Making the Gesture
There are myriad methods to indicate our caring – with variety phrases, a present, a again rub. However when Mars trines Neptune, the planet of empathy and kindness (Oct. 28, 2024, 5:31 am PDT), merely taking motion may be one of the simplest ways.
Do you care deeply for animals? You might volunteer at a shelter… or just deal with your personal pet to an additional hour of play this night. When your partner drags by the entrance door after a very draining day at work, roll up your sleeves to make dinner – or at the least be the one to name for take-out. As Mars elements Neptune, the scale of the gesture is way much less necessary than the truth that it’s provided in any respect.
Solely What’s Important
I’m fascinated by minimalism, a motion that emphasizes residing as merely as attainable, with solely the possessions that you just contemplate important. I’m undecided I’m made for this way of life, however the promise of unpolluted, uncluttered serenity may be very interesting.
Venus presently in Sagittarius is attuned to this streamlined aesthetic, preferring the great thing about nature and wide-open areas to possessions (apart from books). Touring mild makes exploration and journey simpler – and that features relationships, additionally beneath Venus’s purview, as effectively.
However when Venus squares Saturn in Pisces this week (Oct. 28, 2024, 6:35 am PDT), messy actuality intrudes on this minimalist ultimate. The beloved pet who snuck in beneath the radar makes journey extra difficult. The present of a cherished household heirloom which means a lot to you additionally takes up quite a bit area in your comfortable, Thoreau-like cabin.
Venus sq. Saturn delineates the boundaries of possessions and social obligations. However like minimalism, it doesn’t say no to them altogether. It merely insists that we confine ourselves to those that really feel completely important.
Supper
The Sabian image for the Scorpio New Moon (Nov. 1, 2024, 5:47 am PDT, at 09º35’ Scorpio) is 10 Scorpio: A fellowship supper. With Scorpio’s ruling planet, Mars, in Most cancers, the imaginative and prescient of a shared meal on the supper desk is very apt. And the New Moon trines Saturn in Pisces, so it’s not only a sentimental image, however one which’s about constructing group – a possibility to interrupt bread whereas we speak in regards to the day, evaluate notes, and change recommendation.
The Scorpio New Moon symbolizes the mysteries that lie past our earthly notion. This 12 months, it falls on the day that Mexicans rejoice Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Lifeless. It’s a day to honor family members who’ve handed away, with altars of remembrance and even by taking a picnic lunch to the cemetery to share a “fellowship feast” with family members. Throughout this New Moon, construct stronger relationships by taking the time to share meals with household, buddies, and perhaps ancestors.
Storytelling by the Campfire
Mercury enters Sagittarius this week (Nov. 2, 2024, 12:18 pm PDT), and it is going to be on this signal quite a bit longer than typical, till January eighth, 2025, as a result of it is going to be retrograde whereas it’s right here (Nov. 25-Dec. 15).
It’s the final of Mercury’s massive strikes for this week, after it finally ends up its Scorpio journey with a wake-up name, opposition to Uranus (Oct. 30, 3:14 pm PDT); trines to imaginative Neptune (Oct. 31, 5:33 pm PDT) and walk-it-like-you-talk-it Mars (Nov. 2, 1:21 am); and a sextile to penetrating Pluto (Nov. 2, 8:02 am PDT).
Mercury’s love of particulars isn’t notably well-served by Sagittarius’ Massive Image view, and we could skip over a few of the finer factors of issues throughout this transit, particularly in the course of the retrograde. However on the plus facet, Mercury in Sagittarius is well-suited to long run strategic pondering, planning massive journeys, and taking time to mull over life’s necessary questions. And Sagittarius is a superb storytelling signal and infrequently a gifted orator. If the chance arises, whereas Mercury is right here, to face up on the campfire, inform a narrative, and share your ideas and experiences, by all means take it.
Massive, Unhealthy Wolf
Mars opposes Pluto this week (Nov. 3, 2024, 3:37 am PST) on the very finish of their indicators: 29º45’ Most cancers and Capricorn. Mars is insistent and impatient, the massive, dangerous wolf from the Three Little Pigs fairy story, decided to have what it needs – and that’s pork barbeque for dinner. The pigs construct homes to guard themselves from the wolf. The primary pig builds his from straw; the wolf huffs and puffs and blows it down. The second builds a home of sticks, and the wolf makes brief work of that one, too. However the third pig builds a home made solidly of bricks, and the wolf is out of luck.
Pluto is a pig that builds with bricks. There isn’t a penetrating its home. The more durable we push and the stronger we blow, the much less impressed is Pluto. And so, this isn’t the very best week for pushing a person agenda; one tends to be met with chilly indifference.
However we neglect, generally, that we personal the Pluto in our charts. It’s not simply the planet that resists our decided advances. It’s additionally the fortress of bricks, the ability place inside ourselves that we are able to retreat to once we really feel attacked.
Pleasurable Horizons
Venus opposes Jupiter this week (Nov. 3, 2024, 7:25 am PST, at 20°16’ Sagittarius and Gemini ). Any mixture of Venus and Jupiter is usually thought-about to be hopeful and helpful. Venus symbolizes what offers us pleasure, what it’s that we like, our associations with others; and Jupiter tends to amplify these issues and supply some ingredient of luck.
The opposition side could level to a lucky relationship growth, or counsel that anyone very near us is experiencing notably good luck simply now. With the intention to depart the door open for these helpful influences, get out and discover new locations and issues. Let your self meet new folks. Observe pleasure within the route of recent adventures and broader horizons.
We Few, We Completely satisfied Few
Leo’s nice present is its capability to allow us to see ourselves in a noble mild. When Mars, the warrior planet, enters this regal signal (Nov. 3, 2024, 8:10 PM PST, by Jan. 5, 2025, then once more on April 17, 2025 by June 17, 2025), it rallies help for a trigger not simply because it’s worthwhile, however as a result of the battle itself elevates those that help it. Mars is the planet of battles and people who battle them, and in every signal of the zodiac it symbolizes a distinct fashion of warrior. As Mars leaves mute, defensive Most cancers this week and enters Leo, it’s time to battle like kings.
The traditional instance is Henry V’s magnificent speech to his troops, badly outnumbered by the French at Agincourt. His important message? “It’s really an excellent factor that we’re outnumbered, as a result of which means a higher share of glory for every of us once we win. This can be a very unique membership we’ve obtained right here. We’re going to kick some severe ass, and as we inform this story for the remainder of our lives, different males will probably be resentful that they weren’t right here. We few, we completely satisfied few, we band of brothers,” and so on.
Henry obtained fortunate that day, and his military gained. However from a rhetorical perspective, it didn’t a lot matter. Merely preventing alongside your brothers made you higher than the following man, shinier and extra resplendent.
Within the curiosity of full disclosure, Mars in Leo can have an unpleasant, self-serving, bombastic facet. The preening, useless, and vacuous playboy that was Prince Hal of Henry IV, earlier than he renounced his outdated boozing pal Falstaff and have become King Henry V, is the failed, shadowy facet of Leo. That Prince Hal might by no means have rallied the troops at Agincourt. First, he needed to change into the exemplar of males’s highest imaginative and prescient for themselves.
There’s your wrestle for this exceptionally lengthy journey of Mars by Leo: Put forth a imaginative and prescient of your self that you may be pleased with, and apply each ounce of it to every necessary activity at hand; be the instance that evokes others to do the identical.
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