Welcome to Pandora’s monthly astrology forecast. Here you’ll find news for the year, for the month and for dates this month when important changes are happening in our skies. You’ll also find words and videos explaining what they mean, how to handle them and how to know if they affect your chart specifically.
What does the October Astrology Forecast hold in store for your Sun or Rising sign?
October Astrology Forecast:
This Month’s Planetary Movements
Faster-Moving Planets
October begins with a grouping of planets in friendly, sociable Libra, including Juno, Mercury and a New Moon in Libra on October 2.
Mercury starts the month direct in Libra at a brisk clip. On October 2, Mercury conjuncts the New Moon in Libra (which is also a Solar Eclipse—see Autumn Eclipses video below). This is an excellent time to re-tune our minds to the light of objectivity, and to plant seeds of new collaborations and relationship intentions. In Libra, our minds reach a self-aware, socially intelligent balance. On October 7, Mercury conjuncts Juno, imbuing us with social organizing skills and diplomatic communication. On October 13, Mercury enters piercing Scorpio. While Mercury travels through Scorpio, your mind can be cuttingly psychic and is best applied to matters of a deep emotional and psychological nature, or to mysterious subjects requiring focused investigation. Channel Mercury’s obsessive edge wisely and advantageously.
Venus is traveling direct (forward) and fast, beginning the month in Scorpio. Scorpio is not Venus’ favorite sign to be in—she can be overly possessive in relationships in this passionate intense Water sign. Beware of incidences of power and control games in your relationships and be the one who lets go rather than commands. Venus moves on into Sagittarius on October 17th and at that point, a more relaxed and breezy relationship style can prevail.
Juno is traveling along the sign of Libra, a place she loves to be, because she’s the goddess of marriage and committed partnerships of all kinds, and relatable Libra provides plenty of scope for her social energies. On October 16, Juno conjuncts the Sun while traveling direct (forward)—a day I call “Commitment Rapture Day.” Relationships formed or deepened on this day bode fair to continue on a solid foundation.
Ceres continues direct (forward) in Capricorn, still moving slowly and recovering from her retrograde period earlier this year which ran from May 14 to August 26. If during it (see this video) you discovered there was real work for you to do on your finances, I hope you took that work on and have been moving the needle on it. If you have, you are probably noticing good results at this point, and will receive support around this during the week that Ceres sextiles Saturn (October 9 – 15). That support is likely to come by way of your work environment, a boss, or someone else who has authority over you.
To follow these news videos as they come out, check our Astrology News of 2024 playlist on Youtube.
October Astrology Forecast: Autumn Eclipses
October 2nd’s New Moon Solar Eclipse in Libra includes connections to Mercury, Ceres and Mars. For more about this eclipse and also the September Lunar Eclipse, see the Autumn Eclipses of 2024 video below.
October’s Full Moon in Aries happens on the 17th, featuring connections to Chiron, Juno, Pluto, Mars and Jupiter. It features a lot of stress, potentially arguments, outbursts, and possibly the expression of self-assertion long delayed. Chances of this impacting people in their marriage is very good, so under this Moon, cool your jets, don’t overreact. And if you want to bring up a long-held grievance, bring as much diplomacy as you can muster to the conversation.
October Astrology Forecast: Mercury Retrogrades of 2024
Upcoming in November we have the last of 2024’s three Mercury Retrograde periods (they happen every 4 months). Read more about it in the full blogpost, and watch the video below for the big picture of all 3 Mercury Retrograde periods of 2024.
How do October’s planetary movements affect you?
How do the planetary movements of the October astrology forecast affect you? Check Pandora Astrology’s horoscopes this month and watch the one for your Rising sign as well as your Sun sign. The themes of the monthly astrology forecast affect individual people in individual areas of life according to their own astrology charts. Look here to find out if and how you are affected: Are You Currently In Transition?
Slower-Moving Planets / Long-Term Shifts in 2024
Beyond the monthly changes of our astrology forecast, 2024 brings some major long-term shifts to our collective consciousness. Most of these changes are occurring due to outer planetary ingresses into new signs. Usually outer planets shift signs gradually. First they begin their preliminary steps into the new sign. Then they backtrack into the former one, and so on and so forth until the planet is solidly within the next sign. Naturally, these times of transition feature elements of both signs, and highlight the zodiac’s conceptually developmental nature from Aries to Pisces. Planets undergoing shifts into a new sign this year include Pluto and Jupiter, as well as the nodal axis of Eclipses. Read on for a bit about each transition.
During 2024, Uranus is in Taurus, Neptune is in Pisces and Chiron is in Aries–exactly as they were in 2021, 2022, and 2023. However, in 2023, Saturn moved into Pisces, and Pluto moved into Aquarius. Jupiter is moving into Gemini in 2024. The video below explains what it means when a planet spends many years traveling through a sign (we call them “planetary eras”). Additionally, it summarizes where all of the heavy-hitting, slow-moving planets are in 2024.
This year, Jupiter will square Saturn and also sextile Chiron. This will allow for some powerful growth and evolution for you if you have planets in 12º – 19º of any Mutable sign (Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces, Virgo) or if you have a planet in Aries and being aspected by Chiron in 2023 or 2024 (that means, a planet in 17º – 21º of Aries). The video below shows you these aspects in motion and tells you how they will feel, and gives you important dates when the most potent events are likely to occur.
For historical context of what has changed since 2020, our videos and blog posts about Saturn in Aquarius, Jupiter in Pisces, Jupiter in Aries, and Jupiter in Taurus will bring you current. For more about Outer Planetary Movements in 2024, read on through the end of our astrology forecast.
Pluto Enters Aquarius (to stay for 20 years)
The most significant transition happening in 2024 is Pluto’s ingress into Aquarius. That’s because Pluto is the slowest moving planet, and has been in Capricorn for the past 15 or so years. Plainly, Pluto’s transit through Capricorn has been a time of serious dismantling and unearthing of toxicity and corruption in mainstream power. Pluto first entered the Fixed Air sign Aquarius on March 23, 2023. In 2024, Pluto will continue its slow transition into Aquarius, as it retrogrades back in Capricorn to wrap up Capricorn themes, and then back into Aquarius again. By the end of 2024, Pluto will settle into its Aquarian journey and will spend another 19-20 years traveling that sign.
Pluto in Aquarius will reveal and transform toxic material in the realm of politics, humanitarianism, social justice, science, technology, social media, and the internet. Similarly to how Pluto’s transit through Capricorn revealed Capricornian shadow themes, Pluto’s transit through Aquarius will highlight the dark side of Aquarius.
For a more in-depth look at this significant collective shift, read our blogpost here: Pluto in Aquarius 2023-2044: A Transformation of Ideals.
October Astrology Forecast: Jupiter Is Now In Gemini
Jupiter changes signs about once every year and a half. Jupiter in Gemini will bring expansion in the realm of learning, writing, information, journalism, and media. Additionally, Jupiter in Gemini brings a joy in the beauty of language and communication, as well as an interest in the diversity of experience.
Interestingly, Jupiter is in detriment in Gemini, as the expansiveness of Jupiter struggles with the minute detail of Gemini. Therefore, wordiness and an overwhelm of information may also be present. Watch for our video about this coming in June.
Is your birthday coming up?
If your birthday is coming, you’ll want your annual birthday reading (called a “Solar Return” reading) to happen in the month before your birthday–because your birthday is your Personal New Year. It’s the best time for setting resolutions, intentions and new life-directions. Get yourself in alignment with what your Greater Self wants for you this year, beginning with knowing what the plan is.
October’s All-Signs Horoscope Has Arrived!
If you want to know how the planetary weather of the October 2024 astrology forecast affects your sign,
check your video horoscope here
In this horoscope, designed for Sun signs, wherever your Sun sign appears there will be useful advice. And wherever your birthdate appears, it will be very pointed advice. Be ready to write down dates that will have special meaning for you.
Is love coming your way in 2024? Due for a career break?
Find out the details of the changes coming and their very specific timing–
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