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Venus Retrograde in Scorpio: Have We Forgotten What Wealth Is?

Whenever Venus turns retrograde, astrology tends to narrow the conversation almost immediately. Attention moves toward former lovers, unfinished romantic business, old attractions, and the possibility that someone from the past may suddenly reappear. Relationships belong to Venus, so none of this is misplaced, but it leaves out a substantial part of what Venus represents. Venus is also concerned with money, pleasure, exchange, desire, taste, self-worth, and the judgments we make about what something is worth to us. When Venus retrogrades, those judgments can become less certain, and the things we once considered valuable may begin to look very different.

September 28–October 4, 2026: What Still Has Power Over You?

This week has a way of bringing old material back into view, especially the desires, resentments, attachments, and compromises we thought we had already dealt with.

Venus turns retrograde in Scorpio on Saturday, beginning a period of review around desire, money, relationships, pleasure, and self-worth. Scorpio adds considerably more weight to the process because it remembers what we would prefer to file away. Old attractions can resurface, financial entanglements may demand another look, and unresolved feelings can prove that time has not done quite as much work as we assumed. Jealousy, resentment, loyalty, trust, and questions of emotional ownership may all return to the conversation.

The Sun in the 1st House: Who Are You When No One Else Gets to Decide?

A planet in a house shows where in life that planet’s function is most likely to be experienced, developed, expressed, and confronted. The planet describes the psychological function involved, while the house describes the arena in which that function becomes especially important. When the Sun occupies the 1st house, the lifelong development of identity becomes closely tied to the experience of being a distinct person in the world.

You Weren’t Born Just to Exist: The Sun in the Houses and the Work of Becoming Yourself

Most people begin astrology with the Sun sign. You learn that you are a Leo, a Pisces, a Capricorn, or whichever sign the Sun occupied when you were born, and before long you are reading lists of traits that supposedly describe who you are. Some of them fit. Others do not. The flattering ones are usually easier to claim. The problem is that this turns the Sun into something you possess rather than something you develop.

September 21–27, 2026: You Can’t Meet Someone Halfway If You’ve Abandoned Your Side of the Road

There is a difference between compromise and disappearance, and this week has very little patience for confusing the two. The Sun is our VIP, which means the focus falls on consciousness, identity, and the way we choose to participate in our own lives. As the Sun moves into Libra, that question immediately becomes relational. Who are you when someone else enters the room? What happens to your preferences when they conflict with another person’s? How much do you bend before flexibility becomes self-erasure? Libra is often reduced to balance, diplomacy, and getting along, but real balance requires two distinct people showing up to the negotiation. You cannot meet someone halfway if you quietly abandoned your side of the road three miles back.

The Sun in Pisces: Learning When to Carry the Ring—and When to Let It Go

Pisces has never been an easy sign to reduce to a handful of traits, although astrology has certainly tried. Sensitive, dreamy, intuitive, artistic, compassionate: all of those descriptions are familiar, and all of them are too small. Pisces lives at the edge of definition. It is the final sign of the zodiac, the place where boundaries thin and the individual begins to encounter everything that cannot be contained by a neat, self-sufficient identity.