[Fate & Free Will ] Astrology for the Week of October 20 - 26

This week starts intense and stays that way. Wednesday is the major turning point when Neptune moves back into Pisces and the Sun moves into Scorpio, closing out the pilot season of the new era that started back in March. For the next few months, you'll be wrapping up what you've been dealing with for the past 3, 7, or 14 years, getting ready to fully step into 2026.

Monday 10/20

• ☿ ☌ ♂︎ at 19° 11‘ Scorpio |  2:51am Eastern

Monday is so extra. It’s time to cut through weeks of careful diplomacy and get straight to what's really happening.

This sets the tone for the week: we're done being polite for politeness' sake. If something needs to be named, exposed, or confronted, it happens now. The New Moon tomorrow will ask what you want to build but today is about what needs to be cleared first.

• Best for: Honest confrontations, strategic communication, cutting through pretense, saying what needs to be said without softening it, research and investigation.
• Potential Challenges: Verbal cruelty, weaponizing truth, starting fights you can't control, saying things that can't be unsaid, paranoia or suspicion.

Tuesday 10/21

• ☽ at 24° 24‘ Libra □ ♃ at 24° 24‘ Cancer | 12:28 am Eastern
• Libra 🌑 New Moon |8:25am - 8:25am Eastern
• ☽ ☌ ☉ at at 28° 21‘ Libra 
• ☽ V/C |8:25am - 11:42am Eastern
• ☽ ▻ Scorpio |  11:42am Eastern
• ☽ at 01° 22‘ Scorpio □ ♇ at 01° 22‘ Aquarius |  2:28pm Eastern

Tuesday we have the Libra New Moon at 8:25am.This is your chance to set intentions in Libra's language: partnership, balance, beauty, fairness, collaboration. 

But once the Moon moves into Scorpio at 11:42 am eastern, the emotional landscape shifts completely, and suddenly what you planted in the morning comes with requirements you probably haven't admitted to yourself yet.

Whatever you're committing to will require you to transform, merge, or relinquish control in ways that won't feel comfortable.

• Best for: Setting clear terms, formal beginnings, redefining agreements.
• Potential Challenges: Overpromising, forcing resolution before the facts are in, aesthetic over substance.

PS - Mercury goes into shadow today which means you can expect the shenanigans to start showing up and find that things you begin or work on over the next few weeks will need revisions later in November.

Wednesday 10/22

• ♆ ▻ Pisces |  5:50am Eastern
• ☉ ▻ Scorpio |  11:50pm Eastern

Wednesday is a threshold with major planetary shifts. Neptune slides back into Pisces at 5:50 am and the Sun slips into the depth of Scorpio at 11:50 pm eastern.

We’ve been living in something of a pilot season for a new era, with varying levels of intensity since March 30 when Neptune moved into Aries. We will fully close out the pilot season on November 8th when Uranus trudges back into Taurus.

If you want reference dates to review:

• Neptune in Aries March 30 - October 22, 2025
• Saturn in Aries May 24 - September 1 , 2005
• Uranus in Gemini July 7 - November 8, 2025

It will be tempting over the next couple of months to think nothing really changed over the last six months or so but those months have given us a glimpse into the themes of the rest of the decade and beyond. 

Just remember, while the theme of a new show and most of the characters are defined in the pilot episode subtle changes often occur before the show finally launches. It won’t be until just before Valentine’s Day that we have both Neptune and Saturn back in Aries and the end of April before Uranus becomes entrenched in Gemini. 

The rest of this year has a wrapping up quality of the things that you’ve been dealing with for the past 3 (Saturn in Pisces), 7 (Uranus in Taurus), or 14 (Neptune in Pisces) years so you’re fully ready to step into the new era in 2026. 

As for the Sun moving back into Scorpio, that’s drawing your attention to a new area of your life for the next month or so. By rising sign:

• Aries Rising: Focus turns to debts, obligations, and what’s owed or shared.
• Taurus Rising: Attention shifts to partners, contracts, and agreements that define your connections.
• Gemini Rising: Daily work, routines, and health require more precision and follow-through.
• Cancer Rising: Pleasure, children, romance, and what you desire most come into focus.
• Leo Rising: Home, family, and the foundation of your life take priority.
• Virgo Rising: Communication, siblings, and short trips fill your attention.
• Libra Rising: Money, possessions, and material security become central concerns.
• Scorpio Rising: You step into the spotlight and your vitality, willpower, and identity strengthen.
• Sagittarius Rising: Solitude, rest, and private matters become more important.
• Capricorn Rising: Friends, alliances, and long-term goals draw your attention.
• Aquarius Rising: Public image, career, and reputation take precedence.
• Pisces Rising: Broader perspectives, learning, and travel capture your imagination.

Thursday 10/23

• ☽ ☌ ♂︎ at 21° 24‘ Scorpio  |  6:55am Eastern
• ☽ ☌ ☿ at 23° 24‘ Scorpio  |   10:56am Eastern
• ☽ at 24° 34‘ Scorpio △ ♃ at 24° 34‘ Cancer |  1:18pm Eastern
• ☽ at 26° 12‘ Scorpio △ ♄  at 26° 12‘ Pisces | 4:38pm Eastern

Thursday there’s a retriggering of those intense realizations or conversations that occurred on Monday. But this time there's support. 

What seemed overwhelming or destructive earlier in the week now has more structure and purpose. 

This is one of the best days of the week for doing the hard things because the intensity is still there, but now it's productive.

• Best for: Difficult conversations, deep work that requires sustained focus, emotional honesty backed by maturity, making commitments that require sacrifice, therapeutic breakthroughs.
• Potential Challenges: Emotional exhaustion from sustained intensity, overestimating how much you can process in one day, confusing catharsis with resolution.

Friday 10/24 

• ☽ at 29° 57‘ Scorpio △ ♆ at 29° 57‘ Pisces | 1  12:13am Eastern
• ☽ V/C |12:13am - 12:18am Eastern
• ☽ ▻ Sagittarius | 12:18am Eastern
• ☽ at 00° 33‘ Sagittarius ☍ ♅ at 00° 33‘ Gemini |  1:27am Eastern
• ☽ at 01° 23‘ Sagittarius ✳ ♇  at 01° 23‘ Aquarius | 3:08am Eastern
• ☉ at 01° 23‘ Scorpio □ ♇ at 01° 23‘ Aquarius | 9:24am Eastern
• ☿ at 24° 37‘ Scorpio △ ♃ at 24° 37‘ Cancer |  11:07am Eastern

Friday holds two competing energies at once. 

Power dynamics are loud. This is about who has control, who wants it, and what you're willing to do to get or keep it. It's confrontational and clarifying. Sometimes the power move is walking away. Sometimes it's refusing to play. Sometimes it's finally admitting what you want.

At the same time, conversations expand and thinking gets bigger. There's optimism, mental clarity, and genuine understanding flowing. Ideas connect, possibilities open up, and discussions that could turn destructive instead have room for growth.

These aren't happening in sequence. They're both present all day. You might find yourself in an intense confrontation that somehow also leads to breakthrough understanding. Or you might bounce between deep power dynamics and genuinely productive, optimistic planning.

It really depends on what planets are most active for you and where the transits are showing up in your chart. If you want help with this, I can teach you all about it inside The Crusade. If you’re in The Crusade already, check out the workbook entries for today here.

• Best for: Confrontations that lead somewhere productive, claiming your power while staying open to possibility, expansive thinking that doesn't ignore hard truths, conversations that are both deep and hopeful.
• Potential Challenges: Getting stuck in power struggles and missing opportunities for growth, or being so optimistic you ignore real power imbalances.

Saturday 10/25

• ☽ at 14° 18‘ Sagittarius ✳ ♀︎ at 14° 18‘ Libra |  5:17am Eastern
• 🌒 Waxing Crescent Moon | 11:42am Eastern
• ☿ at 26° 06‘ Scorpio △ ♄ at 26° 06‘ Pisces | 5:16pm Eastern

Saturday conversations get serious and structured. This is the energy for committing to something after careful thought, making plans that account for reality, or having discussions that need both depth and boundaries. 

There's a productive quality to exchanges where people say what they mean and follow through. If something needs to be said with clarity and maturity, this is when it happens. If plans need to be made with an eye toward what's sustainable, this is the day for it.

• Best for: Serious commitments, structured planning, conversations that require maturity and follow-through, making agreements that stick, realistic assessments.
• Potential Challenges: Conversations that feel heavy or overly serious, difficulty with spontaneity, being so focused on what's realistic that you lose sight of what's possible.

Sunday 10/26

• ☽ at 26° 04‘ Sagittarius □ ♄ at 26° 04‘ Pisces | 5:00am Eastern
• ☽ at 29° 54‘ Sagittarius □ ♆ at 29° 54‘ Pisces | 12:41pm Eastern
• ☽ V/C |12:41pm - 12:53pm Eastern
• ☽ ▻ Capricorn | 12:53pm Eastern
• ☽ at 03° 51‘ Capricorn  ✳ ☉ at 03° 51‘ Scorpio | 8:35pm Eastern

Sunday has two distinct chapters. Prior to the Moon moving into Capricorn at 12:53 pm eastern, you have the opportunity to think about the Saturn and Neptune in Pisces things you need to wrap up.

Once the Moon is in Capricorn it’s far more productive and straight forward and a great way to close out the current week or prep for the one to come. 

• Best for: Realistic assessments, long-term planning, honoring limitations, committing to what can be sustained
• Potential Challenges: Discouragement about how much work remains, losing optimism to pragmatism, grief about what isn't possible.

Until next time, my wish for you is the certainty that the past does not predict your future. - Robin💋