The New Moon in October 2026 coincides very closely with Venus square Mars, the aspect of love-hate relationships. So, the spiritual meaning of the New Moon October 2026 astrology is using love, patience and self-control to overcome intense animosity, tension, frustration and anger.
However, Venus retrograde and the fixed stars activated in the October 2026 New Moon make it harder to be loving and kind. Instead, they increase the risk of impulsiveness, recklessness, violence and conflict.
New Moon October 2026 Meaning
Sun conjunct Moon represents cyclic renewal as a new 28-day moon phase begins. You can draw a line under the past, turn over a new leaf, and start fresh. You can also question old habits, behaviors, and beliefs as you look for creative, inventive ways to grow and prosper.
The monthly alignment of the Sun and Moon reconciles your conscious ego and subconscious feelings, providing balance, focus and perspective. It gives a rejuvenating burst of energy, initiative, and enthusiasm, excellent for defining your priorities and setting ambitious goals.
New Moon in The Virgin
The October 2026 New Moon is in the Sign of Libra. But because of the precession of the equinoxes, it is in the Constellation of Virgo. However, the October 10 New Moon most closely aligns with a star in the Constellation Boötes.
New Moon October 2026
Fixed star Seginus (18♎02) gives a keen, subtle mind and a wide circle of acquaintances but also cruelty and shamelessness. A tendency towards making sudden, often fatal decisions can cause loss through friends and companies, and self-destruction.
In Chinese astronomy, Seginus signifies “an enemy brandishing a spear and shield.” It governs barbarian armies and warfare, and portends major warfare or close ministers acting recklessly.
With New Moon (0°41′): Favorable for astrology, business, government, legal, public and unusual occupations; assistance from new friends; preferment by indirect means followed by disgrace and ruin.
Constellation Boötes the Herdsman (24♍37 to 13♏23) brings prosperity from work, strong desires, a tendency toward excess, a fondness for rural pursuits, and some liking for occultism. It governs events concerning agriculture, and the effects are notably delayed.
New Moon October 2026 Astrology
The New Moon on October 10, 2026, is at 17°21′ Libra. It is sextile Jupiter and opposite Saturn. However, they are very weak influences because of the wide orbs, and the positive Jupiter aspect and negative Saturn aspect cancel each other out anyway.
The most significant planetary influence on the New Moon October 2026 astrology is Venus square Mars, which is exact only five hours after the New Moon.
New Moon October 2026
Love and Hate
Venus square Mars is the aspect of love-hate relationships. It intensifies your passions and desire for companionship, love and sex. But it also causes incompatibility, unmet expectations, animosity, tension, frustration and anger. Extreme emotional sensitivity, impatience, lack of self-control and impulsiveness bring the risk of aggressive outbursts, violence, conflict and crisis.
Aggressive energy can be released safely through competitive sport, exercise, or masturbation. You can also channel inner tension into creative work, especially physical forms like sculpture or dance.
Love, affection, compassion and compromise will help avoid relationship tension and hostility; however, Venus retrograde makes expressing your feelings and affection more difficult. It also amplifies and internalizes Mars’s heat and anger.
Venus square Mars normally stays within 2° orb for 8 days, but this aspect, Venus retrograde square Mars, stays within 2° orb for only 4½ days. So its effects are condensed, intensified and exaggerated.
Venus (07♏25) conjunct Khambalia (07♏19)
Fixed star Khambalia brings good fortune, unexpected gains, philosophical inclinations, pragmatism, and sociability, but also swift violence, unreliability, changeability, and an impersonal, argumentative nature. It symbolizes the penetration of secrets and denotes those skilled at applying intellect to deep research of any kind, police-type investigation, espionage and pursuits such as alchemy and the esoteric in general.
With Venus: Cold, impersonal responses, meanness, harboring grudges, and an almost get-even attitude. Venus remains under this star’s influence from September 25 to October 10.
Asterism Kang the Neck (04♏10 to 07♏19) gives fighting spirit, leadership ability, eloquent speech and shrewd, persuasive decision-making, but also impulsiveness, a lack of thoroughness, and fluctuating fortunes due to arrogance and vanity.
This asterism is favorable for marriage, burials, sacrifices, making friends, venting grievances, teaching drums and other musical instruments; planting pine trees, grains, beans, soybeans, and hemp; and training horses, mules, and donkeys. It is unfavorable for acting independently.
Kang represents the emperor’s inner court, overseeing all matters reported to the emperor. It governs the hearing of lawsuits, the administration of justice, the recording of merits, epidemics and diseases.
With Venus: The country will suffer loss, and its people will suffer disaster.
With Venus stationary: Floods, droughts, or royal mourning occur.
With Venus retrograde: Military chaos will follow.
Mars (07♌13) conjunct Praesepe (07♌43)
Fixed star Praesepe gives adventure, industry, order and fecundity but causes mischief, disgrace, disease, eyesight problems and an uneven temperament. It makes its natives fortunate and the founders of large businesses but impulsive, unpredictable, restless, moody, insolent, wanton, brutal, liable to loss through others and prone to violent outbursts on the one hand and despondency on the other. Praesepe also gives strong connections to the realm of the dead and peculiar experiences in the spiritualist field; a mediumistic predisposition that could certainly harbor great dangers.
With Mars: courageous, noble and authoritative, but subject to emotional outbursts, ruin, ruinous actions and violence.
In Chinese astrology, Praesepe is a single-star asterism called Jishi (Cumulative Corpses), in the middle of Asterism Gui (Ghost). It represents accumulated corpse energy, symbolizing the tragic scene after war or disaster, and metaphorically, long-standing problems or contradictions in social, political, and economic life.
Jishi governs matters of death, mourning rituals, ancestral worship, temple ceremonies, executions and beheadings. Changes in color or brightness indicate war, ministers plotting against the ruler, the execution of high officials, the lower classes fleeing, disease, ghostly cries, and human desolation. Taxes will be heavy and labor burdensome, causing resentment among the people.
With Mars: an ominous sign foretelling death, the execution of officials and a failed harvest.
Asterism Gui the Ghost (05♌46 to 09♌05) represents ghosts in a carriage and governs vision, enabling the observation of treacherous schemes. It portends a poor harvest or the scattering of the people.
With Mars: loyal ministers are executed, warfare breaks out, the queen loses power, both the empress and the prime minister are worried, a traitor at the emperor’s side, war, and loss.
New Moon October 2026 Spiritual Meaning
Venus square Mars is the main influence of the October 2026 New Moon astrology. This means love-hate relationships are a major theme. You may have a love-hate relationship with your partner, boss, coworker or anyone else. You may also have a love-hate relationship with groups or people, technology or even a belief or philosophy.
Venus retrograde intensifies the influence of Venus square Mars, and both planets align with challenging fixed stars that cause an uneven temperament, moodiness, impulsiveness, violence and war.
Finally, the October 10 New Moon conjunct fixed star Seginus also makes Venus square Mars more destructive by adding cruelty, recklessness, shamelessness and warfare.
Moon Phases
The influence of the October 10 New Moon lasts four weeks, until the November 9 New Moon. The best time for starting new projects is during the two-week waxing moon phase from October 10 to the October 26 Full Moon.
If the New Moon October 2026 astrology directly impacts your horoscope, you can read about it in your October horoscope. For more details about how it affects your natal chart, see new moon transits.
- Previous Moon Phase: Full Moon September 26, 2026
- Next Moon Phase: Full Moon October 26, 2026
- 2026 Moon Phases Calendar
New Moon October 2026 Times and Dates
- Los Angeles – October 10, 8:50 am
- New York – October 10, 11:50 am
- London – October 10, 4:50 pm
- Delhi – October 10, 9:20 pm
- Sydney – October 11, 2:50 am
As i see Jupiter is transiting Putin’s midheaven now.
Also conjunct his Pluto and Lilith.
I think this is dangerous.
The other constellations from this new moon aren’t peaceful anyway…
Jo, where did you go? It was so refreshing to read your down to earth take on push pull and compromise.
Did I dream that you wrote it?
Excellent information ,and detailed account of Venus square Mars,and the Full Moon.
Yes it will definitely be a difficult time.
With War looming,and the threat of a World Leader being taken out.
Love your astrological Reports.Thank you.
I just feel nervous.
There is some solace in remembrance. I am thinking that has to do with the higher octaves of Venus and mars, Neptune and Pluto. That has to do with re-visiting those relationships that weren’t really earthbound. It was something I had to learn to understand, as awesome the connection, they did not fit the mechanics of life. And yet, I can’t call them fantasies because the connections were real.
Those are not really corpses. But cumulative corpses as dire as it is as far as disasters, made me chuckle as I do fantacize about writing a book called All My Dead Lovers. Oh the joy of old age having had an active sex life.
Today I see people loving to hate. To stir his mob before the midterms, to get their blood going, Hillary and Putin are being rallied, and then there is the announcement of the live televised execution by firing squad. It seems like I read something about some people need to feel like they are fighting. I guess mars is the fight in us, but using human targets seems crazy.
While this moon is in constellation Virgo, the manipulation of emotions going on with this upcoming election is more Libra to me. However I am so so sorry for blaming Scorpio for Libra’s manipulative qualities for so so long.
To me this streaming live of an execution is the USAs apex moment of all the negative rotten shite it’s been up to since inception.
Funny isn’t it, how the only other nations that offer public execution, as far as known… are Iran & North Korea.
The USA had it’s chance to be a leader, role model, for forward progress of humanity & peaceful geo-politics.
But no, all that nonsense propaganda about the greatest democracy ever bottom line was, is Money. Only money.
All the USA christo capitalism from day one has done under the guise of free-enterprise has normalized is MAFIOSA style business model. Normalized Big CorpSE wotevs sucking the life out of most other nations once well defined parts in providing goods & services internally or exporting.
Yes I hear you say China & their manufactured cheapo goods! Well isn’t it only cos of the USA that a communist nation is acceptable as financially capitalist?
The USA influence of mono culture, the amount of US 20+ year old sitcoms on Oz TV makes me nauseous.
Y’all know Hollywood, before the War mongers saw it as a brilliant propaganda machine & still do… That The Mob, the Mafia pretty much ran Hollywood movie land.
But then poor manipulated Americans are told in school it seems, judging by comments I’ve random noted that they believe they invented the airplane, the light bulb, electricity, and so on.
Oh and a big dumb faction that believes God must love the Kumquat if he & family are making billions off the share market of emotional chaos. Just like God must loathe those nasty starving children in nations the USA has helped screw over or completely ignored in it’s journey of being “world leader”. Billions, trillions on 1s & fkn 0s to go live on Mars!? Someone starves to death every seconds acc to Amnesty international.
I just don’t understand how this is STILL normalized global attitude & behavior.
Oh that’s right god’s will. TOO EASY.
It’s time for the shadow govt to ditch the best disruptor Sock Puppet they’ve ever nurtured into power. No one outside of it, cares about the USA anymore except the Big Money in wotev area that has & does ruin everything elsewhere. ICE is like legalized drive by shooting typical only in poorest nations.
ENJOY THE FKN SHOW you one in 20-30 Psychopathic or Sycophantic or Delusional Personalities. Then go & pray to your God to thank for the entertaining circus & your daily fkn bread. Capitalism must die or we all do. Oh funny that, already happening. Heatwaves kill more people than all the floods, fires, storms put together. Until Nepal upped the ante.
So pissed off at the waste of air time on Arsholes while soc little is given on informing peeps of more significant issues & the actual nations, groups & individuals who are working away on trying to save us all. This would give us public better confidence & hope to engage & act even in tiny ways. Instead of shoving our heads in the sand from overwhelming & insidiously manufactured stress overloading to keep us down.
Although I will add, random chats with young retail staff gives this cynical ole bag some hopes.