Astrology for October 6-12

The week begins with a punchy full moon.    The full moon is free from vexing and opportunistic aspects.    It just is a full moon that is elegant in letting the Sun in Libra and the Moon in Aries ponder the meaning and power of relating while deepening authenticity.    If there has been any ‘set-it-and-forget-it’ components to our way of relating and relationships well, this is the moon to freshen up our style or inform our partner(s) that it’s time for a new way to jam.   

 

While the full moon is busy ‘being’ the next day on the 7^th, Mercury in Scorpio gets into its first tussle with Pluto in Aquarius.   Hurricane force winds will blow through our conversations.   Sharp, tense and perhaps a wee bit emotional comments could be pronounced.   Snappy answers to every question could get tiring.  Globally there may be some incident of a power play that gets all of us talking. 

 

On the 8^th, nerves are calmed (a bit) by Venus and Jupiter and we seek practicality and nurturing.    On the 11^th we move into Disseminating Phase where a Taurus theme of grounding, moving slower and taking a beat as we share our knowledge or perhaps seek counsel.   Also on the 11^th, Venus and Saturn are in opposition and our love, our beauty our creativity could all feel ‘not enough’.  Sure.  Got it.   Figure out some stuff you can fix and whatever can’t just take that beat and maybe turn to spirit for a heavy assist.   Prayers may be helpful.  

 

 

Full Moon – Aries 

October 6, 2025

8:47pm PDT 

(14 Aries 08) 

 

 

See separate Post

 

 

 

Planetary Notes:  

 

10/7: Mercury square Pluto (1 Aquarius 22) Intense thinking.  Penetrating insights that can be overwhelming.   No one is showing their hand.  Power is on everyone’s mind.  

10/8: Venus sextile Jupiter (23 Cancer 18).   Joy gets expanded.  Sweet and tender are valuable.   A quiet moment with the right person lifts the mood and the heart.   

 

 

Disseminating

October 10, 2025

1:56am PDT

   

 

    

Disseminating: Reflect on what has transpired this lunar month.  What have you learned?   How can you share some of your knowledge?  What past experiences are you sharing?  Are you in the need to teach?  Or is it find a teacher?   Maybe we find a rabbi or a minister or therapist who gives us more insight.   

 

 

Focus on:   How are you sharing the power of sitting with something?   How are you sharing inner calm?   How are you sharing patience?   How are you sharing the power of practicality?  How are you sharing values?   

 

 

 

Planetary Notes:

 

10/11: Venus oppose Saturn (26 Pisces 59).   Values feel slapped around.  Love feels cold.  Money feels off.   No beauty can be found.   If you can hide in your house go for it.  If you can’t, try to not take anything personal and instead get lost in great music.  

 

 

 

Aries Full Moon - Harvest Moon - Supermoon - October 6, 2025

 

Full Moon

Harvest Moon 

October 6, 2025

8:47pm PDT 

14 Aries 08

 

Let’s get technical.    This year the Aries Full Moon and Harvest moon is also the first of three supermoons.   A supermoon occurs when the orbit of the moon is closest to the Earth and it is a full moon.    On the 7th the moon will be closest to earth and it will look super large.  Get your camera ready for a cool shot because Aries full moon is getting our attention.     

 

There is a lot about this full moon that feels liberated from the Aries full moons over the last couple of years.  First, it is not an eclipse.  And to that I say, ‘hallelujah’.     Aries is free from the shadow.  Yay.  

 

Second the moon and the sun at the exact time of the new moon are not in any major aspects with any outer or inner planets.    This gives the full moon some juice to do what it is supposed to do.  The moon talks to the sun, and the sun talks to the moon.    The discussion is about relating.   The need for personal within relationship is pronounced.   “Hey, I need this.”   Or a conversation with someone, “When you do/say/act/respond to ____ it makes me react like _____”  Fill in the blanks.    And at the same time any partnership we are in could have that person saying the same thing back to us.   How we find independence and authenticity within relationships is the meta. 

 

Note—when I use the word partnership, yes, for sure that can be our significant other, but it is NOT limited to that person.  It is about the act of relationship-ing.   You are in relationship with a lot of people.   Maybe you are not married or have no significant other, but you work with someone, you volunteer with someone, you meet with others, and you have this moment in your life where you are relating.   That moment and those people and those interactions are like atoms bumping into each other.    We get something from that relating energy.  

 

At the Aries full moon we show up, and we act with authenticity, then others respond, and we are impacted and so on and so on.  Which then encourages new growth.  This is Aries.   Libra, the air sign, feeds Aries fire.   Fire cannot exist without air.    

 

This full moon should feel like a lot of air and movement and adjusting and relating.  There is a freshness.  In fact, if there was ever three days that feel like the renewal of spring while in the season of  fall, it would be this full moon.   For those people who live south of the equator this full moon will be double spring-ish for you.  

 

So, the full moon itself seems liberated.   However, there is a side piece of business that has the potential of being loud and that involves Mercury.   Earlier in the day of the 6^th, Mercury leaves Libra and enters Scorpio.    Thinking and communication intensifies when Mercury is in Scorpio.     Then on the 7^th early in the morning Mercury squares Pluto.   

 

As I mentioned in my Virgo New Moon Eclipse report because Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto are at early degrees of fresh signs (Zero to Two degrees) whenever the inner planets; Mercury, Venus and Mars make aspects with the outer planets they are activating a whole new energy.    For example, on September 22 Mars entered Scorpio and then on the 24^th it squared Pluto.   Based on the eclipse that was near this aspect I mentioned (and I am not the only astrologer to suggest it) that there was a possible tie back to the Hammas/Israel/Gaza conflict.   No surprise when on the 22^nd, France acknowledged the state of Palestine (along with other countries) at the time of Mars square Pluto.  The tie in was there.     

 

Now it is Mercury’s turn to make a move into Scorpio and then have a brand new, never experienced before (in modern era) Mercury Scorpio square with Pluto in Aquarius.   This is not necessarily about Gaza Israel, it will probably be some other newsmaker event.    

 

As we know, Mercury in Scorpio is focused on power.   It also knows where the weakest link is in any chain.   Pluto in Aquarius has its focus on the masses.   Pluto in Aquarius bristles at kings, queens and royalty in general.    No accident that the French Revolution took place during Pluto in Aquarius.   However, in the 21^st century the world looks different than the 18^th century.    More countries have democracies than are royalty ruled.   Instead, now titans of industry are our newer forms of royalty.   Will they be in the mix?   Mercury in Scorpio square Pluto in Aquarius especially juiced up by the full moon in Aries which at the time of this aspect will be in square to Jupiter bringing additional gravity.   If we find ourselves having a hard time feeling grounded look no further than this astro landscape.   Also, a note to those titans in industry: Jupiter in Cancer is looking at our homes, and we are a bit extra thin skinned if anyone is messing with our family.    If any information is uncovered that speaks to crime, sex, corruption, co-mingled funds, taxes, adultery (Scorpio) it could undermine a trust for a whole lot of people (Aquarius) and the response may be anger (Aries).   

 

If there are any bruises by Mercury Pluto on the 7^th, we will welcome the Venus sextile Jupiter on the 8^th that reminds us to find our cozy corner and people and help soothe our psyches and moods.     By the time we get to Disseminating phase on October 10^th we will be ready to share some of our experiences with others.   

 

Breathe.  Be authentic.  Be.   

Chris Brennan's Auspicious Day --- October 4, 5pm

Screen grab of Chris Brennan's Auspicious Date 

I enjoy Chris Brennan's Astrology Podcast.   Always great guests and in depth analysis of the astrology that they present.    I try to watch their monthly reports every month.    Chris offers an auspcious date ever month.  These dates are also called electional dates.   They have nothing to do with polictics.  The use of the word 'electional' means as in electing to do something.    The astrology on the date that Chris highlights also includes a time.    This is the optimal date to activate or support the astrology of the chart.   

In the month of October we will have a tense, mouthy period due to Mercury and Pluto getting into and it goes longer than normal because Mercury will retrograde in November and return back to Scorpio.    There are some other aspects that we have already discussed in my report  which also limit some of our good days.   Having said that, Chris found a good date.  

October 4, 2025 @ 5pm your local time.    You can watch Chris' interpration about that date at that time and how it will be beneficial.  

The chart for that date supports, children, creative, play, having fun, finding joy, starting something that is long, long on creativity.    Maybe make a plan to bring more joy in your life and you ask your most fun friend and say, "Hey can we have coffee?  Or a drink?"  Or you and your beloved go on some kind of adventure.  Is it a fun movie?  Is it a tour of museum you always wanted to visit?  How about a cool art exhibit?  Or do you have a project you are working on, how about doing something that supports your project at that time.   

Anyway, go listen to Chris and see how you can make the most of it.  

 

Astrology for Sept. 29 - October 5

 

The astrology for September 29 – October 5.   

The Moon in Capricorn launches the opening square in this 29-day cycle with emphasis on actions that put us out in the world.    Pretend you are CEO of a major conglomeration that has all the resources in the world—but you have only one employee---YOU!  What actions and directives would you give to that one employee (you)?  How does it line up with your values and goals?    Remember this all ties back to the Virgo Eclipse a week earlier.   Look at your calendar.   Look at your to-do list?  How does it make sense to your goals and values?    

 

We are lucky because this is the second Virgo lunar month that we are processing this year.    Take this second bite at the First Quarter moon and make the most out of it.  

 

In terms of planets, the only one super pronounced is Mercury.   Watch any fights around October 1 when Mercury squares Jupiter. Family and relationships in your brain and face.    What is the goal of your words?  On October 3, Mercury does a number with Chiron in Aries.    Any wounds around being authentic within relationships will be on our brain.  What we say may be clear.  Finding independence in some manner may be on our mind and in our conversations.    

Also, on October 3^rd we move into Gibbous Phase where we do a drive by of our friendships and groups and assess if we are in sync.  Do we feel uplifted by our peeps?   Do we feel we have each other’s good?   Or are there those who are in the undermining business?   Are they doing it unconsciously and need a little peck back?   Or are they doing it consciously because that’s what they are all about?   Or is this your modus operandi?    Take a moment and consider all of this as you navigate your groups/friends.  

 

 

First Quarter Moon 

Sept 29, 2025

4:53 PM PDT

 

 

First quarter: We do more actions based on the information that we just received.  Or we feel our instincts guide us on something.  We pursue again. What hurdles have popped up involving the seeds you planted on new moon?    We make another call, or we see someone. We mail something.  We stir the pot again.  This can be a time when we realize that the goals, we planted on new need more action from us, perhaps actions that involve breaking away.   Are there people who say they have our best interest in heart but fear us growing away from them?  Maybe we need to get help from others not the usual suspects.  Some independence may need to be exerted.   

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that support your place in the world?  What actions are you taking that connect to your actions from the new moon?  How can you take action that support your career?   What actions will you take if you ask your ‘inner CEO’ for advice? 

  

 

Planetary Notes:

10/1: Mercury square Jupiter (22 Cancer 34) Watch your words and your tone.  Are you being too big?  What is your goal?  Are your feelings getting in the way of the brain?   Or is it the opposite?  Does your communication not match your heart?

10/3 Mercury oppose Chiron (25 Aries 30) Independence in thinking and speech feels wounded.   Why is it so hard to speak for oneself?  

 

Gibbous Moon

October 3, 2025

11:46 pm PDT  

 

 

Gibbous:

We refine our information.  We pick and choose, we discriminate, and we organize to be ‘Virgo’ like.  We sort through details.  Have we missed something?  How are we sifting through the information?  Go back and make sure something hasn’t been neglected.  Refine our actions.   How are we perfecting our goals? 

 

Focus on:

How are you refining your groups?  How do your friends line up with your goals?   Who does what?  How are you connecting with other people and what are your like-minded goals?  

 

Planetary Notes:  

10/6: Mercury enters Scorpio.  Sharp thoughts.  Penetrating conversations abounds.  Deep research and cutting to the bone.  Uncovering the facts even if you don’t share what you know. 

 

I Made Jimmy Kimmel's Cold Open!!

 

In what can only be described by a set of extraordinary circumstances I found myself in Jimmy Kimmel’s cold open last night.  

Last week I watched everything transpire between Disney, Nexstar, Sinclair,  and FCC resulting with ABC pulling Jimmy’s show indefinitely.   

This occurred on Wednesday September 17 when Mercury opposed Saturn which had retrograded back to Pisces.    Oh, Saturn, you really want to go there?   

I have a history of writing late night TV including Letterman and Leno and making political jokes is part of the landscape.    When my friend called to tell me what happened, my hands were wet and messy because I was making dinner for my family.   I asked her to repeat the joke two times as I tried to figure out the cause for the furor and I said, “This is about the set up for the joke?”   “Wow, that is an overreach.”      

Just for clarity The FCC rules for removing a license include indecency and obscenity, commercial content in children’s TV programming and other issues.  The FCC is circumspect about what it can do because the First Amendment, which protects Free Speech, is valued and cherished in America.   Also, the Kimmel show is entertainment programming not news.

When I was working in late night we did Clinton and Bush jokes all the time.   They never tried to pressure the FCC to cancel us.   In fact, in 1999 when I got married my mother-in-law thought I was a Republican because of the Clinton jokes.”

I suspected this was going to grow in furor especially for all the folks who hate cancel culture.   I suspected Libertarians and swing voters would not be digging it.  I wondered about young men of which Jimmy has a large following.   

In the meantime, many people started to unplug from Disney+.   I knew people who sold stocks.   Eff with the 1^st Amendment and people get rattled.   Soon people on the right, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson, stated their rejection of this move by Disney and the FCC threats which were not veiled by any measure.    

I watched.   I wondered if Disney would make a move and show what I would argue, bravery.   I decided I would give the House of Mouse until Sunday.   Then after the eclipse I would unplug from Disney+.   And so, it was in the evening of September 21 I hit pause on Disney+.   "You pause Jimmy, I pause you." I told some friends what I did and went to bed.  The next morning, on Monday I snail mailed letters to the CEOs of Disney, Sinclair and Nexstar, the FCC chairman and T-Mobile who bought ads on the local Nexstar affiliate in LA (KTLA).   Then I heard from a friend that there would be a protest about a mile and a half from my house at the El Capitan Theater where Jimmy shoots his show.    I made a little sign and walked up to the theater on Hollywood Blvd. grabbing the bus for the last half mile.   

It was a small crowd but a lot of media and I figured my small sign might get some photos.    I had no idea where it would land.  

Last night I was at my monthly astrology meet up when Kimmel was starting to air on the east coast.  I was heading home when a friend said to me, “You made Jimmy’s Cold Open.”   I was shocked.  

I played the clip and practically fell over.  It is only one tenth of a second but wow.   I am sure the ratings were to the roof.  I just checked the YouTube video and it had about 11 million views and growing.   

Yesterday, The Sun in Libra trine Uranus in Gemini and the Sun trine Pluto.   This was the landscape I believe for elevating what is important and what we value.   A lot of people (Aquarius) have spoken, and the 1^st Amendment is clear worth a fight. means is worth fighting for.   

 

There is some astrology that was significant to me personally involving my Venus at 2 Aquarius and my rising at 2 Aries.    But still I didn’t think I would be tied to Jimmy Kimmel for eternity or at least if some historian somewhere in the future looks up this episode to see when the 1^st Amendment was protected on the first full day of Autumn in September 2025. 

The Astrology for September 21 - 28

 

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The astrological landscape of this week is potent.  Very potent. 

 

We begin the week with a second Virgo new moon and another 29-day cycle where we get our Virgo sensibilities on.    This new moon also is loaded with power since it is a solar (partial) eclipse.   Like an usher at a theater during intermission, the lights turn on and off to get our attention.   Please read my new moon report on this second potent Virgo New Moon and outer planetary aspects for deeper analysis.  

 

On the 22^nd Mars enters Scorpio and gets into it with all the outer planets via quincunxes galore.   This is rough. 

 

Additionally, on the 22^nd we change seasons at the equinox when the Sun enters Libra.    

 

The Sun now in THE sign of negotiations opposes Neptune which is THE sign of confusion.    Something is off and the Sun knows it, but it is hard to negotiate with the nebulous.   However, the Sun is getting support from brilliant and iconoclastic Uranus along with support from powerful and evolutionary Pluto who also rules the masses.     

 

This is a potential salve which we may need because Mars in Scorpio forms a square with Pluto on September 24^th.   Mars digs Scorpio since it is one of its home signs and it is feeling its potency.   The Moon is in Scorpio giving Mars more emotional potency as it heads for a square with Pluto.   A Mars square Pluto is a regular event (every six and 18 months) but this is the first square in Scorpio since Pluto moved in Aquarius.  Intense actions and powerful drives that are conflicted will be in the news.   Technology (Aquarius) could be pronounced along with themes that speak to societal ‘norms’ and ideologies.    Mars isn’t a subtle planet who gets lost in nuances and this whole sequence seems wired to explode or at the very least get our attention where we ask some big questions. 

 

All this planetary action takes place in the 3.5 days of the New Moon phase.   On the 25^th we move into Crescent Phase where we get informed.  The phase is Scorpio themed so there is a lot of information.  Knowledge will come forward on how we find power.   Where we co-mingle our resources and how we let go to transform.     There are no inner planet outer planet aspects during Crescent phase and frankly that is a good thing.  We may need the break as we process alll that planetary action from the new phase. 

 

 

 

Virgo New Moon 

September 21, 2025 

12:54pm PDT

(29 Virgo 05)

 

 

New moon: Plant seeds, make calls, activate, start projects.   Activate something that will ideally lead you to more results.  This is the phase where INTENT is critical.  Even if the results are not immediate, the intent is there.  You may not have all the answers or road map, but you should put out your Intent.

 

This focus:    Make the most of your schedule.  Make the most of every hour.   How does your calendar reflect your goals?   How can you clean up any messes?   What doctor do you need to see?   What resume needs to be tidied up?    What details have needed a tune up all year?    We get another month to take care of loose ends.   Make an effort to Serve others and serve you.  

 

Planetary notes:

9/22: Mars enters Scorpio.  Depth of feelings can motivate a lot of intense actions for six weeks.  

9/22: Sun enters Libra.  Happy Equinox. 

9/23: Sun oppose Neptune (00 Aries 45) (see new moon report) 

9/23: Sun trine Uranus (1 Gemini 19) (see new moon report) 

9/23: Sun trine Pluto (1 Aquarius 27) (see new moon report) 

9/24: Mars square Pluto (1 Aquarius 27) (see Mars post) 

 

Crescent Moon Phase

Sept 25, 2025

2:26pm PDT   

 

 

Crescent:  We will receive information, we will research a bit more, perhaps get feedback on stuff that we planted on new.  Perhaps get some information that will help down the road on a seed we planted a while ago.  We can collect some data now.  Even if you think you are not getting information, stop, and re-look at everything.  Who called you?  Even the silliest things when they come up during Crescent are noteworthy.  A parking ticket.  An argument with a spouse?  A refund check from the phone company?  No matter how mundane it arrives, consider it as message.  How can this information help you?

 

Focus on: What are you learning about co-mingling?  What are you learning about joint finances?   How are you being informed about power?  What are you learning about sex?   What are you learning about the power of evolution?  How are you getting informed about death and rebirth?   

 

Planetary notes: 

No exact aspects 

Mars Has Our Attention - September 20 - 24

 

Mars

 

Mars Square Pluto

Sept 22  - Mars enters Scorpio 

Sept 24  Mars square Pluto  (1 Aquarius 27)  

Nov 4 - Mars exits Scorpio 

 

Mars is always loaded for bear.   No matter the sign, Mars is ready to fight.    Mars, the warrior gets into it with Pluto, the spy (and assassin) every 6 to 18 months.  It is not an out of the ordinary aspect but still we are well advised to have this Mars square Pluto on our radar.   

 

Start watching the news on September 22 when Mars enters Scorpio.   Mars is very comfortable in Scorpio since it is his co-ruler.   Once Mars moves into Scorpio he will be there until November 4.   Mars in Scorpio can instinctually feel its way around and know when something needs fixing.  Mars might say, “Hmm maybe I should go to the dentist and get x-rays.”   Pluto, who is at the very beginning of its journey in Aquarius has not yet experienced a square by Mars in Scorpio and will respond, “Here’s your x-rays.  You need a root canal.”    Mars and Pluto are intense when they get together.  

 

Looking at the previous rounds of Mars and Pluto many of you will remember that a lot of astrologers (including myself) called out October 8, 2023, as potential war aspect.   There was a solar eclipse around that date which juiced up the combatant component.   Sadly, on October 7, Hammas terrorists attacked a music festival in Israel.   It was brutal and the response, that continues, is brutal.   It is possible there may be a revisit of brutality in that region or someplace else in the world around September 24.  It also is not limited to a region, because Pluto is in Aquarius the technology sign; cyberspace is a potential battleground.  

 

Additionally in the new moon chart, Mars is in a narrow but a stinger of an aspect (quincunx) to Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.   Will Mars and Pluto go hard and harsh and we see opportunities to fix and heal through the other planets? It certainly seems like the outer planets will have a response to Mars and his bully impulses.   

Between now and 2043 there will be eleven Mars Scorpio square Pluto Aquarius.    Will each one manifest the same way?  Of course not.     But themes will emerge and repeat that speak to:

Intense powerful passions

Society transformations

Actions

Technology

Corruption

Exposure

Ideologies 

Conflict, confrontational

Disruption

Anger 

Masses

 

 

Mars Scorpio Pluto Aquarius dates:

1)  Sept. 24, 2025

2)  Nov 17, 2026

3)  Oct 20, 2027

4)  Oct 24, 2028

5)  Oct 16, 2029

6)  Nov 25, 2030 

7)  Nov 2, 2031

8)  Oct 23, 2042

9)  Dec 1, 2042

10)    Sept 19, 2043

11)    Nov 17, 2043 

 

As we head into this first Mars Pluto square between Scorpio and Aquarius,  Sept 22 – 24 is intense.    What is happening ‘out there’ will be felt ‘in there’.    Take care of yourself.  Feel what you feel.  Make any adjustment that are true to you and always remember you aren't alone there are groups (Aquarius) who understand you and transformation in your life is possible (Scorpio). It usually starts with a thought (Air sign) and a check in with your emotions (water sign).