Venus conjunct Mercury 8 degrees Scorpio, October 7, Rising Sign Horoscopes

Mercury meets Venus retrograde on Wednesday 7 October 2026, exact at 8°13' Scorpio. Venus turned retrograde on 3 October and has hardly moved since, so she is at full volume. Mercury takes on the voice of whichever planet he joins, and this week he speaks for desire, love, beauty and possibility. Then horoscopes for all twelve rising signs, starting with Cancer, with the four dates the sky comes back to this degree: 7 October, 7 November, 20 November and 15 December. For entertainment purposes only. I am not giving medical, legal, or financial advice. 🔮Book a Deep Dive into Black Moon Lillith and the Lots 100€ https://calendar.app.google/mKiEYNnhC... 🌀 Book a General Reading 144€ https://calendar.app.google/E1LELUrcq... Solar Return Reading 75 minutes 108€ https://calendar.app.google/vF1ghNbHa... I work in tropical whole sign houses. Every episode draws on Hellenistic technique, Thema Mundi, feminist scholarship, and the dark feminine archetypes that conventional astrology tends to soften: Black Moon Lilith 🖤, Medusa ⚡, Algol, Vesta 🔥, Ceres 🌾 About me, Sun ♏ 21° · Rising ♏ 29° · Moon ♋ 1° · Mercury ♏ 13° · Mars ♈ 26° · Venus ♑ 8° 💰Support me    / @thresholdsandtransits   Newsletter for retreats, astrology and updates https://a71c05e9.sibforms.com/serve/M... #MercuryConjunctVenus #VenusRetrograde #VenusInScorpio #MercuryInScorpio #FeministAstrology #HellenisticAstrology #October2026Astrology #RisingSignHoroscopes #Ninshubur #Inanna #GoddessMythology #AudreLorde #UsesOfTheErotic #VenusRetrograde2026 #AstrologyForWomen Sources Positions and times: computed for this episode, Amsterdam time. Vettius Valens, Anthology, Book I. Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (Amor Fati, 2017). Demetra George, Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice, volume 1 (Rubedo Press, 2019). Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press, 1984), pp. 53 to 59. Quotations from pp. 53, 54, 55, 56 to 57 and 57. "Inana's descent to the nether world," Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford, text 1.4.1: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm "Inana and Enki," Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford, text 1.3.1: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr131.htm Julia M. Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz, Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources (Academic Press Fribourg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013). F. A. M. Wiggermann, "Nin-šubur," Reallexikon der Assyriologie 9 (1998 to 2001). 0:00 Mercury conjunct Venus retrograde at 8 Scorpio 1:16 The first weekend of October 2:05 Venus retrograde in Scorpio and Inanna's descent 4:46 About me and booking a reading 9:54 What happens on 7 October: the dates 13:21 Venus stationed at 8 Scorpio 17:28 What desire is 18:45 Mercury in Scorpio 22:18 Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic 27:22 Ninshubur and Inanna's Descent 34:22 The poem and the sky 35:10 Fixed, cardinal and mutable risings 36:41 All signs 39:22 Cancer rising 42:07 Leo rising 44:51 Virgo rising 47:20 Libra rising 49:56 Scorpio rising 52:25 Sagittarius rising 55:30 Capricorn rising 57:45 Aquarius rising 1:00:19 Pisces rising 1:02:49 Aries rising 1:04:57 Taurus rising 1:06:52 Gemini rising