14/10/2026
This current Venus retrograde is intense. It's in the sign of Scorpio - the most intense and serious sign of the zodiac. SO, if you are experiencing a sort of crisis, that's to be expected.
The crisis is likely in the realm of love, relationships, money, finanaces, possessions, values, and self worth.
It may feel like you are being put through a meat grinder.
This retrograde is activating the fixed signs in a really potent way, which means we are being forced to look at AND let go of old patterns that have been wired into the nervous system. This IS essentially a MASSIVE rewiring.
This retrograde period is asking us to explore what is possible beyond the old systems and structures that are dying in our lives - both collectively and personally. What have you outgrown, that is not serving your life in the best way anylonger.
This is a serious confrontation with the shadow or the unconscious parts that run our lives - that end up putting us at a deficit or in a negative position in life.
There are some things here that have to be seen and acknowledged - so that we can free ourselves from difficult patterns that seem to keep repeating in our lives.
That's the purpose of Pluto in Aquarius, the sign of freedom and liberation. BUT this isnt an easy task, because as mentioned, Pluto is coming up against planets in the fixed signs in hard angles, and old habits die hard. That is what is precipitating the crises so many may be experiencing at this time.
So much about Pluto is the act of letting go. So, what is calling to be released? AND it wont be or feel easy.
Some pattern, person, place, thing, belief, habit, defense, etc. has been hard wired in, AND now its creating a BIG problem that has to be faced and healed so that we are no longer in bo***ge (Scorpio) to that thing.
FEAR is a BIGGIE with Scorpio.
Aquarius rules the nervous system.
So, we can expect lots of fear or other negative/obsolete patterns/habits stuck in the nervous to rear their heads which will require us to make serious changes and adjustments to our lives.
Uranus, which is creating a trine to Pluto from Gemini is giving us the opportunity to re-wire new patterns in, that create different experiences in our lives - hopefully better from the past.
This requires flexibility and curiosity. How can we be more malleable and mercurial in our lives. What little or big shifts and changes can we make that will create a positive outcome? Is it a thought pattern or a belief that needs to change? Maybe a living environment? Maybe a relationship or a relationship pattern? Perhaps a job or a career change? It could be making room for something you find valuable or enriching by eliminating something else.
The main key here is being open to explore how new things and new ways feel, and being willing to release old ways of operating in your life. Just because a pattern or habit has been with you forever, doesn't at all mean that it's good for you. Be willing to be honest with yourself at this time about what really isn't working and be open to changing that.
This is a time to explore authentic and heart centered living, BUT we cannot do that with a closed heart and low self worth. These matters are being uprooted with Mars and Jupiter in Leo and Venus in Scorpio - along with the upcoming Full Moon in Ta**us.
So many are stuck in lack/poverty consciousness and have issues with receiving abundance. A LOT of these things get seeded in childhood or learned from parents. We cannot receive blessings, graces or abundance when we are stuffed with garbage from the past. This retrograde is clearing that debris out of or lives, so that new patterns can take root.
There is deep joy at your core. There is deep love, deep abundance, deep peace, deep happiness. BUT there are things in you blocking that. What are they? Can you let them go?
The fears, the worries, the doubts, the old ways - they all act in antithesis to our true well being. Can you let them dissolve back into the void and allow something new to come forth? Can you forgive the past to create in the present? Can you come to life with holy, empty hands with an open heart and mind?
What is possible beyond the hard structures you've built from living in separation and survival?
What could happen when you soften and open to the things that want to land BUT cant, because you arent even aware they are possible?
Art by Vanessa Horabuena
