Leo Weekly Horoscope

The week at a glance

The Full Moon in Taurus on Monday, October 26 falls in your 10th house of career and public standing. Full Moons bring things to a head rather than beginning them, and this one does it in your career, reputation and what you are known for.

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

• The Sun in Scorpio — your 4th house. It is the month’s centre of gravity, and it sits there.
• Mercury in Scorpio (retrograde) — your 4th house. It routes the week’s messages, admin and second thoughts through it.
• Venus in Libra (retrograde) — your 3rd house. It smooths it, which helps taste and diplomacy more than it helps effort.
• Mars in Leo — your 1st house. It pushes hard there — useful, and abrasive if nobody is warned.
• Jupiter in Leo — your 1st house. It is generous with that part of your life and has no sense of proportion.
• Saturn in Aries (retrograde) — your 9th 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, across the top of your chart, where other people can see you. On Wednesday, October 28 it crosses into Gemini, through friends and networks. Friday, October 30 takes it into Cancer, through the quiet zone, which is a cue to rest rather than push. It shifts on Sunday, November 1 into Leo, in your own sign, which puts your mood close to the surface.

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 3rd house of talking, learning and short trips, so this week the action is in conversation — what gets said, written, asked or explained. Send the message you have been drafting, or ask the question you have been circling.

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 1st house, which is where your effort will actually land this week — sense of yourself and how you land on other people. Mercury in Scorpio puts the conversations and paperwork in your 4th house instead, so the thinking and the doing are aimed at different targets.

The Sun is still in Scorpio, your 4th house, which is the background theme for the whole month rather than just this week: the centre of gravity moves indoors, to home and the people who feel like home.

Wellbeing

Your quietest stretch is Friday, October 30 to Sunday, November 1, 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 a fire sign you tend to run on momentum and notice the cost late; the fix is usually sleep rather than discipline.

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 4th house (home, family and roots) with your 7th house (partnership and other people).
• 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 4th house (home, family and roots) with your 11th house (friends, networks and hopes).
• Friday, October 30 — Mercury square Mars. They grind against each other, which is uncomfortable and productive in roughly equal measure. It connects your 4th house (home, family and roots) with your 1st house (self and how you come across).
• Sunday, November 1 — Sun quincunx Saturn. They sit at an angle with no natural resolution — you adapt rather than solve. It connects your 4th house (home, family and roots) with your 9th house (travel, study and the bigger picture).