Aquarius Weekly Horoscope

Your attention is shifting this week, Aquarius, and it is doing so in a rather dramatic fashion. Messenger Mercury has spent the last couple of weeks on tour through Libra and your 9th House of Expansion, turning your attention to all the possibilities floating out and about in the great wide yonder. On the 30th, however, the communicator planet wings his way into Scorpio and your professionally ambitious 10th House of Career and Professional Reputation for an extended tour. This is generally a great time for beginning new projects or setting your sights on new ambitions, and if you are hoping for a change on the professional scene then this can definitely help usher it in; likewise, you may notice more interesting conversations and opportunities to express your ideas at work, so make good use of them when they arrive. Bear in mind, however, that Mercury will turn retrograde here for three weeks beginning on October 24th, so don’t rush up the ladder too quickly or you might miss a wrung or two along the way; in fact, the slower and more careful you are for the time being, the less you’ll need to fix and rework during the retrograde cycle. There is no need to speed off to the finish line just yet, but you can definitely make progress nonetheless.

This ambitious sector continues to take center stage on the 3rd, when alluring Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio, effectively putting the kibosh on her gifts for the next six weeks. Normally, when direct in your 10th House, Venus can help you to attract new rewards and opportunities your way, and make VIPs and other supervisors look upon you all the more kindly, but this magnetic magic doesn’t have nearly the same draw when Venus is asleep at the wheel, so don’t be shocked if your charms fail to get the same sort of approval. Likewise, you may feel like you are spinning your wheels and not seeing much progress on the professional front, but that is to be expected during retrograde cycles, so you’d do better to focus on working behind the scenes, and hold off on any big debuts for the time being. Venus will actually back up into Libra and your adventure sector on the 25th, before eventually turning direct on November 13th (the same day Mercury turns direct in Scorpio!) so the landscape will be changing.

Last but not least, Sunday arrives with a bit of a headache as the Sun in Libra makes its annual opposition to sober Saturn in Aries and your busy 3rd House of Local Community and Communications, which can often feel like a rather unpleasant game of cosmic bumper cars. Under such an alignment, you might encounter some news that totally shakes up everything you thought you knew about a matter, or perhaps something pops up to totally throw your day off track; whatever it is will likely feel like some kind of a roadblock, but the good news is this transit is only temporary, so even if you have a rough finish to the week, it shouldn’t continue beyond.