Your weekly horoscope, October 19-25, 2025: leaving your past behind you

There is a lot of movement happening in the cosmos this week. As above, so below. It is a week of ending cycles and beginning again smarter, of experiencing surrender and conscious intention, and ultimately coming closer to yourself, to what is real, and to the life you choose to create. Your weekly horoscope for October 19-25, 2025 explains where to focus your attention so you can tune into the energies available.

Weekly horoscope, October 19-25, 2025, example

October 19 | Moon enters Libra
October 20 | Mercury conjunct Mars in Scorpio
October 21 | New Moon in Libra; Moon enters Scorpio
October 22 | Neptune retrograde returns in Pisces; The sun enters Scorpio
October 24 | Moon enters Sagittarius

Mercury Conjunct Mars in Scorpio

The conjunction of Mercury and Mars takes place this week on October 20, 2025. A conjunction is the coming together of two or more planetary bodies in our cosmos. What happens is that the vibrations of the planets mingle and merge, as if forming a new planetary essence for the duration of the conjunction.

In astrology, Mercury is the mind, communication and thought, while Mars is action, passion and willpower. Scorpio, the sign that their conjunction holds, is depth, transformation and intuition. As we blend these energies, we experience increased communication and expression, sensitive intuition, and greater awareness of our unconscious dynamics.

This day reminds us of the enormous power of our thoughts, words and actions, whether they are encouraging, accepting and supportive or the opposite. And it is the insight that empowerment comes from truth, intention and conscious expression of our wants, needs and authentic selves.

New Moon in Libra

The next day the Moon conjuncts the Sun and a new cycle begins in Libra, bringing us the New Moon on October 21, 2025.

Libra is a sign of balance, harmony and beauty, looking outward in relationships, while the Moon is our innermost landscape, emotions and needs. This week’s lunation brings awareness to our relational patterns. As the Moon begins a new cycle under the influence of these themes, we are invited to do the same.

The topics covered for assessment cover collaboration, sharing, being seen, compromising, giving, receiving, connecting and more. In particular, anything and everything – known and unknown, conscious and unconscious – that exists in our bodies, minds and beyond and keeps us away from love, connection, intimacy and balance within our relationships. On this night the moon becomes a mirror. What she reflects in our emotional needs, patterns and dynamics comes together with the energy and support for their healing and transformation.

Neptune retrograde returns to Pisces

Retrograde since July, Neptune is in a chapter of profound transition. On October 22, 2025, a crucial step within this transition will take place when Neptune reenters Pisces.

Neptune entered Aries for the first time in 150 years in March this year. But because Neptune is such a slow-moving planet, it only took one step forward in Aries before entering its retrograde and taking the same step back. Defining entire eras and generations, Neptune officially begins its next 165-year cycle when it reenters Aries in 2026. But this only takes place after his final moments in Pisces.

The retrograde return of Neptune in Pisces is a time of deep closure, clearing, letting go and letting go. We end cycles that extend beyond our individual lives. We close chapters where we and our parents and their parents and their parents were born before them. We’re clearing the space for something spectacularly different and daring to begin.

Neptune will remain in Pisces until January 26, 2026, and will be retrograde until December 10, 2025. This is a space of cycles – both collective and individual, conscious and unconscious – coming to an end. Intuition can become sharper. Illusions that have shaped our perspectives become aware of us. Creations, imaginations and escape patterns from the past can arise, so that we can consciously choose whether to continue and strengthen them or to end them.

Sun enters Scorpio

On the same day that Neptune moves back into Pisces, the Sun moves forward into Scorpio. This transit officially marks the beginning of Scorpio season and invites us to experience depth, intimacy and empowerment within ourselves.

Scorpio longs for truth. The season allows us to look beneath the surface and observe the hidden dynamics that shape both our inner and outer reality. Here we experience revelations regarding psychological patterns, unconscious material, relational tendencies, power dynamics, deepest desires and unexplained intuition. Both our fears and our strengths are reflected back to us.

Until November 21, 2025, the Sun in Scorpio offers the opportunity to get to know our own strengths, determination and wisdom. Move with awareness, intuition and surrender. It is a time to let go of the old and meet more of yourself, but through surrender, not through willfulness.

Weekly horoscope, October 19-25, 2025

As above, so below. The massive cosmic transits in the coming days reflect your readiness for profound internal transits. You experience a willingness to become aware of who you really are: the patterns and beliefs that have existed within you and how these, moment by moment, contribute to the life you create and experience. Your weekly horoscope will help you know what to focus on for optimal wisdom and surrender. Read for your rising sign.

Aries rising

Relationships are highlighted this week. Not your relationships with others. This is about you – what you desire in love and connection and everything in it that holds you back. What projections do you place on others? What dynamics does the behavior of others reflect in you? As old cycles close, empowerment awaits.

Taurus rising

Others become a mirror to you this week. Bring awareness to the way you share, express, create and meet yourself through your communication and sharing connections. Let it reflect back to you all aspects of self-refinement that are still waiting and wanting to take place. How can you take better care of yourself? How honestly can you express who you are to the world?

Gemini rising

Come home to the foundations that hold and support you: routines, habits and rituals that help you care for and connect with yourself. Let go of old stories about being seen, self-expression and your merits. Instead, look at where you want to take this beautiful life.

Cancer is rising

There are worlds within you that long to flow into creation. What does each of these worlds say to you? What does your voice want to share? You are invited to powerfully, honestly and compassionately claim your creativity, self-expression and space you occupy in the world. Emotional ease awaits when long-standing psychological patterns come to an end.

Leo rising

This week invites internal care. It’s like you’re talking to your inner child. What does it need to hear? What does it mean? And what does it want to remind you of when it comes to experiencing more playfulness and authenticity in your life? Empowerment awaits you if you follow this advice.

Virgo rising

This week offers a renewed relationship with your mind, voice, power and sense of self. There is power in your voice, thoughts and perspective. Where do you choose to channel this power? What do you choose to create with it?

Libra rises

Personal renewal, acceptance and self-expression are offered this week. More of you are ready to be met, accepted and brought into your identity. As personal power and confidence become more part of your daily way of relating to yourself and others, the old dynamic is about to fall, new chapters are initiated, and dignity shifts from an idea to a lived truth.

Scorpio rising

A new chapter of yourself is being introduced. A new way to perceive and express yourself. A new approach to going through life. Let your desires be bigger and louder than your old stories about yourself and your identity. There’s a new slate this week. How do you choose to show up for yourself?

Sagittarius rising

This week invites surrender as you explore a renewed relationship with your intuition and the greater mysteries of the universe’s timing. Sit with what may feel unfamiliar or unclear, as much is revealed by your presence. Meditation, journaling and silence are all calling your name.

Capricorn Rising

This week invites you to play in the realm of ideas. Let your mind be open to all possibilities and futures that are aligned and interesting. As you do, you regain your self-authority, let go of old stories, and experience healing in your thoughts and perceptions.

Aquarius rising

Your weekly horoscope asks you to look at the story of your life: where you’ve been and where you want to go. Doing so will make it more feasible to renew your relationship with personal authority and become the writer of your life.

Pisces rising

Where are you ready for greater intimacy with yourself, life, trust and your chosen people? It’s a week of peeling back layers, reflecting on the many versions of yourself you’ve been and observing the beauty in them all. As you close old cycles with acceptance and ease, you will access more of your truth, intuition and inner wisdom.