Tuesday belongs to Mars—the planet of action, drive, fight, and unvarnished truth. As an astrologer with Mars, Mercury, and Pallas Athena conjunct in Sagittarius, Tuesday is my ultimate power center. Mars is the heat that forces us to cut through the noise, face the truth, and claim our healing. We aren’t just sitting around watching the sky—we’re using Tuesday’s fire to fuel our evolution.
Mars Day Newsletter: Your Weekly Update | Week of 10.06.26 - 10.12.26
The Weekly Skycast
This week brings a pivotal cosmic shift. We are moving through a sacred cycle of release, an emotional audit of our home roots, a radical financial reality check, and a transformative New Moon in Libra that demands fair, balanced, and deeply nourishing networks. Alongside this, Venus Retrograde in Scorpio continues its subterranean excavation of our self-worth, and Mercury enters its shadow phase on October 10—testing whether you actually learned the lessons or if you’re still falling for old traps. It is time to stop playing small, stop keeping the peace at your own expense, and choose yourself. Let's get into the weekly transit breakdowns.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026 @ 7:44 PM | Balsamic Waning Moon in Leo (5th House Sector) Conjunct Jupiter & South Node
Before the Moon moves into Virgo, Tuesday night opens with the Moon entering its Balsamic Waning Phase in Leo in the 5th House sector of creative spark, play, and inner child healing. The Balsamic phase is the ultimate space of release, closure, and surrender. It is a deeply inward moment designed for reflecting on what has officially run its course before the new cycle begins.
With the Moon sitting conjunct both Jupiter and the South Node in Leo, this is a massive emotional release around old defaults. The South Node represents our comfortable, habitual past patterns, while Jupiter expands how we create abundance—traditionally through bold Leo visibility and passion. The universe isn't asking you to give up your radiance, but rather to integrate it and shed the ego-driven parts of Leo that no longer serve you. Sitting in the 5th House, this phase calls for shedding outdated childhood conditioning, lies you believed about your worth, and ego defenses that block authentic play. It is time to release the old performative mask so you can plant pure creative seeds at the upcoming New Moon.
- 🥀 Primal: Clinging to outdated ego validation, throwing performative tantrums when not praised, or holding onto inner child wounds as a reason to stay stuck in old default behaviors.
- 🪷 Sovereign: Surrendering the need for external approval, releasing childhood narratives that limited your joy, and integrating your creative fire with grounded, authentic confidence.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026 @ 9:53 PM | Moon Enters Virgo (4th House Sector)
Shortly after entering its Balsamic phase, the Moon makes its ingress into analytical, detail-oriented Virgo, landing straight in the 4th House sector of home, roots, family lineage, and emotional foundations. This transit asks you to take a surgical inventory of your internal world and your domestic life. In this position, the Moon seeks emotional safety by trying to organize, fix, or secure its environment through family ties and loved ones who feel like home.
- 🥀 Primal: Dissecting and critiquing everything that isn't 100% perfect within your family or home environment. Over-giving, over-serving, or playing domestic fixer just to receive love, safety, and connection.
- 🪷 Sovereign: Recognizing your tendency toward organizing and fixing, and leaning into your genuine self to connect. If you give or serve, ensuring it flows from your sovereign heart space—never out of obligation.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026 @ 3:10 AM | Moon Enters Libra (2nd House Sector) Opposing Neptune Retrograde in Aries (8th House Sector)
Friday morning brings a juicy shift: the Moon enters Venus-ruled Libra in the 2nd House sector of personal resources, values, and finances. Because Venus rules both Libra and Taurus (the natural ruler of the 2nd House), this placement naturally attempts to secure emotional harmony by fixating on financial stability.
However, the Moon locks into a direct opposition with Neptune Retrograde in Aries in the 8th House sector of shared resources, joint debt, and psychological transformation. Neptune Retrograde in warrior Aries demands an unvarnished, honest look at where you’ve been delusional or overly pessimistic about your money. Aries’ action-oriented fire supports you in pairing realistic optimism with a concrete, executable plan forward.
- 🥀 Primal: Falling into financial delusion, being overly pessimistic about your resources, or using retail therapy to buy things in a desperate attempt to achieve emotional harmony.
- 🪷 Sovereign: Harnessing these energies to get genuinely excited about your resources. Combining that excitement with a clear, realistic plan forward and stepping into active ownership of your wealth.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026 @ 10:50 AM | New Moon in Libra (11th House Sector)
Saturday delivers a major narrative reset with the New Moon in Libra landing in the 11th House sector of community, networks, long-term visions, and collective alignment. New Moons are sacred seed-planting moments that often call you toward a new direction before your logical mind can fully explain or put a finger on it.
With this New Moon sitting in Libra in the 11th House, you are being called to find more harmonious, fair, and deeply supportive networks—networks full of depth that encourage the collective.
- 🥀 Primal: Clinging to connections, social circles, or networks that no longer serve your purpose out of obligation, duty, or a performative need to keep the peace.
- 🪷 Sovereign: Consciously leaning into connections that are fair, balanced, and deeply nourishing—surrounding yourself with a tribe that shares your core values.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2026 @ 10:21 AM | Moon Enters Scorpio (11th House Sector) — Conjunct Sun in Libra & Opposing Chiron Retrograde in Aries (5th House Sector)
Sunday morning deepens the New Moon portal as the Moon glides into intense Scorpio in the 11th House. As it enters, it merges with the Sun in Libra while standing in a high-tension opposition to Chiron Retrograde in Aries in the 5th House sector of play, creative self-expression, and personal pleasure.
This transit deepens the energy of the New Moon, asking for your networks to be transformed, renewed, and favorable for you. If you've been comfy allowing things to slide and slip through the cracks regarding how you allow people to treat you, this aspect is pressing on core ego wounds or learned beliefs that tell you to be pleasing, harmonious, and self-sacrificing. Sitting across from Chiron in Aries in the 5th House, the universe is firmly asking you to pick yourself.
- 🥀 Primal: Allowing people to walk over your boundaries out of fear of conflict. Re-traumatizing your inner child by shrinking your creative fire to keep cold networks comfortable.
- 🪷 Sovereign: Using Scorpio’s transformative power to renew your social landscape, standing firmly in your self-worth, and unapologetically choosing your own joy.
UNDERCURRENT 1: VENUS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO (Stationed Retrograde October 3, 2026)
As a reminder, Venus officially went retrograde on October 3 at 2:15 AM in Scorpio. It continues to ask for a complete transformation of your values and your self-worth—what you value and how you see your value. Retrogrades retrace steps, which means this is an internal, subterranean processing period, not an external one.
UNDERCURRENT 2: MERCURY RETROGRADE SHADOW (Officially Enters Shadow October 10, 2026)
On Saturday, October 10, we are officially in the shadow period of Mercury Retrograde. Once again, the cosmic clock is retracing steps. Mercury wants to know if you actually got the memo or if you’re going to repeat old mental loops. Get prepared for this season—we’ll talk more about it in next week’s post!
(Be on the lookout: on Friday October 9th at 6pm Central, we are doing a dedicated Mercury Retrograde Live reading for ALL Signs soon, so make sure you stay tuned for when we go live!)
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