Aries October 2026

A strained relationship that’s given you grief, and lordy knows you’ve tried, has reached its expiration date. You accept this in a rare moment of peace. Beginning October 3, Venus retrograde in your eighth house helps you reassess, looking at equal exchange in your eighth house of shared and financial resources.

While the world goes crazy – yes, more political upheaval – you’re the one who must hold it together, You even use humor to lift the situation.

So which oppressive rule do YOU want to bring down?

Past romance, as well as issues in marriage, come up after October 3. Perfect time to address deep intimacy work (when you are most relaxed, even on holiday.) And also to delve into spiritual work as related to your eighth house and its ruler Scorpio: research, mysteries, astrology, psychology, parapsychology, Tarot, all divination methods.

Your seventh partnership house is most blessed of all the houses this month, with three major bodies in your opposite sign of Libra (note that I said opposite – that part is important! As in, people who are different from you? Or people you can’t stand) – and they’re all rooting for you:

Our awesome, life-giving Sun

Brilliant thought planet Mercury

A challenging new Libra Moon on Saturday, October 10

Nothing negative – all beneficent planets. Sorry to be an astrological nag, but I really want this to work for you.

You will begin to feel the end of your walking-around-alone-in-a-desert days, especially at work and in your career.

You recover from any lingering days. You have hoped so much, and it is wrenching to give up hope. But people can be so disappointing, can’t they? And you’re always surprised — you expect the best from people. As you give your best.

But lately, it’s been one surprise after another.

For this October, let people walk their own path – they have to anyway – and you surround yourself with only people who will give to you. And if that means just yourself, so be it. Or yourself and a guide. Or yourself and a therapist. Or yourself and a friend who GETS you, really gets you, just the way you are.

For, firstly, you do need to lift any despair — to light, and joy, and wisdom.

BREATHE, ARIES. Deep, deep breath. Close your eyes. See light in front of you, glorious, beautiful light. Let it cleanse your closets. Fill yourself with it.

A new contract with yourself is also beginning — as you may have felt recently.

It’s time.

Your dissatisfaction with the relationships in your life is coming to an end. You are at a point of great freedom, where you walk forward unencumbered.

All your fears, your pains, your tensions, that unbearable stiffness in your neck and head, will be assuaged. You may feel as if little angels’ hands are caressing your sore muscles!

You’ve been licking your wounds, and I am so sorry you have gone through this, Aries.

You form a new relationship this October — October 3 – 10, to be more exact. With an existing partner — a new contract is created — or with someone completely new. It is an exciting one!

You get a lucky break with people this October, and it will be beyond your wildest dreams. Whether it is with an agent, a spouse, a lover, a business partner, or a corporation, someone offers to help you.

And your Seventh House, traditionally ruled by harmony-loving Libra, covers these areas of your life:

Marriage

Love and Work Partnerships

Lovers and Friends

Professional Colleagues

Sharing ideas and common goals

Contracts

Discoursing and discussions

Creating beauty and harmony

Patience is not your strong virtue — it is the hardest part of the human condition, I believe — and you have had to very patient — very.

It’s been a frustrating time of it, but help is on the way! In the form of an authority figure who will help you out professionally. Be patient and trust.

I must warn you about an individual for whom you have some anger and vengeance in your heart: do not let this complicate things for you professionally.

Take a meditation course if necessary, practice inner peace, or, if you must, eat ice cream…

Anything to keep you from blowing your top!

There is so much great news ahead.

Old relationships pop up and are often revisited. Both in your memory and in action.

That volcano inside you requires an outlet, yes, but translate onto the stage or into genius expression, And – truly – the universe will help you, if you let it. You have the blessing of the Sun, Moon, and Mercury all in your seventh house of partnership and getting on with others. It’s moments like these that great treaties of the world are made.

It’s also moments like these that old lovers pop up, ex spouses, partners-from-the-past (both in love and money), unexpectedly and without fair warning. Well, I’M your fair warning, that’s what you pay me for, right? So, fasten your seat belt because all sorts of emotion rises when this happens.

Ask yourself: How are you regarded in your community at large? And how much does it mean to you anyway? You can expect to feel greatly relieved – no longer wounded or angry about it – as October gets underway.

From this feeling of self-forgiveness (because that’s what it is – truth be told, you are VERY hard on yourself, Aries) come good and powerful changes. Your life direction takes off more on its own direction – the way YOU would like it to go. No longer at the mercy of having to fit into a mold, you are free to redesign yourself and your work as you wish.

In summary, October helps you “see in the dark” and is also perfect for cutting to the chase. It’s an ideal time for turning inward and for getting back in touch with what is most important to you. This is a month when very little will escape you (those around you will think you have eyes in the back of your head.)

Explore your creativity, do some soul searching, commune deeply with yourself and strive to be better to YOURSELF. The power of your beliefs liberate you or lead you astray. Ahead lies a month ripe with potential. A month when your personal truths, faith, and visions undergo supreme testing.

And you pass the test, Aries. With supremely flying colors. So proud of you.

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