How Venus Retrograde Changes Love Relationships

Astrology Forecast for October 2026

How Venus Retrograde in Oct 2026 Changes Love RelationshipsTanaaz – October 2026 brings some of the strongest heart-activating energies we have experienced in almost two years, with the start of Venus Retrograde. Starting October 3rd in Scorpio, this Venus Retrograde will feel exposing and will trigger vulnerabilities, especially in our relationships.

Do we truly allow ourselves to be seen? What is blocking us from truly being and feeling loved? These deeper questions will come up for review under this Venus Retrograde, which will last until November 13.

Along with Venus in Retrograde, Mercury will also station retrograde this month, adding to the mix! Both these planets in retrograde will create a strong pull to our past and will have us needing to look over things before moving ahead. Continue reading →

Navigating the Eclipse Tunnel: Accelerated Change Ahead – March 16-23, 2025

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it” David Foster Wallace

A Very Thin Place

Navigating the Eclipse Tunnel: Accelerated Change AheadLorna Bevan – Last Friday March 14 a Total Lunar eclipse across Virgo/Pisces brought endings to that part of your chart and on March 28, a Solar eclipse in Aries brings new beginnings in Aries.

Eclipses always arrive in pairs, spaced two weeks apart, kicking off an accelerated period of change -aka an eclipse tunnel, the liminal space between the first and second eclipse where fate steps in and the universe fast-tracks transformation. Continue reading →

The Heart Knows – Forecast March 2-9 2025

“Your life is not an unending self-improvement project and your heart is not a venture to be undertaken, mastered, and completed“ Matt Licata

Today is Not a Day for Answers….

The Heart Knows - Forecast March 2-9 2025Lorna Bevan – If you are wondering why, when such turmoil and turbulence is happening outside, you feel stuck in some sort of limbo, it’s due to the inner personal planets- Mars then Venus then Mercury– all retrograding in turn between last December to the end of April this year while the slower moving outer collective planets are all direct.

Mars has only just turned forward after 3 months retrograde and this week Venus stations retrograde between March 2-April 12th, shortly to be followed by Mercury-already in his shadow zone- between March 14-April 17th. Continue reading →

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Total Eclipse Of The HeartLorna Bevan – This month, we’ve already experienced our collective destiny shift towards the future as the Nodes of Fate changed signs on a Plutonic New Moon – now we now cross the border into the shadowlands.

As the Sun enters Leo on July 23rd, Venus conjunct Black Moon Lilith stations retrograde at 28° Leo turning direct on September 3rd and Chiron stations retrograde at 19 Aries until December 27th.With Pluto, Neptune, Saturn and Eris already retrograde, this is a season to turn inwards, to become an intronaut, deep diving behind surface appearances to defrag, to review your process and habitual patterns, so you can emerge renewed in September with updated inner/outer maps. Continue reading →

Reclamation of True Self and Creative Energy

Reclamation of True Self & Creative EnergyLeslie Benson – Summer is about to take a fascinating turn as Venus, the planet of love and beauty takes a retrograde journey through the luminous, fiery realms of Leo!

From the 22nd, around 6:30 PM PT, until September 3rd, all Venusian themes like love, relationships, values, and aesthetics will be moving at a slower pace and up for inner reflection, contemplation, and re-evaluation.

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