Your season begins this month, but it begins retrograde. Venus stations backward in your own sign on the 3rd, weeks before the Sun officially arrives on the 23rd, and Mercury joins the retrograde in your own sign too, on the 24th.
Water signs feel everything first and explain it later, if at all. This October, three separate planets ask you to feel your way through your own sign before you are ready to perform it for anyone else.
Venus stations retrograde in your own sign, Scorpio, on the 3rd, your 1st house. How you present yourself, what you actually want and what you have been performing for others’ benefit all come up for honest review, weeks ahead of your own season officially starting.
The New Moon lands in Libra on the 11th, your 12th house of rest, closure and what you would rather not look at directly. Let something finish quietly here rather than forcing a resolution in public.
Pluto, the planet that runs your sign in its modern form, turns direct on the 16th in Aquarius, your 4th house of home and family, after months retrograde there. Whatever has felt frozen at home starts to move again, and because this is your own ruler, expect it to move with real force once it does.
The Sun enters your own sign on the 23rd, officially opening Scorpio season, but Venus has already been reviewing this territory for three weeks by the time it arrives. This is not a clean, fresh-start birthday season. It is a season that begins already halfway through its own reconsideration.
Mercury turns retrograde on the 24th, also in your own sign. With Venus, the Sun and Mercury all now concentrated in your 1st house, and two of the three retrograde, this is an intensely self-focused month, but not a straightforward one. Say less publicly than you normally would until November clarifies things.
Let your season arrive without needing it to be a clean beginning. Trust Pluto’s direct turn to move what has been stuck at home, and let Venus and Mercury finish their review of you before you decide who you are becoming next. When the Full Moon lands in your 7th house on the 26th, in Taurus, your opposite sign, a partnership shows you clearly what this whole month has actually been about. If you want to see exactly where these transits fall in your own chart rather than the general Scorpio picture, our sister site astromara.com runs a free natal chart on the same ephemeris used here.
Though all our readers love astrology, their working specialities are tarot and clairvoyance. They will not run your October transits, but they will read what is actually moving in your life right now. To see who is available and what they offer, the readers page is the place. If you want to understand what you are looking at once you have your chart, astromara’s Learn section walks through every sign, planet and house in plain language. Otherwise, see you under the next moon.
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