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October 2026
Tuesday, 27 October 2026
Uranus quincunx Black Moon Lilith
Uranus in Gemini and Black Moon Lilith in Capricorn are within a degree of a quincunx and still closing. The Sun in Scorpio meets both, sextile Lilith and quincunx Uranus, and the…
Monday, 26 October 2026
Full Moon in Taurus
The Moon has just come full in Taurus, the sign of her exaltation in the old tradition, facing the Sun in Scorpio. Pluto in Aquarius squares both lights and takes the strain of…
Sunday, 25 October 2026
Venus now in Libra
Venus has moved back into Libra, retrograde, and stands at its last degree. Libra is Venus's own sign, where the old tradition holds that a planet acts more strongly. Retrograde,…
Saturday, 24 October 2026
Mercury has turned retrograde in Scorpio
Mercury has turned retrograde in Scorpio, and thinking runs back over ground it has just covered. In Scorpio the mind fixes on what is hidden or unresolved and loses some of the…
Friday, 23 October 2026
Sun now in Scorpio
The Sun has entered Scorpio and stands at the very first degree of the sign, about a degree from Venus, which is retrograde there and drawing closer. Scorpio sets the solar will…
Thursday, 22 October 2026
Sun opposition Chiron
The Sun in Libra stands opposite Chiron in Aries, within a degree of exact and just past it, so the contact is now easing. It sets the urge to be seen and to count against the…
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Sun opposition Chiron
The Sun, in the last degrees of Libra, is opposing Chiron in Aries, within a degree of exact and still tightening. The Sun carries the will and the need to be seen for what one…
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Venus square Pluto
Venus, retrograde in Scorpio, is squaring Pluto in Aquarius. The square is still within a degree of exact, just past it and beginning to ease. Both planets stand in fixed signs,…
Monday, 19 October 2026
Venus square Pluto
Venus, retrograde in Scorpio, is within a degree of a square to Pluto in Aquarius, and the gap is still closing. Venus governs affection, attraction and pleasure. Pluto governs…
Sunday, 18 October 2026
Venus square Pluto
Venus, moving backwards through Scorpio, squares Pluto in Aquarius, within a degree of exact, and the whole of this Sunday turns on that meeting. With Venus retrograde, matters of…
Saturday, 17 October 2026
Mars trine Saturn
Mars in Leo and Saturn in Aries are trine today, exact and just beginning to separate, so the planet of drive and the planet of structure are working in the same element. Mars…
Friday, 16 October 2026
Pluto stations direct in Aquarius
Pluto turns direct today in the early degrees of Aquarius. For about five months it has been moving backward, and today it seems to stand still before moving forward again, which…
Thursday, 15 October 2026
Mars trine Saturn
Mars in Leo and Saturn in Aries reach an exact trine today. These are two planets the older books treated as difficult, meeting at one of the two angles the tradition calls…
Wednesday, 14 October 2026
Sun sextile Jupiter
The Sun and Jupiter are in exact sextile today, with the Sun in Libra and Jupiter in Leo, and the contact is still tightening. Jupiter is the planet of increase. Sepharial records…
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Moon in Scorpio
The Moon is in Scorpio, the sign Ptolemy names as its fall because it sits opposite Taurus, where the Moon first begins to grow in light. The Moon's gifts are softness,…
Monday, 12 October 2026
Moon in Scorpio
The Moon is in Scorpio, a sign Ptolemy names as her fall, and she is travelling between Venus and Mercury there. The Moon's usual gift is softness and adaptability, the easy give…
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Venus square Mars
Venus and Mars came to an exact square over the past day and are now just past it. The strain they carry is at its height and only beginning to ease. Venus, retrograde in Scorpio,…
Saturday, 10 October 2026
New Moon in Libra
The Sun and Moon meet in Libra today, making the New Moon, and they meet in a sign where the Sun is weak. Ptolemy places the Sun's fall in Libra because, on entering it, the Sun…
Friday, 9 October 2026
Grand trine in air
The Moon has entered Libra, and in its first degrees it closes a grand trine in air with Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius. Three bodies in one element support each other and…
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Mars sextile Uranus
Mars and Uranus are in sextile. The contact came exact yesterday and is now just beginning to loosen. Mars in Leo carries the drive toward freedom, ambition and new enterprise.…