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October 2025 Astrology: Libra Season, Eclipse Afterglow + Letting Go (Stevie Calista) - Episode 193

• Robyn Miller Brecker and Stevie Calista • Season 2 • Episode 193

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October 2025 is here, and so are some seriously transformational cosmic vibes!

We're talking to our go-to astrologer, Stevie Calista, to break down everything you need to know about October’s astrology. Think: the search for balance (hello, Libra season!), learning to let go of control, and why you’re not supposed to “have it all figured out” right now.

What’s happening in the cosmos?

  • Most of October is steeped in the energy of last month’s powerful eclipse, so if things feel uncertain or in flux, you’re right on time.
  • With Libra leading the charge, this month’s big question is: Where are you out of balance? Libra wants us to find harmony, especially in relationships.
  • There’s a huge invitation to let go of old patterns—especially the urge to control every outcome (thanks, lingering Virgo energy!). Your soul is leading the way now, even if your human brain wants a roadmap.
  • Expect lessons around trust, surrender, and tuning into your intuition. It’s all about finding faith when the next step isn’t totally clear.

If you’re feeling called to slow down, surrender, or just take a breath, that’s your cosmic cue. The universe is realigning you at a soul level—trust the process! Stevie’s practical, heartfelt advice will help you navigate it all.

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Robyn: [00:00:00] I'm Robyn Miller Brecker and I'm Karen Loenser. Welcome to Seeking Center, the podcast. Join us each week as we have the conversations and we, through the spiritual and holistic clutter for you, we'll boil it down to what you need to know now, we're all about total wellness, which to us needs building a healthy life.

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Robyn: And for the best wellness and spiritual practitioners, experts, products, experiences, and inspo, visit theseekingcenter. com. We are so excited because our go-to astrologer, Stevie Calista is here to give us the cosmic lowdown for October, 2025. 2025 is a year of big transitions. So what does that mean for October specifically? What energy [00:01:00] will we be feeling and How can we work with it instead of against it? Stevie's here to guide us through it all. From the new and full moons to any retrogrades and those deeper energetic themes we can feel, but can't always explain. Whether you're an astrology lover or just astrology, curious, you're gonna wanna lean in.

This month, has some serious transformational vibes. Hi Stevie. Hi. Thanks for having me. thanks for being here. It's one of my favorite times each month I get to break down what is going on and what we can expect from an astrological perspective

Stevie: yeah. So helpful, right? It being a guide for us. 

Robyn: It really is. 

So let's talk about the overall energy we can expect for October. 

Stevie: October we moved into Libra season, September 22nd, right on the Equinox. And so the majority of October is really asking us to get in right relationship with ourselves through.

 Another, right? Libra season's all about the we. That's where we [00:02:00] start mirroring back and forth. We try to find our balance and our harmony. And the equinox is when, night and day are equal, right? And so Libra season literally is like, where are you out of balance? So a lot of October's gonna ask us to understand ourselves through the lens of another.

 But the biggest piece of October, I would say is that most of the month we're in the lunar cycle of the eclipse, that was on the 21st of September. So we're in eclipse energy for the whole lunar cycle. Even though the full moon is not an eclipse, the lunar cycle itself is an eclipse. I actually had a client the other day and I was like, you're not supposed to know right now.

You're not supposed to know exactly how this shakes out because you're actually releasing and shedding so much right now that, and you're realigning yourself at a soul level, and so your soul knows which path it's gonna take. 

It knows like what the path looks like. You don't as a human. And sometimes that can be very terrifying, especially in this Virgo energy. We're in Libra season, but the eclipse was in Virgo, right? So we're [00:03:00] letting go of control. we were being told that you don't have to have it all figured out.

Your soul has this figured out. Wow. Even if it doesn't feel like it right now. This is where we need to trust and surrender into that, like the Pisces side of things. So we're very much in that energy, at least for the first half of the month. 

Robyn: That is such a good reminder. and I know for myself and so many people that I've been talking to, that piece of letting go of control is so important.

I think we can see that within our collective too. Yes. we don't know how. Everything in our personal lives in the world is gonna shake out, but trust because our souls know. 

Stevie: Yes, 

Robyn: exactly. That's huge. 

Stevie: Yeah she was so cute. She was like, you're telling me that I will see orange, but all I see is blue?

 And I was How is it gonna turn orange? I was like, that's brilliant. literally, the blue will turn orange when you stop thinking it's blue and you have to just release and let go, and then all of [00:04:00] a sudden it's orange. . The Virgo shadow is hard because it really wants to know what are the steps I need to take to be and serve and get this done and control it.

And we're letting go of that and leaning more into the spiritual, energetic side of things. The trusting and the connection and the intuition. It's a hard lesson as a human, I think 

Robyn: it is. It's having that faith. What came to me too, as you were talking is a watched pot never boils.

I've noticed in the last, week, that I've needed to remind myself of that because I keep wanting to control the outcome or know things when I wanna know them. And the thing is, what I keep getting back is you're not supposed to know yet. 

So if you need that kind of analogy, in the simplest terms, we can't control everything.

And the more that you try and as you were just saying seeing blue, you're never gonna see, you keep thinking about seeing blue, you're never gonna see the orange. 

Stevie: Exactly. And what's the fun in knowing exactly how it's gonna play out? Where's the [00:05:00] magic in that? I keep hearing that.

Like how does, yes. Why can't it be better than you thought? Why can't it be easier than it doesn't have to be so hard. Those are big right now. 

Robyn: yes. we need to keep that in mind. It can be better than you ever imagined. Get outta your own way. Ooh. We need that reminder.

My goodness. Yeah. Okay. So that's overall, and we're gonna break things down week by 

Stevie: So we don't have too much that first week except that we're in this very much, this energy that we were just speaking about on October 6th. Mercury moves into Scorpio and prior to that, the first week of October and part of September, mercury was in Libra doing its harmonizing and chatting and, making things safe and fair and just, and right.

 When Mercury moves into Scorpio on the he wants to go all the way deep and down. It's like our researcher gets turned on in our mind. And so if you get fully obsessed for the next three weeks, just let yourself be. [00:06:00] If there is something you need to or some sort of shadow or trauma or something you need to hold space for, it's a really good time to do it.

' cause you're like in the caves digging to be like, where's the root of this? Why did this happen? we get like very. Obsessive. And that can also mean like we really crave deep, intimate conversations. This is the opposite of something like Gemini. That's how's the weather and what are you learning?

And this is Scorpio. And it's let's get to the root of why you feel the way you do. It's so intense. So if your mind all of a sudden goes from, you start feeling it around that time, it's because it's going deep and getting very intimate. All right, so that's October 

Robyn: 6th. 

Stevie: Yep. October 7th is the full moon of the eclipse lunar cycle, and that's at 14 degrees of Aries.

And this one has so much to do with what we spoke about earlier of me, and then we like how, who am I in relationship to another? And this is going to bring an emotional [00:07:00] illumination to you that you will probably feel very physically about who you are. Your own sovereignty and your own independence, and am I in right relationship?

Do I need to change something or do I need to look to another person to understand something about myself? This is all about the dance that we do with the mirroring back and forth with each other, and the ruler of this Full Moon is actually Mars and it's in Scorpio, so there's something like.

 Intense about this one. Aries, full moons are already very just physically very fired up. This is where we go howl at the moon, Like Aries is just ready to go and it's very fiery and it has energy. And so this could also bring some sort of courage into your life to start something new or have an illumination around wait, I don't wanna be this version of myself anymore.

I'm gonna rebirth myself. And the ruler being in Scorpio, allows us to go to that researcher, take action, get really deep to the root cause of things, which can also bring up rage, anger, temper, 

Robyn: This [00:08:00] moon's gonna be a little wild. It's spicy. we talk about things like when we have a full moon, are there certain rituals that we can do?

And sometimes it's worth putting your crystals out or leaving a bowl out to get some moon water. Is this one of those

Stevie: yeah, I feel like it would be a great. Time to put your quartz out into the moonlight and clear it. it's a really good time to move your body.

 It's a really good time to move energy out. It's a really good time to focus on what you want and you need, and, heal yourself. And maybe even have some really harder conversations with the people that you're in relationships with and get deep with I 

Robyn: love the encouragement for that.

And then also, What about burning things? If you write, certain letters or there's certain things that you wanna let go? 

Stevie: Yeah. 

Robyn: , It's a fantastic one for that. Yeah. 

Stevie: Aries is fire, And even Scorpio is water, but it's it's more intense and it wants to talk about the trauma and what it's endured and its shadow [00:09:00] self.

And so if there's some things that are surfacing in you, which they probably will be, especially 'cause we're in eclipses still during this period of time. It's a awesome time to write stuff down and burn it 

Robyn: feels very like bon fiery 

Stevie: hundred percent, like plan a bonfire around October 7th.

 You'll not regret it. Yeah. Okay. 

Robyn: So that's that first week. 

Stevie: Yep. The 13th, Venus moves into Libra, so she was in Virgo and you were like, Ooh, I really like cleaning my closet, and this is pleasurable. All the Virgo things that we were doing. Venus is home in Libra, and she loves her makeup and her lip gloss, and she likes hanging out with people and being in relationship.

And she wants to harmonize. She wants to be around people. She wants to find, the mediator zone of things. She wants justice. She wants to look pretty while she's doing it, so if all of a sudden you're like, Ooh, I'm gonna wear lipstick and wear makeup, and she just finds her femininity in that sign.

And we tend to wanna hang out with others more. So [00:10:00] social, very social. Harmony based, 

Robyn: Social harmony based and if you wanna get a haircut or Yeah, 

Stevie: your inner designer is on 

Robyn: something, get a new piece of clothing. 

Stevie: Yeah. Get your nails done. Yeah. this is definitely that energy.

 However, the same week Pluto goes direct on the 14th of October, and so the days leading up to the 14th and the days after, we're gonna feel plutonian energy. And when Pluto stations, he does the same thing Mars in Scorpio wants to do. He wants to go deep. He wants you to face your shadow, but essentially he wants you to face the bottom of things so that you can peel and rebirth.

 He wants a death and rebirth. That's really what Pluto's signified. And he also many times brings up themes of power loss or power control. Could be like where you lost your power or maybe you're taking over too much in a certain area of your life. But Pluto brings that stuff up to the surface.

And he does feel spicy too. He feels like dark. But for right reason. ' cause things need to be burned away, 

Robyn: Feels that way. So just be [00:11:00] prepared. October 13th, you're gonna maybe wanna put some makeup on, but then you're also gonna get super deep and look at some of your power struggles.

Stevie: Totally. A hundred 

Robyn: percent. 

Stevie: Okay. And Pluto is in Aquarius right now too, so that means that this could very much be collective related, like where the collective has lost its power, which we're seeing this anyway. The energy gets heightened. 

Robyn: can you talk about Aquarius for a second and what that does mean?

Stevie: Yeah. The Aquarius sign is essentially. Focus on what does best for Unity for humanity as a whole, right? So the group, it says let's all do this ' cause this is best for the group. And Aquarius energy is very rebellious in a way that it's going to question the systems and structures because it sees that it's not right for the collective, right?

So Aquarius will come in and say. Ooh, let's like do it this way. Let's like innovate things, think about things more differently and do what's best for the collective. And usually it's not necessarily how it's being done right now, so it's very [00:12:00] progressive. 

Robyn: just remember that. So when you have something like Pluto, as Stevie was saying, representing death and rebirth with Aquarius.

Totally. Something's gonna shift. 

Stevie: Yep. And this is why you're seeing humanity. Go through what it's going through. Yeah. 'cause we're seeing our collective shadow so that we can rise up and become in unity consciousness. So let's have that happening quicker. Let's get Yeah, I know, but we're at the beginning phases of it.

Like it just shifted, the last couple years. I know. Yeah. It takes a long time. We're in this together. yep, totally. the next week on the 21st, we have a new moon at 28 degrees of Libra. And so I would say this is where we start to move away from the eclipse energy.

 these are Slow momentum peaks and valleys, basically. So we're starting to come off of the eclipse. This is the first new moon outside of the eclipse window. And Libra new moons means the sun and the moon are lined up in the same sign of Libra. And this one happens to be squaring Pluto.

 Oh [00:13:00] my goodness. And squaring Jupiter. So there's tension in this one. new, moons are time for like plant new seeds, plant new intentions. And so this is a really good one to plant intentions around your relationships, like however that looks. Calling them in, letting them go, being in more in right relationship.

 Or setting intentions around like what needs more balance, what needs more harmony in your life? If you feel like you're working too much and you're not spending time at home, or think about things in terms of balance, the squares to Pluto and Aquarius and Jupiter and cancer could bring up a lot of collective tension, but it's a new moon, right?

It's not a full moon, so there's still something quiet about it. That will stir throughout this whole lunar cycle and lunar cycles start with the new moon. And that energy carries for 28 days. So it's not like it's just gone two days later. It's the frequency of the seed that was planted like grows that frequency of plant.

So this one has tension in the collective of Aquarius. The same stuff we were just talking about Pluto and Aquarius. And there's tension in Jupiter and cancer, meaning [00:14:00] there's probably emotions. Attached to this one. There might have things to do with , you as a mother, father, or you and your family unit.

 There could be emotions to process or family issues that come up with this one. It could just feel tense and tight. But squares bring challenge, which brings change, without the challenge. As humans, we don't do the thing grow. Totally. This brings growth. On the 22nd Neptune moves back into Pisces.

Okay. So he's been in Aries, and all the summer. Yes. Oh, 

Robyn: This is a big deal, everybody. Yes. 

Stevie: isn't he finishing something up? He's finishing, Yeah. A lot of the planets that moved into new signs in the spring and summer this year, which we felt all that new energy, they're going back into their old signs.

 And so Neptune, being an Aries, has really asked us to rebirth ourselves, get right with our energy and he's brought some things that may have been confusing to the front or The spotlight, when he moves back into Pisces, he's got some stuff to do, so he'll move back into Aries next year.

 But [00:15:00] there's unfinished business, fall and winter, unfinished business astrologically. There's things that we have to go back and sweep out from under the rug. And so when he's in it's very energetic, it's very spiritual. It has a lot to do with spending time in solitude, connecting with your intuition.

 Your energy body. So he goes there On the 22nd. And he'll be there for a hot minute. 

Robyn: Woo. It's a deep month. My goodness. A lot of 

Stevie: water. a lot of depth. 

Robyn: Yes, exactly. And that pising energy for those listening or watching, that's really emotional. Yes.

Very emotional. 

Stevie: And sometimes confusing. If it feels like, where did my motivation go? I don't know what's happening. 

Robyn: I'm like listening to you being like, no. Okay. Why do we have to get so uncomfortable? I know, as you said, that's all growth. Yeah. And I'd rather know that one starts to happen.

there's purpose However, Ugh. Okay, let's keep going. Let's keep 

Stevie: totally, 

Robyn: Let's finish October 

Stevie: yeah. feel like in Pisces though there's things [00:16:00] from past lifetimes. There's your intuition, there's all these things that like, wait, where'd my motivation go?

But it's like a nesty cocoon energy. So you wanna lean into. that. And here in the Northern Hemisphere, at least we're coming into a time that's beneficial. I 

Robyn: was just gonna say that. At least it's not summer. which I welcome. Like we were talking before we got on about organizing and so forth, which we both have been saying there's a lot of that And I know my challenge has been that it's so nice out.

Yeah. Like in Chicago it's actually been really nice out. Yeah. And it's really hard to stay in and wanna do these things, but Totally. To the point of what we're talking about in October and going into November while we're needing to go through these cocooning times, that'll be easier. 

Stevie: It'll 

Robyn: be easier.

Stevie: And the energy will make you want to anyway. Once you know, once we are in it, you'll be like, okay. 

 Solitude. Yeah. On the 23rd is when the sun moves into Scorpio and we start Scorpio season. So this is like real spooky season. When the sun is in Scorpio. [00:17:00] It's all those things we were talking about with Mars, where you get obsessive, you want intimacy.

 you know what's so funny? Every Scorpio season, I almost get so connected to my darkness. So connected to my shadow, like I'm fully inviting her to Have a seat at the table, not like a really evil version of me, but there's a part of us that's like this. It's why it's witchy season. It's why we have sahain It's why we celebrate Halloween. It's like we're inviting our inner darkness to like, Hey, we wanna talk about that 

Robyn: more within Seeking Center. So I have a feeling we'll have you back on with others to talk about that, because it's actually really important to honor that part of you.

Stevie: We're 50 50. We are. 

Robyn: when we talk about shadow and darkness, it is that depth that we don't allow to come to light. That is a part of who we are. 

Stevie: Yeah. A hundred 

Robyn: percent. It doesn't mean bad.

I think that's the thing I want people to understand. Dark does not. 

Stevie: No. And I think shadow, that [00:18:00] word gets confusing for people 'cause they're 

Robyn: It does, 

Stevie: it 

Robyn: does. When we talk about the times that are challenging, that help us grow so much of the shadow. Many times comes from childhood experiences that were traumatic or that felt slight, but actually had this huge impact on you, and you just never go back and look at it.

Stevie: So 

Robyn: It's making the time to shine light on those parts of yourself Exactly. That need some healing. 

Stevie: Yep. Exactly. And that's what that season will invite us into is a darker, deeper, more emotional, more watery. And if you think about Scorpio as it's water, but it's like the lake, Like Pisces is the great deep ocean that's always moving and Scorpio is the still lake that like you, I've never 

Robyn: thought of it that way. Thank you. Yeah, you go like 

Stevie: you gotta go deep. A very good way of looking at it. Yeah, because Scorpio is a fixed sign, right? So it stands still, but there's still some place to go and it's down and in.

 And so it is really a good time and some [00:19:00] people they feel heavier during the season. They feel more connected to the death side of things. That's because it's the invitation inward and it's like where the veil really thins this is why the day of the Dead celebration is that, like we are in more connection with our ancestors during Scorpio season because the veil is thinner, the energy is thinner, so it is an awesome time to make an altar for your ancestors.

I do it every year and I even had a reading with Lisa Nitzkin once, and she was like, your grandma is so happy for your altar, she loves that altar, right? They see it. Yeah. They honor it's a good time to honor where you came from and even the traumas that have been passed down and how you're breaking these patterns throughout your life.

It does get very deep. 

Robyn: Yeah. And we're gonna talk more about that within Seeking Center and within our community as well. And I would say the more that you get comfortable with it and the more that you do some digging. 

 The more you're gonna know about yourself and why you're here and where you're going, and [00:20:00] you're gonna feel supported.

 it becomes less scary I would say. 

Stevie: Yeah. And you get to pull pieces and parts of you back to yourself so you become more whole through that process, yeah. So the other thing that I have is on the 29th, mercury goes into Sagittarius, which this helps this like intensive Scorpio season.

 When Mercury moves into Sagittarius, things become lighter. And more funny and more invited into story and the bigger picture. So when Mercury is in Virgo, it's like the Excel spreadsheet. When Mercury goes into Sag it's in this like bird's eye view and it really wants to know but why and where and how.

 And so Mercury and Sagittarius usually also brings this energy of, Hey, let's go have a bonfire and tell stories and laugh and remember, it's just an experience like, remember. It's just a game. Like how do you wanna have more fun and lighten the load? So I think that's interesting that Mercury, which is our mind and how we communicate and think moves into a higher place while the same time we're in [00:21:00] Scorpio, which to me feels like what a better combination to be able to zoom out and to also dig into your traumas.

That's why those signs, follow each other. 'cause it's like you went into the traumas and then you pull out into the. Okay, I get it. I'm in this big picture. I understand. So it's gonna help us do that. 

Robyn: for Sagittarius, you're so good at giving us like a visual, how do you explain Sagittarius in itself?

Stevie: Yeah. Sagittarius is very much like the part of you and everybody has each sign in them, right? Like even if you don't have a planet there, you have the cycle in you. It's the part of you that really wants to have experiences. So that it can form beliefs and have faith into why it's here at a very spiritual level.

 And it also understands that like it should be fun along the way. And this is why if you meet people with heavy Sagittarius placements, they're probably the ones telling the story. You're probably staring at them as they're telling the story. They have a way of like bringing this [00:22:00] fire, and vision to the picture.

 So when Mercury is in that, your brain's just like it's observing more. Yeah. And the shadow of this, you guys, 'cause SAG has a huge shadow, just like every sign does, is that we become more black and white thinkers. Because when you're in Sagittarius, you form the faith and the hope and the belief of why're here.

 and then Sagittarius sometimes wants to tell other people this is the truth, right? Because Sagittarius is this true secret. It's like the archer that's like always seeking truth, The shadow of this can sometimes be debate, unhealthy debate, let's say. Unopen, not curious, very black and white, judgmental energy.

Robyn: Good to know. Yeah. But I do love this idea of how you were able to say with you have Mercury and Sagittarius, and then you have Scorpio. that is key. To do both. 

Stevie: And that's why each sign builds upon each other. It's like a cycle Yeah. 

Robyn: So that's how we're closing out October. 

Stevie: Yeah. And the only [00:23:00] other thing is the 31st, which is Halloween, right? Which is also when Samhain is celebrated, which is when the veil thins and we move into the halfway point between the Equinox and the solstice. But the actual halfway point when it's at 15 degrees of is November 7th.

So we'll talk about that next month. That's the actual energetic Samhain gateway. 

Robyn: If you're interested, we've done a previous podcast, onsen, but we will continue to talk about it in November when we actually have the exact date. Totally. Thank you so much, Stevie. I feel like I was writing this down.

There's so much on both a personal and collective level of really looking under the covers that this month is an invitation and. It feels like we'll be very much in the doing of the transformation. 

 Both personally and collectively. 

 

Robyn: In October and then it'll be very exciting to see what November [00:24:00] brings.

Stevie: Absolutely. And then you to remember too, as we move , into the solstice is getting darker in the northern hemisphere. Yes. Yes. Like we're inviting our darkness in. 

Robyn: I think about that actually all the time. 

Yeah and again it goes along with that cocooning and all of that is related.

 So thank you. my pleasure. Thanks 

Stevie: for having me. 

Robyn: We have much more both within our community and Stevie. That's seeking center community.com. And you can also check out all different ways to work with Stevie at Stevie Calista. That's C-A-L-I-S-T a.com.

Thank you. 

Stevie: Thanks, Stevie.