SUNDAY - Sun conjunct Mercury, Waxing Trine - Pisces|Scorpio
MONDAY - Pallas sextiles Neptune, Mercury sextiles Vesta
TUESDAY - Venus into Libra, Mercury retrograde back into Libra
SATURDAY - Full Moon Taurus conjunct Uranus
SUNDAY - Mercury squares Saturn, Venus opposes Chiron
So, this is a BIG Mercury/Venus week (re-negotiating the ins and outs of our close relationships/partnerships/money and values with multiple aspects taking us back to the end of September) with a jolt of surprising/disruptive Uranus tossed in ... on a Halloween Full Moon which is an unusual second Full Moon in October! Ack!
Remember what October is all about, and we talked about this theme in the Trump/Covid posts and it applies to all of us - this is about a major transformation to restore balance. Keep this in mind as we move through this final week!
SUNDAY - the Sun (at 2 degrees Scorpio) meets Mercury. We are now at the
mid-point of this Mercury retrograde season, HERE/what is illuminated
now - is what this Mercury retrograde season has been/is about for us.
Something important can come to light. Clarity. It may or may not be pleasant - this is Scorpio - but it will be just what we need to know. Pay attention. And, yes, this could have happened yesterday or the day before as the conjunction tightened up. With Mercury retrograde this could bring someone from the past or an old situation to our attention. News comes in. Important and intimate, maybe financially focused conversations.
At the same time the Moon has moved into Pisces and into her monthly waxing trine with the Sun. This month Pisces/Scorpio. So here is support/compassion for the Scorpio message that is delivered. Something may have to be released to get something else. We might have to give up something we have used as an escape. The trine is our most positive aspect in astrology. The brakes come off. And in Pisces - our dreams/our connections/God/life/our higher self/our past lives/our ancestors are helping us.
MONDAY - Pallas at 18 degrees Capricorn sextiles a retrograde Neptune in Pisces. Our practical, measurable plans/work/strategies to establish security/build something real can lead to the
manifestation of a dream. With Neptune retrograde this can be an old dream. This is Cappy/Pisces, so we might have to make a sacrifice/give up something to get something else.
At the same time Mercury at 1 degree Scorpio sextiles Vesta in Virgo. We are talking about important things/the things that matter and keep us up at night. Intimate conversations. Financial conversations. Communications/information is opportunistic. Again we are dealing with retrograde energy - this time through Mercury - so maybe we've had this conversation before/heard this information before or are dealing with people/situations from our past.
TUESDAY - After being cramped up in tidy and practical Virgo, Venus finally makes it home to Libra. Venus in Libra is about love and partnership, collaboration and compromise. Venus in Libra is about balance.
This transit (until November 21st) makes Libra Suns and Risings, who are already naturally attractive,
even more so - both physically attractive and more able to attract what
they want/need. Everyone's Libra house gets more attractive, too (what house was Libra in when you were born? what is the theme of that house? Where is Venus in your natal chart? This area of life gets more attractive, too, as transiting Venus grows stronger in her home sign).
We will be attracted to what we find 'beautiful'. We will be attracted
to what we find 'just'. We will be attracted to what we find 'peaceful'.
And these are the qualities people will find attractive in us and our work in the world. These are the qualities we'll want to bring to the table (and yes, flowers that would be a good thing to bring to the table now, too) to attract whatever we are wanting to attract now.
The potential for peace increases as we (the collective) move from critic (Virgo) to diplomat (Libra). The potential for people pleasing increases, too, so balance is the key
now. Making life too much about the other person is Libra's shadow side.
It's easier, or I should say, lazier, to just give in to something to
have "harmony" than to work out the win-wins or half-assed win-wins that are sometimes required. We need to honor ourselves as well as the other person. It's simple, but not easy. If we think balance is easy we should stand on one leg for a while!
In Libra, there is power in groups and alliances - but the emphasis (for now) is on the shared human experience of connection rather than on what might emerge later. It's not the time for thinking about how it will all play out, what we are getting or giving. It's just the time for the experience. We come into real
harmony when we can see each other clearly. We don't have to always
agree with each other. Agreeing isn't step two or even step one hundred
and two.
At the same time, Mercury has been retrograding through Scorpio, and now backs into Libra.
This is where we were on September 26th/27th, so maybe something from that time is reactivated. Keep in mind she/he is at the very end of Libra, while Venus is at the very beginning. Now we have Mercury answering to a strong Venus instead of a retrograde Mars.
An old relationship/partnership - romantic or otherwise - can come back around. An offer can be back on the table. We are re-evaluating who wears the pants/signs the checks - is this relationship/partnership/agreement/commitment still fair - is it still working for both parties?
Now, usually Mercury enters Libra while traveling direct. He enters via Virgo - our conversations, ideas and communications have been picked through
quite thoroughly by now. We all know where we stand, and where everyone
else does. We are tired of talking/bickering about this stuff and are
probably craving more pleasant and civil interactions.
This time is different.
He enters via Scorpio (intimacy/depth/maybe not such pleasant conversations) while moving backward.
So, we've been through the hard conversations. We've looked under the hood. We've checked the numbers and seen what adds up and what doesn't. We've merged and we've purged. Maybe something has died. Maybe something has died and been reborn.
Life always, always knows what it's doing, so we are back in Libra now for a reason (because this will be a quick back and forth!). Our words/ideas/conversations need to take 'other people/another person' into consideration now. It's not enough to be 'true' - it needs to be 'kind', too.
We are still covering old ground - we've been here before, but we need to be more polite now. And we won't have to stuff our feelings to do this because Mercury will be answering to Venus, not Mars! We need to listen. If we
want our communications to hit their target we need to make the other
person feel heard. We cooperate/collaborate. We find common ground.
SATURDAY - Are we ready for the SECOND Full Moon of the month (called a Blue Moon) - this time in Taurus and exactly conjunct anything-can-happen Uranus (and exactly conjunct asteroid Triumf which feels like a good stand-in/significator for Trump, so we'll take a look at that and even how because it is an acronym it is usually listed in all capitals, but I am choosing not to see it and share it that way!) and Uranus is retrograde, so anything can not really happen - whatever this is we've had a preview. We can't say we weren't warned. This Moon is also exactly conjunct the U.S. natal (Sibley chart) Uranus.
This is also the activation date for the November 30th Lunar Eclipse in Gemini that kicks off our holiday eclipse season. Eclipse events often happen exactly one month before the eclipse (or one month after), so we'll talk about that, too. Breakdowns. Breakthroughs. This is a powerful Halloween Moon - one final BLOW OUT to enable this month's theme of a MAJOR TRANSFORMATION TO RESTORE BALANCE.
Whatever comes in/whatever goes out, will - in the end - be liberating. And keep in mind, this isn't always (or ever, but that's another story) about something happening to us. This can be us making an unexpected/maybe sudden change, maybe that finalizes something - BUT a change that makes us more healthy (and we'll talk about this in the Full Moon post) - and this could be physically healthy or financially healthy or mentally or emotionally healthy.
Expect a BIG post. Change can't be stopped folks.
SUNDAY - Here is where a retrograde Mercury, at the end of Libra now, backs into her/his square with Saturn - (this is a repeating aspect and we had this aspect the first time on September 23rd, so again we are back to the end of September with our words/ideas/information/conversations) AND we are going to have this square - tension/frustration - again a third time with Mercury direct on November 6th. Repeating conversations/revising commitments. Reality checks. Our thinking could get a little depressing. We can't have everything we want. Balance/relationships require maturity/responsibility. This is the middle of the three-peat, the space where Mercury is retrograde, so we are re-vising, re-viewing, re-peating, re-investigating now.
On the same day Venus (in Libra) opposes Chiron (in Aries). Us vs me. Together vs alone. This could be all the same thing as the challenging Mercury/Saturn, so maybe the reality check hurts. Maybe we don't get who/what we want. An old/deep wounding around our ability to take care of ourselves/stand up for ourselves/be ourselves is triggered, probably through someone else's words/actions.
This can also show up as regret if we didn't make a change at the Full Moon and now it is too late or if we made a change that is destabilizing and now we are feeling the fear of that. This 'feeling the fear' thing doesn't necessarily mean we made a bad move.
OK, instead of the dailies I think I am going to do the Full Moon by sign and the U.S. election posts. Keep in mind everything we talked about before the Full Moon will be waning/unwinding at the time of the Full Moon, everything we talked about after will be applying/building.
So, October is going to go out with a bang. November is another huge month - Mercury will station direct, Mars will station direct, Venus will start squaring the Cappy energies, Jupiter will meet Pluto for the third time, Eclipse season kicks off. December will be even BIGGER.
(that's OK, we'll sleep when we're dead and the one thing the pandemic has probably taught us is that we are glad we aren't).
Remember to take care of your physical body, Vesta is in Virgo - stay hydrated, get some exercise, get extra rest, clean up your messes, wash your hands.
xo all
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