November is going to be a very busy month with lots of important shifts and transitions
as major planetary players change signs!
The fate train reaches another station this week in what lines up to be the most important week of the year.
SUNDAY - Pallas enters Libra
MONDAY - Venus conjuncts Ceres
TUESDAY - Uranus retrogrades back into Aries, Sun trines Neptune, the North Node retrogrades from Leo into CANCER and the South Node from Aquarius into CAPRICORN
WEDNESDAY - New Moon at 15 degrees Scorpio
THURSDAY - Jupiter comes home to Sagittarius (
first time in 12 years!)
FRIDAY - Jupiter trines the North and South Nodes (
Cancer/Capricorn), Venus trines Mars
We are off! I have to write this post in two parts - let's unpack the energies leading up to the New Moon first.
We start the week with a focus on our
relationships.
On
SUNDAY, Pallas (
warrior Goddess, strategy, tactics, problem solving) moves into diplomatic and balanced (
although indecisive!) Libra - the sign Venus rules and recently backed into, and also home to Ceres right now.
Our interactions with other people/our relationships will benefit by applying the strategy of civility - we cooperate, we develop win-wins. In negotiations - it's time to
listen. We'll want to make the other person feel
that we are connecting with them. Kindness and politeness become
tactics now. Contracts need to be fair.
Think about the difference between saying to someone, when you agree with them - "that's right" vs. "you're right". The second invites
connection. This is what we want now. Note - this doesn't mean agreeing when we disagree, that pink-paint Libra likes to pour over problems, but it does mean seeking common ground if there is any!
As our relationship interactions/alliances/dealings with enemies (
Libra rules our collective 7th house) become more strategic, the stuff that isn't working for us - the patterns that need to shift - will become more obvious and we will have to deal with them (
Pallas is going to move through Libra three times!)
.
Pallas is going to get to the very end of Libra in mid-to-late February and then turn retrograde and reverse course, so these "relationship patterns/tactics" are something we are going to be back and forth over until August 26, 2019 when she moves on to Scorpio.
On
MONDAY, the Moon (
in Libra) squares Pluto (
in Capricorn) and trines Mars. This is another week that kicks off with stressful Scorpio tension - life/death, taxes, banking, big money, other people's resources/money,
loans, inheritances, insurance, sex, reproduction, intimacy, secrets,
third party situations, power plays/struggles, obsessions, control,
jealousy, manipulations, karmic situations. With the Moon in Libra this will be about relationships and other people. The trine to Mars tells us we are taking action to get what we want.
Venus retrograding through her home sign of Libra, bumps into Ceres, so issues around what and how we are "nurturing" are likely. Do we give too much? Do we give too little? In Libra, balance is the goal now.
We could also be dealing with situations that deal with the 'seasons of our life' - the proper
timing of things.
With Pallas, newly housed in Libra for a long stay, and trining the South Node (
still in Aquarius for one more day -!- an Aquarian theme is likely - detachment, distraction, the ways we or someone else didn't show up fully, the ways someone didn't fit in) whatever we are dealing with has its roots in the past.
Trines are "brakes off" aspects. the energies work together smoothly - sometimes so smoothly we don't even notice. So, you won't have to push with this one. Employ a Libran strategy (
Pallas in Libra) - we will probably do this naturally - try kindness, civility, diplomacy.
Develop something fair.
Tonight the Sun (
in Scorpio) is trining Neptune (
in Pisces).
This
is 'brakes off' with the dream/healing as long as we are not in total
lala-land with whatever we are dealing with. All this water will make
whatever is happening now uber EMOTIONAL. Again we won't have to push
with this - something just slides into place.
Meditation/prayer for clarity is powerful now.
This is powerfully in play on Tuesday also.
TUESDAY is HUGE -
Uranus (
sudden change, chaos, disruption) retrogrades out of Taurus (
our Taurus house that starting shaking back in May will temporarily stabilize!) and back into Aries for his final few months after which Uranus will not be back in Aries for 84 years.
We can expect the unexpected when Uranus changes signs - and today is the mid-term elections in the United States!
Our Aries house - some situation in our life - lulled into an uneasy slumber since May, is awake
again. Keep in mind we have been here before so these won't be
totally new issues. New situations could be triggered though. We have four months to finish the stuff we have been dealing with since Uranus first went into Aries in 2010. One way or another it's done for 84 years when Uranus gets back into Taurus again in March.
With Uranus in Aries issues around - initiative, fresh starts, our brand, anger management, what we are willing to do to get what we want, independence - are likely to play out. Uranus comes in like a lightning bolt and shakes things up.
Now with three planetary bodies (
I am including Pallas and Ceres) in Libra and erratic Uranus now shaking up the masculine (
Aries/Mars) and his exit stabilizing the feminine (
Taurus/Venus) AND the North Node (
collective way forward) moving into lunar-ruled Cancer -
our collective feminine energy is setting up for a resurgence when Venus turns direct in a few days.
Uranus is going to continue to square the Nodes of Fate - they change signs on the same day, so they squared from Taurus to Leo/Aquarius and now will square from Aries to Cancer/Capricorn!
The Nodes of the Moon (
always retrograding backward) move from Leo/Aquarius to Cancer/Capricorn TODAY. The Capricorn stuff that isn't working is ripe for release. Cancer is our way forward.
We are trying to start something new - the Nodes are moving into cardinal signs, so what are we starting? - but there is still something that needs to break loose/breakthrough/breakup - that square to future-oriented Uranus - before we can get going!
The South Node in Capricorn speaks of breaking away from a boundary, a limit, something that
appears to stabilize us, an actual physical structure, the way we have always done it, the things we do in the outer world to stay safe, the way we move through our career/public life, a commitment, a responsibility, a rule, GUILT, the patriarchy (
?) - we will talk about this more as we move through it.
The good news for everyone tired of reading - "follow your heart, take your center stage, make yourself proud, take care of the children/your inner child" - I won't be saying that anymore - at least not until the planets start moving through Leo next year!
If you have been reading my blog long enough you might remember when I was writing about - finding our flock (
North Node Libra), doing the thing that is right in front of us, taking care of the details (
North Node Virgo), following our heart, taking the center stage (
North Node Leo) -
now with the North Node moving into sensitive Cancer (
ruler of mothers, mothering, babies, home, family, real estate, home businesses) for the next 18 months we will be talking about being more sensitive, more vulnerable, "moving home", mother/mothering issues - our mother's body was our first "home", the home we carry within us, patriotism, history, the security that comes from inside us, needing/creating a space to feel safe.
This is a year and a half journey and we are only at the very first step! But what energetics in play for the mid-terms, huh?! Anyone who doubts astrology need only
look up and then out at what is happening in the world.
So Tuesday features surprises and also opportunities.
On
WEDNESDAY the Scorpio Moon meets the Scorpio Sun at 15 degrees
(right on my ascendant) giving us our annual New Moon in Scorpio.
This one is mega-powerful - maybe
the most powerful New Moon of the year.
I will write a post tomorrow.
Scorpian energy is extremely effective at lining us up with what we are wanting to line up with - so you MUST set your monthly New Moon intentions this week. This needs to be a
conscious thing.
With Pluto ruling this New Moon some things will be outside our control, but it won't be a good idea to let our course be determined by our random thoughts and desires. We need to get real with this because life really can make it real for us. And with Saturn in Capricorn whatever we take on now - we have signed on the dotted line - we own it.
Then, after the New Moon and exactly with his own perfect timing - Jupiter makes his move - the one we have all been waiting for - on Thursday coming home to Sagittarius and then trines the Nodes of Fate on Friday!
This week is
HUGE. Underline that a few times.
Whatever you are dealing with now is
important. Treat it as such.
Back tomorrow!
xo all
