Jo ShipleyOctober 2025 is a powerful energetic month with Mercury retrograde, Pluto direct, and Scorpio season – and these planetary shifts are calling us to dive deep. To help you navigate clarity, transformation, and personal growth, I invite you to work with these crystals during October: Labradorite, Obsidian, and Malachite. Each one supports different aspects of the overarching cosmic energy, helping you move through this month with intention and flow.
Mercury Retrograde in Scorpio: Labradorite for Clarity
Mercury, our planet of communication, travel, and daily thinking, goes retrograde this month. I know – retrograde often comes with delays, mixed messages, and emails going missing! But really, it’s an opportunity to look beneath the surface. Mercury in Scorpio encourages us to uncover hidden truths, revisit old conversations, and face what we might usually prefer to ignore.
During Mercury retrograde in October Labradorite is one of the best crystals for clarity and grounding. It’s the stone of magic and transformation, perfect for mental clarity and protecting your energy. When conversations get tangled or emotions run high, hold Labradorite during meditation to help you see through illusion, stay grounded, and tap into your intuition.
Scorpio Season Transformation: Using Obsidian
Towards the end of the month, we move into Scorpio energy – a season of transformation, rebirth, intimacy, and power. I love the phrase that Scorpio season isn’t about small talk; it’s about soul talk! Shadow work is definitely part of it, but here in the Southern Hemisphere, spring’s active energy softens its inward intensity. It becomes a season of renewal and possibility, a chance to clear emotional clutter so new life can really flourish.
Scorpio season invites deep transformation, and Obsidian is perfect for shadow work and release. This protective stone is brilliant for deep inner healing. It can reflect back truths, sometimes sharply, but always with growth in mind. Use it in meditation to help you let go of what you need to release.
Pluto Direct Energy: Malachite for Growth
Then there’s Pluto, the planet of transformation and rebirth, going direct mid-October. After months of retrograde reflection, Pluto finally shifts forward. This means that the inner work we’ve been doing starts to show outwardly, like tectonic plates moving under the surface of our lives. Patterns around control, power, and transformation begin to shift, and momentum builds. You just have to listen to the news to see how Pluto’s transformational effects are being felt across the world.
As Pluto turns direct, I invite you to work with Malachite to help you step into power and embrace growth. Often called the stone of transformation, it supports courage, growth, and empowerment, encouraging you to step confidently into new chapters.
A cycle of clarity, release, and renewal
Used together, Labradorite, Obsidian, and Malachite create a beautiful flow of clarity, release, and renewal that mirrors October’s planetary energies. Why not try the following practices:
- Place them in crystal grids for focused energy work.
- Meditate with them during Moon phases, especially around the New Moon on 21 October, as we transition into Scorpio season.
- Keep them nearby to anchor your intentions and support reflection, shadow work, and personal transformation.
Think of October as a personal rebirth cycle. Here in the Southern Hemisphere, it plays out like a spring garden: weeding with Mercury retrograde, blossoming with the Scorpio Sun, and pushing growth with Pluto direct.
Up North, it’s the opposite seasonally with autumn and the descent into darker months. The energies are the same – Mercury retrograde asks for reflection, the Sun in Scorpio calls for transformation, Pluto direct brings momentum – but they feel more like harvesting and shedding, turning inward and letting go. Either way, the archetypal energy is universal: October is about facing the truth, releasing what’s old, and stepping into a stronger, wiser version of yourself.
This is the work that I help my clients with – helping to reconnect with your own inner compass so that you can move forward with clarity, positivity and calmness. The goal is to find peace with where you are, without having all the answers, so that your inner world can be more peaceful and reflect a more desirable outer world. If you would like some help to shift your energy using crystals and vibrational energy healing practices, I would love to help you with a session in my Canberra therapy rooms.
Join me in person for my upcoming crystal workshops in Canberra, ACT, Australia Crystals & Chakras: Aligning your energy centres on Saturday 22 November, at the H Dispensary, Griffiths, Canberra. Book via thehdispensary.com/whatson
Check out my Wellness Valley Podcast where I share inspirational stories of hope, wellbeing and personal growth.
If you’d like to explore my work further, visit sixthsensehealing.com.au to learn more.
Lisa Brough
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