Whats up, Invisible Good friend, April right here, and the date at this time is November sixth, 2023. Welcome to Episode 207 of the Massive Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, Venus trines Pluto and enters its residence signal of Libra. Mercury may be very busy aspecting Saturn, Neptune, and Pluto and coming into the signal of Sagittarius, and Mars opposes Uranus.  I additionally reply a listener query concerning the time of beginning.

Moon Report

We start the week with the Moon Report. There isn’t any main lunation this week, that means there is no such thing as a new or full or quarter moon. The Scorpio New Moon is on the 13^th, so, I shall be overlaying that on Episode 208.

I’ll take this chance to remind you that you just may wish to subscribe to my mailing listing at BigSkyAstrology. com. You’ll see a hyperlink within the episode description. And in case you join, you get free entry each month to my month-to-month New Moon Workbook. It’s a pleasant little useful resource. It offers the dates and instances when the Moon is transferring into a brand new signal, aspecting one other planet, going void in fact. And some ideas concerning the New and Full and Quarter Moons. So, individuals inform me they prefer it lots. So, that could be a free useful resource that’s out there for you in monitoring the Moon.

Void-of-Course Moon Durations

Let’s take a look at the Void-of-Course Moon durations for this week.

On November 5, the Moon in Leo squares Mercury in Scorpio at 11:25 p.m. Pacific Normal Time. It’s Void-of-Course for slightly over 12 hours earlier than it enters Virgo on November 6 at 11:39 am. When the Moon is in a troublesome facet with Mercury, we see that how you’re feeling and the way you talk are in battle.

And that is the start of an particularly lengthy Void-of-Course Moon interval. So there’s loads of time for us to mirror about whether or not this has turn into an ongoing sample in our lives and if there’s something we will do to vary it. The Moon in Leo desires to specific itself and must be observed and appreciated.

However Mercury in Scorpio prefers to maintain its ideas to itself, so if we’re feeling in a roundabout way that we’re not being correctly appreciated for who we’re.  The issue is it’s very exhausting to speak about that with others. Even when it’s an ongoing challenge in our lives, due to that Mercury in Scorpio that simply actually prefers to maintain its ideas about its emotions to itself.

Throughout this lengthy Void-of-Course Moon interval, I might simply say, do something you are able to do to specific these wants. This may be journaling, it may be preserving a dream journal, it may be… writing letters to individuals about lengthy standing grievances, however then burning them as an alternative of sending them. It actually depends upon your explicit scenario, however that’s the character of this battle: I should be appreciated, I wish to be observed, I wish to specific myself. However it’s actually exhausting to try this as a result of I’m afraid of creating myself weak by sharing my emotions and particularly my emotions about needing to be vital.

On November 8, the Moon in Virgo sextiles Mercury in Scorpio at 8:55 p.m. Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for slightly over three hours, after which it enters Libra on November ninth at 12:08 am. Now, not like the Void-of-Course Moon interval that I simply spoke about that started with the Moon sq. Mercury, this one begins with the Moon in Virgo and a happier facet to Mercury in Scorpio.

The Moon in Virgo finds us feeling most comfy the place there’s something sensible that we will do with our emotions.  The Moon’s register a given day talks concerning the normal temper of the world, however it additionally talks about the simplest methods we will cope with our personal emotions.

So, Moon in Virgo desires to do one thing sensible, do one thing together with your arms, clear or arrange one thing in your house or in your workplace. And Mercury in Scorpio was superb at digging in, what’s actually happening. And I might say its explicit assembly level with something in Virgo is that this capability to get in and declutter. And never simply on a bodily stage, in fact, but additionally on an emotional stage to assist us let go of, particularly ideas, as a result of it’s the Moon in facet to Mercury, so releasing ideas which might be pessimistic, slightly bit poisonous, and obsessive, the place we’re going time and again in our thoughts previous grievances or conflicts.

On November 11, the Moon in Libra squares Pluto at 7:05 am. Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for about three and a half hours earlier than it enters Scorpio at 10:39 a.m. The Moon in Libra sq. Pluto ushers in a comparatively temporary Void-of-Course Moon interval this time that’s about inspecting whether or not you’re prioritizing others wants over your individual an excessive amount of of the time and even not sufficient of the time.

We lately had that eclipse on October 14 in Libra, and it was sq. Pluto. So it is a Void-of-Course Moon interval to revisit the issues that emerged round that eclipse, particularly in {our relationships} with others. And provides it slightly extra thought and slightly extra evaluation, and resolve whether or not we have to take corrective motion towards giving ourselves extra time and power and thought, or giving slightly extra of these issues to the opposite individuals in our lives.

Venus trine Pluto (Nov. 6, 2023, 6:38 a.m. PST)

On November 6 at 6:38 am Pacific Time, Venus trines Pluto at 28º 03′ Virgo and Capricorn. Venus is on the Sabian image 29 Virgo, a person gaining secret information, and Pluto is on the Sabian image 29 Capricorn, a lady studying tea leaves.

I like that each of those symbols are involved with secret information, getting the within scoop.  And I feel that’s essential in {our relationships}, that we’re prepared to take the time to delve deeply not solely in what the opposite particular person wants or is considering, however what we ourselves want and what our motivations are.

I bear in mind my sensible colleague, Michelle Gould as soon as mentioned one thing in a lecture that I assumed was so insightful.  I consider it each time I take a look at a connection between Venus and Pluto. She mentioned, when these two are in facet, Pluto will burn away something that doesn’t seem like love. And it is a fairly intense connection for Venus. Venus is a logo of affection and delight and enjoyable however Pluto is way deeper than that.

And it says there’s a level in relationships the place now we have to confront the darkest components of ourselves, of the opposite particular person, of our beliefs and expectations round relationships on the whole. So it doesn’t need to be a horrible transit and spell doom on your relationships, however it is a chance to take issues to a considerably deeper stage.

Now on an earthly stage, it is a terrific facet for eliminating issues, Venus guidelines possessions, gadgets that you just might need floating round in your materials world which have outlived their usefulness. And it is a time to have a look at eliminating them, re-homing them, maybe repairing or renovating one thing that you just truly actually love and wish to preserve, even when it isn’t probably the most environment friendly instrument for the job.

So this may be a day the place you discover someone that may assist you make these sorts of repairs and restore issues. I at all times assume that Pluto loves a makeover, so it is a nice day for that.

Mercury trine Neptune (Nov. 6, 2023, 5:37 p.m. PST)

In a while November sixth at 5:37 pm Pacific Time, Mercury trines Neptune, and it is a lovely facet for creating artwork. It’s additionally very conducive to delicate conversations, and these could be in response to the issues that got here up earlier within the day at that Venus trine to Pluto. So, now is a chance to have these conversations.

That may be essential in an vital relationship. Usually, Mercury connecting with Neptune in a great way may be very efficient for articulating the issues which might be troublesome to place into phrases. Mercury likes to speak. And usually, we affiliate it with language and verbal communication. However in fact, there are all types of various methods to speak, and a few of them aren’t verbal in any respect.

Neptune is concerning the issues that don’t actually lend themselves to verbal expression. So, that’s why Mercury connecting with Neptune is gorgeous for creativity, particularly issues like music that articulate emotions so superbly, generally with out even utilizing phrases.

So, that is a side that may assist by enlarging your toolbox, your Mercury toolbox, and speaking on a unique stage or a barely completely different manner. Be very delicate in the way you method your conversations with others at this time as a result of each Mercury and Neptune are in these very delicate water indicators, Scorpio and Pisces. So we should be very light, and perhaps not method a dialog head on, however somewhat sort of in an indirect sort of manner.

Venus enters Libra (Nov. 8, 2023 1:30 a.m. PST)

Venus enters Libra on November 8 at 1:30 a.m. Pacific Time. It’ll be right here in its personal signal by December 4. Venus transits by the indicators of the zodiac symbolize what we’ll have the benefit of and what we’re prepared to take a position some cash in. In Libra, it is going to wish to make investments slightly bit extra, spend slightly bit extra on look, on artwork, on family members, on no matter it’s in your life that significantly brings you pleasure.

It may be an exquisite transit for beautifying your self or your property, and it’s particularly about spending cash for these issues that aren’t, strictly talking, sensible, however that make a house really feel lovely and gracious, and a spot the place you identical to to spend time.

Venus in Virgo actually enjoys spending time alone, so maybe that’s the place we’ve been for the previous couple of weeks, withdrawing slightly bit extra from social commitments. Venus in Libra is rather more sociable. And also you may end up, even in case you’re not an individual that likes to exit and do numerous issues, you may discover that whereas Venus is in Libra, that may sound slightly extra like one thing that you’d take pleasure in doing, and particularly for any sorts of cultural occasions, going to a present, going to a live performance.

Libra is a really refined signal, so we’ll usually be drawn, when Venus is on this signal, to actions which might be of slightly extra exalted nature. This may be going to the symphony, going to the ballet, going to museums, artwork installations, no matter it may be. Or it may simply be that for the following few weeks you’ll actually take pleasure in spending time with the individuals in your life that you just’re particularly keen on.

Mercury sextile Pluto (Nov. 8, 4:17 p.m. PST)

Additionally on November eighth at 4:17pm Pacific Time, Mercury sextiles Pluto at 28º05′ Scorpio and Capricorn. We’re coming to the top of Mercury’s time in Scorpio and it’s ending up on this facet of highly effective Pluto. This mixture is about interesting to highly effective forces. The Sabian image for Mercury on the sextile is likely one of the extra vivid and intense ones, an Indian girl pleads to the chief for the lives of her kids. And in Pluto’s image, 29 Capricorn, a lady is studying tea leaves to get messages from unseen forces. If there’s something that you really want very a lot, or that you just really feel very strongly about, otherwise you’re making an attempt to be very persuasive to get one thing that’s vital to you, this sextile brings a possibility to attraction to highly effective forces.

I don’t assume it’s actually one thing as intense as pleading to the chief of the tribe for the lives of your kids however we get that clue within the girl studying tea leaves that it’s about intercession generally to forces past. Right here is the chance to ask for a factor, to do some ritual, to do some manifestation work.

However what it does say is now we have to ask. We will’t simply sit again and hope. We now have to indicate in a roundabout way that we really feel strongly about this and that we’re prepared to do our half, do the work that we have to do, however that we’re asking for slightly little bit of assist from different unseen, maybe highly effective forces.

Mercury enters Sagittarius (Nov. 9, 2023, 10:25 p.m. PST)

Then on November ninth at 10:25 p.m. Pacific Time, Mercury enters Sagittarius. It’ll be on this signal by December 1st. It’s transferring from that quiet and circumspect Scorpio into Sagittarius, which is a little more jolly and generally boisterous and virtually at all times opinionated. Share your concepts with the world whereas Mercury is in Sagittarius, however bear in mind that simply since you consider one thing doesn’t robotically make it true.

Mercury is alleged to be in its detriment in Sagittarius. That simply signifies that it’s within the signal reverse the one which it guidelines. Mercury is designed to take care of particulars, and Sagittarius prefers to give attention to the massive image. And my favourite analogy for it is a funnel, and there’s a large finish and a small finish.  Sagittarius represents the huge finish of the funnel, and Mercury is that tiny little aperture. So every little thing that goes in, all these massive concepts that include Sagittarius, need to be filtered down into mere phrases.

However it’s a very good Mercury signal for plenty of issues. It’s nice for lightening your perspective and for feeling extra optimistic, particularly after that transit of Mercury in Scorpio, which can also be nice for lots of issues, for digging deep, for analysis, for taking shut observations of the individuals and the world round you.

However the sky does brighten slightly bit when Mercury goes into Sagittarius. That is additionally an exquisite transit for brainstorming and developing with good concepts, not essentially about following by on them, however we will try this when Mercury enters Capricorn after December 1.

Mercury squares Saturn (Nov. 10, 2023, 7:07 am PST)

Busy Mercury squares Saturn in Pisces on November tenth at 7:07 a.m. at 0º32′ Sagittarius and Pisces.  Mercury is the planet of talking up, of speaking, and when it’s in a sq. facet to Saturn, it may well really feel very troublesome to try this. It virtually looks like there’s a cork in our mouths and it’s actually troublesome to get the phrases out.

However Mercury sq. Saturn is a wonderful facet for tackling these communication-related initiatives which have both been troublesome to get began in any respect or to deliver to completion. So if there’s one thing you’ve been laying aside for a very long time, perhaps tackling some paperwork in your workplace. Possibly, getting began on a major writing mission, these would all be wonderful to sort out this week, as Mercury is sq. Saturn.

Mercury has an exquisite facility with language and concepts, and in Sagittarius, it usually has so many concepts. That it’s exhausting to take a seat down and decide one among them to do one thing with. What I like about this explicit sq. is Saturn will deliver that persistence and stick-to-itiveness that’s wanted to not solely resolve which factor to work on, however actually deliver it to completion and take it to market. The Sabian image for Saturn, at this sq., is 1 Pisces, A public market. We’re refining our concepts and on the brink of share them with others.

Mars opposed Uranus (Nov. 11, 2023 1:11 p.m. PST)

Mars opposes Uranus on November 11 at 1:11 pm Pacific Time at 21º08′ Scorpio and Taurus. The Sabian image for Mars is 22 Scorpio, hunters beginning out for geese, and Uranus is on the image 22 Taurus, a white dove over troubled waters. Properly, Mars is about taking motion, asserting ourselves, going after what we wish, and even a willingness to compete with others.

Generally there’s a prize that can’t be shared by a couple of particular person, and it may well solely go to at least one. Uranus is mostly a image of latest methods of doing issues and, additionally of issues not going in response to plan, however that is additionally an exquisite transit for breakthroughs in work, particularly. It could possibly additionally communicate to opponents who’re unpredictable and subsequently slightly bit troublesome to get the higher of.

As I discussed final week, when Mercury was against Uranus at roughly the identical levels and on the identical Sabian symbols, we might have reached a degree once we really feel justified in preventing or utilizing aggressive strategies to get what we wish or to defend ourselves. However, the white dove over troubled waters says that there may be a strategy to obtain a peaceable consequence, however it requires pondering outdoors the field and approaching issues in another way than the best way we’ve at all times approached them.

Listener Query:  How is the time of beginning decided?

On this week’s Listener Query, listener Teina asks, “I heard an astrologer say that the time of beginning was when the umbilical wire is minimize and the toddler is impartial of the mom, somewhat than on the first breath. What’s your opinion on this? Normally, on the time of beginning, nobody is standing round with a stopwatch, so I’m wondering if many individuals get an correct time of beginning.  Mine is an estimate and never on my beginning certificates.”

Teina, thanks for this query. Once I first learn it, I assumed, properly, certainly it’s when the newborn takes a breath. However then I assumed concerning the births when the newborn can’t breathe by itself initially, however goes on to outlive.

Anyway, I made a decision to ask a nurse that I do know concerning the recording of the time of beginning, and right here’s what she needed to say:

“Normally, the time of beginning is recorded when the pinnacle and physique are delivered. I’ve gone to many, many deliveries. And I do know that as quickly as the pinnacle and the remainder of the physique is delivered, the monitor that’s recording labor shuts off. And that’s once we get the time of beginning from the labor, or fetal, monitor. So we get the precise time these days. If we waited until the primary breath, we’d not have a beginning time in some cases.”

Now, that’s in current day America for births that happen in a hospital. And I used to be actually glad I requested my good friend as a result of having by no means been current at a beginning myself, I used to be imagining a way more chaotic situation.

I learn that digital fetal monitoring has been broadly used for about 50 years.  Which means most often, for these born in a hospital, over the past half a century, astrologers are going to have entry to beginning instances that we will actually depend on, at the least right here in america.

I can’t communicate to how this was achieved within the days earlier than all this contemporary tools and even in a contemporary residence beginning, although I might assume there are techniques or at the least traditions in place about noting the time. As for ideas about what ought to appropriately be thought of the time of beginning, I think about there’s not numerous time between the supply of the pinnacle and physique and the reducing of the umbilical wire.

I didn’t assume to ask my good friend that query. She did say that almost all infants cry instantly after beginning, and those that don’t are generally very distressed or perhaps a little bit sick. If a child cries instantly after beginning, that may occur even earlier than the wire is minimize, which means that it may well survive independently.

Now, whereas we’re with reference to beginning instances, which type the idea of the natal astrologer’s work, it’s price reminding listeners of the way you may analysis your beginning time. And it actually is essential to get probably the most exact beginning time you may.

As a result of at the same time as little as 4 minutes could make a distinction within the chart that’s vital. In the event you’re relying in your mother’s reminiscence, bear in mind, she had different issues on her thoughts on the time. In america, your beginning time could also be recorded on a hospital beginning report, in addition to a authorities, it’s often a county beginning report, I feel.

Relying on the state or the county of your beginning, the federal government beginning report could also be out there in a brief type or a protracted type, and generally the beginning time is simply recorded on the lengthy type, however in case you don’t have a replica of your official beginning report, completely request one from the Registrar of Births, once more, it’s most likely a county workplace within the U.S. And also you could possibly request one additionally from the hospital the place you have been born.

In the event you’ve achieved all that and you continue to don’t have an actual beginning time, examine private written information. Written information are at all times most dependable. A hospital ID bracelet. A child e book or card, household bible, newspaper bulletins.

For years, I had despaired of discovering a beginning report for my mom, who was born at residence in rural Indiana within the early Nineteen Thirties. However a good friend was truly capable of finding a replica of her beginning certificates with the time recorded on ancestry.com. So, that’s not a nasty useful resource. There are numerous authorities information which have been uploaded to Ancestry.

Now, in case you nonetheless haven’t discovered a written report, household accounts may assist you get into the final neighborhood of the time, however take them with a grain of salt. And at last, in case you have exhausted all different potential sources of a beginning time, you may rent an astrologer to rectify your chart. This includes evaluating transits and different measurements from vital life occasions to your beginning chart to find out the most probably time of beginning.

That is a lot simpler to do in case you have an approximate window of time to work with and the narrower that window, the most effective likelihood most likely of developing with a great beginning time and also you’ll by no means be utterly positive it’s the precise time. You need to have the ability to find yourself with a chart that’s fairly dependable, that responds fairly reliably to transits and this type of factor.

Teina, thanks a lot on your query. And in case you, invisible good friend, have a query you prefer to me to reply on a future episode, simply go away a message of 1 minute or much less at speakpipe.com/bigskyastrology Podcast, or e mail me at april(at)bigskyastrology(dot)com and put “Podcast Query” within the topic line.

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