This week’s triple whammy of personal planets in Scorpio intensifies even further with Mercury and Venus retrograde. Talking steam heat. Here is your weekly horoscope for 19-25 October 2026.
Aries, Mar 21–Apr 21
This week’s sextet of planetary retrogrades, two of them in your sign, predicts some delays and frustrations. So have a backup plan B for important arrangements. Stay calm, keep cool, maintain your sense of humour. Any effort at self-generated wellbeing that doesn’t depend on external circumstances is recommended.
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Taurus, Apr 22–May 21
With Uranus retrograde already delivering a shakeup to stagnant daily habits, the best way of navigating this week could be by anchoring in sustainable, soul-nourishing routines that include savouring life’s sensual pleasures. By tuning into your physical body and the greater body of Earth, our planetary home.
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Gemini, May 22–Jun 22
As if changemaker Uranus reversed in your sign wasn’t already enough, now this week your ruler Mercury heading retrograde could challenge even your effervescent spirit with surprise disruptions, confusing communications and exasperating system glitches. Best approach? Tread slowly, carefully, and double-check everything before pressing Send.
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Cancer, Jun 23–Jul 23
There are creative ways of dealing with heavy retrogrades, so you lunar beings might consider making or doing something beautiful as an antidote to this week’s irritations. As in taking your cranky heart and making it into art: dressing in something elegant, buying flowers, writing a poem, giving someone a gift.
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Leo, Jul 24–Aug 23
This week’s astrological weather forecast predicts the kind of climate where nothing can morph into something epic in the blink of an eye. Considering your majesty’s naturally dramatic capacities, it would be wise to pick your battles very carefully. Better still, refrain from battling at all and just spread kindness instead.
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Virgo, Aug 24–Sep 23
What are Mercury retrogrades good for? The re- words. Remembering what’s important and retiring what’s not. Retraining the mind to think reinvigorating thoughts. Repurposing where that can be achieved. And having the foresight to check before offering feedback whether it’s asked for, welcome, or even necessary.
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Libra, Sep 24–Oct 23
When your planet ruler Venus is retrograde, partnership themes often intensify, as relationships bring us face to face with parts of ourselves that can only be understood through honest reflection. This makes this week an ideal time for therapeutic, solution-oriented conversations, and yes, it’s good to have them.
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Scorpio, Oct 24–Nov 22
Happy birthday and welcome to your magnetic month in the sun, Scorpion clan. With incisive Mercury and sultry Venus both backtracking in Scorpio, your words pack extra power (ditto the sting), so dial back sarcasm and channel that natural intensity into healthy, helpful, creative outlets and celebrations.
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Sagittarius, Nov 23–Dec 21
With the machinery of misinformation in full flood, best not to leap to conclusions or believe everything you hear. This week’s retrogrades recommend reining in impulses to charge ahead, because an offhand comment could set off a chain reaction you didn’t intend. Fortunately, there’s plenty of healing potential available.
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Capricorn, Dec 22–Jan 20
In a changing world it’s necessary to regularly check in to ask the hard questions about whether old plans and behaviours are still workable. Retrogrades, when planets gear down and go slow, are the perfect time for humans to take stock, revisit, reassess, revise, reposition and restore what’s important.
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Aquarius, Jan 21–Feb 19
Your planet guide: Uranus retrograde and turning up the volume on its new agenda can be quite a lot to process. So pay attention to whatever is resurfacing from the past for your attention, whether it’s a feeling, thought or discomfort, because this is an auspicious time to seek experienced counsel.
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Pisces, Feb 20–Mar 20
Communications can get lost in translation this week, and relationship dynamics experienced early in life could show up in current partner issues – though it’s usually not the relationship that’s the problem; it’s our personal narratives. This week offers a unique opportunity to rewrite an old life script.
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