This week draws us into the quieter, less familiar places within ourselves.
As Venus continues her retrograde, Scorpio season begins, and Mercury turns backward, our attention moves toward the feelings, desires, and stories beneath everyday experience.
There is room for greater honesty here. Room to understand what has been shaping our relationships and our sense of belonging. Each transit invites us to notice more, bringing awareness to the parts of ourselves ready to be met differently.
October 20, 2026: Venus Retrograde Square Pluto
Venus retrograde in Scorpio meets Pluto in Aquarius in a square that asks us to look closely at the relationship between love, freedom, and emotional protection. This conversation began in mid September and continues into early December, giving us time to revisit what is emerging.
We may notice where fear has influenced our choices, where familiar responses have obscured our desires, or where keeping ourselves safe has made connection feel further away. Beneath these responses are needs asking for our attention. With honesty, we can begin to understand what these protective patterns have been holding.
There is an invitation to reclaim trust in ourselves. To recognise that belonging can include the fullness of who we are. As we become more intimate with our needs and desires, we create space for relationships and community that welcome our truthful expression. Freedom and connection can exist together, with room for us to remain ourselves.
October 23, 2026: Scorpio Season
As the Sun enters Scorpio, we begin a season of looking beneath appearances. Until November 22, this water sign invites us to approach life through feeling, intuition, and a willingness to explore what usually remains unseen.
Scorpio draws our attention toward the deeper reasons behind our movements. The feelings beneath our decisions. The truth beneath the explanations we have grown accustomed to offering ourselves. Familiar stories may begin to feel incomplete as our desire for honesty grows.
This season asks for presence with what is real within us. We may feel more focused, more aware of what matters, and more connected to the desires that carry meaning. Allow yourself to follow that attention inward. There is more of you to discover, and a greater capacity to meet what you find.
Read more about Scorpio Season 2026.
October 24, 2026: Venus Cazimi
During her retrograde, Venus moves from her evening star phase toward becoming a morning star. At the midpoint of this passage, she joins the Sun in a cazimi, a meeting described as entering its heart.
This conjunction offers a moment of illumination within the larger process of review. Feelings around worthiness, intimacy, desire, and fear may become easier to recognise. Something previously operating beneath awareness can now be seen with greater clarity.
With that recognition comes the possibility of choosing differently. What are you learning about the ways you relate? Which emotional responses are you ready to release as your understanding of yourself changes?
The invitation is to let insight reach you deeply. To allow an honest encounter with your inner world to reshape your relationship with yourself. As Venus begins her next phase, we too can carry forward a more conscious understanding of what we want and how we connect.
October 24, 2026: Mercury Retrograde
Mercury begins its final retrograde of 2026 in Scorpio this week on October 24, continuing until November 13. Alongside Venus, it brings another invitation to pause and explore the inner experiences influencing our lives.
Here, reflection reaches into the less conscious regions of the mind. We are invited to consider the beliefs beneath our opinions, the stories beneath our words, and the assumptions that quietly direct our attention.
Some of what we discover may be familiar. Other material may only now become available to us. Approach it with curiosity. Which perspectives still feel true? Which narratives are asking to be reconsidered or rewritten?
Scorpio reminds us that recognising a pattern changes our relationship with it. We gain room to decide what we continue to give meaning and permission to shape our experience. This retrograde offers time to listen closely to that inner conversation.
Read more about Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio.
Weekly Astrology 18 – 24 October, 2026
Across these transits, we are invited into a more honest relationship with our inner lives. Emotions may rise, understanding may deepen, and parts of ourselves that have remained hidden may ask to be included.
Give these experiences somewhere to unfold. Journalling, quiet reflection, inwardly attentive movement, and conversations where you feel safe can support what is emerging. Tend to your nervous system so your body feels able to participate in this exploration.
You do not need to uncover everything at once. There is space to move at your pace. Begin with what is asking for your attention. A feeling, a desire, a familiar story. Let yourself meet it with openness, allowing more of who you are to become known, welcomed, and lived.
Weekly Horoscopes for Your Zodiac Sign
As the planets shift in our cosmos, they simultaneously shift through our astrological chart, highlighting different areas of our human experience. By looking to your zodiac sign – in particular your rising sign for your horoscope forecast, we can begin to discern those shifts and invitations.
Read on for your weekly horoscope for the week of 18 October to 24 October, 2026. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week invites you beneath your familiar responses and into the emotional patterns shaping how you connect. Some were created to protect your heart, yet may now be asking for a different place in your life. Give yourself room to notice what still supports you and what keeps your deeper desires out of reach. There is honesty available beneath the version of yourself you know how to present. Listen for what lives there. Your understanding of connection can change as you allow more of your inner truth to be included.
Taurus Rising
Your relationships become a space for greater honesty this week, beginning with the relationship you hold with your own heart. Notice where tenderness lives, where protection has become constriction, and where you feel ready to open with courage. These experiences offer insight into what meaningful connection asks of you now. Let yourself recognise the needs beneath your responses without rushing to move past them. As you become more willing to meet yourself, you may discover which patterns support intimacy and which are ready to soften their hold on your heart.
Gemini Rising
The way you move through your days offers something to explore this week. Your routines, thoughts, and relationship with your body may reveal beliefs about who you are and what you deserve. Notice the quieter habits that leave you feeling diminished, including those so familiar they rarely receive your attention. What understanding of yourself sits beneath them? Allow your body to participate in this reflection. Its responses can help you recognise how your inner narratives become daily choices, creating room to reconsider the ways you care for and live with yourself.
Cancer Rising
Parts of you that have remained hidden may begin asking for expression this week. Desires, feelings, and ways of being that once met shame are ready to receive a more loving response. Notice the messages that taught you to keep them beneath the surface. Where did those messages begin, and do they reflect what you believe now? This is space to reconsider what you have carried as your own. As awareness grows, allow yourself to imagine these quieter parts of you being welcomed, expressed, and celebrated within your life.
Leo Rising
This week draws your attention toward the younger parts of yourself and the experiences that shaped your understanding of home. Feelings around safety and belonging may reveal patterns absorbed during your formative years. Meet what emerges with tenderness, allowing yourself to recognise the needs beneath familiar fears. There is room to reconsider what you learned to expect and how those expectations continue to live within you. Through reflection, you can begin releasing old emotional material while becoming more responsive to what your inner child and younger self have needed.
Virgo Rising
Your mind becomes a place of exploration this week, inviting you to notice the perspectives through which you understand yourself and your life. Some narratives are easy to recognise. Others have been shaping your experience quietly, beneath conscious awareness. Give yourself time to observe both. What assumptions sit beneath your thoughts, and which stories have become so familiar that they feel unquestionable? As understanding deepens, your relationship with these narratives can change. Awareness offers room to reconsider what you believe and choose which perspectives continue to guide your living.
Libra Rising
This week invites you to explore how safety, belonging, and worthiness feel within your body. Let your attention move toward the responses that arise before you have words for them. There may be familiar patterns of protection asking to be understood with greater tenderness. Notice how these patterns influence your capacity to receive love, experience intimacy, and feel at home within yourself. Your body belongs in this conversation. Give it time and care as you discover what a different experience of connection and inner safety might feel like.
Scorpio Rising
As the Sun enters your sign, you are invited into a deeper encounter with yourself. This week brings attention to the emotional patterns surrounding your identity, your expectations, and the direction your life is taking. Notice where protection has shaped the person you allow yourself to be. What becomes visible when you look beneath those familiar layers? There is room to recognise desires and feelings that have been waiting for your attention. Let this season welcome you further into yourself, with honesty about who you are becoming and what you need.
Sagittarius Rising
Change may be taking place beneath the level of what you can clearly name this week. You might sense an inner rearranging before you understand what is shifting or why. Allow yourself to stay close to that experience without requiring immediate explanations. Your body and unconscious world may be moving through their own process of reflection and release. Rest, solitude, and quieter moments offer room for this movement. Trust what can be felt, giving yourself permission to let understanding arrive in its own time as the process continues.
Capricorn Rising
Your experience of belonging asks for a closer look this week. Notice where you feel able to open and where connection seems to require leaving parts of yourself behind. Old fears or protective responses may become more visible as you explore what fitting in has meant to you. Beneath them, there may be needs ready to receive your care. Allow yourself to reconsider the terms on which you participate in community. There is room for connection that includes your autonomy, your honest expression, and the fullness of who you are.
Aquarius Rising
This week invites reflection on where your life is moving and how closely that direction reflects the desires within your heart. Give yourself space to recognise the expectations and projections that have influenced your choices. Some may have become difficult to distinguish from your own sense of purpose. Through honest attention, you can begin hearing yourself more clearly. What holds meaning for you now? Let your answers develop from inner trust, allowing your relationship with purpose to change as you reclaim your authority in shaping the life you are living.
Pisces Rising
Your understanding of life is moving through a period of reconsideration. Perspectives that once felt settled may begin loosening, revealing questions and truths you have yet to explore. Notice which beliefs were inherited and which voices have become woven into your own. There is time to listen more carefully, allowing your personal relationship with existence to unfold. What do you believe, desire, and wonder about now? Be patient as your answers change. Your sense of belonging can deepen as you make room for a worldview that feels increasingly your own.
