Gemini Weekly Horoscope

The week at a glance

The Full Moon in Taurus on Monday, October 26 falls in your 12th house of rest, endings and the inner life. Full Moons bring things to a head rather than beginning them, and this one does it in your rest, solitude, endings and what happens off-stage.

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

• The Sun in Scorpio — your 6th house. It spends this stretch of the year illuminating that part of your life.
• Mercury in Scorpio (retrograde) — your 6th house. It means the thinking happens there, whether or not the doing does.
• Venus in Libra (retrograde) — your 5th house. It is the reason that part of life is currently the least of your problems.
• Mars in Leo — your 3rd house. It puts your energy and your irritability in the same place.
• Jupiter in Leo — your 3rd house. It opens it up, which is an opportunity and an invitation to overdo it.
• Saturn in Aries (retrograde) — your 11th house. It wants it built properly, and will make a second attempt necessary if it is not.

The Moon through your week

It begins the week in Taurus, through the quiet zone, which is a cue to rest rather than push. It shifts on Wednesday, October 28 into Gemini, in your own sign, which puts your mood close to the surface. From Friday, October 30 it moves into Cancer, through your money and comfort zone. On Sunday, November 1 it crosses into Leo, through the talking part of your week.

Read the Moon as weather rather than climate. It sets the tone of a day and almost never the outcome.

Love and connection

Venus is in Libra, your 5th house of romance, creativity and play, so this week the pull is toward pleasure, creative work and being seen enjoying yourself. Make something, or say the flirtatious thing you would normally edit out.

Venus makes no exact aspect this week. That is not a dead spell so much as an unforced one — whatever happens here happens because you initiated it, not because the sky did.

Work and money

Mars is in Leo, your 3rd house, which is where your effort will actually land this week — conversations, messages, learning and local movement. Mercury in Scorpio puts the conversations and paperwork in your 6th house instead, so the thinking and the doing are aimed at different targets.

The Sun is still in Scorpio, your 6th house, which is the background theme for the whole month rather than just this week: the week is made of ordinary work — tasks, habits, appointments, small repairs.

Wellbeing

Your quietest stretch is Monday, October 26 to Wednesday, October 28, while the Moon crosses your twelfth house — schedule the least around it and you will get more out of the rest. 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

If you only diarise a handful of days this week, diarise these:

• Monday, October 26 — Sun square Pluto. They refuse to agree, which usually forces a decision you have been deferring. It connects your 6th house (work, routine and health) with your 9th house (travel, study and the bigger picture).
• Wednesday, October 28 — Sun quincunx Uranus. They do not fit together, and want a small adjustment rather than a decision. It connects your 6th house (work, routine and health) with your 1st house (self and how you come across).
• Friday, October 30 — Mercury square Mars. They pull at cross purposes, and the friction is the point rather than a fault. It connects your 6th house (work, routine and health) with your 3rd house (talking, learning and short trips).
• Sunday, November 1 — Sun quincunx Saturn. They never quite line up, which shows as a nagging sense of something being slightly off. It connects your 6th house (work, routine and health) with your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes).