Monday, October 19–25,
Energy This Week

This week is marked by inner shifts, emotional depth, and a reassessment of relationships and personal values.

Venus and Pluto focus on self-worth, deeper emotions, and the dynamics within relationships. The Scorpio energy allows you to look beyond the surface and honestly examine what lies within you. Old conversations, feelings, patterns, beliefs, and unspoken desires may demand your attention once again.

The central message this week is that not everything that returns is meant to be held onto. Sometimes you get the chance to look at a situation from a new perspective. What was confusing at first can lead to insight. What seemed familiar may require reevaluation. By listening honestly to yourself, you create space for more conscious decisions that are better aligned with who you are and what you value.

Lunar phase: waxing moon.

October 20: Square between Venus in Scorpio and Pluto in Aquarius

This week begins with a tense alignment between Venus and Pluto. Emotions may become more intense, and tensions that were previously hidden beneath the surface may become more pronounced.

Venus represents love, relationships, self-worth, and the things you value. Pluto symbolizes transformation, power, control, and unconscious processes. When these planets form a square, you may be confronted with the less visible aspects of your desires and relationships.

Issues such as jealousy, dependence, trust, and control may require your attention. You may notice that you’re seeking validation, having trouble letting go of something, or feeling afraid of losing control of a situation. When it comes to money, self-respect, and personal values, it may also become clearer where you’re not doing yourself justice or making yourself too dependent on circumstances beyond your control. Examine what truly lies beneath your feelings.

October 23: The Sun in Scorpio

When the Sun leaves Libra and enters Scorpio, the focus shifts to depth, intimacy, trust, and transformation.

Libra invites you to seek harmony, work together, and weigh different perspectives against one another. Scorpio then wants to know what lies beneath. Do your decisions truly align with your feelings? Are your connections genuine? And where are you holding on to something because change feels uncertain or painful?

The transition into Scorpio amplifies the themes that Venus and Pluto are bringing to the forefront this week. You are invited to look beyond the surface and examine more honestly the motives, desires, and beliefs that drive your behavior.

You may feel a need for deeper conversations, or you may notice that superficial answers no longer satisfy you. You may become more sensitive to what remains unspoken and more keenly aware of instances where words and behavior don’t align. At the same time, it’s important to distinguish between your intuition and your own fears or assumptions. Not everything you suspect is necessarily true.

Scorpio urges you to have the courage to face what you’d rather avoid. These could be old sources of pain, but also desires you’ve long suppressed, or boundaries you haven’t dared to set.

October 24: The Sun in conjunction with Venus

The Sun and Venus are in conjunction. This alignment brings together themes such as identity, love, self-worth, and personal values.

The Sun represents your consciousness and the way you express yourself. Venus reveals what you value, what you’re drawn to, and how you form connections with others. Their conjunction can make you more aware of whether your life, your relationships, and your decisions still align with what you truly consider important.

With Venus in retrograde, the focus is on reevaluation. You may see a relationship in a different light, recognize expectations that no longer suit you, or discover that your need for equality has changed. Old feelings or connections may also resurface so that you can explore what they still mean to you now.

This energy also invites you to take a closer look at your relationship with yourself. How much space do you give yourself to receive? Do you dare to express what you need, or are you mostly preoccupied with worrying, giving, and conforming? And to what extent do you let your self-worth depend on the approval of others?

October 24: Mercury retrograde in Scorpio (through November 13)

On the same day, Mercury begins its retrograde motion in Scorpio. Mercury is associated with your thinking, communication, information, and the way you interpret events. In Scorpio, this takes on a more investigative and psychological character.

Conversations that were not fully resolved may require renewed attention. Miscommunications, hidden information, secrets, taboos, shadow aspects, forbidden relationships, or old family dynamics may also come into sharper focus.

Mercury retrograde isn’t a period you need to fear. You can use it as an opportunity to slow down, reflect, and communicate more mindfully. Be aware, however, of potential delays, misunderstandings, and technical glitches. Double-check important information and think carefully before drawing conclusions or reacting. Scorpio energy can also make your words sharper than you intend. Let difficult conversations and conflicts lie for a while.

Use this time to take an honest look at yourself. What role do you play in a conflict? What do you really think about the other person and about yourself? What assumptions are you making? Do you react from a place of calm and sincerity, or out of anger, fear, or hurt? What words do you use? And what kind of energy are you drawing from?

No matter how beautiful and diplomatic your words may be, if deep down you’re angry, jealous, or hurt, your message may come across differently than intended. The sensitive Scorpio senses this infallibly and sees right through any insincerity or socially acceptable facades.

October 25: Venus, retrograde, temporarily returns to Libra

Venus is moving retrograde, temporarily back into Libra. After the intensity of Venus in Scorpio, this can feel like a sigh of relief. The focus shifts to harmony, cooperation, reciprocity, and the way you shape your relationships. This applies not only to romantic relationships, but also to friendships, family ties, collaborations, and the relationship you nurture with yourself.

It’s important not to confuse harmony with simply keeping the peace. If you bottle up your feelings to avoid conflict, the outward calm may come at the expense of your connection with yourself. True balance arises when there is room for honesty, differences, and mutual respect.

“In what ways do you adapt out of love, and in what ways do you adapt out of fear of losing someone? And what needs to change so that you can stay true to yourself?”