The Astrology of October 2025: Secret Siphon

As outer planets slide back into the primordial slop from whence they came we can tangibly feel the spawning fluid of the past three, and simultaneously past fourteen and eight years, all burbling back into our sensory awareness and saturating our story-lines, but now there may be more context dominating the moment of that which seemed to have been rising like a powerful tide and hence forth simply dissolved, drained, petered out, slipped through our fingers or faded away. The once enchanted well is now just a shallow bowl of used wash water which we have no appropriate place to dispose of. Instead of merely sit and cry over that which once refreshed us and now is more a burden than anything else, dead weight in memory storage containers and possibly even emotional sewage seeping out and toxifying our surroundings, we must attempt to take whats left of our extinct emotional investments or outdated dreams and morph them into a fluid force which can modulate the mundane story beneath the surface and act as an agent of change, as this is actually becoming a game of high stakes soul survival, and we’ve got to be a bit severe if we we intend to not starve ourselves out from a nourishing existence, and be left forevermore (or what may seem like eternity) insatiable vampires looking for the next fix which is somehow always elsewhere, out of reach, in a virtual or literal beyond.

Ted Slampyak

Jupiter in the later degrees of Cancer can bring coherence to the spectrum of abundance and lack, where we understand in particular how much of the good stuff there is available in relation to how much we have access to ourselves and how much others have in their stores. Wisdom here illuminates that if we have more then they might have less and vis versa. Think of this as resources of all kind, whether they be wealth, food and drink, or opportunity, but whatever it may be it is that which fulfills and nourishes our life in a profound way, that which we need for life to be good and have meaning, for us to live well and for things to be ok. Knowing we don’t have enough of this and other people do can be a bit of a wake up call. September sees Mars in Scorpio as well as Saturn in Pisces all come into alignment, resonating harmonically across the zodiac and harmonizing three life layers across each person’s nativity.

Edith Rimmington

Mars and Saturn deal with life’s serious business. What requires us to critically respond and where we need to long game, be disciplined and what to strategize around. Scorpio is an incredibly potent place for Mars, where the tactical planet becomes shadowed in some considerable stealth, and maneuvers for survivals sake through life’s urgent, raw, and most visceral challenges. Saturn in Pisces obligates us to let go of some control and go with the flow so we can feel the tides and through this atmospheric awareness establish an enduring flow state towards strategic progress. We will be knowing what we truly need to access and expand upon to not starve and be working in the shadows (potentially viciously) to loosen up bonds and ride tides toward potentiated satiation.

Ithell Colquhoun

This highly dynamic and alchemical arrangement may speak out synchronistically; you may notice striking parallels between whats happening on various levels of emotional intelligence: intuition, instinct and empathy, as well as see connections between multiple parts of life, but trine aspects don’t always jam signals enough to spark activity, so its a nuanced energetic we want to lean into and use to our advantage, and to identify what and where it is we must go by feel. To be more specific, what we need, what makes us feel whole, safe, calm, rested, fed, deeply satisfied, what we long for, what we cannot go without, what stirs our passions, what expands our horizons, mystifies us, helps us zone out, let go, aid in our contemplation, spiritually connect or comprehend that All is ultimately One.

Stanley Spencer (and top)

But that is only one grand trine being strummed in October, the other plays out in air signs between planets transiting Libra (Mercury, Sun, Venus), Uranus in Gemini and Pluto in Aquarius. This one also interfaces with Neptune by opposition for most of the month, before Neptune retrogrades back to Pisces on the 22nd and joins the water trine. The Grand Air trine reflects new ideas, radical possibilities disruptive multiplicities, and turbulent optionalities as well as progressive, pioneering and concept updating precipice passages beyond the known and through fears which harken to the future, which dreams copiously about autonomy and direct agency. The Water trine on the other hand is a bit of a swirling maelstrom which seeks to burst the swollen abscesses of the past and let necrotic fluids drain away.

Ferdinand Hodler

Again, not all this fluid is foul, there is also known nectar to be had in newly generating emotions related to what is being now born. This is where the healing happens, where we are able to transform and grow more healthy as the immune system triggers, and survival at all costs is sought. Jupiter keys the two trines together, the struggle to birth a new existence and drain past pools which may be drowning us, as the Greater Benefic squares Libra from Cancer; what we know of whats available out there which could feed our much needed future growth in tension with disturbances in the general equilibrium and how we might get a handle on adjusting the mix of our life and the world it embeds itself in betwixt with are myriad checks and balances to negotiate.

Carolee Schneemann

Mercury ingresses Scorpio on the 6th as the Moon is mounting to Fullness in Mars’ other sign, Aries, giving a literal voice to our primal, visceral survival tactics. Although, this may or may not be spoken out loud, but will certainly convert our thoughts to urgent concerns running on animal logic and raw, deep emotions while our subjective experience swells with impulses to act independently as that is the most effective way, where we are unhindered by others and can step into our full capability. Mercury will be closing in on Mars towards a conjunction on the 20th, spinning up together the planet of logistics and the planet of tactics, likely accelerating thoughts but maybe in a smoldering way, which could encourage a slow-burn headspace or conversation ambiance. This might be the transceiver antennae tuned to broadcast dialogues from our guttural registers where words make lasting impact.

Edith Rimmington

The word ‘pumping” keeps coming to mind for October’s skies. With Mars in rulership things are happening, but it might not be readily visible to the outside world. This could be very psychological thriller-esque, vibes soaking a story line in moody, heady, heavy, and by the end hallucinatory or in some way warped. Not to say that it’s really negative, but there’ll be a lot of ideas flying around and some serious atmospherics as stories “progress” in non-linear, all permeating and visceral ways which make full apprehension of narrative blockades and slither between cracks, mist over walls, seep into sewers and drip along drainage pipes to the rhythm of heart beats and pounding pulses.

Marion Elizabeth Adnams

This maybe borders on Sci-Fi as well, but maybe in nosebleed sheerness, like high altitude fresh in ideas not yet explored spinning backwards like sparks as you have them, and haunt streams of consciousness or idle chat like hornets who threaten simply by their presence, but within their serum is a quickening of precognitive processes. Our fingers wiggle in motion searching for equilibriums to remix. Who and what is in relation to who and what that could be shifted as the social/cultural/relational/romantic circuitry gets at first bent or bridged experimentally and later re-wired, the results of so many note-to-selves in the steam of October’s emotional opus.

George Bellows

It feels a bit like siphoning fuel from someone else’s car in the night so you can strategically continue your journey and simultaneously they are unable to pursue you. The fluid in the tank is hidden behind the metal walls and stashed beneath in the belly of the vehicle, and even as it makes its way through the hose en route to the other tank it is still invisible, shrouded by the rubber which carries it along. In it’s new container it is also unseen, and even after you start the car and convert the substances into much needed mileage there is never a glimpse of the stuff: it all happened out of sight, despite the fact that you knew you needed it and it got you to where you needed to go as well as got you out of where you needed to escape from.

John Amhurst Selby-Bigge

Many more layers of abstraction could be added to the metaphor: the money paid for the fuel before it was lifted from tank A as well as the money saved by depositing it in tank B, the motivation and back story behind that motivation, and endlessly outward from there, cinematic sound pulses reorganizing the sand automatically with each frequency shift. This is a territory where you don’t necessarily check in first before you show up or alternately depart. In a world where an RSVP brings up too many questions and considerations it might be the most effective to no show oneself into the shadows and enter visibility again when its most advantageous to do so. I’m reminded of the retort: “that’s on a need to know basis and you don’t need to know”.

Petrus van Schendel

I think the only things to “know” at this juncture is what could nourish you as well as what you’d simply perish without. Otherwise, we’re presented with a morphable unfixity more likely to change than stay the same. The tide here is in and out, and when it’s out it’s out— but the set itself lasts until the end of winter, at which point the expanse of sands turns from beach to desert, and the horses of the new era come riding along with their riders glimpsed in the hazy semi-mirage on the horizon’s cinema screen throughout spring-summer 2025 but yet to be fully seen in the flesh.

Paul Nash

For the time being, as in, for the duration of October, enjoy the old lagoon if you can while you say fare yee well to flora, fauna and other inhabitants, haunts and immovable objects there in whatever way is most wise, with a thought and prayer said silently to yourself and a sip of whiskey, some poured on the ground before you walk off into the night, or, alternately, with a scheme woven across many months, many lives, many layers and many incarnations hatched in utter secrecy and involving only your own cunning and nothing said to anyone about it for eons, like wind rippling patterns on the surface of the water and swells rising and rolling, heaving one way or another.

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Andrew Wyeth

Themes:

-Neptune return to Pisces: escapism, sedation state, nostalgia, ambient fantasy immersion

-Grand water trine: coherence of what we need to be fulfilled harmonized to potent manuevers from instinctual programs harmonized with obligation to let go, release and go with the flow in an end of an era scale—all across the motional spectrum, intuition, instincts, urges and empathic receptivity

-Grand air trine: future harmonics become relationally, culturally and socially lucid in the equilibrium of things reaching into rearrangements of options, information exchange, communication and pushing powerfully beyond the known through conceptual precipice passages

-first lunations after eclipses: back to normal pace across autonomous action and relational / cultural / social themes

-squares to Pluto: what is feral and primal versus what is heavy handed in technocratic collectivism. Also ominousness around transformational ugrade and update pressures in narrative tension with visceral fight or flight programs

-cardinal t-square with Chiron: initiation of generating profound fulfilment, relationships also contending with healing and integration in autonomous direct action

-Mercury Mars conjunction: primal thinking and guttural communication combined with critical fight or flight maneuvers

-Mars in potency: instinctual critical response, urgent animal reactions,

-Venus in rulership: desire for equilibrium, social grace, values and quality control fidelity, able to bring aesthetic and relational balance

-Venus aspect to outers: the above in relation to paradigm shifts, precipice crossing pioneering, autonomous mythos

-Pluto direct: the tides of ominousness pressuring us into the unknowns of updating and upgrading our existence and seeking more decentralized structures to progress with shift into a more forward moving position toward new narrative shapes and unfamiliar life experiences. Obsessions may kick in which drive us through changes in power dynamics.

Frank Tenney Johnson

10/4

-Venus conjunct South Node: Desire to reduce complexity of procedures and logistics, satisfaction in refining operations: Critical aesthetic details, romantic criticism, quality control, engineering of satisfactory processes all compelled to reduction, refinement, purging, shedding, and a removal of irritating elements that snag or bind otherwise pleasant things and experiences

10/6

-Mercury ingress Scorpio: logic and language of survival instincts and primal urges

-Full Moon in Aries: climax of subjective cycle surrounding need for autonomy, direct action, independent activity, and effective performance:

10/7

-Mercury square Pluto: primal logic and visceral communication clashing with ominous unknowns in pioneering innovative systems

Frederic Remington

10/8

-Venus sextile Jupiter: desire to bring procedures to completion collaborating with coherence of what brings profound fulfillment of our needs, understanding what is lacking and what is in abundance

10/12

-Venus opposite Saturn: desire to conclude processes and operations and the aesthetic of finely finished and beautifully engineered things having to contend with an obligation to let go and flow and move with strategic smoothness

10/13

-Venus ingress Libra: ability to bring about balance, evaluate equilibriums, appreciate beauty, symmetry, facilitate charm and grace, enjoy soirees, harmonize and tonify quality, creativity and romance, relationship, fine art and social cultural. Can be flirtatious and focus on appearances

-Venus opposite Neptune: the above contending with dreams of autonomy, fantasies of direct action, mythos of independence, archetypal prowess, capability and effectiveness, performance enhancement perception widening

-Pluto station direct: The tides of ominous, unknown forces, power dynamics, mysterious pressures to update and upgrade our lives beyond what can currently be conceptualized shifting towards further narrative development

-Venus trine Pluto: the above in harmony with desires to balance, equalize and harmonize

Frederic Remington

10/14

-Venus trine Uranus: beauty, balance, harmony and aesthetic equalization harmonized with radical shifts in options, idea exchange and info pollination revolution. A nod to being aligned with the future, as Uranus is beginning a process which will play out over the next 8 years.

10/17

-Sun square Jupiter: Attention and focus on the general equilibrium clashing with coherence of abundance to lack spectrums. Objective of bringing everything into harmony in narrative tension with opportunities to increase resources and fulfillment when they might deplete the resources of others elsewhere, understanding that having more is all relative to someone else having less. Not necessarily a detractor, more a mindful modulator and context maker

-Sun opposite Chiron: The above attention extended to awkwardness being independent, discomfort in taking direct action, healing faculties of capability and effectiveness, integrating impulses

George Wesley Bellows

10/20

-Mercury conjunct Mars: instinctual logic, primal analytics, animal communication, survival navigation, fight or flight thinking fused with critical response power, tactical stealth, aggressive maneuvering, urgency and potency. Can play out also in intimacy and visceral dialogues.

10/21

-New Moon in Libra: Contemplation of equilibriums, equalization of the mix, cultural, social or relational harmonization sows seeds of the next subjective cycle of manifestation. Also returns life to a regular pace by concluding eclipse season with the first normal lunation. Venus is in rulership in Libra so should be a quiet yet powerful balancing and tonifying inception.

10/22

-Neptune Regress Pisces: Begins the final installment of Neptune’s time expressing escapism and sedation, concluding the era of streaming media, opioids, legal downers and psychedelics, fantasy movies, wizard franchises and manifestation mass-culture. For the time being nostalgia and transportiveness may have their archetypal, cinematic and mythological advantages in high saturation perception widening, but in the closing of a chapter kind of way.

Stanley Spencer

10/23

-Sun ingress Scorpio: Attention to the primal, animal, visceral, deep, urgent, alchemical, intimate, obscure and raw

10/24

-Sun square Pluto: the above in narrative tension with leaps off progressive precipices, cutting edge power dynamics, collectivist corruption, network nightmares, technochratic plutochracy, unknown futures, pioneering obsessions and futuristic conspiracies. The animal real versus the societally conceptual.

-Mercury trine Jupiter: Raw language, primal thinking and instinctual logic harmonized with coherence of profound resource and abundant fulfillment. Being able to measure insatiability harmonized with sagacious understanding of the spectrum of abundance to lack.

Nissaka

1025

-Mercury trine Saturn: Raw, primal, instinctual logic and language harmonized with an obligation to let go of control and flow with the atmospheric conditions as obligational strategy.

10/28

-Mars trine Jupiter: Urgent critical response, severe tactics, stealthy maneuvers harmonized with coherence and wisdom of the spectrum of abundance and lack and opportunities to increase profound fulfillment

Ithell Colquhoun

10/29

-Mercury trine Neptune: Primal logic, raw language and urgent communication harmonized with cinematic escapism, nostalgic perception widening, high saturation sedation and holistic dissolve

-Mercury ingress Sagittarius: Analytical and linguistic faculties enthusiastic about pursuing an idealized goal and kindling excitement around chasing holy grails

-Mars trine Saturn: Primal potency, urgent tactical response and stealthy maneuvers harmonized with obligation formulate and establish flow states by accepting climatic conditions and adapting to tidal motions. Tactics and strategies syncing up to the field and feeling the way

-Mercury opposite Uranus: Mouth piece for holy grail adventure contending with radically shifting ideas and turbulence in info exchanges, experiments with how data is pollinated and eruptions of options while trying to keep mind on a single, ideal trajectory.