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Saturday, Venus stops and starts moving backward, and it will do that for forty one days.
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It happens once this year and not again. The last three times it ran through this same pair of signs were 2018, 2010, and 2002, eight years apart each time.
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It is the most scheduled thing that will happen to you all fall.
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A Text in October Is the Least Surprising Thing That Happens All Year.
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Venus stations retrograde on Saturday, October 3, at eight degrees of Scorpio. It backs into Libra on the twenty fifth and turns forward again in mid November. Astrologers have been writing about this one all year, because it is the only one.
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What that transit is known for, in every tradition that tracks it, is people coming back.
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You do not have to believe a planet does anything to use this week. The calendar is doing plenty on its own. Here is what lands between now and Sunday:
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Monday through Wednesday, the last days of the month, when people settle up and take stock. |
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Thursday, October 1, the day the dating apps call the start of cuffing season. |
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Friday, the first full weekend of a cold month on the calendar. |
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Saturday, October 3, Venus stations retrograde at eight degrees of Scorpio. |
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All week, the moon keeps shrinking, from full last Saturday toward the next new moon in two weeks. |
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Sunday, the first Sunday evening of October that gets dark before you are ready. |
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Put those together and you get the most predictable stretch on the American love calendar. The weather turns, the apps fill up, the year starts closing out, and a lot of people go looking through their old contacts at the same time.
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Which means a name on your screen this month carries almost no information in it.
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It is not fate. It is not a sign. It is October doing what October does to a man with nothing on his calendar and a cold apartment.
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That does not mean everybody who comes back is doing it for the season. Some of them have done the work. The difference shows up in the first four sentences, and it is not hard to spot.
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A man running the season opens with a feeling. A man who has done something opens with the months he was gone, names them, and says what he understands now that he did not understand in July.
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The second one is rare and it does exist. The point of writing your terms down before Saturday is that you will not be able to tell the difference in the moment, and you should not have to.
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The transit reviews what you value, and the one part of that nobody else gets to review is what you will accept.
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Also True
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One Sign to Watch
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The song. It will come on in the grocery store this week, somewhere between the eggs and the checkout, and you will stop moving the cart. People have always treated an arriving song as a message, and there is a plain reason it keeps landing: your ear is primed, so you catch the one out of forty that belongs to him. Watch it anyway. Not for what it says about him, but for which one it is, because that tells you which year you are still standing in.
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The Mirror
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If his name comes up on your screen on Saturday, what is the one sentence he would have to say before you answer?
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Today’s Devotion: Tonight, write one sentence on a piece of paper: what he would have to say out loud before you answer. Fold it, put it in your wallet behind the cards, and leave it there through Saturday.
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Keep your power in your own hands.
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Sofia
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