Weekly Reading for October 11 - 18: Pluto stations Direct
On paper, this week looks like a nap. Nothing major on the calendar until Thursday, and you could be forgiven for thinking you get a breather. You don’t, not exactly. We’re in one of those stretches of the year where even when nothing is happening, so much is happening, mostly because Venus is retrograde in Scorpio and has every relationship, desire, and source of pleasure in your life on the operating table. What do I want, why do I want it, and what scary thing is sitting underneath the wanting. Scorpio doesn’t let you skim.
We’re also walking in off Saturday’s new moon in Libra, which was a legit fresh start with grit in its teeth. Venus was squaring Mars, so the reset came with some anger, some fear, some friction, a sense of “fine, we’re starting over, but I’m annoyed about it.” It was hopeful too (the new moon was sextile Jupiter), just not easy. On top of all that, Pluto has been parked in a hard angle to Venus, Mercury, and Mars, our three most personal planets, which means the deep subterranean stuff around power, control, desire, and fear is basically floating at the surface of everything. Last week we compared this whole situation to moving a couch around a tight corner: an inch this way, pivot, an inch that way, and then it’s wedged and you can’t go forward or back. This week, we finally figure out how to get it around the corner.
Key moments of the week:
- Thursday, October 15: Sun in Libra sextile Jupiter in Leo (4:21AM)
- Thursday, October 15: Pluto stations direct (10:40PM)
- Friday, October 16: Mars in Leo trine Saturn in Aries (4:32AM)
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