It’s been a year in which you’ve had to forge new weapons for yourself – cacophony, looking uncool and all. Still, they work – all the clanging around was worth it.

Now the Venusian Vibe surges back in like a conquering Queen, reeking of rose and promising a return to equilibrium.

Your ruling planet Venus is not only in Libra for most of October, she forms a series of unique configs that will inspire fantastic developments in love, art pleasure and/or abundance.

These Key Venus Moments are ultra-optimal for anything creative or romantic:

*The Full Moon on Oct 9/10 is dramatic but revitalizing -it’s a makeover Moon. With Venus in your sign, you can trust your aesthetic and style instincts.

*If you’re monitoring a specific scenario, the Venus-Saturn trine on Oct 13 to 15 helps to define a relationship or secure an opportunity.

*Venus trine Mars from the 18th to 20th is classic hot mating/dating turf but you can also channel it into a broad charm offensive or beautification bender.

Similarly, the Sun conjunct Venus from the 19th to 27th is a classic love spell of an astro-phenom but it enhances all manner of affection as well as serenity.

October’s opening week demands sharp focus and full venom stores at the ready. If anyone tries to entice you into a polarizing position or their murky cause, scuttle away at high speed.

Pluto Direct on the 8th/9th marks the start of easier times and more fluid conversations/ideas flow but it also raises the early October stakes.

You’re about to make super-rad gains – that’s why maintaining your scorpionic guard in the tricky Oct 1-6 phase is so vital. This month’s undisputed premier attraction is, however, the Solar Eclipse in Scorpio aka the next New Moon.

It is on October 25 and adjacent to Venus, which will have been conjunct the Sun since the 19th. See it like this: the Sun and Venus align from the 19th, move into Scorp on October 23 and are joined by the Moon/Eclipse on the following Tuesday.

It really is a sublime – and extended – regenerative config, especially for passionate ventures and restyling projects. Note that the most recent Solar Eclipse in your sign was October 2014 and this months Eclipse also echoes October 2004.

People and themes from those times may slide back into your consciousness via strange portals. It’s the set-up for a happy, albeit surreal, Halloween!

Saturn and Uranus are back within striking distance of their gnarly square aspect yet you’re relatively nonchalant. It’s the combo of ‘duck & weave’ plus due diligence that you perfected over 2021.

Admin would be your most likely nemesis in October’s difficult first week but you’ve developed breathing techniques for it, right?

The Full Moon followed by Mars in your opposite sign square Neptune is officially more challenging: it makes Oct 9 to 16 weird chez Sagg terrain – if you’ve over-invested in a particular home or family concept, you may be disillusioned.

Make this potential mind-warp of a week more manageable by withdrawing your automatic ‘saggability’ (goodwill, spontaneous trust etc) when it comes to real estate or house guests and related scenarios.

‘Busy’ is also good – it helps to burn off excess Mars vibe, keeps you away from performance theatre relationship scenes and accelerates your impending rewards.

Brilliant things converge mid-month: the Sun, Mars and Venus form a fab, fortunate alignment between Oct 17 and 21. That’s your go-to for audacious “how about it?” moves and good developments in established ventures.

That then segues into a high-frequency, supernaturally cool Eclipse Season.

October 1 to 6: The edgy Saturn-Uranus square is back center-stage like an unnecessary encore. You’re Saturn-affiliated and temperamentally disposed to step up and confront challenges so you’re across most aspects of this astro-phenom.

Since it began in early 2021, you’ve morphed your money consciousness and painstakingly developed a craft or more contemporary approach to practically everything.

The ‘grind’ component is nearly over but the Saturn-Uranus finale requires something that is classically difficult for Capricorns: accepting that someone or a specific dynamic is unlikely to change.

If they/it does, it wouldn’t be via your persuasive eloquence or action you took: this is beyond your control.

Pluto turns Direct in Capricorn on Oct 8/9, a go-signal and affirmation in one. If you want an avenue to express your creative and commercial acumen, a robust, contemporary era relationship or simply more momentum, this is it.

October 17 to 20 is your optimal portal for power moves and definitive work or health coups but note that Venus squares Pluto from the 19th to 21st.

Setting the scene for the remainder of October, it’s a change agent that also evokes your wilder ‘mer-goat’ side.

You begin the month with a completely fresh philosophy nearly ready to launch. Whatever it is, you’ve been speed-evolving it – consciously or not – since August and it’s inspiring beneficial changes in every life area.

Of course you’re always innovative but Saturn in Aquarius gives your reforms existential gravity. Additionally, messenger planet Mercury is in your Vision Sector for much longer than it would usually be and Venus is in Muse mode for most of October.

The heavy astro-atmospheric pressure in the first week of October is not problematic so long as you don’t let it push you into a panicky miscalculation.

Or…some sort of misdirected anarchic gesture. Switch to classic saturnine protocol – glacial, poised and methodical – until the easier conditions from Pluto Direct on October 8/9.

Even though you’re often a fan of dramatic, wow-factor ‘what-just-happened?’ change, this a month of incremental morphs.

On October 9/10, Full Moon insights, dialogue and incoming messages help with the philosophical reboot.

Mercury out of the Retrograde Shadowzone on the 18th further reinvents the paradigm and the Scorpio Solar Eclipse on the 25th is when the terrain will be optimal for you to embody or release it.

First up, the caution: Mars in mercurial, sometimes skittish Gemini, squares your ruler Neptune from October 9 to 16. It’s a phase that also features a Full Moon in your solar $$$ sector.

So, while the first week of October is challenging for others, your mutable nature means you glide on through or around the obstacles that befuddle many of your acquaintance.

But the Full Moon/Mars-Neptune fuqery needs Vibe Control: be careful with anything that can get you ‘out of it’ – whether it’s a substance, hypnosis or anaesthetic. You don’t need to be detached, this is a ‘be more in your body’
imperative.

Separate sentiment from financial policies. Unless you’re a registered charity, skip the random acts of kindness for this phase as it would likely backfire.

It will also help conserve reserves for the Sun-Venus synergy from the 19th to 27th. This fabulous, formidable influence enhances romantic prospects and your creative flow.

It incorporates a beneficial Solar Eclipse (think rad new venture or lover) and the return of Jupiter to Pisces for a rewarding seven and a half weeks.

This is likely to reanimate cool schemes and interpersonal chemistry that dropped off around about May.

Yes, it’s Eclipse Season again but for you, the standard-variety Full Moon on October 9/10 is more potent. It’s conjunct rogue comet Chiron in Aries and opposite the Sun + Venus.

The neo or emerging You is polarized against a relationship – established or hypothetical. Flashpoint, epiphany or a strange melee of both, it accentuates underlying animosity and lust.

Whatever occurs with this lunar jamboree, it flows into six days of tricky Mars-Neptune weirding. AKA no gambling, gossip or drugs and safeguard your secrets.

October 17 sees the weirdness subside into a background frequency as your ruler Mars trines the Sun and Venus until the 20th. This is your go-zone for furthering any high-audacity ambitions.

The Sun moves into Scorpio in tandem with Venus on the 23rd and Oct 25 is the New Moon Eclipse: a potential triumph over long-standing sex, debt or transactional relationship battles.

Mercury harmonizes with Mars on Oct 27 – 29, delivering intel or the satisfying conclusion you sought in vain over August or September.

Like cousin Libra – the other Venus-ruled sign – your month ahead is predominantly Venusian. More fun, frivolity, freedom and sensuality – less grind or self-doubt.

However, unlike Libra, you’re one of the protagonists in the finale of Saturn square Uranus in Taurus. To enjoy the undoubted benefits of Venus aligned with the Sun, Mars and the Eclipse, note these cautions for Oct 1 to 6.

You won’t have the luxury of leaning on legacy achievements or knowledge this week. That’s been the case since early 2021 and this astro-influence lingers till late October BUT it’s at peak strength for the first six days of Oct.

However inconvenient or irking the learning trajectory, evolve your skillset or knowledge on demand. You may also need to back yourself or a concept without the support/validation or framework you prefer.

Additionally, Oct 9 to 16 demands an unusual amount of self-reliance in that usually steady sources of morale or money boosts are flaky.

But then the Venus energy picks up from the 19th and you spend the remainder of the month in a far more favourable environment.

Anticipate definitive, potentially awesome romantic, spiritual, financial and/or artistic developments in late October.

The epic-length stay of Mars in Gemini is just getting going. So, if you’re finding yourself unusually organized – or more sharply aware of the need to be – embrace it!

You are also at the point where others are noticing your stand-out performance or hyper-mojo. It’s the set-up for next years radical horizon expansion: the arrival of Pluto in Air Aquarius.

But Mars can also arouse a less pleasant style of scrutiny – envy from peers or the resentment of friends/lovers who can’t (or don’t want to) match your velocity.

This style of dynamic will be super-evident from the demanding Full Moon (Oct 9/10) and throughout the Mars-Neptune square of Oct 9 to 16. Be on high alert for micro-aggressions, attempts to steal credit or ideas and pass-agg crap.

As Mars turns Retrograde at the end of October, try to settle any disputes or ill-feeling asap. If you carry them into November and beyond, they could become entrenched.

October 17 to 21 is a Sun-Venus-Mars config AKA a golden zen zone of opportunity for feud resolution, reconciliations, dating success and relationship serendipity.

It evolves into the regenerative, remedial Solar Eclipse on the 25th.

Pluto Direct on October 8/9 is subtle but significant: tune in to one of your lesser-used intuitive channels for fantastic insights around your relationships and self-development.

The love and identity era that began in January 2008 is coming to a close and you’re starting to see the broader shape of it.

Still, you won’t have a surfeit of time to look back because the Aries Full Moon on Oct 9/10 is a feisty one: Conjunct Chiron for career ingenuity and a black swan opportunity, it is also opposite the Sun + Venus, suggesting turbulence in home or family realms.

It’s transient if you’re brilliant with boundaries and are able to resist control dramatics.

If you do need to take a stand, wait until Oct 18 when Mercury out of the Retrograde Shadowzone will ensure you have all the data you need. It could even remove the need for you to have to make any rad moves.

Situations may spontaneously de-stagnate or catalyze to your advantage by then.

The serendipity flows from October 23, when the Sun and Venus join Sorceress Circe in Scorpio en route to a Solar Eclipse Venus Cazimi on the 25th.

This is super-dazzling cosmic input for love, sex, magic, money and art.

Quietly freaking out over Eclipse Season? Actually, as dramatic as it may be for the broad cultural and economic backdrop, it’s not on the Leo threat matrix!

The October 25th New Moon is a partial – ie: relatively ‘weak’ Solar Eclipse that is softened by proximity with Venus. If anything, it suggests the rebirth of Leo the home decor artisan.

It could well see you stalking around your lion’s den, pantheresque and glamorous with paintbrush in hand. Optional: adoring acolytes. Your ruler the Sun will be conjunct Mars and then Venus from the 17th till October 27. It could be a love coup and it’s definitely a creative, abundance-attracting renaissance.

If you want an Eclipse to fret over, the Lunar Eclipse on November 8 is dramatic and potentially a career-altering metamorphosis. It’s also brilliant for reinvention.

Keep that in mind as you navigate the early October Saturn-Uranus square: it makes practically everything tediously political and the usual suspects will try to pull manipulative stunts or obstruct ingenuity.

As difficult as it may be, managing what is, rather than what you wish it was will secure success. October 11-13 is your most advantageous troll-whispering zone but you could simply evade them till mid-month.

In financial scenarios, honor the old-style Mercury Retrograde protocol by waiting until Mercury is out of the Retrograde Shadowzone before moving on $$ schemes.

Explanation: On October 18, Mercury returns to the degree it was at when it turned Retrograde on September 9/10. The ‘shadowzone’ is the time between when it turns Direct (October 2) and re-arrives back at this degree.

You will see a promising signal or cryptic clue around Oct 2 but for best results, delay extensive business and money plays till the 18th.

It’s extra vital this month as the Full Moon on Oct 9/10 could throw up contradictory $$$ indicators. So if possible, simply wait.

The same goes for murky or conditional love offers that come before the 18th. You are only one plausible excuse away from serenity. The 19th to 27th is passion central as Venus trines Mars, squares Pluto and is alongside the Sun for the duration.

It’s also a prime player in the Scorpionic Eclipse on the 25th – anticipate revitalizing news or dialogue and perhaps a particularly lusty Halloween.

Lucky Jupiter stages a grandiose return to your love sector on October 27/28, beneficially developing promising phenoms from earlier in the year.