There is a tenderness to this week, drawing our attention towards the places where love, belonging, and safety meet.
Venus Retrograde moves backwards into Libra on October 25, followed by a Taurus Full Moon on October 26.
Together, these movements ask us to listen to what relationship reveals within us, what our bodies have been holding, and how we might honour our own worth while remaining open to connection.
October 25, 2026: Venus Retrograde Enters Libra
After three weeks of retrograde movement, Venus returns from Scorpio to Libra. She continues her retrograde until November 13 and remains in Libra until December 4, 2026. As she changes signs, the focus of her inward journey begins to shift.
In Scorpio, Venus has been taking us beneath our familiar ways of loving. We have been meeting the fears that surround intimacy, the instinct to protect ourselves, and the emotional patterns that shape how much of ourselves we allow another to see. Her return to Libra brings these discoveries into the space between people.
Here, we begin to observe how our inner experiences become conversations, agreements, and exchanges. What happens when we disagree? How do we respond when our desires differ from someone else’s? Where can we remain present as ourselves, and where do we begin adjusting who we are to preserve a sense of harmony?
Libra brings attention to balance, including the ways we may have learned to maintain it by overlooking ourselves. We might notice how quickly we soften an opinion, conceal a need, or become agreeable when tension arises. Beneath these responses, there may be a longing for acceptance, a fear of disconnection, or uncertainty about whether our truth is welcome.
The remaining weeks of this retrograde offer room to become more familiar with these dynamics. Through observing our relationships, we can learn something about the needs and desires living within us. Each exchange becomes an opportunity to recognise what we are bringing into connection, and which familiar responses are ready to be reconsidered.
October 26, 2026: Taurus Full Moon
The following day, the Moon becomes full in Taurus, bringing this exploration into the body. Feelings may become more pronounced, drawing our awareness towards needs that have been present beneath our immediate reactions.
Taurus belongs to the earth. Its pace is patient, its orientation physical, and its wisdom rooted in our lived experience of being here. Under this Full Moon, we are invited to notice how deeply we need steadiness. How our hearts seek peace. How our nervous systems respond to the possibility of feeling safe enough to soften.
With the Sun opposite in Scorpio, this lunation holds both the need for stability and the invitation into transformation. The wider celestial pattern includes Venus retrograde in Libra, Chiron in Aries, and Pluto in Aquarius, bringing our relationships, sense of self, and connection with humanity into the same conversation.
Within this pattern, our longing for safety sits alongside a desire to inhabit our own power. To feel that we belong to ourselves. To trust our desires and the direction emerging from within, even as life continues to move and change around us.
This Full Moon offers space for release through feeling. As emotions rise, we may recognise the responses we have carried in our bodies and the relational habits they have helped sustain. Bringing intention to these patterns allows something to shift in how we meet ourselves and one another.
There is tenderness available here as old dynamics loosen. Our relationships with individuals, and with the wider human collective, can begin to reflect more of what feels honest within us. Transformation becomes something we experience physically, through the gradual release of what we no longer need to hold.
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Weekly Astrology 25 – 31 October, 2026
Venus rules both Libra and Taurus, drawing these two events together through questions of love, personal value, relationship, and desire. This week asks us to explore how connection might deepen our relationship with ourselves.
Notice what emerges in the presence of another. An inherited expectation. A familiar emotional response. An urge to withdraw, accommodate, or become someone more easily accepted. Give yourself a moment to feel what lives underneath that movement.
Some understanding may arrive through sensation before it becomes clear in words. You might recognise the ease of an exchange that feels balanced, or sense that a reaction carries more history than the present moment alone can explain. Allow these experiences to become part of your listening.
Retrograde seasons often reveal their meaning gradually, with greater mental clarity following the return to forward motion. For now, there is value in staying curious about what your feelings and body are showing you.
Beneath a learned response, a quieter need may be waiting for recognition. Meeting it with care can bring you closer to yourself, and to a way of relating that makes room for your truth.
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 25 October to 31 October, 2026. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
Your heart has something to show you this week, Aries Rising. Notice how safe you feel when you are close to another, and what happens within you when emotions deepen or circumstances change. Familiar relationship dynamics may reveal where you have been setting your own truth aside to maintain connection. Give yourself room to recognise what these exchanges ask of you, and whether there is space for your whole self within them. You are invited to gather your energy back into relationships that welcome your autonomy, emotional honesty, and capacity to love.
Taurus Rising
Return your attention to the rhythm of your body, Taurus Rising. Beneath the expectations and activity around you, there is a pace that belongs to you. This week invites you to hear it more clearly and allow it to shape how you move through your days. As the Full Moon illuminates your sign, familiar ways of understanding yourself may begin to loosen. Relationships can shift alongside this inner movement, revealing where something more honest is emerging. Listen to what your body asks of your habits, daily rhythms, and relationship with yourself.
Gemini Rising
Creativity offers a way to meet yourself more deeply this week, Gemini Rising. Notice what arises when you allow your voice, imagination, or joy to take up space. You may encounter parts of yourself that have learned to stay quiet, dismiss pleasure, or hesitate around play. These responses hold something worth listening to. Beneath them, emotional patterns are becoming available for release through the body. Allow comfort and steadiness to support this process. There is room to discover what self-expression feels like when your body feels safe enough to participate.
Cancer Rising
Your inner world calls for gentle attention this week, Cancer Rising. Memories, emotional responses, or familiar relationship patterns may lead you towards the early experiences that helped shape them. Give yourself space to notice which ideas about closeness and connection were inherited, and what needs have remained beneath your awareness. Alongside this reflection, your body may be ready to release older understandings of belonging. The ways you once learned to fit in can begin to change. Listen for what feels true now as your experience of safety becomes more personal and embodied.
Leo Rising
There is room to reconsider the stories you live by this week, Leo Rising. Bring curiosity to the ideas that shape your sense of worth and the authority you allow yourself to hold. Some may reveal where an old emotion or experience still influences what you believe is possible for you. As these patterns become visible, you can begin releasing what has kept your own voice at a distance. Your life’s direction is asking for your attention. This week offers space to hear it beneath familiar narratives and remember what carries meaning for you.
Virgo Rising
Your relationship with your own value is asking for care this week, Virgo Rising. Notice the familiar doubts that arise around deserving, receiving, or trusting yourself. There is something beneath these questions that wants your attention. Allow yourself to listen beyond the story of inadequacy and towards the quieter understanding it has obscured. Your body is making room for a different experience of worthiness, while your inner voice draws you towards what matters personally. Give that voice time to become clearer. It carries insight into your truth, your priorities, and your sense of meaning.
Libra Rising
You may find yourself between familiar and emerging versions of yourself this week, Libra Rising. Ways of being that once felt natural can begin to loosen before another way has fully formed. Allow room for this transition and the questions it brings. As Venus returns to your sign, your relationship with yourself comes into focus, while the Full Moon draws attention to emotional depth and change. You are invited to recognise the strength already within you. Notice how it supports your capacity to feel, to remain with your truth, and to experience safety within yourself.
Scorpio Rising
Change is moving through your experience of yourself and your relationships, Scorpio Rising. Some of it may feel difficult to name while you are still within it. Give yourself permission to understand confusion as part of an inner rearrangement, and questioning as part of moving between familiar and emerging ways of being. This week asks you to explore how safety might accompany release. Notice where your body can soften around the possibility of change. Relationship patterns that have become uncomfortable or untrue are ready for your attention, with space to loosen and gradually fall away.
Sagittarius Rising
Turn towards the desires living quietly within you this week, Sagittarius Rising. Your hopes for the future are inviting a more personal conversation about what your heart actually wants. Give yourself space to hear that answer beneath outside expectations. Questions of belonging may also arise, revealing where you have allowed others to determine your place. There is an invitation to remember belonging as something already within you. Let this recognition reach into ordinary life, shaping how you nourish yourself, the habits you repeat, and the thoughts that accompany you through your days.
Capricorn Rising
Pause long enough to look back at the path you have travelled, Capricorn Rising. This week invites reflection on the inner purpose that has shaped your choices, your work, and the direction of your life. There may be something important to recognise before your next movement becomes clear. Alongside this review, notice where you have learned to make yourself less visible. Old fears around being seen, expressing yourself, or allowing your presence to matter are asking for tenderness. Give these parts of yourself the attention they need as you reconnect with what has guided you.
Aquarius Rising
Make space to hear your own experience beneath what you have been taught, Aquarius Rising. Beliefs about purpose, meaning, and the nature of life may be ready for review. Notice which ideas feel alive within you and which continue through familiarity alone. Your heart and body have something to contribute to this inquiry. Allow their responses to sit alongside the explanations you have inherited. As older childhood patterns become available for release, there is room to feel more present within yourself. This week invites you to inhabit your body with greater fullness and personal truth.
Pisces Rising
Your feelings are bringing deeper needs into view this week, Pisces Rising. Listen to what they reveal about safety, your body, and the value you place on yourself. Familiar responses within relationships may show you where love and closeness have become entangled with fears about losing your autonomy. These patterns are asking for care and the possibility of change. As you meet them, a stronger sense of trust in yourself can emerge. There is room for connection that respects everyone involved, and for an experience of your own power that remains present within love.
