Weekly Astro Forecast: October 11 - 18
Pluto Stations Direct and the Thing You Have Been Pushing Starts to Move
🦂 Sunday, October 11th
- Moon enters Scorpio at 8:21 AM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 2:08 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Venus in Scorpio at 9:26 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo at 11:42 PM PT
🥀 Monday, October 12th
- Moon in Scorpio
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Mercury in Scorpio at 11:48 AM PT
🖼️ Tuesday, October 13th
- Moon enters Sagittarius at 6:00 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Jupiter in Leo at 1:45 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Neptune in Aries at 10:55 PM PT
🔥 Wednesday, October 14th
- Moon in Sagittarius
- Moon in Sagittarius sextiles Pluto in Aquarius at 12:01 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius opposes Uranus in Gemini at 4:18 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Mars in Leo at 12:51 PM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Saturn in Aries at 2:44 PM PT
🪐➡️ Thursday, October 15th
- Moon in Sagittarius
- Sun in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 1:21 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Jupiter in Leo at 1:57 PM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius sextiles the Sun in Libra at 2:55 PM PT
- Pluto stations direct at 3º Aquarius at 7:40 PM PT
🌫 Friday, October 16th
- Moon enters Capricorn at 5:57 AM PT
- Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 1:32 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn squares Neptune in Aries at 10:53 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn sextiles Venus in Scorpio at 3:51 PM PT
🍵 Saturday, October 17th
- Moon in Capricorn
- Moon in Capricorn squares Saturn in Aries at 2:50 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn sextiles Mercury in Scorpio at 8:07 PM PT
🌒 Sunday, October 18th
- Moon enters Aquarius at 6:41 PM PT
- First Quarter Moon at 9:13 AM PT, 25º Capricorn
- Moon in Aquarius sextiles Neptune in Aries at 11:25 PM PT
Last week you planted. This week you find out what the seeds are made of.
The headline arrives Thursday afternoon when Pluto stations direct at 3º Aquarius. Pluto has been retrograde since early May, which is more than five months of pressure building underneath your life without much visible movement. When it stations direct, the pressure finds a direction. Whatever you have been quietly dismantling and rebuilding in yourself since the spring starts to show up on the outside.
The week is built in two halves. The first half is deep. The Moon moves into Scorpio Sunday morning and spends three days there with Venus retrograde and Mercury, so Sunday through Tuesday you are in feeling territory, not logic territory. Then Tuesday evening the Moon enters Sagittarius and the air changes completely. Wednesday and Thursday bring fire, faith, and two of the most workable aspects of the month. Friday the Moon lands in Capricorn, Mars trines Saturn, and the energy becomes buildable. By Sunday the First Quarter Moon asks you for a commitment.
Venus is still retrograde in Scorpio all week, so keep reviewing before you commit. This is a week to let the old thing finish moving so the new thing has somewhere to arrive.
🦂 Sunday, October 11th
- Moon enters Scorpio at 8:21 AM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 2:08 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Venus in Scorpio at 9:26 PM PT
- Moon in Scorpio squares Mars in Leo at 11:42 PM PT
The Moon moves into Scorpio in the morning and the week opens in deep water. Scorpio does not let you keep things at the surface, and this is the day after a New Moon week, so whatever you named is still fresh enough to feel.
By afternoon the Moon squares Pluto and something you have been managing asks to be looked at directly. Then late in the evening the Moon meets Venus while Venus is retrograde, and a feeling comes up from somewhere older than this month. A person, a want, a version of you that got quiet. Let it rise. The square to Mars just before midnight can make it feel urgent, but urgency is not the message here. Feel it tonight and decide nothing.
What is surfacing right now that you have been managing instead of feeling?
🥀 Monday, October 12th
- Moon in Scorpio
- Moon in Scorpio conjunct Mercury in Scorpio at 11:48 AM PT
Late morning the Moon meets Mercury in Scorpio and what you felt last night finds language. This is the gentlest aspect of the first half of the week and it is useful. Mercury in Scorpio does not do small talk. It wants the real sentence.
Write it down before you say it to anyone. Scorpio energy wants to go all the way to the bottom, and sometimes the bottom is a thing you need to understand privately before it becomes a conversation. Give yourself the journal page first. The clarity you find today is what you will act on later in the week when the sky gives you the energy to move.
If you said the true thing out loud, what would it be?
🖼️ Tuesday, October 13th
- Moon in Scorpio squares Jupiter in Leo at 1:45 AM PT
- Moon enters Sagittarius at 6:00 PM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Neptune in Aries at 10:55 PM PT
The day starts heavy and ends light. In the early hours the Moon squares Jupiter in Leo, which can make a feeling bigger than its actual size. If you wake up with something looming, notice that the sky is amplifying it and the amplification is temporary.
Then, the Moon enters Sagittarius and you can almost feel the room open. Three days of Scorpio depth give way to perspective. Sagittarius is the part of you that zooms out and remembers the larger story. Late in the evening the Moon trines Neptune and your imagination comes back online. Spend the last hours of the day somewhere that feels bigger than your to-do list.
What looks different when you zoom out from it?
🔥 Wednesday, October 14th
- Moon in Sagittarius
- Moon in Sagittarius sextiles Pluto in Aquarius at 12:01 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius opposes Uranus in Gemini at 4:18 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Mars in Leo at 12:51 PM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Saturn in Aries at 2:44 PM PT
This is one of the best days of the month to act. Right after midnight the Moon sextiles Pluto, which is the first small signal of what is about to station direct. Before dawn it opposes Uranus and you may wake up early or wake up with an idea that does not fit the plan.
Then the afternoon delivers. The Moon trines Mars at 12:51 PM and your energy rises. The Moon trines Saturn at 2:44 PM and that energy gets a container. Fire plus structure in the same afternoon is rare, and it means the brave thing you do today is also the sustainable thing. Do not spend this window on busywork. Spend it on the project, the conversation, or the ask that actually matters to you.
What have you been waiting to feel ready for, when what you were really waiting for was energy?
🪐➡️ Thursday, October 15th
- Moon in Sagittarius
- Sun in Libra sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 1:21 AM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius trines Jupiter in Leo at 1:57 PM PT
- Moon in Sagittarius sextiles the Sun in Libra at 2:55 PM PT
- Pluto stations direct at 3º Aquarius at 7:40 PM PT
Here it is. Pluto stations direct after more than five months of moving backward.
Pluto is the planet of power, depth, and the kind of change that does not reverse. When it is retrograde, the work is internal. You shed something, you see through something, you stop believing a story you used to live by, and almost none of it is visible to anyone else. When it stations direct, that internal work starts to take an outer shape. The job, the relationship, the boundary, the version of you that you quietly became over the summer begins to show up in your actual life. Pluto in Aquarius is rebuilding how we belong to each other, what we do with technology, and who gets to hold power. In your own chart it is rebuilding something equally structural.
The whole day supports it. The Sun sextiles Jupiter before dawn and the week's optimism peaks. In the afternoon the Moon trines Jupiter and then sextiles the Sun just before Pluto stations. You get faith, alignment, and then release, in that order. Pay attention to what crosses your path today, because Pluto stations are not subtle once you know to look.
What have you already changed on the inside that is ready to be true on the outside?
🌫 Friday, October 16th
- Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries at 1:32 AM PT
- Moon enters Capricorn at 5:57 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn squares Neptune in Aries at 10:53 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn sextiles Venus in Scorpio at 3:51 PM PT
Overnight Mars in Leo trines Saturn in Aries, and this is the aspect that turns intention into construction. Mars is the will to act. Saturn is the ability to keep going. A trine between them in two fire signs is sustained courage, and the effects last well beyond the exact moment. Anything you begin or recommit to around now has staying power.
The Moon enters Capricorn before dawn and the mood becomes practical. Late morning the square to Neptune can blur your focus for a few hours, so do not schedule the hard decision at 11:00 AM. By mid afternoon the Moon sextiles retrograde Venus and your heart and your discipline agree with each other. That is a good hour for the email you have been drafting in your head about money or worth.
What are you ready to work at consistently rather than wait for?
🍵 Saturday, October 17th
- Moon in Capricorn
- Moon in Capricorn squares Saturn in Aries at 2:50 AM PT
- Moon in Capricorn sextiles Mercury in Scorpio at 8:07 PM PT
A quiet, grounded day. The early square to Saturn happens while most of us are asleep, and what it leaves behind is a mood that takes things seriously. Capricorn is the sign of the long game. It does not ask how you feel about the climb, it asks whether you are still climbing.
Use the day for the unglamorous work. Handle the thing you have been carrying from week to week on your list. In the evening the Moon sextiles Mercury in Scorpio and a good conversation is available, the kind that happens after dinner when nobody is rushing. Let it be honest and let it be slow.
What small, boring, consistent thing would change everything if you actually did it?
🌒 Sunday, October 18th
- First Quarter Moon at 9:13 AM PT, 25º Capricorn
- Moon enters Aquarius at 6:41 PM PT
- Moon in Aquarius sextiles Neptune in Aries at 11:25 PM PT
The First Quarter Moon arrives at 9:13 AM in Capricorn, which is the checkpoint of the lunar cycle. Eight days ago you set intentions at the New Moon in Libra. Today the Moon squares the Sun, and a square is not a problem. It is a question. It asks what you have actually done since you named what you wanted.
In Capricorn, that question has a particular edge. Capricorn does not care about the vision board. It cares about the calendar. So look at the thing you called in and ask what the first real step is, then put it somewhere with a date on it. This is also the first checkpoint since Pluto stationed direct, so you may find you have more momentum than you expected.
In the evening the Moon moves into Aquarius and the week ends looking forward. Late at night it sextiles Neptune and the dreaming comes back in. Let yourself end this one soft.
What did you say you wanted eight days ago, and what is the first dated step toward it?
Your Tools for This Week
🌙 We are in the last days of Libra season, and the Libra Season and New Moon Workbook is still the one for this stretch of relationship, worth, and balance work. If you are already looking ahead, the Scorpio Season and Taurus Full Moon Workbook Bundle covers October 23 to November 21 and lands right as Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, is moving forward again. Every issue lives in the Moon Workbooks collection.
🎙️ Two episodes of the Spirit Daughter Podcast drop this week. On October 13 I am joined by Sarah Nicole Landry for a conversation about identity and reinvention, which could not land in a better week. Then on October 16 the mini episode is Should You Manifest During a Retrograde, and with Venus retrograde now and Mercury stationing retrograde on October 24, it is the question of the month.
📱 The Venus and Mercury Retrograde Challenge in the Moment App runs through November 13 and you can join any day. Every morning you get one notification with where the Moon is, what the sky is doing, and one track chosen for that exact energy, whether that is a meditation, an activation, a visualization, a ritual, or a pep talk. Thursday's Pluto track is made for the station.
📖 If this is the week you realize how much you have already changed, Spirit Daughter the book is the whole method for turning that into something you can live in.
Here is to a week of momentum, honesty, and letting the inside work finally show.
xx ❤︎
