Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of October in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, with a lot more water having already passed under the bridge than has normally been the case. Even before the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment returned to begin the first planetary activity in your relationship sector in early August, the lunar nodes have been working all year to maintain a balance between your own and your relationship needs. With Venus having been and gone, you begin the month aware of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you from the start. While Mercury, the planet of communication is only here until 14th October, he will be here for an eclipsing New Moon on 3rd October. The Sun will leave on 23rd October while the asteroid Juno will stay on, until ending all planetary activity on the relationship front early next month. Throughout that time, whether while still in direct motion or after his retrograde turn on 9th October, it will be with the support of Jupiter in your financial sector. Meanwhile, before first Mercury on 14th October and then the Sun on 23rd October return to your financial sector, Venus is already getting things up to speed on the financial front. With Uranus not only in retrograde motion in your income sector but staying in retrograde motion for the rest of the year and working in tandem with Pluto, in his first, last and only full month back in your career sector, on the income side of the financial fence the focus is more on the past, second chances and untapped income potential. When she returned to begin the first planetary activity in your financial sector this year, Venus was able to take advantage of Uranus’ lack of interest in the road ahead and was able to take advantage of the space this left for money matters to look to the future. Meanwhile, Venus’ return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 18th October is an early sign that the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence is starting to bounce back.
Because the Sun will always return on the September equinox and spend the first three weeks of October in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, this ordinary event comes with some extraordinary support and a lot of history. For the first time since 2013, Jupiter is not only in your communication sector but will be until June 2023, with every planet that has returned to your relationship sector this year at some point forming a friendly aspect as it moved through. In a year when the lunar nodes are policing a balance between your own and your relationship needs, this couldn’t be more important. By the time the Sun returned the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships had been in your relationship sector for over six weeks and Venus for 24 days. That Venus left on the same day that the Sun returned, gave the planet of love a chance to pass the torch while leaving you with a clear sense of what you want from your relationships. It was three days later that Mercury returned, completing the lineup of planets that will take your relationships into the future. Mercury is only here until 14th October, but in that time, he will be doing what as the planet of communication he does best. It is while Mercury is still here that the Moon will move through your relationship sector from 2nd October to 4th October, creating an eclipsing New Moon on 3rd October that will bring an opportunity for new beginnings. It is two weeks later that a Full Moon in Aries on 18th October and just days before the Sun is due to leave your relationship sector on 23rd October could flush out what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. The Sun will be gone by the time the Moon returns to your relationship sector again on 29th October and with Juno leaving on 3rd November, this will be a valuable chance to check in. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity on the romantic front until Mars returns next month, the Moon’s visit from 24th October to 26th October will be some of the most romantically charged days of the month.
From small beginnings, things are not only becoming more balanced financially but with the right kind of balance. Until towards the end of last month, there had been no planetary activity in your financial sector all year, the side of the financial fence where the focus is more on what you do with and how you manage the money you have. Instead, all the focus has been on the income side of the financial fence, where there has not only been continuous planetary activity but with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion here until May. Now, on his own and in retrograde motion in your income sector for the rest of the year, Uranus is going to keep an eye on things though with a greater focus on the past, second chances and untapped income potential. This leaves the way clear for the other side of the financial fence to get its turn. It began when Venus, the planet of money returned to your financial sector on the September equinox, with a chance to fuel your financial confidence, update your financial wish list and start looking at what you want financially before the Sun and Mercury return to focus on the when, where and how. Last year Venus was the last planet to return, but this year she is making sure that she gets in first. While the Sun won’t return until 23rd October, the point in each year when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your financial situation and money matters, Mercury’s return on 14th October will ensure that when Venus leaves on 18th October there is continuity. Where Venus’ focus is on the ‘what’ and she uses the laws of attraction to attract opportunities to turn financial desires into reality, Mercury will return with the smart head for money needed to get your head in the game and to think on your feet. This makes the Moon’s return to your financial sector from 5th October to 7th October and to your income sector from 18th October to 20th October a chance to check in on both sides of the financial fence.