Flashlights and Gremlins
When the Solar facets Saturn (Nov. 4, 2024, 9:36 am), it shines its good mild into a few of our most fearsome locations – and it doesn’t shrink back from what it finds there. The Solar in Scorpio is just like the intrepid crew of investigators from the X-Information, investigating the reality with assistance from gigantic flashlights. And with Saturn nonetheless retrograde till subsequent week, most of those investigations must do with gremlins from the previous that also hang-out us.
We might uncover these demons on the earth round us, or, extra doubtless, inside ourselves. They present up within the methods we’re out of integrity with our deepest values; the place we’ve taken expedient shortcuts; the place disgrace has brought about us to shave away a number of factors of accuracy from the reality. These are the types of missteps that undermine our power.
Saturn’s function is to make us the strongest model of ourselves. And every time we’re keen to face what embarrasses or scares us – a pit stuffed with spiders, snakes, a weak dialog with somebody near us – we turn out to be just a bit bit stronger.
The Subsequent Factor
As Mercury trines the North Node (Nov. 6, 2024, 6:31 pm PST), be looking out for a message, invitation, or piece of data that allows you to know you’re heading in the right direction. The North Node symbolizes of the brass ring that, if we attain for it, nearly invariably leads us in a gratifying path. And because it’s been shifting by Aries (since July 2023), that path has led throughout a model new frontier, one we are able to solely attain on our personal.
This can be a small, minor side in an already mild astrological information week, however concentrate, so that you simply don’t miss Mercury’s memo. It’d come your means in an e mail, a textual content, a social media put up, one thing you hear on a podcast or learn in a guide. On the heels of Mercury’s a number of weeks in Scorpio, your focus is evident and your eyes and ears are open in an entire new means. One thing you couldn’t acknowledge or think about only a month in the past all of the sudden stands out with blinding readability. “Right here’s the following factor,” it says. “Right here’s the path that results in happiness.” And so, comply with it.
Completely Unsupervised
Mercury goes out-of-bounds (exceeding 23°28’ declination) on November 7. Out-of-bounds planets exceed the boundaries of the Solar’s path by the ecliptic, so they’re, symbolically, past the Solar’s “supervision.” Planets on this situation settle for no guidelines and know no boundaries – which might get us into hassle once in a while, however which additionally encourages distinctive creativity.
Much like a Mercury/Uranus side, Mercury out-of-bounds is useful for problem-solving and artistic breakthroughs, particularly since Venus can also be out-of-bounds this month. In case you’ve been making an attempt with out success to finish a artistic venture, it could possibly be that the reply is to throw the entire thing out and begin from scratch. But when it have been me (and with the Solar presently trine Saturn), I’d stow present initiatives someplace secure; we would need to salvage items of it subsequent month.
Group Effort
The Scorpio New Moon is among the many most intensely private. Typically, it’s after we flip our secrets and techniques into fervent needs and ritual, as if our personal magic alone may remodel our lives – and even decide the destiny of the world.
The Aquarius First Quarter Moon (Nov. 8, 2024, 9:55 pm PST), charged with taking motion to maneuver the Scorpio New Moon’s agenda to the following degree, has a radically completely different focus. Change is a communal effort, says Aquarius. It’s additionally the message of Pluto, the transformer, shifting into this signal on Nov. 19 (by 2043).
Within the Moon’s Sabian image at this First Quarter Moon, A person (is) unmasked.” The extraordinary privateness – even secrecy – of the Scorpio New Moon is ripped away; the collective will is revealed. The transformation, seen within the Solar’s image, A woods stuffed with autumn coloration, is underway. However in distinction to Scorpio’s emphasis on particular person transformation, this can be a bunch effort.
Awakening
We need to consider the perfect concerning the folks we love. However nobody is ideal, nonetheless a lot we love them. And this week’s Venus sq. to Neptune (Nov. 9, 2024, 5:15 am PST) prompts us to think about whether or not we are able to nonetheless love these closest to us, even after we’ve seen what’s not so pretty about them.
Even when relationships are doing simply high-quality, this side can sign a problem to fundamental values. Your politics, figures of inspiration, our strategy to incomes and managing cash… any of those can all of the sudden be revealed as naïve or wrong-headed. No want for embarrassment; solely awakening.
Venus strikes rapidly, so this transit has solely a glancing affect, not more than a few days. But when Neptune has been leaning in your chart throughout its lengthy keep on the final levels of Pisces, this transit may set off a bigger shift in how and whom you cherish. Is there anybody, or something, you as soon as believed in, that must be let go? Strolling away will not be all the time the precise response to disillusionment. However generally, it’s the one one.
Writing and pictures © 2017-24 by April Elliott Kent
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