In episode 321 astrologers Kelly Surtees, Austin Coppock, and Chris Brennan look ahead at the astrology and planetary alignments for the month of October 2021.
The astrology of October features a Mercury retrograde in Libra, plus Saturn and Jupiter stationing direct in Aquarius, and a New Moon in Libra and Full Moon in Aries.
At the very end of the month Mars moves into Scorpio, beginning the climactic sequence that takes us into the end of the year.
This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.
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Planetary Alignments for October

Mercury stationed retrograde on September 27
New Moon in Libra October 6
Pluto stations direct October 6
Venus moves into Sagittarius October 7
Mercury retro conjoins Sun October 9
Saturn stations direct October 10
Jupiter stations direct October 18
Mercury stations direct October 18
Full Moon in Aries October 20
Sun into Scorpio October 23
Mars moves into Scorpio on October 30
Auspicious Astrological Date for October
Chris forgot to mention this in the episode, but the auspicious date this month is:
October 24, 2021, at 3:10 PM, with 21 Aquarius rising
There’s several other charts for October available in our electional astrology podcast.
Timestamps
Here are some timestamps for topics covered at different points in the episode:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:36 October astrology overview
00:02:00 Update from Kelly
00:06:39 September astrology review
00:19:58 October 3-9 weekly astrology graphic
00:20:44 Mercury retrograde
00:23:25 Pluto significations
00:39:20 More on Mercury retrograde
00:41:04 Sun-Mars conjunction and New Moon in Libra
00:46:20 Mars in Libra examples
00:53:12 Mars-Sun conjunction
00:54:55 Venus enters Sagittarius on October 7
00:57:49 Venus conjunct South Node
01:02:30 Mercury-Mars conjunction
01:04:41 Mountain Astrologer magazine
01:11:36 Direct stations of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mercury
01:22:40 Libra planets trine Aquarius planets
01:24:37 Intensification of Saturn when it goes direct
01:26:10 Jupiter in Aquarius
01:27:50 Time to re-balance before November difficulties
01:32:19 Venus sextile Saturn
01:33:00 Sun trine Jupiter
01:33:20 Venus sextile Mercury
01:33:34 Jupiter and Mercury both go direct on October 18
01:34:08 Full Moon in Aries on October 20
01:34:58 Mars square Pluto
01:43:29 Sun enters Scorpio on October 23
01:44:50 Venus Jupiter
01:45:55 Neptune and illusion as a motivating factor
01:47:08 Mars enters Scorpio on October 30
01:49:10 Fixed signs heat up
01:52:03 Uranus
01:56:38 Get supply chains in order in October
01:59:35 Libra season
02:01:06 Kelly’s upcoming events
02:03:21 Austin’s upcoming events
02:05:07 Chris’ book and course
02:06:54 2022 astrology conferences
02:09:22 Closing remarks

October Astrology Forecast 2021

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