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Aries
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Saturn spends the week retrograde here, losing about four minutes of arc a day, and Aries is Saturn’s fall. So the sign holds a planet at the wrong end of its own table for all seven days, which is the same condition the Moon is in. She does not reach Aries herself until the twenty third of October.
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Taurus
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Her exaltation, and the farthest thing from this week. Exaltation is the sign where a planet was held to work above its ordinary rank. She was last in Taurus on the twenty ninth and thirtieth of September and does not return until the twenty fifth of October. Venus owns the sign and spends these days retrograde in Scorpio.
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Gemini
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The sign’s ruler is busy elsewhere. Mercury crosses from twelve degrees of Scorpio to eighteen this week, moving forward while Venus beside him moves back. The Moon does not enter Gemini until the twenty eighth of October, more than a week past this issue, so Gemini’s whole part in these days runs through Mercury.
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Cancer
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Nothing gives her standing this week, and the reason sits here. Cancer is the Moon’s domicile, the single sign she rules outright. She left it on the fourth of October and does not return until the thirtieth, which is the longest gap in the calendar between now and the end of the month.
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Leo
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Mars and Jupiter are both here and both move forward, Mars from seven degrees to nearly eleven, Jupiter from twenty one to twenty two. Two of the week’s three voids open on an aspect to Jupiter. The Moon left Leo on the seventh and does not come back inside these seven days.
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Virgo
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Two days ago she was here. She left Virgo at 08:11 UTC on Friday the ninth, at the end of the longest void of the month, and does not enter it again before November. Mercury rules the sign and spends the whole week in Scorpio. Nothing in these seven days touches Virgo directly.
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Libra
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Sunday morning only. The Moon is at twenty one degrees of Libra when the week opens and leaves at 15:22 UTC, void of course the whole time she remains. The Sun stays in Libra for all seven days, from eighteen degrees to nearly twenty four, and does not cross into Scorpio until the twenty third.
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Scorpio
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Three bodies share the sign for most of the week. The Moon arrives at 15:22 UTC Sunday and stays until 01:00 UTC Wednesday, and Scorpio is her fall, where she keeps her nature and loses her authority. Venus is here retrograde and Mercury here direct, so she passes one going backward and one going forward within about a day.
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Sagittarius
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Wednesday to Friday lunchtime, and she owns nothing in it. Sagittarius belongs to Jupiter, who spends the week in Leo at twenty one and twenty two degrees. A void opens at 21:56 UTC Thursday on an aspect to the Sun and runs until she leaves the sign at 12:58 UTC Friday, about fifteen hours.
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Capricorn
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Friday afternoon she arrives at her detriment, the sign opposite Cancer, which she rules. Saturn owns Capricorn and is retrograde in Aries, which is his own fall, so the landlord here is in no better condition than the tenant. She is still in the sign when the week closes, and the first quarter falls in Capricorn on Sunday the eighteenth at twenty five degrees.
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Aquarius
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The Moon’s north node sits here all week, slipping from twenty nine degrees back toward twenty eight, which is the direction the nodes travel. Aquarius is Saturn’s other house. She crosses into it on the nineteenth of October, two days past the end of this issue, at the close of a void that opens the day before.
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Pisces
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Both of the sign’s claimants are somewhere else again. Jupiter, who owns Pisces, is in Leo. Venus, who is exalted here, is retrograde in Scorpio and losing about half a degree a day. The Moon reaches Pisces on the twenty first of October, four days after this week closes, at the end of a void lasting under four hours.
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