ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER | OCTOBER 19–26
We begin the week under the intensity of MERCURY CONJUNCT MARS IN SCORPIO — a union that speaks in pulses and revelations. A conjunction is never just two energies meeting; it’s an alchemy, a merging that forges something wholly new. With MERCURY, our voice, and MARS, our drive, blending in the depths of SCORPIO, the veil between thought and instinct thins. Words carry weight, truth cuts sharper, and intuition hums like static before a storm. This isn’t a week for small talk. It’s a week for speaking from the marrow. For knowing that when you do, something begins to transform — in you, in your relationships, in the unseen architecture of your life.
On OCTOBER 21, the MOON IN LIBRA is NEW — delicate, balanced, and utterly potent. New Moons always mark beginnings, but in LIBRA, the sign of relationship, beauty, and harmony, we are invited to meet life with softer eyes. What does it mean to find peace not by avoiding discomfort, but by listening more closely to it? Emotional patterns in relationships — to others, to ourselves — are highlighted now. There’s renewal in the air, a chance to write new vows in how we give and receive love, not from egoic need or wounded pride, but from equilibrium, from grace.
OCTOBER 22, is a threshold day in every sense. NEPTUNE RETROGRADE REENTERS PISCES, and THE SUN ENTERS SCORPIO. I dare you not to feel it. Neptune — dream-weaver, mystic, illusionist — has been retrograde since July, spending time at the cusp of ARIES, offering a fleeting glimpse of a future not yet fully born. Now it drifts back into its home waters of PISCES, reminding us that before the new can arise, we must surrender to the currents of the old. There’s no tying up loose ends here — only letting go. Floating. Trusting that what dissolves does so because it no longer fits the shape of who you’re becoming. Lose your illusions or succumb to them when NEPTUNE returns to ARIES in January next year.
As NEPTUNE returns to PISCES, the SUN strides forward into SCORPIO, illuminating the sea depths once more. The season ahead will be one of emotional truth, inner renewal, and radical honesty. Where LIBRA sought harmony, SCORPIO seeks wholeness — even if it means burning through what’s false to get there. This week is the tide pulling in and out at once — a cleansing that makes space for intensity, intimacy, and transformation.
We’re not in the light and we’re not in the dark. We’re in the shimmer between — where things dissolve so that they might be reborn.
TAROT OF THE WEEK | THE HANGED ONE
The energy of the week is suspended between worlds — not in punishment, but in initiation. The HANGED ONE teaches us that surrender isn’t giving up, it’s giving over — to trust, to timing, to transformation that happens just beyond our control.
As NEPTUNE drifts back into PISCES and the SUN crosses into SCORPIO, we’re reminded that sometimes the only way to move forward is to loosen our grip. We are asked to pause, to let the old viewpoint dissolve, and to allow a new perspective — quiet, compassionate, and brave — to emerge.
The HANGED ONE is the bridge between what we once believed to be true and what we are about to understand. You can’t force what’s becoming. You can only witness it with grace.
Be in the liminal. It’s here where the light enters.
SUN | MOON | RISING
Read through your SUN | MOON | RISING to know where this week’s energy unfolds in your chart. Take what resonates, leave the rest.
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ARIES
This week brings truth like a spark through water — bright, clarifying, a little uncomfortable in its honesty. The air around you hums with the power of renewal. Conversations, choices, or realisations may ask you to face what you’ve avoided, not to punish but to liberate. There is strength now in your vulnerability, the courage to name what you need, to release what you’ve outgrown. The heart is ready for a new depth of connection — not control, but communion. Let your fire burn inward for a moment and you’ll see how much light it gives.
TAURUS
This week the mirror is wider. Relationships, collaborations, and even quiet exchanges reflect back to you who you are becoming. There’s beauty here, but also truth — the kind that softens the edges of your certainty. VENUS in LIBRA invites harmony, but not at the expense of self-respect. The NEW MOON reminds you that balance is dynamic — sometimes the most loving act is to step back, breathe, and trust space to do its work. You are learning how to keep your peace without closing your heart.
GEMINI
You are being called back into rhythm — body, mind, and craft in alignment. This week, words and work take on new depth. The MERCURY–MARS conjunction sharpens your focus, revealing what drains your energy and what truly nourishes it. Small, precise changes ripple wide. There’s a sensual satisfaction in tending to your routines now, refining them not as chores but as rituals of devotion. What you do with presence becomes sacred — the morning cup, the list rewritten, the moment of pause between thoughts.
CANCER
This week feels like a return to your creative pulse — that deep hum of imagination and heart that reminds you who you are when you’re not tending to everyone else. The NEW MOON and VENUS in LIBRA are guiding you home through softness, through the beauty you build when you let yourself play again. But there’s also a quiet ache — a recognition that what moves you most deeply always carries a trace of vulnerability. Don’t shy from it. Let tenderness be the brushstroke that paints your joy back into focus.
LEO
The atmosphere shifts this week, pulling you closer to your roots, your sanctuary, your sense of belonging. As the SUN moves into SCORPIO, your outer radiance turns inward. You may feel called to nurture the spaces that hold you — to light candles at home, to clear the air, to rest in what is real. The MERCURY–MARS conjunction deepens your conversations with family or chosen kin — honesty, even when raw, can heal more than silence. What grounds you now will fuel your next creative fire.
VIRGO
The week holds a kind of quiet brilliance for you. Words, ideas, and subtle insights arrive with clarity — MERCURY, your ruling planet, meets MARS, lending courage to your voice. The trick is to let honesty flow from compassion, not precision. Say what you mean, but let love soften the edges. The NEW MOON still lingers, reminding you that peace is built in small, intentional steps — the gentle realignment of boundaries, the kindness of letting go of an old worry. You are allowed to breathe differently now.
LIBRA
The week opens like a mirror, reflecting all you’ve become since your last birthday season began. The NEW MOON in your sign brings a clean slate — a breath between chapters, a pause to remember your essence. With VENUS, your ruler, also here, everything becomes devotional: the morning light on skin, the softness of connection, the balance you long to live in. Yet NEPTUNE’s shift and MERCURY–MARS in SCORPIO remind you — harmony is earned through depth, not denial. You are being invited to know yourself beyond reflection, to root beauty in truth.
SCORPIO
You can feel the change approaching, can’t you? The edge of something new forming just beyond the surface of your skin. The SUN crosses into your sign this week, and with it comes recognition: the truth of what has ended, and the power of what wants to begin. The MERCURY–MARS conjunction gives you words that cut to the essence, while NEPTUNE’s return to PISCES softens the sharpness with imagination. You are both surgeon and poet now — slicing through illusion, stitching dreams to flesh. Let this rebirth come gently, like breath finding its rhythm again.
SAGITTARIUS
This week brings a hush before the next adventure. The NEW MOON asks you to vision, to listen for the whispers of what’s ready to unfold. But before you leap, there’s something tender here — a friendship, a connection, a community thread that needs tending. With VENUS in LIBRA, love becomes the glue in every collaboration. The SUN entering SCORPIO reminds you that your greatest wisdom often rises from the quiet depths, not the mountaintop. Rest your bow for a moment. The arrow will fly truer when your heart is still.
CAPRICORN
Something about this week feels like standing at the threshold of recognition — the sense that all you’ve quietly built is beginning to shimmer into form. The SUN moves into SCORPIO, illuminating the shared vision, the wider work, the people who walk beside you. The MERCURY–MARS conjunction activates your voice in these spaces — say the thing you’ve been circling. Be brave enough to name your dream aloud. VENUS in LIBRA softens your drive, reminding you that grace is a power all its own. Every foundation you lay in love and integrity will hold.
AQUARIUS
The week calls you higher — not in ambition, but in perspective. The SUN in SCORPIO shines on your public life, your offerings, the ways you’re seen. But with NEPTUNE drifting back into PISCES, visibility must come with compassion — for yourself, and for the stories of others. You may feel a desire to recalibrate purpose: not what you do, but why you do it. MERCURY and MARS in SCORPIO bring intensity; channel it into clarity. It’s time to refine your message, to let your truth be both brilliant and kind.
PISCES
As NEPTUNE, your ancient ruler, glides back into your sign, there’s a feeling of homecoming — like slipping back into the dream after being too long awake. But this time, you return wiser. The NEW MOON in LIBRA still echoes, asking for balance between surrender and discernment. Let this be your mantra: flow, but with awareness. The SUN’s move into SCORPIO deepens your faith in unseen processes — transformation that unfolds in whispers. Trust that what’s dissolving now is clearing the way for something exquisite to take shape.
RITUAL FOR SCORPIO SEASON
Surrender.
As we cross into Scorpio Season, the waters deepen. We are invited to move below the surface of things — to see not only what glimmers, but what shimmers beneath. This isn’t about intensity for its own sake; it’s about intimacy with truth. With what we really feel. With what we’ve been brave enough to name and what still waits, tenderly, to be revealed.
Our CHAKRA BALANCING SPRAY is perfect here — a misted prayer of alignment. Each note within it is a vibrational offering: grounding from the root, softening at the heart, opening through the crown. Its scent is both anchor and release — the reminder that balance is not stillness, but flow.
For the whole of Scorpio Season, try this:
Evening Cleansing Ritual — After your day, before bed, dim the lights. Light a candle. Place it before you as a small, shimmering reflection.
Mist the CHAKRA BALANCING above your head and around your body, letting the mist settle like soft rain. Close your eyes and inhale deeply.
See the candle with a soft gaze. Let the flame carry away the residue of the day — the thoughts, the old emotions, the small armours we wear. Speak softly: I am not holding. I am held.
Journal, imagine, or simply sit. The candle, the scent, and the breath together weave a spell of equilibrium.
Do this whenever the world feels oversharp, or when everything feels too much. This is how we work with Scorpio — not by conquering the dark, but by letting it teach us how to see in the halflight.
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