What’s happening: The Moon is in sensual, earthy Taurus tonight, and tomorrow it enters curious, active Gemini. This is a big weekend for your love life. The Sun, Uranus, and Neptune are creating an aspect called a yod—also called the finger of God or the arrow of fate. That means you’ll be encountering surprises and unexpected circumstances that have the potential to profoundly transform your life. The pleasant connection between Venus and the North Lunar Node, which represents your destiny, purpose, and life trajectory, suggests that these major changes will be positive.
Tuesday is also the first day of Scorpio season! You’re ringing in the season with two major aspects—Mercury trine Saturn and Sun square Pluto. The Sun square Pluto fills you with drive and motivation, but you run the risk of not respecting others’ boundaries and being aggressive, or even ruthless. But Mercury trine Saturn is a very patient, reasonable transit, helping to mitigate the intense Plutonian energy. Finally, on Thursday, Mars is sextile Uranus, which makes you more curious in bed, and gives you the urge to get a little kinky!
What that means for you:
Aries
If you keep one leg in the past, and the other in the future, you’re only pissing on today. With all of the magic in the air right now, you’re capable of making major transformations to your love life—but only if you can focus on the present. The hurt that past toxic relationships have caused you has become more relevant now, and you’re overanalyzing your relationship goals. You’re anxious if you can ever achieve them, and worrying about things that are way down the line. How about you focus on what’s right in front of you? The past is in the past, and the future is full of infinite possibilities. What really matters is how you’re taking care of your love life now. If you like someone, shoot your shot. If you love someone, tell them! Don’t fear the future—put in the work now to make sure you can manifest the love life you want, and reach all of your relationship goals.
Taurus
The Moon chilling in your sign tonight will help you let your walls down, so it’s easier to share and receive love right now. This transit has lots of romantic potential, too, so it’s a great time for dating. Scorpio season marks cuffing season for your sign, so either your existing relationship is growing stronger, or for single folks, it’s a great time to start a new relationship! Uranus, the planet of newness and change, is in your sign, and it’s telling you that if you want to make a change to your love life, you have to make the first move. You can’t wait around idly for someone hot to hit you up, you’re the one making moves!
Gemini
You’re struggling to balance the emotional and physical sides of your relationship right now. You might have a relationship full of romance, but when it comes to getting down and dirty, you struggle to perform. Or maybe you’re with someone who always shows you a mind-blowing time in bed, but the two of you lack an emotional connection. Scorpio season doesn’t really support casual flings, since Scorpio is all about commitment. Instead, use this astro-weather to substantially transform your relationship for the better. If you’re anxious in bed and facing performance issues, take some pressure off of yourself. You don’t have to be a sexy, irresistible, over-the-top glambot to turn your partner on. Be yourself and enjoy being intimate with them. If a weak (or nonexistent) emotional connection is your primary relationship concern, don’t try to overcompensate with more sex, just open up to the other person about it. Find the balance between these two areas of your love life.
Cancer
Your love life is getting hotter, Cancer! If you’re single, tonight’s Taurus Moon is in one of the most social parts of your chart. That means it’s a great time to make new connections, plan some first dates, or maybe get busy with some hot hookups. For all Cancers, single or not, Scorpio season’s vibe is warming up your chart’s zone of romance, sex, and fun, so your love life (in and out of the bedroom) is definitely improving now. When the Sun collides with Pluto on Tuesday, there’s potential for relationship drama. Secrets, hidden feelings like jealousy or resentment, and lies are coming to the surface now, and you’re being forced to deal with them. If things in your relationship are just fine, you have nothing to worry about. But if your relationship is already shaky, this could be the week you cut them off.
Leo
This weekend’s Gemini Moon is a super social transit, so if you’re single and ready to mingle, you’re in luck! Go out looking your best, or start swiping right on your dating apps—you’re guaranteed to find a match, fast. Important, and likely difficult, conversations between you and your partner are happening right now. There’s lots of built-up tension that needs to be released, and the yod aspect this weekend suggests that you’re letting it out. This could be an argument that’s been days, weeks, or months in the making. It could also be you shooting your shot, or upgrading your relationship status and fully showing your love to your special someone. These experiences lead to major changes, and you’re having a very turbulent, high-action weekend—whether it’s for better or for worse.
Virgo
You’ll find yourself deep in thought this week. You’re analyzing your love life, determining what is and isn’t working, and what needs to change. Your inclination to worry, however, is skewing your perspective, and it’s easy to focus too much on the negatives… even if there aren’t that many negatives. Instead, remind yourself to be objective, and look at things objectively, regardless of your worries. Now, if the negatives truly do outweigh the positives, you’ll need to change your approach to love. That means the way you communicate with others, how you express affection, and even how open you are to receiving affection from others. This weekend’s yod aspect, also called the arrow of fate, is instigating major changes in your love life. Make sure they’re positive ones.
Libra
The yod aspect this weekend is honing in on your sign, Libra, so this is a major time for you—especially if your birthday is between October 17 and October 21. You’re being pushed to be your true, genuine self. Generally, you have a tendency to change your behavior based on who you’re with at the moment. You do this to maintain a harmonious social environment and positive connections, and you’re not necessarily doing anything wrong. But when you’re completely phoning it in, especially with your partner? You’re in danger girl. If you’re hiding any secrets or withholding feelings, they’re coming out this weekend, whether you’re ready or not. Before things blow up, I suggest coming clean with your partner. You don’t need to switch up your whole personality to maintain a successful relationship. Be yourself. If the other person doesn’t like it, that’s their problem, not yours, and you should move on to someone who does love you for you.
Scorpio
This weekend’s astro is pretty tough. You’re being reminded of your past relationships and the negative experiences you had with them. An ex or two might even come around. Instead of wallowing, take this as an opportunity to confront your past, get closure from that relationship, and finally move on for good. Scorpio season begins this week, and you want to start the next year of your life without any baggage, right? The pleasant Venusian astro on Tuesday encourages positive momentum and forward movement in your love life, and the lovely Uranian energy on Thursday suggests surprise experiences (usually positive ones) coming to your love life. Get curious, try new things, and be a bit more adventurous in the bedroom this week—you’re guaranteed to have a kickass time!
Sagittarius
The Gemini Moon this weekend activates your chart’s relationships zone, which greatly supports spending one-on-one time with your special someone. And thank goodness, for that. Things between you and your boo—whether it’s a casual situationship or a committed long-term partnership—are a bit unclear. Regardless of how you feel about your relationship, you’re completely in the dark as far as their thoughts go, and vice versa. The “what are we?” question is ringing loud in your mind too, and I encourage you to start that conversation sooner rather than later. If you two are on the same page, great! If not, that’s okay too, because you’re still able to compromise with them and meet in the middle to make things work. If your relationship goals are, in fact, incompatible, then Scorpio season is a good time to part ways amicably. Regardless of the outcome, you’ll never know where your partner stands if you don’t start that conversation. Luckily, Venus trine the North Node is a very auspicious transit, so the talk will likely yield positive results.
Capricorn
Life in the bedroom is amaaaaazing tonight! The Taurus Moon is earthy and sensual, so every touch, stroke, and kiss from your partner feels better than ever. There’s also a great deal of romantic potential, so if you’re focusing less on hookups, you’re still getting some action. The astro-weather at the end of the week with Mars and Uranus is great for getting adventurous in bed, it’ll put you in a waaaay kinkier headspace. Scorpio season is one of the most social times of year for your sign, so if you’re single and looking for love (or just a friend with benefits) you’re definitely in luck right now. Your next potential paramour could be right around the corner!
Aquarius
Tonight’s pretty much a dud, but the Gemini Moon starting on Saturday activates your chart’s zone of romance, sex, and fun, so there’s plenty of action coming your way! This astro is great for casual flings, hotter-than-hot sex, and speed dating, not so much for defining relationships or starting any committed ones. But if long-term partnerships are your thing, you’re in luck, because Scorpio season is aaaalllll about commitment and upgrading your relationship status, especially for your sign. Making a casual boo a partner, talking about moving in with your lover, or even proposing are great ways to use this astro—there’s tons of momentum pushing your love life forward now.
Pisces
You just gotta be yourself, Pisces. You worry a ton about who you should be, and how you should act. But that’s how you risk losing yourself—trying to be someone you simply aren’t. This negatively impacts your relationships in many different ways. You’re unable to leave an accurate first impression on first dates, all of your worries about being “good enough” can lead to performance issues in bed, and if you’re phoning it in or being fake with your partner, they may interpret you as a straight-up manipulator. You can live your best life by being your genuine self. You won’t have to hide any secrets, you won’t feel shame for owning you, and you’ll allow others to fully, completely embrace you. Thursday’s Martian astro is very powerful, and fills you with the motivation to love and be loved. If you’re not being the real you, then people can’t love the real you.
Jake Register (better known by his Instagram handle, @jakesastrology) is a Libra and the author of Cosmopolitan’s weekly Sexoscopes. He lives in southeastern North Carolina and loves making astrology content. Follow his IG or Twitter @jakesastrology, and to book a reading, go to Jakesastrology.as.me.