This is a bit of a fractured month – as also the world headlines are affirming. It really does seem that there are few good options no matter which direction we turn; horrible what happened on October 7th in southern Israel, horrible what is happening right now in Gaza and the West Bank, and in what continues every day in Ukraine, and even regarding political realities here in the U.S. I believe too that there is inner wounding within each of us personally that linger, un-remarked and in many cases largely unknown, that can continue to trip us up even as we begin to recognize them. One telling astrological aspect that was revealed in the October 14th New Moon and solar eclipse that set the stage for the recent two weeks that followed, and also for the first two weeks of the November month, was that in the New Moon, we could see Eris and Chiron in a 7-degree conjunction, and find the Eris/Chiron midpoint at 21:08 Aries in exact opposition to the eclipse degree of Sun and Moon, to a fraction of a minute of a degree! This brings up the pain of inner wounding, ours, individually, and that of the world, and yet also holds out the optimistic vision that by dint of concerted action, we can all yet heal or at least somewhat move the needle in a positive direction during our lifetimes. And this is the message of hope that we all must feel and that truly moves us as we pursue this mystical study of astrology, to evolve and heal within ourselves and, by so doing, help to heal the world.
The remaining planetary configurations within this New Moon eclipse are also telling. The Sun and Moon were perfectly aligned with Uranus, in an inconjunct, or quincunx, aspect – while Mars and the new Nature planet Haumea in close conjunction were trine Saturn and square Pluto. Just like Eris, feminine warrior for soul intention, Haumea goes to depth with the psyche, representing profound connection to Nature, and to a species of natural law, of right action, right relationship, and truth-telling. It is easy to see that the Haumea-Pluto square, active since last February, is being acted out in spades in the political machinations within this country, where there is lately an enormous premium placed on telling the truth. In this current October configuration, with Mars thrown into this mix of archetypal energies, we can see the question of right action regarding the military (Mars) coming forward; when is it right to kill in response to killing? Or is it ever…
With Uranus, featured in the mid-September New Moon as well as this most recent one, and even more powerfully highlighted in the November 13th ScorpioNew Moon, we also can see surprise events and unexpected revelations, as well as the Trickster’s love of confounding norms and standing every logical assertion on its head. Certainly it was a surprise attack that touched off this most recent global crisis. What we might want to do with these powerful outer planet energies as they show up in our own lives, in order to make the most of them, might be to try to get to the painful lesson of our own inner chaos by looking on the bright side for the nugget of wisdom contained therein. We will want to remember, as we do, how the Grateful Dead lyric goes: that “Once in a while we can get shown the light/ In the strangest of places if we look at it right.”
In the November 13th ScorpioMoon we also find that – in addition to Uranus, exactly opposite the Sun and Moon – Mars is powerfully configured as well, in a conjunction with the Sun and Moon, a mere 1 ½ degrees away. Beyond the obvious determination that military bombardments and escalation are not likely going away any time soon, we might also want to be prepared, as we enter the month’s second half, to deal with angry cross-currents within our own individual psyches, along with the surprises and the intuitional enlightenment implied by this strong position of Uranus. It is not a peaceful holiday season that is here being pictured. As we gather with our families we will want to be careful not to rile each other up and to try to take unexpected happenings in our stride.
And there is certainly room, as we journey onward into the ongoing struggle, for using our will within our hearts for peace to the fullest extent that we can muster, to inhabit our most authentic and therefore our most tolerant selves. It is, after all, the only thing that we can do. We will just have to pray that it will somehow be enough.
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The New Moon arrives in purposeful Capricorn on December 23rd at 2:17 am PT, inviting us to wind down the year with a balance of contemplation and celebration. This New Moon strides into its exact position just after the Capricorn Solstice of the 21st, the turning point of the seasons and an important juncture. In this subsequent New Moon, we find the Sun and Moon... Continue Reading
The upcoming Full Moon culminates in the airy realms of Gemini, arriving in its exact position on December 7th at 8:08pm, Pacific time. Minds may be set ablaze, and communications colored by a fiery intensity around this Full Moon time. This is due to Mars’ presence making a very nearly exact conjunction to the Moon and opposition to the Sun. Mars is well... Continue Reading
The New Moon in Sagittarius ushers in a new lunar cycle with the buoyancy and expansiveness that is emblematic of this mutable fire sign. This New Moon comes into exact position on November 23rd at 2:57pm, Pacific Time at 1º + of Sagittarius. This also marks the end of the Scorpio-Taurus eclipse season, although the intense energies and events of the last 30... Continue Reading
Tuesday morning’s Full Moon eclipse, taking place on November 8th and coincident with Election Day in the U.S., is quite the super-potent astrological event. That is because as the Sun and Moon oppose on another in a total lunar eclipse – with a blood red Moon where visible – they also conjunct other planetary bodies that hold enormous portent... Continue Reading
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This is a difficult month for you in many ways, Aries. As world events additionally indicate, you are subject to emotional and moral astrological currents that go to depth within you. The recent New Moon eclipse in your opposite sign of Libra brought up several potent factors for you and for your close relationships, involving Mars, your ruler, with the outer planet archetypes of limiting Saturn, transformative Pluto, and Haumea, the new KBO planet referencing profound connection to Source, which can be seen as Nature, and as a principled moral commitment for doing the right thing to whatever extent you can. You are pulled in many different directions so that discernment is required, and this translates to recognizing the foundational nature of your own unique perspective, even while also engaging in meaningful dialog with partners. You are especially attuned to emotional pain, yours, and also of others around you, and must accept and work within that constraint. The mid-month ScorpioNew Moon opposed to Trickster Uranus, brings more surprises, and more of the same angst, operating at deep levels within you.. Through it all you can fall back on what you alone bring to the table; your own set of values and moral compass.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November meets you mid-way through the lunation cycle initiated at the October 14th LibraNew Moon in your one-on-one relationship sphere, off the back of a Full Moon in Taurus that illuminated the significance of your finances, skills, and self-esteem within this story. As both lunations last month were also eclipses, the evolution of these topics relates to longer cycles of growth and change that will continue to resonate over the next six months until the next eclipse cycle in Libra and Aries.
Pressure across your Scorpio-Taurus axis continues this month, which begins under the influence of an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus lasting until November 3rd. This may expand issues related to personal and shared resources, money, and intimacy that were raised around the Full Moon at the end of last month.
From the 3rd to the 4th, Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus adds to the focus, which could stimulate radical honesty around these more complicated topics or innovative investment or money-making ideas. With your ruling planet, Mars, sandwiched between the Sun and Mercury in your sphere of personal transformation, these transits may offer an emerging sense of self-belief, prosperity, or freedom arising from ongoing changes within your psychology, relational dynamics, and the ways you are energetically and materially bound to others or the past.
The importance of your inner work in this metamorphosis process is indicated by a concurrent trine from Venus in Virgo to a highlighted Uranus in Taurus, while opposing Neptune in Pisces, at the beginning of the month, lasting through November 4th. This stimulates your relationships in many directions and with new ideas that also might feel out of this world, and may bring up subconscious patterns and habituated behaviors that affect your mental and physical wellbeing.
Also on the 4th, Saturn stationing direct in Pisces offers a more mature or pragmatic approach to less known parts of yourself or forces you have less control over within your life. While Saturn in your subconscious sphere can align with periods of melancholia or isolation, the planet offers gifts of self-understanding and spiritual wisdom should you commit to your inner process.
On the 8th, Venus blesses your sphere of partnerships when she moves into her home sign of Libra. This may align with reconciliation or renewed feelings of love following a rocky period or a new romance or collaboration connected to the LibraMoon cycle. A trine from Venus to Pluto in Capricorn in the days surrounding her departure from Virgo points to that catharsis offered in confronting a truth you have been avoiding, including the values informing your public image or career.
With Mars and Venus both in their home signs in your sectors of relationships (Libra) along with intimacy, and shared resources (Scorpio) there is a lot of collaborative potential in the air right now. A sextile from Mercury to Pluto from the 8th to the 9th, which gives way to Mars' conjunction with the Sun and opposition to Uranus in Taurus on the 11th, suggests consequential moves related to your career, skills, contracts, and finances. Perhaps a difficult ending associated with a professional role, ambition, or relationship has released energy you can now divert into your passions, giving rise to exciting new prospects or a sense of personal power.
A more expansive frame of mind is on offer when Mercury enters Sagittarius on the 9th, announcing an emerging focus on your sector of life philosophies, foreign lands, and education. This is offset by a square from Mercury to Saturn in Pisces as this ingress begins, most intense from the 9th to the10th. This contrary factor aligns with a serious and studious frame of mind, so that you have both of these factors going simultaneously. Once past the initial few days, Mercury's stay in Sagittarius will likely convey a sense of optimism, which may be the perfect antidote for the Saturnian blues.
The ScorpioNew Moon lands on November 13th, and initiates a new cycle related to personal metamorphosis and how you are merged with others. This powerful lunation is intensified by Mars, your ruler, in conjunction with the luminaries. The fact that these also oppose Uranus in Taurus brings unexpected events and surprise illumination very much into the picture. Be it activating or empowering, these transits may point to instability in your material circumstances as well as compelling new collaborative opportunities related to your skill set and your assets. While enthusiasm or urgency may be high, you might want to consider waiting a few days before making big financial or contractual moves or diving head-first into conflict.
With the Sun's entrance into Sagittarius on the 22nd, new horizons of understanding and experience may beckon. This is followed by Mars entering Sagittarius on the 24th, further activating topics related to your worldview, higher education, foreign lands, broadcasting, and the law. Both Sun and Mars pass through a square to Saturn in Pisces as they cross the Sagittarian threshold, suggesting you have the will, stamina, and wisdom to make important moves in these areas of your life, which may relate to your spiritual and intellectual evolution or insight about changing less conscious beliefs and recognizing how these may frame your experience of the world. The Mars-Saturn square of the 24th and 25th has alchemizing potential related to shadows around ego, anger, or fear, that may be an integral aspect toward healing your relationship with yourself. This was also suggested by Venus' opposition to Chiron in your sign from the 21st to the 22nd. This transit period returns focus to your axis of self and other, where you might engage courage and self-compassion to look at your inner shadow work and how you project that outward.
On the 27th, the GeminiFull Moon takes place in your sphere of the mind, learning, and local environment, indicating your inner monologue and communication patterns may well influence this next phase of what was seeded at previous timing of the ScorpioNew Moon. Squares in this Full Moon configuration from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, support an ongoing process of exploring existential frameworks and your belief systems as your self-knowledge and spiritual understanding mature. Taking time out around this date for inner inquiry, conversations with close connections, and rest may be productive, yielding intuitive downloads of insight regarding your mental and spiritual wellbeing.
This is a month when your deep unconscious process seems to be calling you, Taurus. And you have no choice but to pick up the metaphorical phone and answer. Painful places inside you are also demanding your attention; or it may be the pain of the world itself that you simultaneously feel. You do yourself no favor by attempting to ignore the situation, tempting as that might be, and yet you must also somehow strive not to let it overwhelm you. With Uranus featured now, you might feel as though you have unlimited new possibilities that lie in wait for you, along with unexpected revelations. Not all of these will pan out, so that judgment comes into this; fortunately, a strong presence of Saturn is also present in the month’s alignments. Saturn is located in your social sector, which might feel isolating, and yet will also aid you in your reality-seeking and in concretizing your projects and your contributions to the world around you. The ScorpioNew Moon of the 13th brings key partnerships more directly into the picture, with the caveat that you have the task of prioritizing your own growth and evolution along with the needs of important others.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins in the wake of a Full Moon in your sign from October 28th, pointing to the role of your evolving identity, ambitions, and independence within what was seeded in the timing of the LibraNew Moon and solar eclipse mid-way through the previous month. That powerful lunation cycle, initiated in your sphere of health, daily habits, and sense of mission, continues to develop throughout the first two weeks of November. Trickster Uranus having been featured in the solar eclipse, you are likely filled with scattershot ideas and impressions that you must sort out into the ones that, for you, are truly viable. As eclipses intensified both of the lunations from last month, these effects will also continue to evolve over the next six months.
The resonance of a significant culmination process instigated by the Taurus Lunar Eclipse may feel palpable, both emotionally and physically, in the early days of the current month of November. An opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in your sign from the very beginning of the month, along with Mercury's opposition to Uranus there from the 3rd to the 4th, signify ongoing pressure across your axis of self and other. You are in some ways starting over. These transits suggest an emerging path of purpose and self-belief that may require or inspire radical honesty within your relationships. Issues arising at this time could involve ongoing adjustment and discourse as you figure out how to attend to your needs in concert with those of others, particularly as this also relates to your daily work and health.
A concurrent opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces at the beginning of the month until the 4th brings in the importance of your allies, friendships, and long-term goals, as well as themes related to self-expression, children, and happiness. This encounter with Neptune, your ruling planet, as he moves through your creativity and pleasure sector might align with an emerging new vision for your life that has an unearthly or a spiritual feel to it, plus a sense of creative rejuvenation and social connection.
With Saturn stationing direct in Pisces on the 4th, if loneliness or a lack of clarity within friendships or community comes up from the beginning of the month through its first week, try hard to honor your inner growth over these concerns and the ways your values and self-understanding have evolved. While it may take time, trust that a process of reestablishing bonds or making meaningful new connections of mutual alignment is underway. Saturn's forward motion may also help to ground inspiration in reality, suggesting an emerging feeling of mastery or progress gained through sustained efforts or struggle, particularly since the beginning of its retrograde last June.
On the 8th, Venus also enters Libra, corresponding to your sphere of service, daily responsibilities, and health. Considering Venus' rollercoaster ride since its retrograde in mid-July, including its position at the helm of both eclipses last month, this planet's ingress into its other home sign (along with yours) may arrive with an accompanying sense of peace or enjoyment for your daily life. While Venus in the sixth house may prefer to luxuriate or to eat exquisitely over a strict exercise routine, this transit also supports a sense of holistic wellbeing and emerging health. Perhaps you will receive good news about a work-related matter around this date or are able to prioritize regular time for creative health practices.
On the 9th, Mercury moves into Sagittarius or your house of personal metamorphosis, intimacy, and shared resources, signaling a build-up of activity there over the coming month. Mercury's ingress offers the transformative potential of an expansive and visionary frame of mind, which may help you access unexplored solutions and ideas, including how others could help you achieve them. A square from Mercury to Saturn in Pisces between the 9th and 10th may convey deep thinking about manifesting a goal or serious conversations related to shared financial realities.
The New Moon in your opposing sign of Scorpio arrives on November 13th, activating new beginnings and renewal in relationships. Consider giving your nervous system extra support around this lunation as it is highly charged by the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which oppose Uranus in your sphere of embodiment. Endings and culminations outside of your conscious control set off at the Taurus Lunar Eclipse last month may be thrust suddenly into view, bringing up topics related to your identity, physical body and presentation, and independence. This lunation could feel destabilizing or else freeing, offering the courage to acknowledge and articulate a difficult truth or let go of something you have been holding onto very tightly, even though it may compromise your sense of security or safety. Try releasing attempts to control a situation – which can unleash fresh energy and potency into an existing relationship or open space for a new partnership to enter your life.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets encounter Saturn by square as they cross the threshold into your sphere of intimacy and shared resources, again pointing to the significance of groups and allies. These transits may help you address fears that prevent you from going after what you want. They may manifest as an encounter with an authority figure or connection who can help you achieve an ambition, commitment to new collaborative partnerships, or a practical process of working towards updated life goals that reflect your growth and maturation.
The Full Moon in Gemini on the 27th takes place in your sector of personal resources, including your finances, self-esteem, and gifts, illuminating their role within the current lunar cycle initiated in your partnership sphere. A tension between your financial and inner autonomy and the ways you are materially, energetically, and karmically enmeshed with others may emerge. This polarity is emphasized by Mercury, ruling the lunation from Sagittarius, your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, where it is co-present with the Sun and Mars. Squares from Mercury and Mars to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, point to the utility of friction or obstacles, which can energize your will and mental power. Perhaps you are emboldened to share your creative ideas or creations with a wider audience or harness the momentum of Sagittarius to free yourself from dynamics and situations where you have felt stuck. This lunation also supports addressing limiting beliefs around your intrinsic value, including the kinds of friendships and connections you deserve and your ability to create abundance and earn money from your gifts and skills.
This is another somewhat difficult month, Gemini, when you are very aware of painful places within you that reflect undigested trauma from your early past. The recent mid-October eclipse in Libra was a powerful reminder of what goes on for you beneath the surface layers of your psyche. It is rich in meaning and has the power to trouble you, yet has the power to heal you as well. These inner meditations have also the impetus for action related to deep purpose, something to base your life upon, rather than the indifferent and variable rewards implicit in strictly materialist viewpoints. You are perhaps starting to consider that the measure of your effectiveness in making your own way forward – as much as on your efforts on your own – must depend in large part as well upon their beneficial societal impact. After the ScorpioNew Moon of the 13th, partners come into this picture as well, in novel ways. These notions also remind you that no matter how much you feel like falling back on this more usual go to, you cannot solve the riddle of your life and that of the world around you by logic alone; faith in the universe is therefore a must as you move forward.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
Last month’s LibraNew Moon eclipse in your sphere of creativity, children, and pleasure was related to micro- and macro-evolutionary processes associated with your creativity. There could be social or other internal wounding that has come up for you that can lead to some interesting revelations. Your soul purpose is definitely involved in this when you can take a step back to look at the big picture of what you are up to. The seeds planted at this lunation on October 14th continue to develop throughout the first half of November, and they may also relate to longer cycles connected to effects of which will play out over the next six months along the Aries-Libra Lunar Node axis of your societal contribution as related to your creative process.
November arrives in the wake of the recent Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Taurus from four days before the month began, illuminating the role of your inner work and subconscious within the current lunar cycle, possibly bringing up feelings of isolation that stand in stark contrast to your needs for creative connection and shared joy, as indicated by Libra ruling your fifth house of creative self-expression.
Pressure across your Taurus-Scorpio axis continues this month, corresponding to issue of unconscious process and inner work in the context of life purpose. This begins under the influence of an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus, from the 1st to the 3rd. This transit suggests cultivating inner spiritual, emotional, and mental health is intimately bound to your physical wellbeing and daily productivity.
From the 3rd to the 4th, Mercury’s opposition to Uranus in Taurus places further focus on these dynamics, pointing to the illuminating and destabilizing process of making the unconscious conscious. The prominence of Pluto in your sphere of personal transformation last month, along with the eclipses, may have had you navigating states of profound uncertainty, loss, or transition. These transits support an ongoing process of release, offering liberation from outdated patterns of thought and reconnection to a sense of inner faith and purpose within your daily life and work.
Themes related to your Pisces sphere of career and public image are also in the air this month, announced by an opposition from Venus in Virgo in your family and belonging sector to Neptune in Pisces from the beginning of the month until the 4th. While this may extend a lack of clarity around domestic and work relationships or a yearning for a sense of home or kinship that was stimulated at the Venus-ruled LibraNew Moon, this transit may also help you connect to a vocational dream or something you feel called to offer to the world.
Saturn stationing direct in Pisces on the 4th may additionally ground inspiration in reality, suggesting an emerging feeling of mastery or progress gained through significant struggle or effort, particularly since the beginning of its retrograde in mid-June. These transits also point to the value of feeling rooted and connected within your living situation or family, which can provide stability to support your creative expression and pursuit of outer world objectives.
Venus moves into her home sign of Libra on the 8th, blessing topics to do with self-expression, pleasure, and children, including accessing the playfulness of your inner child. This transit may feel uplifting, as though color and camaraderie are returning to life through shared fun, romance, and inspiration. It may also be an opportune time for launching creative projects.
On the 9th, Mercury moves into Sagittarius, corresponding to your relationship sphere, which will pull your focus for the rest of the month. This could signal an enthusiastic re-engagement or a new sense of freedom for relationships or committed partnerships.
From the 9th to the 10th, Mercury’s square to Saturn in Pisces brings in topics related to your vocation, suggesting a more serious tone to conversations within business and collaborative partnerships or discussions related to shared future ambitions and commitments, including marriage.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on November 13th, and opens a new cycle in your sector of daily environment, habits, and service to others. Consider taking extra rest to support your nervous system around this time; this New Moon may be activating and revelatory due to the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which form an opposition to Uranus in Taurus. With these fixed signs governing the sixth and twelfth houses in your solar chart, of service and of unconscious process, this lunation may represent firmly entrenched behaviors beginning to shift that are reinforced or compelled by deep unconscious attachments related to safety or survival. Consciously engaging the courageous and liberating qualities of Mars and Uranus may help you let go of outdated patterns and free up energy for new approaches to life management. Ongoing avoidance of such habits may see action forced through the inflammation of conflicts, illness, or “sudden” events related to work, health, or everyday routines.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely pursued by Mars on the 24th. Both planets encounter Saturn by square as they cross this threshold, again connecting your realms of vocation and partnership. These transits may manifest as encounters with authority figures, commitment to new work partnerships, or reality checks that may feel particularly sobering for planets energized by the enthusiastic momentum of Sagittarius. While disciplined and sustained action is on the table, pay attention to relationship or work situations that feel particularly arduous at this time. While it is difficult to walk away from or renegotiate commitments you have devoted substantial time and energy to, they will only be sustainable in the long term if they feel enlivening to you.
The Full Moon in your sign on the 27th illuminates the significance of your identity, self-presentation, and personal aspirations within the transformation process initiated at the time of the ScorpioNew Moon from two weeks back. The Full Moon is a natural time of fulfillment that may support this cleansing cycle, perhaps with an emerging consciousness of your personal evolution and its effects on your self-confidence and embodiment. Certain escapist tendencies, frustrations, or urges to do your own thing may emerge around this time through your realms of vocation and relationships due to squares from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively. These transits can also be harnessed for sustained efforts toward your professional aspirations, which your relationships may have a hand in supporting.
You are currently drawn to the inside Cancer, although in a way that is productive of future evolutionary change. Surprises are definitely involved, along with unexpected revelations. Your work in the world may take on greater scope than you had foreseen, concerning how what you do impacts the world around you. There could be a way that you have neglected your full truth, known perhaps only to yourself, deep inside; this amidst the growing realization that you can feel the actual right way to go about your everyday concerns as though they were all individually sacred. Another important lesson of this month could be that intuition plays a far greater role than you may have previously thought. Partners are important to you in navigating your complex way forward, and in helping you to make significant alterations to your beliefs and worldview that unlock the doors of your future self. The ScorpioNew Moon of Monday, the 13th, highlights your creativity and further illuminates the plethora of ideas and goals swirling around you in this potent time. These also remind you that what you do out in the world, if you do it right, empowers others as well as yourself.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November finds you mid-way through the Libra lunation cycle initiated in your sphere of home, belonging, and family, by the solar eclipse from mid-October that kicked it off. You are in some ways making a fresh start in your domestic scene, which could involve revelations involving your family of origin. In another sense nothing is entirely new, but part of a process that includes all the stories of your past. You also emerge into the present month off the back of the TaurusFull Moon that pointed to the influence of your community, friendships, and long-term dreams within this process. As both lunations were also eclipses, the further evolution of these topics relates to larger cycles that will play out over the next six months.
Emphasis on the Scorpio-Taurus axis, corresponding to your creative and social spheres, continues up to November’s first weekend, under an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus from the 1st to the 3rd.
From the 3rd to the 4th Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus adds to this focus. These transits may offer an emerging sense of faith in shared connection and collaborations or a new vision of the future after a period of emotional and relational intensity, possibly related to significant loss, change, or a difficult confrontation with the truth.
Themes emerging within your Pisces sector of life philosophies, foreign lands, and education are also on the table, announced by an opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces from the beginning of the month until the 4th. This transit could bring up differences in values or belief systems, particularly among friendships, siblings, and other familial relationships. However, it also offers a sense of redemption—be it a higher truth, a teacher, or the expansive potential of an overseas adventure; let yourself be uplifted by what feels inspiring.
Venus in cerebral Virgo combined with Saturn in Pisces stationing to direct motion on the 4th – emphasizing Saturnian caution, limitation, and commitment – suggest a process of psychological and spiritual healing or maturation through learning. With your spheres of communication and worldview lit up, perhaps you might consider how you engage with media and the internet. While a sense of helplessness connected to the global situation and collective grief can feel overwhelming, these transits speak to the value of kindness and tangible acts of care that honor your ethics. While you can only reach others in a limited way, your attitude still makes a difference.
On the 8th, Venus enters her home sign of Libra, bringing blessings to your sphere of roots and family as she does so. This ingress could arrive as a positive factor with an emerging sense of harmony or reprieve related to what was seeded at the recent LibraNew Moon eclipse. A trine from Venus to Pluto in Capricorn in the days immediately surrounding the 8th could reference ongoing metamorphosis in your one-on-one partnerships. When you can release attachment to a particular dysfunctional relational dynamic, you might be rewarded with a sense of peace and connection at your foundations.
On the next day, Mercury's entrance into Sagittarius announces an emerging focus on your sphere of habits, health, and everyday responsibilities. The ingress may buoy your mindset or sense of meaning within your mundane realms of work and service, particularly after the 10th as it leaves the activation range of a square to Saturn. Mercury's encounter with Saturn takes place along with its sextile to Pluto, pointing to the connection between confronting and articulating uncomfortable truths and authentic desires in partnerships and your mental and physical wellbeing. Perhaps it is time to reconsider certain habituated beliefs and behaviors as you mature and your knowledge expands.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on the 13th in your creativity sector, making for a fresh start in that area. The presence in the New Moon configuration of Mars conjunct the Sun and Moon, with all three celestial bodies opposing Uranus in Taurus, represents a highly-charged or volatile thirty-day cycle related to self-expression, romance, and children. This lunation could unleash significant creative power and potency and also may require the courage to rebel against socialized conditioning or let go of associations or groups that have kept you stuck in the past. Following your gut inclinations and passions may give rise to enlivening new life goals and connections that offer depth over drama.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets meet Saturn by square as they make their entrance, again connecting your Pisces sphere with your daily work and health. While encounters with Saturn can be experienced as delays and sobering reality checks, particularly for planets propelled by the enthusiasm of Sagittarius, these transits point to the hard-earned Saturnian gifts of mastery and wisdom. Long-term health and vitality or pursuing a path of purpose may require sustained work and self-discipline. Keeping one eye on your big dreams, consider small adjustments that support your health and a feeling of expansiveness in daily life, such as a regular meditation practice, exercise – Sagittarius rules the legs, after all – or personal study.
These transits occur in tandem with an opposition between Venus in Libra and Chiron in Aries, active from the 21st to the 22nd. This brings in the influence of your career and home spheres, possibly illuminating the role of internalized pain linked to your public image, authority figures, or uncertainty related to your calling in the world. While potentially uncomfortable or even painful, friction or difficulty may offer necessary fuel for growth and action, particularly with Mars-ruled Aries corresponding to your vocational sector; and because the North Lunar Node is also present in Aries for the next year and a half.
The Full Moon in Gemini on the 27th illuminates the role of your subconscious and how it filters your lens of reality within the cycle initiated two weeks earlier at the ScorpioNew Moon. Squares from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, offer the wisdom of taking a more philosophical, less subjective perspective. While you might feel revved up and ready to act, Mars' aspect to Saturn calls for patience to let more fully formed understanding and ideas emerge with time. Taking space around this date for inner inquiry and rest may yield spiritual or psychological insight and inspire your creative practice.
You are moving through some difficult but rewarding inner territory lately, Leo. The suggestion is that you go with it. If you are feeling some constraints these days, affecting your career plans and commitments, these too could be part of a larger picture taking place, perhaps the impetus for taking your internal shifts more seriously. Your moral compass which is uniquely your own is deeply involved in this, reflecting changes in beliefs and worldview brought about by painful realizations from last month that you are still processing. You are transforming from the inside out, affecting your relationship connections and the way that your understanding of the world around you contributes to your game plan. Your current mantra might be that your truth will become known and will make you free, if only you will let it. The mid-month New Moon of November 13th is powerful for you, and takes you further along the arc of your evolutionary path. You are in the midst of a thoughtful inquiry regarding where your outer world commitments might be leading, as consistent with your internal principles and values. There are so many idea and options swirling around you, and yet not all will prove viable – so that discernment is required.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins for you astrologically halfway through the lunation cycle that was initiated by the Libra solar eclipse from October 14th, therefore related to your sphere of the mind, learning, and curiosity. This story continues to evolve through the first two weeks of November, which includes its influence on your career, ambitions, and public image, as indicated by the TaurusFull Moon eclipse four days before the month’s first day. You are thinking your way through, and there are plentiful choices to be made in your vocational arena over the course of the entire month. You might be dizzy with possibilities, and also with the obligation to choose between them. As both these lunations from last month were eclipses, their emotional resonance and influence are amplified in cycles that will continue to play out over the next six months.
Instability connected to change and endings in your vocational realm may extend this month, which begins under an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus. Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus from the 3rd to the 4th adds to this focus. As the incoherence or emotional deluge unleashed by the eclipses recedes, these transits may arrive with an emerging new perspective or sense of progress and expansion within your professional sphere that is connected to your sense of belonging, home life, and family.
An opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces from the beginning of the month until the 4th also points to the ongoing influence of your Pisces sphere, governing topics related to joint resources, personal transformation, and intimacy. With Virgo ruling your sector of personal resources, skills, and self-confidence, this suggests an increasing belief in your ability to earn money from your gifts, which you may tend to take a hyper-critical eye to. Considering Venus' wild ride since the beginning of its retrograde through your sign in July, as well as its rulership of both eclipses last month, this transit may reflect an ongoing confusion related to intimate relationships or your material situation as you integrate highly personal changes in your values and what you feel attracted to. If you are walking through states of ambivalence, Saturn's station direct in Pisces on the 4th asks you to trust the wisdom of time, which will eventually bring clarity. On the other hand, you may also feel uplifted by a shared dream or intimate relationship at this time.
On the 5th, the Last Quarter Moon in your sign also points to the role of your self-presentation, identity, and independence in the current Libra lunation cycle initiated in your sphere of communication and local environment. It may be that personal evolution and integration of new insights now give rise to a letting go or a change in mindset related to what you feel called to learn or express to the world.
Venus entering her home sign of Libra on the 8th indicates this shift may arrive with a more joyful state of mind, possibly inspiring new approaches, interests, or ventures related to sharing your ideas. Perhaps you are able to hold certain unknowns or conflicting truths in your mind with more ease or feel uplifted by interesting conversations, friendships, and sibling connections.
Mercury's ingress into Sagittarius the following day brings an enthusiastic expansiveness to your sphere of self-expression, children, and pleasure. This shift in momentum will further support creative communication projects, and this part of the month may be favorable for launching or sharing these.
From the 9th to the 10th, Mercury's square to Saturn in Pisces may arrive with a serious tone to conversations or consideration related to shared resources and contractual matters, as well as romantic partnerships and business or creative collaborations.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on November 13th, activating new beginnings and renewal in your sector of home, family, and sense of belonging. This lunation may be somewhat confronting due to the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which also form an opposition to Uranus in Taurus. Expect the unexpected, they say, even though that does not quite work; you may feel like the ground is moving beneath your feet. This may point to a difficult tension between your professional ambitions and domestic responsibilities or an eruption of conflict in these parts of your life. Endings and culminations outside of your conscious control that were set off around the beginning of the month may be thrust into view. While uncertainty could have you tightening your grip on what gives you any sense of stability, with fixed-sign Scorpio ruling your home and family sphere, feeling rooted cannot occur without fully finding your own authenticity. The courageous and liberating qualities of Mars and Uranus, consciously engaged, can help you release attachment to changing home and work situations and free up your enthusiasm for the new.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets encounter Saturn in Pisces by square as they cross this threshold. These transits point to the role of fear or judgment that may restrict your creative self-expression. Perhaps you are deepening a commitment to a romantic partner, which may relate to children or merging resources. It may also be that navigating a period of loss, isolation, or difficulty now gives way to the enlivening possibilities, where harnessing the stabilizing gifts of Saturn in Pisces in working with others may help you construct imaginative new structures in your life or methods to achieve your ambitions, including how you can access support for these aims.
The GeminiFull Moon takes place on the 27th in your sphere of community, friendship, and long-term goals, illuminating the way your kinship with others may be vital to your sense of belonging. This lunation could extend themes around materializing goals for the future through creative collaboration or aid received from others, which is reinforced by the co-presence of lunation rulers Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius, which square Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively. These transits speak to the power of committing to an idea that inspires you and may take a formidable amount of effort to materialize. They may also amplify situations of stagnation, offering the enlivening potential of renegotiating or perhaps even walking away from something you have already devoted that sustained energy to.
This is in many ways another difficult month for you, Virgo. Painful places deep inside you are being triggered by outer world events so that your own inner wounding becomes a stand-in for that of the world around you. The good news is that, although you can feel helpless in the face of what is going on externally, at least with your own issues there is something you can do. The suggestion is that you honor the hurt places inside you without shame or blame, recognizing these as the residue of early childhood trauma, and giving them the benefit of your loving attention and your more mature wisdom. Mid-month, beginning with the New Moon of the 13th, although your situation alters in the last half of November, you are by no means out of the woods. You are faced with a steep learning curve and logic alone will not get you where you need to go. A delicate process of intuition that could also be framed as angel guidance provides you with your best bet to weather the storm and to reap rewards in healing, integration, and authenticity.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins in the middle of the lunation cycle initiated by the LibraNew Moon and solar eclipse from last month that took place in your sphere of personal resources, values, and skills. There conceivably could be unexpected events affecting this area of your life that are still working themselves out. This thirty-day cycle continues to evolve throughout the first half of the current month, with the TaurusFull Moon and lunar eclipse from the last four days of October emphasizing the importance within this process of your search for new horizons of understanding affecting your beliefs and worldview. In this, intuition proves to be a better guide than the purely logical reasoning that dominates consensus thinking. Since both these lunations from last month were also eclipses, they relate to longer cycles of change and growth that may be beyond the bounds of conscious control, with effects that reverberate over the next six months.
November also arrives under the influence of an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus, corresponding, again, to higher mind considerations including your beliefs and worldview. They might tend toward the optimistic over the month’s opening weekend, or perhaps extend the mental stress present at the recent Taurus lunar eclipse.
From the 3rd to the 4th, Mercury your ruler’s opposition to Uranus in Taurus adds to the intuitional focus. These transits could elevate uncertainty or underscore the contrast of intuition versus logic involving your belief systems, higher education, or travel to foreign lands. Perhaps this relates to a learning institution, a crisis in faith, or overwhelm associated with current global events vis a vis your information consumption habits. Destabilization could also give rise to a paradigm shift, that represents progress on a spiritual or intellectual path, or exciting changes of plans that place you in a new mental environment.
From the beginning of the month also, until the 4th, a concurrent opposition from Venus in your sign to Neptune in Pisces connects these shifts to your personal growth and ambitions, as well as to your one-on-one partnerships. This opposition might emphasize the role of projection or a lack of reciprocity in relational dynamics, possibly associated with money or conflicting values linked to the ongoing lunation cycle. However, considering Venus' roller coaster ride since the end of July, including its retrograde through your sphere of the subconscious, this transit could also point to a return of romance and cohesion within a partnership or a sense of inner sovereignty in your approach to them, perhaps through an ending that becomes a new beginning.
Saturn stationing direct in Pisces on the 4th could also see things moving forward in relationships following a more challenging period since the beginning of its retrograde in mid-June.
From the 5th to the 8th, Venus' encounter with Neptune described above gives way to a trine with Pluto in your sphere of self-expression, pleasure, and children. This transit offers the potency and creative potential of expressing something you have been holding in, which may also relate to the renewal of an existing connection or a new one coming into form.
On the 8th also, Venus moving into Libra could signal a boost in your bank balance or confidence in your abilities. Last month's solar eclipse may have seen vacillation around finances or larger questions about your values system. As the month-long lunar cycle wanes, this transit may align with a feeling of abundance or new money-making opportunities.
Mercury enters Sagittarius the following day, offering a positive boost to your mindset, enlivening your sphere of home, belonging, and family. With Venus and Mars in their home signs of Libra and Scorpio and your ruling planet in expansive Sagittarius, you have significant planetary support related to assets, communications, and your foundations. You may have more resources at your disposal than you think, including your relational skills and associations. Talking things through with others could broaden your perspective – a combination of creative visioning and strategic planning could help bring ideas into form. This ingress could also relate to how you structure your home life and approach to family or real estate matters.
From the 9th to the 10th, a square from Mercury to Saturn in Pisces may signal a reality check or future-oriented tone to conversations or considerations regarding business or intimate partnerships.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on November 13th and initiates a cycle of renewal in your sphere of communication and local environment. This lunation may be confronting due to the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which oppose Uranus in Taurus. Disagreement or shock arising at this time might clarify or change your opinions or beliefs. Perhaps you will be mobilized to advocate or take action that more completely aligns with your ethics, which could offer a reclamation of purpose and vitality. One possibility is that having the courage to acknowledge a complicated truth or share a vulnerable part of yourself with someone whose outlook you value may give you a fresh perspective and support your mental wellbeing.
With the Sun's entrance into Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th, your home and family sphere is further emphasized. Both planets make a square to Saturn in Pisces as they cross this threshold, indicating limitations that you could run up against, or that you have the will and fortitude to energize shared endeavors. These could possibly be related to expanding family ties, home alterations, or deepening commitment to a partner.
The Full Moon in Gemini on the 27th illuminates your career and public image sector, influencing further evolution what was seeded at the ScorpioNew Moon in your communications sphere. This lunation could see a focus on upskilling or how you share your voice, including recognition of your creative gifts related to thought and communication. Mars in applying conjunction to the Sun in Sagittarius could bring energy to a stand-off or a balance between your vocation and your home life. The square between Mars and Saturn, as well as Mercury's square to Neptune, brings in tension between home concerns versus partnership developments this month, suggesting frustration could propel you out of stagnation or an outdated sense of relationship obligations. A change in mindset connected to your familial conditioning may arrive or a new approach to committed partnership that supports your outer world ambitions. This lunation points to your capacity for sustained efforts within your domestic and relationship sectors, provided they inspire you.
This is a month of consolidation, Libra, in the wake of the eclipse cycle of the previous month featuring the dramatic mid-October solar eclipse in your sign. There are developments both individually and with regard to your key relationships. You might still be processing the accompanying shift in your values and the feeling of entering into a new stage of your ongoing spiritual evolution. There is currently a balancing act going on within you whereby you are both enthused about relationship in your life and also recognizing its limitations; this perhaps has the effect of throwing you back upon yourself and your own pathway forward. You are in essence seeking a more self-consistent sense of values and internal moral compass to bring to your partnership dynamic. Issues that arise in the relationship context can trigger inner wounding at this time as well, and if so, rather than problems these can better be seen as opportunities for internal connection with important and perhaps neglected parts of yourself that could need your support and loving attention. The New Moon of November 13th represents a new direction that absorbs relevant elements from this earlier cycle, and builds upon them. Surprises are likely still in store for you, along with intuitional guidance that aids your learning curve as you embrace change.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins as you are still working out what was begun with the New Moon and solar eclipse in your sign from October 14th in your sphere of identity and embodiment. The lunation cycle seeded during that time has two weeks more to run, as you continue to explore personal growth and relationship options. The emotional intensity and transformative potential of what was initiated also brings partners into the picture of your resources and associated moral considerations. Things were amplified further by the recent TaurusFull Moon, from the 28th, the weekend before November began, also an eclipse, governing your realms of personal metamorphosis, shared resources, and intimacy. As the October lunation cycle continues to evolve over the first two weeks of the current month, you are finding your way forward into greater wholeness, with key partnerships in your life having their effect on that. It is also important to note that the effects of these eclipse lunations will continue to resonate over the next six months.
From the 1st to the 3rd, an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus continues to stoke the fires of partnership collaboration and accommodation. Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus from the 3rd to the 4th adds to this emphasis. These transits could align with unexpected news or conversations regarding your financial situation or an intimate relationship, which may come further into focus as the month unfolds.
An opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces from the beginning of the month until the 4th also highlights the interaction between your sectors of the subconscious and your daily responsibilities and health. Perhaps you are enjoying time alone, working on creative projects behind the scenes, or feeling the benefits of a regular spiritual or artistic practice. With Pisces ruling your realms of the day-to-day, if what you regularly devote time to does not feel meaningful to you, it may bring up escapist tendencies that affect your wellbeing. This transit could point to unconscious habits around excess, body image, and health. You may be able to harness these planetary energies to imagine new ways to structure your life or practices that support your health.
On the 4th also, Saturn stationing direct in Pisces will help materialize these ambitions. This may also indicate delays or sustained hard work, or perhaps a fulfillment of what was engendered at the beginning of Saturn’s retrograde from mid-June.
When your ruling planet Venus moves into your sign on the 8th – corresponding to your sector of identity, ambition, and self-presentation –you may feel a boost in happiness and confidence in your ability to attract what you want. While last month’s New Moon has potentially brought up uncertainty within your relationships, this Venus ingress could give rise to a sense of inner peace or an emerging relational equilibrium that still honors independence.
Your mindset could also be uplifted by Mercury moving into Sagittarius, your sphere of communication and learning, the following day. These ingresses may arrive with an uptick in social activities, enlivening conversations, or new friends with shared interests.
From the 9th to the 10th, Mercury's square to Saturn in Pisces brings in topics related to your mental health and inner monologue, including the effect of the environment you regularly occupy and information consumption habits like phone and internet use. This may be a time of deep thinking about how to bring your big ideas into form; talking things through with others will likely expand your perspective or help you conceive of creative approaches.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on November 13th, activating new beginnings and renewal related to your finances, self-esteem, and skills. The presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which oppose Uranus in Taurus, suggests a tension between your values and financial autonomy and the ways you are materially, energetically, and karmically entangled with others. There is inspiration to be found in this timing, and unexpected revelation; the Uranus archetype’s calling card. Be it activating or empowering, the confrontation of Mars with Uranus in your sphere of personal metamorphosis offers the courage to acknowledge a difficult truth or let something go, offering that moving on from loss does not erase its beauty and enduring value in your life. This lunation could also help you reconnect to will and purpose through the focalizing quality of anger or challenge.
New horizons of thought and knowledge are further emphasized with the Sun's entrance into Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Perhaps a process activated at the New Moon may now free up energy for new learning and communication projects while also finding deep and lasting commitment. Both planets pass through a square to Saturn in Pisces as they cross this threshold, indicating you have the will and fortitude to commit to such endeavors, which may have tangible, long-term benefits and support your wellbeing.
From the 21st to the 22nd, an opposition from Venus in your sign to Chiron in Aries lights up your axis of self and other. The concurrent squares from the Sun and Mars to Saturn, as they make a sextile to Pluto in Capricorn, bring in the influence of ongoing change in your home and family sphere. These transits hold significant alchemizing potential should you have the courage to confront shadows around ego, anger, attachment, and fear, which may be integral to healing within relationships and family.
The Full Moon in Gemini of November 27th illuminates your sphere of life philosophies, education, and foreign travels and its relationship to what was seeded at the New Moon, suggesting an evolution in your values systems or expertise. The ongoing influence of a square between Mars and Saturn, as well as Mercury's square to Neptune, point to the utility of the continued tension this month between your communication sector and your idea of service, where frustration can have the beneficial effect of thrusting you out of habituated mental loops. While some material realities cannot be avoided, you always have the freedom to change your perspective. Exploring your belief systems, spiritual truths, or different worldviews will nourish your mental health and inspire a sense of possibility in your daily life.
This is a month of contrasts, Scorpio, when you are bringing greater understanding to what is going on for you within the deeper layers of your psyche. The recent and quite powerful solar eclipse in Libra triggered this vast storehouse of unconscious material, so that your night-time dreams could be full of interesting material, and yet has also simultaneously imbued you with a more conscious sense of self. The ideal way forward for you therefore is to honor both of these parts, trying for integration. Your key relationships also come into this picture, especially during the first weekend of November. With the New Moon in your sign on November 13th, your intuition is brought even more greatly to the fore, along with the input of important partners. Surprise events and revelations are more than likely as you traverse new psychological territory and continue seeking a synthesis of inner and outer perspectives. All this can be overwhelming, as you scramble for a way of holding steady and taking it all in, as grist for your mill of change. You are forging the basis for a new confidence and in a sense of your own unique principles and values, in spite of everything.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins under the distinct impact of the LibraNew Moon from the middle of last month, initiating a strong thirty-day lunation cycle that still has two weeks to run in the current month. This is related to developments in your sphere of the subconscious, so that it could be profitable to write down your dreams as communications from these little-known internal parts of yourself. Because this New Moon configuration featured Uranus in your seventh sector, relationships in your life, or prospective partners, might light up your life in an unusual way and bring unexpected revelations. The TaurusFull Moon from four days before November 1st also represented a culmination of both inner work and also relationship development opening a different chapter related to your committed partnerships.
Eclipses are connected to longer cycles of change and growth that may take six months to play out. While you also enter the month immersed in the undertow of the Taurus Lunar Eclipse in the final days of October, it may also be with hindsight that you understand the larger impact of these lunations.
From November 1st to the 3rd, the Sun in your sign opposes Jupiter in Taurus, bringing expansion. You might need to beware of too much. Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus from the 3rd to the 4th adds mental excitement, which may align with unexpected news or exciting future-oriented conversations within partnerships. These transits offer an emerging path of purpose and self-acceptance that may inspire radical honesty within your relationships. Considering the current LibraMoon cycle, figuring out how to attend to your needs alongside those of others may first call for an inner inquiry to identify what these are.
Also from the 1st to the 4th, there is a concurrent opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces that brings in the importance of your community, friendships, and long-term goals, as well as themes to do with self-expression, children, and happiness. This transit may speak to an ongoing process of discernment within your social sphere or an artistic project or inspiration you want to collaborate on or share. Perhaps a new dream for your life is crystalizing, as further indicated by Saturn stationing direct in Pisces on the 4th in your creativity sector. This shift could contribute to a sense of isolation, delays, or hard work, also representing slow progress perhaps related a period of particularly since the beginning of Saturn’s retrograde from mid-June.
From the 5th to the 8th, a trine from Venus to Pluto residing in your communications sphere accompanies Venus' departure from Virgo into its home sign of Libra. Renewal in your social connections and long-term goals likely relates to ongoing changes in your mental state, communication and information consumption habits, and the environment you regularly occupy. Venus' ingress into your sector of the subconscious – as the current Libra lunation cycle wanes – emphasizes the role of deeper explorations into your shadows or less known parts of yourself within this process. This transit could align with a feeling of inner wellbeing, where you may be enjoying time alone, working on creative projects behind the scenes, or experiencing the benefits of a spiritual practice.
On the 9th, Mercury moves into Sagittarius, corresponding to your sphere of personal resources and skills, which will pull your focus for the rest of the month and may also brighten your mindset. You may harness the expansive frame of mind offered by this ingress to access new ideas related to your income, assets, or monetizing your gifts. A square from Mercury to Saturn in Pisces on the 9th and 10th may arrive with future-focused thoughts or serious conversations. These could be related to your artistic skills, romantic partners, or children. Saturn's presence may highlight the need for restraint or the burden of limitation around spending due to the evolution of these topics.
The New Moon of November 13th in your sign amplifies the axiomatic truth that new growth emerges from decay, placing a similar stress across your axis of self and other that characterized the Taurus Lunar Eclipse last month. Mars' conjunction with the luminaries, which oppose Uranus in Taurus, indicates that changes in your partnerships now give rise to a new cycle related to your personal development, self-presentation, and identity. Letting go of an attachment or attempts to control a situation may reinvigorate your sense of purpose and potency. With your ruling planet Mars in your sign, or your embodiment sphere, it may be helpful to move energy or anger through your body via exercise or any intense practice that supports physical or emotional release. Accessing the courage to share a vulnerable or complicated part of yourself may energize an existing relationship or allow a more authentic partnership to enter your life.
When the Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th, new frontiers of values, resources, or finances are further emphasized. Both planets encounter Saturn in Pisces by square as they cross this threshold. Saturn's presence could call for restraint around spending due to the evolution of topics related to pleasure, children, and self-expression. These transits may help you conceive of creative approaches to structuring your finances that support you to do more of what you love, or perhaps an evolution in your values now materializes as changes in what you enjoy or spend money on.
The GeminiFull Moon of the 27th lights up your house of personal metamorphosis, intimacy, and joint resources. Pointing to the influence of what was seeded at the New Moon in your identity sector, this is a fulfillment of a certain quality of growth that has carried you far. A square in this lunation from its ruler Mercury, in Sagittarius, to Neptune in Pisces signifies that articulating and feeling into your inspired ambitions helps you access support to materialize them. This could include the merging of resources deriving from intimate relationships or fruitful arrangements of business and creative collaborations. Mars in close range to the Sun and in a fading square to Saturn might aid in severing ties that have kept you stuck. This time could also align with a reality check related to debt or contractual issues. The ongoing friction this month between available resources and going your own way with your creativity may bring up the ways you have managed to earn money from artistic gifts or passions, and offer you the enthusiasm and fortitude to maintain inspiration and propel you away from creative stagnation.
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This is a month with a tricky premise for you, Sagittarius, that you take your interior experience seriously. Your conscious mind is only part of the story – and on some level you already know that; what’s difficult is putting it into practice. That is to say, putting reliance on your moral strength and unique inner purpose and committing to nothing but that. The recent solar eclipse in your sector of social contribution has set the stage for great things to begin to happen with what you bring to the table that benefits the world around you. Friendships and group affiliations are also favored. There will be surprise events and unexpected revelations that arise from these, and that give you a glimpse of illumination regarding your true life purpose. You might find yourself wondering how close you can come to identifying the reason that you came into this particular incarnation. The first weekend of the month could feel like there is a significant shift brewing within your worldview. With the mid-November New Moon of Monday, November 13th, taking place in your sector of dream imagination and inner work, you have another ideal opportunity to get to know your own interior process more fully.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
The month begins in the wake of a significant process set off at the LibraNew Moon eclipse cycle from the middle of last month. Taking place on October 14th, this extra-powerful New Moon initiated in your sector of friends, community, and long-term goals, and continues to evolve over the first half of this current month. With Uranus emphasized there have been unexpected realizations, perhaps having to do with what you are beginning to view as your purpose, your life mission, and also you are seeing how you can incorporate inner understandings and intuitional realizations into your creative performance. When you do, you might also need to be aware of inner wounding that could come up, hopefully for a try at healing and moving past these types of issues.
This recent New Moon was also an eclipse, as was also the TaurusFull Moon and lunar eclipse from four days back – in your sphere of daily work, habits, and health. You enter November amid the commingling tides of the future and your childhood past. Because eclipses can develop over the next six months, these lunations relate to important transitions in your life that will take place into the spring season.
From the 1st to the 3rd, an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to your planetary ruler, Jupiter, in Taurus, places considerable stress as you enter the month across your axis of the subconscious and that of your daily responsibilities and health. This transit signifies that cultivating inner spiritual, emotional, and mental health is intimately bound to your physical wellbeing and daily productivity.
Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus over the 3rd and 4th also suggests acknowledging an inner truth you may have been avoiding or less conscious of. This could help you shift outdated patterns of thought and behavior. Perhaps rapid shifts in your daily life, health, or responsibilities now arrive with an emerging sense of purpose or excitement about the future.
From the beginning of the month until the 4th, an opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces encourages themes emerging from your Pisces sector of home and family. With Venus in your career house, this transit could raise tension or require balance between topics connected to your public profile or sense of calling. and those that are more private and foundational.
On the 4th as well, Saturn stationing direct in Pisces may see the reality of dreams in your Pisces sphere of home and family materializing, to include housing and real estate matters, or familial dynamics, which could slow down or become more committed. A sense of hard-earned progress might be detected in the months since the beginning of Saturn’s retrograde in mid-June.
These transits also point to the importance of flexible structure and inspiration within your living situation or family to offset the limiting and contracting influence of Saturn; which can however provide stability to support your creative expression and pursuit of outer world objectives.
On the 8th, Venus moves into her home sign of Libra, blessing your sector of community, friendship, and long-term ambitions. As the current lunar cycle wanes, this transit implies positive evolution around topics seeded at the eclipse New Moon in Libra. This could emerge as social enjoyment, beneficial artistic collaborations, or camaraderie through community involvement reflecting your values. A trine to Pluto in Capricorn in the days before Venus' ingress brings in the shadow of ongoing change around how you learn a living, assets, and skills, or your communication. You may want to consider the connections you are making and nurturing at this time as valuable resources that support your professional aims or other long-term goals. Sharing your creative work or ambitions may yield you allies.
This is further pointed to by Mercury moving into your sign on the 9th, announcing your sphere of personal ambitions, identity, and self-presentation will pull focus for the rest of the month. Mercury's ingress is characterized by a sextile to Pluto from the 8th, which gives way to a square to Saturn in Pisces over the 9th and 10th—bringing in those transformational Capricorn themes around assets and values, which are linked to foundational realities and your personal trajectory. These transits may see a future-oriented tone to conversations or deeper inner contemplation related to these topics.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on November 13th and opens a new cycle in your inner world and spiritual sphere. This lunation may be confronting due to the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, which form an opposition to Uranus in Taurus. The courageous and liberating qualities of Mars and Uranus offer rejuvenation through engaging with your secret world and the invisible forces that compel you, be it to inspire and energize private projects you are working on or let go of destructive habits that are reinforced by unconscious attachments. Any ongoing avoidance within you may see action forced through the inflammation of conflicts, illness, or unexpected events related to work, health, or everyday routines.
From the 21st to the 22nd, an opposition from Venus in Libra to Chiron in Aries could bring up inner wounding or fears related to self-expression, children, or seeking pleasure, which could also be integrated or worked with through your social connections and collaborations or how you support others in their creative work.
Your season begins on the 22nd when the Sun enters your sign, closely pursued by Mars on the 24th. Both planets encounter Saturn by square as they cross the threshold into your sign, representing identity sphere, calling attention to the connection between foundational topics and your sense of purpose and vitality.
The GeminiFull Moon in your opposite sign takes place on the 27th and illuminates the importance of one-on-one partnerships within the transformation process initiated at the ScorpioNew Moon. Mars' applying conjunction to the Sun in your sign may amplify a clash between personal and shared ambitions. This Full Moon is a natural time of culmination, opening up about more complicated parts of yourself at this time, or your fears, could support a cleansing cycle or reenergize a relationship. Squares from Mercury and Mars in your sign to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, bring up that existential mathematics of knowing when to surrender and when to consciously activate your free will. Having the discernment and courage to let go of something with significant history may offer personal potency and renewal, while sacrificing immediate individual urges could give rise to longer-term rewards and growth gained from commitment to something larger than yourself. These transits also send you inward to your roots, offering the idea that wisdom and meaning can be found through dedication or restructuring related to your family, home, and as well your deep bonds of belonging.
This is a month, Capricorn, about an approach to career and vocation that succeeds in a different way than you might suppose, striking sparks against darker material from within. You are in some ways facing a loss of faith that leads you to a new stage in your spiritual evolution and a new faith in yourself that is not easy to come by, although necessary. There is curiosity and learning in this and intense communication that touches the deepest layers within you. If you encounter inner wounding on this journey it might be rewarding for you to delve more thoroughly into what you can find there, leading to healing and to a more integrated sense of yourself. The November 5th weekend is powerful in its uncertainty, something of a crisis in consciousness. Many brave new ideas are circulating though you and some will land. You could find that this is where the rubber meets the road of a new way forward for yourself. The November 13th ScorpioNew Moon a week later shows you an exit and a new doorway forward and speaks to the fact that ideas have merit only when they are actualized in terms of soulful manifestation.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
This month arrives in the midst of a Libra lunation cycle initiated by the New Moon eclipse from mid-October in your sphere of career, public image, and outer world ambitions. The progression of this lunation cycle continues over the first half of the current month, allowing you to see more deeply into your creative process, which has been going a little wild lately, and also the alignment between your deep principles and moral code on the one hand and your plans and goals on the other.
A Full Moon in Taurus in the final days of October also has illuminated matters related to your self-expression, life enjoyment, and children. As both lunations last month were eclipses, they also relate to longer processes of flux that can take six months to play out. Their combined influence, along with the strong presence of Pluto in sign, may arrive with heightened feelings or uncertainty as you navigate transitional periods within these areas of your life.
November also arrives with an extended influence across your axis of community and creativity via an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio, or your social sector, to Jupiter in Taurus representing your creativity. Your focus is also extended by Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus from the 3rd to the 4th. These transits could align with unexpected news or conversations regarding changes within romantic or social connections, children, or artistic projects that may alter your life goals. Creative rejuvenation or progress could emerge through collaboration or sharing your inspiration and ideas with others.
From the beginning of the month to the 4th, a concurrent opposition adds to this story from Venus in Virgo – or your sector of higher mind and life philosophies – to Neptune in Pisces – your third house of communication and local environment. Virgo, for you, also governs, foreign lands, and education. This could symbolize increased involvement or friction within a friendship or community related to the evolution of your larger values systems or worldview. It may simply be that you no longer enjoy the same activities as you once did or that empathy motivates activism through community service.
Your planetary ruler Saturn moving direct in Pisces on the 4th, combined with the influence of Venus in cerebral Virgo, suggests psychological and spiritual healing or maturation could emerge through learning and expanding your perspective. As oppositions are often projected outward and experienced through your relationships with others and the world, you have the opportunity to deeply consider or reorient your participation within such dynamics, including the way you engage in disagreements, consume information and social media, and use your voice.
Venus brings blessings to your professional realms when the planet ingresses its home sign of Libra on the 8th. As the current lunar cycle wanes, Venus' trine to Pluto in Capricorn on departure from Virgo points to the influence of ongoing personal metamorphosis on topics seeded at the LibraNew Moon. Perhaps you are reconsidering the values informing your ambitions or public image, or personal growth or skill development is yielding benefits in your work environment.
Mercury's entrance into Sagittarius on the 9th announces an emerging focus on your subconscious and spiritual realms. Mercury's entry is also characterized by a sextile to Pluto from before the ingress, which gives way to a square to Saturn in Pisces over the 9th and 10th. This combination of transits links shifts in your identity sector or your resources to subconscious process that deserves further exploration. Your dreams might tell you more about what is up with you right now. While the early days of Mercury's entrance into Sagittarius could arrive with a more serious or future-oriented tone to conversations or private contemplation, the ingress in general will likely uplift your inner landscape and sense of self-knowledge. This goal may perhaps be gained through solitude, inner reflection, and sitting with ideas to let them evolve or integrate slowly.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on the 13th, and features a potent triple conjunction of the Sun and Moon with Mars. All three celestial bodies oppose Uranus in Taurus presenting a highly-charged beginning of a new cycle in your sphere of community, friendship, and long-term goals. This lunation supports social rejuvenation and also may inflame discord or hit you with sudden events and realizations. if you have been tip-toeing around an issue you feel strongly about, this timing might push you to be abruptly more direct. Having the courage to go your own way and to stand for what you believe in can be quite powerful… allowing you to unleash creative potency and make room for connections that offer depth over drama and allies to support your ambitions. These transits could stimulate reactivity; and you can in this case also lean into the wisdom of Saturn in your house of communication, offering up gifts of discernment about what must actually be said and when it might be best to be silent.
From the 21st to the 22nd, an opposition from Venus in Libra to Chiron in Aries may activate inner wounding around belonging and security stemming from early childhood trauma, along with the opportunity to work at healing such issues. This could relate to an interaction with a colleague or inhabiting a professional role versus more private needs. While potentially painful, what is coming up for you will aid in self-understanding and resource you to help and connect to others with depth and compassion.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets meet Saturn by square as they make their entrance, again connecting your sphere of the mind and local environment with your subconscious and spiritual realms. Perhaps a less social phase emerges as you devote energy and time to mastering new skills or studies. Saturn's presence in this sphere of your chart can align with periods of melancholia or depression; however, these transits offer the gift of sustained commitment to what inspires you.
The GeminiFull Moon on the 27th illuminates the importance of your daily work, habits, and health within the lunar cycle initiated at the ScorpioNew Moon. Squares from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, point to the psychological and energetic effects of your inner monologue and what you feed your mind regularly, which influence your health and daily productivity. This lunation may help you acknowledge and release outdated patterns of thought and behavior by inflaming inner conflict, isolation, or habituated coping mechanisms. The Full Moon is a natural time of release, so that engaging with more complicated parts of yourself and your fears supports this cleansing cycle. Speaking with a wise confidante may offer a helpful perspective. Committing to ongoing mental and spiritual development is another way that you can energize your sense of purpose, support your health, and open space within you for more kinship and authentic relationship with others.
This is a month, Aquarius, of continuing your process from mid-October of getting your worldview more completely aligned with your inner values. The astrology of these two monthly cycles favors intuition over logic, a factor which might be helpful to you as you stretch your learning curve to accommodate broader ideas that are yet more specific to your own store of inner wisdom. This fall represents an entirely transformational period for you, leading to the new 2024 year and the re-entrance of Pluto into your sign, pretty much to stay for the following two decades. As you feel into this transition, your principles and private values are allowed to come more to the fore as guideposts revealing what you uniquely bring to the world. The first weekend of November brings key partnerships into this picture of your evolving worldview, while the ScorpioNew Moon of the 13th brings greater attention to your work in the outer world. This is a significant last half of the month for you, outlining the ways in which what you do as your vocation serves, at its best, as a reflection of where your own inner understanding is taking you.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November arrives midway through the Libra lunation cycle initiated by the mid-October New Moon eclipse in that sign corresponding to your sphere of expanded spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual horizons, which continues to develop throughout the first two weeks of the current month. This powerful lunation highlighted themes of higher mind in association with our sector of communication and learning, with an emphasis also on your home and family as subject to exciting ad ever newer possibilities that have been percolating for quite some time over these past few months.
The TaurusFull Moon from the weekend before the November month began illuminated the influence of topics within this lunar cycle related to home, family, and belonging. The energetic undertow of the Taurus lunar eclipse could represent closing a chapter in your home and family sphere dating back to late 2021, the former eclipse sequence across the Taurus-Scorpio axis. Because both these recent lunations were eclipses, they also relate to larger life cycles that may take six months to evolve.
Pressure across your Taurus-Scorpio axis continues in the early days of the month due to an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus, emphasizing the connection between your career and public image and home and family concerns including those referencing your psychological roots. Your focus there is extended on the 3rd and the 4th by Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus, which may have you reconsidering how you share your voice in the world. You may wish you could ditch a curated approach in favor of expressing your unique perspective. It also points to an expansion around notions of family and kinship, where you might extend networks of belonging and inclusion outward through what you publicly contribute. While these transits can elevate instability and arrive with unexpected news or change, they also suggest emerging progress and future-oriented inspiration.
From the beginning of the month to the 4th, a concurrent opposition from Venus in Virgo to Neptune in Pisces adds to this story. With Venus in your sphere of personal transformation, shared assets, and intimacy, this encounter with Neptune in your sector of personal resources and skills implies material investment and energetic support from others can help you manifest a dream related to your talents, business, or finances.
On the 4th, also, Saturn's station direct – when he is standing stock still in the sky – could see a more prominent influence for the limitations and contractions of the archetypal senex, located in your sector of resources and finances, perhaps indicating a more arduous period of work or delays. There will also be an increased focus there from this point on, even after Saturn starts speeding up toward the end of the month.
On the 8th, Venus departs Virgo to enter Libra, suggesting that inner metamorphosis and healing that was active as the month began can contribute to your understanding of the world around you, and also to your own belief system. You can expect release through shifts in intellectual or spiritual expansion, or, perhaps, overseas travel. Since Venus rules both Libra and Taurus, her ingress may help you to hold ambivalence or conflicting truths as you explore more complicated parts of your psyche or navigate transitional periods in your life.
Mercury's entrance into Sagittarius on the 9th announces an emerging focus for you in realms of community, friendship, and long-term goals, which may arrive with a sense of enthusiastic enjoyment and camaraderie within your social networks. A square to Saturn in Pisces on the 9th and 10th additionally brings in topics of your finances, skills, and self-esteem. Conversations with collaborators and allies may take on a weighty tone. This also could relate to deeper consideration about what you want to communicate with a larger audience as you recognize your gifts to uplift and inspire others.
The ScorpioNew Moon arrives on the 13th, and activates new beginnings or innovative renewal in your professional sphere. Due to the presence of Mars conjunct the luminaries, this lunation may be confronting and there is also formed a triple opposition to Uranus in Taurus. This New Moon could point to a tension between your professional ambitions and your family or living situation or an eruption of conflict with authority figures. While change can be slow in the fixed earth sign of Taurus, the presence of Uranus there, plus last month’s Taurus lunar eclipse, points to an ongoing rejuvenation process supported by this lunation cycle. Authentically sharing your gifts with the world may lead to the alteration of repeating patterns within your family lineage.
From the 21st to the 22nd, an opposition from Venus in Libra to Chiron in Aries may activate inner wounding around mental health, learning, and self-advocacy that stem from early foundational experiences. Perhaps your philosophical or existential explorations or a relationship with a teacher or mentor now support integration. While painful to confront, by sharing your experiences and perspective, you may support healing in others.
The Sun enters Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets encounter a square with Saturn in Pisces as they cross this threshold. This could slow things down still further. Your time and energy are valuable resources; and this set of transits also relates to restructuring your community participation toward what feels energizing and purposeful. While you likely have allies to help you get where you want to go, this could also bring up concepts of scarcity, be it material anxieties or fears of others appropriating your ideas.
The Full Moon in Gemini on the 27th takes place in your sphere of self-expression, pleasure, and children, illuminating the influence of these topics on your career ambitions or public roles. Squares from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively, bring in matters related to your collaborative creative projects and communicative talents. You may want to consider offsetting vagueness by taking a pragmatic approach to your money, values, and resources, including skills you share. This time could also indicate deceit or lack of clarity among colleagues, groups, or friendships. These transits arrive with an expanded perspective on new structures of mutual aid or cooperative methods to achieve goals for the future. The ongoing friction between your social sector, represented by the Sagittarius planets, and your values and resources, where Saturn is located, may amplify situations of stagnation, or else offer the enlivening potential of renegotiating or walking away from something with history. It also speaks to the wisdom inherent to fixed signs like yours – the power of committing to what inspires you even though it may take a formidable amount of effort for it to materialize.
This is a powerful month for you, Pisces, especially with Saturn stationing in its first week in the first degree of your sign. Saturn implies stability and responsibility in a way that enhances your own internal principles and values. A process of deep reflection enables you to see how the limitations inherent in the Saturnian archetype lend form and substance to your own evolutionary journey into greater wholeness. You are transforming your sense of who you are, and your identity as related to important others in your life. As you explore your own growth to the exclusion of all else, a sense of isolation can also be part of this. You might discover within yourself a fear of change, although by a flip of consciousness this fear can be seen as illusory, as part of the greater realization that life itself is change. The ScorpioNew Moon of the 13th comes along as a second stage in this monthly cycle, a time when you can more fully embrace changing beliefs and worldview with the acceptance of your own moral compass and inner guidance as the only necessary basis for your sense of self-advocacy.
The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com
November begins with the lunation cycle still vibrating from the recent LibraNew Moon and solar eclipse from mid-October that took place in your sphere of personal metamorphosis, shared resources, and intimacy. This lunation cycle continues to evolve throughout the first two weeks of November, and in part represents your process of spiritual progress itself, which is greatly enhanced in this season of expanded evolution and intimacy. Your intuition is blazing and tells you true, even when logic fails – or perhaps, especially then. The TaurusFull Moon from the tail end of October, four days before the November days got underway, emphasized the influence of matters connected to your mind, communication, and local environment.
Since both lunations last month were eclipses, they relate to longer cycles of change and growth that may be beyond the bounds of conscious control, with effects that reverberate over the next six months.
November also arrives under the influence, from the 1st to the 3rd, of an opposition from the Sun in Scorpio to Jupiter in Taurus, extending the steep learning curve indicated by the timing of the Taurus Lunar Eclipse across your spheres of the mind and worldview.
From the 3rd to the 4th, Mercury's opposition to Uranus in Taurus adds to this focus. These transits may point to cognitive dissonance, illuminating a disconnect between your higher ideals and actions or contradictions in your values systems. Perhaps this awareness motivates you to expand your perspective through a spiritual or intellectual path or helps you release outdated modes of thought or communication habits, including internet and technology use.
From the beginning of the month until the 4th, a concurrent opposition from Venus in your opposite sign of Virgo to Neptune, your ruler, in your sign, brings partners into the picture. This also might involve connecting shifts in your mental and physical environment to your identity expression. This opposition may emphasize the role of projection or a lack of reciprocity in relational dynamics, possibly associated with intimacy, money, or other material enmeshments linked to the Libra lunation cycle.
On the 4th, Saturn in Pisces stationing direct in your sign, representing your sector of embodiment and independence, could point to an emerging inner sovereignty that influences your approach to your partners. A more challenging period or delays, or a sense of limitation could ensue; gradually easing off by month’s end. This timing may also arrive with a sense of progress in relation to to a personal goal declared in the beginning of its retrograde period in mid-June.
Venus her home sign of Libra on the 8th. The co-presence of Saturn and Neptune in your identity sector as Venus prepares to leave Virgo, squaring Pluto in the process, could bring up a disconnect around how you imagined a relationship might look or feel and the pragmatic realities of how it manifests over time. Venus' ingress could help you hold vacillation and simultaneous needs for independence and connectedness within your intimate connections with more ease. Releasing an urge for perfection in partnerships may also support depth and evolution in your current relationship or open space for new ones to take form. As the Libra lunation cycle wanes, this ingress may align with a feeling of shared abundance, with a focus on collaboration or personal evolution and self-understanding.
On the 9th, the following day, Mercury moves into Sagittarius, which indicates the possibility of a positive boost to your mindset, enlivening your professional realms or sense of calling. Before its ingress, Mercury’s departure from Scorpio is accompanied by a sextile to Pluto, which gives way to Mercury’s square to Saturn in Pisces on the 9th and 10th. These transits connect ongoing changes in your community participation, friendships, and long-term dreams to your career and individual trajectory. This time could align with serious conversations about ambitions and career, including renegotiation around contracts to reflect your expertise or new vocational projects. Conversations within your wider social networks may broaden your perspective, or your ability to inspire others might attract collaborators and connections to support your vision. With Venus and Mars in their home signs of Libra and Scorpio, you have significant planetary allies that may offer material and energetic backing as well as spiritual or intellectual resources and networking.
The ScorpioNew Moon lands on November 13th, with Mars conjunct the Sun and Moon, as all three celestial bodies oppose Uranus in Taurus. This presents a highly-charged beginning of a new cycle related to spiritual, philosophical, and intellectual expansion and long-distance travel. This lunation supports rejuvenation but may inflame discord if you have been less than assertive around an issue you feel strongly about. Having the courage to advocate for what you want, or take action that aligns with your ethics – or even change your mind as your understanding evolves – can offer you a chance to reclaim your purpose and vitality. Alternatively, you may be planning an overseas trip that will expose you to an entirely new environment or perspective. These transits stimulate reactivity, so that you can lean into the wisdom of Saturn in your sign, which offers you many gifts of discernment about what must be said and when to be silent. There is a power that arises from sitting with ideas to let them develop and integrate over time.
Your professional sphere is further emphasized with the Sun's entrance into Sagittarius on the 22nd, closely followed by Mars on the 24th. Both planets make a square to Saturn in Pisces as they approach and then cross this threshold, indicating you could potentially run into snags, and that also, for the long-term, you will have the will and fortitude to energize personal and professional endeavors.
The Full Moon in Gemini on the 27th illuminates your sector of home, family, and belonging, influencing what was seeded at the ScorpioNew Moon two weeks prior. Mars' applying conjunction to the Sun in Sagittarius could amplify friction between your vocation and home life, including real estate and property matters. An ongoing tension between your spheres of identity and career is emphasized by squares from Mercury and Mars in Sagittarius to Neptune and Saturn in Pisces, respectively. Frustration or a clash with an authority figure might be what propels you out of stagnation or self-attributed obligation to a role, either professional or otherwise. This could possibly be related to getting wise to or somewhat releasing familial conditioning. This could free up energy or inspire a new approach to structuring your home; perhaps one that also supports your outer world ambitions. While good ideas and inspiration come and go, with Saturn co-present with Neptune in your sign, or your sphere of identity and embodiment, you have significant power to materialize a dream. A combination of perseverance, creative visioning, and strategic planning might help bring ideas into form.