Your Astrological, Tarot & Magical Grimoire for the Season of Deep Transformation

Okay, confession time. How many group chats have you muted since September? How many times did you say “totally hear where you’re coming from” to somebody you wanted to punch in the throat?

Libra season asked us to be reasonable and we gave it everything we fucking had. And now the invoice is due, because Scorpio walks in on October 23 having already read every message you never sent.

Real story: yesterday night I deep cleaned my entire kitchen, including the inside of an oven I haven’t opened since 2024 (airfryer all the way, baby), instead of answering one text from a person I’m still pretending I’m not mad at. Scrubbed a baking tray down to the bone. Texted nobody. If that isn’t Venus preparing to walk into the Sun and die for her sins, I don’t know what is.

Forget pumpkin spice, because the sky is about to be a goddamn crime scene. Scorpio season goes for the throat, and it has been waiting since the first week of Libra.

As above, so below, and honestly the universe didn’t even try to be subtle this time…Scorpio runs power, secrets, debts, other people’s money, everything we collectively agree not to say out loud and we’re walking into it with Venus (love, diplomacy, peace deals) and Mercury (data, paperwork, tech, information itself) both retrograde at the same time, in the same month the United States goes to the polls.

Meanwhile Ukraine is bracing for another winter under Russian bombs, Gaza’s ceasefire is still burying people, Sudan remains (arguably) the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet and somehow still isn’t trending and a US-Israel war on Iran got announced as settled in a Truth Social post for a millionth time, like a fucking restaurant reservation.

Diplomacy is dying in broad daylight and Venus is about to follow it into the fire.

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October 23 to 26 aka the funeral of Venus..straight up on day one of the season. Venus walks into the heart of the Sun and burns to ash. It’s the most dramatic entrance since I stormed out of a restaurant and found the door was a pull. On October 25 she crawls back into Libra covered in soot to renegotiate everything you swore was handled. She’s still a retrograde, will be until about mid-November, so any sort of progress is a beautiful and unfeasible fever dream.

The Hunter’s Moon in Taurus (October 26) goes for our bank accounts, our body, home and every thing you think you own and hence consider as your safety net. This could also be people, so fully expect some shakeups with the ex, with the invoices, with the dream of sharing some part of your world with another person.

October 24 to November 3, Mercury Goes Digging!
Internet’s favorite retrograde incoming in Scorpio on October 24 and stays backwards until November 13 - a forensic investigator who collects secrets like Carrie Bradshaw collects shoes. Leaks, whistles being blown and the whistleblowers being silenced and the silencing becoming public through another leak! This is so on the nose, given the state of the world and the election circus, which - even though it seems deeply US-centric, in fact concerns ALL OF THE SO CALLED FREE WORLD!

Samhain (October 31) thins the veil, so that even the dead can lean in with their opinions. Then November 3 crashes the party: America votes mid-retrograde, which means delays, glitches, recounts, lawsuits and a news cycle running on pure unverified fucking panic. Believe absolute nothing the first time around!

November 4 Mercury slides into the heart of the Sun. Astrologers call it cazimi, the rest of us call it one brutally clear minute in the swamp, when everything rotting in the dark gets full unfiltered light. Same day, Venus cozies up to Jupiter for exactly one good thing: an apology that lands, a payment that clears, a stranger holding a door.
Take it. You’re allowed one spark of clarity, one good afternoon in the middle of the apocalypse.

November 9, the New Moon in Scorpio is where you decide what stays dead and what gets a key to the house. In the dark, bury the thing you keep resurrecting. Yes, that one. You’ve seen the Pet Sematary, nothing cute comes out of those stubborn resurrection efforts!

November 12 to 16 is the King’s Last Tantrum with Jupiter (excess) joins the South Node in Leo on November 12, Mercury turning direct on November 13, and Venus right behind it, so the fog lifts just in time to show you the mess you excavated.

Then Mars (aggression, ego, war) hits the South Node on November 14 and meets Jupiter on November 16, all of it in Leo, the sign of kings, spotlights, the overblown and extremely fragile egos draped in fake gold with pitiful combovers. Every outdated power fantasy gets a megaphone, a flamethrower, and one last standing ovation before the universe drags it off the stage.

And thanks the holy fuck!

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Listen, this is an explosive finale and I really cannot tell you which way is the pendulum of history going to swing right now, what it slices off from our timeline forever, but I know for sure it will require us pivoting, dodging, negotiating and re-negotiating, shedding and crying and occasionally roaring victoriously with no shame at all!

So I wrote a workbook to hold your hand through every one of those chapters, flashlight in one fist and a shovel in the other.

Practical magic for the days your brain is fried, tarot for when you need a second opinion that won’t reply with ‘k’, journaling prompts that go straight for the jugular of your own bullshit and a full Scorpio Season ritual for burying what’s dead and keeping what’s yours.

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40 pages filled with prompts, ritual, tarot spreads, journaling, the whole mess organized into something you can keep coming back to and use instead of doomscrolling astrology TikTok waiting for a stranger to tell you what to do with your own damn chart.

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What’s inside

• A full walkthrough of the Full Moon in Taurus on October 26, the Hunter’s Moon, with a tarot spread built for it and a rising sign breakdown so you know exactly which house of your chart is being hunted
• Bespoke Scorpio ‘Shadow Self Transformation’ Ritual: This is the core application of the season’s energy, replacing the need for external soothing with internal excavation. This powerful, guided ceremony is designed to integrate the difficult lessons prompted by the season and the Death card’s presence.
• Tarot spread and journal prompts for the New Moon in Scorpio on November 9, for deciding what gets buried and what gets to stay
• Crystal picks with an actual job description: ground you, shield you and keep your thumbs away from your ex’s name
• The Death card, finally given the fair trial it never got (terrible PR, surprisingly good heart)
• Journaling prompts that go straight for the throat of your own bullshit: jealousy, control, grudges and the revenge fantasies you swear you don’t have
• Original ‘Scorpio Season’ Yoga Sequence with Affirmations: Embodying Transformative Flow. This sequence is engineered to move dense, static energy. It is a fluid, grounding practice specifically designed to target the body’s lower energetic centers, focusing on core power, deep hip opening, and breath work to release emotional baggage. The sequence is interwoven with powerful affirmations focused on power, surrender, and emotional honesty.
• Scorpio in pop culture: the ruthless matriarchs, tortured geniuses and sexy villains who make this sign look terrifying & glamorous
• Weekly tarot pulls and journal prompts for every week of the season, so nobody has to sit alone in the dark with their own thoughts (I tried, it’s a shitshow)

A Samhain deep dive for October 31: the history, the theory, the ritual, and how to hold a civil conversation with your dead (they already know about the inheritance and they have fucking opinions)

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Hold onto your charts: I finally cleared my schedule for the last three months of 2026!

Look, 2026 is aggressively trying to cram a year's worth of drama into its final months before 2027 (btw another one for the history books!) arrives. The cosmos is dragging us kicking and screaming toward that threshold, and while I tried to resist opening my calendar just as hard, duty (and your emails) won.

The planetary transits are brewing and so is my coffee, the tarot deck is warmed up and my books are unlocked for the rest of the year.

No fluff, no sanitized advice - just a deeply personal, unfiltered roadmap weaving astrology, tarot & psychic insights to help you navigate the chaos.

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