Capricorn Weekly Horoscope

The week at a glance

The Full Moon in Taurus on Monday, October 26 falls in your 5th house of romance, creativity and play. Full Moons bring things to a head rather than beginning them, and this one does it in your romance, creative work, children and play.

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

• The Sun in Scorpio — your 11th house. It puts the light there for the next few weeks.
• Mercury in Scorpio (retrograde) — your 11th house. It keeps the talking, the paperwork and the small decisions there.
• Venus in Libra (retrograde) — your 10th house. It makes that area easier to enjoy and easier to negotiate.
• Mars in Leo — your 8th house. It supplies drive there, and a shorter fuse with it.
• Jupiter in Leo — your 8th house. It enlarges whatever is already there, the good and the excessive alike.
• Saturn in Aries (retrograde) — your 4th house. It asks for structure there, and will not accept improvisation.

The Moon through your week

It opens the week in Taurus, through the part of you that wants to play. Wednesday, October 28 takes it into Gemini, through the working hours, useful for grinding through a list. It shifts on Friday, October 30 into Cancer, through your dealings with other people. From Sunday, November 1 it moves into Leo, through the private, undiscussed material.

A week has a shape mostly because the Moon keeps moving. The slower planets decide what the year is about; the Moon decides how Wednesday feels.

Love and connection

Venus is in Libra, your 10th house of career and public standing, so this week the visible, public side of your life is where the pressure and the opportunity sit. Ask for the thing at work, or let the right person see what you have been doing.

Venus makes no exact aspect this week, so nothing forces the issue. The warmest window is Monday, October 26, when the Moon crosses your fifth house and makes it easier to be light about things.

Work and money

Mars is in Leo, your 8th house, which is where your effort will actually land this week — shared resources, debts, intimacy and what stays private. Mercury in Scorpio puts the conversations and paperwork in your 11th house instead, so the thinking and the doing are aimed at different targets.

The Sun is still in Scorpio, your 11th house, which is the background theme for the whole month rather than just this week: the week works through groups — friends, colleagues, communities, the people around the edges.

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 Wednesday, October 28, 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 earth sign you will keep going long past the point the body asked you to stop; treat rest as part of the work, not a reward for it.

Dates that matter

The exact moments, in order:

• Monday, October 26 — Sun square Pluto. They grind against each other, which is uncomfortable and productive in roughly equal measure. It connects your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes) with your 2nd house (money, values and self-worth).
• Wednesday, October 28 — Sun quincunx Uranus. They sit at an angle with no natural resolution — you adapt rather than solve. It connects your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes) with your 6th house (work, routine and health).
• Friday, October 30 — Mercury square Mars. They refuse to agree, which usually forces a decision you have been deferring. It connects your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes) with your 8th house (shared money, depth and change).
• Sunday, November 1 — Sun quincunx Saturn. They do not fit together, and want a small adjustment rather than a decision. It connects your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes) with your 4th house (home, family and roots).