This week draws our attention toward the emotional patterns beneath our relationships, desires, and sense of self.
As Mercury meets Venus retrograde in Scorpio, something previously felt but difficult to understand may become clearer. The Libra New Moon then opens a new cycle of reflection around connection, honesty, and the space we make for one another.
Together, these movements invite an awareness of what we need, what shapes our responses, and how we can remain connected without leaving parts of ourselves behind.
October 7, 2026: Mercury Conjunct Venus Retrograde
Only a few days into her retrograde, Venus encounters Mercury in Scorpio this week on October 7. Their conjunction brings the planet of love, relating, and desire together with the planet of thought, language, and communication.
Venus has begun moving inward, revisiting the emotional experiences that influence how we approach intimacy, trust, and safety. Her exploration reaches into our histories and the expectations we carry forward from them. She draws close to the places that feel sensitive, revealing the needs beneath that sensitivity and the experiences beneath familiar reactions.
This is a review that happens through feeling. Before there are explanations, there may be tenderness. Before we understand a pattern, we may notice how it moves through us.
Mercury offers a way to recognise and articulate what Venus is discovering. While her retrograde takes her into our emotional depths, Mercury maintains a connection with the conscious mind. Their meeting allows those deeper discoveries to become accessible through words, understanding, and clearer perception.
We may begin to see why certain interactions stir us, what a recurring response has been protecting, or which need has remained unspoken beneath it. What once operated beyond our awareness can become something we consciously recognise.
There is an opportunity here to understand ourselves more truthfully. Venus reveals the feeling; Mercury helps us comprehend its meaning. Together, they bring attention to the inner experiences that continue to shape our relationships, making room for us to respond to our needs with greater awareness.
Read more about Venus Retrograde here.
October 10, 2026: Libra New Moon
On October 10, the Moon begins a new cycle in Libra, turning our attention toward the places where our lives meet the lives of others.
Libra speaks to relationship, exchange, and the ongoing movement of finding balance. It brings different perspectives into conversation and explores what becomes possible when two people share a space. Its harmony is something continually shaped through the way we listen, respond, and make room for each other.
Under this New Moon, our understanding of that harmony is invited to evolve.
Can a relationship hold disagreement and still offer belonging? Can closeness include distinct preferences, different truths, and the complexity each person brings? Can we meet one another honestly without requiring either person to become smaller?
This lunation makes space for connection that allows each individual to remain present. Agreement does not need to be the foundation of every shared experience. Differences can exist within loving relationships, and tension does not automatically mean that harmony has disappeared. Honesty becomes part of the balance we are learning to create.
With six planets retrograde, the beginnings taking shape beneath this Moon may be subtle. They may first arrive as an inner recognition, an emotional shift, or a reflection whose meaning continues to unfold.
The awareness shared by Mercury and Venus retrograde remains woven into this new cycle. There is depth here, alongside sensitivity and feelings that may seem contradictory. None of it requires an immediate response.
We can acknowledge what is emerging without needing to resolve it. We can allow an emotion to be present without asking it to become a decision. As the Moon grows, and the retrograde season gradually draws toward its close, these reflections can continue developing in their own time.
Read more about the Libra New Moon here.
Weekly Astrology 4 – 10 October, 2026
The invitation running through this week is to become more aware of the emotional experiences shaping both your inner life and your connections.
Love, desire, worthiness, and safety are all part of this exploration. So are the ways you respond to being seen, the vulnerability of allowing another person close, and the trust involved in expressing what you want.
Notice where sharing your truth feels possible, and where it seems to depend on someone else agreeing with you. Consider whether your needs feel valid before they are recognised by another person. There is space this week to understand these experiences and the patterns surrounding them.
Connection can hold more than similarity. It can include contrasting perspectives, individual desires, and feelings that do not neatly align. Being understood does not always require being mirrored.
As awareness emerges, allow yourself to meet it gently. The tenderness you discover may offer insight into what needs care. The differences you encounter may reveal where a relationship can make more room.
This week invites a kind of belonging spacious enough to hold your truth alongside another’s.
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 4 October to 10 October, 2026. For a greater in depth reading based on your astrology chart, explore our Transits Astrology Reading.
Aries Rising
This week brings your attention to intimacy and the feelings that surface when you allow yourself to be seen. Your relationships may reveal the places where sharing feels tender, alongside the fears that shape how much of yourself you offer. Notice the patterns that emerge through your interactions and what sits beneath them. A familiar response may hold a desire for closeness, a need for safety, or both. There is space to recognise these layers with greater clarity, allowing your connections to illuminate what needs your care and understanding.
Taurus Rising
The way you hold yourself becomes a place of reflection this week. Your body, daily rhythms, and relationship with your own needs offer insight into how safe you feel opening to another person. As deeper desires and fears become clearer, you are invited to consider what would help you feel supported in your everyday life. This inner steadiness feeds your capacity for connection, vulnerability, and intimacy. Give attention to the care that feels grounding and sustainable, allowing what you discover about yourself to inform how you meet your needs.
Gemini Rising
This week invites you to listen beyond your thoughts and into the emotional experiences held within your body. Past encounters may be reflected in your posture, while familiar fears may reveal themselves through tension. There is insight available through noticing how these experiences live within you. Movement, creativity, and self-expression offer ways to meet what is emerging and give it room. As something previously unnamed becomes recognisable, understanding can deepen. Allow your body and your expression to participate in this reflection, alongside the perspectives and stories moving through your mind.
Cancer Rising
Your attention turns toward the parts of yourself that have learned to question whether they can be fully seen and loved. Your brightness, emotional depth, and many layers belong within this reflection. Notice where an old belief suggests that some part of you is too much, or that belonging requires holding yourself back. This week offers space for gentle care around those experiences. As emotions surface and move through your body, you are invited to create an inner environment where more of your fullness can feel safe and welcome.
Leo Rising
This week draws you toward the tender places within yourself and the feelings that shape your sense of home. There is an invitation to reconnect with your inner child and listen to the emotions that accompany that connection. Through this inward meeting, familiar stories about love, desire, worthiness, and safety may become more visible. Notice what you have come to expect from intimacy and how those expectations relate to earlier experiences. Your emotions offer a way into this understanding, bringing awareness to the narratives through which you receive and express love.
Virgo Rising
Your mind becomes a place of review this week, inviting you to explore the ideas and narratives you have gathered over time. Imagine moving through an inner library, noticing which stories still reflect your experience and which no longer feel true. Themes of intimacy, desire, worthiness, and safety may draw your attention to particular shelves. Give yourself room to question what you find. An assumption can be reconsidered; a familiar explanation can be released. This reflection invites a more truthful relationship with the thoughts that shape how you understand yourself.
Libra Rising
This week invites you to reconsider the descriptions and expectations that have become part of your identity. Some may feel less true than they once did. Alongside them, patterns shaped by past experiences may become noticeable within your body, revealing where change is asking for space. There is more of you seeking expression, including parts that have not yet felt fully seen. As you review these familiar ways of holding yourself, allow your understanding of who you are to make room for new experiences of love, worthiness, and personal expression.
Scorpio Rising
You are invited into a closer relationship with yourself this week. Your mind, body, and heart each offer insight into who you are and what shapes your experience. Notice what feels true within you, alongside the fears that influence how you move, respond, and share yourself. This inward attention may reveal distinctions between your own knowing and the patterns that have become familiar. Give your inner experience room to be recognised. The understanding available now begins with your willingness to explore yourself and acknowledge what you discover beneath the surface.
Sagittarius Rising
This week continues a period of inner transformation, inviting you to notice where space is opening and where something is ready to be released. Let your body inform the pace of that movement, including when you feel available to open and when you need more room. Older emotions may be moving through your inner world, making space for relationships that more closely reflect your truth. Alongside this clearing, your connection with the future is shifting. Allow these changes to unfold as you listen to the deeper movement taking place within you.
Capricorn Rising
Belonging comes into focus this week, reaching into your relationship with yourself, your body, and the life you are living. It also touches your place within community, your chosen relationships, and the wider world. Notice how the desires you carry fit into your understanding of where you belong. There is an invitation to recognise your own authority before looking outward for confirmation. As this awareness develops, reflections around work, direction, and the impact you wish to make may emerge, connecting your inner sense of belonging with your movement through life.
Aquarius Rising
This week invites you to explore the self-trust involved in following your vision and allowing your dreams to influence your choices. That exploration may bring you close to fear, tenderness, and the vulnerability of expressing what feels true. These feelings can be acknowledged as part of your movement. Give attention to what arises when you imagine speaking openly or trusting the direction that calls you. Your sense of empowerment develops through meeting these inner experiences with care, allowing your sensitivity and your vision to have a place in the same journey.
Pisces Rising
Make space for a conversation with your inner knowing this week. Your heart may have something to share about belonging, love, and the meaning you find within life. Notice where your body feels safe and where some part of you still wishes to remain hidden. These experiences can offer insight into what you need when sharing yourself. Reflect on where your truths feel welcome beyond your inner world, and what it means to have them heard by another. Listening inward opens a clearer understanding of the connection you long to experience.
