SCORPIO SEASON 2025: ASTROLOGY FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 26-NOVEMBER 1, 2025
Grand trine in water, Mercury’s truth turn, Samhain thresholds, and Venus opposite Chiron
As we move through the depths of Scorpio season, the skies offer a rare blend of softness and revelation. A grand trine in water keeps the field feeling, receptive, and inwardly attuned, while Mercury completes its underworld work in Scorpio, receives a last misted trine from Neptune, then ignites in Sagittarius and immediately opposes Uranus. By week’s end, Venus in Libra faces Chiron in Aries, bringing relational truth to the surface under the thin veil of Samhain.
This is a week to feel first, interpret second. Let the waters show you what is true. As clarity arrives, meet it cleanly and with care.
THE THEMATIC OVERVIEW
Scorpio season invites descent, honesty, and transmutation. With two personal planets (Mercury and Mars) in Scorpio and a grand trine in water connecting Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, Jupiter in Cancer, and Saturn (with Neptune) in Pisces, the emphasis is on depth, emotional intelligence, and somatic presence. The current asks: Can you hold what you feel without controlling it, and allow insight to emerge from within the feeling, not against it?
As Mercury changes signs, the week pivots from silent sensing to rapid illumination. Truths that were simmering below the surface may suddenly articulate themselves.
GRAND TRINE IN WATER: CAPACITY, BELONGING, AND TRUST
A continuing grand trine in water (Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Pisces) saturates the emotional field. Trines are supportive, but in water they can feel like a flood of sensation. This is metabolization weather: less doing, more being with.
Jupiter in Cancer expands the containers of safety, belonging, home, and nourishment so they can hold more life.
Saturn in Pisces gives spiritual structure and devotional discipline to feeling, guiding grief and inspiration into embodied practice.
Mars in Scorpio sharpens will and courage beneath the surface, favoring transformation through presence over reactivity.
Translation: let emotions complete their arc. The “golden key” sits under what you’d rather avoid. When feeling leads, insight follows.
MERCURY: TRINE NEPTUNE, ENTERS SAGITTARIUS, OPPOSITE URANUS
October 29: Before Mercury leaves Scorpio, it trines Neptune (retrograde) at the late degrees of Pisces. Expect thin-veil cognition: dreams, symbols, subtle knowings. Notice where illusion, idealization, or spiritual bypassing dissolves — and where compassion clarifies what is real.
Shortly after, Mercury enters Sagittarius and immediately opposes Uranus (retrograde near 0° Gemini, edging back toward Taurus). This is a classic pattern-breaker: lightning-flash perspective, sudden truth-telling, new language for old feelings. It can be blunt or liberating. Use it to update the story rather than scorch the earth. Observe first, respond second.
SAMHAIN: THE FERTILE DARK
October 31 marks Samhain (Halloween), the midpoint between the autumn equinox and winter solstice. The veil thins; ancestors, endings, and the medicine of the dark are near. This is ritual time: name what is complete, compost what is decaying, and root what wishes to live. In Scorpio season, death is a consecration — the old becomes soil for the new.
VENUS OPPOSITE CHIRON: THE MIRROR OF WORTH
November 1: Venus in Libra opposes Chiron in Aries. Relational dynamics reflect core wounds around autonomy, assertion, and belonging. Choose right relationship over appeasement or control. Libra seeks harmony through honesty, not avoidance; Aries seeks self without erasing the other. Let this axis recalibrate your boundaries, requests, and repair.
SOMATIC INTEGRATION: FROM CONTROL TO PRESENCE
Let water lead: breath, tears, baths, slowness, silence.
Name three sensations before you name a story.
Practice the pause as Mercury flips to fire: give language time to catch up to truth.
Beautify one small space: outer harmony supports inner regulation in Libra season’s wake.
Simple ancestor rite: light, salt, water; name your lineage gifts and release what is complete.
KEY DATES
October 28: Grand trine in water active (Mars and Mercury in Scorpio, Jupiter in Cancer, Saturn in Pisces)
October 29: Mercury trine Neptune (late Pisces); Mercury enters Sagittarius and opposes Uranus (retrograde near 0° Gemini)
October 31: Samhain / Halloween
November 1: Venus (Libra) opposite Chiron (retrograde in Aries)
This week bridges water and fire, sensing and speaking. Feel fully, then let truth clarify the path. What is composting now becomes nourishment for what is next.
— ALI OFSTEDAL
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