Aquarius Weekly Horoscope

The week at a glance

The Full Moon in Taurus on Monday, October 26 falls in your 4th house of home, family and roots. Full Moons bring things to a head rather than beginning them, and this one does it in your home, family and the private ground you stand on.

Underneath that, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde all week. Here is where the slower bodies are sitting, counted from Aquarius:

• The Sun in Scorpio — your 10th house. It is the month’s centre of gravity, and it sits there.
• Mercury in Scorpio (retrograde) — your 10th house. It routes the week’s messages, admin and second thoughts through it.
• Venus in Libra (retrograde) — your 9th house. It smooths it, which helps taste and diplomacy more than it helps effort.
• Mars in Leo — your 7th house. It pushes hard there — useful, and abrasive if nobody is warned.
• Jupiter in Leo — your 7th house. It is generous with that part of your life and has no sense of proportion.
• Saturn in Aries (retrograde) — your 3rd house. It is slow, exacting and unimpressed by that part of your life just now.

The Moon through your week

The week starts with it in Taurus, through home ground, where you can drop the performance. It shifts on Wednesday, October 28 into Gemini, through the part of you that wants to play. From Friday, October 30 it moves into Cancer, through the working hours, useful for grinding through a list. On Sunday, November 1 it crosses into Leo, through your dealings with other people.

The Moon covers the whole zodiac in a month, which is why it is the only body worth consulting about a single afternoon.

Love and connection

Venus is in Libra, your 9th house of travel, study and the bigger picture, so this week the frame widens — travel, study, publishing, anything that enlarges the map. Book the trip, start the course, or read past the headline on something you care about.

Venus makes no exact aspect this week, so nothing forces the issue. The warmest window is Wednesday, October 28, when the Moon crosses your fifth house and makes it easier to be light about things.

Work and money

Mars is in Leo, your 7th house, which is where your effort will actually land this week — close partnerships, business and one-to-one dealings. Mercury in Scorpio puts the conversations and paperwork in your 10th house instead, so the thinking and the doing are aimed at different targets.

The Sun is still in Scorpio, your 10th house, which is the background theme for the whole month rather than just this week: the visible, public side of your life is where the pressure and the opportunity sit.

Wellbeing

The Moon does not touch your twelfth house this week, so there is no built-in rest window. You will have to make one. The Moon reaches your sixth house of routine and health on Friday, October 30, which is the natural day to deal with the appointment, the admin or the habit you have been avoiding. Energy tracks the Moon this week: it peaks around the Full Moon on Monday, October 26. As an air sign your fatigue shows up as mental noise before it shows up physically; a walk without a phone does more than an early night.

Dates that matter

Where the week concentrates:

• Monday, October 26 — Sun square Pluto. They pull at cross purposes, and the friction is the point rather than a fault. It connects your 10th house (career and public standing) with your 1st house (self and how you come across).
• Wednesday, October 28 — Sun quincunx Uranus. They never quite line up, which shows as a nagging sense of something being slightly off. It connects your 10th house (career and public standing) with your 5th house (romance, creativity and play).
• Friday, October 30 — Mercury square Mars. They grind against each other, which is uncomfortable and productive in roughly equal measure. It connects your 10th house (career and public standing) with your 7th house (partnership and other people).
• Sunday, November 1 — Sun quincunx Saturn. They sit at an angle with no natural resolution — you adapt rather than solve. It connects your 10th house (career and public standing) with your 3rd house (talking, learning and short trips).