Weekly Reading for September 13 - 20: Venus squaring Pluto

We made it. Or we’re about to make it, which by Friday counts as the same thing, because that’s when Venus and Mercury both station direct and the double retrograde that’s been running the show since early October finally clocks out. It’s been a lot. Venus went backward through Scorpio and limped into Libra, Mercury went backward in Scorpio, and for weeks it’s felt like someone ripped up every floorboard in the house to check for rot and mold, then left them stacked in the hallway while you tried to get everyone fed around them. Old relationships, old money stuff, old intimacy stuff, the resentment you swore you’d processed in 2019, the family thing nobody brings up at Thanksgiving. All of it came up for air, and all of it wanted a second look.Key moments of the week:Monday, November 9: New Moon in Scorpio (2:01AM)Tuesday, November 10: Venus in Libra sextile Mars in Leo (1:47AM)Wednesday, November 11: Jupiter in Leo opposite North Node in Aquarius (3:29PM)Friday, November 13: Mercury stations direct in Scorpio (10:54AM)Friday, November 13: Venus stations direct in Libra (7:27PM)Saturday, November 14: Mars in Leo opposite North Node in Aquarius (7:30PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

Last week kicked the shit out of a lot of us. We had a full moon in Taurus squaring Pluto, the Sun squaring Pluto, Venus opposite Chiron and Mercury squaring Mars, all in the same stretch. It poked at old wounds we thought had closed up years ago, and most of us are walking into November a little bruised. If you feel fine, that tracks too. We’re in the back half of Venus retrograde now, and the back half is so much better than the front.The first half had Venus backing through Scorpio, a sign where she does not do well, and it dragged our deepest issues into our relationships for a long, uncomfortable look. That process composted a ton of stuff. Composting is stinky and unsightly and nobody enjoys standing next to it, but what’s left at the end is good raw material. Since the cazimi, Venus has been back in Libra, a sign she rules, where she has all her tools. So the work has shifted from breaking things down to building something out of what’s left.Key moments of the week:Sunday, November 1: Venus in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (4:30AM)Wednesday, November 4: Venus in Libra sextile Jupiter in Leo (5:31AM)Wednesday, November 4: Sun conjoins Mercury in Scorpio (9:24AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

This week is the first full week of the back half of Venus retrograde, and it feels like a different chapter. Venus moved back into Libra on Sunday, one of the two signs she rules, so even though she’s still retrograde, she’s working with her own tools again and conditions improve a lot. Mercury stationed retrograde in Scorpio on Saturday, which sends everyone back to the conversations they’ve been having for months about everything that came up in October. Put those together and the work shifts from tearing things open to putting things back together. It’s still painstaking, and there are still a few tense spots, but there’s finally something to do with everything that’s been unearthed, and that is a huge relief.Key moments of the week:Sunday, October 25: Venus enters Libra (5:10AM)Monday, October 26: Full Moon in Taurus (12:11AM)Monday, October 26: Sun in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (8:11AM)Wednesday, October 28: Venus in Libra oppose Chiron in Aries (3:34AM)Friday, October 30: Mercury in Scorpio square Mars in Leo (1:19PM)Sunday, November 1: Venus in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (4:30AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

We’re at the halfway point of Venus retrograde, and the back half of this week is where the whole thing flips over. Since October 3rd, Venus has been backing through Scorpio as the evening star, sinking lower every night and dragging us into the stuff we’d rather not look directly at, like dependency, jealousy, and the parts of intimacy that are secretly about fear or control. Venus is in its detriment in Scorpio, so the planet that wants things to feel easy and good has spent October in a sign where everything costs something. If it’s felt heavy, that’s why.Key moments of the week:Monday, October 19: Sun in Libra trine North node in Aquarius (10:04PM)Tuesday, October 20: Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (2:55AM)Wednesday, October 21: Sun in Libra opposite Chiron in Aries (6:26PM)Friday, October 23: Sun enters Scorpio (5:38AM)Friday, October 23: Sun conjoins Venus in Scorpio (11:43PM)Saturday, October 24: Mercury stations Retrograde (3:12AM)Sunday, October 25: Venus enters Libra (5:10AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

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)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

Venus stationed retrograde on Saturday, so we're now one full week into the stretch of the year where everything we want, everything we value, and everyone we're attached to gets dragged into a windowless conference room for a performance review. Venus retrograde never stops at asking what you want. It asks why you want it, and then it sits there with its arms crossed, unimpressed by "because I've always wanted it" or "because that's what a person like me is supposed to want." It wants the answer underneath that one, and probably the one under that.The reason this one hit so hard right out of the gate is where it stationed: right in the middle of a T-square. Mars in Leo is opposing Pluto in Aquarius, and Venus and Mercury are both sitting in Scorpio squaring the two of them. Translated into plain English, how we act, how we think and talk, and what we love are all being held in a chokehold by the planet of power, fear, control, and the stuff we buried in the backyard years ago and planted hostas over. And every one of these planets is in a fixed sign, which is basically the astrological equivalent of saying "this is just how I am" with your whole chest. This is how I do things (Leo), this is how I think about things (Aquarius), this is how I feel about things (Scorpio), and none of it is up for negotiation, thank you.Key moments of the week:Sunday, October 4: Sun in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (8:28AM)Tuesday, October 6: Mercury conjoins Venus in Scorpio (8:10PM)Wednesday, October 7: Mars in Leo sextile Uranus in Gemini (6:41AM)Saturday, October 10: New Moon in Libra (11:49AM)Saturday, October 10: Venus in Scorpio square Mars in Leo (5:30PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

Here’s hoping we're all walking into this week without having burned any bridges we didn't mean to burn over the full moon in Aries weekend. If you did, you're in good company, and the rest of the week isn't exactly planning to calm down. Mars changed signs on Sunday. Mercury changes signs on Wednesday. And on Saturday, Venus stations retrograde, which I've been talking about for a month and which is finally here.Almost everything else this week is either setting those up or reacting to them. Mars and Mercury both hit Chiron at the very last degree of a sign right before they leave it, so the week keeps pressing on an old bruise and then immediately moving on. Mars gets louder and prouder. Mercury goes underground and starts digging. By Friday they're colliding with each other and with Pluto, and then Venus stops in the middle of all of it and turns around.Key moments of the week:Sunday, September 27: Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (7:58AM)Sunday, September 27: Mars enters Leo (10:49PM)Monday, September 28: Sun in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (12:21PM)Monday, September 28: Mercury in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (5:08PM)Tuesday, September 29: Mercury in Libra opposite Chiron in Aries (11:14PM)Wednesday, September 30: Mercury enters Scorpio (7:45AM)Friday, October 2: Mercury in Scorpio square Mars in Leo (5:14AM)Friday, October 2: Mercury in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (4:42PM)Friday, October 2: Mars in Leo trine Neptune in Aries (6:17PM)Saturday, October 3: Venus stations Retrograde (3:16AM)Saturday, October 3: Mars in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius (6:38AM)Sunday, October 4: Sun in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (8:28AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

Libra season starts Tuesday evening, and every year this is the stretch where we take stock of what's out of balance, what's getting too much of our energy, what's getting none of it, and why we've been letting it ride. It's harvest time, we're heading into the last quarter of the year, and the question on the table is what still needs doing and what's the best use of our time and effort from here. Libra likes to sit with that question, weigh everything, get it exactly right before moving. This week does not give it the chance, because Saturday brings a full moon in Aries, and Aries charges first and strategizes never. So the week works like this: the first few days make it obvious what's out of whack, and the weekend deals with it much faster than anyone was planning to.Key moments of the week:Monday, September 21: Mercury in Libra sextile Jupiter in Leo (6:50PM)Tuesday, September 22: Sun enters Libra (8:05PM)Friday, September 25: Sun in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (9:35PM)Saturday, September 26: Sun in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (1:34AM)Saturday, September 26: Full Moon in Aries (12:48PM)Sunday, September 27: Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries (7:58AM)Sunday, September 27: Mars enters Leo (10:49PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

This is the week the fall's relationship curriculum stops being a rumor and becomes your problem. We've been talking about the Venus retrograde like it's weather coming in from three states over, and now it's in the driveway. Venus is in Scorpio, moving slow, sitting in her least favorite outfit, and on Tuesday she squares Pluto for the first of three times between now and December. Which means whatever has been feeling charged in your closest relationships since the end of August, the thing that seemed small but keeps poking something big and subterranean, is not a fluke and it's not going away. It's the opening scene. The syllabus is being handed out this week, and almost everything on it runs through mid-December, so if nothing feels resolved by Friday, that is not failure, that is the design. Venus in Scorpio doesn't want the pleasant version of anything. She would rather have one devastating conversation than a hundred lovely brunches, and she can smell a performance from across the room, including yours. The pressure showing up right now is information. Take notes, don't panic, and don't expect a verdict yet.Key moments of the week:Sunday, September 13: Mercury in Libra trine Uranus in Taurus (10:39PM)Monday, September 14: Sun in Virgo sextile Mars in Cancer (3:52PM)Tuesday, September 15: Venus in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius (2:34PM)Tuesday, September 15: Neptune in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius (9:46PM)Thursday, September 17: Chiron enters Aries (9:54PM)Friday, September 18: Mercury in Libra opposite Saturn in Aries (6:00AM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app

This week is a Thursday with six other days attached to it. Almost everything that matters happens on September 10th: a new moon in Virgo, Venus leaving Libra for Scorpio, Mercury leaving Virgo for Libra, and Uranus stationing retrograde, all in one day, like the sky decided to do its whole quarterly review in a single afternoon. And unlike some weeks where the big headlines happen somewhere far away from your daily life, you're going to feel all of this. Venus and Mercury are personal planets. When they move, your life moves.Both of them are leaving signs where they're at their strongest. Venus has been home in Libra, Mercury has been home in Virgo, and for the past few weeks you've had access to your sharpest thinking and your most gracious relating, even if eclipse season steamrolled right over your ability to notice it. Now they're both heading into more complicated territory. Not bad territory, just territory with more texture. Venus in Scorpio wants depth, merging, the underside of the rock. Mercury in Libra wants to take everything that's been shaken loose and arrange it into something that makes sense. And Uranus, which has spent months rearranging the furniture in one specific corner of your life, is pausing to let you look at what it did.Key moments of the week:Tuesday, September 8: Venus in Libra trine North Node in Aquarius (12:37PM)Thursday, September 10: Venus enters Scorpio (4:07AM)Thursday, September 10: Mercury enters Libra (12:21PM)Thursday, September 10: Venus in Scorpio opposite Chiron in Taurus (1:15PM)Thursday, September 10: Uranus stations retrograde (2:27PM)Thursday, September 10: New Moon in Virgo (11:26PM)Saturday, September 12: Mercury in Libra trine Pluto in Aquarius (11:58AM)Saturday, September 12: Mercury in Libra opposite Neptune in Aries (12:37PM)Sunday, September 13: Mercury in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini (10:39PM)To read your, your kids', and your co-parents' daily horoscopes for this week, along with the detailed daily insights throughout the week, and personalized insights for every transit going on right now (plus deep dive parenting guides based on your specific chart and your kids' charts), pop over to the website or either app store:Get started on the websiteiPhone and iPad appsAndroid app