*This Week in Astrology; Buckle Up... it's Set to be a Wild Ride.

0:10 Okay. We gotta do it. Consider me. Consider me the new press secretary of the Consumers. And my credentials are valid. Guys, what is going on collectively? Listen, I I avoid my own individual stuff, but this Venus retrograde is definitely bringing up lots of feelings of self-value and self-worth for me.

0:41 Just in the middle of the night, just Venus retrograde's like, do you really value yourself? Do you really think you're headed towards a future you're creating, or when you're just falling into like all these existential questions? I'm like, come on. What is I can't imagine it getting more intense this week, but it's about to.

0:58 But collectively, we had the Cornell 7. I stopped following that. I can't. Oh yeah. Just the energy it makes me spiritually ill. I can't do it. And but then the Katie Zachariah, White House press secretary, lying about being an attorney or a lawyer.

1:14unknown What?

1:16 And then getting fired five days after the drop. Breaking history. I thought this is the most venous retrograde and Scorpio thing ever, lying of if it's in fact true. I don't know what to believe in the world anymore, but if she indeed lied about some massive credentials, such as being a practicing lawyer or attorney, only to gain power working in the White House, making money as if she had the power to do it, was just so, and then Libra, Venus is gonna backtrack into Libra, the scales of justice in the court of law.

1:51 Like this is just I love the collective energies of people just clocking things that are being presented to us as a facade, and we're just not doing it anymore. It's like our intuitions are on point now, and it's really interesting to witness uh that happening out in the world, out in the wild west. So, hi everybody, welcome to another episode of the Astrology Lounge.

2:16 I'm your host, friend, and astrologer, Stephanie Powers. We had a wonderful time at Pug Fest, the 2026 Great Grumble Fest outside of Austin, Texas. I think there were over, there was like 1,417 pugs by the time we left the festival. And Jackson here won a potato derby. It's like a horse derby, but for pugs, it's races.

2:38 He won. Very proud of our little dude. It was so much fun. And as soon as I pulled up and saw all the strollers and wagons going in with pugs, I just my chest gets so heavy. I start weeping. I don't know why. And then when they held all the pugs up for a group photo, I start weeping. I do this at races like Mr.

3:01 Virgo's Ultra Runs. I don't know what it is. I think it's just the sense of community. You really can feel that there is a true sense of community, and it just moves me. It moves me. If and when I ever host an astrology retreat, you'll just catch me weeping while I look around at all these people. Like I could weep just thinking about it.

3:21 And I've been like that since I was a little girl. So I think I just pick up on something. But it was beautiful, it was so much fun, and it was awesome to just celebrate this interesting breed of dog. Guys, really quick, I'm just gonna put this out on a whim on Monday. Normally I don't do week and astrology episodes, but this I was just updating our transit sticker on the website for all this week's transits, and as I was writing them, I'm like, holy cow!

3:49 I've just been living life and working through my own Venus retrograde stuff. And holy moly, this is gonna be a hot week, and I'm already like, I feel like my pressure, because I am a Venus-ruled person. I'm a Taurus rising. My birthday chart, my solar return chart for this year was a Taurus rising, so Venus was the ruler of that.

4:10 Let's see. I think I'm in a third house profection year, so the moon was the ruler there, but irregardless, just so affected by this, and I feel it. And it's cool to think back to 2018 and what I was feeling during that last Venus retrograde in Scorpio. So here we go. As if it couldn't get more intense.

4:30 And thank you guys also for sharing your stories. Sending a contact form on the website to us. Be sure to visit it, astrology-lounge.com, to book a private reading with me. We are booking into November and December, and to fill out the contact form and share your Venus retrograde stories because that data you've been giving me is amazing to read, to understand.

4:51 When I get a moment, I'll respond to some people and say, wow, crazy how this is working out for people. So we're gonna break down this week episode by episode. You very much it depends on my schedule. I gotta look at that too. But I might try and put out a web a webisode, an episode a day, because there's so much going on.

5:12 I've got like three notepads in front of me to make sure I don't miss anything. But October 19th, as you guys are listening to this, Venus Retrograde is squaring Pluto, which just moved direct over the weekend. So a square represents friction, tension, some ugh like heebie jeebies, you know, like if you feel ants in your sweatshirt or mosquitoes, you're gonna move to swat it away.

5:37 That's kind of a square's energy. No one's gonna die. It's not anything to be afraid of. It's just, ooh, I gotta shake that off. That feeling got the chills, made me just move my body a little bit. That's a square. And when we have Venus retrograde squaring, Pluto, who's going forward, start. It's like the things we are reviewing around this weekend that we just had, and into today, as you listen to this, it's like whatever friction you have felt over the weekend is kind of asking you to move forward with said transformation.

6:10 Now, Venus is the planet of love, Pluto is the planet of control. So, collectively, again, we might see themes of manipulation, money, jealousy, hidden agendas emerging in the news, which we already have been, but also within our own relationships, romantic relationships, co-worker relationships, family relationships.

6:32 So remember, Venus retrograde is asking us to reconsider what we value and love, while Pluto moving direct shows us where fear, obsession, or the need to have control over an outcome has influenced our choices that have gotten us into a specific romantic or financial dynamic that we're currently reviewing.

6:53 And again, this is quite a wide orb of a transit. So I would say it picked up Saturday night into Sunday, October 18th, definitely on Monday, the 19th, and bleeding into Tuesday, October 20th is this square between Venus retrograde and Pluto direct. The lesson between these two is to simply recognize the difference between genuinely loving someone or something and being afraid to lose it.

7:20 How often are we in relationships and we stay because we are so afraid of what our financial picture might look like if we go? We're so afraid of the future we had planned and saw them in that we grip on to a present that has already run its course. That's the energy of this square. And remember that not every uncomfortable 4 a.m.

7:43 revelation, I laugh because that's me, requires an immediate decision, right? I I have a thing with myself. I never trust a thought I have indoors, and I never trust thought I have between 3 and 5 a.m. Maybe even like 2 and 5 a.m. Not gonna happen. It's just like it's releasing, but it's not something I need to wake up at 8 a.m.

8:03 and make decisions on. But it does under this transit deserve attention. All right, October 21st, we're looking at Wednesday. We have the sun and Libra, almost in Scorpio, opposite Chiron and Aries, the wounded healer. So we have a 28-degree Libra sun opposing a 28-degree Aries Chiron. Chiron and Aries.

8:26 I just thought of it. Let's do this Sabian symbol. Sabian symbol for 29 degrees Libra. Because we round up, remember. Humanity seeking to bridge the span of knowledge. Ooh. The primary theme of the Sabian symbol of the sun at 28 degrees Libra is passing down accumulated human experience, wisdom, and consciousness across generations to bind time and uplift humanity beyond basic instinct.

8:55 That's pretty cool. Now, let's so keep that in your mind. Keep it in your pocket. And then we're gonna look at 29 degrees Aries. Sabian symbol. This one says a celestial choir singing or the music of the spheres. Having a deep, faithful realization that life has a profound underlying harmonic order. The Sabian symbol indicates an ability to channel a higher voice or eternal realities, effectively bringing people together in collective praise, peace, and creative manifestation.

9:31 Wow. So when we blend those two together, they're opposing. So they're 180 degrees apart, acting as a tug of war. It's like to me, how I interpret that is it's more like the changes you need to make with whatever your Venus retrograde story has a much bigger collective purpose. Well beyond just you and your pain and your fear of the change, there's something much bigger.

10:02 Maybe there's there's more people that you're going to help and heal with your story. Maybe there's more people that need a seat at your table, but if you keep the keep the wrong people at your table, they just the right ones keep walking by because there's nowhere to sit down. I don't know. It just tells me that this opposition really highlights that there is so much more to life than our little problems and our fishbowl.

10:28 And that's my Sagittarius speaking. I can be stuck. My Scorpio moon gets so just enthralled and encompassed with pain. And then if I take a trip and I go somewhere new and I watch life carrying on outside of my worries, I realize how small they were. That's kind of the vibe I'm getting with the Sabian symbols of sun opposite Chiron.

10:47 But I wrote down here, the last time Chiron was at 28 degrees Aries was May 10th to May 27th of this year, 2026. So reflect back. Now the sun was not opposing it then. It was in Taurus, but that's the last time Chiron was at this 28th degree. So think back to that time. Any wounds around individuality, taking risks, fresh starts coming up.

11:10 Now the sun in Libra focusing on justice, balance, um, communication with your needs versus their needs. This opposition highlights the balance between maintaining relationships and honoring our individuality. So I would reflect back on that May time frame just to see if anything's correlating between it.

11:30 So collectively, we may become more aware of wounds surrounding rejection, independence, fairness or belonging. I mean, I think we already see this. I feel like the opposition between Libra and Aries is kind of like women versus men in the collective right now. Right? Aries is very masculine, Libra is for the women.

11:49 I don't know. But on a more personal, independent note, some situations may arise that remind us of times we've abandoned our own needs to keep someone else happy. Or maybe it brings up times where we struggled to advocate for ourselves because we were afraid of losing a connection. That's big Libra energy.

12:09 Now, Chiron and Aries reminds us that healing isn't always comfortable. Sometimes growth requires disappointing someone else rather than continuing to disappoint ourselves. A quote as old as time. I would say this Sun opposite Chiron Day on October 21st, Wednesday, is it's an opportunity to practice healthy boundaries without sacrificing compassion for someone.

12:32 And I feel like this is such a female theme where we are so just ingrained into our biology to sacrifice ourselves, to be caretakers, to be compassionate, to be kind. Um it's just, I always think of that quote that I read on Substack where it says, if a drunk man walks into a woman's house, the women are gonna treat him like he's out of bed and breakfast.

12:55 But if a drunk woman walks into a frat house, well, you know, walks into a man's house, ah, the house with a bunch of men. I don't know. It's like it's ingrained into us. So, son opposing Chiron, I would say that this is a day where it becomes very obvious where we've lost ourselves to maintain a connection.

13:15 And again, romance is the number one definition of this, but you'd have to look at the houses ruled by Libra and Ares in your chart. But it could be you and a child, it could be you and a parent, it could be you and a coworker, you and a boss. There's some sort of tug of war where you're like, I want to take my power back.

13:32 Which leads us into October 23rd, Friday, Scorpio season begins. The sun enters zero degrees, Scorpio. The sign of I'm taking my power back. And in fact, I'm taking my power back, and I'm going to secretly manipulate you. So I have power over you, and you don't even realize it. That's the disempowered side of Scorpio, but boy are they good.

13:57 And they're reading the room, knowing what you think before you say it. I bet a Scorpio invented AI. Where the collective, right? The sun just went from Libra, which is an emphasis on harmony, balance, relationships. Now we're moving into well, can I trust you in this relationship? Can I share my deeper secret with you?

14:18 Can I have sex with you and trust you with my body? Can we have a joint bank account? And I can trust that you won't steal that money. And if you do, because one of those things is more than likely to happen and go haywire, because that is the human condition, we were just debating last night. This isn't what me and Mr.

14:36 Virgo do. We were debating monogamy. Now we are not polyamorous. We're come on, twin Scorpio moons. Like we would rather be celibate and alone than dip our toes into polyamory or polygamy. But we were talking about do you think it's natural for humans to do that? Because it just seems like every single person you know has a story about cheating on someone or being cheated on, having an affair, whether it's an emotional or a sexual affair, it just seems so prominent.

15:03 And so we start we started Googling all the mammals, amphibians, and animals of the world that are monogamous. We Googled this one lizard that mates with the same female for life, but he'll go away for like three to six months out of year, but then he'll come back and find that same female, and that's his girl.

15:22 It's like these stories are cool. But um, that's Scorpio. That is Scorpio energy right there, which is can I get a matching tattoo with you and trust you enough with my life? Oh, but it is ultimately the sign of great transformation. I love having a Scorpio moon because on my best side, I take some really nasty shit that people have done to me and I alchemize that into medicine.

15:47 I alchemize that into gratitude for the people who do me right. I take the nasty rejections, betrayals, secrets said about me, and I think, woo, well, I am going to let that go, alchemize that pain, feel the anger that comes with it, but then I'm gonna go find the right people who would never treat me that way, who have good intentions and good energy, and they've just got the vibe down.

16:14 And I'm gonna appreciate and love them and be so loyal to them because I know what it feels like to not have that reciprocated. There you go. That is Scorpio energy. But irregardless, if you have Scorpio in your chart, every Scorpio season, and of course, I'll be back to have individual episodes for all these major transits that they deserve.

16:32 But Scorpio season beginning is a strong focus on the transformation. Scorpio's symbol could be said to be a phoenix rising from the ashes. And so the fact that this is happening in between all these transits and we're not even done, tells me that anything that this Venus retrograde has lit on fire for you, Scorpio season may be when your phoenix rises from it.

16:57 So we're not really beginning something new with this, although you could very well start your transformation, but we're understanding something old in an entirely different way. We are burning down this Scorpio season, and I'm trying so hard to save this for its own episode. But we this the fact that the sun is moving into Scorpio makes the theme of all these retrogrades we have coming up transformation, and not getting rid of external people, external jobs, but instead going within and asking yourself, what mindset did I have that attracted a piece of poop type of person like that?

17:37 What was my mindset when I stayed in a friendship or a relationship where someone treated me like that? That's the part we need to transform. And when Scorpio rules death, that's the part that needs to die. Also, on October 23rd, we have the Greek food, the casimi. I don't know why I call it that. Sun conjunct Venus, Venus casimi.

18:05 So Venus retrograde will touch the sun at zero degrees. Scorpio, that is a critical degree, that is a rare degree, zero or twenty nine, always is. This is like the most meaningful turning point of the entire Venus retrograde. When Venus meets the sun, after this, she'll start appearing as a morning star.

18:24 She's being reborn, right? So symbolically, this represents a new beginning. That's what I was saying with the Phoenix rising from the ashes. This is the Phoenix rising out of what just happened since October 3rd and even beyond into late August when Venus entered her shadow. The Venus Kazimi, Venus sitting on the sun, it represents a moment of illumination.

18:52 We begin recognizing what we genuinely value and desire rather than what we've been conditioned and socially influenced to want. It's planting a new seed, not necessarily seeing the final sprout and picking the bouquet, but we are planting a new seed. And I don't know, I just love sharing these personal examples with you guys of my Venus retrograde.

19:15 A lot of my Venus retrograde is in the sixth house. Scorpio rules my seventh house of relationships, but the sixth house, because I'm a 20-degree Taurus rising, is where this Venus retrograde is hovering over. And one thing that I've slowed down with is my skincare routine because it used to be so layered and multifaceted, and I love it.

19:36 It's it's a beautiful like ritual. But I started to realize that my skin actually looked worse. I was, I would get breakouts, I would get redness, I would get weird bumps, and I would go see my skincare aesthetician all the time. Like, what is going on? And we were like, Well, you live on a ranch around animals, and maybe that was it.

19:55 And so I during this Venus retrograde, I got to this point where I was like, number one, my skincare cabinet is ridiculous. That is so much money. What is going on in my head? And then I got to this point where I was like, I am so jealous of men because they have like perfect skin and they don't spend hours in the bathroom.

20:14 And so I was like, I am just gonna use Vanta Cream, which is what my aesthetician recommended for my sensitive skin. I'm just gonna use their face wash and their moisturizer. It's like five bucks a pop rather than the ridiculous amount I was spending on. My skin has never looked better, and it's only been one week of doing that.

20:31 And there's still pieces of me like, I need to exfoliate, I need to do a chemical peel, I need to go, I need to go with microneedling. I've never done that before. I'm too scared. I have a feeling if I do that, I will be the one person that has studied in glass case of it made my skin 10 times worse.

20:48 Also, why I don't go do Botox, because I will be that one person who just gets elephantitis in my eye and it never goes away. I can't. RIP good-looking skin, I'm just rolling with what I've got. But that's my Venus retrograde story. Might I go back into my skincare routine when Venus goes direct? Maybe get something for myself.

21:11 I don't know. But that's just me reassessing my values around how I feel about myself and my aging skin. I'm finding more gray hairs, which is cool. I couldn't wait for this moment, but then I'm also like, holy crap, like, whoa, have I accomplished everything I want to? I haven't become a parent. Is that something I want to do anymore?

21:30 Or like, whoa. So it's bringing up all these feelings of worth and value and whew. I don't know what it's like for you guys, but do go on the website and let me know. This brings us to Saturday, October 24th. Mercury goes in the microwave. Mercury, the planet of thinking, speaking, communicating, goes retrograde.

21:52 As if we needed another planet to go backwards. We're reassessing love, money, values. And then Mercury goes retrograde and says, Yeah, let's really reassess all of those things in your mind and how you speak to yourself and others about them. Baby, we gotta look at the Sabian symbol of this. It's going retrograde at 20 degrees Scorpio.

22:17 That is my descendant. Here we go. Can't wait to see what comes up with that. 21 degrees Scorpio. Sabian symbol. I should probably say this for our episode on Mercury retrograde, but I can't help it. The Sabian symbol for 21 degrees Scorpio is a soldier derelict in his duty or obeying his conscious. A soldier resists orders.

22:44 Oh, I like this. The primary theme is individual conscious versus institutional or social authority. It marks the exact point where a person chooses their personal truth, their internal values, or soul level integrity over rigid collective expectations. Whoa! The positive expression, this is Google AI, by the way.

23:11 The positive expression of the Sapien symbol is having the immense courage to stand up against oppressive, unethical, or outworn structures. It represents an effective commitment to the inner self, a readiness to face the consequences of non-compliance, and the power of personal alignment. Wow. That is death with honor.

23:44 That is I that that is the phrase, this is a hill I will die on. That's spicy. That is wild. The negative shadow expression is it can manifest as abandoning one's duties simply out of laziness, erratic behavior, or the inability to handle pressure.

24:03unknown Wow.

24:05 The psych breaks from traditional demands and faces social penalties. Wow. Major breakthrough. Okay, so this is gonna be like let's remove ourselves from this story for a little bit. Collectively speaking, who knows what is gonna pop off between October 24th and November 15th. November 15th, I am counting down for that day.

24:29 Mercury goes direct, Venus goes direct, Jupiter conjunct Mars in that 26 degree Leo, was it? Or was it 23 degrees? And the Sabian symbol for that was after a storm, there's a rainbow. Listen, you and I are crossing the finish line of these retrogrades together, and there is a rainbow. Now, the fact that that Sabian symbol says after the storm, there is a rainbow.

24:52 Guys, listening to this week, I don't like to fearmonger. I'm predicting the weather. I think we are looking at the edge of a cat-5 hurricane. And I think you and I are sitting here looking at the outer bands of it, going, too late to evacuate now. Um don't be scared, be prepared. Listen, when I told you guys to collect data, I mean that more than ever.

25:18 I feel like this week will challenge us more than we've felt the past few weeks to not make impulsive, loud, erratic, emotional decisions, but rather to be so strong and sturdy as the hurricane bands of wind and rain move in and slap us, but we stand still because Mercury goes retrograde and we say, I'm not going anywhere.

25:48 Go ahead and shower me with whipping winds and hail and tornadoes. I'm not moving because this is a hill I will die on. Oh. Whoa. Mercury retrograde sounds powerful. So that is on Saturday, the 24th. So the universe has been asking us to reassess what we value and love, and now it's asking us to reassess, revisit not only matters of the heart, but the thoughts, conversations, and beliefs connected to them.

26:18 Because literally, when you guys know this, when you change the way you think and look at things, the things you look at start to change. Collectively, I can only imagine how this is going to go collectively, but it could symbolize attention on secrets, Epstein virus, financial entanglements, money laundering, investigations, information that was previously overlooked this year.

26:43 But individually, I imagine this is just opportunities to revisit uncomfortable conversations. It's a time to reassess mental assumptions you made about something difficult from the past and reconsider decisions made from a place in the past of emotional intensity. That is Scorpio, emotional intensity.

27:05 Not everything that resurfaces during this three-week period needs to be reopened, but something's returned because we finally have the awareness with this halfway point of Venus retrograde to understand them differently. All of these transits work on top of the other. I promise you that. Venus went retrograde.

27:23 She's been there for three weeks now. Has it been that long? Maybe two, two weeks. Something has come up. A value, a love, a financial decision has come up. There's no doubt. You guys have been sharing these stories. And now Mercury's going to go retrograde to say, okay, let's change the way you think.

27:40 If you know you need to leave that relationship, I'm going to really change the way you think about what that means for your future so that you can go. If you really need to have a conversation about money, I'm going to change the way you think about financial security so you know no matter what, you're okay.

27:58 We'll see what comes up for you. Be sure to look at where 20 degrees Scorpio lands in your chart. October 25th, the big day, Sunday, October 25th. Venus retrograde re-enters Libra. This depends on where you live. And then October 25th as well. There's the full moon in Taurus. This could also be the 26th, depending on where you live.

28:18 It's like the night of the 25th into early October 26th. Goodness sake. So Venus retrograde re-enters Libra. Let's see. She was last in this degree, late August into early September. Reflect on that time frame. She's coming back to reassess. The question changes from can I trust this connection? to is this connection truly balanced and is it mutually fulfilling?

28:43 Am I actually getting something out of this? This back into Libra is the example of the whiteboard that I used. It's like something popped up where you saw things were so unfair. And now you have the data, you wrote it down, the pros and the cons, the side by side. And when Venus retrogrades back into Libra, you can't unsee what you see on that whiteboard from the data you've collected.

29:05 And now you calculate it. You think, okay, can we change this? Can we start a new experiment somewhere else? Or can we change the current experiment to be more fulfilling, more balanced? Now, this full moon in Taurus. This one's a wild one. And I'm gonna go through it really quickly. We're gonna close this up because each one of these things, not all of them, but most of these are gonna get their own episodes.

29:29 So don't want to repeat myself too much. But this full moon in Taurus. I want to look up the Sabian symbol. Can we do it really quick? Can we cheat? I'm gonna do this on the episodes later anyway. Three degrees Taurus. Sabian symbol. Wow, I need to learn how to type. A brilliant clover pasture. A clover pasture in bloom.

29:54 Key word prosperity, natural abundance, comfort, and the ultimate reward of past efforts. It represents a state of security, peaceful enjoyment, and the fulfillment of basic organic needs, attracting good fortune. Okay. It signals a gift for identifying profitable opportunities and cultivating an environment of luxury, health, and peaceful productivity.

30:18 Yes. I love this, and I will be Googling this again for the full moon episode. But nice, okay. Well, that's a nice, I'm gonna think four-leaf clover pasture. A four a clover uh pasture of pure four-leaf, no three-leaf, just four-leaf clovers in bloom. I'm adding that to the Sabian symbol. But a full moon in Taurus, circling right back to that May 16th, 2026 new moon in Taurus.

30:45 What are you harvesting? Is your clover pasture in bloom? Or is it not? Where did you neglect the Taurus house? Where have you neglected Taurus themes? Maybe you're celebrating under this one because you've been putting in work during this Venus retrograde, but it will be conjunct Chiron because Chiron will be at 28 degrees Aries during this full moon.

31:04 So it's sitting kind of close enough to be a connection. And the sun will be conjunct Venus. So this was such a cool opposition to look at on the chart. The moon is connected to the wound, but the identity is connected to the values and love, and they're opposing each other. I don't know, that screams rainbow and four-leaf clovers to me.

31:24 It's squaring Pluto, so again, the heebie jeebies, the chills to change and shake your body and get something out and move. Set at 444 so you know it's real. I like it. It's giving lucky charms. But if you're brave enough to say, well, life is life, and life comes with change, inevitable deaths and rebirths, and I've put in enough work to know my value, and I'll have to say no to some things, but for every no, there's an automatic yes to something else.

31:58 So, guys, I will be back to talk about a lot of these key transits. I just want to pop on here on this beautiful Monday morning and share with you guys what's coming up. So be sure to write these down, check in with yourself, add data. That's all we're doing is collecting data, especially during a Venus retrograde and a Mercury retrograde at the same time.

32:18 No big decisions. Of course, there are limitations with that. You guys have been emailing me all kinds of things like wait, but I bought a house. Wait, but I'm checking with me. We'll talk about it. And check if you were born during a Mercury or a Venus retrograde, because that plays a role into it as well.

32:33 Guys, I will be here always, astrology-lounge.com, and I will see you tomorrow or Wednesday for the next episode to dive into these transits further. Sending so much love from Twin Moon Ranch outside of Austin, Texas. See you then. Bye.