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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

You are spending time this month reviewing and refining yourself at the deepest level, Aries. This involves taking a closer look at your tribal connections with others, and the psychological roots of your being also, as you dig through previous patterns of conditioning with a good chance of transcending at least some of them. A radically spiritual and non-material stand on where in this life you are headed, and why, may prove to be confusing in the short term, but ultimately pays big dividends. You are likely to see the world through entirely different eyes by the end of the current year.

As the month begins, you are delving down deeper and deeper into your core issues and the psychological roots of your being. This is a transformational month for you and a sense of that is perhaps beginning to come over you already. Your ruler Mars is retrograding in your sector of home and family on the 15th, and this implies that introspection and reflection will replace somewhat your normally outgoing personality traits for this entire winter period.

Mars will not turn to direct motion until February, so you have quite a while to mull over your situation. The ultimate purpose of this long retrograde period seems to be a better understanding of yourself at all levels, and that particularly your emotional nature will be more fully revealed to you. You have at this time a longing to connect with Spirit, whatever that holds for you, and part of what you are attempting to achieve at soul-level is to come to a better definition of what that might truly mean. Your very being and sense of yourself in the world is undergoing a change in the weather right from the first days of the month, when you might also connect with old issues of belonging or fitting in with the rest of society.

With the advent of the New Moon of November 9th a further stage of your personal evolution is definitely in the works. You are exploring deeply at an emotional level at this time. Surprising information may surface, through your process of refining your connections to home and family, and the psychological roots of your being. There is a conduit of information flow from the barest glimmer deep inside your mind that becomes a flood at times, and it turns out to be quite valuable for you when you tune into it.

Late on Wednesday night, November 14th, your ruler Mars retrogrades, as described above. You may find yourself more internal and definitely reflecting on your emotional life at this time.

Two days later, the First Quarter Moon of Saturday, November 17th, pulls you into idealization concerning your future plans that might be at odds with mundane realities, but which may yet prove beneficial for you long term if only these wild notions can be integrated with the practicalities of life in the modern fast lane.

The Full Moon of the Thanksgiving weekend, taking place on Saturday, November 24th, brings all these disparate factors together, and gives you the space you to more fully share new ways of thinking and being with others around you.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

Partnership with others in your life leads you into some promising new directions this month, Taurus, but it is ultimately you that must decide your own way forward. All you know is that you can't be content with less than your highest possible achievement anymore. Your outreach to others is changing over the course of this monthly cycle, becoming more internal, as you mull over your possibilities and the chance to be of service to a greater calling. The vision of a future in which you can really accept yourself right down to the bottom is not only appealing, but more possible than ever for you right now.

As the month begins, you are digging into issues of home and family as well as relationship with significant others in your life, and feeling some tension in your process of resolution of life goals, perhaps discovering the limits of an approach you had been committed to taking. There is a tremendous new series of possibilities that has been dawning for you lately, and you are feeling some degree of evolutionary pressure to get on with it. You are planting seeds right now that will take you further down your unique road than you might currently recognize.

With the New Moon of Friday, November 9th, you are bringing all these issues to a full head of steam and hopefully harnessing them for movement forward. This is also a time when you will be investigating your discipleship to your highest purpose for yourself, and your service orientation. Your ideas for career are tied into mystical concepts right now, as you plumb the depths of the possibilities for yourself.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon, of Friday, November 17th, you might find that you are being somewhat tested by the collision of the ideal and the more actually realizable. You are pulling back from communicating your truth to those around you in this latter half of the month, in favor of mulling over your situation. New ideas for a future that you can really live with still preoccupy your mind throughout this period.

With the Full Moon of the 24th, during the Thanksgiving weekend, you are cementing some of these changes into place, although not always with the total ease that you might envision. You are searching for a balance of self and other that permits your uniqueness to flourish while still allowing a place for the influence of partners on your plans. You obviously cannot go it alone, and so it is healthy for you to depend on others in your life, just not too much.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

Things are changing rather rapidly for you in the work place lately, Gemini, and these changes are consistently in the direction of greater soul-connection. You are famous for having several projects going on at once but at this point in time they all must have a higher meaning for your life in general, must correspond in some important way to your own unique contribution, the mission that you came into this lifetime to fulfill. It's not easy making the transition. This carries with it an understandable degree of confusion but also an abiding feeling of joy and higher purpose.

As the month begins, you are completing a phase of reinventing yourself in several different ways. Your service orientation to others is coming up for you strongly at this time, and more so by month's end. You are entering a time of closer examination of all your values, and in particular how these changing ideas of what is worthwhile might combine with a feeling of genuine helpfulness for others that you are currently expressing to give you a better concept of your life path, the set of tasks that are uniquely yours and that you came into this lifetime to fulfill.

With the New Moon of Friday, November 9th, these attitudes crystallize and also open outward into new variations like a fractal picture. You are tuning in more or less directly to the messages of the cosmos at this time, and tuning out the mundane world of events, although they are of course still the constant backdrop to your thinking and feeling.

At the time of the Mars retrograde in the middle of the next week, on November 15th, and in the days following, your financial picture might go through some ups and downs, together with the resources that you depend on for a sense of security. You are taking a reflective examination of the basis for your feelings of safety and security right now, and for the remainder of the winter months, as Mars moves backwards in your resources sector, hopefully in order to arrive at a more integrated understanding of the impact of financial and material resources on your life in general.

As the poet says, there's nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. The spiritual principle underlying this is to sort out for yourself just where your sense of security really lies, taking every part of life into account.

When the Full Moon of Saturday, November 24th, comes along, you are in a better position to sum up the progress to that goal, and more fully ready to share your ideas with significant partners in your life. You are recreating yourself in every moment, and these recent spins and spirals are evolutionary for you so long as you refuse to stay stuck in any way. This is, of course, easier said than done.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is an amazing month for you, Cancer, as you wrestle with issues of self-acceptance, and of intimate connection to others. As you work these through you shine out in an entirely fresh way and come to important epiphanies regarding your self-concept and where you are headed. You have been getting a good sense of your calling that is about to shift into high gear. At the time of the November 24th Full Moon, and in the weeks following, you are called in an extraordinary way to your highest ideals for yourself. It's all about living in present tenses; and about realizing that this is exactly what you signed up for, long ago and far away.

As the month begins, you are likely running into some difficulties and awareness of the drawbacks in what you have been trying to accomplish in this recent time period, over the last three weeks. Your progress has likely been astounding, but you might have to accept some limitations on what can concretely be accomplished. You are perhaps also slogging through the mud of prior patterns of the way that you intimately connect to others.

Your personal evolution gets a boost with the advent of the New Moon taking place on Friday, November 9th in your self-expression sector. You are seeking to reinvent yourself over the course of this next monthly cycle, and this is another time of rapid growth, especially in the idea department, with mystical overtones. You are more in command of your process of transformation now than ever, although with the pressure of events and with the rapid flashes of insight that shake up your existing belief system, you might find the pace a bit manic and even dizzying. It's all relative; the ride is there for you to enjoy and may perhaps turn out to be exhilarating.

It helps not to take anything that happens to you all that heavily, although of course you remain quite serious as you play the game for keeps. Simply take everything that happens as it comes, and try not to claim ownership of your own destiny beyond what you can actually control. The rest is a needless waste of energy that can better be spent living in the present moment.

With the Mars retrograde in your sign in the following week, from the 15th onward, you might find yourself to be more internal than usual, content to think things over rather than directly act on them.

Two days later comes the First Quarter Moon of the 17th, when the numinous side of life is once again quite readily available to you, even more strongly perhaps, and likely through the agency of others. The balance of the mystical and the practical is very key right now. The opening for you is to hold both conflicting viewpoints firmly in your mind at the same time, quite a trick perhaps but one that you may be finally ready for.

With the Full Moon of the Thanksgiving weekend, on the 24th, it might get easier. If you are playing your cards right you are learning from all these experiences, and taking your time with the precise evaluation of where you are going, and what it is you need to be doing there when you finally arrive.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

Welcome to the emotional roller-coaster ride, Leo. This is a month of strong feelings regarding intimate connection and your place in the world and about the way that your inner knowing connects up with outer. You who are normally so intent on the dramatic presentation must pay some important attention to your interior realms right now, and to the powerful roots of your being, the nine tenths of the ice flow that remains submerged. At the mid-month New Moon your partnership energy reflects a prevailing idealization that has also the potential for self-deception, but in its better manifestation the power to allow you to take back all projections and see only your relationship to your own higher self.

As the month begins, you are feeling your oats in a new way, and in some manner preparing for the retrograde of Mars later in the month in your sector of dreams. In these first few days you are also likely to be basically satisfied, since the Moon is in your sign, and yet also perhaps feeling more strongly that usual the tension between inner truth and the outer surface of life events that is inherent in the human condition. This month might be a time when you have more potent dreams. Your inner world speaks powerfully to you right now, especially at the time of the New Moon in your home and family sector.

This takes place at the end of the first full week of the month, on Friday, November 9th, and brings to you some startling ideas relating to these inner realities. You are feeling the pressure of an evolutionary urge to transform yourself utterly in response to heart stirrings of your deep imagination.

When Mars retrogrades mid-month, in correspondence with the loss of your outward momentum in waking life you will feel a shift that may further open your inner world.
The First Quarter Moon, taking place on Saturday the 17th, is traditionally a time of discovery of the places where the impulse of the preceding New Moon is where and where not viable. This time it has the added twist of Neptune in your relationship sector, implying idealization and also the potential for self-deception especially with respect to significant partnerships in your life. You do better when you remain flexible and not totally fixated on any one particular outcome, and when let your visions guide your actions.

The Full Moon of the following week, taking place after Thanksgiving on Saturday the 24th, is a dynamic reminder that your goals for self-transformation are enough without recourse to any other ingredients to spark your real world, and your otherworldly, presence.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Communication outreach is your theme this month, Virgo, and thinking about how your network of connection with others around you contributes to your life plan and goal orientation. Surprising information could be coming your way from partners of one variety or another that serves to jump-start your process of reevaluating your objectives. You are aiming for a future that you can really live with, which is only a motion away. The transformation lies not so much with actual events as with your attitude toward them, as you emerge by month's end with a clearer picture of your stance, reinventing yourself through the power of family and tribal connection.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way through financial and communicative fluctuations. The tides are shifting for you with your ruler Mercury just turning to direct motion in your resources sector. With any luck you are seeing the mystical possibilities in your situation, underlying and even offsetting the material concerns of the moment.

The New Moon that comes at the end of the last full week of the month, on Friday November 9th, takes you further along this cosmic path, as far as you will go. This is a time of connection to a vaster and more understated reality that is behind and beyond this mundane setting, and you may be amazed at the information.

Variations in significant partnerships and idealism in service to your highest purpose for yourself provide plenty of food for thought over the next few days as Mercury enters your communication sector. You are likely to discover more about these new conceptual initiatives through sharing them with others, although it may be difficult to formulate your ideas into words in such tenuous areas.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, November 17th, brings this subtle form of conflict to a head. It might be best not to push the river or your conversational objectives too hard at this time, with Mars also retrograde, and for the remainder of the year, in your sector of future plans. This is considered a better time to watch and wait and to refine your possibilities than to make active decisions.

The Full Moon of Saturday, November 24th, during the Thanksgiving Day weekend, may bring factors of family life and career as well into the picture, along with the issues of self and other that you have been exploring lately. You are discovering these days that you are more and more like a tree, free-standing in the forest, not wholly independent of the shade and nutrition of the surrounding environment but not leaning on it very much either.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is a month of rapid changes for you, Libra. You are on the one hand quite comfortable in your own skin at this time, which gives you a good place to stand as you engage in important movement toward what you are trying to accomplish. You may also find yourself wrestling with old patterns of self-concept that have been holding you back from being all that you can be. If you do detect ways that you are not fully accepting of who you are, this is an excellent time to reframe your attitude. The mental image that you hold of yourself based on the lens of your prior conditioning can gracefully yield right now, so seize the moment.

As the month begins, you are making a practice of coming to new ways of seeing your pathway forward. This is a month of changes in perspective for you, and you could be beginning to see your life goals as ones not so much of getting but of giving. In spiritual terms, to give is to get, and this reversal of the obvious principle works out better when thinking for the future. There is a way that your mental process leads you to paradoxical yet necessary conclusions over the course of this monthly cycle.

The New Moon of Thursday, November 9th, is accompanied by your ruler Venus entering your sign. This is a pleasant time, when you are confidant about moving forward in spite of everything. With Uranus in your sector of discipleship to your higher purpose, there is also the possibility of sudden and dramatic realizations coming your way at this time.

The overall tone of this period is also characterized by Neptune, which lends itself to deception and illusion but also deep realizations of a greater reality beyond the surface layers of existence. A powerful idealism is making itself felt in your very being, and you would do well to heed it. You may need to remain careful however not to get swept away into impossible daydreams by the power of fantasy.

After the middle of the month, when Mars retrogrades in your career sector it signals a pause in outward movement and the potential for deep reflection on where your life is heading at this time. Important relationships may seem to be running backwards right now as you attempt to more fully define what you really want.

Above all avoid worrying about lack of progress. This is an excellent time not to push ahead where developments seem slow, but merely to watch and wait, and let the river start to run clear.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

You are becoming new again in your birthday time of the year, Scorpio. This is a fabulous time of great break-though and also potential confusion, as you rearrange your thinking to include greater possibilities for yourself to step into the expanding present moment, unencumbered by the accumulated baggage of prior years. How liberating when you finally decide to let go of the past. Then you are fully ready to share yourself with others in a fresh way, not leaning, only participating, and perhaps beginning to get a sense of yourself as a conduit for a universe that ceaselessly expresses itself through you.

As the month begins, you are feeling some tension in your process from the very first day, as you assess your chances for completing an inner connection that you began three weeks back, with the mid-month New Moon in your sector of dreams. You are very tuned in at this time to spiritual possibilities for yourself, and perhaps also finding these not fully reconciled to real world requirements.

You will likely have an exciting time of it when the New Moon in your sign hits at the end of the first full week of the month, on Friday, November 9th. This configuration is a very comfortable one for you, epitomizing your birthday time of the year, especially if you were born in the first two weeks of November. You are more than ready to reach out to others around you right now, and you shine in all kinds of company.

You might feel the impulse to launch yourself into the world around you in a new way, to take on your unique approach to life and make interesting departures from the beaten track. This whole time you are deeply exploring what it means to be you in this lifetime, including your root psychological process, the basis for your feelings of security.

With the advent of the First Quarter Moon of the 17th, and also the retrograde of your ruler Mars two days before that in your sector of higher mind, you are likely to be very involved with decoding issues of home and family. There is a sacred space that is wanting to be created there but one not always easily made room for. It is difficult to reconcile numinous feelings of for the total depth and complexity of life with the simultaneous awareness of the surface layers. It's difficult to keep both perspectives in your mind at once, like double vision.

The Full Moon a week later brings a form of resolution, and may lead you to a better balance of self and other after your journey through the terrain you have recently covered. It helps when you can pay careful attention to everything that happens to you in these climactic times.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

This is a month, Sagittarius, of tuning in to your intimate connection with the numinous spaces inside you that actually lead to the greater realms of Spirit at work throughout the surrounding cosmos. Not for nothing is it said that the way down and the way up are one and the same. Your ability to see into the worlds within worlds within you is perhaps centered on the New Moon of November 9th, when your communication powerfully and somewhat distractedly reflects this unnameable draw toward greater awareness. At the time of the subsequent Full Moon you will come into relationship with others in your life from an entirely different standpoint.

As the month begins, with the Last Quarter Moon on the 1st, you are feeling the tension of factors not fully resolved, the last stage of resolution of the impulse toward new beginnings stemming from the previous October's mid-month New Moon. This represents what astrologer Dane Rudhyar called the "crisis of consciousness" when you must accept limitations on your grand design and in so doing, learn a little more about yourself and the world around you. Your beliefs may clash with your more intuitional awareness on this day, so that you wonder which is the one that you must follow. It might be necessary to hold each of them in your mind simultaneously, in order to get to the place where you are trying to arrive.

The Scorpio New Moon at the end of the following week, on Friday, November 9th, represents a fresh start on attempting to resolve this cosmic mystery, coming as it does in your sector of dreams. This is a time when the veil between the worlds is very thin for you, and when the numinous otherworldly planes call out to you quite clearly, so long as you can make yourself available for the information by closing your senses to the external distractions and focusing inward.

That is the sense of this period of time for you, in spite of the requirements of the everyday world that are still, as always, very present. Sometimes taking that reality break really helps. All this is leading up to a very special and transformative month of December. The trick is to float through both varieties of experience without the attachment to either one that results in your getting caught.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, November 17th, takes you more directly into the potential conflict involved in this seeming conundrum. You are threatened with the horns of a dilemma and the only way out is to magically leap between them. Your communication in particular reflects this confusion and the possibility of deception or over-idealization when you stay too literal. If you embrace the paradox without overly investing in being right or even rational, you might be pleasantly surprised.

The Full Moon that comes along a week later, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, November 24th, has the potential to resolve some of the mystery and put you back on your feet again. You are entering a joyous time over the next month when things will magically slip into place, at least for awhile.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

This is a month of decisions and revisions, Capricorn. You are on the one hand striking out forcefully into new cognitive territory, planning your conquest of a different set of shores, while at the same time banking up the home fires and preparing for a long winter. This is a terrific period to be looking ahead, especially in the second half of the month, as the New Moon in your sector of future plans makes for an excellent opportunity for visioning new possibilities into being. You may however find yourself making and re-making your plans from a curiously detached standpoint, since you are simultaneously looking within your soul for a better take on partnership with others and a revised estimate of where in the world your recent philosophical advances will take you.

As the month begins, you are investigating the limitations of prior perspectives in your thought process of which you may not consciously be aware and secretly preparing for a lift-off. There is pressure building all through the first week of the month for new energy to come into your life, leading up to the New Moon of Friday, November 9th. This energy comes to you by way of relationship, and your own process of ideation and also from your ideals. Your values are idealized right now, and important to recognize, as confusing as they may seem in contrast to the practical aspects of your life. You have a real opportunity here, so you might as well go for the gusto.

As described in The Secret, your intentions are very powerful, especially in the period of time immediately following this New Moon, which takes place in your sector of societal connection. You might want to be careful what you wish for at this time because your wishes are entirely realizable right now.

The higher purpose of the sign of Capricorn is in greatly achieving within your social setting in order to help society to advance. In the words of John F Kennedy you are constantly asking what you can do for your country. With this in mind, what you see ahead of you is the joint possibility of helping yourself by helping others.

There is also a mystical flair to your musings at this time, because Neptune is involved, and your very values are appearing in a very fuzzy light to you at the moment.

At the time of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Saturday, November 17th, the contrast deepens between the ideal and the mundanely real. You are finding out how far you can push your advances and where you might be stuck and still getting caught in spite of yourself by the circumstances of your life.

The Full Moon of Thanksgiving weekend taking place on Saturday, November 24th represents a time of centering into your own inner universe, and confronting there the deeper issues surrounding your day-to-day descent into the world of matter. There are implications as well for finding your true path forward into the unique task that lies before you. It may seem as though chaos reigns, but you are heading for massive breakthrough before the end of the year.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

You are coming to a new understanding regarding your life path, Aquarius, as an adjustment in values leads you to a fresh look also at career priorities. In the second half of the month you may find yourself rethinking your position. Everything is negotiable except discovering the "path with heart" that takes you further along the road of your true destiny. You are slowing down in the intimacy department, and may feel the pain of thwarted desire in some other area as well. Taking a more thoughtful look at where you are headed, in relationship and in all parts of your life, leads you where you need to go right now. You can't do it alone, but if you begin, you may find that the power of the cosmos is meeting you more than halfway.

As the month begins, you are fighting your way through the relics of old beliefs of not good enough that continue to plague you even in the present moment, where they no longer really apply. With the Last Quarter Moon of November 1st taking place in your relationship sector there may also be some bumps in the road that you will encounter with respect to the significant partners in your life. You are finding out where your philosophical and belief system advances from the previous monthly timeframe have hit the barricades and must be revised somewhat to fit the actual circumstances of your life.

The New Moon of the end of the following week, taking place on the 9th, represents a fresh start, and a new degree of faith in yourself and in your prospects. This is a powerful time for you when mystical thinking emerges as the best way to get yourself home after all, in spite of all the evidence that you can summon to the apparent contrary. There is a form of magical thinking that is available to you right now that could be considered a fairy tail in some circles, but which can also be taken in the sense of powerful intention that can move mountains.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday, November 17th, the tension between these viewpoints dramatically intensifies. With any luck, you are steering a middle course between the two, operating from the perspective of being in the world but not of it.

The Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Saturday, November 24th, may well be a time of perspective shifts as your ruler Uranus changes to direct motion and you prepare for a big month of December. Right now, you are truly the "ghost in the machine," and you are simultaneously the machine itself, going round and round within the circumscribed circle of your assumptions. Only, sometimes, if you take the bit in your teeth and just run with it, a graceful error can correct the seemingly unmovable boundaries of your situation.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

Expansion at all levels is still your dominant mode, Pisces. You have been exploring new horizons in your work recently and growing in your self-concept, rather suddenly at times, and the beat continues into the current monthly timeframe. It's exciting to see the growth of your ideas and you are likely to enjoy the parade inside your head, the more so the more that you can let go of prior conceptions. You may well feel a nostalgic call within your psyche at this time as well, since you can no longer look to the security of the port that you have left behind. You will somehow have to make do, taking as your safety net your faith in the benevolence of the surrounding universe.

As the month begins, you are engaged in a modern times identity crisis of sorts, feeling your way through to new ideas for what you would like to be when you grow up. You are also affirming your connection to Spirit inside you as a primary guidepost toward determining your goals.

The dynamic New Moon of Friday, November 9th, comes over you like a wave and helps to sync you up with your inner reality and to unveil to you the secret architecture of the cosmos. At this time, as you more or less consistently adhere to your inner world, you likely have no problem acknowledging this numinous and mystical reality, although hidden, as the larger and more important side of your being.

You are also beginning to see things from a startling new perspective at this time. The puzzle pieces slide into place and, voila, a new and different picture emerges; one that is more fully in line with your soul-level plans for yourself going forward. Although fresh in the moment, this is an ancient connection that you are making, one that you settled on at the beginning of your current incarnation, long ago and far away. The energies that surround you now represent an opening that allows the universe to speak more directly to you, so long as you are willing to let it.

Following the New Moon a week later, the First Quarter Moon of the 17th represents another time when your inner voice is more available to you, and when there might be some tension to resolve between these secret yearnings for the divine within and the more practical and mundane world of the senses. In the end, both worlds are equally important, although they convey their truth in very different ways.

The Full Moon of the post-Thanksgiving holiday weekend is a time when you are drawn more fully to the outer world of achievement, while still remaining very influenced by what you have felt over the course of the preceding two weeks. While the nature of the surface world is comparison and contrast, the nature of soul-level reality is essentially paradoxical, and is may be necessary to constantly maintain a double vision between that world and what we have here and now. Remember no matter what may be the appearance, the greater reality lies within us and of from what we ultimately descend, which is stardust.

Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview   Top

Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of November features Mars, Chiron, Neptune and Uranus. Mars is currently in Cancer, where it will remain for several months, since it retrogrades there on the 15th, allowing us to stop and examine our feelings more closely. The Scorpio New Moon squares Neptune, numinous harbinger of events and feelings beyond this physical plane, so that confusion and even outright deception might come up for us as well over the course of this monthly cycle. A Grand trine is formed in the Water signs when the New Moon hits on November 9th. This is between Sun/Moon, a stationing Mars, and Uranus in Pisces, also getting ready to turn to direct motion on the 24th, and means that we are more emotional than usual. With Uranus involved there also may well be surprises that we encounter. Meanwhile the forming Jupiter – Pluto conjunction in Sagittarius, a powerful configuration that perfects in mid-December, begins to show itself by emphasizing the possibility of profound change in our lives.

Thus, as the Mercury retrograde period drops away, Mars begins its own turn-around mid-month, staying retrograde until nearly February. We are likely to feel more internal and more introspective than usual during this end-of-year phase. As he stations, Mars also makes a powerful quincunx aspect to Chiron, triggered by the Quarter Moon and New Moon lunations of early November. Chiron tends to bring up old patterns that inhibit our more complete self-acceptance, and Uranus, with its sudden insights, quite a bit more powerful than usual at this time, can help us to move through these rather more quickly that we might ever have imagined, so that this can be a month of break-through.

The country as a whole may well be in the process of attempting to transcend past patterns, with transiting Chiron quincunx and Uranus trine U.S. Sun, and Mars conjunct, as it stations retrograde in November. The painful process of integrating the horrors of the Iraq war will continue, as indicated by this Mars transit, and also by the new planet Eris, Goddess of Strife and Discord, which remains conjunct U.S. Chiron for the entire period of the war. There may be an element of nostalgia for the ghosts of Christmas past that drives our national reliance on family ritual as we approach the end of the year.

The most dynamic configuration coming up in late November and December is the forming Jupiter–Pluto conjunction, perfecting on December 11th, just two days after the Sagittarius New Moon, and staying active right through the December holiday season. This emphasizes the mandate for evolutionary process that we are seeing lately. Profound change in anyone's life is never easy, and usually only happens when spurred on by events that in a sense force us to move in the appropriate direction. In this case we can choose to bottom out sooner rather than later, to heed the writing on the wall and begin to transform our lives in the direction that Spirit intends for us. What after all do we have to lose but our ego-attachment to the lifeless past?

Current Moon Configurations

The Last Quarter Moon of Thursday, November 1st is an interesting one in terms of Chiron. The Moon in Leo opposes Chiron while the Sun squares it, and we may find that old patters of connection to groups or to individuals within our circle come up for better understanding and eventual healing through the early part of the month.

The Scorpio New Moon takes place on Friday afternoon, November 9th. This is a magical and chaotic New Moon, one that squares Neptune and forms a Grand trine with Mars and Uranus, just as Mars is getting ready to turn retrograde in Cancer. Our emotions are definitely involved, and also the mystical spaces within ourselves that Neptune opens up for us. There is also the implicit conflict between the ideal, represented by Neptune, and the realistic / pragmatic, the constant backdrop to our wild imagination here on planet earth. The Sabian Symbol for this degree, "A Path Through Woods Brilliant With Multicolored Splendor," reminds us of the time of year, and also the multiple planes of awareness and the mystical possibilities of each passing moment as do the outer planet alignments. With Uranus in the picture, anything can happen.

Mars retrogrades late in the evening of the 14th, just after midnight PST (Nov 15, 2007). As it does so, we are reminded to look closely into all our emotional reactions, especially since Mars also aspects Chiron at this time. The retrograde lasts until January 30th, when Pluto will already be entering into Capricorn. Mars does not leave Cancer until May.

The First Quarter Moon of Saturday, November 17th, is another powerful lunation. This comes as a testing period following the New Moon, when we must determine which of our initiatives from the period of a week past is actually viable in the real world, and so brings up the conflict of the ideal and the real once more. Since the Moon also conjuncts Neptune in Aquarius, there is an added emphasis on the paradoxical polarity of these antithetical positions, that must nevertheless be resolved.

The Full Moon in Gemini, opposing The Sun in Sagittarius, of Thanksgiving weekend, taking place on Saturday, November 24th, is accompanied by a forming Jupiter–Pluto conjunction that perfects in December. This entire configuration brings up the possibility of the resolution of opposites, and the renewal of connection with our circle of friends and loved ones for purposes of fellowship and spiritual realization. It should make for a good time to get together.


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