Aries Horoscope for October 2025

This is a time for you that brings relationship issues to the fore, Aries, as an aid, perhaps, for your own ongoing personal evolution, and is another extremely powerful month, due to the recent New Moon eclipse from the final ten days of September. This highlighted your relationship sector along with feeling about where, indeed, during these fractious times, you might be heading. A sense of your life’s purpose is quite important these days and is also part of the potent astrological currents swirling around you now. It is possible that any changes that you foresee might came along quite slowly, and deliberately, and you might want to note that in that way the lessons can last longer as well. There is also the potential for painful realizations to arise, perhaps the result of ancient trauma around your connections with others, and of your own self-worth. There could be issues that come up surrounding your identity, and this might be especially so in the timing of the Full Moon in your sign on the 6th, the beginning of the month’s first full week. All through October, there is revolutionary and evolutionary progress deep within you, and for your social interactions, and in your communications, both in speaking and in writing. It could be a good time to start a journal. The late Libra New Moon of the 21st makes for another dramatic juncture, when key relationships, along with partnership agreements, come more fully to the forefront of your attention. It helps to remember that the prize you seek is nothing less than your eventually emerging as your true self; or at least the most authentic version of yourself that you can at this time muster, and that may be enough.

The following was written by our guest columnist Elodie St-Onge Aubut of Ninth House Astrology

The month begins on the momentum set forth by the recent solar eclipse from September 21st in late Virgo, or your health and service sector, which may have you compelled to look for more streamlined approaches in your day-to-day work and keep pushing you to let go of superfluous patterns or bad habits that are creating more stress than the relaxing circumstances you are ultimately looking for. The eclipse governs the first twenty days of the October month. Transformation is once again indeed a potent key to this entire month for you – with your ruler, Mars, in square with Pluto in the eclipse configuration. You may continue to experience a certain amount of tension coming from what you think is expected of you, and you might want to cut that out. You may have to assess how much of this is related to your own fears and anxieties, projected. Partners come into this picture also with the Sun and Moon right on the edge of Libra, your opposite sign. You can always tap into the intuitional information that comes freely as you reflect on your situation. It might seem that some of the stress emerging within you could relate to a feeling of disharmony between input and output or time investment versus labor and your desire to have more freedom or downtime to do what you want.

The Full Moon in your sign culminates on the late evening of October 6th and is your opportunity to get clear about what you need as the light of the Moon emphasizes the requirements of your mind and body. Mars which rules your sign from its night-time lair of Scorpio speaks of the significant progress that is available when you team up with the right allies. Do not be so quick to dismiss offers of support whether these are of a financial or emotional nature as they could prove to be a steppingstone in the right direction when it comes to securing not only your peace but the resources that you need.

Venus enters Libra on October 13th with the Last Quarter Moon, and immediately forms an opposition with Neptune still in Aries, emphasized identity issues, collaborations with like-minded others, and concepts of your future unfolding. This could be another significant turning point in the month especially with Pluto stationing direct in Aquarius on the same day and is therefore emphasized. Venus in Libra is busy networking with both Uranus in Gemini and Pluto newly direct in Aquarius which could look like opportunities coming from meeting the right people or being in the right place at the right time. An original project or perspective may capture the attention of someone so don’t censor yourself. Home and family issues assert themselves and could bring you luck. You might be surprised at how well your ideas are received.

The Libra New Moon arrives on October 21st and initiates fresh momentum for the next thirty days for all things relational whether its ongoing business negotiations, current partnerships or a promising new relationship in the works. To make things a little bit more complex since reality has a great sense of humor, Mercury in Scorpio conjunct Mars for excitement also enters its shadow corresponding to the degree at which it will station retrograde in early November. Thinking ahead, this implies that deals being made or negotiations taking place in late October could have the potential to take longer than expected so it might be best to move increasingly slow and steady as the month wears on, trying to avoid making promises you can’t keep.

On the evening of October 22nd, the astrological currents get progressively moody as the Sun enters Scorpio creating a huge stellium in that sign and a grand trine in Water between Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn (in the signs Scorpio, Cancer, and Pisces) that grows in influence as the month’s final week unfolds. Partnership intimacy becomes very significant affecting private and public life for you. Give yourself permission to lay low if you feel introspective or need time to adjust the direction of your ship. There is a lot of action taking place behind the scenes for you in the later part of October so that you may have to modulate your energy for the world at large along with also quiet time at home or with your close ones.

Late October could help sort out your allegiance in a way that feels progressive but only after you have had the necessary conversations. Messenger planet Mercury is hard at work in Scorpio during the last two weeks of October ensuring that no stones are left unturned. Things could feel emotionally-loaded with so many planets in water-signs and although Mercury enters Sagittarius on October 29th for a brief comic relief, it is due to retrograde back in Scorpio by mid-November to finish what it started. Take things in stride and keep a sense of perspective especially when it comes to domestic and professional matters.

Aries Horoscope for October 2025

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