Weekly Energy Forecast: October 20–26, 2025 “The Ground Beneath Shifts”

The week begins with a sharp crackle in the air. On October 20, Mercury joins Mars in Scorpio, and the words we speak are anything but casual. This is language forged in fire, sharpened with precision, and charged with the power to cut through illusion. It is the kind of alignment that makes truth unavoidable, even when it stings. Conversations may arrive with heat, choices may demand immediacy, and clarity will not let itself be ignored. It is the tone-setting influence for the days to come.

And then, almost immediately, the New Moon in Libra rises on October 21 at 28 degrees, seeded in the shadow of Mercury and Mars’ piercing conjunction. New Moons are beginnings, but this one carries edge and urgency. Libra seeks harmony, balance, and fairness, yet with Mars and Mercury sharpening the air just behind it, the seeds planted now are not polite or ornamental. They are seeded in truth. This lunation does not allow for agreements made to keep the peace or choices that bypass conflict. Instead, it asks... what kind of balance is worth building? What kind of relationship is honest enough to last? What kind of reciprocity feels alive rather than hollow?

Together, the Mercury–Mars conjunction and the Libra New Moon create a dynamic threshold. The mind (Mercury) and the will (Mars) align in the deepest waters of Scorpio, cutting cords to what is false, while the Moon in Libra extends an invitation to build something different... balanced, reciprocal, rooted in clarity. The result is not gentle. But it is real. We are asked to look at the agreements, relationships, and choices in our lives and decide: do they nourish, or do they drain? Do they balance the scales, or tip them further?

By mid-week, Neptune drifts back into Pisces on October 22, adding a haze to the landscape. This is not to undo what Mercury and Mars revealed, but to remind us that discernment matters when the waters get murky. And on October 23, the Sun enters Scorpio, pulling us fully into the season of shadow work, intimacy, and transformation. The light shifts from Libra’s airy scales to Scorpio’s depths, where nothing can hide.

The King of Pentacles steps forward as the tarot guide for this week, rooting all this intensity into the body. While the sky crackles with sharpened speech and new agreements, the King reminds us that stability is not a dream but a practice. He is the archetype of grounded abundance, of knowing that growth requires patience, structure, and integrity. He steadies the fire of Mars, the scales of Libra, and the illusions of Neptune. He asks us to plant what is real, to invest our energy in what will last, to remember that sovereignty is not a concept but a lived experience in the body and in the choices we make.

This is a week of thresholds, of speaking and acting from truth, of planting intentions in soil freshly turned by both clarity and confrontation. It is not about balance as performance, but about balance as practice. It is not about control for its own sake, but about choosing stability, integrity, and reciprocity as the foundation for what comes next.

Current Energetic Climate

The atmosphere this week is electric with both endings and beginnings. The air feels sharp, like the moment before a storm finally breaks, when your body knows change is already on the wind. Mercury’s union with Mars in Scorpio on October 20 has already sharpened the tone... words cut deeper, truths rise faster, and instincts press louder against the surface. Then the Libra New Moon on October 21 asks us to plant intentions not in fantasy, but in clarity. It is balance born out of truth-telling, not avoidance.

But the real shift happens when the Sun enters Scorpio on October 23. Libra season was about the delicate recalibration of scales, the endless adjustments to find fairness, the conversations that built bridges or revealed imbalance. Scorpio season takes us somewhere deeper. Balance is no longer enough if it is hollow. Scorpio demands truth, intimacy, and transformation. Here the light doesn’t skim the surface. It dives. It exposes what has been hidden. It sharpens instincts, awakens desire, and insists that we stop performing and start living what is real.

I can’t help but feel excitement stirring as the Sun slips into Scorpio. This is where I live and THRIVE... where the energy gets real. Scorpio season is not about perfection or politeness... it is about raw honesty, about stepping into shadow and power at the same time. It is the courage to say what you mean, to choose with intensity, to let endings do their work so that beginnings can actually thrive. The New Moon earlier in the week set the seed, but it is Scorpio’s light that will help it root into something real.

The climate this week is alive with choice. Neptune’s re-entry into Pisces on October 22 adds fog, yes, but it also softens the edges enough to let imagination and intuition speak. This means discernment is everything. We are being asked to notice the difference between illusion and truth, between the fantasy of what we wish was real and the clarity of what actually is. The Mercury–Mars conjunction insists on action from clarity. The Libra New Moon invites intentions rooted in fairness. The Sun in Scorpio pulls it all deeper, reminding us that life is too short to waste on half-truths or shallow bonds.

It feels like standing at the threshold of something we’ve been circling for months... a moment where the air is charged, the ground shifts beneath us, and the body says, “Yes, this is the time.”

Key Astrological Influences

Mercury conjunct Mars in Scorpio (October 20) - When Mercury and Mars meet in Scorpio, our words are not just words. They become arrows, sharpened with precision, pulled from the depths of instinct. This is communication as power, thought as weapon, speech as catalyst. Scorpio does not skim the surface, it dives, and this conjunction asks us to follow. Every conversation has the potential to uncover something buried. Every decision made now is tinged with finality. There is no space for half-truths. This is the cosmos daring us to speak from the gut, to stop editing our needs down into something palatable, and to let the fire of our convictions be heard. The danger is volatility... speaking without grounding, wounding rather than clarifying. But when we channel this alignment through the steadiness of the King of Pentacles, the result is lasting: words that don’t just cut, but carve a path for real transformation.

New Moon in Libra (October 21) - The Libra New Moon blooms in the shadow of that Mercury–Mars meeting, and it carries their edge. Libra typically whispers about balance, fairness, and partnership, but this lunation is not asking for pleasantries. It asks for honesty. It asks us to plant intentions around reciprocity and harmony that actually hold weight, that can withstand intensity, that are forged in truth, not politeness. The seeds we sow here are influenced by Scorpio’s rawness... which means they will not sprout into shallow beauty, but into partnerships and agreements that transform us. The question is simple but piercing: what kind of love, what kind of balance, what kind of commitment are you ready to choose when the scales are stripped of illusion?

Neptune retrograde re-enters Pisces (October 22) - Just as the air is sharp with clarity, Neptune drifts back into Pisces, weaving haze into the edges of the sky. It is the final act of Neptune’s long passage here, and it feels like standing in a dream that wants to dissolve just as you reach for it. Neptune in Pisces is collective longing, the ocean of everything we feel but cannot define. Its retrograde motion now can reawaken illusions we thought we had shed, or soften truths that felt too sharp to bear. The lesson is discernment. Scorpio’s precision is the antidote to Neptune’s fog... reminding us to trust our intuition, but also to ground it, to ask whether the dream we are chasing has substance beneath it. With the King of Pentacles in hand, Neptune’s haze becomes inspiration rather than delusion, guiding us toward visions we can actually manifest rather than mirages that keep us wandering.

Sun enters Scorpio (October 23) - And then, the season shifts. The Sun enters Scorpio, and the light itself changes. Libra’s scales taught us about fairness and exchange, but Scorpio is not concerned with surface harmony. It demands depth. It demands truth. Scorpio season is a descent and a rebirth. It shows us what has been hidden, it sharpens instincts, it awakens hunger. It strips us down to the bones of what we are, not to punish, but to transform. This is the season of intimacy, of shadow work, of reclaiming power that has been buried under fear or shame. And for those of us who feel at home in the depths, the energy is electric... this is where we thrive.

This year, Scorpio season begins with Pluto freshly direct, Mars already burning in Scorpio, and Mercury’s words sharpened by the same sign. That is an extraordinary amount of underworld fire all at once. We are not just dipping into shadow, we are submerged. But there is a steadiness available too, in the King of Pentacles’ reminder that transformation can be rooted. That sovereignty is not chaos, but commitment. That power is not about control, but about cultivation. As the Sun illuminates Scorpio’s terrain, we are asked to let endings do their work, to let truths surface, and to step into our lives with the kind of depth that cannot be faked.

Themes for the Week

Depth over distraction - This is not a week for skimming the surface. With Mercury and Mars meeting in Scorpio, and the Sun preparing to plunge into the same terrain, distraction is stripped away. The energy pulls us down to the marrow of things. What conversations matter? What truths are pressing for air? What instincts in your body keep rising, even when you try to push them aside? This is a time to listen, not to the noise, but to the pulse beneath it. Scorpio asks for depth, and depth asks us to stop scattering ourselves across illusions and instead commit to what is real.

Balance forged in truth - The Libra New Moon on October 21 arrives as a reminder that balance is only balance when it is honest. If you are pretending at peace, if you are holding harmony together with silence, this lunation will show the cracks. Mercury conjunct Mars bleeds into this New Moon, infusing it with sharpness, urgency, and clarity. The intentions you plant here cannot be cosmetic. They must be rooted in reciprocity, in fairness, in agreements that feel alive in both body and spirit. This is where the King of Pentacles becomes teacher... showing us that balance built in truth has weight, it endures, it does not sway at the first gust of wind.

Power reclaimed, not performed - Mars in Scorpio alongside Pluto’s direct motion creates a hum of power that can feel intoxicating. But Scorpio power is not spectacle. It is not performance. It is reclamation. It is remembering where your energy belongs and refusing to leak it into what is dead. This week may show you the cords that are still tethering you to patterns of control, obsession, or fear. Mars gives the courage to cut them. Pluto demands you act on what you already know. And the King of Pentacles reminds you that true power is steady. It does not need to shout. It roots itself so deeply in truth that nothing can shake it.

Illusion vs embodiment - With Neptune retrograde re-entering Pisces on October 22, illusions may rise again, soft and tempting. It can feel easier to chase the dream than to face the discomfort of reality. But the 7 of Cups warned us last week of this very trap, and this week the King of Pentacles balances it. Illusions cannot feed us. Fantasies cannot sustain us. Scorpio season pulls us back into the body, into the felt sense of what is real. This is a week to notice where you are tempted by mirage, and to choose embodiment instead. To ask: does this relationship, this path, this commitment hold in my body as well as my mind?

Stability in the storm - The King of Pentacles stands at the heart of this week as reminder and anchor. While the sky burns with Scorpio fire, this card is the calm center. He teaches that sovereignty is not about control, but about cultivation. He builds slowly, he commits deeply, he invests in what lasts. Amid the intensity of Pluto, Mars, and Scorpio season, we are not asked to burn everything down. We are asked to build with discernment. To root into what is nourishing. To cultivate stability even as transformation rages around us.

The theme of the week is not stillness, but steadiness. Transformation is happening, the underworld trembles with movement, but within it you are invited to root, to choose, to embody. Scorpio season does not want you to stay shallow. It wants you to dive. But the King of Pentacles shows that when you dive with both feet on the ground, you carry stability with you into the depths.

Tarot Insight: The King of Pentacles

The King of Pentacles has always been my favorite of the kings, and for good reason. Where the King of Wands burns with vision, the King of Swords slices with intellect, and the King of Cups steadies the heart, the King of Pentacles roots everything into the body of the earth. He is the sovereign who knows that power without stability collapses, that vision without form dissipates, that care without action cannot sustain. He is my favorite because he is the one who teaches what true mastery feels like when it is lived, not just imagined... power that is embodied, generosity that is grounded, stability that is hard-earned.

The King of Pentacles is the slowest moving of the kings, but that is his strength. He does not rush, because he knows that nothing good comes easily. What is truly worth having takes time, patience, and devotion. He shows us that mastery is not the product of shortcuts, but of steady tending, of returning again and again to the soil of our lives until it bears fruit. His slow movement is not weakness but wisdom, the kind that understands permanence is built brick by brick, season by season. He is not chasing, not yearning, not flailing. He has already built, with patience and intention, the life that sustains him and the people he loves. His wealth is not only material, though he is tied to abundance and prosperity, but also spiritual. He is the reminder that when we root our choices in integrity, patience, and steady cultivation, what grows will nourish us for the long term. He knows the seasons, he knows the cycles, and he trusts them.

In the context of this week’s astrology, his presence is medicine. Pluto’s direct station, Mars in Scorpio, the New Moon in Libra... all of this energy swirls with intensity, transformation, and choice. It can feel chaotic, like too many plates spinning at once. The King of Pentacles enters with the reminder that transformation does not need to strip you bare of stability. You can hold ground even while the underworld trembles. You can move into depth and still feel rooted. He shows us that we do not have to sacrifice steadiness in order to change.

On a personal level, I love this king because he teaches sovereignty without isolation. He is generous, he is giving, he shares his resources freely... but he is never depleted. His cup is full because he filled it with discipline, patience, and commitment. He shows us how to build a life where generosity flows because the foundation is solid. That is the kind of power I want to embody and the kind of guidance this card offers us now.

In his shadow, the King of Pentacles can calcify into control, into hoarding, into mistaking wealth for worth. But in his light, he is the guardian of true abundance. He is the proof that balance, patience, and grounded action create stability that can withstand storms.

This week, as choices loom and intensity deepens, the King of Pentacles asks us: What are you building that will last? What structures support you, not just today, but in the long stretch of years? Where can you root deeper so that generosity becomes natural, not forced? He teaches that true wealth is the life that keeps you nourished, body and soul, while also sustaining those you love.

Ritual for the Week: Rooted Intentions

What you need

• A small bowl of soil, a potted plant, or even a handful of earth

• A candle (green, gold, or white for stability and clarity)

• A small bowl of water

• Paper and pen

• A coin, stone, or other token that feels like a symbol of abundance or long-term growth

  
  

Step One — Call in Balance - Begin by lighting the candle and placing the bowl of soil on one side and the bowl of water on the other. The candle represents the Libra New Moon, the soil is the King of Pentacles grounding you, and the water is Scorpio’s depth and emotional truth. Take three deep breaths, letting your body settle into the moment. Imagine yourself balanced between these elements, as though your inner scales are finding their natural rhythm.

Step Two — Speak the Truth - On your paper, write down what you are ready to stop pouring energy into. Pluto’s retrograde has been unearthing old patterns since May, and now, in its direct motion, it demands honesty. Mercury conjunct Mars in Scorpio gives courage to speak it plainly. Write a few sentences naming the habits, relationships, or thoughts that drain your vitality. Place the paper under the bowl of water, symbolizing release and cleansing.

Step Three — Root the Vision - Next, take your coin or stone and hold it in your palm. Speak aloud one intention you are ready to root into reality with patience and devotion. Think long-term. The King of Pentacles does not promise quick wins, but the kind of stability that grows over years. Press the coin or stone gently into the soil, as if planting a seed. Whisper: “I build slowly. I build what lasts.”

Step Four — Integrate the Balance - Dip your fingers into the bowl of water and then press them lightly into the soil, mingling the two elements. This act symbolizes integrating Scorpio’s emotional truth with Libra’s balance, creating fertile ground for your intentions. Feel into how this union lives in your body... the steadiness of the earth, the fluidity of the water, the warmth of the flame.

Step Five — Anchor and Close - Place your hands over your heart and repeat softly: “I honor what is ending. I choose what is real. I build with patience. I trust what will last.” Take one final breath, imagining the warmth of the candle moving through your chest and down into your belly. Extinguish the flame, but keep the soil and stone somewhere visible through the week as a reminder of your commitment.

Affirmation for the Week

“I release what drains my roots and plant only what can truly grow. With patience as my power, balance as my guide, and depth as my devotion, I build a life that lasts.”

Final Thought

This week does not arrive gently, but it does arrive with clarity. The Sun’s entrance into Scorpio opens a door we cannot close... once the underworld has revealed itself, the only way is through. We are invited to walk into the depths with honesty, with courage, and with reverence for what transformation truly asks of us.

The New Moon in Libra could easily be mistaken for sweetness alone, but seeded in the same breath as the Mercury–Mars conjunction in Scorpio, it becomes something sharper. This lunation is not about peace at all costs. It is about planting intentions for balance that can withstand truth. Conversations spoken around this New Moon will carry power. Words have weight. Seeds set here will root only if they are grounded in honesty rather than illusion.

Pluto’s recent shift direct in Aquarius still hums beneath it all. Though subtle, this forward motion is tectonic. We are not simply dreaming of transformation anymore... we are living inside it. The post-shadow will stretch until November 19, which means the next month is about integration and choice. The past five months of retrograde showed us what is broken. The next month asks us to live differently because of it.

The King of Pentacles rises as anchor, reminding us that transformation is not only an inner fire but also an outer practice. He is the slowest moving of the Kings, but his slowness is wisdom. Nothing of worth is built overnight. His reign is steady because it is rooted in patience, in devotion, in the willingness to lay each brick with care. This card reminds us that Scorpio season is not only about endings and revelations but also about the deep work of building a future that lasts. It whispers that real power comes not from rushing but from committing to the long path.

So this week, the invitation is simple but not easy... walk into the depth, speak your truth with clarity, plant intentions that are honest, and trust that slow, deliberate steps will carry you further than any impulsive leap. Let Scorpio season remind you that shadow and power walk hand in hand. Let the King of Pentacles remind you that what is worth having takes time. And trust that every choice you make in the days ahead is shaping not just this week, but the foundation of the future you are stepping into.