Because the Sun will always begin October in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery but end the month in your career sector, this is always going to see the solar spotlight shift from one side of life’s fence to the other. However, within a six hour window from year to year, the Sun is going to make that shift at the same time and it will be clear cut, with no overlap, that is not the case for Mercury and Venus, the planets that rule the heart and mind. Venus and Mercury travel with the Sun, but not to the same strict timetable. You will never not have an overlap when one or the other is still in an adventurous part of your chart after the Sun has returned to your career sector or the other way round.
You are always going to have an overlap, with things moving professionally while there is still a strong sense of adventure in the air, but this year that overlap is going to extend across the whole month. While the Sun won’t return to your career sector until 23rd October, by the time you move into the new month Venus has been here for three weeks and she will be joined by Mercury on 1st October. Venus is already three weeks into what is normally a 24 day visit and Mercury will normally move through in 14 to 15 days. Instead, a retrograde turn on 3rd October will keep Venus here until 25th October.
Thanks to a retrograde turn on 24th October, after retrograding back out, when she eventually returns in December, Mercury will still be here. This comes just as the dwarf planet Ceres is getting ready to do the same, except her retrograde turn in your work sector next month will keep her here until May and working with the planets on the career front for the rest of the year. Yet while the Sun will leave your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery empty when he leaves on 23rd October, it is just two days later that Venus will retrograde back in for a six week do over, opening the doors to the past and second chances. This makes this a month when it will be important to have some work/life balance guardrails in place from the start.
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It is not that matters of the heart are going to sleep or have moved into hibernation, but with Uranus in his first full month in retrograde motion in your romantic sector, still separating from a friendly aspect to the Sun in an adventurous part of your chart at the end of last month, things are settled, stable and with nothing to rock the boat and instead, with every reason for confidence. In other words, you don’t have the drama that could be developing on the relationship front, though after a potentially bumpy start to the month, that too will level off. What you do have on the romantic front are the doors open to the past and second chances and that will prove an advantage later in the month.
While the Sun will remain in harmony with Uranus until he leaves an adventurous part of your chart on 23rd October, things will take a more nostalgic turn and a sense of romance, adventure and nostalgia will become even tighter when Venus, the planet of love retrogrades back in there on 25th October. Venus had left an adventurous part of your chart early last month but is retrograding back in for a do over and not turning direct until 14th November and then not leaving again until December, she will be taking full advantage of the doors open to the past and second chances on both the romantic and adventurous fronts.
This is something the Moon will help to capture when it returns to your romantic sector from 1st October to 3rd October and then again from 28th October to 30th October. Meanwhile, having returned to your relationship sector late last month, by 3rd October Mars will have moved into an opposition with Pluto in Aquarius. Mars is not the first planet to clash with Pluto when returning to your relationship sector this year and with a big year on the relationship front in front of you, this has been key to getting the balance between your own and your relationship needs right. However, as the planets of war and revolution, Mars and Pluto won’t be holding back. By the time the Moon returns to your relationship sector from 5th October to 7th October they will be separating, this could add some additional fuel, but with the support of the four planets in your communication sector.
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As you move into the new month, you are in the unique position where, apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, there are no planets or cosmic activity in either of your two money houses and it is the only time this year that this will happen. While the last planet left your income sector in April, the lunar nodes didn’t leave your two money houses until the end of July and by then the faster planets were returning to your financial sector. It wasn’t until the Sun left your financial sector last month, something that on the October equinox each year will always see the solar spotlight shift off your financial situation and money matters, that this left your two money houses empty. And not just for the first time this year, but in decades.
By the time the North Node left your income sector at the end of July, it had been there for 18 months and was here when, after 13 years Neptune left and as there had already been planetary activity there years when he returned, you have to go back a lot further to find another month like this. This means that when the Moon returns to your financial sector from 7th October to 9th October, something that will see it come full circle from last month’s New Moon, you are able to give money matters your full attention. The same goes for when two weeks later the Moon returns to your income sector from 22nd October to 24th October, something that every four weeks can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger.
The Moon will be here when the Sun returns to your career sector on 23rd October, as Mercury turns retrograde there on 24th October and as Venus, the planet of money prepares to retrograde back out on 25th October. A friendly aspect to them and to the dwarf planet Ceres in your work sector as it moves through will make these pivotal days of the month on the income, work and career fronts. Knowing that when Mars returns to your financial sector at the end of next month, he will be here for the rest of the year and for a good chunk of the first half of next year as he prepares for lucky Jupiter’s return in July 2027, even the money gods are ready for a rest.
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