Love Horoscope for the Week of October 8

If last week had you boiling over, skin bubbling with feet to the fire, this week soothes with a healing balm. Feel the calm envelop you like a heavy blanket. That doesn’t mean that you can simply fall back asleep. Oh no—it’s eyes wide open in the deep end.

Venus and Pluto align in a smoldering trine, reminding us of the power of Love to hijack. And who hasn’t, at one time or another, been a willing abductee? There’s a bit of the submissive slave to love emerging. Whether you like being on top or underneath, this is some potent and sexy energy to play around with. Venus the Virgin connects with her vixen side and suddenly understands how much richer she is for the intensity of her erotic feelings.

This is no Hallmark moment; it’s no Disney film either. All kinds of carnal urgings wait to be explored and understood. Along with Venus, mental Mercury colludes with Pluto to bring you into clarity. It’s the bare-naked truth exposed, warts and all. Then again, perhaps Truth has little to do with ugliness. If Venus in Virgo kisses the Frog Prince Pluto, does she not encounter his unexpected beauty and connect to her true power?

Have you been anaesthetized from feeling your awesome power? No more; this week you expand through a fearless exploration of Love in its many flavors. Once we’ve been kidnapped by it, Love has the power to reveal the truth. Can the truth really set you free? If the Sun’s trine with mighty Jupiter has anything to do with it, then the answer is a resounding yes!