Weekly Astro Forecast: September 27 - October 4
Venus Turns Inward and Asks What You Really Want
🔥 Sunday, September 27th
- Moon in Aries
- Moon in Aries conjunct Saturn in Aries at 12:20 AM PT
- Moon in Aries trines Jupiter in Leo at 12:46 PM PT
- Mars enters Leo at 7:49 PM PT
🐢 Monday, September 28th
- Moon enters Taurus at 7:41 AM PT
- Sun in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 9:21 AM PT
🦥 Tuesday, September 29th
- Moon in Taurus
🦂 Wednesday, September 30th
- Moon enters Gemini at 10:27 AM PT
- Mercury enters Scorpio at 4:45 AM PT
- Moon in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius at 3:40 PM PT
- Moon in Gemini conjunct Uranus in Gemini at 7:43 PM PT
🍂 Thursday, October 1st
- Moon in Gemini
- Moon in Gemini trines the Sun in Libra at 12:05 AM PT
- Moon in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 7:41 PM PT
⚡ Friday, October 2nd
- Moon enters Cancer at 12:55 PM PT
- Mercury in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 1:42 PM PT
- Mars in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 3:17 PM PT
- Moon in Cancer trines Mercury in Scorpio at 6:35 PM PT
🌹↩️ Saturday, October 3rd
- Moon in Cancer
- Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:17 AM PT
- Moon in Cancer trines Venus in Scorpio at 3:15 AM PT
- Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 3:38 AM PT
- Last Quarter Moon in Cancer at 6:26 AM PT
🚧 Sunday, October 4th
- Moon enters Leo at 3:54 PM PT
- Sun in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 5:29 AM PT
- Moon in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 8:37 PM PT
- Moon in Leo conjunct Mars in Leo at 11:01 PM PT
We are coming out of the Aries Full Moon and into one of the most important turns of the year. On Saturday, Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio, and for the next six weeks the planet of love, money, beauty, and worth moves backward through the sky. Venus retrograde happens only once every eighteen months. It is not here to take anything from you. It is here to slow you down long enough to ask a question you have been moving too fast to answer: what do you actually value, and does your life reflect it?
Mars enters Leo on Sunday and your drive gets loud and creative. Mercury enters Scorpio on Wednesday and your mind goes deep. By Friday and Saturday the sky gets intense, with Mercury squaring Pluto and Mars opposing Pluto, and then Venus turns inward and everything softens into review. This is a week to notice what keeps surfacing, because Venus retrograde works with whatever you bring into it.
🔥 Sunday, September 27th
- Moon in Aries
- Moon in Aries conjunct Saturn in Aries at 12:20 AM PT
- Moon in Aries trines Jupiter in Leo at 12:46 PM PT
- Mars enters Leo at 7:49 PM PT
The day after a Full Moon always has an honest quality, and today the Moon meets Saturn in Aries just after midnight to make sure of it. Saturn takes the brightness of yesterday and asks what you are actually willing to commit to. Do not hear that as a no. Hear it as a request for substance. What would it look like to build the thing you felt so clearly yesterday?
By midday the Moon trines Jupiter in Leo and the mood lifts and warms. Then in the evening Mars enters Leo and stays there for weeks, moving your drive out of the private waters of Cancer and into the open. Leo wants you visible, expressive, and doing the thing you love in front of people. Whatever the Full Moon woke up in you, Mars in Leo is here to help you live it out loud.
What is the one bold thing you are taking into this new season?
🐢 Monday, September 28th
- Moon enters Taurus at 7:41 AM PT
- Sun in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini at 9:21 AM PT
The Moon slides into Taurus right as the week begins and the pace settles. After all that Aries fire, your body wants ground under it. Slow mornings, real food, one thing finished well. Taurus is not asking you to do less. It is asking you to do it at a pace you can sustain.
Then at 9:21 AM the Sun in Libra trines Uranus in Gemini, and a door opens that you did not know was there. This is one of the most freeing aspects of the month. It tends to arrive as a message, an invitation, an idea that shows up sideways and changes how you see a situation. Say yes to the unexpected today. Uranus rewards the people who stay curious.
What would you try if you knew the outcome did not have to be perfect?
🦥 Tuesday, September 29th
- Moon in Taurus
A quiet day, and quiet days matter. The Moon spends all of it in Taurus with no major aspects, which means the sky is handing you an uninterrupted stretch to use however you want. There is a lot coming later this week. This is the pocket of calm before it.
Use it on something that makes your life feel good to live in. Clean the space you spend the most time in. Cook. Take the walk. Touch the plants. Taurus energy is the reminder that your life is happening in your actual body, in your actual home, today. Enjoy it here.
What small thing would make your everyday life feel richer?
🦂 Wednesday, September 30th
- Mercury enters Scorpio at 4:45 AM PT
- Moon enters Gemini at 10:27 AM PT
- Moon in Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius at 3:40 PM PT
- Moon in Gemini conjunct Uranus in Gemini at 7:43 PM PT
Before dawn Mercury enters Scorpio and your mind changes gears. In Libra it wanted balance and agreement. In Scorpio it wants the truth, and it is willing to sit with something uncomfortable to get there. For the next few weeks your conversations go deeper, your research gets better, and you can see what people are not saying. Use it with care and it becomes a gift.
Mid morning the Moon moves into Gemini and the day gets quick and social. By afternoon the Moon trines Pluto and something clicks into focus, and in the evening the Moon meets Uranus in Gemini and the surprises arrive. Insights that land tonight tend to be the ones that change your direction. Keep a note open. Do not dismiss the strange idea.
What truth have you been circling without naming?
🍂 Thursday, October 1st
- Moon in Gemini
- Moon in Gemini trines the Sun in Libra at 12:05 AM PT
- Moon in Gemini sextiles Jupiter in Leo at 7:41 PM PT
A new month opens with air and ease. The Moon in Gemini trines the Sun in Libra just after midnight, and that flow carries through the day. When the Moon and the Sun are in harmony, what you want and what you feel are pointing the same way. Those days are rare enough to use on purpose. Do the thing that requires both your head and your heart to agree.
In the evening the Moon sextiles Jupiter in Leo and generosity comes easily. Reach out. Make the connection. Say the encouraging thing to the person who needs it. October is starting, and the way you open a month tends to set its tone.
What do you want this month to feel like?
⚡ Friday, October 2nd
- Mercury in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius at 1:42 PM PT
- Moon enters Cancer at 12:55 PM PT
- Mars in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 3:17 PM PT
- Moon in Cancer trines Mercury in Scorpio at 6:35 PM PT
This is the most charged day of the week, and it holds two very different energies at once. In the early afternoon Mercury in Scorpio squares Pluto in Aquarius and conversations get intense. Something buried wants to be said. The risk here is force, obsessing, trying to win, or pushing someone to admit something. The gift is honesty. Say the true thing and then stop talking. Let the other person have their own timing.
Around the same time the Moon moves into Cancer and Mars in Leo trines Neptune in Aries, and a completely different current runs underneath. Mars trine Neptune is action guided by feeling, the kind of afternoon where you create something without forcing it. By evening the Moon in Cancer trines Mercury and the intensity turns tender. Whatever was hard to say at lunch gets easier to say at dinner.
What honest thing wants to be said, and can you say it gently?
🌹↩️ Saturday, October 3rd
- Moon in Cancer
- Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio at 12:17 AM PT
- Moon in Cancer trines Venus in Scorpio at 3:15 AM PT
- Mars in Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius at 3:38 AM PT
- Last Quarter Moon in Cancer at 6:26 AM PT
Just after midnight Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio and begins a six week review of your relationships, your money, your beauty, and your worth. Venus retrograde comes around only once every eighteen months, and it always works the same way. It brings back what is unfinished. People return. Old feelings resurface. You look at something you thought you had decided and realize you decided it out of fear.
None of that is a problem. Venus retrograde in Scorpio is asking you to go all the way down to the root. Where are you settling? Where are you performing love instead of feeling it? What are you paying for that you do not actually want? The classic advice is to avoid big new commitments, major purchases, and dramatic changes to how you look, and that advice is good. But the deeper work is this: use these six weeks to find out what you truly value, so that when Venus turns direct you are building on something real.
Today is also day one of the Venus and Mercury Retrograde Challenge in the Moment App. It runs all 42 days of this retrograde window, and it exists so you do not have to do this alone. More on that below.
The same morning Mars opposes Pluto and the Last Quarter Moon arrives in Cancer. The opposition can feel like a power struggle or a surge of force, so notice the urge to control and let it pass through you. The Last Quarter Moon is a release point. Let go of one thing you have been holding because you were afraid of what it would mean to put it down.
What have you been calling love that is actually fear?
🚧 Sunday, October 4th
- Sun in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries at 5:29 AM PT
- Moon enters Leo at 3:54 PM PT
- Moon in Leo trines Neptune in Aries at 8:37 PM PT
- Moon in Leo conjunct Mars in Leo at 11:01 PM PT
The week closes with a reality check and then a spark. In the early morning the Sun in Libra opposes Saturn in Aries, and you may feel the weight of a limit, a delay, or a responsibility that will not move. Saturn is not punishing you. It is showing you where the structure is thin so you can strengthen it. Look at the place that feels heavy and ask what one honest change would make it lighter.
By afternoon the Moon enters Leo and the mood warms right back up. In the evening it trines Neptune and then meets Mars in Leo late at night, and your courage comes back with imagination attached. This is the sky handing you back your creative fire at the end of a heavy week. Go into the new week knowing that what Venus is reviewing, Mars in Leo is ready to help you rebuild.
What are you ready to rebuild from the inside out?
Your Tools for Venus Retrograde
🌙 Venus stations retrograde in Scorpio on October 3 and moves backward for six weeks. The Libra Season and New Moon Workbook carries you through Libra season and the New Moon in Libra on October 10, which lands right in the middle of this Venus review. Libra is ruled by Venus, so this workbook is the one you want on your desk for the next six weeks. You can also find every issue in the Moon Workbooks collection.
🎙️ The timing on this could not be better. My full guide, Venus Retrograde in Scorpio and Libra, airs on the Spirit Daughter Podcast on September 29, four days before Venus turns. I walk through what this retrograde is asking of each sign, what to do and what to wait on, and how to work with the people and feelings that come back. The Caller Questions mini episode follows on October 2.
📱 On October 3 we start the Venus and Mercury Retrograde Challenge in the Moment App, and I would love for you to do it with me. It runs 42 days, from the day Venus turns retrograde through November 13, when Venus and Mercury both station direct. Every day you get one notification with where the Moon is, what the sky is doing, and one track chosen for that exact energy, a meditation, an activation, a visualization, a ritual, or a pep talk. Mercury joins the retrograde on October 24, and from there you are working with two planets moving backward at once. The daily practice is what keeps you grounded through all of it. Day one is a meditation called Connect with what you really want, and that is the whole invitation. You are allowed to want what you want.
📖 If Venus retrograde has you looking at what you want and why, Spirit Daughter the book is a good companion for these six weeks. It is the whole method in one place.
Here is to a week of honesty, depth, and finding out what you truly value.
xx ❤︎
