Mercury retrograde 24 October 2026, Venus retrograde in Scorpio

THE CLAUSE MARS IS HOSTING

You already have a document, or someone is putting a loan in front of you to lock. Mercury is the planet who writes the terms down, and he stations retrograde on 24 October at 20°59' Scorpio. Venus signifies the yes you gave because you wanted the thing, and she has been retrograde in Scorpio since 3 October, from 8°29' of that sign. Mars rules Scorpio. While either planet remains there, he receives them, which means his hand is on the topic they carry.

Mercury retrograde in Scorpio, 24 October 2026

A signature dated after 07:11 UT on 24 October, and before he stations direct at 15:55 UT on 13 November at 5°02' Scorpio, is written while Mars hosts the writer. Reception is the name for that hosting. Mars rules the sign, so he receives Mercury by domicile the whole time Mercury stays in Scorpio. The line to read in that document is the forfeiture, the clause that costs you if you miss it.

He is received by Mars at both ends of the retrograde, and the end is tighter. Egyptian terms, the older bound system, put 20°59' Scorpio in Jupiter’s bound and in Venus’s face. The direct station at 5°02' Scorpio falls in Mars’s bound and Mars’s face. Domicile reception runs through the whole stay. At the direct station the smaller divisions belong to Mars as well.

On 4 November at 14:25 UT the Sun meets Mercury at 12°11' Scorpio. For the hours Mercury stays inside seventeen minutes of the Sun he is cazimi, in the heart of the Sun, and the medieval authors fortify a planet in that place. Those hours are when the wording can be set in front of the person whose word changes it. Mars is still receiving him while that happens.

Lilly describes a retrograde planet as a person sent back, the first handling left unfinished. Open the agreement already in force and sit with the forfeiture. A fresh signature takes the host described above.

Venus retrograde in Scorpio

The yes she can reach is one you made between 10 September and the morning of 3 October, while she crossed from the start of Scorpio up to 8°29'. She is in detriment there, a poor seat for what she signifies, because Scorpio is opposite Taurus, a sign she rules. At the station degree she also stands in her own Egyptian terms, the bound from 7° to 11° Scorpio. The sign debility and the small bound dignity are both present. Mars receives her, so the part of the yes that returns is the penalty written into it.

A yes given in the days just before 3 October sits high in those degrees. At the start of 18 October she is at 4°19' Scorpio and moving down, so that higher ground is ground she has already walked back over. A yes from the days just after 10 September sits near the start of the sign, which is where she is headed. She leaves Scorpio on 25 October.

On 20 October she squares Pluto near 3° Scorpio. Pluto is a modern planet. The host used here is Mars.

On 24 October at 03:39 UT the Sun meets her at 0°44' Scorpio, a few hours before Mercury stations. She is cazimi while she remains inside seventeen minutes of the Sun. Set the penalty clause in front of the person who can alter it during those hours.

Where a planet of yours lies between the start of Scorpio and 8°29', she walks back over it in this condition. Count whole signs from the ascendant, one sign to a house, the second sign being the one after the rising sign. The matters of the sign that planet rules are the ones reopening. The penalty shows up through the sign the planet sits in. A ruler of the second placed in the seventh brings it through the other party. If the ascendant degree itself is in that stretch, she walks back over the point that signifies you, with Mars receiving her as she goes.

Scorpio season, 23 October 2026

The Sun enters Scorpio at 09:38 UT on 23 October. That ingress, the Venus cazimi the next morning, and Mercury’s station a few hours after the cazimi are three separate clocks. Scorpio season is the Sun’s arrival in the sign. It does the job of the Sun, which is to bring the topic into view. The station belongs to Mercury. The penalty in the agreement belongs to Venus received by Mars.

Full moon in Taurus, 26 October 2026

The Moon is full at 04:12 UT on 26 October, at 2°46' Taurus, with the Sun opposite in Scorpio. By then Venus has backed into Libra, which she rules, and the Moon is in Taurus, which she also rules. Calling Taurus the money sign comes from reading Aries as the first house of a natural zodiac. Venus herself, as the significator of price and of the alliance, is the older grounds for tying this moon to a sum you already agreed. She is retrograde, so the earlier terms are what this moon lights. She walks those Libra degrees back as far as 22°52', and she stations direct there at 00:21 UT on 14 November. A yes from the days just before 10 September, when she first crossed that part of Libra, is the yes this stretch returns to, now under her own hand.

A planet of yours between 22°52' Libra and the end of Libra is on that walk. The sign it rules is the room of the matter.

The next skill

Count one sign a year from the ascendant, beginning at birth. The ruler of the sign you land in is the lord of the year. This is a profection. When that sign is Scorpio, Mars rules the year in the same season he receives Venus and Mercury by transit, and the transit has a year behind it. The house count above is enough to see whether your chart is in this fortnight. The profection is how you tell whether the year was already about these topics before the station.