Aries Weekly Horoscope

Just when you thought life couldn’t get any more intense, Aries, the heavens turn up the heat. This Friday, October 23, the Sun slips into scintillating Scorpio for its annual four-week tour. This sultry cycle is sure to bring some spicy moments—a few best kept locked in your diary. Save your final rose for someone with staying power. Lust and trust are a package deal during Scorpio season! Coupled Rams could uplevel their relationship status to something more permanent. Do you share resources with another person, like a romantic or business partner or a roommate? Get crystal clear on how you divide up things like money and responsibilities. You have better things to do with your time than argue about who bought the last six-pack of toilet paper or whose turn it is to balance the checking account. But until you spell out agreements in black and white, you’re likely to keep butting heads over the most basic misunderstandings.

Friday also brings the Venus inferior conjunction, known as the Venus cazimi, which happens roughly every 19 months when retrograde Venus unites with the Sun. This year, their meetup goes down in your eighth house of seduction and intimacy, and there’s nothing ordinary about it. Venus, who has glimmered as an evening star for nine months, disappears entirely at this point, slipping behind the Sun’s glare before she reemerges as a morning star about eight days later. This “blank space” is a rare moment to review the state of your unions without having to rush into any action. Whether you’re single or partnered, write down some relationship desires, from “traveling to South America together” to “aligning our schedules so we have more time to chill.” What you pinpoint now will meet you on the other side of Venus’ rebirth, which happens right around Halloween.

The retrograde brigade gets some more action this weekend. On Saturday, messenger Mercury whips a U-turn in Scorpio and your emotionally charged eighth house. Then on Sunday, Venus slips back into Libra and your seventh house of commitment, where she’ll finish her retreat. With both planets in reverse until November 13, give matters of trust and intimacy a thorough once-over. If you feel overwhelmed by anger, competitiveness or jealousy, get a handle on whether your suspicions are grounded or whether the negativity might be your own projection. Single? An ex could reappear and catch you off guard, so be clear about your non-negotiables before you decide anything.

This double backspin is also a good time to hold off on signing anything that merges your money with someone else’s. At the very least, make sure you (and probably a lawyer) have read every line of the fine print. The terms may be more favorable than you realize, but you don’t want to lock yourself into something you can’t get out of. That’s just not the Aries way.