October 2026 | Intuitive Astrology Forecast
The Witching Season + Venus Retrograde.
And honestly, there is no denying that this month is going a little deeper.
Like, deeper than the depth you just thought of.
Prepare to hit rewind this month, as we’re being asked to take another look. Perhaps to feel something you’ve avoided, or question something you thought you knew the answer too.
We are not forcing transformation, but making a choice to willing look at what is there. A honest look at the movements beneath the surface.
On October 3rd, Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio. The themes of this RX have been rising to the surface throughout September, but we now begin a period of revisiting these themes more intimately.
Our relationships, desires, values and sense of worth are being highlighted, and Scorpio adds a much darker edge. Old toxic patterns or people may resurface; old versions of self, old wounds. Things we thought we'd moved past may ask to be looked at again. And some of the things we have buried because they were uncomfortable may become much harder to ignore.
Inviting a moment to pause and address your triggers in these areas.
It will be incredibly revealing. Scorpio is the sign of death and rebirth.
Things we thought we'd dealt with. Things we perhaps never actually said.
We are revisiting, revising and shedding layers.
Where have you been abandoning yourself in order to be loved, accepted or approved of?
We have a Libra New Moon on October 10th. Hello, to a new lunar cycle.
This is a chance to consider what balance, harmony and reciprocity actually mean to us. Although this isn't a clean slate in the traditional sense, as Venus is the ruler of Libra, and as we very well know Venus is still moving backwards through Scorpio.
Love and relationships, and how the scales are balanced are very much in focus though. We are planting seeds for a more harmonious future.
And later that very same day, Venus RX squares Mars.
This is desire meeting action, what we want meets what we're actually doing.
Which can be a useful little reality check.
Because sometimes we say we want something, but our choices keep telling a completely different story (raise your hands if you’re guilty!)
On October 16th, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius,
and some things will begin to shift.
Pluto is associated with death, rebirth and deep transformation - of course it rules Scorpio! But whilst in Aquarius, it asks us to question the structures and expectations we've inherited and consider what authenticity actually looks like for us.
We’ve have the space for revision, now that Pluto moves forward once more, we should too in greater alignment to our truth.
October is asking us to question the versions of ourselves we've created around other people's expectations.
Who are you when you stop performing the version of yourself that makes everyone else comfortable?
What do you want when you allow yourself to be curious rather than certain?
What parts of you have been waiting for permission?
Maybe you don't need permission.
Maybe you just need to remember what is actually yours.
Maybe you just need to become UNTAMED….
A journey through with the Triple Goddess and Mugwort.
Three faces, three seasons, three ways of moving through the cycle of life.
We begin with the Maiden.
She carries the energy of possibility, curiosity, instinct and desire.
The part of us that hasn't yet been convinced that there is only one way to be.
Join us to reclaim the wild within.
Then things get deeper still!
On October 20th, Venus retrograde squares Pluto, and this is some of the more intense territory of the month.
Attachment. Control. Jealousy. Fear of loss.
The places where love can become tangled with survival.
The places where we grip because we're afraid of what happens if we let go.
Examine this bravely, don’t run away scared.
The only way out is through y’all, if you try to keep things hidden,
you are going to stay trapped.
And then, for the cherry on top of a such a delightful month..
on October 23rd, the Sun enters Scorpio.
The season of going beneath the surface, of asking better questions and of being willing to look at the uncomfortable thing instead of pretending it isn't there.
I hear ya, isn’t this what you’ve been telling me I need to do all month?
Yeah, and if Scorpio season hits and you are feeling resistance then you know where the work is.
What are you afraid to feel?
What keeps coming back because you haven't finished listening?
On October 24th, Mercury joins the party and stations retrograde in Scorpio.
The mind turns inward. We retrace our steps. We revisit conversations.
We notice the thoughts that keep circling.
We begin to hear the quieter messages, ones that are much easier to ignore initially.
Go deep loves! Go bloody deep!
All of this Scorpio is to help you PURGE!
And here is your chance to turn that dial up a notch.
SOMA Breathwork combined with Intuitive Energy Healing.
A space to breathe, release, reconnect with your body and allow some of what you've been carrying to move.
…as on October 25th, Venus retrograde moves back into Libra.
After descending into Scorpio, she returns to the sign of relationships, balance, harmony and reciprocity. And so the questions we need to consider change slightly.
Where have things become uneven?
Where are you giving more than you're receiving?
Where have you confused keeping the peace with actually being at peace?
Where do you need to come back into relationship with yourself?
Look back to the last Full moon, as it was heavy with the Me vs We axis! Where were you then, and where are you now?
Consider this, as on October 26th we have a Taurus Full Moon - a release point.
After all that psychological digging, we come back to the body, to the earth.
To what is tangible and to what actually sustains us.
The Full Moon asks us to let go of dynamics that keep us small and reconnect with our own sense of worth.
Not as an idea, but as something we can actually feel, something that us alive in our bodies.
And perhaps that's one of the most important things about this month. We can spend a lot of time understanding ourselves, but eventually, we have to live differently.
Death Cafe is a space to talk about death, dying, mortality, grief, endings and all the things we don't always feel able to talk about in everyday life.
Because death is one of those subjects that, when we're willing to talk about it, can make us look very differently at the way we're living.
What are we waiting for? What matters What are we holding onto? What are we afraid to lose? And what would change if we remembered that nothing stays the same forever?
And then, last but certainly not least, we close the month with Samhain.
We turn the wheel once more, and find ourselves standing at a threshold. This is a time traditionally associated with death, ancestors, endings and the veil between worlds.
My hope is that as we stand here, the whole month will make sense.
That the journey Venus took us on at the beginning of the month, into the underworld of the heart, has served us deeply.
That we questioned what we value, looked at old patterns, and explored who we are beneath expectation. That things have shifted, died and been released.
Because transformation isn't always about becoming something new.
Sometimes it is about allowing something that has already finished to finally end.
October feels like an invitation to stop rushing past those endings.
A month to listen, to feel and tell ourselves nothing but truths - trusting that as we make space for what is real, it creates room for more of what we need.
OCTOBER AT HEART MEDICINE
🌙 7th October - Moon Medicine
🌿 16th October - Untamed: The Maiden
🔥 24th October - Breath of Harmony
🕯️ 27th October - Death Cafe
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