October 25 | Venus Retrograde Returns to 29° Libra

Rebalancing Your Beliefs and Life Direction | 9th House

Venus retrograde moves back from Scorpio in your 10th house into Libra in your 9th house, shifting the review from career, visibility, reputation, and life direction toward your beliefs, perspective, education, travel, spirituality, and the bigger story you are telling yourself about your life. Scorpio has been asking you to get brutally honest about what you value and where you are investing your power. Libra now asks, “Is this actually fair, balanced, and aligned with what I believe?”

Because Venus returns to 29° Libra, there is a feeling of unfinished business. You may revisit a belief, decision, educational path, relationship with a teacher or mentor, travel plan, or perspective that you thought you had already settled. The shift from Scorpio to Libra does not mean the deeper work disappears. Instead, you are taking what you uncovered in the depths of Scorpio and looking at it from a wider perspective. You may realize that your beliefs have changed because you have changed.

This is also a beautiful opportunity to reconsider what you want your life to mean. The 9th house wants expansion, but Venus retrograde says you do not have to rush toward the next big thing. You can pause and ask whether your current philosophy, goals, and vision for the future actually feel balanced and authentic. Something from the past may return, not necessarily because you are meant to repeat it, but because you are finally seeing it through different eyes.

5 Things to Watch For

  1. Saying yes simply to keep the peace.

  2. Returning to an old belief without questioning whether it still fits.

  3. Looking outside yourself for someone else's version of the truth.

  4. Avoiding an important disagreement because you want harmony.

  5. Romanticizing the past.

5 Ways to Work With the Energy

  1. Revisit a belief you have outgrown.

  2. Ask whether your current life reflects what you truly believe.

  3. Have a thoughtful conversation with someone who sees things differently.

  4. Reconsider an old educational, travel, or spiritual interest.

  5. Let your perspective evolve without needing to defend the old version of yourself.

October 26 | Taurus Full Moon at 3°

Coming Home to Yourself | 4th House of Home, Family, Roots, and Emotional Security

This Taurus Full Moon illuminates your 4th house of home, family, roots, belonging, and emotional security. Full Moons bring something to culmination, and in Taurus this is about recognizing what genuinely makes you feel safe, grounded, and supported. You may become very clear about what you need from your home environment and what you are no longer willing to carry emotionally.

The Full Moon at 3° Taurus is closely connected by trine to your natal Mercury at 3° Capricorn in your 12th house, making this a powerful moment for putting words around something that has been quietly developing beneath the surface. You may finally understand an old family pattern, memory, or private thought differently. Something that has been sitting in the background can become easier to articulate.

The Sun at 3° Scorpio in your 10th house opposes the Full Moon, creating a tension between your private life and your public life. The question becomes: Are you building a public life that actually supports the life you need behind closed doors? You may realize that career demands, visibility, or outside expectations have been competing with your need for peace and stability.

The Sun is also conjunct your natal Moon at 2° Scorpio and natal Pluto at 4° Scorpio, making this Full Moon especially potent emotionally. Your feelings about career, purpose, recognition, and personal power can become impossible to ignore. Something may surface that shows you exactly where your outer life needs to change in order to support your inner life.

Adding another layer, the Sun is squaring transiting Pluto at 3° Aquarius in your 1st house. This puts your identity directly into the conversation. You are not simply deciding what you want your home or career to look like. You are deciding who you are becoming and what kind of life that person needs. With Venus retrograde ruling this Full Moon, you are also reviewing your values. The cosmic question is simple: What actually feels like home to me now?

5 Release Statements

  1. I release the belief that I have to sacrifice my emotional security to be successful.

  2. I release family expectations that no longer define who I am.

  3. I release the need to prove my worth through achievement.

  4. I release old definitions of home, security, and belonging that no longer fit.

  5. I release the version of myself that believes change means losing everything.

Step by Step Taurus Full Moon Ritual

1. Create a Grounded Space

Choose a quiet place in your home. Because this Full Moon activates your 4th house, make the ritual feel connected to your actual physical environment. Tidy one small area, light a candle, and create a space where you feel safe.

2. Place Your Feet on the Ground

Sit comfortably and take several slow breaths. Feel the ground underneath you. Imagine roots extending from your body into the earth.

Say:

“I am safe to create a life that feels good from the inside out.”

3. Connect With Your Home

Look around the room and notice what makes you feel peaceful. Then ask yourself:

What in my environment supports me?

What in my environment drains me?

What am I ready to change?

4. Write What You Are Ready to Release

On a piece of paper, write the things you are ready to stop carrying. Focus especially on family expectations, old definitions of success, emotional responsibilities, and beliefs about what you “should” be doing.

Read each statement slowly.

5. Ground the Release

Because this is a Taurus Full Moon in your 4th house, grounding is more important than forcing. Tear the paper into small pieces and place it in the earth, a garden, or a plant if appropriate.

As you do, say:

“I return what is no longer mine to carry. I choose peace. I choose stability. I choose myself.”

6. Sit With the Full Moon Energy

Place one hand over your heart and one over your belly. Sit quietly for several minutes.

Do not try to figure everything out.

Let the answer come.

7. Name What You Are Choosing

Write down three things you want more of in your home and emotional life.

Keep them simple:

More peace.

More security.

More belonging.

8. Close the Ritual

Thank your home, your body, your ancestors, your intuition, or whatever feels spiritually meaningful to you.

Blow out the candle and say:

“I do not have to force what is already becoming clear. I trust myself to build a life that feels like home.”

October 30 | Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio Square Mars in Leo at 17°

Watch Your Words, Choose Your Battles | 10th House Career and 7th House Relationships

Mercury retrograde in your 10th house of career, reputation, visibility, and life direction squares Mars in your 7th house of relationships and partnerships. This can create a sharp connection between what is happening professionally and what is happening in your one to one relationships. A conversation that has been simmering may finally demand attention.

Because Mercury is retrograde, something from the past can come back for another round. A previous conversation, disagreement, decision, or professional issue may resurface. Mars in your 7th house can make you much more direct, but Mercury retrograde asks you to slow down enough to make sure you are responding to what is actually being said rather than what you think someone means.

There are no natal planets within 5 degrees of the 17° Scorpio Mercury or 17° Leo Mars, so there is no direct natal planet activation to add here. The main story is the tension between your 10th house and 7th house: how you communicate your needs, protect your professional direction, and navigate relationships without turning every disagreement into a battle.

5 Things to Watch For

  1. Arguments that escalate quickly.

  2. Saying something in anger that you later wish you could take back.

  3. Bringing relationship frustrations into professional situations.

  4. Assuming someone understands what you mean without explaining it.

  5. Trying to win a conversation instead of actually resolving it.

5 Ways to Work With the Energy

  1. Pause before responding to provocative messages.

  2. Write down what you actually want to communicate before having a difficult conversation.

  3. Separate the facts from your emotional reaction.

  4. Address conflict directly without making it personal.

  5. If a conversation starts becoming a power struggle, step away and return to it later.