Walking Our Fate: October’s Call for Unwavering Honesty
The things we gain if we can let things go.
Years ago, I sat across from a tarot reader in Denver. “I want to quit my job,” I told her, “but I don’t really know what comes next.” I felt so much dissolution by that point — the passion I once held for science and medicine felt smothered by red tape and corporate politics.
She smiled gently. “What would you do, if you could do anything?”
“I’d love to do something like this,” I said, motioning toward the cards between us. “But nobody makes a living doing this.”
There was a twinkle in her eye I couldn’t read. It would take years before I realized the irony: I was insisting something was impossible to someone who had already proven it could be done!
Walking our fate works like this. Often we feel a pull long before our minds can name it. Other times our minds spew endless possibilities, yet nothing feels right in our bones. Trust, then, is about recognizing the call (whether it comes loud and insistent or soft and fleeting) and allowing the energy around it to open the path forward.
October carries this same lesson, asking us to settle into a deeper kind of trust — the quiet, cellular trust that can only grow after the storm. September’s eclipses shook loose more than we might have realized, and now Venus becomes the last of the personal planets to integrate those lessons. Our relationships, both with others and with ourselves, may shift as the truths revealed last month continue to land.
Blessed with two grand trines this month (full description of October’s key dates is included below), know that we are gifted the tools to facilitate awareness and integration.
Mid-month, the grand air trine (October 14) brings a higher vantage point. Ideas click into place, words flow more freely, and conversations illuminate what’s been on the tip of our tongues since eclipse season. Like a child babbling before finally finding language, we begin to grasp what’s been shifting in the background.
By late October, the air trine gives way to a grand water trine (October 25–26). Here, the mind yields to the heart. Sensitivity heightens, emotions surface, and we’re invited to trace patterns back to their origins. Where did these feelings begin? What do they want to teach us now? I say this in the most loving and curious tone possible, but — why are we like this?
Mercury is an important player this month, working overtime in Scorpio and unearthing soul-level insights that want to be honored, not rushed. These revelations deserve tenderness and acknowledgement. What a relief it can be to finally glimpse the most elusive parts of our soul.
Honesty, with self and others, will be the catalyst for this month’s growth. But these truths need somewhere soft to land, so alongside this month’s excavation, remember: Honesty without kindness is cruelty.
October Astrology: Key Dates
10/1: Mercury in Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer at 22°. The month opens with a focus on communication and finding balance between our own needs and those of others. An important check-in before Mercury dips into Scorpio the following week. What do you need others to understand?
10/3: Venus in Virgo opposes the North Node (NN) in Pisces at 17°; Mercury in Libra opposes Chiron Rx in Aries. Venus highlights themes of micro-management, criticism, and perfectionistic tendencies within partnerships. Mercury encourages us to zoom out and see the deeper story shaping one’s need for control.
10/6: Mercury enters Scorpio; full moon at 14° Aries. Mercury moves into Scorpio just ahead of an uncompromising full moon. There is a bluntness to this full moon, an invitation to drop the pleasantries. Honesty is essential to Venus’ integration.
10/11: Venus in Virgo opposes Saturn Rx in Pisces at 27°. A possible tension point between our desire for pleasure and connection and the need to be realistic about limitations (our own and/or others’). This is the last Venus–Saturn opposition in Pisces, so notice how you’ve matured. Who can truly hold your trust? Respond with grounded clarity, not drama.
10/13: Venus enters Libra and opposes Neptune Rx in Aries; Pluto stations direct at 1° Aquarius. Back in its home sign, Venus gets a reprieve from the eclipse energies that dominated the last eight weeks. In an immediate opposition to Neptune, there’s an incredible opportunity for release. Offer your intentions for healed connection and meaningful support — it will be a prayer held by Neptune that ripens and emerges more fully in 2026. Pluto stationing direct fortifies the energy for community, progress, and integration.
10/14: Grand air trine between Venus in Libra, Pluto in Aquarius, and Uranus Rx in Gemini. Perspective is everything, and this can be a time of hindsight and understanding. If we can stay open to relationships looking differently than before, we might just find that the very changes taking place mirror our deepest longings … even if also bittersweet.
10/21: Libra new moon at 28°. Marked by a conjunction between Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, this new moon demands transformation as a pathway to renewal. Let truths rise and let them change you. Clear a closet, transform a space, and resist filling it right away. The new is finding you!
10/22: Neptune Rx returns to Pisces; the sun enters Scorpio. Neptune’s journey into Aries has officially closed for the year, with momentum re-emerging in 2026. More than ever, we must discern between surrender and martyrdom, true partnership and co-dependency. As the sun illuminates the Scorpio parts of our charts, we are shown what to excavate and how.
10/24 - 10/25: Grand water trine between Mercury in Scorpio, Saturn Rx + Neptune Rx in Pisces, and Jupiter in Cancer. A blessing for emotional excavation, this configuration provides powerful balancing between the head and heart. What we’ve sensed but not been able to articulate has space to exist differently. It’s a powerful time to explore energy healing or past life regression.
10/29: Mercury enters Sagittarius and opposes Uranus Rx in Gemini. Brilliant and provocative, this opposition helps us think outside the box. You can use this to speak your truth, write a manifesto, or put your foot in your mouth — the choice is yours!
