Pisces Weekly Horoscope

Your world is both expanding and contracting this week, Pisces. This theme really comes into play on the 23rd, when the Sun leaves behind Libra and your intense 8th House, and flies into Scorpio and your expansive 9th House of Expansion and Adventure for its annual tour. While the world might have felt very tight and boxed in lately, all of a sudden it’s going to feel like someone kicked open a door and a few windows to boot. Now that you’ve got all your ducks in a row you can go out into the world and look for new opportunities to increase your standing, knowing that the Universe has your back and wants to help you break down as many barriers and boundaries as possible. This is great for long-distance travel, but also for broadening your horizons through education or spiritual studies, so do whatever you can to open yourself up to different possibilities and ways of seeing the world, because that is exactly what the cosmos wants you to do.

With all this in mind, however, you may actually find more success and fulfillment by returning to places or subjects you already know, and furthering your experience of them; the reason for this is that messenger Mercury will turn retrograde in your 9th House on the 24th, and will continue backing up until November 13th, so exploring ‘new’ territory might seem a little daunting. That being said, there is a really useful way to work this cycle to your advantage: when it comes to retrogrades you should focus on the ‘re’ part, and make a point to return, revisit, review, etc, so you will indeed have better luck revisiting locations or ideas you’ve already begun to explore, rather than embarking for unknown territory.

Since this sector also rules higher education, how about returning to school (literally or figuratively) and adding to your arsenal of skills? More education and refinement could lead to a higher value at the end of the day, not to mention more self-satisfaction. You can also plan for travel, but rather than setting your plans in stone, create a few options to ponder, then once the retrograde is over, you can look at them clearly and decide which course you want to pursue. You’ll be able to go much further that way.

Last but certainly not least, alluring Venus has been retrograde in your 9th House since the start of October, so chances are that these themes don’t feel very new to you. However, on the 25th, Venus will back up into Libra and your deeply private 8th House of Intimacy and Shared Resources for the remainder of this cycle, where she too will turn direct on November 13th. Until then, beware giving attention to people who don’t deserve it, and also be careful about your spending, since Venus asleep in this sector can lead you to rack a larger credit card bill without even meaning to. Err on the side of caution!