Feral Astrology Guide for the Week of power shifts, soft landings & the quiet witchcraft of learning to make peace with change
“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.” - Andre Gide
Let’s be brutally honest about the current moment: the timeline has entered its fifth consecutive week of high-grade, institutional absurdity. We are observing the ultimate political spectacle in which the most powerful governments appear to derive primary satisfaction from self-sabotage. The United States government shutdown, currently dragging federal workers deep into October making it a double spooky month without guaranteed back pay, is not an accident of poor negotiations but as result of a policy of deliberate cruelty.
The world at large seem to be running on autopilot lately, with dial locked in a demonstrate a malignant commitment to internal conflict over public welfare programming, with various demon overlords busy building their doomsday bunkers (I’m looking at you, tech billionaire cabal) & the rest of us just doing everything we fucking can to distract ourselves and disconnect until the Apocalypse blows over and the New World Order emerge.
Because how can we not to, when the global background noise remains a persistent, high-frequency threat, defeated & so fucking drained by a prevailing feeling of being managed by an “invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people”. It’s the fuck it, let someone else come in and save us stage of grief.
This profound and screaming disconnect between the self-serving incompetence of global power brokers and the collective yearning for security & peace is precisely where the week’s astrology intervenes.
The long Pluto retrograde cycle, which forced an intense, months-long internal audit of individual and collective power structures, is about to terminate. This internal friction, catalyzed by the public display of institutional rot, demands a micro-revolution: a radical, purifying look at who your “real people are” and the kind of “future you’re building” via these compromised social systems.
The Week’s Energetic Arc - Neurological Reprogramming Protocol
Think of this week as a rewiring & system reset. It’s plagued by weird glitches, insufferable loading times, dread that the desktop will look completely alien and all our folders scrambled when the system loads up again. But there’s also a exhilarating potential for something better to emerge.
As we’re watching old power structures reboot on live TV, the same drama unfolds on the micro-level - your own control systems might be stuttering to boot: emails unsent, texts misread, your nervous system permanently logged into 5G speed. The astrology mirrors it perfectly.
Pluto’s waking up in Aquarius like a ghost in the machine, Venus waltzes into Libra wearing her courtroom best (think Anna Delvey’s court cotoure), and little men’s hurt ego (the thing that will end the world one day) screams louder and more poisonous with Leo Moon squaring to Mars & Mercury in Scorpio.
It’s a week of system crashes and manual restarts: psychological, political, relational.
Phase 1: Covert Initiation (Mon/Tues)
The week begins with deep, visceral intuition (Moon in Cancer trine Mercury and Mars in Scorpio), setting the stage for stealthy, precise action. Soft animal instincts with a razor edge. You know exactly what needs to change but can’t say it out loud yet.. it’s the part of the movie where the hero quietly loads the gun.
Then on Tuesday, Pluto stations direct in Aquarius, and every “someday soon” becomes now. Collective evolution goes from group chat theory to revolution logistics. On the global stage, this is the last straw, the last march out in the streets that solidified the need for change. On a personal level, this is your “I’m done pretending” moment.
Expect sudden career pivots, mass resignations, systemic meltdowns or the personal realization that you’ve been quietly betraying yourself for months. So, you know, no biggie.
Phase 2: The Egotistical Flare-Up (Wed/Thurs)
The pressure immediately manifests as conflict. Wednesday’s Moon in Leo squaring Mercury and Mars in Scorpio creates a crisis of self-importance and manipulative communication, where conversations become exercises in controlling the emotional narrative. Hey, American Psycho-style narcissists (aka full one side of the congress), looking at ya! Someone called you up on your malignant lies? Oh boohoo, let’s set the world on fire in response, why don't we?
This is followed by Thursday’s cognitive paralysis, as the practical world - Moon in Virgo - fragments under the chaotic electrical impulses of Uranus in Gemini. The internal administrative assistant has walked off the job (just after it blew on several paradigm-shattering whistles), leaving focus fragmented and the system overloaded with static. Your job? Don’t force coherence. Sit in the static. Let the brain fry. Enjoy!
Phase 3: The Boundary Test (Fri)
The Sun in Libra squares Jupiter in Cancer and the sound of collective cry about justice, peace, and “doing the right thing” runs like a current through the many layers of society and across all political leanings.
It’s heartfelt and exhausting. This is charity burnout, activist fatigue, emotional overdraft receipts. Libra wants fairness (bless), Jupiter wants to save the world (double bless). Together, they create well-intentioned chaos.
You might overpromise, overgive or feel guilt-tripped into empathy. Step back. The week’s medicine isn’t more giving...it’s knowing when to stop bleeding for what doesn’t heal you back.
Phase 4: Graceful Synthesis (Sat/Sun)
By Saturday, the Virgo Moon picks up the broom and quietly starts mopping the week’s emotional wreckage. You finally see what was actually worth saving. And then Sunday: hallelujah. The Grand Air Trine between Moon in Libra, Uranus in Gemini & Pluto in Aquarius kicks in. The easy flow of the air element allows for a detachment from the week’s emotional assault, synthesize the core revolutionary insights discovered during the Pluto station, and plot the next strategic move with chilling clarity.
Air clears, thoughts click, messages land.
The quote that makes the chaos of last week make sense to you. The article that changes your perspective & inspire you to not give up. The random meeting that sparks something long dormant & delicious back to life. The apology that rewires your heart.
It’s clarity after combustion. There’s power in that clarity, that can change everything.
By Sunday night, you’re not just healed, but fully recalibrated. So there’s hope, after all. Interesting. Now, what wondrous, dangerously positive things are we going to do with that? Nervous system: debugged. Boundaries: rewritten. Outlook: crystalline.
A Day-by-Day Breakdown
🧾 Monday’s Sacred Scheming: Moon (Cancer) trine Mercury & Mars (Scorpio). Venus enters Libra!
Monday is a day to listen through the walls. The Cancer Moon has you moving through emotional sonar and its trine to Mercury and Mars in Scorpio turns your gut into a high-grade psychological tracking device. Expect some uncomfortable intuition spikes, picking up intel straight from the nervous system.
Every twitch, every “off” vibe is data. What looks like emotional sensitivity is actually forensic precision. You’re the spy who found the root code of your own triggers.
Meanwhile, Venus dances into Libra, her kingdom, sanctuary and a velvet red cushion temple… Charm becomes a strategy, diplomacy a weapon.
Truth Serum: Your intuition is livestreaming satellite footage of exactly where the problem’s buried. Go in full force and excavate. There are treasures to be uncovered there too.
🔌 Tuesday’s System Reboot: Pluto Stations Direct! Moon (Leo) sextile Venus (Libra) & Uranus (Gemini). Venus (Libra) trine Uranus (Gemini)
This is the day the subterranean pressure finally turns outward. After months of simmering tension, Pluto finally says, “enough.” Pluto stations direct in Aquarius and demands a radical structural confrontation in the areas of technology, community & social justice, themes that Pluto in Aquarius governs.
What felt like agonizing, invisible friction during the retrograde now locks into place as unshakeable resolve & forces absolute clarity regarding power dynamics and group affiliations. Everything simmering beneath the surface about collective power and social structure suddenly gets real, so if you’re like me and the toxic political circus of dark absurdity sets your nervous system on fire, maybe do not open the News today. Stay away from screens.
This goes for our personal, more mundane experience of life - think of it as your astro administrator pressing HARD RESET on your networks, your ideals and yes, some friendships you thought were fine (this also sounds like break-ups with friends who no longer share your ideals, forcing a cleanse in your networks - all connected). Turns out your system scan identified a virus.
But hey, you don’t just have to grit your teeth through it - the airy trine between Venus and Uranus injects flashes of unexpected wit, mental rebellion, and little “aha!” moments that make the necessary severances feel… almost fun? You recognize the liberation in the cut. Doors slam, windows open. And you’re ready to jump and fly!
The Truth Serum: Clarity is not gentle.. it is the instantaneous, uncompromising snap of a closed door. As Flannery O’Connor said:
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
🎭 Wednesday’s Performance of Rage: Moon (Leo) square Mercury & Mars (Scorpio)
Drama’s on tap. Ego wants to be seen (and it will!), secrets want to be revealed (and they’ll spill) & your words might land somewhere between weaponized poetry and emotional sabotage - all of the above highly combustible.
Prepare for high-volume, highly performative confrontations revealing unresolved power dynamic.
The Moon in dramatic, ego-driven Leo clashes (square) with the intense, penetrating focus of Mercury and Mars in Scorpio. This alignment manifests as psychological warfare driven by pride.. words become weaponized instruments of control (again) and communication is less about finding truth and more about winning the emotional stage play (fucking again).
Steer clear of any discussion that involves a personal sense of entitlement, unless you are prepared for a necessary & incredibly messy implosion.
If you let pride run the show today, expect messy fireworks. Everyone’s negotiating their power through theatrics, and the stakes feel high because..well, in 2025 they fucking are. The toddlers got the nuke codes, let us not forget.
The Truth Serum: When pride dictates the dialogue, you’re not communicating but performing intellectual & emotional demolition.
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