ENERGIES OF THE WEEK✨🌀💎
SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 4, 2026
MARS IN LEO, MERCURY IN SCORPIO, VENUS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO
The week ahead invites us to reconnect with our personal power and our need for self-expression, as Mars moves into Leo. It will then ask us to look deeper and recognize what we truly desire, as Mercury enters Scorpio and moves alongside Venus.
Mercury’s and Mars’ squares to Pluto may bring difficult power struggles, both externally and within ourselves, while Venus retrograde in Scorpio, toward the end of the week, brings relationships, values, desires, security, and trust into a process of reassessment.
As the week comes to a close with the Sun in Libra opposing Saturn in Aries, we are called to approach with greater maturity what we desire and choose to pursue. As there is little point in moving forward if we do not know what is truly worth holding on to.
✨💎The week begins with Mars entering Leo ♌on Monday, September 28, noticeably changing the way we channel our energy and take action. Moving from the more emotional and protective waters of Cancer, Mars enters Fixed Fire, seeking greater self-expression, creativity, confidence, visibility, and recognition.
This shift will gradually activate the Fire and Air signs and will be particularly felt across the Fixed Cross, Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius.
Mars’ journey through Leo will be unusually long due to its upcoming retrograde motion. After moving into Virgo on November 26, it will later retrograde back into Leo, where it will remain from February 21 until May 15, 2027.
From this point onward, we are likely to feel a stronger desire to do things that express who we are. We may want to create, pursue what matters to us, take initiative, and rediscover the joy of our own personal power.
Collectively this energy may strengthen the drive toward ambitious projects and bring forward individuals with a strong presence and leadership ambitions. At the same time, it may bring to the surface the arrogance that can accompany visibility and power, asking for a more conscious relationship with ego, anger, and the need for dominance, particularly during Mars’ challenging aspects to Pluto and the South Node.
On the same day, the Sun forms a trine to Uranus at 5° Libra–Gemini, opening space for something new. New ideas, unexpected developments, different perspectives, and encounters can liberate us. This energy reminds us that change does not always have to come through rupture. It can begin with a different way of thinking, a new perspective, a meaningful conversation, or simply the courage to approach life outside the familiar framework.
✨💎On Wednesday, September 30, Mercury forms a trine to the North Node at 29° Libra–Aquarius, bringing conversations, decisions, and information that may point us toward a new direction.
At the same time, Mercury’s opposition to Chiron at 29° Aries–Libra may touch an old wound around the “I” and the “We.” Words we hear or speak may reach places within us that have not yet fully healed. Yet this is precisely where the awareness can emerge.
On the same day, Mercury enters the sign of Scorpio ♏, where it will remain until December 5, making our thinking more penetrating and perceptive.
Superficial answers are no longer enough. We want to understand what lies behind the words, the behaviours, and what appears on the surface.
Mercury in Scorpio is not afraid to look where we usually avoid looking. And as it moves alongside Venus, thought meets desire.
What we say, think, and feel begins to enter an intense dialogue with each other.
✨💎 Friday, October 2, is an intense day, as Mercury forms a square to Mars at 2° Scorpio–Leo and a square to Pluto at 3° Scorpio–Aquarius.
Words acquire power, and with them the potential for tension increases. We may feel the urge to respond quickly, impose our position, or prove that we are right. Yet beneath the surface may lie the need to control a situation that we can no longer control in the way we once did.
The T-square between Mercury, Mars, and Pluto can bring information, truths, or emotions to the surface that we can no longer ignore, requiring awareness and self-restraint.
Not every truth needs to be spoken in the heat of the moment. And not every conflict is necessarily a battle invitation.
Perhaps what is needed now is to pause and observe what is being activated within us before we react.
✨💎On Saturday, October 3, Mars forms a trine to Neptune at 2° Leo–Aries, offering a creative and inspired outlet for the intensity of the previous days.
Our actions can now be connected to vision, imagination, faith, and the desire to create something with a deeper meaning for us.
On the same day, Venus stations to turn retrograde at 8° Scorpio, inviting us to return to something that needs to be seen again.
What do we truly love? What do we truly desire? Where have we compromised?
Where are we holding on to something because we are afraid of losing it, rather than because we still genuinely want it?
Which relationships have real depth, and which are sustained by fear, attachment, or the need for control?
Scorpio is not interested in the surface. It wants to reach the root. And Venus retrograde gives us time to reassess values, relationships, and the way we exchange love, trust, power, and security.
On the same day, Mars opposes Pluto at 3° Leo–Aquarius, creating a powerful polarization around power, control, and the desire to impose personal will.
Collectively, this may manifest through a heightened atmosphere of conflict, confrontation, and extreme expressions of competition or domination. On a personal level, it may reveal where anger and the need for control have been building beneath the surface.
True strength, however, does not necessarily lie in pushing harder. It may lie in understanding what is genuinely worth defending and what needs to be allowed to transform.
On the same day, the Moon reaches its Third Quarter 🌗at 10°.21’ Cancer♋ marking a phase of release and inner reassessment following the Aries Full Moon.
Something that reached a culmination in the previous days now begins to ask for integration. In Cancer, this process becomes deeply emotional, touching our need for security, our roots, home, family, memory, and the bonds that give us a sense of belonging.
It is a moment to ask ourselves not only what we want, but also what we truly need to feel safe. We may need to release old ways of protecting ourselves, emotional attachments, or situations that once offered us security but now limit our evolution.
✨💎The week closes on Sunday, October 4, with the Sun–Saturn opposition at 11° Libra–Aries.
After the intensity of the previous days comes a reality check, with Saturn asking us to distinguish what can truly stand the test of time and what needs to be reconsidered.
The Sun–Saturn opposition may bring us face to face with obstacles, delays, or realizations that compel us to reassess our priorities.
The aspect may also challenge our energy, self-expression, and vitality. It can create feelings of limitation and difficulties in our relationships with people in positions of authority or with those who function as authority figures in our lives.
Yet Saturn does not come only to restrict. It can help us recognize what is truly worth preserving and investing in with consistency, patience, and dedication. And whatever withstands this test can gain greater stability, structure, and endurance.
Because it is not enough to know what we want. We need to know what we are prepared to take responsibility for to create it.
Perhaps, ultimately, true strength now lies not in holding on at all costs to what we are afraid to lose, but in consciously choosing what is truly worth supporting, protecting, and building from this point forward.✨
Have a blessed week
and a beautiful and blessed new month ahead!✨🎇💎🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli