October 2026 New Moon in Libra

TRUE DESIRES

The October 2026 New Moon arrives on October 10 at 17° Libra – a particularly potent date for a New Moon because it falls on 10/10.

In numerology, 10 carries the energy of 1, the beginning, and 0, the space of infinite potential. Together, they speak of a new cycle with the possibility of something entirely different emerging.

And what makes this New Moon especially interesting is that its ruler, Venus, is retrograde in Scorpio. Venus speaks to love, relationships, values and desire. In Scorpio, she wants to go deeper. And when retrograde, she turns the questions inward.
So this isn’t really about asking what you want your relationships to look like on the surface, but to discover what you truly desire underneath everything you have been taught to want.

Because before you can meet another person in a truly fulfilling relationship, you need to know what it is that you want, need and love. And that can be harder than it sounds.

You can spend so much time adapting to circumstances, meeting expectations and responding to what life asks of you that your own desires become faint. You may know what is possible, what is practical and what other people want from you, while being much less certain about what your own heart wants.

To slow down and listen within you need to give yourself space. My New Moon Ritual Guide offers a simple ritual to help you create that space and plant your intention for the cycle ahead.

The Relationship With Yourself

Libra is associated with partnership, harmony and the meeting of two people, but every relationship begins somewhere else. It begins with you.

Before you meet another person, you need to have a relationship with yourself – one that shapes what you believe you deserve, what you allow yourself to want and what you expect love to feel like.

If you don’t know what you need, it becomes easy to make another person’s needs the centre of the relationship. Or if you don’t know what you value, you can end up accepting what is offered rather than choosing what is right for you. And if you have learned to dismiss your own desires, you may not even recognise how often you are doing it.

This is why this New Moon is less about finding the right person and more about becoming more deeply acquainted with yourself.

• What makes you feel alive?
• What do you need more of?
• What kind of love feels nourishing?
• What have you been pretending not to want?

The answers become the seeds from which your relationships grow.

The Desire You Have Been Dismissing

Venus retrograde in Scorpio asks you to look beneath the obvious answer. Sometimes the desires that matter most are the ones you have learned to dismiss. Perhaps there is something you have wanted for a long time but decided was unrealistic. Something you have never dared to say out loud or felt too much, too late, too difficult or simply impossible.

You may have become so accustomed to negotiating with yourself that you no longer notice when you make your desires smaller before anyone else has the opportunity to reject them. But desire carries information. It can show you where something wants to come alive. And you don’t have to know how it will happen before you allow yourself to want it.

This is where the New Moon on 10/10 becomes especially powerful symbolically. The energy of 1 speaks of beginnings and the courage to initiate. The 0 holds infinite potential – the space before something has taken form. You don’t need to know exactly what will emerge, you can begin by giving yourself permission to imagine it and say, this is what I want.

And that is powerful. Because once you allow yourself to know what you truly desire, you can begin to make choices that move towards it.

October 2026 New Moon in Libra: True Desires

This New Moon carries strong potential for manifestation, but manifestation doesn’t begin with forcing an outcome.
It begins with a seed, a clear intention rooted in something that genuinely matters to you.
Jupiter in Leo brings warmth, confidence and faith in what is possible, while Saturn offers the commitment and discipline needed to give your intention a real foundation. One expands the vision and the other helps you build it. But neither can tell you what you actually want.

That part belongs to you.

And this is where Venus retrograde becomes your guide to listen to what is happening within you.

• What creates a sense of expansion?
• What brings a spark of excitement?
• What makes something inside you soften?

And equally, what creates resistance, heaviness or a feeling of having to convince yourself?

Your emotions can become a doorway to the truth beneath the stories you have been telling yourself.
Because what you truly desire isn’t what your mind has decided would make the most sense or something you need to achieve at all.

Perhaps it is something you need to allow, maybe it is to feel at home in your own life, or to create more beauty.
Or to be seen, to make something meaningful or to love without losing yourself.

But maybe at the deepest level, it is simply to love yourself as much as you wish someone would love you.

With love and care,

Ester