The Libra Solar Eclipse closes a karmic loop for a new beginning, while the Aries Full Supermoon pulls no punches. Events long overdue can now happen in a flash!
October's Astro Weather Forecast
October is especially intense! Into the belly of the beast we go, there to be tested and gain wisdom, transformation, and empowerment.
The first test is to face reality head on - thanks to the Libra Solar Eclipse on October 2nd - bringing long overdue matters full circle for a powerful restart. The second test calls forth our inner hero and asks us to function on two levels of consciousness at once - in and out of the matrix - thanks to a combustible Aries Full Supermoon on October 17th! Watch out for an incredibly intense period in the middle - with Mars entering his retrograde shadow, Jupiter stationing retrograde and Pluto stationing direct - and we've got quite a combustible recipe this month! Right on cue, Jupiter and Chiron link hands to guide us through it all with great wisdom and awareness 'til mid-November. With sexy Scorpio season arriving on the 22nd, and Venus in Sagittarius soon to be Venus Out of Bounds, adventure awaits. October ends on Halloween when some powerful energies of a grand earth and water trine flood the earth... So Let's see what October has in store...
Libra Solar Eclipse New Moon October 2nd: The Moment of Truth
October begins with a Libra annular Solar Eclipse New Moon on the 2nd - a flaming hulahoop of truth that's daring us to jump through, close the karmic loop, and put our best foot forward. It takes place at 18:49UT at the 11th Libra degree.
This is a South Node eclipse, when all kinds of disgruntled chickens come home to roost. It’s a karmic whiplash moment - especially where relationships, diplomacy and the courts are concerned - especially with Pluto in the final Capricorn degree too, and about to station direct. But this is also a New Moon. This means that it may be the results of past actions that led us here but it's worth taking a moment to think how we want to move forward.
This is a chance to take the initiative with matters long overdue. Much information is now coming to light thanks to Mercury’s superior conjunction with the eclipsed Sun bringing much clarity - especially connected to matters initiated in the Autumn of 2021.
Expect a surprise or two as this Eclipse jars with Uranus. Venus, the eclipse ruler, is in dark and broody Scorpio and in a budding grand water trine with bad boys Mars and Saturn. Whatever’s going down calls for oodles of passion, grit and stamina - especially on an emotional or soul level! This is certainly a test of the value we place on things, people, places, a test of a relationship, perhaps, or a financially gutsy enterprise. Dive in with your whole being, for Scorpio hates all things superficial. (Venus trine Saturn completes on the 4th, Venus trine Mars on the 8th)
We’re still in a phase of endings and separations right now. This is a definite hue of these autumnal eclipses, so take time to process the information arising now alongside any emotions like sadness and the need to let go.
It’s a good time to be self disciplined and practice restriction where you think the exercise may prove good for you. There’s a certain kind of pleasure in gritting the teeth to go the distance. This is no time to throw a pity party or whine. We have the resources to pull through and it can feel empowering.
The Sabian Symbol for this eclipse is “a professor peering over his glasses at his students” - no doubt to get a real good look at them in real time. Similarly we are called to lift our eyes from our script and engage with reality head on, if we want to be effective or see something new. This is an instructive moment and it’s important to internalise whatever knowledge or wisdom we gain.
This is the final eclipse of 2024 setting the stage for a truly eventful six months. Whatever karmic, loaded or long overdue process you initiate right now should see the full light of day by next spring. Hang in there, it’s a wild ride into 2025!
Mars Enters Retrograde Shadow October 5th: Into the Belly of the Beast...
Barely a couple of days post-eclipse, on October 5th, Mars enters his retrograde shadow deep in the womb of Cancer, where he (and we) will be reborn by next Spring. Now we’re truly entering the belly of the beast. The next few months will demand great bravery on a personal and emotional level, potentially bringing us face to face with our deepest fears of annihilation as Mars repeatedly opposes Pluto on the Capricorn-Aquarius cusp.
Mars in Cancer is like a powerful she-bear, fighting for home, family and country. Get ready for things to get extremely personal now and until next Spring!
This is when Mars will be trapped in the same 19 degrees of the zodiac, going back and forth between 17 Cancer and 6 Leo from now and until May 1st 2025. Mars is in Cancer until November 5th (direct) - the US election date! - and again from January 6th onwards (this time retrograde) - another crucial US date. Watch this space!
How does Mars retrograde affect you? What houses, planets or points do you have between 17 degrees of the cardinals and 6 degrees of the fixed signs?
Watch for clues when Mars squares Mercury on October 6th and words acquire an engine and a sharp edge, and when he trines Venus on October 8th unlocking the gates of desire.
Jupiter Stations Retrograde October 9th: Open That Mind
Jupiter is next to go retrograde on October 9th helped by a Mercury trine. Talk about information overload! This is an important turning point, when our impetus for growth and expansion turns inwards. OK, let’s say you have drawn up your plans, connected with people and places and set things into motion. You’re all set but…you cannot rush this. It’s time to pause for breath.
What action do you need to take within, behind the scenes, behind closed doors or in your own soul and spirit to make way for the growth that you are asking for?
Jupiter will stay retrograde from now and all the way until 4th February 2025. But it is the next few days - October 9th-14th, when Jupiter trines the Sun - that the momentum is in full force to truly internalise your plans and desires for expansion - or to start making space for the abundance or adventure you’re asking for. October 9-14 is an accelerated and intense period of reorientation, more so as it is also in this period that Pluto stations direct in the final Capricorn degree!
Pluto Stations Direct October 12th: Engage Full Demotion Mode!
It is at this point, on the 12th, that Pluto stations direct in Capricorn for the absolute final time in nearly another quarter of a century (!) and life begins to move inexorably forward. We’re truly entering a time of mourning now, of final endings, and of letting go.
Pluto's station leaves us in no doubt that we are experiencing the death of the old world, the end of an old way of life, the collapse of the old order and all the structures that used to support it.
Being in the middle of such a collapsing structure can feel scary. But this is a necessary step in order to begin building something new. This too shall pass. The crucial thing now is to use this time to give whatever’s dead and gone a proper burial. It helps to know that we will soon begin creating something new and exciting. I won't happen overnight but it's important we all chip in (in true Aquarian fashion) to make the remodel a good one!
This is truly a time to begin letting go if we haven’t already.
This is necessary so we can make space to welcome the amazing (and rather sci-fi) future that’s currently in the making. Pluto enters freedom-loving and futuristic Aquarius for good on November 19th, where he will transform our world beyond recognition. The time to make space for this is now.
Mercury, direct and on full form, is right there, squaring Pluto on the 13th, just before the little whizzer enters Pluto’s sign, Scorpio. That’s intensity to the max! This is no time to mince words. Or shy away from the facts. By the 22nd, when the Sun squares Pluto, it will be time to steer a determined, empowering and transformative course forward, even if it all feels a little desperate right now.
Sun-Jupiter, Sun-Mars-Chiron and Venus-Uranus, October 14th: A Powerhouse Day!
Mid-October is quite the powerhouse. On the 14th the Sun trines Jupiter and opposes Chiron, squared by Mars.
This is a moment bound to inspire whilst at the same time exposing all our hurts and vulnerabilities like an open and festering wound.
The Sun trines Jupiter twice a year, and it’s always an incredibly uplifting moment - a day of adventure, enthusiasm, luck, and opportunity! But this time it doesn't happen alone... The Sun opposes Chiron and squares Mars at the same time and this can hurt…calling on us to take corrective action. This combo could be a powerhouse combo of ‘stick and carrot’ to get us to move - or to at least address what we need to fix to get moving in the right direction. With Venus opposite Uranus too, it’s all a bit sudden, but it's easier than ever now to detach emotions and cut ties!
Jupiter Sextile Chiron: A Healing Dance / Off-Beat Opportunities
Mid-month is also when Jupiter begins to form a near permanent sextile to Chiron. This is exact on October 12th and lasts all the way until mid-November.
Jupiter-Chiron open the gates to accelerated and magnified healing!
We could see important information coming to light now, perhaps around health and media, highlighting any sense of disenfranchisement and indeed any matter that has become long festering headache. Jupiter in Gemini rules all communications and data, while Chiron represents a rather large elephant in the room that no one is prepared to acknowledge. This festering situation is currently leading to much anger and discontent that can erupt to the surface... What's most important, perhaps, is that the Sun is right there, accentuating all our wounds, as he approaches opposition to Chiron, and opening pathways for a new vision, and for communication and connection, as he trines Jupiter. With Mercury also opposite Chiron and trine Jupiter on the 8th, we can expect the information floodgates to open early.
Whatever poisons need to come out, and whatever action we need to take to heal, it’s time to do it, no matter how hard it may seem. Mid-October to mid-November is prime healing time!
If something is hard, almost too hard to face, get on it. Jupiter and Chiron are here to help.
Venus in Sagittarius October 17th: Enjoy the Adventure!
The reward for all this? A fun-loving Venus in Sagittarius! Venus enters Sagittarius on the 17th but not before Venus, still in Scorpio, forms a lovely mini grand trine with Neptune and Pluto on the 16th- 17th. That's Venus in Scorpio we're talking about, so we may feel like celebrating all dressed in black in a dungeon - what a lovely occasion.
Make the most of these deep-feeling couple of days (16-17) when emotion flows down powerful grooves of love and pleasure.
Venus will be in Sagittarius October 17th to November 11th - say yes to adventure! Embrace your inner nomad, freedom-lover, or explorer and have fun on the far side with Venus in Sagittarius all the way until the November 11th… And what better way to kick things off than with a dynamo of an October Full Moon!
Aries Full Supermoon October 17th: Do Or Die!
This month's Full Moon is a Supermoon in Aries and the first non-eclipse in that sign since the eclipses started there in Spring-Autumn of 2023. Is this the new normal? It's a Full Supermoon - when the Moon is at its closest to the earth - and it takes place at the 25th degree of Aries on October 17th at 11:26 UT.
This Aries Full Supermoon is do or die! Aries loves a challenge... So how fitting that we have a tough configuration for Aries to sink its teeth in...
The Supermoon is part of a grand cardinal cross - the most groundbreaking and action-oriented pattern imaginable. And with ‘baddies’ Mars and Pluto no less! The Sun and Moon are square Pluto, recently direct and about to leave Capricorn for good, and square Mars, already in his retrograde shadow, and about to cross back and forth over Pluto a few times… This is a rather combustible configuration!
To top it off, the Full Moon is right on top of Chiron shining a huge spotlight on all these festering wounds and grievances - that elephant in the room... Thankfully, where you find Chiron Jupiter is nearby too to help us speak up, understand, learn from this. Will the king of the gods help smooth things over or will he magnify the whole thing into ever grander proportions?
To say this is an angry Full Moon is an understatement. It's a pretty raw moment. Another major call to awakening.
If there be demons to be faced, the time has come to face them out in the open. Good thing then that the Sun is conjunct Black Moon Lilith, queen of said demons, and can help us enter that realm, light shining.
The Sabian Symbol for this Full Moon is “the possibility for man to gain experience at two levels of being”.
No matter how tough the challenge, success requires that we learn to operate in two worlds at once. One, the mundane world; the other, the lucid, astral or magical realm from which reality flows. This is a blue-pill, red-pill moment.
Perhaps it’s under pressure where we learn to flex these new muscles and become permanent dual residents, enshrining part of our day to day consciousness permanently outside this show. This requires ripping the veil in some sense - perhaps hence the potentially violent Mars-Chiron-Pluto grand cross configuration with the Sun, Moon and Lilith. Developments could now push buttons, force confrontations and galvanise us to action, revealing new potentials.
In the truest sense of the word, this eclipse is a test, its aim to push us to the limit so we can uncover our true potential.
Mars, ruler of this Full Moon is in a double kite formation with Venus, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (the latter two occupying critical degrees), putting a huge flow of energy at our disposal. This is a call to for courage, honesty - a call to rise to the challenge.
Sexy Scorpio Season: October 22nd
On October 22nd the Sun enters Scorpio - with a square the Pluto hot on its tail for extra measure! Happy birthday sexy Scorpio! 'Tis Scorpio season, when nothing is quite as it seems… When the only life worth living is deep beneath the surface, powerful, naked and raw. Time to don that X-ray vision gear. And to tackle tricky subjects. Mercury trines Saturn on the same day to help us clear the mind and come up with a good strategy for navigating this dangerous terrain.
The deepest time of transformation, and transmutation of poisons, now begins truly.
Look forward to the 23rd, when Venus harmonises with the Lunar Nodes bringing fair relationship winds and perhaps even a karmic helping hand or two.
Venus Out of Bounds October 25th-December 2nd: Doing As I Please...
The pleasure factor goes up as October nears its end. On October 25th, Venus goes ‘out of bounds’ (veering lower south than around 23 degrees, i.e. the edge of the apparent path of the sun) and will stay out of bounds until December 2nd. Just in time for some extravagant Halloween outfits!
Venus out of bounds does't give a hoot about the style police, relationship experts or what the neighbours think.
She prefers to do her own thing, to live by her own values and preferences, partial to pleasure of all kinds when it's on the offing. And shouldn’t we all?
This is a fantastic time to nurture those relationships and pursue those activities and investments that truly mean something to you.
October 28th-31st: Powerful Energies Flow In for Halloween...
The run up to Halloween sees some powerful energies starting to jive together. Mars sextiles Uranus on the 25th and trines Neptune on the 28th after which point Mars begins to heads towards an incredible showdown - his first Pluto opposition on November 3rd. (Be prepared for a very intense, all or nothing start to November!) Mercury and Uranus are also there, electrifying the mind and as a powerful configuration between Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto begins delivering its message...
October 25th-28th could be a time of fast and inspired action - with an almost perfect earth-water hexagon forming in the skies activated by the Virgo Moon. Use it to tackle jobs that require great alignment, energy and flow!
Watch out for Venus square Saturn on the 28th too, however, applying the brakes to this mad rush of energy. The 28th is a time for a sensible and conservative evaluation of what’s it’s truly possible to achieve in this situation. This is no day to ask for a raise, for a favour or anything at all - it’s a day to earn that respect if that is what you are after.
Come Halloween and October 31st expect the unexpected! Mercury’s opposition to Uranus acts as a gateway into a complex and enlightening picture building up into the early November days. What a great day to shock, scare and laugh out loud! This is the perfect segway into November. Enter with a sense of fun, because it's going to be one hell of a month!
Article by YourAstroGenes
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