Star Struck Style

Venus stations and turns retrograde today. “Café Astrology” describes the event as follows:

“Venus in Scorpio stations and turns retrograde today and will continue in retrograde motion until November 13th. Until October 25th, Venus transits Scorpio and then retreats into Libra on that date for the remainder of the retrograde. This Venus retrograde cycle can bring us back to unresolved matters, particularly those related to relationships, finances, wants and needs, and values. We may want to avoid significant new beginnings or decisions related to Venus-ruled endeavors, such as finances, partnership, romance, and pleasurable pursuits. However, it’s a good time to review, re-evaluate, and reassess our love life, personal finances, and the ways we receive, reveal, and express our affections. Thoughts turn to the past so that we can lay to rest unhealthy habits in these areas of life. In truth, we can get in better touch with our values and needs during this slowdown phase.”

This entire phase will be occurring in my first house. For that reason, I’ve been anticipating an interesting autumn with both retrograde Mercury and retrograde Venus being lapped by the sun as it transits through that part of my chart. Avoiding “significant new beginnings” was already on my mind because the upcoming Libra new moon occurs in the last degree of my twelfth house. I feel as if the universe is urging me to wrap things up before I set off on a new path. The next new moon skips my first house just a few days before both Mercury and Venus go direct on November 13.

I’m not quite sure what to make of these unique events, but I am quite interested to focus on myself for the next few weeks. Venus turned retrograde on the day I was born, so I attribute some symbolic significance to the planet’s stationary retrograde phase. I feel as if I know myself better than usual this morning, even with the sun still transiting my delusional twelfth house.

So, I am going to resolve to focus on the final sentence of the prediction I posted above. I would like to “get in better touch” with my values and needs over the next few weeks. I’ve been anxious because of several things I cannot control, and for that reason I need to focus on the things that I can control in my own little world. When I am on the other side of these events in five or six weeks from now, perhaps I’ll feel as I’m ready to embrace the end of 2026 feeling much less passive than I am at the moment. Curiously, retrograde Chiron is currently conjunct my part of fortune, not only highlighting my vulnerabilities, but also making me understand not only what I need to do to feel less vulnerable to external circumstances, but also what I need to do to “lay to rest unhealthy habits.” That includes this resolution to turn inward at a time of the year that I would normally urge myself to do the opposite.

It’s an interesting time to be me. I feel calm and receptive to what the universe is providing instead of annoyed that I’m not going to experience a first-house new moon this year. I believe that I can thank stationary Venus for that. Maybe I’ll feel different about this situation when it’s over, but at the moment things are fine.

I’m just going to keep telling myself that . . .