06/10/2026
♎️🌑 and the heavy undertow of surfacing injustice in October
LIBRA NEW MOON: THE SCALES ⚖️ ARE OFF BALANCE
The ☀️ and 🌑 join at 17°21' ♎️ at 16:50 on October 10th opening a new lunar cycle devoted to partnership, fairness, and all of the contracts, agreements, and legal matters that shape how we live together.
For me, this one is deeply personal. I was born with Venus retrograde conjunct my Sun, and a ♎️ moon in a Venus Rx dominated birth chart, so this Venus retrograde is not simply passing through the sky. It feels like the entire world has arrived on my planet. What I have lived and studied for a lifetime is now the collective story: how we value ourselves, how we love, learn self-love, who is heard, and who has been silenced.
There is a serious tone to this 🌑 because the luminaries or “lights” oppose 🪐. The Great Unraveling of what we’ve known is hard to deny, and we may feel the impatience of knowing that the "wheels of justice turn slowly." Yet 🪐 asks for solid foundations, so what we build NOW can last. As the Moon's light grows in the days after the lunation, the reality of a situation comes into sharper focus, and clarity is a gift.
Unexpected developments may jolt us under the sesquiquadrate to Uranus , but jolts break old patterns open. A gentle sextile to Jupiter offers a silver lining: hope, perspective, and the faith that change is truly possible.
THE UNDERTOW✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
This 🌑 arrives as we emerge a little disheveled or irritated but hopefully wiser, from the Mercury-Mars-Pluto T-square that stirred up some controversy in first days of October. We are not finished with the feeling realms for quite some time. Venus, now retrograde in watery ♏️, invites us to look honestly at our relationships and our finances, and to reclaim what we truly value. Empowerment is the over-arching theme. Self empowerment that is.
Early this week, Mercury and Venus conjoin in ♏️, and conversations can be profoundly revealing. A news story may capture our attention (injustices toward women or a woman perpetrator of unusual crime) Since Venus is Rx and Mercury is in its pre-retrograde shadow, what surfaces now is the first chapter of a longer story that will keep unfolding over the next two months.
Venus is still within range of its square to Pluto and becomes exactly square Mars this weekend, so truths coming to light may stir strong emotions. Let that 🔥 be your fuel. Women's issues and injustices are rising to be reviewed, and in the reviewing lies the power to change them. The abuse of and crimes against women are being brought into the open, where healing and reform can begin. Because Venus also governs money, we may see further exposure of corruption and shady financial dealings. What is hidden in the dark cannot survive the light for long.
So be a lighthouse, for yourself and for others. Speak your truth, honor your worth, and trust that what is being revealed is making room for something more just and more empowered.