The stars are dialling up a special month on the romantic and relationship fronts, with an overlapping of the two that doesn't usually happen. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of October in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart at this time of year, but this year with a lot of water having already passed under the bridge before it even returned. At the same time, the actions of Venus and Mars, the planets of love and passion, is extending the footprint, turning what can be the most romantically charged weeks of any year into the most romantically charged months. It was a day before the Sun returned last month that Mars left, but not before spending six and a half weeks breaking through roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he kick started things on the romantic front and fired up your romantic passions and fighting spirit. Mars may have left, but his legacy lives on. You also start the month with Mercury here, who until leaving on 7th October will be working to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page. It is a week later that held back by a retrograde phase earlier in the year, Venus will finally return on 14th October. This is not only the same day that Pluto turns direct in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, but Venus will spend her early days at a friendly aspect to the planet of change and transformation. This will see the spirit of romance and adventure come together in the middle of the month. Venus will be here when the Moon not only returns to your romantic sector from 19th October to 22nd October, but as a New Moon and will be ready to take the reins when the Sun leaves a day later. Meanwhile, the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships returns to your relationship sector on 1st October, to begin the most important three months of the year on the relationship front.