Week Ahead Forecast: October 6th to the 12th 2025

'These weekly posts aren’t predictions. They’re invitations. I’m not trying to tell you exactly what’s going to happen, because I can’t. No astrologer can. What I can do is show you the terrain. The weather. The conversations The Gods are having up there, and in here.

My intention with the weekly forecast is to help you feel that. To give you a way in. To open a window of possibility. What might this transit feel like? Where might it show up? What kind of emotional tone, friction, insight, or shift might be available if you’re paying attention?

Read it like a weather report. Let the words stir something. Then go live your week. Notice what plays out. Return and reread if you need to.'

Read my weekly forecast manifesto in full here.

💫 Weekly Astrology 6th to the 12th of October

A compacted overview this week because, with The Sun in my first house, I'm living the astrology and feeling it intensely, and as a result there's less room for anything else.

🌕 The Time Is Now

What if everything is happening for you to grow and learn from?

How would you approach your day if that were the case?

If each conversation, delay, and disappointment was a mirror reflecting something you’re ready to see about yourself?

The world has a way of showing us who we are. Every interaction offers a chance to wake up a little more.

This week’s astrology invites us to look closely at those reflections. The Sun and Moon stand in perfect opposition - Self and Other - and the truth of this illumination is mirrored in the world around us. The task is to live the balance with grace. To move from awareness into practice.

The aim is freedom and balance - to be fully who we are while staying open to the other.

Aries / Libra. I am / We are.

The time is now.

🌕 The Quality of Time: Week Beginning Monday 6 October

The week begins under the Aries Full Moon, lighting the same part of the sky where the Aries New Moon and Solar Eclipse took place on 29 March 2025. That was a moment of rebirth and the first spark of a new beginning in the Aries part of your chart.

Something awakened then: courage, self-definition, a call to act from truth rather than fear. It was the first inhale of a new cycle and now, six months later, this Full Moon brings the exhale.

Ask yourself:

What has the rebirth that began in March grown into?

What truth is being revealed about who you’ve become?

This lunation is a mirror between Aries and Libra. Between the instinct to stand alone and the grace of being together. The message isn’t to choose one or the other, but to integrate both.

Stop controlling how others see you.

Let go of the pressure to prove your worth, your strength, your passion.

Surrender to vulnerability and allow your relationships to reflect what’s real.

You do not need to self-sacrifice to be loved.

The more truthfully you stand in yourself, the more room there is for love to meet you there.

🌊 Neptune: The Sea Beneath the Fire

When that March eclipse occurred, Neptune entered Aries - a once-in-a-lifetime threshold. The God of the Sea stepping into the sign of fire. The dissolver entering the realm of selfhood.

Since then, we’ve been redefining faith, spirituality, and identity. Neptune in Aries whispers: Wake up. Be who you are. Believe in what your soul knows is true.

Now, as this Full Moon burns bright, Neptune prepares to step back into Pisces, returning to the ocean to finish what was left undone. This is the moment to gather the learning and to see what illusions have fallen away, what ideals remain, and what parts of you are ready to live with open-eyed faith.

It’s a powerful image: The fire of Aries reflected on the surface of Neptune’s sea: passion meeting surrender, individuality meeting spirit. The self awakening to its divine source.

⚫ Pluto: The Underworld Turns

This is also the last full week of Pluto moving backwards before He stations direct. The God of transformation is gathering His power, preparing to turn forward once more.

When Pluto slows, what lies beneath rises up. The deeper layers of truth, control, and fear surface to be seen to bring consciousness to what is coming next.

If strong emotions, memories, or power struggles arise this week, trust that they are part of the preparation. Pluto never takes without purpose. He strips away what cannot continue so that rebirth can begin in truth.

✨ Practice

This week, live as if everything is happening for you and not to you.

• Notice what the world mirrors back.

• Observe your reactions without judgement.

• When conflict or emotion arises, ask: What is this teaching me about how I love, give, and stand in myself?

The practice is to stay awake within the tension and to move through it with grace.

The aim is freedom.

To be who you are, with others.

To act from truth, without losing tenderness.

To walk through this world as both flame and mirror.

The time is now.

🪞 Weekly Transits: 6–12 October 2025

6 October – Full Moon in Aries (14°09')

The week opens with fire and revelation. The Aries–Libra axis is fully alive, lighting up the balance between “I am” and “We are.”

6 October – Mercury enters Scorpio (0° Scorpio)

The mind deepens. Conversations turn serious, intimate, and penetrating. We begin to see beneath appearances. Hidden motives, buried truths, and emotional honesty become unavoidable. Mercury in Scorpio helps us speak what’s real though the tone can be intense. Perfect for shadow work, deep emotional conversations, or transformative insight.

13 October – Venus enters Libra (0° Libra)

(Note: Venus enters Libra late on the 13th, so its build-up will be felt through the week.)

This is a homecoming. The Goddess of Love moves into Her own sign, bringing harmony, beauty, and balance back into relationships after the fiery independence of Aries. We begin to crave connection, softness, and peace.

Mars remains in Leo throughout this week, adding boldness and creative drive with a desire to express passion, courage, and joy openly. It’s a reminder that even amidst emotional work, the spark of life wants expression.

Pluto continues retrograde in early Aquarius, preparing to station direct the following week. This slowing intensifies His influence, drawing up emotional depth and evolutionary themes.

✨ Tone of the Week

So the week’s flavour is a blend of Aries fire, Scorpionic truth, and Libran grace - fierce honesty, emotional revelation, and the desire for harmony.

Here’s how it all works together:

• The Full Moon exposes truth in relationships.

• Mercury entering Scorpio gives language to what was hidden and an invitation to have the conversation you’ve avoided.

• Venus moving toward Libra restores sweetness after the storm with a reminder that connection thrives on honesty, not performance.

• Pluto’s slow turn ensures that whatever surfaces has depth and staying power; it’s not fleeting, it’s evolutionary.

Rising Sign Forecasts

🌕 Aries Rising

This is your Full Moon, shining in the first house and lighting up your partnerships across the way. The focus is you and how you move through the world, how you meet the other. The last six months have been a rebirth of identity. You’re seeing now who you’ve become and where you’ve outgrown old patterns of relating.

Mercury’s shift into Scorpio invites deeper emotional honesty and vulnerability around shared resources, intimacy, and trust.

Friendships, tribes, and future plans are being refined. As Pluto slows, you see which circles feed your flame and which drain it. Release performative belonging; choose alliances that honour your truth and the future you actually want.

🌕 Taurus Rising

The Aries Full Moon lights up your twelfth house - hidden emotions, endings, and unseen patterns - opposite the Libra Sun in your sixth house of work and wellbeing. Something long held may be surfacing now for release.

Mercury in Scorpio moves into your relationship house, calling for real conversations and emotional depth with others.

Public role, reputation, and vocation are up for honest review. Pluto asks for authority born of integrity, not image. A career chapter may end or deepen but either way, stand where you can answer to yourself first.

🌕 Gemini Rising

The Aries Full Moon falls in your eleventh house of friendships, community, and hopes for the future, opposite the Libra Sun in your fifth. Themes of belonging, creation, and joy are illuminated. What are you ready to share with the world?

Mercury entering Scorpio highlights your daily work and health; refine your routines and notice how mind and body mirror each other.

Beliefs, big ideas, teaching/learning, and far horizons transform. Pluto strips away borrowed philosophies so you can live your own. Let a core truth replace ten clever opinions.

🌕 Cancer Rising

The Aries Full Moon lights your tenth house of calling, career, and visibility. What began in March around purpose or direction is now bearing fruit. You’re being seen perhaps more than feels comfortable. Balance this with the Libra Sun’s pull to nurture home and family.

Mercury in Scorpio turns your thoughts toward pleasure and creativity; speak what brings you joy.

Shared money, debts, inheritances, intimacy, and energetic entanglements come into focus. Pluto wants clean agreements and real trust. Name the power dynamics, renegotiate, and release what binds your life force.

🌕 Leo Rising

The Aries Full Moon falls in your ninth house of truth, faith, wisdom. The story that began in March reaches revelation. What do you believe now?

The Libra Sun lights your third, asking you to voice your truth with balance and beauty.

Mercury entering Scorpio deepens family or emotional conversations at home; be open to the raw truth beneath the surface.

Partnership is the mirror. Pluto brings depth, devotion, and sometimes endings—always in service of truth. Choose bonds that can hold your full light without control on either side. of relationships shows where power and transformation are asking to be faced with awareness.

🌕 Virgo Rising

The Aries Full Moon lights your eighth house of shared resources, intimacy, the unseen bonds that tie you to others. Something that began in March around trust or energetic exchange reaches its truth.

The Libra Sun in your second reminds you of your own worth. Balance giving with receiving.

Mercury entering Scorpio helps you find the right words; conversations run deep, healing old misunderstandings.

Work, health, and daily systems get a purge. Pluto exposes what’s unsustainable and asks for disciplined rhythm. Clear the clutter (tasks, foods, duties) so service becomes sacred, not sacrificial.

🌕 Libra Rising

This is your axis: Sun in Libra, Full Moon in Aries. The mirror moment. The spotlight is on relationship, on how you move between self and other.

What began around the March eclipse in your seventh house is now visible. It’s time to stand as you are with no masks and no performance.

Mercury entering Scorpio activates your second house, bringing clarity to money, values, and self-esteem.

Creativity, romance, pleasure, and children are potent. Pluto calls you to take your joy seriously. Claim creative authority and let love be transformational. Play with depth.

🌕 Scorpio Rising

The Aries Full Moon illuminates your sixth house — the body, work, and daily rhythm — opposite the Libra Sun in your twelfth. A reminder that service must be balanced with rest.

Mercury enters Scorpio, sharpening your insight and voice; it’s time to speak from the heart and embody your truth.

Home, family, roots, property, and inner security are remade. Pluto invites basement-level clearing of ancestral stories, old loyalties, and hidden grief. Build a foundation that can hold who you’re becoming.

🌕 Sagittarius Rising

The Aries Full Moon lights your fifth house of joy, creativity, romance opposite the Libra Sun in your eleventh. It’s a call to share what makes you come alive.

Mercury entering Scorpio activates your twelfth: hidden thoughts, intuition, dreams.

Mindset, words, siblings/neighbours, travel and tech is where power shifts. Pluto wants your message distilled. Cut doom-scrolling, sharpen your craft, speak with courage and precision.

🌕 Capricorn Rising

The Aries Full Moon shines on your fourth house of home, family, the inner foundation while the Libra Sun highlights your tenth, your public life and purpose. A balance between inner and outer worlds.

Mercury entering Scorpio brings depth to your social circles; meaningful conversations align you with true allies.

Money, possessions, pricing, and self-worth are the alchemy. Pluto asks for sober numbers and a richer inner value. Restructure income and invest in what truly matters to you.

🌕 Aquarius Rising

The Aries Full Moon lights up your third house of communication and thought, opposite the Libra Sun in your ninth of belief and vision. The truth you speak now can change everything.

Mercury entering Scorpio intensifies career matters; speak with authority but stay grounded.

Venus in Libra blesses long-distance connections and spiritual learning find beauty through broadened perspective.

Identity, body, path. Pluto is chiselling you into the truest shape. Let the old skin fall. Power now comes from self-possession: how you stand, speak, and choose.

🌕 Pisces Rising

The Aries Full Moon illuminates your second house of value, worth, and resources opposite the Libra Sun in your eighth, intimacy and shared energy.

The question is: what do you truly value, and what are you ready to release?

Mercury entering Scorpio heightens your intuition and insight so spiritual study and travel may call.

The hidden room of the soul - rest, endings, secrets, the unseen. Pluto brings deep clearing through solitude, dreams, prayer, and release. Close what’s complete with grace and protect your quiet.

🌕 Collective Reflection

Wherever this Full Moon lands for you, it illuminates the same essential truth: you are learning how to be yourself while staying open to others.

The Aries–Libra axis is the eternal dance between independence and interdependence - the self that acts and the self that relates. This week, that balance is being redefined.

Neptune’s slow retreat from Aries back into Pisces softens the fire reminding us that spiritual strength lies in surrender. Faith, identity, and self-expression are being rewritten.

At the same time, Pluto prepares to turn direct, stirring deep awareness of what’s ending and what is ready to be reborn. We are clearing the underworld before stepping into the light of what comes next.

Mercury in Scorpio gives voice to hidden truths. Venus in Libra next week will restore harmony where honesty has been spoken. Together, they remind us that love without truth withers, and truth without love wounds but when held in balance, both set us free.

So wherever you find yourself this week, notice what the world mirrors back.

See every interaction as a conversation between the Gods revealing who you are becoming. The time is now. Be brave enough to live it.

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A note on AI & my writing:

I use ChatGPT as a writing assistant—not as a writer. These are my thoughts, ideas, and words, shaped by my lived experience and deep love for self-work, self-awareness, the spiritual journey, and astrology. AI helps me refine, structure, and nudge me toward better phrasing, but the voice you’re reading is mine. I use it as a tool to help me put into words everything I believe is valuable in sharing my insights. Honesty matters to me, and this is simply one way I bring my thoughts to life.