General for Week Commencing: Monday 05 October 2026
Aries    Aries Monday 05 October 2026  Mar 21 - Apr 19
Venus, Mercury and Mars, the three faster planets of the solar system and the ones with the most immediate impact on our daily lives, are all slowing down and in various states of preparing to turn retrograde, something that is going to have an impact on multiple aspects of your life. This is something that has already begun with Venus’ return turn in your financial sector over the weekend. Just as she should be leaving and wrapping up a mission to update your financial desires, hopes and aspirations, this won’t just keep Venus here and focused more on the past and untapped financial potential, but later in the month will see her retrograde back into your relationship sector for a do over. Knowing she is on her way back, the Sun is taking a more serious approach to knowing what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. At the same time, as Mercury settles into his first full week in your financial sector, he is slowing down ahead of a retrograde turn that will keep her until Venus returns in December. Meanwhile, Mars is making the most of the extra time he is getting to spend in a playful and creative part of your chart.
 
Taurus    Taurus Monday 05 October 2026  Apr 20 - May 20
While the week begins with two significant oppositions that could create some tension, the fact that they are sending a similar message is a chance to kill two birds with one stone. By the time you move into the new week, a clash between Mars in your home and family sector and Pluto in your career sector that peaked over the weekend is separating, but the Moon might inflame things on Monday. These are hot headed and passionate planets and as this puts your work/life balance to the test, until the dust settles it could be all about your reaction. This is when two wrongs can make a right, though while oppositions can make it appear that things have gone wrong, they are ultimately empowering. In this case, it is an opposition between the Sun in your work sector and Saturn in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart that peaks on Monday that can turn everything around. This is putting how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off to the test, but in an objective and cool headed way that is focused on solutions not problems.
 
Gemini    Gemini Monday 05 October 2026  May 21 - Jun 21
While the Moon will leave your income sector on Monday, this will do more than just allow you to move into the new working week with a sharp nose for money, an intuitive read on income and job matters and a sense that something exciting might be developing. It was last Monday that Mars left your income sector, ending his war on income roadblocks and barriers, with the Moon’s return over the weekend a chance to check in, especially with the dwarf planet Ceres, who will stay on to keep the wheels turning. It was over the weekend that the Moon not only aligned with Ceres, but formed a friendly aspect to Venus and Mercury, who by Wednesday will be aligned in your work sector. With Ceres slowing ahead of a retrograde turn next month, Venus having turned retrograde over the weekend and Mercury later in the month, this was a window into the planets have teamed up to keep income and job matters on track for the rest of the year. Keeping things balanced is the energy the Sun and Pluto are putting into the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence.
 
Cancer    Cancer Monday 05 October 2026  Jun 22 - Jul 22
While the Moon will leave Cancer on Monday, as well as a chance to ensure you are emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware from the start, with insight that will help you navigate the coming week with confidence. Especially when it comes to a clash between the Sun and Saturn that will peak on Monday. This isn’t the first time that this is going to put your work/life balance under pressure but this time, the Sun’s clarity and Saturn’s objectivity is a chance to look at this without emotion while focused on solutions rather than the problem. Where the Moon is helping with this is that it has just spent the weekend at a friendly aspect to Venus and Mercury, who by Wednesday will be aligned in a playful and creative part of your chart. With Venus having turned retrograde over the weekend and Mercury slowing ahead of a retrograde turn later in the month and between them keeping the playful and creative of life’s fence active for the rest of the year, this is creating the incentive to get it right. Especially as the week is also going to get off to an empowered start on the income and career fronts.
 
Leo    Leo Monday 05 October 2026  Jul 23 - Aug 22
On the one hand, the Moon’s return to Leo on Monday is an ordinary monthly event and something that every four weeks is a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally and intuitively engaged and aware. On the other hand, seven days after Mars returned to spend the next two months in Leo, this is going to add fuel to his passions, drive, warrior and competitive spirit and give you a better sense of where to channel this. Normally here for just six weeks, Mars is slowing ahead of a retrograde turn in the New Year that is not only keeping him here for two months, but in February will see him retrograde back in to spend another three months here. This makes this the first of many encounters between the Moon and Mars over the coming months, making this something that can be built up in layers. This is something that is always going to see the Moon clash with Pluto in your relationship sector and cross the lunar nodes, putting their policing of a balance between your own and your relationship needs in the spotlight.
 
Virgo    Virgo Monday 05 October 2026  Aug 23 - Sep 22
While the week begins with three oppositions, each one creating some pressure or tension, by Tuesday they will not only all be separating, but as they share the same common theme, you only need one key to unlock them all. Oppositions don’t have to create pressure and in fact they only do if something is out of balance and to have three come together at the same time means the key to managing them all is paying attention and using this to correct anything that is out of balance. When an opposition between the Sun in your income sector and Saturn in your financial sector peaks on Monday, this will put a light on a balance between money coming in and money going out, while the Moon is exacerbating an opposition between Mars and Pluto that peaked over the weekend that is all about how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off. This is especially important, for the third opposition is between the Moon and the asteroid Juno, which is putting a balance between having fun and duty to the test.
 
Libra    Libra Monday 05 October 2026  Sep 23 - Oct 23
While the Moon will leave your career sector on Monday, this is more than just a chance to move into the new working week with your professional instincts sharp from the start. Seven days after Mars left last Monday, but not before spending seven weeks fuelling your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit, this was a chance to check in and especially with the dwarf planet Ceres, who will take it from here. It was while the Moon was here that Venus turned retrograde in your income sector and having returned two days earlier, with Mercury slowing ahead of his own retrograde turn here later in the month. With Ceres slowing ahead of her own retrograde turn next month, instead of moving on, these three planets are all slowing down in order to form a team that will keep things active on the job and career fronts for the rest of the year. Meanwhile, in the heart of your birthday month, it is the Moon’s return to Libra on Friday that will begin the lead up to the weekend’s New Moon. Apart from your actual birthday, this is the most important point in your birthday month for drawing a new line in the sand.
 
Scorpio    Scorpio Monday 05 October 2026  Oct 24 - Nov 21
While Monday will see the Moon leave an adventurous part of your chart and not only return to your career sector but team up with planets that will get the new working week off to an empowered start on the job and career fronts, don’t expect the scales to shift all the way from one side of life’s fence to the other. That would be the case even if the Moon hadn’t spent the weekend interacting with planets that are teaming up to keep the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence active for the rest of the year. This is thanks to two separate oppositions that couldn’t come with better timing. The planets coming together on the job and career fronts are too powerful to be put off by a bit of tension and might even thrive on it. However, as a clash between Mars and Pluto that has put how well you know when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off starts to separate, another between the Sun and Saturn that peaks on Monday is bringing a powerful work/life balance reminder.
 
Sagittarius    Sagittarius Monday 05 October 2026  Nov 22 - Dec 21
It was over the weekend that Mars’ clash with Pluto peaked, something that saw the planets of war and revolution knock heads, but with a chance that things might flare up again on Monday and not just because they are taking their fight into the working week. This is one fight that you want to be fighting because a week after his return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, Mars is barging ahead and is ready to declare war on excuses, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined in his pursuit to fuel a passion for adventure and a hunger for life’s richer experiences. What will add to this is when the Moon joins Mars in an adventurous part of your chart on Monday, with both ready to challenge the new working week head on. This comes during a short two month gap when, for the only time this year, there are no planets in either of your two professional houses and Mars is ready to fully exploit this. This might get some pushback when the Moon moves through your career sector from Wednesday to Friday, something that is going to bring the working week to a positive end on the income and career fronts.
 
Capricorn    Capricorn Monday 05 October 2026  Dec 22 - Jan 19
While before leaving your relationship sector on Monday, the Moon will clash with the asteroid Juno in Capricorn, the timing couldn’t be better. A week after Mars left your relationship sector and with the heat having dialled back since, this has been a chance to connect with the dwarf planet Ceres, who is not only staying on, but whose focus is more on understanding your relationship needs and priorities. As Juno is not only the queen of commitment but especially commitment to your relationships, this last visit before she leaves Capricorn will see her use this as a chance to better understand what you want from your relationships and what they need from you. This is going to leave you with a better understanding of both, while the same friendly aspect that the Moon formed to Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication over the weekend, is the same support Ceres and your relationships will continue to enjoy. Meanwhile, while the week will begin and end on a positive note on the income, work and career fronts, with a call to pace yourself.
 
Aquarius    Aquarius Monday 05 October 2026  Jan 20 - Feb 18
While there could be some intensity and some strong emotional and passionate responses on the relationship front on Monday, this is more a chance to finish what began over the weekend. By the time you move into the new week and opposition between Mars in his first weekend in your relationship sector and Pluto in Aquarius is already separating. However, the Moon’s return to your relationship sector on Monday, alignment with Mars and clash with Pluto could see things flare up again. Yet despite the buttons this might push or the potential for some personal and/or relationship tension, Mars and Pluto are the planets of war and revolution and as the alpha planets of the solar system, this is spurring each to come out fighting. Mars for what you want from your relationships and Pluto when it comes to taking your personal power back. Helping to turn this into the opportunity it is to both get the balance right and to empower both you and your relationships is the friendly aspect the Moon will make to all four planets in your communication sector before leaving on Wednesday.
 
Pisces    Pisces Monday 05 October 2026  Feb 19 - Mar 20
Even without the Moon’s return to your work sector on Monday, seven days after Mars returned, the week was going to get off to a busy start. Putting a rocket under this will be the Moon’s alignment with Mars on Monday, something that will both add fuel to his work passions, fighting and competitive spirit and give you a better sense of where to channel this. By the time the Moon leaves on Wednesday, it will have aligned with Mars, Jupiter and the South Node in your work sector and formed a friendly aspect to all four planets in your income sector as it moves through, getting the new working week off to an empowered start on income and job fronts. However, there are safety measures in place to ensure life doesn’t become all work and no play. One of those is a clash with Pluto that peaked over the weekend that has brought a reminder when it comes to knowing when to keep your work hat on and when to take it off. Helping to keep things balanced are planets on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life’s fence that will work as a team for the rest of the year.
 
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