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Astrology for the Week of October 24-30

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When I tell you that this week is going to be the very definition of extra, please know that I am not overselling it. There’s an eclipse, Jupiter & Mercury change signs, and Mars is standing still in the sky ruling it all. 

I’ve been talking about the next two weeks for the past year so if you’ve been with me you may already know what’s about to happen. If you’re new here, welcome. Either way, this is going to be an extra-long forecast so buckle up.

The Mars of it All

Normally I go straight into the day-by-day breakdown but I feel a need to pull some Mars threads together for those of you who aren’t astrology nerds.

Mars is Action - it’s how we take action, including how we go to war, how we deal with confrontation, how we like to initiate various adult activities, how we are activated by anger, and how we take action on our goals. 

Gemini is ideas, communication, inventiveness, inquisitiveness, duality, and adaptability, which is really great for helping us take all of that Marsy action - in theory. But it can also be a little spacey, unemotional, shallow, inconsistent, and a little scattered which is a less great way to embody action. Be mindful of the type of action you’re choosing because the lines will be blurred.

Stationing Planets - The days around when a planet is stationing direct or retrograde, it is at its most potent. All that Mars energy is lit up in your life, the lives of those around you, and the world in general. 

Mars rules Aries and Scorpio. That means he is the ruler of the house where the eclipse will be which makes it even more powerful than one might generally expect from a partial solar eclipse. He’s also ruling both of the benefics (Venus and Jupiter) as well as the Moon and Sun plus later in the week Mercury, which means he’s in charge of 10 out of the 12 areas of life over the course of this week. Since he’s ruling Venus, he’s also the final dispositor (the ruler of the ruler) of the lunar eclipse in a few weeks.

Everyone is about to get a crash course in what Mars feels like.

My advice for this week and the entire Mars retrograde cycle is to think deliberately and strategically before taking action BUT don’t let the thinking stop the doing.

Now on to the weekly forecast.

Monday 10/24: 

• ☽ at 18° 35‘ Libra △ ♄ at 18° 35‘ Aquarius | 7:08 AM
• ☽ ☌ ☿ at 21° 20‘ Libra | 12:01 PM
• ☽ at 25° 23‘ Libra △ ♂︎ at 25° 23‘ Gemini | 7:12 PM
• ☽ at 26° 10‘ Libra □ ♇ at 26° 10‘ Capricorn | 8:35 PM

Even though Monday is the day before the eclipse, it’s a pretty nice day for being highly motivated and getting things checked off of your to-do list. However, you may find that you or the people around you are more emotional or chaotic than usual. 

That extra emotional bit applies for the next several weeks. It’s one of the many reasons I’ve been saying schedule in some self-care. If you’re not caring for yourself, your capacity to care for others will be greatly diminished.

Tuesday 10/25:

• ☽ ▻ Scorpio | 3:18 AM
• ☀ Solar Eclipse Scorpio 🌑 New Moon | 6:48 AM
• ☽ and ☉ at 02° 00‘ Scorpio
• ☽ ☌ ♀︎ at 02° 43‘ Scorpio | 8:04 AM

The Scorpio New Moon, which is also a south node solar eclipse, occurs on Tuesday at 6:48 am eastern. If you have no idea what that means, don’t worry - I’m going to explain.

Solar eclipses (these only happen during a new moon) usually indicate a conscious choice you must make or a significant change in your external world - something like a major regional or world event is typically what we think of but it could also be something more personal.

It’s not something that I’d expect to happen at the exact moment of the eclipse. In fact, there have already been some pretty interesting and major events taking place in the world that will cause ripples out into the daily lives and the trajectory of lives for the next six months such as Liz Truss stepping down as Prime Minister and her replacement being chosen during the eclipse zone. Interestingly, midterm elections in the United States will also be happening during the next two weeks. Yeah. So there’s that. 

Anyway.

South Node eclipses tend to indicate something that is leaving.

On a personal level, this likely means you are engaged in a new beginning in your Scorpio area of life that will require that you let something else go. This could already be in progress or it could be a brand new development in this narrative arc but either way, it will play out over the next six months. This is not a time to try to push forward on a new agenda. 

This set of eclipses is in the Taurus and Scorpio part of your chart. The first in the series was a type of preview in your Taurus house which occurred on November 19, 2021, but really got going with eclipses on April 30 and May 16 of this year. There might have been a bonus point of focus on topics related to your Taurus house on August 1 when Mars, Uranus, and the North Node got together. 

Normally new moons are times for setting intentions and goals and launching new things. Not this time. Today’s new moon is a solar eclipse and it is not the time to start anything new. I know, I know. I’m repeating the “don’t start anything new theme” but dang. You wouldn’t believe how many people think I don’t really mean it. I do. I mean it. 

Can you? Yes, obviously. But it will end up being vastly different than what you were expecting and I don’t advise it. 

Eclipses aren’t bad but they aren’t stable and when I’m beginning something, I usually want some degree of stability. 

My advice is to pay attention to what information comes to light and what emotions come bubbling up over the next two weeks as they will inform the next six months. 

Be gentle with yourself over the next two weeks and do what you can to facilitate feeling your emotions and processing them. Letting go of something we’ve been emotionally attached to isn’t easy, whether that is a relationship, friendship, personal identity, job, or way of being. But in order to move forward we must be willing to feel those emotions of fear, inadequacy, resentment, loss, nostalgia, obligation, or whatever else it is that has been difficult in order to make room for the growth you crave.

By rising sign, the area of life where you will need to release something as part of your new beginning include:

• Aries Rising: Investment, other people’s money, debt, topics concerning death, psychology, taxes, fears, transformation, and the occult
• Taurus Rising: Committed relationships, contracts, business partners, and other contractual relationships, and open enemies
• Gemini Rising: Physical health, illness, coworkers, your job, pets, self-improvement, and the things you feel obligated to
• Cancer Rising: Children, pleasure, romance, dating, sexuality, the things you desire,  the creative arts, love affairs, the ways in which you are entertained, close friends, and lovers
• Leo Rising: Home, family, home life, land, ancestors, private self, your emotional foundation, gains from hidden sources, your father, and your father’s family
• Virgo Rising: Communication, siblings, divination, short-distance travel, your neighborhood, writing, your immediate environment, the divine feminine, siblings, and cousins
• Libra Rising: Money, possessions, resources, and how you make a living
• Scorpio Rising: Self-awareness, your identity, appearance, personality, the way you view yourself, your character, your primary motivation, your body, your health, and vitality
• Sagittarius Rising: Mental health, the subconscious, ways you self sabotage, the ways you isolate yourself, hidden enemies, transcendence, and spiritual liberation
• Capricorn Rising: Friends with influence, alliances, your hopes and dreams, social media, personal and professional networks, unions, mentors, and that which supports you
• Aquarius Rising: Your reputation, profession, actions, relationship with and to authority, your mother and her family, your destiny, and your ambitions
• Pisces Rising: Higher education, divination, foreign travel, religion, astrology, the divine masculine, and your ability to grow, adapt, and learn

Wednesday 10/26:

• ☽ at 17° 28‘ Scorpio ☍ ♅ at 17° 28‘ Taurus | 9:34 AM
• ☽ at 23° 02‘ Scorpio △ ♆ at 23° 02‘ Pisces | 7:04 PM
• ☿ at 25° 31‘ Libra △ ♂︎ at 25° 31‘ Gemini | 11:36 PM

Wednesday is one of the more normal days of this week, if you want to consider any part of this week normal. It’s a good day for diplomatic communication, brainstorming with colleagues or partners, writing, or content creation. 

Thursday 10/27:

• ☽ at 26° 11‘ Scorpio ✳ ♇ at 26° 11‘ Capricorn | 12:27 AM
• ☽ ▻ Sagittarius | 6:54 AM
• ☽ at 00° 03‘ Sagittarius △ ♃ at 00° 03‘ Aries | 7:01 AM
• ☿ at 26° 12‘ Libra □ ♇ at 26° 12‘ Capricorn | 9:08 AM

Thursday, the Moon moves out of  Scorpio which dissipates some of the intensity of the Eclipse. It’s a pretty great day for any tasks or conversations that require intense focus or concentration. 

It’s also possible you’ll find your beliefs or reality paradigm being challenged. This could be something you enjoy as I do (seriously, give me all of the information and change my mind about something and I’ll love you forever) or it could cause a crisis of faith if you’re really attached to a particular set of thoughts (which is what belief is). 

Friday 10/28:

• ♃ ▻ Pisces | 1:09 AM
• ☽ at 18° 36‘ Sagittarius ✳ ♄ at 18° 36‘ Aquarius | 2:16 PM
• 🌒 Waxing Crescent | 5:19 PM
• ☽ at 20° 25‘ Sagittarius ☉ at 05° 25‘ Scorpio
• ☽ at 22° 59‘ Sagittarius □ ♆ at 22° 59‘ Pisces | 9:37 PM

The big news for Friday is that Jupiter is moving back into his home sign of Pisces. In general, this is a lovely and productive day that melts into a more emotionally nebulous night.

Jupiter changing signs brings a benefic boost back to the topics associated with your Pisces house and a bit of a slowdown in the growth and expansion of your Aries house. 

This is essentially a wrapping up of something you were doing during the time Jupiter was here previously which were:

• May 13, 2021, to July 28, 2021,
• December 28, 2021, to May 10, 2022

Jupiter will be helping you wrap it all up until December 20, then he will be firmly in Aries until May 16, 2023.

Saturday 10/29:

• ☽ at 25° 36‘ Sagittarius ☍ ♂︎ at 25° 36‘ Gemini | 1:59 AM
• ☽ at 29° 31‘ Sagittarius ✳ ☿ at 29° 31‘ Libra | 8:33 AM
• ☽ at 29° 53‘ Sagittarius □ ♃ at 29° 53‘ Pisces | 9:09 AM
• ☽ ▻ Capricorn | 9:21 AM
• ☿ ▻ Scorpio | 3:22 PM
• ☽ at 06° 33‘ Capricorn ✳ ☉ at 06° 33‘ Scorpio | 8:20 PM
• ☽ at 08° 33‘ Capricorn ✳ ♀︎ at 08° 33‘ Scorpio | 11:40 PM

Mercury moves into Scorpio Saturday at 3:22 pm eastern. With his arrival in the eclipse zone, you may find yourself thinking more deeply on the changes that the eclipse is highlighting or more willing to communicate those changes with others in a powerful way over the next three weeks.

Sunday 10/30: 

• ♂︎ ▻ ℞ at 25° 36‘ Gemini | 9:25 AM
• ♂︎ ▻ Direct at 08° 07‘ Gemini on January 12, 2023
• ☽ at 17° 18‘ Capricorn △ ♅ at 17° 18‘ Taurus | 2:21 PM
• ☽ at 22° 57‘ Capricorn ✳ ♆ at 22° 57‘ Pisces | 11:51 PM

Mars stations retrograde on Sunday at 9:25 am eastern and won’t be direct again until January 12, 2023. You’ve probably had a lot of energy to do some new things in the Gemini sector of your chart that is affecting the Scorpio and Taurus section. Now you’ll get to review and revise them. 

If you’re feeling frisky, hit me up on Instagram and let me know how the astrology of the week played out for you.

Until next time, my wish for you is the space to explore and release any emotions and thoughts that have been holding you back. 

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