Wild Blue Yonder
When Mars trines Jupiter (Oct. 27, 2025, 11:19 pm PDT, at 24º48’ Scorpio and Cancer), all the detours you’ve taken along your path, all the different interests and classes and projects that seemed like distractions, have led you all at once to something remarkable. All the paths converge and lead toward a joyful, wide-open future.
Mars in Scorpio wants success that it can hold in its heart; fortunately, Jupiter in Cancer offers just those kinds of rewards. If you’ve been struggling to build a soulful life – a meaningful career, a close family, a passionate relationship – despite reversals and disappointments, help is near at hand. You’ve passed through the slough of despond, and now it’s time to embrace the wild blue yonder.
Mind Reader
What if you could read people’s minds? It’s a common fantasy, often cited when people are asked what superpower they would love to possess. As Mercury trines Neptune (Oct. 29, 2025, 12:26 am PDT, 29º50’ Scorpio and Pisces), you can’t actually read people’s minds – but you may find that you’re more intuitive than usual, more perceptive to nonverbal cues.
This is an excellent transit for sensitive conversations, and in particular for articulating feelings that are difficult to put into words, perhaps through music, photography, painting, poetry, or dance. And it’s custom-made for letting your rational mind take a nap while you indulge in a bit of daydreaming.
Tell the Big Story
Mercury enters Sagittarius this week (Oct. 29, 2025, 4:02 am PDT), and it won’t enter Capricorn until the first day of 2026, thanks to a retrograde period (Nov. 9 through 29) that includes a back-step into Scorpio.
Mercury’s love of details isn’t particularly well-served by Sagittarius’ Big Picture view, and we may skip over some of the finer points of things during this transit, especially during the retrograde period. But on the plus side, Mercury in Sagittarius is well-suited to long term strategic thinking, planning big trips, and taking time to mull over life’s important questions. Sagittarius is a wonderful storytelling sign and often a gifted orator, so, should the opportunity arise while Mercury is here, stand up at the campfire, tell a story, and share your thoughts and experiences.
Getting Somewhere…Together
Anyone who has commuted to a job knows what the First Quarter Moon in Aquarius (Oct. 29, 2025, 9:21 am PDT) feels like. If the New Moon is the feeling of waking up in the morning, the First Quarter is what it’s like after we’ve showered, bolted a cup of coffee, and headed out the door. And in Aquarius, the First Quarter is like navigating a throng of people, all busy, all moving in the same general direction but with different destinations.
If you ride the same train or bus at the same time every day, you will see the same fellow commuters; you may eventually even begin acknowledging each other with a slight smile or nod. On the freeway, your car is one of thousands jockeying for position, fighting to merge into another lane or make your exit.
You’re all going somewhere, more or less together, yet each of you alone. And yet…if disaster should strike, or someone should faint on the train, or a nasty collision occur in the number four lane, prepare to observe humanity at its best. Strangers leap unquestioningly to one another’s aid, with no political, racial, or gender litmus test.
At the Moon’s First Quarter, we’re hell bent on getting somewhere. But at the First Quarter in Aquarius, we’re figuring out how to do it along with others.
The Soul’s Conjuring
Mars trine Saturn (Oct. 29, 2025, 12:05 pm PDT) is one of the very best aspects for getting things done, combining personal will, discipline, and perseverance. When it occurs in earth signs, we measure completion in quarterly revenue goals, building projects, and stacks of folders placed in the “out” basket; in air, by additions to our social network; in fire, by exciting projects we’ve implemented.
But water signs measure accomplishment in connections of the heart and intuition. We see this combination in the determined man who succeeds in bringing together warring family members to the matriarch’s sick bed; the musician who composes a song; the private detective who solves the case with both reasoning and intuition; the priestess who summons magic.
At this trine, forget about improving the bottom line, getting more likes on your posts, or putting on a show in the barn; what is it that your soul wants to conjure?
Certainty is Off the Table
Imagine you’re a horse, prancing happily through a field, sure-footed and free. But then, you brush against an electric fence, just for a second, just enough to get an unpleasant shock that stops you in your tracks. What else might be in the vicinity, something you didn’t see coming, ready to deliver a jolt? Suddenly, you might feel a little unsteady on your hooves. All in a moment, you might not feel so confident and free.
Mercury in Sagittarius can represent the way we feel that we have our understanding of the world all settled. But this first in a series of three oppositions from Mercury to Uranus (Oct. 29, 2025, 12:36 pm PDT, 0º21’ Sagittarius and Gemini) sends a shock wave “what if”s our way. Sure, you might have had a good sense of things as they were – but, are they still that way? What new bits of information will you need to make room for? Three aspects to Uranus, not to mention an upcoming retrograde period, are about to take Mercury’s certainty off the table.
Plotline
Newly in Sagittarius, Mercury makes the first of three sextile aspects to Pluto (Oct. 30, 2025, 3:06 pm PDT, 1º26’ Sagittarius and Aquarius) between now and mid-December. It makes the second sextile on Nov. 17, while Mercury is retrograde, and the final sextile on Dec. 13, after it’s turned direct. This week, then, is the beginning of a three-part, Mercury-Pluto story.
The plotline of that story is the realization that a lot of what you’ve been telling yourself for years, about yourself and other people, is wrong. Either they were wrong from the start or they’ve become wrong over time. Now that Mercury and Pluto are interacting with each other, there’s no hiding from these truths.
When used consciously, there are benefits to this aspect. Its keen powers of observation are helpful in research and troubleshooting, and in detecting trouble before getting involved in a situation or relationship that might ultimately prove destructive.
Just Enough (and a Little Extra)
How much do we actually need in order to be happy? It varies from person to person, of course. But happiness studies have shown that beyond what is needed for necessary expenses, plus a little bit extra, more money doesn’t usually guarantee more happiness. It can provide more pleasure and comfort, but that’s not really the same thing. Many people on a luxurious death bed would trade it all for an army cot and a little more time.
As Venus in elegant Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer (Nov. 2, 2025, 3:16 pm PST), take some time to consider how many hours of your life – the most precious commodity of all – are exchanged for things that don’t bring you much happiness. Let your desire for the newest, shiniest baubles be tempered by Jupiter in Cancer’s penchant for objects that are handed down through your family and well-made enough to stand the test of time. And pay attention especially to what makes you happy and doesn’t cost a penny.
Writing and images © 2012-2025 by April Elliott Kent
