Hard not to mention the presidential election in the United States this month. With so much at stake, with the country divided so deeply, ignoring the election would be to pretend a tiger wasn’t in the room. However, rather than focusing on who will win the election, our energy is better spent on the cosmic themes November has planned for us.
All the Novembers of our lives have to do with
transformation. This is Scorpio’s month.
The middle month of autumn, November prepares us for impending wintertime, the
final dissemination of leaves and seeds merging into Mother Earth, building
equity for fresh spring cycles yet to be.
The harvest is now done. We take
our earthly riches and fold them carefully away to feast upon through darker
days ahead.
Scorpio and its ruler Pluto govern the underside, the shadow,
dirty unmentionables swept under the rug that no one wants to acknowledge. Yet therein lies our greatest treasure: the forgotten, neglected, disabused pieces of
ourselves, like leaves and stems shed, discarded into the earth which form the
delicious soil for tomorrow’s harvest.
Like a bulldozer, Pluto and the energy of Scorpio pulls back
the proverbial cover, curtain, or carpet insisting we take long, deep looks at
the underbelly of our lives, examining the psychologically discarded remnants
of our upbringing, ancestral patterns and ancient traumas. Time to name it and claim it: shame, guilt, abandonment, dismissed,
overlooked and on and on.
And so the work begins, the very first day of November with
the New Moon in Scorpio. Two narratives
offer distinct options as to our unearthing approach: gut wrenching heavy lifting OR a mysteriously
alluring detective game. Both require
time, effort and focused attention. Our expectations and headspace set the tone
for the work to be done: pure drudgery
and toil OR a wild chase of a treasure hunt to find what lurks beneath. I suggest employing the latter. Always choose the more interesting path.
Either way, our excavation begins immediately on Friday,
November 1st with the New Moon in Scorpio. The Scorpio Sun and Moon
align helpfully to Taskmaster Saturn in Pisces to cleanse and clear away the
debris. The planetary trio intensifies our sensitivities now; so trust your intuition. You do not need to know why or how something or someone makes
you feel. Simply acknowledge your gut instincts. Reasons and understanding will follow later
on.
Turns out, later on is right around the corner. Over the
weekend, Messenger Mercury turns into Sagittarius joining Valuable Venus and
briefly the Moon on November 3rd and 4th. These three illuminate what is being uncovered
to better understand what we are seeing.
What lessons are we learning from our experience? Take the high road now and ask how you can
integrate the experiences so you do not repeat the lessons. This path serves you well and is less arduous
in the long run. Still, many who don’t immediately
get what they want, what they believe they deserve, or are entitled to, will
choose to lawyer up, as the law and legal realm is ruled by Sagittarius.
By Monday, November 4th, Motivating Mars shifts
into Leo, opposing older sibling Pluto.
Bear in mind, Election Day is nigh. This is the energy at play when you
cast your vote. Mars and Pluto have tangled since the end of October and
continue through all of November. Traveling
through polar ends of the zodiac, Mars and Pluto raise our awareness about how
to creatively problems solve for the masses, aka, give the people what they
want.
How they go about delivering the goods involves completely
different approaches.
An interior planet close to Earth, Mars makes its presence
felt. In Look-at-Me Leo, Mars creates a cacophony of drama and noise. This is not good or bad, positive or
negative. It simply is; especially Mars
opposing Capricorn Pluto which draws a final, definitive line in the sand. Pluto hits a crescendo on election week and
will not return to Capricorn for another 240 years. Talk about an emphatic, underscored, italicized
and bold print finale!
Capricorn writes unmistakably in black and white on the
great karmic ledger. It rules time and timing.
Capricorn says: the cosmic slate
is balanced now. Just don’t expect
outcomes or results to be willingly swallowed or the losers to go quietly or
gently into that good night. Not with Mars
in Leo opposite.
Stay on your side of
the fence says Valuable Venus as she turns into Capricorn on Monday,
November 11th. Not exactly
warm and fuzzy in hard-as-a-rock Capricorn, Venus cracks the whip now. She tells us to put on our big boy and girl
pants, to deal head on with the circumstances at hand. Through mid-month, Venus challenges the north
and south lunar nodes, playing arbiter and mediator between those picking
fights and those making nice, trying to appeal to all sides. No nonsense Capricorn sticks to the facts and
insists on responsibility and integrity.
Discipline and honor are infinitely emphasized as Taskmaster
Saturn, ruler of Capricorn itself, turns direct motion on Thursday, November 14th
. In Pisces, Saturn distills and discerns what exactly we believe. It is no
accident that Saturn, Lord of Karma, shifts forward motion on the eve of the
Full Moon. The heavens are not messing
around now. The week leading up to the
Full Moon is heavy indeed. We feel every
ounce of its weight and gravitas.
Tightly conjoined to Radical Uranus, the Full Moon in Taurus
aligns to Powerful Pluto. They’re deadly
serious. Think earthquakes and
earsplitting thunderclaps. This is one
great awakener calling us to get our
values straight. Lives and
livelihoods are at stake. We are shown
in vivid color what and whom really matter, are distinctly important, including
our own dreams, talents, and assets.
Talk about clarity!
The Awakening continues as Pluto moves into Aquarius on
Tuesday, November 19th. We’ve
been given a taste of Pluto in this non-mainstream sign earlier in 2024 but
now, Pluto is here to stay in innovative Aquarius through 2043….! Imagine what the world will look like
then. Humanitarian yet avant garde,
Aquarius marches to its own drum. Consider
the last time Pluto cycled through Aquarius, 1777-1798, two revolutions
occurred: in France where royal heads rolled and Great Britain vs. its own
colonies, forming the United States of America.
Watch now as the collective rises to claim its rightful
place. The Old Order is done now, giving
way to the New World Order championing the people. First, though, creation and giving birth are very
messy indeed. Do not expect a neat and tidy process. Manage your expectations of how to navigate
this time. Remember: there is nothing to fear as long as you speak
from the heart and operate truthfully.
Truth and honesty are the watchwords as the Sun turns into freedom-loving
Sagittarius on Thursday, November 21st. What the Sun excavated while in Scorpio now
shines its light of truth on for all to see. Over the next month, the Sun gradually pairs with
Messenger Mercury in Sagittarius, forming a difficult angle, also known as a
HOT MESS, as the pair opposes Jupiter in Gemini and challenge Neptune in
Pisces. Con artists and spin doctors
thrive feeding on this energy. Beware and be
aware.
How to manage? Take a beat and listen, really tune into
your intuition, your gut instincts. Pay attention to your common sense
reasoning. Dip beneath the layers, below the surface and ask intentional,
open-ended questions. Let others do the talking, wait for their replies and
really listen to the meaning behind their words. The need for this increases
that much more heading into Thanksgiving when Mercury turns retrograde on
Tuesday, November 26th.
Snarled traffic and delayed flights? You bet.
So leave plenty of extra time to get to your destination.
The start to the holiday shopping season is at hand. I am a glass half-full kinda gal and
astrologer but we are entering a lengthy period of re-sets through spring of
2025. It is helpful to look at the next
five months as a time of preparation as all three interior planets, Mercury,
Venus and Mars will be retrograde from late November 2024 through early April
2025.
We are taking a few steps back to do some much-needed
interior work before we can firmly and confidently move forward. Very little
traction and progress will be had. Set your expectations accordingly. Practice the RE words for sure: rest, restore, renew, research, relax, etc,
knowing that this too shall pass. After
all, we got through Covid; we can get through this.
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