Fashion That Lasts
In 1988, I used to be planning an abroad journey and invested in a number of gadgets of costly clothes for the journey. I nonetheless have a really cute pair of leather-based Edwardian boots and certainly one of two beloved scarves I purchased for that journey. The boots are in nice form, if just a little pinchy for my 63-year-old ft. However I put on a shawl from that buying journey each winter and nonetheless mourn its lacking mate.
These beloved gadgets had been bought at a high-end retail retailer for main bucks. However whereas different equipment have come and gone, these are nonetheless going sturdy 36 years later. They’re well-made, traditional, and have stood as much as punishing put on whereas nonetheless wanting nice.
That is the popular type of Venus, the planet of trend and décor, in wise Capricorn (Nov. 11, 2024, 10:26 am PST, by means of Dec. 6). Slightly than the false financial system of cheap, stylish gadgets that final a season, higher to pay additional up-front for craftsmanship, high quality, and traditional styling; these will serve you effectively for years, maybe even many years.
What the Muse Doesn’t Ship
Mercury in Sagittarius is as wriggly and excitable as an brisk pet. So you probably have necessary work to finish and wish some focus and self-discipline, be glad about Mercury’s sq. to Saturn (Nov. 12, 2024, 5:22 am PST). Nothing will focus a scattered Mercury fairly like a tough facet to Saturn, the planet that retains us on activity with our eyes on our personal work.
If there’s one thing you’ve been pushing aside for a very long time, possibly tackling some paperwork in your workplace, maybe a big writing undertaking (NaNoWriMo?), these would all be wonderful to deal with this week. Should you ought to discover that inspiration isn’t flowing, irrespective of; what the muse doesn’t ship, Saturn will accomplish by means of sheer grit and dedication. It might not be simple, however don’t misread that as an indication that you simply’re on the improper monitor.
Latch-Key Child
When Saturn is retrograde in a start chart, it typically symbolizes rising up with comparatively little exterior authority. Generally dad was actually lacking from the image, or else emotionally distant, receding into the background. The Saturn retrograde particular person may need been a latch-key child, or charged with taking over accountability for his or her siblings from a younger age.
When Saturn is retrograde by transit – as it’s for nearly half of every 12 months – it’s a time we’re left to comply with our personal management and authority, to delineate our personal boundaries and set our personal guidelines. We’ve been operating the present ourselves since Saturn final turned retrograde on June 17.
This week, as Saturn stations direct (Nov. 15, 2024, 6:21 am PST), I think about a few of the authorities in our lives will start to flex their muscle tissues and begin making an attempt to set guidelines for us. However they’re in for a shock. The authority we internalized throughout these months of Saturn’s retrograde will make us a lot much less keen to take instruction from anybody else.
Make Buddies with Change
Every Full Moon is an enormous, luminous, noisy, emphatic message that one thing is lacking out of your life. When the Solar is in its Scorpio season, it emphasizes the magical and otherworldly, issues that may’t be perceived with our extraordinary senses. However the Full Moon in its reverse signal, Taurus (Nov. 15, 2024, 1:28 pm PST), reminds us that earlier than we may give ourselves over to the magical world, now we have to completely inhabit the sensual, on a regular basis, here-and-now.
The Solar in Scorpio can generally appear spooky. However the Taurus Full Moon is, to me, the alternative – an enormous, shouty reminder that we’re right here to study from, and to rejoice, life.
The Solar and Moon are in shut facet to the planet Uranus at this Full Moon. We dwell in a world the place the whole lot can change, actually, in a second. The very best we are able to do, then, is to make pals with change. To treat it as an inevitable a part of life – regular, actually – and as common because the seasons.
Vibrant Focus
The Lunar Nodes symbolize the method of releasing outdated patterns and embracing new challenges. That is typically tough; it’s safer to stagnate in a poisonous however acquainted scenario reasonably than attain out to an unfamiliar one, nevertheless doubtlessly optimistic. However when a planet squares the nodal axis, it supplies an incentive – or a push – within the course of progress.
As Venus in Capricorn squares the Lunar Nodes this week (Nov. 16, 2024, 3:03 am PST), pleasure supplies the push, and within the type of a carrot reasonably than a stick. The Aries North Node, on the Sabian image 6 Aries: A sq. brightly lighted on one aspect, emphasizes the significance of focus – and on this case, to give attention to what you want reasonably than what your loved ones, pals, and society need from you.
Why would we hesitate to embrace this life-affirming, North Node world view? If you’ve been upset and mistreated, hope and optimism can really feel like a sucker guess. However have religion. If we take steps, nevertheless tentative, towards the North Node, we’re rewarded with happiness. The best way to proceed? Venus is linked to sensual pleasures, so let your senses information you towards new and completely different meals, surroundings, sights, sounds, and smells. Smile at strangers in your morning stroll. Have lunch with a pal. Let your senses bend you towards the invigorating pleasures of on a regular basis life.
Larger Truths
When the Solar in Scorpio opposes Uranus (Nov. 16, 2024, 6:45 pm PST, 25º14′ Scorpio/Taurus) this week, as when the Solar and Uranus meet in any sort of facet, the world brings us messages in regards to the significance of change and innovation. Specifically, we’re urged to have a look at the methods we get caught in our personal habits and insecurities, and to experiment with new methods of being.
The opposition facet typically performs out in relationships, and we take turns enjoying out each planets. Caught in patterns of resentment, jealousy, or possessiveness (the darkish aspect of Scorpio)? Somebody may situation a requirement for extra respiration room (Uranus). Inconstant together with your commitments, dropping out of communication when you pursue different tasks or relationships (Uranus)? Count on to be referred to as out on it.
This isn’t an extended transit – its strongest affect might be a day or two both aspect of the precise facet. However as a result of it’s distinguished within the chart for the Taurus Full Moon the day past, this specific reveals larger than traditional truths. This Full Moon initiates an extended strategy of balancing Scorpio’s depth with the necessity for independence and private house, and alchemizing chaos into inventive energy.
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