Astro Insights
No. 9 | October 2025
Astro Insights: Dance of the Cosmos & Soul Growth
October 2025: Power, Truth, and Transformation
Dear Friends,
Here's what I know to be true: the most profound spiritual initiation available to you right now isn't about transcending the material world or escaping into higher consciousness—it's about claiming your sacred authority right here, right now, in the midst of extraordinary cosmic transformation.
October 2025 is incredibly significant energetically, and it's very hard to overstate that. These final three months of the year represent a crescendo of transformation that many of you can likely already feel. If you've been sensing an acceleration, an intensification of energy in your field, trust that. You're absolutely picking up on what's happening cosmically.
The theme of "Endings and Beginnings" has played out thoroughly throughout 2025, but we still have these three massive months to navigate. We're going to see a lot of endings accelerate in October—and I mean truly accelerate—but these endings are clearing space for the new beginnings we'll experience more fully in 2026.
The question this month asks you to answer is about sovereignty and power. Where does your power actually lie? Are you giving it away to external authorities, systems, or structures? Or are you stepping into your own authority, your own truth, your own voice? This is not abstract spiritual philosophy—this is the practical, grounded work of conscious evolution.
From my years of teaching spiritual development, I've learned that our relationship with power reveals everything about our soul's journey. All through October, Pluto will be semi-square the North Node, which is our collective path of soul growth for this period. The North Node is directing us toward a much more spiritual future, which I believe is absolutely where we're headed. With Pluto semi-square to it, there's a real question mark around power and control.
On the one hand, that can be externally directed power getting in the way of our spiritual collective path. On the other hand, it's you deciding to step into your power, which reinforces your sovereignty. Remember that the shadow side of Pluto in Aquarius is control through technology, and we're seeing that expressed clearly in our world. This may come to quite a peak in these three months, particularly in October.
This is a major choice point. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of your choices and your focus at this time. It's a pivotal time both collectively and individually.
From the Full Super Moon in Aries on October 6th or 7th to the New Moon in Libra on October 21st, we have powerful portals for transformation. These aren't just nice astrological events—they're activation points for conscious beings ready to choose authenticity over approval, spiritual truth over comfortable illusion.
Trust that your soul has been preparing you for this opportunity to serve humanity's evolution through your own authentic expression.
The Aries Full Super Moon: Sacred Disruption
The first half of October carries intense energy that will be felt globally. We have a Full Super Moon in Aries coming up on October 6th or 7th, depending on where in the world you live. With super moons, the moon is much closer to the Earth in its orbit, appearing bigger and brighter in our skies. This proximity also heightens seismic activity—both literally in terms of earthquakes and metaphorically in terms of what gets shaken loose in our lives and in the collective.
Aries, ruled by Mars, is a fire sign with tremendous initiating energy. From a shadow or underbelly perspective, this can express itself as warlike, aggressive, or inflammatory energy. In your personal life, try not to spend time with people you could have arguments with during this period, because this is very flammable energy. We may see increased conflict in the collective as well.
But here's what's essential to understand: this Full Moon is about sovereignty and its impulse can be felt long after October 6th/7th.
Uranus, the planet of revolution, rebellion, truth, clarity, and awakening, is prominent in this Full Moon chart. A lot of truth is going to come to light in the bright illumination of this super moon, adding to the revolutionary energy we're seeing all over the world right now. This isn't chaos for chaos's sake—this is the Universe revealing what has been hidden so we can make informed choices about our future.
We also have Mars in Scorpio at this time, very passionate and intense, in an aspect to Chiron. This can feel very passionate and potentially angry around where we've been wounded in some way. It's energizing all of that, again adding to the revolutionary energy. The sun is in a quincunx aspect to Neptune, and it's picking up Saturn as well, so there's this increasing focus on: "Okay, how are we making the dream real? What is an illusion and what is actually going to stand the test of time?"
Jupiter in Cancer is very concerned with self-care, motherhood, and nurturing, and it's in a beautiful trine to Saturn. Wherever you get positive aspects between Jupiter and Saturn, it's about cautious building for the future. We're going to look after ourselves. We're going to stand in our sovereignty, our authority. We're going to look after each other. We're going to operate from the grassroots up—communities, collaborations, people coming together.
Pluto Stations Direct: The Power Reclamation
On October 14th—but we'll feel it a week to either side—Pluto moves stationary direct. Whenever a planet changes direction, its symbolism is magnified enormously. So particularly around the 14th of the month, but a week on either side, we are going to feel and see big power plays in the world. This could manifest as major geopolitical shifts, revelations of what's been hidden, or structures that have been crumbling finally collapse completely.
But also, of course, you can use this energy as stepping into your own power. This is also about the power of community—Aquarius energy—the power of people coming together in conscious collaboration.
The Sabian symbol for 15 degrees of Aries speaks to cosmic consciousness, living more and more as a realized being, sanctifying life itself, becoming a unique being of light. This is the invitation of this period.
The Libra New Moon: Love as Spiritual Courage
The New Moon in Libra happening on October 21st is part of a cardinal grand cross, which is extraordinarily powerful geometry. A cardinal grand cross involves planets in all four cardinal signs—Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn—creating intense tension that demands action and resolution. These are the initiating signs, the signs that start things, that make things happen.
On one side of this grand cross, we have the Sun and Moon together in Libra, the sign of balance, relationships, justice, and harmony. Libra asks: How do we create beauty and balance in the world? How do we relate to one another with equity and grace?
On the other side of this cardinal grand cross is Chiron and Eris in Aries. This is very action-oriented energy to make a change in the world. The challenge is to step into our sovereignty and to do it with love.
The New Moon is also opposing Chiron in Aries. Chiron in Aries is very much about a sense of victimhood or being wounded in our sense of self, our individuality. With Eris tightly conjunct, it's about our voice in the world. Eris is the one who stands for truth, justice, honesty, and equality—every voice needing to be heard because she had been excluded. Aries is quite an angry, rebellious energy, and Eris is a feisty street fighter. So we're dealing with powerful archetypal forces here.
Neptune at the Creator Degree: Pure Spiritual Potential
Here's something truly mystical: On October 21st, Neptune will be at 0° and 1 minute of Aries. Later that day, it will be literally at 0° 0 minutes of Aries. This is what we call the pure potentiality of the creator degree—the absolute beginning point, the place of infinite possibility.
The next day, by noon on October 22nd, Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces and stays at the anoretic degree, the very last degree of Pisces, all the way through until it moves back into Aries on January 27th, 2026.
This feels so powerful as to what we can create. Neptune at 0° Aries is about spiritual initiation, new dreams, new visions for humanity's future. It's asking: What do you want to dream into being? What spiritual vision are you holding for yourself and for the collective?
“Your authentic voice creates more spiritual energy than any other expression. Your sovereignty is sacred. Your willingness to stand in your truth, even when it’s uncomfortable, gives permission to everyone around you to do the same.”
The Bigger Picture: 2025 to 2026
These last three months of the year have enormous potential for good, but we are going the feel amplified reduction what no longer serves us.
A few points to note: Pluto is fully in Aquarius now and will stay there until January 2044. Neptune retrogrades back into Pisces on October 22nd and stays there until January 27th. Uranus, on November 8th, retrogrades back into Taurus. Saturn has already retrograded back into Pisces and moves fully into Aries on February 14, 2026.
At that point, all of them are in their new signs and will not retrograde back into their old signs.
2026 has a very different quality. I think we have this crescendo pivot point at the end of 2025. The energy for next year, particularly as we get into late spring, starts to feel different. It's moving forward quickly. The outer planets will be in fast-moving signs of fire and air, not earth and water. There's a kind of freshness, vigor, and newness.
I do think that potentially 2026 could be an easier year, a significantly easier year, but it's up to us to make those choices. The choice is now. You're laying the stepping stones right now for whatever unfolds next year for you and for the collective. That's why I feel this is such an incredibly powerful funneling down, this crescendo of energy which so many of us can feel.
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Trust Your Soul's Timing
October 2025 represents a cosmic initiation into authentic consciousness.Trust that your soul has been preparing you for this opportunity to serve humanity's evolution through your own authentic expression.
The Universe is orchestrating multiple portals for conscious beings ready to choose authenticity over approval, spiritual truth over comfortable illusion. Yes, there will be challenges. Yes, things will feel intense. But on the other side of this intensity is a breakthrough into a completely new way of being.
Your authentic voice creates more spiritual energy than any other expression. Your sovereignty is sacred. Your willingness to stand in your truth, even when it's uncomfortable, gives permission to everyone around you to do the same.
Set your intentions again at the New Moon for what you would like to realize in your life. Allow the transits of the powerful super full moon of early October guide you in your choice of intention, as well as wherever you can identify where you are perhaps leaking personal power (you will have seen this with Pluto stationing direct).
This is a super powerful time because of what's happening in the cosmos—something incredibly rare and incredibly potent.
Blessings to you dear readers!
Claire