Nearer than They Seem
As a child, I used to be puzzled by the message that appeared on our automotive’s rear-view mirrors: Objects in mirror are nearer than they seem. It nonetheless takes my mind a second or two to regulate to what I’m being advised, there, which I assume is… issues look far however they’re shut? I believe?
It’s a Mercury-opposed-Jupiter form of dilemma, this idea of close to vs. far, detailed vs. summary. “You’ll be able to’t see the forest for the bushes,” we would inform a Mercury-oriented individual, who focuses completely on particulars and misses the large image. Like getting too near a Monet panorama and complaining that it’s a bunch of little paint daubs. Or, “Your optimism is writing checks that your earnings stage can’t money,” to an incurable optimist who tends to get financially overextended.
Mercury is in Sagittarius because it opposes Jupiter this week (Nov. 18, 2024, 12:55 am PST), the primary of three such elements it is going to make within the coming weeks (the opposite two on Dec. 4, when Mercury is Rx, and the opposite on Dec. 26). Even in enthusiastic Sagittarius, Mercury could have its work reduce out for it because it makes an attempt to steadiness Jupiter. Fortunately, they’re in mutual reception, that means every is in an indication that the opposite guidelines – and that means they’re extra apt to cooperate, and depend on one another’s power.
Dream a New You
The Solar in Scorpio makes one among two annual trine elements to Neptune this week (Nov. 18, 2024, 6:08 pm PST). It’s a typically favorable side that lends itself to some nice days (one earlier than and one after the precise side) of non secular rejuvenation. For the reason that Solar represents the methods we create, re-creation – time to easily be and to play – is important to preserving our artistic vitality vibrant and wholesome.
The Solar is on the Sabian image 28 Scorpio, The king of the fairies approaching his area. The Solar is the image of royalty, and this king presides over a fantastic area. So discover a minute or two this week to be at house in your personal playful surroundings. Calm down close to the water, take pleasure in music, atone for sleep, and have interaction in non secular retreat. It needn’t be something formal, fancy, or costly; only a little bit of time put aside for meditation, relaxed pleasure, and re-creation – a while to dream a brand new you.
Pluto shouldn’t be a creator
This week brings the epic ultimate shift of Pluto into the signal Aquarius (Nov. 19, 2024, 12:40 pm PST, by way of March 8, 2043). Aquarius, the signal reverse Leo – signal of particular person creativity – represents what we create in live performance with others, exploring social connections and conceiving a path ahead into the longer term. Aquarius begins on the Sabian image, “An previous adobe mission.” It’s a logo that has its troublesome aspect; right here in California, the missions are stunning and beloved, but additionally symbols of cultural and non secular colonialism. As Pluto will get its footing on this signal, now we have to watch out for Aquarius’ mounted air signal tendency to impose robust beliefs onto others.
Because it strikes extra deeply into Aquarius, Pluto will emphasize the profound significance of making a world, a society, collectively. However Pluto is NOT a planet of creation; relatively, its job is to focus on and eradicate no matter stands in the best way of realizing the upper potential of its signal. Anticipate to see the shadow sides of social media, synthetic intelligence, privateness points, beliefs, and so forth, as Pluto does its job of purifying the communal signal of Aquarius.
The Hero’s Journey
It occurred to me, watching “Rudolph the Pink-Nosed Reindeer” for possibly the fiftieth time, how lots of the tales we take pleasure in revisiting every year in the course of the vacation season – because the Solar strikes by way of Sagittarius (Nov. 21, 2024, 11:56 am PST, by way of Dec. 21)– are tales of heroic journeys. Rudolph hits the street together with his fellow misfit, Hermey the Elf, seeking a spot the place they slot in. The Biblical magi embark on the last word street journey, with solely a star to make them the new child savior. George Bailey and Clarence, and Ebeneezer Scrooge and his ghostly tour guides, journey to alternate universes to raised grasp the significance of a single human life.
For every of us, Sagittarius represents our personal Hero’s Journey, full with tortuous paths, ordeals and rewards, and the promise of redemption. We acknowledge ourselves in Rudolph, in George, and even in poor previous Scrooge. We perceive their dissatisfaction and despair, and the sensation that there’s no higher option to reboot our lives than to launch ourselves into the huge unknown. We all know the concern of failure and the disappointment of feeling like a stranger, and we all know that there are occasions in life when proving that we are able to overcome that concern and disappointment is precisely what we’d like as a way to really feel actually alive.
Decisions
In per week full of larger shifts, a sextile between the Solar and Pluto (Nov 21, 2024, 12:49 pm PST) might sound insignificant. However no connection between the Solar and Pluto is unimportant.
The 2 started a brand new cycle with their conjunction on January 20, 2024. When these two essential symbols are in a conjunction, there’s huge stress to vary our present kind. Typically, this stress comes from these with energy over us, like a boss, a dad or mum, or a financial institution supervisor.
However on the closing sextile, we’ve gotten somewhat distance from that energy battle. We are able to start to see the alternatives which are accessible to us – though whether or not we’re prepared to take them, or whether or not they are going to take us the place we wish to go, is one other query.
The remainder of this week’s astrology emphasizes new beginnings. However for the reason that Solar and Pluto are on the very starting of their indicators, at 00º02’ Sagittarius and Aquarius, a number of the finest alternatives will probably be present in selecting up previous threads and weaving them into one thing new.
What We Do For Enjoyable
Once I’m requested what I do for enjoyable, I normally reply, “…I work?” I’m not that good at stress-free and having fun with myself, and it appears the minute I undertake a artistic passion, I discover a option to flip it right into a enterprise.
Come to consider it, I suppose what I actually take pleasure in is enterprise. And sure, I’m fortunate to have discovered a option to make my residing doing one thing I really love, however I received’t lie – it’s taken a number of Saturn to make it work.
Venus is the image of what we take pleasure in. As Venus in work-loving Capricorn meets up with Saturn this week in an opportunity-oriented sextile side (Nov. 22, 2024, 3:55 am PST), an invite or concept might come throughout the transom and lead you to surprise: May you mix what you like along with your occupation? Perhaps you’ve acquired a e-book inside you that wants solely Saturn’s self-discipline to search out its means out. Or maybe you meet somebody who works remotely, on the street in an RV, free to take pleasure in a number of the world’s biggest pure areas as their workplace, and also you suppose to your self, “Properly, as a matter of truth…”
Are you able to make a residing doing what you like, the place you like to do it? Loving Venus is simple. A lot relies on whether or not or not you may love and embrace Saturn as effectively.
The Editor
Individuals who take pleasure in studying however aren’t themselves writers may think that the method of spilling phrases out onto the web page is as easy and satisfying as it’s to learn them. However actually, most writers write massive, messy, terrible first drafts that you simply wouldn’t take pleasure in studying in any respect. Generally it’s arduous to think about what you wish to say in any respect till you see some model of it on the web page (or laptop display screen), full with each scrap of inspiration or half-formed concept, each half-finished sentence and blended metaphor.
Now, you don’t hit “publish” on the weblog publish or ship it to a writer or agent in that determined situation. You need to return and knit collectively one thing complete, handle the punctuation points, throw out what doesn’t work, and customarily tidy issues up.
Whereas the Solar is in Sagittarius, we write a giant, messy first draft of our massive concepts and adventurous schemes for the brand new yr that’s simply across the nook. The sky’s the restrict for our Sagittarius imaginations; our quivers are full of arrows which will or might not hit their goal.
Sagittarius season’s Final Quarter Moon in Virgo (Nov. 22, 2024, 5:27 pm PST, 1º14′ Virgo) is once we hand this New 12 months’s plan over to our inside editor, who breaks it down, decides what’s sensible and important, excises the surplus, and tightens the prose. For those who’re somewhat little bit of a Virgo kind who’s used to enjoying this position with a Sagittarian kind buddy, the resistance and stress on this course of. We don’t wish to surrender any of our Sagittarian arrows. However our solely hope of creating any goals come true is to focus, and to determine which scheme reveals probably the most promise. And on this, Virgo excels.
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