An intense Scorpio New Moon, made even more powerful by a tight Uranus opposition, highlights the second half of October. We also have Mercury turning retrograde on Halloween, as well as a mix of harmonious and challenging aspect patterns.
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10/19 (Sat)
Grand Trine Peaks: Venus-Neptune-North Node
This is the second of four Grand Trines featuring Neptune and the North Node.
Let’s start by interpreting the trine between Neptune and the North Node. This could represent following your intuition so that you can easily stay aligned with your soul purpose. With the North Node in Cancer, this harmonious aspect could also smooth the way for unconditional love and compassion. And here’s a third possibility: inspired creativity that warms people’s hearts.
So what happens when we add Venus? Relationship comes front and center. This includes all the important ones: lover, spouse, friend, family, business associate … even open enemy.
Does a relationship align with your soul purpose? You’ll experience more harmonious interactions, and possibly a deeper soul connection. If not, you may find the connection between you dissolving.
Venus represents human creativity, while Neptune flows in divinely inspired creativity. With their trine connecting them easily and harmoniously, you may have more creative inspiration than you know what to do with! Create what you can, and capture the rest of the ideas for later development.
Venus is in Scorpio. For relationships, this supports a passionate or transformative connection, and soul-blended sex when appropriate. For creativity, it encourages you to throw off your inhibitions! Express what your Muse gives you, exactly as it shows up. You can keep this initial explosion of expression private if you wish.
This Venus-Neptune-North Node Grand Trine started on 10/14, peaks today (10/19) and ends on 10/25.
10/23 (Wed)
T-square Peaks: Mars-Saturn-Lunar Nodes
This is the fourth and final T-square featuring Saturn, the lunar nodes, and a personal planet. The previous three started in September, and had the Sun, Mercury and Venus holding down the personal planet corner. If the broader meaning of these T squares isn’t fresh in your mind, please read about it now in my 9/16 forecast.
Whether delivering challenge or opportunity, these T-squares have been intense. But we now have the most powerful of them all as Mars comes into the focal position.
“Just do it!” could be a Mars slogan. Do you have some structures that need to be revised or released? Some healing work ripe for processing? Mars can kick it off. Is it time to launch into some focused activity that aligns with your life purpose? Mars can initiate that too.
You could also experience similar extremes in the areas of athletics, sexuality, or fighting for a worthy cause. And because Mars is in Libra, the persistent themes of these T-squares — relationship and creativity — can be potently energized.
That’s a lot of possibilities! But as always with astrology, energy follows attention. If you want these planets to be your helpful partners, make a definitive choice about how you want this T-square to manifest. It started on 10/9, peaks today (10/24) and ends on 11/4. Pluto joined the party on 10/20 and stays until this aspect pattern ends.
The Sun enters Scorpio at 1:20 p.m. EDT. This radiates the energy of transformation, wealth and power. It’s a great time to do shadow work to deal with your emotional wounds, be unflinchingly honest, and merge into the ecstasy of sacred sex. Scorpio also rules occult practices like astrology, numerology, tarot, mediumship, and psychic work — anything that goes behind the veil.
Scorpio rules shared energy. How are you choosing to blend your energetic or physical resources with other people, institutions, or entities?
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10/25 (Fri)
The asteroid goddess Ceres has two distinct meanings. Both could be accentuated by a Jupiter-Ceres conjunction (22°10′ Sagittarius).
Ceres, also known as Demeter, is the grain goddess. She can represent abundance because of her association with the harvest. Since Jupiter can represent luck and expansion, this can obviously be a wonderful combination!
The other side of Ceres is sorrow and loss. She mourned inconsolably when her daughter Persephone was abducted to the underworld by Pluto. Since Jupiter expands whatever he touches, this can also be an invitation to dive in and heal your old emotional wounds. The good news is that doing this essential shadow work opens a stronger flow of divine energy … which can bring you full circle back to more abundance!
10/26 (Sat)
Mystic Rectangle Begins
To fully align with your life purpose, you must embody your unique, one-of-a-kind self. You’re encouraged to do this by a Mystic Rectangle that starts today, peaks on 10/31 and ends on 11/7. It includes the Sun, Uranus and the lunar nodes.
The Sun represents the core of your identity. It’s in Scorpio, the sign of no-holds-barred transformation.
The Sun opposes Uranus, the planet that wants you to “fly your freak flag”. Uranus will also send you intuitive flashes to let you know what type of transformation is best right now.
The lunar nodes, known as the “axis of destiny”, represent life purpose. They connect to the Sun and Uranus by harmonious aspects. This makes it easier to align with your life purpose … if you have the courage to follow your intuitive flashes! These “text messages from God” are the most reliable guidance available to a human … but they sometimes ask us to stretch far out of our comfort zones!
10/27 (Sun)
Scorpio New Moon
October’s New Moon lines up at 11:38 pm EDT. Any Scorpio New Moon is great for new beginnings or revitalization in numerous areas. These include transformation, occult practices, and sacred sexuality, as well as enhanced wealth and power.
Aspects
A very tight opposition from Uranus supercharges all of these Scorpio opportunities. It also reinforces the opportunities described in yesterday’s Mystic Rectangle interpretation. Specifically, Uranus intensifies intuitive flashes, and encourages personal transformation that aligns you more fully with your authentic self.
A quincunx from Chiron can trigger the healing you need to accomplish all of this. Chiron is the wounded healer, and will arrange an appropriately challenging catalyst when it’s time for you to release an old emotional trauma. Thousands have found my free Healing Invocation to be a quick and easy way to do this.
Sabian Symbol
This Full Moon’s Sabian Symbol is, “A massive, unchanging rocky shore resists the pounding of the sea.” Let the shore represent your unyielding determination to evolve into the unique human self your soul sent you here to be … no matter how much the waves of other people’s opinions pound you!
A Mars-Saturn square (15°8′ Libra-Capricorn), in orb through 11/13, can feel like “driving with the brakes on”. If you encounter slowdowns or roadblocks, consider whether you’re doing the right thing at the right time.
Sometimes obstacles are there to show you that you’re moving in the wrong direction. At other times, they test how serious you are about the goal you’re pursuing. If you’re not sure which is the case, ask Saturn’s “wise elder” energy to guide you.
Saturn respects sweat equity, and a lot may be needed to move ahead during this time. Once you put in enough effort, this square can empower you to forge ahead with grace, wisdom and persistence.
10/29 (Tue)
Grand Trine Begins: Sun-Neptune-North Node
This is the third of four Grand Trines featuring Neptune and the North Node.
Let’s start by interpreting the trine between Neptune and the North Node. This could represent following your intuition so that you can easily stay aligned with your soul purpose. With the North Node in Cancer, this harmonious aspect could also smooth the way for unconditional love and compassion. And here’s a third possibility: inspired creativity that warms people’s hearts.
Now let’s add the Scorpio Sun. It forms a Sun-Neptune-North Node Grand Trine that starts today (10/29), peaks on 11/5 and ends on 11/12.
In addition to the Neptune-North Node themes already mentioned, this Grand Trine could support a smooth, powerful beginning or deepening of your spiritual awakening. It could also support you shining out into the world as an agent of transformation, with the flowing support of your inner guidance and spiritual essence. Conversely, you might be inspired to retreat inward, focusing on internal healing and spiritual processes to better align with your soul purpose.
10/30 (Wed)
Kite Begins: Sun-Saturn-Neptune-Lunar Nodes
This Kite is formed by adding Saturn and the South Node to the Sun-Neptune-North Node Grand Trine that started yesterday on 10/29.
For starters, Saturn adds smooth foundational support to everything described in that Grand Trine interpretation. The South Node can help you bring forth talents developed in past lives, or made available through your genetic heritage.
in addition, Saturn and Neptune can team up to support you in two life-affirming ways. The first is embodied awakening. (Here’s an amazingly easy way to move into this state of “walking between the worlds”.) The second is Law Of Attraction. It’s so much easier for the universe to support you when you tell it exactly what you want!
Even in a harmonious aspect pattern like this Kite, the Saturn-South Node conjunction can stir up old emotional wounds. Fortunately, the Scorpio Sun is ideal for the sort of shadow work. And this flowing aspect pattern will make it is easier than usual to clear this toxic energy. (For a great DIY self-healing technique, try my free Healing Invocation.)
10/31 (Thu)
Mercury Retrograde
As if to emphasize how scary some people find Mercury retrograde, this one starts on Halloween! Mercury stations retrograde at 11:40 am EDT (27°38′ Scorpio). Mercury will turn direct again in three weeks on 11/20 at 11°35′ Scorpio.
Sign
Mercury will retrograde entirely in Scorpio. This invites you to reflect on the intense themes of this sign. As I wrote on 10/23 when the Sun entered Scorpio, this sign radiates the energy of transformation, wealth and power. It deals with shadow work to deal with your emotional wounds, unflinching honesty, and the ecstasy of sacred sex. Scorpio also rules occult practices like astrology, numerology, tarot, mediumship, and psychic work — anything that goes behind the veil.
Scorpio rules all shared energy. With Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, contemplate how you’re blending your energetic or physical resources with other people, institutions, or entities.
Aspects
This shared energy theme is also reflected in Mercury’s aspects as it turns retrograde. Mercury is tightly conjunct Venus, the natural ruler of relationships. Mercury is also tightly sextile Juno, the asteroid goddess of committed partnership.
It’s commonly said that you’re the composite of the five people you spend the most time with. With Mercury also making minor hard aspects to the lunar nodes, ask yourself if your most important relationships are supporting your life purpose.
Mercury’s trine to Chiron eases the way for mentoring and healing. The Mercury-Vesta opposition asks if you’re focusing enough on selfless service to a higher cause. Finally, Mercury’s tight conjunction to Pallas Athena invites you to be strategic and diplomatic in pursuing all these goals.
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Mystic Rectangle Peaks
The Sun-Uranus-lunar nodes Mystic Rectangle that started on 10/26 peaks today (10/31) and ends on 11/7.
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MARY says
Interesting, thank you.
Maria Goodman says
Thank you for the clarity, concision, and non-judgmental delivery of this information.