Retrogrades Could Set October Off On A Bumpy Start, Astrologers Warn

Focus on making amends and patiently negotiating differences as best you can. When Mars blazes into Scorpio from October 30 to December 13, we’ll have plenty of Halloween and holiday season heat. Mars is the minor/classical ruler of Scorpio, much more at home in this zodiac sign. We’ll get our power back at the end of October, a good case for personal energy conservation until then.

Meantime, Pluto putters forward on October 6, in tandem with the Libra new moon, ending a retrograde in structural Capricorn that started April 27. Power struggles and entanglements related to business, governments, and finance will be resolved or at least will surface from the depths to be hashed out.

Then, Saturn (October 10) and Jupiter (October 18) end their retrogrades and zoom forward in Aquarius, the sign of groups, society, and the future. We may see resolution around some of the policies world leaders have been tearing their hair out over, especially related to the pandemic, public health, and vaccination policy.