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 Scorpio New 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 Taurus Full 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 Libra New 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 Scorpio New 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 Scorpio New 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.

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 Taurus Full 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 Scorpio New 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, 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 Scorpio New 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 Libra New 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 Scorpio New 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 Gemini Full Moon on the 27th illuminates the importance of your daily work, habits, and health within the lunar cycle initiated at the Scorpio New 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 Scorpio New 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 Taurus Full 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 Scorpio New 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.