We start the week, and month, coming off Saturday's exact Sun square Saturn stop sign/reality check/truth bomb. Whatever this 'brought to light/unearthed' for us last week, we can expect it to NOT be a one-and-done or unwind quickly.
The Moon, following in the Sun's footsteps, will square Saturn just hours before Thursday's New Moon AND on November 10th (now here's some gnarly astro), the Moon will meet Saturn and square Mars, who will, of course, also be squaring Saturn. All of this is happening with Saturn at 7 degrees Aquarius, so people with planets/points nearest to 7 degrees of the fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius) will be feeling this the strongest.
Thursday's New Moon in Scorpio will be EXACTLY opposing 'anything-can-happen' Uranus - although with Uranus retrograde whatever this churns up for us will not be totally unexpected. The next day, two of our inner/personal planets change signs - a strong indicator that changes are in store this week for many people and probably all of us.
Also with Venus heading into sober Cappy and Mercury into powerful Scorpio - it's TIME TO GET SERIOUS, PEOPLE!
November and December are not for sissies - more about that in the New Moon post.
Let's unpack the week!
MONDAY - Mercury trines Jupiter, Sun trines Pallas
TUESDAY - Mercury squares Pluto
THURSDAY - Sun opposes Uranus, New Moon in Scorpio (12 degrees)
FRIDAY - Venus enters Capricorn UNTIL MARCH! Mercury enters Scorpio
SATURDAY - Mercury sextiles Venus
On MONDAY, Mercury (flying through the end of Libra FINALLY) trines Jupiter (in Aquarius) at the powerful 22nd degree. Still covering old territory until he/she gets to 26 degrees Libra on the Scorpio New Moon (Thursday) - today's trine is a repeating aspect from September 20th and October 3rd, so there could be a connection NOW to information/communications from THEN. This is our final pass through here with both planets direct. Positive, expansive conversations. Opportunities. Faith/hope. Reach out. Talk to people. Remember Mercury is STILL in Libra, so think - cordial, social, diplomatic, fair.
At the same time, the Sun in Scorpio is trining (more brakes off) Pallas in fellow water sign Pisces. The Sun in Scorpio is energized by the stuff we don't always want to talk about/look at. The smooth flow to a gentler/compassionate Pallas makes it easier to see/feel very old patterns/escape mechanisms/self-sabotaging tendencies. We can also more easily forgive/seek forgiveness. Pallas in Pisces pulls divine wisdom/inner knowing into today's mix. At the same time, the Sun's 'search for truth' in deep Scorpio can allow us to see any ways our Pallas has gone off track in nonlinear/watery Pisces - seeing patterns that don't exist/connecting dots that shouldn't be connected, etc.
On TUESDAY, Mercury squares Pluto (at 24 degrees Capricorn). This is a repeating aspect, too, and pulls in tension/frustration with our goals/authority/career/Cappy house theme. Coming right after the high-flying Mercury/Jupiter makes it obvious some real-world responsibilities/security issues will pull us back down to Earth. Here is also where any power imbalances/passive-aggressive energies (saying one thing when we or they mean something else altogether) could be highlighted. Manipulation. Threats. Fear of what might be lost/dying. Our thinking obsessive/feeling like life and death. Again, we've been here before - this ain't our first rodeo. This is Mercury's FINAL aspect in partnership-focused Libra before we merge/purge in Scorpio - what do we own here/what have we contributed to whatever this mess is. Taking our power back means taking responsibility for whatever we are projecting onto other people. What needs to go/stop.
On THURSDAY, the Scorpio Moon meets the Scorpio Sun at 12 degrees EXACTLY opposing a retrograde Uranus. It's SURPRISE - BIG REVEAL TIME even with these dark skies.
Expect a BIG post.
This is also the day Mercury starts covering new ground in Libra, so new conversations/information/ideas are pulled into the New Moon's brave new story-line!
On FRIDAY - Venus enters Capricorn - until March, yes, I said March, due to her upcoming retrograde and Mercury dives into Scorpio (finally leaving Libra after his/her long retrograde) until November 24th. What we want changes. The conversations changes. With two personal planets changing signs and a New Moon opposing Uranus in the same week, everyone will have SOMETHING new going on.
Venus enters Capricorn. This is a LONG and important transit where she will cross the January 2020 'time runs out' degree THREE times and deal with Pluto - still hanging out in 'time runs out' territory - THREE times. Expect a BIG post.
In the meantime, in general, Venus (love, money, women, values, self-esteem, beauty) moves into Capricorn today. Capricorn is the sign of structure and discipline. In Capricorn season (winter)
these are the qualities that kept our ancestors alive. When Venus
visits this space of the heavens these are the qualities that help us
attract what we want and need.
Capricorn Suns and Risings get more attractive now (both more able to attract what they want and easier on the eye). Our Capricorn houses (natal) become more attractive, too.
This is the time to get serious with Venus ruled themes.Where are we investing our resources - our time, esteem, relationships, resources, money? What are we
getting back? Are we putting a whole lot of time into one thing, but all
our revenue is coming from this other thing? Sometimes this is ok, but maybe it's not. It's time to check in with ourselves. Venus in Capricorn is an excellent time for organizing our finances so we can attract more money that sticks. I used to be a Bank Manager and noticed that how a person
attracted/earned their money usually correlated to how sticky that money
was later. And I once wasted a ridiculous amount of money on something I hadn't
done enough research on because the money had come to me too easily - a
way my self-esteem, at that time, couldn't line up with.
Venus in Capricorn allows us to recognize we attract what we earn (ie if we've attracted it with Venus in Cappy rest assured we HAVE earned it), so we get to KEEP it. Tradition will become a focus - the way something has always been done.
This doesn't mean we have to continue doing things the way we've always
done them, but these things will come to our attention now.
We get more serious about love, too. If something isn't going anywhere, this can be the transit we cut it loose. Our focus returns to what is real. We attract stability and longer lasting success/love/money by finishing what we start and honoring our commitments. This is all just general Venus in Cappy stuff, this year's transit is a bit different and more amped up and we will talk about that in its own post.
Mercury enters Scorpio. The planet of communication (Mercury) ingresses into the sign of power, transformation and secrets (Scorpio) until November 24th.
This is excellent energy for deep (Scorpio) investigation/research (Mercury). Instead of learning/thinking/communicating about a little of this and a
little of that, now is the time to go "all in" with a subject we are
passionate about.
Our mind can focus. Is this still true with the internet/youtube/facebook/pinterest/instagram/tiktok, well we are going to find out. Multi-tasking will be harder because our intellect will want to sit with one thing for longer than we usually do. We will be getting to the bottom of things and will not be satisfied with Libra's (Mercury's last stop) conversational civilities. We'll want to know, and think/talk about, what is really happening.
It won't always be comfortable.
The hard truths won't be blurted out
spontaneously (although with that Uranus opposition some of this is possible) - we will have to dig for them. Decide first if you really
want to know what is hiding underneath because Plutonian authenticity
is not only transformational - it is permanent. There is no going back to "not knowing". Mysteries can be solved. The truth could come out. Secrets can be languaged and spoken out loud.
Difficult conversations will create deeper levels of intimacy now. If you are dating someone and you have sex (also Scorpio ruled)
with them you can never go back to not having sex with them even if you
never have sex with them again. The intimacy is still there. See what I mean. It will be
like this with our words now. And once we know the information - we own it. It's our move (with Scorpio the move might be internal). It changes who we are and we ignore who we are at our own peril (this is how we start carrying around stuff that is dead and Scorpio rules that, too).
Careless language (disrespect for ourselves and others) and our careless treatment of other people's words (and their reaction to ours) will be karmic. Keep this in mind. There could be battles for mental supremacy and mind games during this transit. People prone to manipulation could be extremely effective (or someone will finally see right to the bottom of what we are doing - maybe that someone will be ourselves).
This is a time to take a good, long look at what we are really seeking
when we are trying to make a situation/person behave in a way that
pleases us. Think about it. There are gold nuggets to be mined now. Even
tiny specks can be used to create great fortunes. Scorpio rules our inheritance.
The fly in the ointment here is that we might think we are mining for gold when we are really just obsessing on the same old same old. Scorpio rules obsession and compulsion and our minds could easily go there now. Notice it. Don't judge it. Think about - "what does it mean that I keep thinking about this?". Scorpio rules death, too. It's not only what we dig up, but what we put into the ground that matters now. Maybe some words/language/story needs to be put to rest.
Now, I've written a HUGE lot for Thursday and this doesn't mean this is going to happen on Thursday - this is just the starting point. And keep in mind the South Node will be in Scorpio in just a few weeks, so everything Scorpio AND Taurus is about to become mega important.
On SATURDAY, Mercury - who has been UBER busy this week, so we should expect to be busy, too - at 1 degrees Scorpio is going to sextile (opportunity) Venus at 1 degree Capricorn. This is water and earth which makes mud, but also mudslides. I like the Scorpio/Cappy sextile. We are connecting/deciding/conversing in deep/serious ways. Making cuts and commitments. This stays. That goes.
Life is serious. Would I say deadly serious? Well, yes. Yes, I would.
xo all
back with the New Moon post!
artwork by the amazing Alice Neel
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