Published October 3, 2026 04:04AM
The weekly horoscope for October 4-10, 2026, holds Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde in Scorpio and the new Moon in Libra. Translation? Longtime astrologer Jordane Maree, founder of Girl and Her Moon, explains what that means and how to align yourself with the supporting resonances of the current transits and moon phases.
There is emotional intelligence streaming throughout the week ahead. Mercury and Venus in retrograde come together in Scorpio and the new moon begins again in Libra, bringing awareness of what unknown patterns and perspectives exist within and around us. Expect insight into the patterns shaping both inner experiences and outer relating as well as common ground between head and heart, awareness and emotion. Your weekly horoscope for October 4-10, 2026, explains.
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October 7 | Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde
October 10 | New Moon in Libra
Mercury Conjunct Venus Retrograde
Just a few days into her retrograde, Venus in retrograde is met by Mercury in Scorpio in a conjunction, which is two cosmic bodies drawing close to one another in the same sign, on October 7, 2026.
As Venus moves through her underworld, she also moves through our emotional patterns, past experiences, and future expectations as relate to intimacy, desire, safety, and self-trust. Here she reviews our patterned thoughts and behaviors through feeling so we can delve underneath our automatic responses and explore what drives them.
When Mercury, the planet of the mind, awareness, voice, and communication, meets Venus, it stays above the surface of our underworld rather than fully submerged in it. Yet it remains in direct connection with Venus. This allows for clear awareness and an ability for Venus to share what she has found in our hearts with our headspace in a language we can grasp, understand, and make sense of.
This conjunction brings our own sight into our innermost workings, giving voice and truthful awareness to what has been operating unknowingly so we can consciously tend to whatever needs attention. In so doing, we become better able to meet our own needs.
New Moon in Libra
As the week continues, it brings the new Moon held by Libra on October 10, 2026. Under this lunation, we encounter themes related to shared spaces. Libra connects worlds, people, and perspectives. It’s a sign of relational mirroring and rebalancing between what holds two humans together.
Yet this lunation invites a different kind of relationship with our understanding of togetherness. The air sign continually seeks to bring harmony to each moment. Yet the new Moon reminds us that the absence of contradiction and tension is not a prerequisite for harmony. Yet the presence of honesty is. Togetherness is not based on sameness, agreement, or the disappearance of each self into one. It is a living field that honors each self and holds space for differences, preferences, and the complexity of the human experience.
Also, as the Moon begins again, six planets find themselves in retrograde. The new beginnings birthed under this lunation might not be obvious, clear, or loud. Rather, they are likely to take the form of quiet awarenesses. There is depth under this lunation as well as the potential for contradictions and emotions that ask for nothing but presence and acknowledgement. None of this moves with urgency. Much like the cycle of the Moon, these awarenesses will continue to build as retrograde medicine continues and, eventually, comes to a close.
Weekly Horoscope, October 4-10, 2026
It’s a week highlighting themes of connection, love, worthiness, and desire. It’s also asking us to consider how safe we feel in being seen and seeing someone else, in being loved and loving another. It’s also lessoning us in owning our desires, sharing our truth, and allowing that truth to exist even without outside agreement, validation, or mirroring. Connection does not need to be based on sameness. Contradiction, variation, and difference can exist alongside and within love, understanding, and belonging. Your weekly horoscope explains how. Read for your rising sign.
Aries Rising
Intimacy. Connection. Relationship. Feel any fear surrounding those words? This week asks you to look beneath your surface and meet any hesitations around being seen and sharing yourself with another. Let this time hold a mirror up to any patterns that might arise through your interactions and the unmet desires and needs underneath it all.
Taurus Rising
What does it take for you to experience greater safety within your body, everyday life, and the way you place yourself as priority? This safety is the foundation for the way you connect, share, and create space for vulnerability and intimacy. As your insight and intuition reveal any lingering fears and unmet needs, you are asked to tend to them in ways that are grounded and sustainable for the long term.
Gemini Rising
Things might be moving beneath your surface in your mind, your perspectives, and your emotions. Notice what longheld and unexpressed emotions might be feeling stuck in your body. Where fears have moved into your fascia and past experiences into your posture. As your awareness increases, you become more capable of healing through self-expression and revelation. Movement and creativity are your medicine.
Cancer Rising
This week touches the spaces within you that were taught to believe that your fullness, brightness, and depths do not fit within the world or are unworthy of being seen and loved. Allow for some inner tending as you let emotions clear from your body, creating a safe space within yourself before seeking it elsewhere.
Leo Rising
The days ahead bring you beneath the surface to the spaces that feel like home within you. It invites a reconnection with the beauty of your playfulness and your emotions. And through this reconnection, it invites a review of any narratives you have on repeat related to worthiness, desire, love, intimacy, and safety.
Virgo Rising
Your mind is in a space of retrograde this week. Use that to your advantage by journeying through your mind as if it were a library and reviewing what is catalogued within it. As you explore themes of worthiness, safety, intimacy, and desire, allow space for questioning to take place. You need not ask permission to clear whatever no longer rings true.
Libra Rising
There are words and patterns plastered into the structures of your identity that simply don’t belong any longer. Things shaped by past experiences that want to shift. There is more of you wanting to be seen and new experiences related to love, worthiness, and self-expression wanting to be met. These are asking for review and release.
Scorpio Rising
Consider the days ahead a doorway into yourself, asking you to bring your awareness inward and explore who you truly are and what fears shape your movement. You are your primary realm of interest even more so than usual this week. You are where the insights are found.
Sagittarius Rising
You are in a period of transformation. Inviting you to create space, releasing where you feel the call, opening when your body invites it, trusting that something greater is waiting for you. Old emotions are clearing from your psyche, creating more space for truthful relating and reorienting yourself toward the future you actually want.
Capricorn Rising
This week hints at themes related to belonging, whether within yourself, your body, your desires, and your vaster existence. Also, consider what your humanity, community, and chosen people mean to you. You might experience a greater awareness of and capacity to trust your authority more than you do external validation.
Aquarius Rising
Greater empowerment is experienced not by dismissing fears or places of discomfort but by meeting and moving with them. Consider the vulnerability required to trust your vision and speak your truth. Then find the self-trust required to let your desires guide your movement. This week helps take you there.
Pisces Rising
Your inner knowing wants to have a conversation with you. Ask about your belonging. Ask about the meaning of your life. Ask about where your body still hides. Ask where your truths can exist outside of you, safe to be voiced and seen by another. And ask what you can do to help make these things clearer.
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