Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of October in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart before returning to your busy work sector, this is always going to be a month of two halves and at some point an overlapping of the two. While the Sun's return to your work sector on 23rd October is the point when the solar spotlight will always shift from one side of life's fence to the other, Venus and Mercury, who travel with the Sun, can return before or after that point. This is a month when at some point, it is a given that you are going to either have the Sun in a playful and creative part of your chart and Venus and/or Mercury in your busy work sector or the Sun in your work sector while they are still in a playful and creative part of your chart. That overlap can be for a few days or even weeks but this month, due to the coincidence of both Venus and Mercury retrograding within weeks of each other, that overlap will cover the whole month. By the time you move into the new month, Venus is three weeks into what is normally a 24 day transit through your work sector, where she will be working to attract job potential and the money. At the same time, Mercury will return on 1st October for what is normally a 14 to 15 day chance to work smarter, get your head in the game, think on your feet and the communication lines open. Instead, a retrograde turn on 3rd October is going to keep Venus here until 25th October, while a retrograde turn on 24th October will keep Mercury here until December. Even though the Sun will end the month in your work sector as well and the solar spotlight will be on work and job matters or whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time, on 25th October Venus will retrograde back into a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart to take his place. This will call for guardrails from the start when it comes to a balance between work and play. Meanwhile, Mars has made a surprise return to your communication sector at the end of last month and as you move into the new month he is just settling into what will be a two month war on communication roadblocks and barriers.