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Tonight we have the last Scorpio Venus Star Point in our lifetimes.
The Scorpio Star Point began in 1926. So we’ve had a hundred years of it.
What Is a Venus Star Point?
Venus makes five points in an eight-year cycle (hence the pentagram I wear). At any one time, the Star Points are in five signs. Right now those are Aries, Gemini, Capricorn, Scorpio, and Leo (not in that order), and the sign changes each time, roughly every 19 months.
But there are actually two stars. Venus has an inferior (or interior) conjunction with the Sun and a superior (or exterior) one, about nine and a half months apart. The inferior conjunction happens in the middle of the retrograde, and it’s the one I build my Venus Retrograde: Heroine’s Journey class around, because I see it as an alchemical journey into our own underworld. So Venus actually draws two five-pointed stars.
It’s a bit complicated, but here are the basics: the two stars move backwards through the zodiac, gradually, over time, like an invisible clock or heartbeat. That’s Arielle Guttman’s phrase. She wrote Venus Star Rising, the book on Star Point work, and I’m certified in her system. (I was already working with the retrograde before that, but she wrote the book on the Star Points.)
Since 1926, Scorpionic themes have been in our consciousness. That’s just how it works. It’s mostly subconscious, because these are invisible points we don’t see with our physical eyes. But think of any Scorpio theme: power games, manipulation, domination. And also deep soul exploration, deep soul therapy. All very Plutonic, very Scorpionic. Those archetypal energies have been woven through what’s been going on in the world for a century.
How We Got Here
I can’t teach the whole Venus cycle here, but let me give you an overview.
Venus stationed retrograde at 8°29’ Scorpio on October 3rd. Mercury wasn’t retrograde then. He was at 3° Scorpio, conjunct Haumea (rebirth and regeneration), and the two of them were making a fixed T-square with Mars and Pluto, who opposed each other later that day. Mars and Pluto are the traditional and modern guides of Scorpio, so that added to the intensity.
Since then, Venus has been travelling back toward 22° Libra, where she stations direct on November 13th. Pluto stationed direct last week. Mars had moved on, but he and Venus squared each other along the way. All these energies are playing together in this very Martian, very Plutonic sign.
I go into all of it in depth in the Venus Retrograde: Heroine’s Journey class, where we’ve just reached the midway point. But here’s what you’ve got tonight.
Tonight’s Chart
The Venus Star Point is at 0° Scorpio. After this, the Star Point will be in Libra, because it moves back through the signs, spending about 100 years in each.
Pluto is now direct, and Mars has moved on.
Juno is squaring the Star Point. Juno is our sacred contract, our marriage and interconnectedness with each other. She has just returned to Aquarius to join Pluto and bring the transformation this time is bringing.
Zero is like the Fool in the Tarot: infinite possibility, the alpha and the omega. And because the Star Points move backwards, it’s as if we’re stepping into the unknown as the Libra Star Point comes in and the Scorpio one ends. Libra is one of Venus’s own signs, which might give you a hint. I still maintain that things are going to be on the up.
Regulus is aspected by the Star Point too. Regulus is the Royal Star, named while it was in Leo, where it spent 2,160 years (from our perspective). It shifted into Virgo, from our perspective, at the end of 2011. We’re bringing in a very different era. This is the Fool taking a big leap into the future.
I’m not going to give you everything else, but I do want to mention Achilles, the asteroid of vulnerability. Because of the aspects in this retrograde, a lot has been exposed in deeply vulnerable places so that it can be examined and healed. That’s happening collectively and internally, and I think you can see it in the news if you look for those Scorpionic themes.
Heart and Mind Go Under
One more thing. About four hours after the cazimi, Mercury stations retrograde at 20°58’ Scorpio and joins Venus in retrograde. (Venus will slip back into Libra later.) For now we have Venus and Mercury, heart and mind, both retrograde in Scorpio.
Mercury will travel back to 5° Scorpio, where he and Venus met on the way toward all of this.
This is potent, potent energy. Everything is being investigated. It’s like psychic surgery, or psychic detective work: digging into secrets and revealing the shadows, both within and without. We certainly see it.
On November 13th, both station direct. Mercury goes direct a little earlier in the day, then Venus. At that moment:
* Mercury is back conjunct Haumea, rebirth and regeneration, at 5° Scorpio.
* Mercury is squaring Juno at 5° Aquarius, just as the Star Point squares Juno tonight. Contracts. Marriage. Interconnectedness.
* Achilles, our vulnerability, is there again.
* The Sun is at 21° Scorpio, conjunct the degree where Mercury stationed retrograde. You cannot make this stuff up.
I could say a lot about the numbers, but I’ll say this: Mercury stations direct at 5, the number of change, and Venus at 22, the master number of the master builder, creating something new.
(That station chart is right on my Midheaven. Hmm. Interesting, right? There’s loads more I could say about it, but I’m keeping that for my Venus class.)
There’s a tendency sometimes to say this is the biggest thing ever. It’s one of many big things we’re going through collectively, and I’m sticking to this one for now. But know that this is a huge shift.
A Seed From February
I have to credit Anne Ortelee for this one. I heard her mention it on a podcast with Celeste Brooks.
On February 20th, 2026, we had the Saturn–Neptune conjunction. That’s a big deal on its own, since they meet about every 35 years. But the last time they met at 0° Aries was, I think, around 4326 BCE, about three astrological ages ago.
What Anne noticed is astounding. That conjunction was at 0°45’ Aries, Mars’s sign. And tonight’s Venus Star Point is at 0°45’ Scorpio, Mars’s other sign. And remember, Venus stationed retrograde while Mars opposed Pluto from 3° Leo.
The two points are in a quincunx to each other, an aspect of adjustment. There are many seed moments, but the Saturn–Neptune conjunction is a huge one, shaping our psyche for a long, long time, and it sits on a World Point at 0° Aries. As this Star Point finishes in a Mars-guided sign, it’s saying: it’s time for new beginnings and for letting go of those old Scorpionic dynamics. Have you learned nothing yet?
Think about those themes for you. We’re certainly seeing them play out in the world.
A Venus Star Point Return for the USA
For those of us in the USA: this is the USA’s Venus Star Point return. The USA’s Star Point was just over 1° Scorpio. The Star Points drift back a tiny bit each cycle, and they return about every 251 years.
So this comes on top of the USA’s Pluto return, its Neptune opposition, another Chiron return, an upcoming Uranus return, and a Saturn opposition: transiting Saturn is going back and forth in Aries opposite the USA’s Saturn in the 10th house, and will oppose it again once Saturn goes direct. Pluto is also returning to the USA’s South Node, in the 2nd house of who are we?
And this Star Point return falls in the USA’s 11th house: politics, groups, organizations, the people. And the future.
The USA is being reborn. We can see the old ways dying. I had a thought this morning: I’ve talked so often about old structures collapsing, and now we’re seeing it literally. The Constitution is basically being ignored or ripped apart. Parts of the White House are being torn down, and trees ripped out.
I’ve long said the USA is going to be reborn in some way, probably with a whole new constitution or something. We’ll see how that ends up. I don’t think it’s going to quite end yet. But this is the start of the end.
And remember the moment Venus stations direct: Mercury at 5° Scorpio, Juno at 5° Aquarius. That gives us an idea of things to come.
The Selkie
There’s a card that’s been coming up over and over again: the Selkie, from the Witch Oracle by Angie Sullins.
Scorpio is a water sign, so this is about deep, deep feelings, but also about things hidden deep in the ocean. And we’re seeing so much come to light.
The Young Turks have just released a documentary called The CLOSETocracy, and I’ve seen parts of it. In it, three men say they had sex with the late Senator Lindsey Graham. Many of us long assumed he was gay, and none of us care that he was gay. What matters is that he always hid it while voting for, and putting forward, bills against LGBTQ people.
It’s the hypocrisy: people who hide who they are while voting against everyone else’s right to be who they are. The secrets. The people hidden underneath. The closetocracy, as Hunter Biden called it.
Most of you know I’m a huge supporter of equality for all people: LGBTQ, Black, white, brown, whatever. We’re all human. I do feel we’re moving more into that age. But unfortunately we had to see the shadow, the dirt, and the hypocrisy (the Epstein files, all these men who have been drugging and raping women) before we could change things. And we will.
So let’s hear the Selkie’s message:
“The legend tells of the selkie, a shape-shifting seal woman, often seen off the coast of northern Scotland (and all Celtic areas, to be honest with you), who can shed her skin by moonlight and dance upon the shores. Fishermen were known to steal the seal maid’s skin in order to keep her pinned to the land, captured as a bride, preventing her return to her true skin and soul home.”
What does that say?
“To reclaim your soul skin in the current legend you’re living, you must let go of the good girl pelt you were raised to wear. This means getting comfortable with letting people have their own ideas about who you are, so that you can develop the freedom to be what is most natural to you.
Toss off all that no longer fits you, and dive deep into the places where your soul feels most at home.
Let go of old demands you put yourself under to be the good girl, the good friend, the good daughter, the good wife, the good mother. Shed the pelt of expectation, demand, and approval, including your own.
The witch you are becoming will cost you relationships, spaces, comfort, security, and convenience. But choose her over everything.”
This is for everybody, whatever your gender.
I also notice this card is number five. Achilles and Mercury are at 5° when Mercury and Venus station direct on November 13th. Five is the number of change. It’s my life path number. And it’s the number of the Hierophant in the Tarot: listening to your own spiritual inner voice. It just connects in so many ways.
Tune In Tonight
Please, please, please tune into this energy a little tonight. Think about where you’re going from this point.
When Mercury stations retrograde, Venus is only 14’ from the Sun, still in the cazimi, still empowered. So this is about changing your heart and mind: how you speak about yourself, and how much room you give those other voices.
Some places to look in your own chart:
* Where does 22° Libra to 8° Scorpio fall for you? That’s the path of the Venus retrograde.
* Where does 5° to 20° Scorpio fall? That’s Mercury’s retrograde path.
* Look back 8, 16, and 24 years, to this time of year in 2018, 2010, and 2002, when Venus was retrograde in Scorpio. It won’t have been the same, but you may get an idea of some of the themes that are shifting for you.
It will feel deep this weekend. Really. Not to mention we also have a Full Moon in Taurus early on October 26th, with the Sun at 2° Scorpio and the Moon at 2° Taurus. So it’s very heightened energy, and it’s kind of weird: it’s dark and deep, yet that full moon energy is already building and shining a big old light into these deep shadows.
So we really are in a moment where you can take a good, deep look into your soul’s desires. What does your soul really desire? And how are you going to throw off that good girl pelt?
Lean into what’s transforming and changing, within and without. We are changing. We are shifting. This is another leap forward in the transformation of where we’re heading.
Enjoy the last Scorpio Star Point in our lifetimes.
— Louise



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This is my LAST standalone Full Moon video — and the weekly forecasts are ending too. From the Scorpio New Moon on 9 November, I will make one comprehensive video per lunar cycle: New Moon to New Moon, with all the major aspects in between. New rhythm, same sky. There will, however, be podcasts with a different focus! Watch this space.
The Taurus Full Moon of Monday 26 October 2026 falls at the Moon’s own exaltation degree, still glowing from the last Scorpio Venus Star Point of our lifetimes (Friday 23 October, 0° Scorpio) and Mercury stationing retrograde. The Moon is conjunct Okyrhoe, the seer who speaks even at risk of punishment. A fixed grand cross with Pluto (death and rebirth) and Juno (contracts) turns up the pressure; the Sun conjunct Haumea promises rebirth; asteroid Lilith in Leo is the Lion Queen — sovereign, unbothered, taking her place. Venus opposes Chiron and both aspect the nodes; Mars sits at 15° of the fixed signs, a world point.
Inside: the Chandra and Sabian symbols for 3° Taurus, my first public reading with Linda Hill’s alchemy deck (5 of Albedo, 7 of Nigredo, The Hermit), the Witch Oracle’s Lion Queen on boundaries — and why Friday night is the moment to set intentions for the next eight years.
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Before We Dive In
Venus is retrograde, Mercury is stationing retrograde, and I’ve had all kinds of weird things happen, including the video background I put up every week suddenly appearing reversed and mirrored without me changing anything. So. Ah!
This Venus retrograde, with Mercury coming up behind it, is intense. It’s all good. It’s life, things happening. But it’s hitting my chart big time, and Pluto is stationing direct affecting my chart as I record this too. Scorpio energy can be really exhausting. Water energy can be. I feel tired all the time, but I’m okay.
There will be some changes coming. I can’t keep up the pace of weekly forecasts plus new and full moon videos, especially when everybody on YouTube is doing new moons, full moons, and forecasts. There are other things I want to talk about. I’m not making a decision on that yet. [But I wanted you to hear it from me first.]
Some News I’m Proud Of
One of the articles I wrote for The Evolving Astrologer, the magazine of OPA (the Organization for Professional Astrology), has been picked up and published by astro.com. That’s a big deal for an astrologer. I’m really, really happy, and I hope you’ll give it a read and let me know what you think. Read the article here.
London School of Astrology: Chiron Weekend
The Chiron Weekend is this weekend, October 17th and 18th (UK time), and I’m presenting on the 17th. It’s all about Chiron coming home to the degree where it was discovered, with many perspectives and discussions.
The lineup: Melanie Reinhart, the Centaur Queen as I call her, whom I’m proud to call a friend; Brian Clark, an amazing, amazing guy; Jason Holley; Andrew Smith from Ireland; Barbara Hand Clow; and M. Kelly Hunter. I’m on this thing with people who have been mentors and teachers to me, and I’m loving it.
It’s not free, but you keep the recordings in their member portal, and the money goes to charity. It’s a great thing that Frank Clifford, who runs the London School of Astrology, does every year. There are some pre-recorded sessions available now too. Chiron: Returning Home, 17–18 October
A not-to-be-missed weekend celebrating Chiron and the 50th anniversary of its discovery – hosted by Brian Clark, Frank Clifford and Melanie Reinhart – with a dozen world-class speakers across ten sessions (including four pre-recorded available to view now).
Chiron’s message is more relevant than ever, and this celebratory and fundraising event for the astrological and therapeutic communities will honour Chiron’s presence under a multi-faceted sky. Joining us will be a wonderful array of astrologers and practitioners: Brian Clark, Barbara Hand Clow, Louise Edington, Heather Ensworth, Jason Holley, Kelley Hunter, Dr Michael Kearney, Melanie Reinhart, Chris Skidmore, Andrew Smith, Zane B. Stein and John Wadsworth.
Topics include: Chiron’s discovery return in 2027; the Chiron return at 50; building a new vocabulary; approaching Chiron in consultation; Chiron’s love story; Chiron and the heroic quest.
Price: £99 (approx US$130, and includes unlimited access to all live sessions + recorded videos).
Schedule/enrolment: https://www.londonschoolofastrology.com/courses/chiron50
The Week at a Glance
It’s an intense week. Give yourself some real space, especially on Friday.
* Pluto stationed direct late on October 15th, square Haumea, and is still sitting at 3°04’ Aquarius. Still churning. Still excavating.
* First Quarter Moon on Sunday at 25° Capricorn: the crisis in action.
* A fixed T-square at 3°, with Pluto, Haumea, asteroid Lilith, and Venus (who has retrograded back to 3°), widely opposed by Okyrhoe to form a fixed grand cross.
* Venus squares Pluto on Tuesday.
* A water grand trine builds between Ceres, Nessus, and Mercury.
* The Sun opposes Chiron on Wednesday: a last look at Chiron in Aries.
* The Sun enters Scorpio on Friday October 23rd at 5:37am.
* The Venus Star Point: the Sun and Venus meet at 0° Scorpio at 11:44pm on Friday October 23rd, Venus’s own day. It’s the last Scorpio Star Point in our lifetimes.
* Mercury stations retrograde on Saturday October 24th at 3:12am.
We start the week with the Moon in Capricorn, moving away from the Sun. It’s gained light, so we’re moving into an action phase.
Neptune is at 2° Aries, the degree of the last Venus Star Point in Aries on March 22nd, 2025.
Hekate and Chariklo are worth watching. The North Node is moving back toward them. Hekate was the first to turn direct, and Chariklo will turn direct next. Then both will meet the North Node, which is going to be really interesting for creating, writing, and weaving this new story we’re moving into, the one I’ve been promising you for ages.
Asteroid Lilith has just opposed Pluto. I barely look at Black Moon Lilith anymore, so I’ve actually taken her off my charts. Asteroid Lilith is shouting really loudly to me. She’s the only physical Lilith (the others are points), and it feels like she wants to be heard. That’s the talk-to-the-hand energy, the rebellious teenager. She just opposed Pluto at the same degree Mars did, and all of these are approaching the South Node, the drain, to release things.
Apart from Hygieia (preventative health), only the Sun, Venus, and Mercury have crossed the South Node, and Regulus with it. Jupiter is heading toward it, Mars faster, and asteroid Lilith and Ceres are on their way too. We’ve still got some time to go in this nightmare transition, but we’re moving beyond it.
The Cards — A First Glance
From the Red Seeds Tarot (Linda Hill, Etsy UK): Eight of Seeds reversed, Queen Bee reversed, and The Sun. And from the Witch Oracle, one of my favourites: Spider Woman.
Two reversals while we approach the cazimi. I’m really not surprised. But we end the week on a much more upbeat note.
I love Linda Hill’s decks because they’re all based on myths and all the things I’m interested in. I’ve also got her Red Threads Tarot, and I’ve just bought her Red Stone Tarot (I need to read the book first). The Witch Oracle is Witch: Woman in Total Control of Herself by Angie Sullins, with art by her partner, Silas Toball.
More on all four cards at the end.
Day by Day
(Times are Eastern, as always.)
Sunday, October 18 — First Quarter Moon. A Cardinal T-Square and a Fixed T-Square.
Pluto stationed direct late on the 15th, so we’re only a couple of days past the station, and it hasn’t moved a minute. If you’re feeling rather churny as you read this (I always use that word for Pluto stations), that’s why. Pluto is stationing direct in a square to Haumea, and Pluto is the modern guide of Scorpio. This is deep. We’re still very much in that digging, excavating, purging energy that Pluto stations bring.
The Capricorn Moon starts the day by opposing Ceres: needs met and unmet, in the Moon’s own sign. We may get more news about price rises and inflation, needs not being met, and the basics of security feeling very rocky, as they have for many people for a while.
Right after that comes the First Quarter Moon, with the Moon at 25° Capricorn squaring the Libra Sun. This is the crisis in action, and crisis literally means crossroads, decision, or turning point. People hear “crisis” and panic, but we have two every month: the crisis in action at the first quarter and the crisis in consciousness at the last quarter. This one is in the initiating, cardinal signs, saying it’s time to take action and start building toward what you want, toward justice, toward everything you want to create in the world. It’s the real go-go-go phase for whatever you set intentions for at the last new moon.
Right after the First Quarter Moon, the Sun opposes Eris, the table turner. That makes a cardinal T-square, saying it’s time to shake more tables. And we’re seeing it happen everywhere in the world.
Then asteroid Lilith (I love asteroid Lilith) squares Haumea, regeneration and rebirth. She’s already opposed Pluto, and Venus is retrograding back here too. So we have a fixed T-square, all at 3°. That’s really potent: Pluto is still at its station point, and Venus is coming up to square Pluto as well.
This is digging deep. But it’s at 3, and in numerology 3 is a lovely number of creation: creativity, self-expression, useful optimism, and communication. So it’s a big deal that all this is happening at 3. Mars opposed Pluto at 3. Now Venus is back at 3. Pluto and Haumea are in their ongoing square.
And it’s all widely opposing Okyrhoe, the seer, the voice that spoke out even though she’d be punished for it. She’s different from Cassandra, whom nobody believed. Okyrhoe had the gift of prophecy and foresaw what would happen to Chiron: that he’d be wounded, and the wound would not heal. She was punished for saying so. She’s part of this fixed grand cross, saying we have to dig deep and say what we’re seeing right now, so we can bring the change.
Then Pallas Athena comes back and meets Saturn, both retrograde. She is wise justice, and Saturn tends to bring clarity and a reality check. With the Moon gaining light, plus the review, reflection, redoing, and purging energy of this Venus retrograde and fixed T-square, we’re starting to see what needs to change. We’re getting so clear.
As you know, the power hungry keep outing themselves more and more: how they want to cling to their power, and how they think they can do it. That’s very Scorpionic. So we’re going to start getting some clarity.
And talking of the power hungry: there was an 87-year-old woman in Spain who was evicted because she couldn’t pay her rent, after it was raised so high. There was a vote in the Spanish parliament, I think, to help people like her, and the elected officials voted against it. People are in uproar. And I’ve since heard, thanks to one of my members, that she has died. That’s really sad. That’s the kind of thing I mean. They are not taking care of our needs, only the power hungry, the greed, the wealth, the autocracy, whatever you want to call it.
At the end of the day, the Moon enters Aquarius.
Monday, October 19 — The Moon Crosses Pluto. Venus Squares Asteroid Lilith and Meets Haumea.
The Aquarius Moon activates that fixed grand cross. It’s digging deep. We are really seeing the corruption, the power games, the manipulation, the detritus, the nastiness, whatever you want to call it, of all these power-hungry, greedy people saying: we don’t care what you say, we’re taking it.
I don’t think the people are going to take it. The Moon and Pluto are in the sign of the humanitarian, the people, and the future. Aquarius does have its authoritarian side, though, so it’s digging deep right now.
Right at the start of the day, Venus, back at 3°, squares asteroid Lilith, saying nobody’s putting Baby back in the corner. This isn’t particularly about women. It’s about everything that’s been othered and kept down: class, colour, women, all of it, because of the power-hungry greed of those (mostly men) in power. No, not all men. But you get the idea. It’s the difference between power-over and power from within, power in interconnectedness. And we are moving away from power-over.
The Aquarius Moon sextiles Neptune, trines Sedna (adaptability), and conjuncts Pluto, digging into the shadow that the Pluto station is unearthing before it moves forward to show us more. Then the Moon squares Haumea, squares Venus, and opposes asteroid Lilith. That’s the oh God, I didn’t know you were that bad. I can see it all now, and I’m not taking it anymore energy.
Then Venus meets Haumea, regeneration and rebirth, at that lovely 3° mark.
And Venus sextiles Hygieia, an aspect of opportunity to preventative, holistic health. Hygieia was the first asteroid to cross the drain in Leo (no more kings) and then cross Regulus, the birth of stewardship of each other and the earth. She’s saying: okay, here’s an opportunity. We’re looking at this. Here’s how we can start to take it on. It’s a process, but I’m starting to see it more and more.
The Moon trines Uranus, the modern guide of Aquarius, at 5°, the number of change. More ahas and awakenings. Change is coming. I know it doesn’t always feel like it. I’m almost looking forward to the election now. I do think they might try to cheat, but the tide is turning. That’s in the US, but we’re seeing it everywhere: the corruption, the power hunger, putting people down and not caring at all for those less fortunate.
The Moon then aspects the Saturn–Pallas Athena pair. Pallas has now moved past Saturn, and with that clarity she’s starting to think about new strategies. She has even more clarity about all this putting-people-down business, and more clarity about our own self-limiting belief that we don’t have the power to be the change we want to see in the world. We do. Just not on our own. We have to come into community.
The last aspect of the day: the Moon opposes Mars. Alright, what action are we going to take now?
Tuesday, October 20 — Venus Squares Pluto. A Water Grand Trine. The Moon Meets Chariklo and Hekate.
Venus squares Pluto. This is ongoing and so deep, and we’re now 3 days from the Venus Star Point. We’re going down a long tunnel, and we’re being asked to look in our backpack and see what we need to purge, release, and let go of. It’s not easy. It’s very deep. Lean in.
Pluto is still at 3°04’ and still hasn’t moved a minute. So again, we’re really seeing the shadow. And Venus is like: oof, I don’t like it. I don’t want to create this, and I’m going to spend the rest of my retrograde seeing what I need to do to change it.
Also on the 20th, Ceres makes a watery trine to Nessus: toxins, abuses, and poisons. This makes a water grand trine with Mercury, and it’s very emotional, because Mercury is heading toward his station. Seeing all of this, Mercury starts to think: I need to rethink how we deal with all of this.
Then the Moon meets a lovely little crew. First Chariklo, the cosmic doula, the spinner of grace. She’s a bit like Grandmother Spider (and we’ve got that card this week, so I’ll read it). Then Hekate, who is now moving, though still slowly because she only just stationed direct. She’s moved ahead of Chariklo and is saying: I’ve got you. Here’s the torch. We’re at this big crossroads, and I’m showing you the way.
Wednesday, October 21 — Moon Meets the North Node. The Sun Opposes Chiron.
The Moon has crossed Hekate and is heading toward the North Node. The Moon trines the Sun, so we’re well on the way to the full moon. Then the Moon conjuncts the North Node and aspects Chiron.
At 8:35am the Moon moves into Pisces, and things start to get more emotional again. Aquarius gives us a bit of distance, a bit of I can see the big picture. Pisces goes: oh, we might start feeling a bit watery again. A lot of this is very emotional.
The Sun reaches 28° Libra and aspects the Nodes, trining the North Node, moving toward it and starting to create what we want to see in the world. (We get the “moon wobble” when the Sun squares the Nodes, but we’ll talk about that when we get there.)
Once in Pisces, the Moon makes a watery trine to Venus, who is almost at the cazimi. Pluto is still at 3°04’. This asks: what do we need to erode? What do we need to release, surrender to, let go of? We have to surrender to the fact that we can’t change everything ourselves.
The last aspect of the 21st, apart from some lunar ones, is the Sun opposing Chiron. Remember that Chiron has only dipped back into Aries before returning to Taurus for its Chiron return, the return to its discovery degree. (Chiron Weekend: go check it out.)
This is the Libra Sun’s last look at Chiron in Aries, at what we’ve called toxic masculinity. We’ve definitely seen that with the tech bros, the Andrew Tates, and people like that. But it’s also the wider toxicity of power-over energy, rather than power from within. It’s a big last look that asks: how are we going to bring this “we” into everything?
Thursday, October 22 — Feeling It All.
Hardly any aspects today. Pluto is starting to move, but very, very slowly.
The main aspects are lunar. The Pisces Moon conjuncts Nessus, trines Mercury, and trines Ceres, so the Moon amplifies the water grand trine. You may find yourself feeling really disoriented with this major water energy, and also quite flat, with a lack of energy. A lot of it is asking you to tune into what you’re feeling about all this before we can move forward.
Friday, October 23 — Venus Day. The Sun Enters Scorpio. The Last Scorpio Venus Star Point.
This day is really huge. Give yourself some real space.
The Sun reaches the anaretic, last degree of Libra and, just before entering Scorpio, squares Juno: our contracts, our sacred marriage asteroid. She was retrograde in Capricorn, the sign of our institutions and structures and is about to re-enter Aquarius. This square looks at where the injustice is. And both are about to change signs. Another threshold.
At 5:37am, the Sun enters Scorpio. Witchy time! I’ve been feeling it already as we head toward Halloween. Scorpio season begins, so happy birthday to all the Scorpios. When the Sun enters Scorpio, the Sun and Venus are still 1°12’ apart, so we’re not officially in the cazimi yet.
At 3:53pm, the Moon enters Aries, the other Martian sign. Things get a bit ragey, to be quite honest, with the Aries Moon heading toward the full moon, which is at 2° Taurus. By the time the Moon changes signs, the Sun and Venus are about 25’ apart.
I love that the cazimi falls on Venus Day. Let me walk you through how it builds:
* The Moon meets Neptune at 2° Aries, on that last Venus Star Point, in a quincunx (an aspect of adjustment) to the Scorpio cluster. The Sun and Venus are now only 15’ apart, so they’re officially in the cazimi (about 17’ is the orb) as the Moon touches the last Venus Star Point. We’re really in a new beginning time of releasing the past and moving forward. This is a new Venus.
* Neptune sextiles Sedna. Adapt or die, as they say. I don’t like that phrase. Let’s say you’ve got to adapt to survive.
* 10:40 pm: Juno moves into Aquarius and starts to square the Venus Star Point, saying: we are not taking this, we are transforming it. Our contracts with the earth and with each other aren’t being met, and we are going to change that.
* Uranus squares Hygieia. Uranus has moved back to 4° Gemini, where it was at the peak of the first cradle, or Basket, pattern on July 19th–20th, with Neptune and Pluto, and with Jupiter where asteroid Lilith is now. We are literally birthing this new paradigm, and it’s one of stewardship.
* 9:21pm: the Moon reaches 3° Aries and sextiles Pluto. That 3° mark has been huge. Pluto has now moved a minute, and the Sun and Venus are really close.
Then, late, late on her own day:
At 11:44pm, Venus and the Sun meet at 0° Scorpio.
This is the last Scorpio cazimi, or Venus Star Point, in our lifetimes. As the Star Points move through their 4- and 8-year cycles, they’ll all be in Libra after this. The next retrograde Star Point will be in Libra in 8 years’ time. This is a big deal.
Zero is the alpha and the omega. It’s the Fool card in the Tarot: new beginnings and taking a leap into the unknown. But it’s also potential, unlimited potential. It’s the divine source and the void from which everything emerges.
The symbols for 1° Scorpio (we always round up):
* Sabian symbol: A sightseeing bus. James Burgess says: “We move away from our beloved past, motivated by curiosity for greater experience.”
* Omega symbol: A person suspended in the air watches everything from a great height. We’re in observer mode right now, which ties into the curiosity of the sightseeing bus.
* Chandra symbol: A tunnel through a mountain. John Sandbach says: “This degree cares not how difficult something is, it will work to get where it’s going, no matter how much effort has to be put forth. It is very aware of all the obstructions and of everything that’s blocking its path, but it also knows that everything is attainable, and its desire is always to tunnel right through.”
I won’t go into the full readings. You can Google them if you like.
But I have to tell you: a friend gave me a lovely pair of socks for my last birthday that say “Whatever it is, I could probably do it.” I didn’t think of this when I put them on this morning. So there’s your mantra for this moment.
Saturday, October 24 — Mercury Stations Retrograde. A New Venus.
The Sun and Venus are starting to separate. About three and a half hours after the cazimi, at 3:12am, Mercury stations retrograde and joins Venus in retrograde. The Aries Moon is right in the mix, with a sextile to Uranus and a trine to asteroid Lilith. We’re really burning off the past here, but Mercury says: I’ve got to go and think about this, plan it, and strategize.
The Moon then meets Pallas Athena (more strategy) and Saturn (more clarity, but also more determination), because the Moon is heading toward full, so it’s full of energy. Then the Moon makes a fire trine to Mars in Leo: okay, I get it. We have to take more heart-aligned action.
At 9:01pm, Venus squares Juno, who has just changed signs. I can’t believe these aspects, honestly. Venus and the Sun have moved apart from their cazimi now. Venus is starting to be free of the Sun (not fully yet, of course, because she’s invisible to most of us at the moment). This is Venus saying: okay, I’ve seen this, and here’s what we have to change, Juno. We have to change how we interconnect with each other. We have to change these contracts.
If you’ve been following along with me, you’ll know this one: Venus sextiles Regulus. Venus was the first of the personal planets to cross the South Node and Regulus, and she did it at 0° Virgo, where Regulus will stay for a while, because a fixed star spends about 72 years at a degree. That was when we realized we are creating the age of stewardship: more humble, crafty, connected, more of a gardening energy, more stewardship of the earth. We are building this together. Now Venus is starting to see what she has to see and purge before we can move forward.
The last aspect of the week: the Moon meets Vesta, our sacred inner flame of devotion, focus, and commitment. What are you committed to building? You may not be fully clear yet. Venus and Mercury are both retrograde now. But you’re thinking about it.
So this is where we finish the week. The Sun and Venus are moving apart rapidly, 37’ apart by now, with the Sun heading one way and Venus the other. Mercury is retrograde. (Interestingly, in the DC chart, the Sun squares the Ascendant at the start of the day after the cazimi: the public face.)
We now have the new Venus. She still has to complete her retrograde, and then she’ll rise as Morning Star in the east, the light bringer. She’ll be in a different headspace after all of this, because she’s saying: okay, we’ve had the last cazimi in Scorpio in our lifetimes. Now it’s time for Libra. Balance, justice, harmony.
The Cards in Detail
Eight of Seeds (reversed)
This is the start of the week, as we approach the cazimi. It’s an energy of perfectionism, but also of everything is digging me so deep, and my backpack is so heavy. You might feel a bit disengaged, not very productive, weighed down. That’s just where we are at the start of such a deep week.
Queen Bee (reversed)
Remember I said there’d be a lot of emotion? This is overly emotional. I’m all in for being in touch with our emotions. But this week there might be a lot of letting our heart rule our head, a lot of poor me energy, that watery this is all horrible feeling. You might even feel a little cold-hearted toward the world, because it’s all just too much.
Because it is a lot.
The Sun
But then we finish the week with The Sun. I am radiant.
“The Sun is the symbol of the self. We’ve encountered challenges, but now are starting to enjoy the radiance of joy and vitality. Self-validation and the recognition of our achievements is now easier to acknowledge. Our hearts may fill with gratitude.”
And if you don’t feel it, do a gratitude list.
“We know that our hard work, dedication, and determination is bringing us closer to our truth. This is a golden time offering love, willpower, determination, and benevolence. Our inner light is shining with enlightenment, integration and wholeness. All is within our grasp.”
We are brilliant.
Spider Woman
Spider Woman, or Grandmother Spider, whichever you want to call her. I love her. She makes me think of Chariklo. She’s in the woods with spidery things around her, and she’s holding a little star. Or is it a spider? I think it’s a spider.
The card tells the old Native American story of Grandmother Spider:
“Once upon a time, a mighty hunter went searching for a symbol of hope and survival for his people.”
(Remember, that’s the power-over energy: hunting, control.)
“He embarks on a quest to find their sacred animal, wondering if elk or deer or buffalo might appear. Instead, he runs into a giant spiderweb, face-first, meeting Grandmother Spider.
‘Why have you interrupted me, Grandmother? You are not powerful like buffalo, or swift like deer. How am I to share you as a symbol of power?’
Grandmother Spider answers: ‘You who run over the plains and forests looking for a symbol, like the deer and buffalo who roam the meadows in search of sustenance, spending so much energy: how much more powerful am I, that I can build a net and let my food and my answers come to me? I have no travel, no big expenditure of energy. I simply build my silk net and let sustenance come to me.’
Now is the time to build your net. The answers, the resources, the solutions will come to you. A witch creates an intentional web. She lines it with silken hope, thoughtful preparation, and badass skills. Then she invites. She waits and watches. She trusts Grandmother Spider’s example and allows the answers to come to her.”
Take Grandmother Spider’s advice. Stop looking for answers out there.
Summing Up
It’s a deep, watery, intense week. Pluto has stationed direct and is still churning at 3°, with a fixed grand cross of Pluto, Haumea, asteroid Lilith, Venus, and Okyrhoe asking us to dig deep and say what we see. The First Quarter Moon calls for action. Venus squares Pluto. A water grand trine brings the feelings up. The Sun takes a last look at Chiron in Aries. Then, on Venus’s own day, the Sun enters Scorpio and meets Venus at 0° Scorpio, the last Scorpio Venus Star Point in our lifetimes: a sightseeing bus, a person watching from a great height, a tunnel through a mountain. Mercury stations retrograde a few hours later, and a new Venus is born.
The Eight of Seeds reversed says the backpack is heavy, and that’s okay. The Queen Bee reversed says the feelings may run the show for a bit. The Sun says you are radiant. And Spider Woman says: build your web, and let the answers come to you.
Whatever it is, you could probably do it.
— Louise
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WEEK AHEAD FORECAST: OCTOBER 4–10, 2026

Before We Dive In
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Female Rage: The Musical
The image I chose for this week is Taylor Swift from the final leg of the Eras Tour, after The Tortured Poets Department came out: the Female Rage: The Musical image. I’ll be using Taylor as a small example in the class.
I actually became a Swiftie thanks to Venus retrograde. During the summer of the Eras Tour, Venus was retrograde in Leo and I used her as an example then, along with Beyoncé and her Renaissance tour. That’s when I discovered Taylor Swift and I share a 21° Sagittarius Sun.
I chose that image because Venus retrograde in Scorpio feels very female rage, the musical. Venus is very much to do with music. And we’re already seeing it.
Take the outrage over the Cornell case. These are alleged rapes (I have to say that at the moment) that happened two years ago. Jane Doe, the woman at the centre of it all, has now filed charges. And of course online we’re seeing the usual: men asking what about women who hurt women, why didn’t she come forward two years ago, why didn’t she do this, blah, blah, blah.
The whole thing was dealt with by Cornell itself and swept under the rug. So if anything ever happens to you or one of yours on a college campus, do not go and report it to the college. Go straight to the police. That’s not to say it’s her fault for not doing that. You’d expect the college to support you. But oh no.
We’re seeing that rage start to erupt over how this woman has been treated, and over the other stories coming out right now. When Scorpio is involved, it’s often power games and sexual dynamics. The last time the Me Too movement really took off was when Jupiter was in Scorpio, because Scorpio is very much related to the sexual organs, the reproductive system, and power dynamics.
And remember, this is the last Venus Star Point in Scorpio in our lifetimes, the cazimi where the Sun and Venus meet in the middle of the retrograde. It’s at 0°, the alpha omega degree. So I think we’re going to see much more eruption.
Some people describe Venus in Scorpio as Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. I don’t think it’s that bad, really. We’re not all going to go and boil rabbits. But it does carry that you treated me badly and I’m going to get revenge energy.
The real way to work with Venus retrograde in Scorpio, or any Venus retrograde, is to go within and do the work inside, so that you’re more empowered from the root upwards and better able to take on the world.
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The Week at a Glance
* The Nodes finally leave 29° on Friday October 9th, where they’ve sat since the August 12th and August 28th eclipses.
* Venus is now retrograde, having stationed on October 3rd at 8°29’ Scorpio. Mercury catches up and meets her at 8° on Tuesday.
* Mars opposed Pluto on Saturday the 3rd, forming a fixed T-square with Haumea and Mercury, all around 3°. Lots of threes.
* The Pluto–Haumea square (the 10th of 13 this decade) is still close.
* Hekate stations direct at 23° Aquarius on Tuesday October 6th.
* Hygieia, goddess of preventative health, passes the South Node, enters Virgo, and meets Regulus.
* The Moon meets Jupiter at 20° Leo, the August 12th eclipse degree. A hot degree to keep watching.
* Asteroid Lilith enters Leo.
* The Libra New Moon is on Saturday October 10th at 17° Libra, squaring Ceres.
* Venus squares Mars at 7° the same day.
* Pluto is still out of bounds to the south. [Everything is feeling a bit beyond the norm.]
We’re in the waning, then balsamic, Moon all week, heading into the dark of the Moon. These may feel like quite dark times at first. But it’s all part of the journey inward.
The Cards — A First Glance
From the Red Seeds Tarot (Linda Hill, Etsy UK) and the Witch Oracle by Angie Sullins: Two of Vessels reversed, Ten of Vessels, The Star, and The Hive Queen.
Vessels are cups, and Scorpio is a water sign, so it figures. To be quite honest, these are pretty good, nice cards.
We’ve had the Hive Queen before. The Melissae were part of the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the mythic arcs I tell through the class. They were the hive priestesses, if you like.
More on all four at the end.
Day by Day
(Times are Eastern unless noted.)
Sunday, October 4 — Sun Opposes Saturn. The Great Mother Moon.
We start the week with the Nodes still at 29°, the anaretic degree, a liminal border crossing between the two signs. The South Node has been sitting on a certain leader’s Ascendant since the eclipses. Chiron has moved back into Aries before its final ingress into Taurus.
The Moon is in Cancer and pretty much conjunct Ceres, the Great Mother. (Hence the Roerich painting, The Great Mother. More on that later in the week.)
The Moon is out of bounds to the north, and Pluto is still out of bounds to the south. Pluto carries more of the collective out-of-bounds energy, but it feels like everything is out of bounds right now. There’s some erratic energy about.
The Cancer Moon’s first main aspect is a water trine, an unbroken flow, to Nessus, revealing the toxins and poisons we’re all releasing and letting go of. Then the Moon squares Vesta, our inner flame. Remember that everything in Aries is retrograde. We’re revisiting a lot about who we are in this new and changing paradigm, and the answer is always to slow down and look within.
The first big aspect of the day: the Libra Sun reaches 11° and opposes retrograde Saturn. This is a good, hard look at our self-limiting beliefs, whether that’s belief in ourselves or in our ability to act from a dynamic, driven attitude rather than a power-over one. That means not stomping on other people, and not letting people stomp on us either. The Sun in Libra wants balance, and the opposition to retrograde Saturn asks what lessons we’ve actually learned about those beliefs.
The Cancer Moon then squares Eris, the table flipper. We’re still flipping tables. The Cornell story is not going away, believe me. (Allegedly.)
Then the Moon opposes Juno, who has been looking at our contracts with each other, our institutions, and the structures we live under, and saying no, this is not working.
Then the Moon conjuncts asteroid Lilith, my talk-to-the-hand rebellious teenager (she looks like a hand, hence the name), and the rage builds. Black Moon Lilith is that wild, energetic rage. Asteroid Lilith says I was made equal, and I’m taking my rightful place. All of this is happening within and without.
The Moon squares Chiron, revisiting the wounded, toxic masculine energy of power-over and domination, and asking again: what have we learned, and what is the medicine for each of us?
Late in the evening, the Moon enters Leo (back in bounds now) and at 2° Leo trines Neptune in Aries. In a real you cannot make this up moment, Neptune is only 5 minutes of arc from the Aries Venus Star Point. So the Moon looks back at that and asks: what do we still need to burn off before we dive deep into this retrograde?
The Moon in Leo also feels the pull of Mars, who is still reeling from Saturday’s opposition to Pluto. Mars and Pluto are the traditional and modern rulers of Scorpio, and that opposition formed a fixed T-square to Haumea and Mercury. The question is: what action are we going to take to change this? If you have planets or points around 3° in your chart, pay attention to when threes show up.
Monday, October 5 — The Threes Light Up. Hygieia Meets the South Node.
Early on Monday, the Leo Moon reaches 3°. It opposes Pluto, squares Haumea (regeneration, rebirth), and then meets Mars. Those threes are being activated, pushing and forcing change. We have to really take action to shift this stuck system so it operates more in alignment with the needs of the whole of humanity and we can move forward into the future.
The Moon then makes a supportive sextile to Uranus: we need radical change. It squares Mercury and sextiles Sedna too. All these early degrees, up to about 6°, are being activated. It’s a big push for change. Things are getting very deep and very emotional. The opposition to Pluto is about facing the shadow and bringing things out of it. If you have planets around 3°, 4°, or 5°, a whole lot is going on within you.
The Moon then squares Venus, still at her station degree of 8° Scorpio, where she sits for a few days. We’re looking at our values and our relationships, but also our creative energy and social mores. I think you’ll hear many more people talking about their own experiences of sexual assault, so look for the trigger warnings. You’re going to hear a lot of it.
It’s also revealing a lot of deep, dark creativity. Back to Taylor: her video for Patient Zero (hilarious, since the Venus Star Point is at zero Scorpio) is a deep, dark, gothic, psychological dive into some very murky areas. There are graveyards. It’s all very Scorpionic. You can’t make astrology up sometimes.
At 11:08am, Hygieia conjuncts the South Node at that anaretic 29° degree. Apart from the Moon, she’s the last body to pass the South Node while the Nodes sit at 29°. She joins the Sun, Mercury, and Venus on the other side, moving toward the North Node and creating the future. (Venus is heading back toward the South Node now, but she never makes it back that far.)
Hygieia is the goddess of health and hygiene, and of preventative health particularly. Her father was Asclepius, god of medicine, and she’s often shown with a snake. She worked with her father until the Delphic Oracle recognized her. There isn’t much written about her, to be quite honest, but she was a significant goddess when sickness prevailed. She was also said to work with Pallas Athena to look after the health of the workers building the Parthenon, Athena’s temple. She’s a goddess to call on when things are very stressful, to step into a real holistic health strategy.
Still on the 5th, the Leo Moon trines Saturn and sextiles the Sun, activating yesterday’s opposition. This is looking into the dark hearts of leaders, kings, and oligarchs. It’s very shadow-Leo energy, and it’s bringing them out of the shadows. We’re really starting to see this stuff. (The Musk documentary is also coming out soon. I can’t remember the date, but people are starting to talk about it. I might even go and see it.)
The Moon trines Pallas Athena: wise justice, the cold eye of justice, seeing the pieces and putting them together.
And Hygieia trines Chiron, an unbroken flow to the medicine. Before she moves into Virgo, she’s talking to Chiron and saying here’s what we can do to move back into holistic health.
Tuesday, October 6 — Hekate Stations Direct. Moon Meets Jupiter on the Eclipse Degree. Mercury Meets Venus.
At 12:03am, my favourite asteroid, Hekate, stations direct at 23° Aquarius. She had dipped into Pisces, then travelled all the way back into Aquarius, almost but not quite meeting Chariklo. Now she starts her journey forward, slowly.
Hekate is connected to the Demeter, Persephone, and Hades myth in so many ways, and I’ll be going into that in great detail in the Venus class. She held her torch up and helped Demeter find Persephone, and later helped create that reunification. She’s the goddess of the crossroads. She holds the keys to the upper, middle, and lower worlds. She’s a triple moon goddess, and she was friends with Cerberus, the dog who guarded the gates of the underworld. She’s supposedly a dark goddess. I think she’s absolutely amazing, because she helps us find our way at the crossroads when we’re in the dark and don’t know which way to go.
Black Moon Lilith reaches the end of Sagittarius. She’s been bobbling back and forth, and she forms a fire grand trine with the South Node and Hygieia in Leo and Chiron in Aries, all at 29°. It’s time for female rage, the musical, to bring the healing and say no, we’re not doing this anymore. (I’ve seen men get their guts torn out online for telling women what they should believe about the Cornell case. Go and sort the other guys out, please. Stop the rapists.)
At 6:22am, the Leo Moon meets Jupiter at 20° Leo. That’s a hot degree. It was the degree of the August 12th total solar eclipse, and it’s going to get activated again and again. Next year Mars goes retrograde and stations direct at that degree. Jupiter and the South Node meet there. Keep an eye on 20° Leo: every time it’s activated, something that started at the August eclipse moves forward. This is the first big activation, and Jupiter expands everything.
Jupiter doesn’t station retrograde until December 13th of this year. He’ll reach 27° Leo and meet the South Node once, then go retrograde all the way back to 16° Leo, meeting the South Node three times in all. We’ll look at each one as we go. To me this is the fall of kings. Justice is coming. Leaders are falling and our heart centres are expanding as we realize we need more heartful leadership, or whatever you want to call it.
After that, the Leo Moon trines Vesta, then opposes Chariklo and opposes Hekate (still stationing), saying: okay, I get you now. We’re writing this new story from the heart. It’s seeing with the eye of the heart, the nous, as in the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. All of this is connected to the Venus retrograde. It’s quite astounding.
Meanwhile asteroid Lilith squares Chiron from the very last, anaretic degree of Cancer, just before she joins the party in Leo. The talk-to-the-hand Lilith is catching up with the bad boys (not in gender terms): the energy of arrogance and might-is-right. It’s as if she’s saying: you mop up that medicine, I’m taking it from here.
The Moon trines Eris, the table turner, as the Sun opposes Pallas Athena at 13°, the number of the witch. The Libra Sun says it’s time to shine a light on justice, balance, and harmony. Libra is a Venusian sign, and Venus is opposing her other sign, Taurus, and saying: come on, Pallas, you’ve been thinking about this. We need a strategy. Go full-on hex on the patriarchy. Female rage, the musical. Whatever you want to call it.
Then another big one: Mercury reaches 8° Scorpio and meets Venus, still at her station degree. Mercury is heading forward and will station retrograde himself on October 24th at 20° Scorpio, so he has a way to go yet. But the two station direct on the same day, November 13th. I think it’s significant that heart and mind meet at this 8° mark before the messenger, the trickster, does his own review. This is a heart-mind deep dive into what we need to say and speak about, and what more we need to learn to step into our own power and stop what’s happening in the world.
This is such an intense period. If you do the inner work with it, you’ll be just fine. But you might need support.
The Moon then meets the South Node and Hygieia, both still at 29°. So intense. The Moon passes the South Node, the drain, releasing and releasing anything that doesn’t move us toward this preventative, holistic health energy.
At 10:52pm, the Moon enters Virgo and approaches Regulus, which moved into Virgo at the end of 2011. Remember: this is the beginning of the age of guardianship and stewardship. And we are really heading toward the new moon now.
Wednesday, October 7 — Mars Sextile Uranus. Aha Moments.
Bless our specs, it’s a day of anniversaries. It’s my mother-in-law’s wedding anniversary, and it’s the anniversary of the day my husband and I started dating, 32 years ago. Whoop.
The Virgo Moon squares Sedna: adapt your thinking or, basically, die. Then it sextiles Haumea: we’re getting more ready to birth this new paradigm. As the Moon heads into its no-moon phase (not quite there yet), it speaks to these heavy hitters and says: okay, now I have to go in and see what seeds I’m planting on this new moon to be the change I want to see in the world.
Mars, trotting along, makes an aspect of opportunity, fire to air, a sextile to Uranus at 5°. Five is the number of change and of the media. Mars and Uranus bring aha moments about what’s being brought up by Mars’s opposition to Pluto and square to Haumea: what’s coming out of the shadows so we can transform it. The question is what action we’re taking to change perspectives and bring radical change. I’m calling it a good, peaceful revolution. A revolution of ideas, let’s call it that.
Right after Mars sextiles Uranus, the Moon squares Uranus, both from Mercury’s signs. Our emotions get in the way too. This says we have to get really resilient, strong, and tough, and do whatever we can preventative-health-wise so we can be the change we want to see. But remember, everything here has moved past the drain toward the creative.
The Virgo Moon then sextiles Venus and sextiles Mercury, which are still together. Mercury is Virgo’s guide, asking what we need to do to create a more meaningful stewardship role in the world and play our part in it. I think it’s really significant that the Moon is in Virgo at 0°, because the Venus Star Point will be at 0° Scorpio, a lovely sextile, sculpting the new.
Then the Moon trines Pholus, and the lid comes off Pandora’s box.
Thursday, October 8 — Hygieia Enters Virgo and Meets Regulus. Asteroid Lilith Enters Leo. Jupiter Trine Vesta.
We don’t have many early aspects. Then at 5:44am, Hygieia moves into Virgo and heads toward Regulus. How can we purge and cleanse to make a more meaningful world? What can we get rid of, physically: habits as well as stuff? How can we live a more holistic life, as better stewards of the earth and of each other? A big deal.
At the same time, the Virgo Moon sextiles Ceres in Cancer, the Great Mother’s sign. Hence the picture I’ve been using: The Great Mother by Nicholas Roerich. (Look it up: R-O-E-R-I-C-H.) With the veil and everything around her, to me she’s stepping into that Hermit mode of going within as Venus dives deeper into her retrograde. It’s really about stepping into inner power.
Mercury aspects Pholus, so we see more of the crap coming out in the world. Black Moon Lilith is right there too. Apparently there were 57 boys on that frat Snapchat thing. Maybe some of them didn’t see the chat at the time, who knows. But they didn’t do anything about it. It’s the same old story of men letting men do things, excusing them, and not wanting to ruin their lives. Feminist here, but.
We’re getting a lot of sign changes. Asteroid Lilith enters Leo. I told you she was getting in there. Now she’s puffed up and saying I’m going to speak from the heart, and I’m going to take my rightful place on the throne here, next to you.
At 8:29pm, Hygieia meets Regulus. Another big deal.
The last major aspect of the day comes very late on Thursday night, Eastern time: Jupiter, having moved just past the eclipse degree to 21°00’ Leo, trines Vesta. Vesta is your inner flame, but she’s also focus, commitment, and devotion. So this trine asks: what are you focused on? What are you devoted to? What are you committed to creating? And what do you need to burn off that’s stopping you?
Friday, October 9 — Venus Day. The Nodes Leave 29°. A Fire and Air Kite.
It’s Venus’s day, and Venus has now moved off her station degree and is heading backwards. Nearby, at 7°, is Okyrhoe, the prophetess who was punished for saying what she foresaw. We’ll be looking at her in great detail in the class too.
The Moon finishes in Virgo and enters Libra at 4:10am, immediately aspecting asteroid Lilith, who’s still on the other side of the South Node.
At 8:55am, the Nodes finally leave the 29th degree. Because the Nodes move backwards, they reach the very start of 29° before moving off. This is another number of big change.
At the same time, the Moon opposes Neptune, which is now only 2 minutes from the last Venus Star Point in Aries. What has changed since that Venus Star Point, when Venus became the Morning Star? Have we moved more into the Divine Feminine? It doesn’t always feel like it, but I do notice a shift in people rising up.
As the Moon opposes Neptune, it also makes an air grand trine with Pluto and Sedna, which forms a big fire-and-air kite. It’s right in the dark of the Moon, and it asks what we’re burning off to create this new paradigm as we move into it.
We finish Friday with the Moon opposing Saturn. A bit more of a reality check.
Saturday, October 10 — The Libra New Moon. Venus Square Mars.
A really big day.
At 3:17am, the Moon opposes Pallas Athena in Aries, staring down the barrels. Black Moon Lilith is at 12° too, so it’s 12, 12, 12. We’re in the no-moon phase, planting seeds of intention. Time to sing female rage, the musical.
The New Moon itself is at 11:50am at 17° Libra. I’ve already done a separate new moon video, so I won’t focus on it here. But it’s squared off by Ceres, and in the Moon’s own sign it’s time for the Mother and the Great Mother to rise (or the 13 grandmothers, whatever you want to call them) and birth a more matrifocal society. That just means creative-centred, heart-centred, mother-centred, family-centred, instead of this hierarchical stomp-everything-down energy. We’re definitely shifting into that.
Venus Square Mars: A Longer Look
At 5:31pm, Venus, back at 7° Scorpio, squares Mars at 7° Leo. The divine feminine and the divine masculine square off, and I want to spend some time on this cycle, because it’s so important:
* January 7, 2026: Venus and Mars began this cycle together at 18° Capricorn, back when everything was piling up and moving toward the South Node, and the Nodes were still in Virgo and Pisces. Look how things have changed since then.
* July 29, 2026: The first square. Mars was at 21° Gemini, and Venus was leading the way (she’s faster) at 21° Virgo, opposing Nessus and making a mutable grand cross with Black Moon Lilith. All this rage has been building since. No, this cannot hold. We have to have change. People’s perspectives have been changing. We see it in the polls, if you just want to talk electoral politics. People are realizing this isn’t working. It isn’t serving the people.
* October 10, 2026 (this week): They square again. Venus is retrograde now, and they’ve moved into fixed signs. We’re going to make things manifest.
* January 16, 2027: Venus has gone direct and is moving fast. At 10° Sagittarius, looking to the future and shooting her arrows, she squares Mars. Mars has gone down the drain, moved forward into Virgo, and stationed retrograde on January 10th at 10° Virgo. He never gets back to the South Node again, I believe. From there Mars goes all the way back to 20° Leo, the eclipse degree. Over and over and over. But ten is a new start. Venus is moving ahead, saying go on, finish finding more meaningful ways of action, will, and drive, because we’re heading toward the future.
* March 19, 2027: The opposition, the full moon of this cycle. Mars at 21° Leo with the South Node opposes Venus at 21° Aquarius. That’s the same 21° as before, in different signs: two and one, feminine and masculine. Mars almost makes it back to the South Node but is slowing to station direct. He’s revisiting the drain to release something else, I think.
* June 23, 2027: The closing square. Venus is catching up at 17° Gemini, Mars is still in Virgo with Hygieia, and Jupiter and Ceres have just passed the drain. These are mutable signs, saying change, change, change.
* November 24, 2027: The new cycle begins at the very last degree of Sagittarius, conjunct the Galactic Centre. Change is coming, big change toward the future, and they’re heading toward the North Node together. That conjunction at the anaretic degree is wild.
By the end of 2027 the world is going to look very different. The South Node is about to leave Leo after taking down a lot of leaders. Jupiter has hit Virgo. Pallas Athena has gone all the way around. Mercury has gone right round and is back in Scorpio. Chiron is well back in Taurus, retrograde, but doesn’t leave Taurus again. Everything has shifted.
And a bit further ahead, because sometimes people get really discouraged: right before the December 2027 solstice (winter in the north, summer in the south), Venus meets the North Node at 2° Aquarius, leaving Mars behind in Capricorn, hovering around the degree of their last conjunction. The Sun stands still at 0° Capricorn, the World Point. The mini grand trine (Barbault’s Basket) of Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto is beginning to break apart. It gets close again toward the end of next year, but then Uranus moves direct and on. Pluto will still dip out of bounds for a few months at the end of each year until 2035. But by the time Venus crosses the North Node, and then Mars in January 2028, still at 2°, with Venus by then at the end of Aquarius, everything is changing.
I could keep going on and on. But we finish this week with a bit of a whopper: Venus retrograde in Mars’s sign of Scorpio, cutting right into those who have lorded it over others, with Mars in Leo. She’s digging in deep, being a bit of a psychic detective into the secrets, toxins, and poisons of the patriarchy’s power dynamics.
The Cards in Detail
Two of Vessels (reversed)
This is really the start of the week. Venus has just stationed retrograde and we’re at a standstill. We may be feeling a lack of connection and a lack of balance, or like we’re breaking up with something. There could even be a breakup, because this is a two. But it’s also about decisions, and about inner turmoil. I don’t feel this connection with the parts of myself. Discombobulated, let’s say.
Ten of Vessels
This is I Am Love.
“Deep gratitude pools within our hearts as we swim in the waters of spiritual and emotional fulfilment. Divine love fills our soul and radiates out to all we meet. Our journey of awe, despair and challenge is revealing so much about our true self. Only when we are able to love and connect to our true self can we fully offer love to others. Joy, peace, acceptance, and contentment herald our homecoming. We have completed a cycle and we celebrate. Life takes us to unexpected places. Love brings us home. All we need is love.”
But I’m going to say: all we need is love for ourselves. It’s a good week to look inside and ask: what am I grateful for, for myself, within myself?
The Star
The Star is the Aquarius card. This is I Am Blessed.
“When you find the beginning of the way, the star of your soul will show its light.” — Mabel Collins
By October 11th, Venus will have been retrograde for over a week. This one is a 41-day journey, about seven weeks. By the start of next week she’ll have moved back to 7°, we’ll have just had this Venusian new moon, and we’ll be setting the seeds.
So this is a really good card telling you to go out and bathe in the starlight, especially with Venus square Mars. Astral alchemical waters are a blessing. When we lose faith in ourselves, we must remember to follow our star. Get out and look for Venus. She’s still visible in the evening sky to the west.
The Hive Queen
Here’s Melissa. I won’t read the whole thing, since we know what the queen does in a hive. But:
“The Hive Queen forgives others as well, understanding that holding onto injustice, no matter how righteous, is like swallowing poison expecting the other person to die.”
That’s about holding onto it within yourself, which is different from accountability.
“She knows in her very veins that sometimes she must forgive when it’s not sought out, when the other is not sorry and in their ignorance or intolerance is blind to her pain. When forgiveness is requested by another, she honours herself by acknowledging that accountability and forgiveness are sisters, only thriving when paired. Every relationship that suffers an infraction needs accountability in order to move forward.”
This includes your relationship with yourself, and every place you beat yourself up for having done whatever.
“If there is no accountability, there can be forgiveness, but no ongoing relationship. These are your boundaries, both tender and fierce, engaged to keep the hive of your heart whole, a welcoming place for the bees to sing their songs, making melody and honey, where once there was only sorrow.”
On this deep journey within, you’ll probably find the shadows and go: I did this wrong, I did that wrong, this is bad about me. Where you can take accountability for things you did, do that. Say yes, I did that wrong, I’m sorry, even if you only apologize to yourself, because usually we’ve hurt ourselves. And then forgive yourself. When we know better, we do better, to quote the amazing Maya Angelou.
Summing Up
The Nodes finally leave the eclipse degree. Venus is retrograde in Scorpio, and Mercury meets her at 8° on the way through. Hekate stations direct with her torch at the crossroads. Hygieia crosses the drain, enters Virgo, and meets Regulus, asking what we need to purge and cleanse to live as better stewards. The Moon lights up 20° Leo, the eclipse degree, alongside Jupiter. And the week closes with a Libra New Moon squaring the Great Mother and Venus squaring Mars, one chapter of a cycle that runs all the way to the end of 2027.
The Two of Vessels reversed says it’s okay to feel discombobulated. The Ten of Vessels says all we need is love, for ourselves first. The Star says follow your star. And the Hive Queen says accountability and forgiveness are sisters, including with yourself.
[Female rage, the musical, is playing. Your job is the inner work that lets you sing from the root upwards.]
Peace out. Venus is the peace sign.
— Louise
Venus Retrograde: Heroine’s Journey. louiseedington.com/VenusRetrograde2026
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