Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope

You’re getting sleepy...very sleepy. Your annual “timeout” begins this Friday, October 23, as the Sun dips into Scorpio and nests in your twelfth house of healing and transitions until November 22. This four-week cycle leading up to Sagittarius season is always a bit of a fog for you. Before you plow ahead on (yet another) new initiative, tie up loose ends and take stock of what’s already in your space. Your indie-spirited sign likes to travel light, but over the past twelve months, you may have become weighted down with more possessions and obligations than you’re comfortable with. Could any of these things be released or perhaps sold at a profit? What you need, Archer, might be to clear your schedule of draining commitments that aren’t taking you in a direction that feeds your soul. This might be the week you finally get back to your yoga practice or begin carving out a legit period each day to meditate. The Law of Attraction is in strong effect with your subconscious twelfth house lit, and energy flows where your attention goes. Instead of dwelling on “failures,” focus on the teachable moments they’ve brought you. How have you grown stronger from the experience, and what lessons can you take into the next stage of the game? Let go of grudges so your soul can fly free. Then begin to visualize what you DO want in your life, and you’ll draw it toward you.

Slow down and pay attention to the beauty around you on Friday, which also brings the Venus inferior conjunction. Every 18-19 months, retrograde Venus unites with the Sun, and this year they meet in your imaginative twelfth house, where you might feel the magnificence of what you’re looking at. The sky is cooperating in a rare way, too. After nine months of glimmering as an evening star, Venus disappears from view at this conjunction and spends roughly eight days behind the Sun before reemerging as a morning star right around Halloween. That invisible passage begins in your most private zone. Get the hardest tasks out of the way early so you can slip into a meditative groove, challenging yourself to notice things you’ve never seen before. Whatever you find in these quiet days will be waiting for you when Venus rises again late next week.

The retrograde brigade keeps rolling this weekend. On Saturday, messenger Mercury shifts into reverse in that same twelfth house until November 13. Over the next three weeks, you could find yourself sinking into a reflective life review or processing heavier emotions like grief and resentment. You’ve got a choice, Sagittarius. You can wallow in old wounds, or you can let this internal stretch move you toward closure. Replay the old reels if you must, but write yourself a new ending. 

Sunday brings a shift that may lift your mood, when sensual Venus backtracks out of your twelfth house and into Libra and your eleventh house of community. This pivot can lighten things and keep them clear as mud at the same time. Retrogrades showcase a planet’s opposite qualities, so instead of being tactful, you might project unrealistic expectations onto people and then get annoyed when they fall short. It’s also easy now to blur the line between friend and lover, rationalizing it in the moment and mopping up later, and some friendships never get their easy comfort back after that. The big upside? People from your past may reappear out of the blue, or you might organize a reunion yourself.