A planet hits something, we experience it one way, and then another planet comes back to the same place and asks a slightly different question. First, it's action. Then want/relationship. Then identity. Then thought/communication. The month keeps giving us another angle on the same material. Things are not so much 'one-and-done'. Keep this in mind.
On Oct 21st, the Sun at 28-degrees Libra trines the North Node and opposes Chiron within the same twelve hours. Two days later, Oct 23rd, three things happen almost at once - the Sun enters Scorpio, Juno enters Aquarius and the Sun conjuncts a retrograde Venus at 0-degrees Scorpio. The ingress is the conjunction, so the Sun and Venus cross the same threshold (dive into SCORPIO!) together. The very next day, Mercury stations retrograde at 20-degrees Scorpio, and the day after that, Venus backs out of Scorpio and into Libra.
On Oct 26, the Sun squares Pluto at 3-degrees Scorpio/Aquarius becoming the fourth planet to hit that degree this month. This happens under a Taurus Full Moon at 2-degrees, fixed sign against fixed sign, closing the loop Mars opened. Two days later, retrograde Venus opposes Chiron at 28-degrees Libra/Aries which is the same degree the Sun opposed a week earlier, but now walked backward by Venus in a sign she rules. And then on Oct 30th, Venus trines the North Node at 27-degrees (Libra/Aquarius) retracing the Sun's Oct 21st aspect a second time, while Mercury - also retrograde now - squares Mars at 17-degrees Scorpio/Leo, echoing the Venus/Mars square from three weeks before. Whew.
OK, one more time in people-talk - around the 21st, an old wound or vulnerability - something we carry, maybe something we don't usually talk about, maybe something health related, maybe something very old/ancestral - gets seen clearly and at the same time we get a genuine sense of alignment with where we're headed collectively, not just personally. This can be all about the same thing or different things. Two days later, our sense of self and what we love/want come together. This is a moment where we're not torn between who we are and what we want, they're the same thing for once/on the same page. Also, we are stepping into a more intense, all-or-nothing emotional season with a theme of commitment or loyalty shifting toward something more future-facing and less conventional.
What do we cling to because it makes us feel safe, even when we know something underneath it has changed?
Our thinking turns inward and backward too, now - this is when we start re-playing conversations, re-thinking decisions, wanting to re-visit rather than push forward. Tech/cars/appliances can ACT UP. Some situations can get delayed or turn around. We are going back over merged monies and intimacies with other people. Our sense of what we want follows suit, retreating from the intensity back into something more relational and diplomatic.
By the 26th, that same old power-and-control tension from the very start of the month returns one more time, now under an emotionally loaded, all-or-nothing kind of pressure. Feelings run high, stability feels at stake. Two days later, the old wound from the 21st comes back, except this time hopefully we're processing it with more distance than we had the first time. And by the very end of the month, that sense of collective alignment returns too, BUT so does the original tension between desire and drive - like the whole month's argument and the whole month's resolution show up for a final round, at the same time. Cue the boxing gloves. A snuggly blanket. Stay hydrated. Get enough sleep. Mercury picks up the argument Venus started three weeks earlier. First, we had to reconsider what we wanted. Now we have to reconsider what we've said and what we're going to do about it.
BOTTOM LINE - the thing we thought we'd settled comes back from another direction. The wound we thought we'd understood gets another pinch. The thing we thought we'd chosen gets reconsidered. The conflict we thought was over gets one more conversation/argument.
The good news - the month has 5 Friday nights, 5 Saturdays, Halloween falls on a Saturday and that's the night we get the extra hour (are we still doing this?) so Sunday we SLEEP in :)
October isn't about getting everything right the first time. The Sun/the light hits the wound, and a week later Venus comes back to it. The Sun finds the North Node of Fate and Venus re-walks the same path nine days later. Mars confronts Pluto. Venus comes back to Pluto. The Sun comes back to Pluto. It doesn't resolve neatly. It circles. It revisits. Then it pulls us toward November ....
xo all - this is all general, we will look at some aspects and transits in more detail as we move along, but I thought it would help to get a peek EARLY.
Also, the North Node of Fate is going to be right on the United States natal Moon from the Declaration of Independence/Sibley chart and multiple planets will be interacting with that point. The Moon represents 'the people' in the chart. So for the United States the writing will be on the wall about where this mess we are in is headed - what we've been arguing about, living with, avoiding, normalizing or fighting over may become harder to misunderstand. Our future/our direction becomes more visible and consequential.
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