Linemen at Work
Mercury trines Saturn this week (Oct. 21, 2024, 11:35 pm PDT, 13°11’ Scorpio and Pisces), putting thought processes, studying, and communication below the affect of Saturn’s seriousness, pragmatism, and perseverance. Right here’s a possibility to arrange ideas and knowledge, streamline communication and expertise techniques, and delve into analysis and the tough elements of a giant mission.
When you’ve been placing one thing off as a result of it simply appeared too formidable to work out the small print or collect details about it, delay now not. This facet can actually assist issues move extra simply.
Mercury’s Sabian image at this trine is 14 Scorpio, Phone linemen at work. Restore communications by reaching out to anyone you haven’t spoken to shortly, or approaching a delicate subject with a boss, mum or dad, or different authority determine. You may be pleasantly shocked by the result.
Pushing Again
The Solar squares Pluto this week (Oct. 22, 2024, 7:15 am PDT), one among two squares the Solar makes to Pluto every year. Pluto, when it’s in facet to the Solar, can have a means of constructing us really feel unimportant. Something that we very a lot wish to do may also abruptly really feel as if it’s trivial, a bit foolish, and customarily not price doing. However when the Solar connects with Pluto, it’s important to push again in opposition to this demoralizing affect. The Solar’s promise is that every of us is vitally vital, and that features you.
When you’ve been placing everybody else first whereas the Solar has been in Libra for the previous month, now could be the time for just a little course correction. When you don’t arise for your self in opposition to the seeming indifference of Pluto, then nobody will do it for you.
Stripping Off the Layers
We enter the Solar’s Scorpio season this week (Oct. 22, 2024, 3:15 pm PDT, by way of Nov. 21, 2024). Scorpio’s season within the Northern Hemisphere means the times are brief and the shadows are lengthy. The flat, autumn gentle is much less forgiving, and if we glance within the mirror, we see each imperfection. Within the darkness of the longer nights, it’s one way or the other simpler to find our faults and weaknesses, concern and grief. But it surely’s just a little tougher to share them, as a result of meaning admitting them to ourselves first.
I don’t suppose we alter as we age. I feel we simply turn into extra snug being who we’ve at all times been. We don’t really feel the must be false—extra cheerful, extra accommodating than we really feel—as a way to make others really feel extra snug round us. We turn into our Scorpionic selves, stripped of artifice and the comforting fictions of youth.
The Scorpio journey is about stripping off layers, yr after yr, and attending to know the essence of who we’re. We could not be capable of depend on good genes or good luck, and a few dangerous choices can’t be undone. We could lose family members. We are going to most likely lose a few of our well being. However we by no means lose the individual we’re beneath our garments, beneath our pores and skin.
Cupid on the Door
Planets in facet to the Moon’s Nodes reveals the forces which are serving to or hindering the method of private development. As Venus in Sagittarius makes a trine to the Moon’s North Node (Oct. 22, 2024, 7:37 pm PDT, 06º23’ Sagittarius), it’s on Sabian image 7 Sagittarius, Cupid knocking on the door.
Venus evokes with magnificence, enjoyment, or love, and the North Node symbolizes the objectives for achievement and evolution that we set for ourselves that may appear fully unattainable. But when we attain out in a spirit of affection, like Cupid knocking on the door, providing our magnificence and artistry, then we would truly discover that the Aries North Node objectives of fearlessness, brave, and directedness usually are not so unattainable in any case.
Venus does symbolize relationship, and that’s vital. But it surely additionally celebrates the pure, private enjoyment of the world and its magnificence – and in Sagittarius, particularly the love of nature, animals, and exploration. Any alternative you’re taking this week to benefit from the pure surroundings and new experiences, the nearer Venus attracts you to your daring, Aries North Node journey. Once we really feel nourished by magnificence and our enjoyment of the bodily world, then we stand on a a lot stronger basis to maneuver ahead within the course of our evolutionary path.
The Hero
Any Final Quarter Moon is an invite to overview, reassess, and provide you with a plan. The Leo Final Quarter Moon (Oct. 24, 2024, 1:03 am PDT, 01º24’ Leo), particularly, desires to border our particular person journey in heroic phrases. Over the previous yr, how have you ever been heroic? Have you ever proven an instance of positivity, heartfelt creativity, or shone your heat gentle on others who wanted shoring up? Uranus in Taurus, and Pluto taking steps out and in of Aquarius, have made this a difficult yr for the Leo spirit; sunniness and pleasure have been in brief provide, and appeared naïve even after we might summon them. Pluto’s exhausting response to Leo’s heat creativity has been disheartening, and Uranus in Taurus has continued to destabilize the usually unshakeable lion.
The chart for this Final Quarter Moon, with the Solar and Moon in tough points to a Mars-Pluto opposition, is filled with drama, management struggles, and every kind of excuses to surrender. Of all of the lunar phases within the yr, the Leo Final Quarter is after we’re requested to determine whether or not we’re going to slink off to a darkish cave and lick our wounds, or whether or not we’re going to maneuver forward and reside with our entire hearts.
Exhibiting Up
Right here’s one thing that every one skilled creatives know: Your deadline doesn’t care whether or not or not you’re feeling impressed. When you’re a author, for instance, some days you write not as a result of you could have one thing you’re burning to say, however moderately since you owe your editor 1500 phrases by 5 pm.
However right here’s one thing else we all know. When you sit down in that chair day-after-day and write, then you definitely’ll be in simply the best place when inspiration strikes.
This week, Mars, the work planet, is sextile Uranus, the planet of inspiration (Oct. 24, 2024, 5:13 pm PDT, at 26º10’ Most cancers/Taurus), on the Sabian image 27 Most cancers: A storm in a canyon. Simply perhaps, meaning our work is about to take a brand new, sudden, and thrilling course – however first, we’ve got to point out up for it.
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