Janeen D. Cain
- Sep 28, 2020
- 6 min read

October Weekly Forecast 1st - 4th

Updated: Nov 4, 2020

October Weekly Forecast

1st through the 4th

Planetary Retrogrades and Directs

Current Planets in Retrograde: Five Planets

Mars, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

Mars - Retrograde on 9/9 will go direct on 11/13

Chiron - Retrograde on 7/11 will go direct on 12/15

Uranus - Retrograde on 8/15 will go direct 1/14/21*

Neptune - Retrograde on 6/22 will go direct 11/28

Pluto - Retrograde on 4/25 will go direct 10/4

Planets Going Direct this Month:

Pluto goes Direct on 10/4

Planets Going Retrograde this Month:

Mercury goes Retrograde 10/13

Retrograde Planets by the End of the Month: Five Planets

Mercury, Mars, Chiron, Uranus, and Neptune

Outer Planetary Ingressions (Jupiter, Saturn, Chiron, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto)

Next important ingression will be Jupiter and Saturn moving into Aquarius in December preparing us for the year 2021. Which will consist of the Saturn-Uranus Square ushering us into a new era!

Inner Planet Ingressions (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars — this year Mars stays in Aries until the end of the year due to retrogradation)

☿ Inner Planets ♁

♀ ♂

Sun enters Scorpio on 10/22

Mercury entered Scorpio on 9/27 will enter Libra on 10/27

Venus enters Virgo on 10/2 will enter Libra on 10/27

Mars entered Aries on 6/27 will enter Taurus on 1/6/2021

Solstices and Equinoxes — Winter Solstice 12/21/20

New, Full, and Quarter Moons — We start the month off with a Full Moon Oct. 1st. We are having a Blue Moon this month (10/31) with two Full Moons occurring this month!

Eclipses (next eclipses for 2020 are Nov. 30 and Dec 14)

Major Planetary Aspects and Synodic Cycles

T-Square between Sun, Moon/Chiron, and Jupiter/Pallas Athena

Sun-Uranus Quincunx

Eris-Mars Conjunction

Grand Fire Trine between South Node, Vesta, and Eris/Mars

Mercury-Chiron Quincunx

Planetary Aspects and Interpretation of the Week:

☌ = Conjunction 0 degrees

☍ = Opposition 180 degrees

▢ = Square 90 degrees

✶ = Sextile 60 degrees

▵ = Trine 120 degrees

October 1, 2020 Thursday

2:05pm PST Full Moon in Aries 9 degrees and 8 min.

T-Square between Sun, Moon/Chiron, and Jupiter/Pallas Athena

Chiron is conjunct the Full Moon in Aries. So, inner wounds (Chiron) come to the surface emotionally (Moon). This Full Moon consists of a T-Square between the Sun, Moon/Chiron, and Jupiter and Pallas Athena. With the Moon in opposition to the Sun in Libra, we focus our will to power to gain equilibrium through faith (Jupiter) and spiritual warriorship (Pallas Athena). With Jupiter and Pallas Athena in Capricorn, the emotional healing is going to take looking at oneself with the utmost honesty and integrity. It may require time of solitude. It is going to take patience and strategy (Pallas Athena).

It takes courage (Aries) and temperance (Libra) in the process of healing our inner lives (Chiron/Moon).

Full Moon’s represent endings and letting go. It is a great time of completion. This Full Moon in Aries is about releasing emotional wounds.

It’s also about balancing our needs (Aries Moon) with the needs of others (Sun Libra). It’s about knowing ourselves and our place in the social world, our sense of self in relationship to others (Aries-Libra Axis of Life).

As we can see there are four planets in Capricorn (cardinal Earth) and three planets and a luminary in Aries (cardinal Fire). This is a very strong forward moving energy. This emotional release is a powerful one to say the least. It may feel like our emotions are just bursting out of us.

Sun-Uranus Quincunx is at 9 degrees which goes exact on Friday 2nd same day Venus enters Virgo.

So, a quincunx is challenging and requires adjustment. With the Sun quincunx Uranus, we may be required to make adjustments to our sense of freedom (Uranus) or individuality (Sun) at this t. This is a time that is going to require a lot of patience and temperance (Sun in Libra).

There are changes happening that require some degree of acquiescence and compromise. There is likely a lot of intense emotions in response to this (Moon in Aries).

So the challenge is to be temperament, moderate, and patient when really we want to outburst or protest whatever is coming at us. With Venus entering Virgo on Friday, the tendency to think things through will help moderate intense emotions.

October 2, 2020 Friday

6:31am PST Sun-Uranus Quincunx Exact at 9 degrees and 49 minutes

Venus enters Virgo

Virgo is ruled by Mercury and Chiron. It symbolizes surrendering to the things we cannot control, to Master ourself, mastery our mind. This means thinking things through. Virgo is very much about looking at details and taking the time to analyze.

Venus is about are values or is the function of how we determine what is good or bad or whether or not we like something or not. With Venus moving into Virgo, there may be a tendency to feel things out methodically and cautiously. This will be a good thing as we have some heavy decisions in the world to be made right now and we have some very intense energy coming up for us collectively.

October 3, 2020 Saturday

9:40pm PST Eris-Mars Conjunction

Grand Fire Trine between South Node, Vesta, and Eris/Mars

The last time Mars-Eris was exactly conjunct was on August 17th at 8:38am PST. During that time there was also a Grand Fire Trine between Sun/Mercury, the South Node, and Mars/Eris. That’s when all the west coast fires started. In particular the August Complex fire began which is now the largest fire in California history.

So, with Mars retrograde, making it closer to the Earth, conjunct the Goddess of Discord, Strife, Anarchy, and Rebellion, I am anticipating some intense energy and change in current events (Pluto/Saturn), especially with Mars/Eris squaring Saturn and Pluto.

With Vesta the Goddess of the Sacred Fire, the Goddess of Spiritual Discipline incorporated into this intense dynamic, whatever events take place will most certainly advance us collectively (South Node) on a spiritual level.

So, in order to get through the fires of Eris energy one has to be completely authentic with oneself, completely integral.

So, this intense energy with Mar/Eris squaring Pluto/Saturn is going to follow us through to the end of the year on into the year 2021. So, this is a bridging point of intensity for us collectively. So, we need to be prepared as we can for the upcoming intensity of change.

October 4, 2020 Sunday

6:32am PST Pluto goes Direct 22 degrees and 29 minutes of Capricorn

So whilst Mars/Eris are squaring Pluto, it goes direct intensifying its energy of regeneration, rebirth and transformation in Capricorn. Collectively, social-culturally, we are demanded to be integral. Anything that is not base on truth is going to be torn down.

Also, there is a Yod to Pluto with it quincunx the North Node (collective destiny) and Vesta (spiritual discipline and growth).

The future of humanity (North Node) and the collective spiritual development (Vesta) depends on how well we handle the current situations with truth and uprightness (Pluto). This is going to require immense amount of adjustment.

We also have Mercury quincunx Chiron in Aries going exact on the same day Pluto goes direct. Our minds and perspective of reality are challenged to adjust to ancestral wounds of humanity that are trying to be healed. So, there is this incoherence with the actuality of our collective wounds and how were are perceiving. In particular the Western way of thinking that the individual alone is the most important. This perception has created a major collective wound. This ties into the North Node Collective Destiny of a needed perceptual shift.

This is going to require an immense amount of collective effort (North Node). Looking at the Mercury opposing Uranus, we need to move beyond the limited mind of personal experience (Mercury) to that of the Divine Mind (Uranus). We have to think outside of ourselves to the whole of humanity (Uranus).

We start the 1st of October with a Full Moon in Aries that emphasizes temperance and equilibrium over our emotions as we heal inwardly. This is going to require patience and faith. We have Venus entering Virgo on the 2nd which shifts practice of judgment to think cautiously and methodically about events going on in the world. We end the week with some very intense energy as Mars retrograde conjuncts Eris the Goddess of Discord on the 3rd that is squaring Pluto and Saturn. This strengthens the intensity of the social-cultural shifts throughout the year. Finally, we have Pluto going direct on the 4th intensifying the energy of regeneration and transformation of those things lacking in integrity.

Future Highlights for the Upcoming October Weekly Forecast:

10/7 Mercury-Uranus Opposition goes exact

10/8 Venus Quincunx Chiron

10/9 Mars Square Pluto going exact

Quarter Moon Phase

10/10 Venus Trine Uranus

Trident Astrology