The Week Ahead: 5 to 11 October

This is the first full week of the Venus review, and it ends with a fresh start.

Venus turned retrograde on Saturday afternoon, and I wrote to you about it yesterday.

For the next six weeks, love, money, what you value and who you value all get looked at again. This week that review gets its words.

On Wednesday morning, 7 October, at 8:10 Perth time, Mercury, moving forward through Scorpio, meets Venus, moving backward. The two of them pass each other going opposite ways, and for a day or two the sentence you have not been able to find arrives on its own.

Say it carefully, because Scorpio does not do small talk.

On Thursday afternoon the Rooster month ends and the Month of the Dog begins in the Chinese calendar. Loyalty, watchfulness and guarding what matters, inside a Fire Horse year that just wants to run. Then, late on Saturday night, 10 October, at 11:50 Perth time, the Moon is new at 17 degrees of Libra.

A New Moon is the planting point of a cycle, and this one is in the sign of partnership, of the other person, of what is fair.

So the fortnight that began with Venus turning around ends with a seed going into the ground, and the seed is about how you do relationships.

I will write about the New Moon on Saturday and Sunday.

One thing early on Sunday morning: Venus and Mars square off across the sky, what you want against what you agreed, so the weekend can carry a small argument about exactly that.

Mars is in Leo all week, still asking to be seen.

Numerology: the first full week of October’s 11 month, so the intuition is loud and the nerves are close behind it.

Sit for your thirty minutes.

The theme for everyone: find the words on Wednesday, guard what matters from Thursday, and plant something fair on Saturday night.

Read for your Sun sign, and your rising sign if you know it.

Aries

Venus is reviewing your house of depth and shared resources, and on Wednesday Mercury hands you the words for the money or the trust you have been unable to talk about. Have that conversation on Wednesday or Thursday, while the words are there. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of partnership, so the fresh start of the fortnight is about the other person, and what a fair arrangement between you would look like. Mars in your house of joy says do at least one thing this week purely because you love it.

Taurus

Venus, your own planet, is reviewing your house of partnership, and Wednesday’s Mercury meeting brings the relationship conversation to the surface whether you planned it or not. Let the other person say the whole thing before you answer. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of work and health, so the fortnight’s fresh start is a new routine, a new job or a new way of treating the body. The Dog month from Thursday says loyalty is the test this month, yours and theirs.

Gemini

Venus is reviewing your house of work and health, and on Wednesday Mercury, your own planet, gives you the words for what the job or the body has been trying to tell you. Write it down on Wednesday, because you will want it in a month. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of joy and creativity, so the fortnight’s fresh start is something you make, play or fall for. An 11 month in your house of horizons keeps the intuition about the bigger plan loud, so trust the hunch about where this is going.

Cancer

Venus is reviewing your house of joy and creativity, and Wednesday’s Mercury meeting puts words to a romance, a child or a creative project you had set down. Say the kind thing you have been holding back, on Wednesday. Saturday night’s New Moon lands at the base of your chart, so the fortnight’s fresh start is at home, with family, or in the place you return to. Mars in your house of money says put a number on your work this week and ask for it.

Leo

Venus is reviewing the base of your chart, and on Wednesday Mercury gives you the words for the home or family matter that has been sitting under the surface. Have the conversation at the kitchen table, not by message. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of words and daily connections, so the fortnight’s fresh start is a conversation, a message, a sibling or a neighbour. Mars is in your own sign all week, so the energy is yours, and the Dog month from Thursday asks you to spend it guarding what matters rather than performing.

Virgo

Venus is reviewing your house of words and daily connections, and on Wednesday Mercury, your own planet, meets her there, so a conversation from the past comes back with the words it needed the first time. Say them. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of money and worth, so the fortnight’s fresh start is about what you earn, what you spend, and what you are worth. The Moon is in your sign from Wednesday to Friday, so the middle of the week is yours for the careful work.

Libra

Venus, your own planet, is reviewing your house of money and worth, and Wednesday’s Mercury meeting brings the money conversation, or the worth conversation, to the surface. Name your price out loud on Wednesday, once. Saturday night’s New Moon is in your own sign, the first New Moon of your season, so the fortnight’s fresh start is about you, and who you are becoming this year. Sunday morning’s Venus and Mars square lands between your money and your friends, so keep the wallet and the group separate this weekend.

Scorpio

Venus is reviewing your own sign, and on Wednesday Mercury meets her there, so the words arrive for what you actually want, from love, from money, from your own reflection. Say it to one person who matters, on Wednesday. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your quietest house, so the fortnight’s fresh start happens out of sight, in rest, in reflection, in the thing you finish before your own season begins on the 23rd. Mars at the top of your chart keeps the work drive strong, so push the public thing while the private thing settles.

Sagittarius

Venus is reviewing your quietest house, and Wednesday’s Mercury meeting brings words to an old love, an old value or an old loss you thought had gone quiet. Write it down rather than sending it. Saturday night’s New Moon lands among your friends and community, so the fortnight’s fresh start is a group, a cause or a friendship worth beginning. Mars in your house of horizons says book the trip or the course this week while the drive is there.

Capricorn

Venus is reviewing your house of friends and community, and on Wednesday Mercury gives you the words for a friendship or a group matter that has been sitting unsaid. Make the call on Wednesday. Saturday night’s New Moon lands at the top of your chart, so the fortnight’s fresh start is professional, a role, a reputation, a public step. Mars in your house of depth says the money held with another still wants the brave conversation this week.

Aquarius

Venus is reviewing the top of your chart, and Wednesday’s Mercury meeting hands you the words for the work or reputation question you have been circling. Ask for the thing on Wednesday, plainly. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of horizons, so the fortnight’s fresh start is a trip, a course or a belief you are ready to test. Mars in your house of partnership keeps the other person in the driving seat this week, so let them steer one thing.

Pisces

Venus is reviewing your house of horizons, and on Wednesday Mercury brings the words for the belief about love, or the love in another place, that has been under review. Say what you actually believe about it, once. Saturday night’s New Moon lands in your house of depth and shared resources, so the fortnight’s fresh start is about trust, intimacy or money held between you and another. Mars in your house of work and health says the new daily habit from last week is worth keeping through this one.

Whatever your sign, the week has one shape.

Wednesday the words arrive.

Saturday night the seed goes in.

Say the true thing, then plant something fair.

What conversation have you been waiting to find the words for?

There is more teaching like this in The Library, and every daily post is in Daily Posts. If you would like guidance on your own path, see Readings.