It’s a week that makes you consider self-awareness and relationship dynamics. As Venus enters Libra and Pluto stations direct after months in retrograde, you remind yourself of the need for self-understanding, connection, and vulnerability. As the Sun squares Jupiter and opposes Chiron, you learn that there are certain aspects of healing that happen only in togetherness. Your weekly horoscope for October 12-18, 2025, helps you understand where to adjust your focus.

Weekly Horoscope, October 12-18, 2025, Preview

October 12 | Moon enters Cancer
October 13 | Venus enters Libra; Pluto retrograde ends in Aquarius
October 14 | Moon enters Leo
October 17 | Sun in Libra opposite Chiron in Aries; Moon enters Virgo

Venus Enters Libra

In astrology, each planet is partnered with a sign of the zodiac. These pairings hold a similar essence, intention, and medicine. For Venus, that pairing is Libra. Both Libra and Venus offer the frequency of love, beauty, partnership, and art. They invite connection and collaboration and hold the medicine of harmony and balance,  both inwardly and outwardly.

October 13, 2025, brings the movement of Venus into Libra where she will remain until November 6, 2025. When Venus is in Libra, she thrives. This is where she becomes even more herself. Here her medicine becomes more available. These few weeks of Venus in Libra invite balanced exchange within each of your connections. It’s a time for playing with the beauty of connecting with the people in your life and simultaneously exploring what comes alive within you through these connections.

It’s time for appreciating beauty and also acknowledging that beauty itself can be medicine. Art, flowers, outdoors. Colors, shapes, textures. It’s time for noticing how your nervous system responds to these elements in life. It’s time for remembering yourself as art.

Pluto Direct in Aquarius

It’s been five months since Pluto went retrograde. For our slower-moving outer planets, whose orbits are longer, the moment in between retrograde (perceived backward movement) and direct (forward movement) is drawn out in duration. Before moving ahead, it comes to a perceived standstill for close to two weeks in a sacred pause.

During these two weeks, Pluto’s frequency saturates the field. This planet, its medicine, and its invitations are magnified. What you have been exploring, excavating, and transforming inwardly as relates to healing during Pluto retrograde invites integration. It’s time to witness how you have been allowing your mind to reorient its narratives and perspective.

It’s also a time to shift your focus from inward examination to outward transformation. Pluto direct is a whisper that the inner work of the last several months is ready to be healed and lived. As it stations direct on October 13, 2025, it allows you to move forward with themes of self-authority, liberation, and power dynamics in relationships and community in your everyday life.

Sun in Libra opposite Chiron Retrograde in Aries

The Sun in Libra simultaneously sits in opposition to Chiron retrograde in Aries on October 17, 2025. Whereas the Sun represents your identity, Chiron reveals your wounding. The sign of Libra represents another, Aries represents the self.

Oppositions act as mirrors, illuminating any aspects of yourself that feel in opposition—even in contradiction—to one another. On this day, you are offered a mirror to the many dynamics that contribute to who you are in relationship. It brings an honest look at the wounds you possess as well as the ones that you project onto one another—feeling too much, not enough, unseen, misunderstood, dismissed, overpowered.

Perhaps your greatest growth can be found in connection. Here you mirror, trigger, activate, heal, and learn through one another. Self and other is a balancing act inherent to what it means to be human, and on this day, everything feels heightened. You might find your nervous system oscillating in between wanting to merge and pull away, to connect and to stand in your independence.

As with any opposition, you are invited to meet the middle ground. To honor your contradictions and hold your hurts. It is a day that allows for vulnerability, honesty, connection, and deeper understanding with yourself and your closest people. And it is a day to observe how you desire to hold your energy in relationships.

Weekly Horoscope, October 12-18, 2025

The transits in the days ahead highlight emotions and dynamics that you are ready to shift, including patterns and unconscious material that are ready to bring to your consciousness. This week reminds you that you cannot, and do not, exist in isolation. You need connection to each other and yourself—and you cannot have connection without vulnerability. Your weekly horoscope reminds you what it is that can help you do that with more ease.

Aries Rising

Old patterns around self, connection, relationships, and belonging come to the surface this week. They’re a reminder that what arises does so only because you are ready to experience it with greater acceptance, compassion, and empowerment than in the past. Trust your ability to draw on that.

Taurus Rising

The week invites you to bring ritual and routine into your days. It wants you to tend to yourself—your body, mind, and emotions. By offering yourself consistent and reliable support, all the shifting about to transpire this week can do so with greater ease.

Gemini Rising

The week highlights your worthiness and your right to take up space. To share your truth. To be seen. To belong. To hold your own perspectives and walk your own path. It is the kind of week that brings you even more of your own energy. All that remains is for you to embrace and embody it.

Cancer Rising

If you were to hold space for yourself, and not someone else, how would you do that? If you were reassuring yourself that you belong here, what would that look like? This week calls for this space holding and nurturing, but for your inner child, your inner teenager, and your inner adult.

Leo Rising

Let the world and other people be your mirror. Are you able to see what is being reflected to you? The more your mind can open, the more you will see old relationship dynamics and hurt that’s ready to be transformed and empowered. Before you can integrate what is actually true, you need to release what you believe to be true.

Virgo Rising

The wisdom of your body, the worthiness of your body, the beauty of your body, and all that your body has been holding onto—these are the themes you are asked to explore. You are ready and resourced to meet these. Let yourself become Venus. Let yourself become yourself.

Libra Rising

The way you carry yourself is shifting. This is a week to trust the change in how you want to move and hold yourself, how you desire to take up space, and how you choose to share your truth. Be aware of how you feel alone and how it responds when you are in the company of others. Let any expired relational dynamics fall away.

Scorpio Rising

There is much shifting within your emotional body—patterns ready to fall, emotions ready to be seen, dynamics ready to transform. As you navigate these changes, how can you embrace this space in between who you were and who you are becoming?

Sagittarius Rising

Your mind is recycling old narratives into new perspectives, transforming old stories into empowered knowing, and bringing what has been unconscious into consciousness. As your mind changes, new ideals for your future begin to reveal themselves as old hurts around being seen in authentic expression are addressed.

Capricorn Rising

Your weekly horoscope asks you to ease into the ways you’ve been changing. You’re experiencing greater trust in your vision, safety in your body, and embodiment of your strength—and navigating each emotion that arises in response. Be aware of what comes up around worthiness and being seen, self-authority and connection, identity and inner safety.

Aquarius Rising

You’ve been transforming beneath the surface with your identity rearranging itself. Beginning this week, the inner is ready to become outer. Allow yourself permission to transform the way you hold, carry, and express yourself. Allow yourself grace to as you reorient your self-perception and identity, your narratives and belief systems.

Pisces Rising

This week nudges you toward more openness and intimacy regarding where you’re ready to be seen. It holds space for transformative honesty and healing of wounds around worthiness. It also brings shifts beneath the surface in your intuition and your emotional connection to the collective. Allow yourself to have that space, whether through journaling, walks outside, yoga, or meditation.