#AstroProTips
*Please note that I only write about the major aspects of the week
Tuesday, November 17th
Sun conjunct Mercury in Scorpio
This is the part of the Mercury cycle that has the Messenger at its greatest distance from the earth. This can be an aspect that gives us some perspective. The conjunction of Mercury and the sun is also called cazimi, or “in the heart of”. We might ask ourselves what it would mean to think about the heart of the problem instead of reacting to the symptoms of it. We might also use this time to enter into a meditative state in order to find a solution to any problem that we are facing both personally and collectively. This can be a great day to garner insight at great speeds. If I were queen of everything I would declare a day of international peace talks that dug deep into current systemic inequities and how to create structures that supported shared power.
Wednesday, November 18th
Neptune in Pisces stations direct
Neptune can cloud and confuse the issues. Neptune stationing direct primes us for its future square with Saturn coming at the end of the month. Neptune is a necessary energy to deal with but not necessarily an easy one to make sense of. There will be a lot to get confused about so stay clear, stay up on the facts, stay with your creative response to world events, stay critical of the way information is spun and stay in touch with the spiritual importance of this moment via what is being talked about and coming to consciousness.
Friday, November 20th
Mercury enters Sagittarius
Venus in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn
Mercury doesn’t do so well in Sagittarius. It acts more like a drunk pirate, wandering the seas of information, hoping to get to the destination that contains the kind of mental booty it’s looking for. Mercury in Sagittarius needs to go way out into the great unknown in order to find what it is looking for and can sometimes go astray. This is happening in the same week as Neptune stationing direct. Watch where you get lost.
And then there is Venus square Pluto. This combination can lead to hefty emotional power struggles. Steer clear of getting too embroiled and emotionally “hooked” on other people’s Machiavelli tactics or power plays. Steer clear of being played by the manipulative shock doctrines of hate and separation that tend to run rampant after tragic events like we had last week in Baghdad, Beirut and Paris.
We can use this astrology and this historic moment to stand in solidarity with one another, human being to human being.
Sunday, November 22nd
Sun ingresses into Sagittarius
In Sagittarius the sun shines in expansive and encouraging ways. This moves the solar emphasis to the house in your chart that contains Sagittarius. It also means that the sun is approaching a conjunction to Saturn in this area of your chart, astrology that brings with it a reality, a boundary and a confrontation of sorts.
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Aries & Aries Rising
This week has you back to work on your #IntimacyIssues. But do not despair. If we all worked on these, if each one of us truly dug into the core fears we all carry about rejection, abandonment and betrayal we would not be a world so divided, so fearful and so full of grief.
Use this moment.
It’s about more than you. It’s about our collective consciousness. It’s about our collective healing strategy. It’s about our collective exit strategy. Our exit strategy from dual consciousness. From an us/them paradigm. From the blame and shame games. From separating ourselves so that we don’t have to feel all the things that we are afraid of feeling.
Don’t be afraid of feeling what emerges when you let other people effect you. Don’t be afraid of bearing witness to what happens when you let another under your skin. Don’t be afraid to not know what to do in the face of such strong emotional uprisings. Just focus on being human. Just focus on the ride. Just focus on connecting to what comes up.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Taurus & Taurus Rising
A long-standing issue, or at least the thing that you have been digging at during the past year or so about your work, work issues or relationship issues at work might resurface this week. This is just as likely also about your health and general feeling of vitality and well being. If there is a power struggle that you are up against as it pertains to either of these aspects of your life, it’s likely to be teased out this week.
Be prepared.
Be clear about agreements. Be clear about disappointment. Stick with the facts. Stay away from making it personal. Move towards problem solving swiftly. Unstick yourself from drama, manipulation tactics and twisted tales that others might be spinning.
Or is it you with the vendetta?
We might, as a human race, gain some kind of consciousness, some kind of clarity, some kind of awareness if we are able to ask ourselves what our part in any and every relationship struggle is. I’m not saying that any of us should take responsibility for something that isn’t ours, but being willing to admit when we had and have some part in the equation always helps the situation.
If we start practicing on the personal level, diligently and sincerely, in this work it can’t but transfer into public pressure we can apply to power structures that like to point the finger in blame.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Gemini & Gemini Rising
There is a practice that I want to offer you, something that will apply to the next couple of weeks of your astrology. The practice is this: instead of collecting evidence against your significant others and any of the important relationships in your life, collect curiosity.
Take nothing personally but do be interested in what is transpiring. Hold your heart close and notice what conclusions it likes to jump to. Hold your thoughts in perspective and pause when your mind gets ruffled, self-righteous and agitated. Pause when you’ve lost the ability to think rationally. Feel what is arising. Notice your stories of suffering-not to invalidate them and not to get lost in them, but just to bring them to consciousness. Don’t be ruled by your former heartbreak. Don’t be a puppet to your previous paradigms. Don’t deny what you feel but keep contact with the truth that feelings are not facts, they are merely passing through and momentary.
Feelings hold great power. Feelings can also be medicine, medicine that can bring great clarity about certain situations if we can learn to take them as an invitation to learn about an aspect of ourselves instead of thinking that they are true in and of themselves.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Cancer & Cancer Rising
This week, your most precious, tender trial and tribulation, your kryptonite and your salvation lies with your ability to tackle your issues around home, family, parents, ancestry and foundation.
Take your pick.
Whatever work you have been doing in this area of your life is sure to deepen this week. You might be feeling an urge to tackle foundational emotional issues and you might feel like you have the clarity to do so now. You might feel empowered to release resistance to looking deeper at the divisions in your family life, home life or foundational social circles. Who you have considered close, who you have considered to be like family might be causing you to reconsider the nature of the relationship itself.
Your needs might also be evolving. That’s what happens when we heal. We fill our own needs more easily and the nature of our relationships shifts accordingly. You are shifting accordingly. Your foundational needs are shifting accordingly. Some of your relationships will feel that more acutely than others. You who feels everything acutely will have to learn new ways of working with these developments. Try to be conscious of your evolving needs while dealing with the possibility that some folks just don’t change.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Leo & Leo Rising
Brush up on your de-escalation skills. Brush off any negative energy you get in your communications this week. Don’t let your mind be capsized by someone else’s lack of awareness. Be steady in confrontations. Notice which words ruffle your feathers. Notice which words ruffle other people’s. Notice which sentiments that you speak invite investigative inquiry and which create separation and dualistic ways of thinking.
Invite in the conversations that respect, challenge and charge everyone involved to think in more complex and compassionate ways. Without shying away from things that need to be said, consider your interactions this week ones that can invite transformation and healing at very deep levels.
It’s one of those weeks that can inspire you to say something that will stick with someone for years to come. It might not be something that they want to hear or like to hear, but maybe something that they need to hear. Conversely, be on the lookout for the same kinds of messages that come to you from others.
The messages almost always go both ways.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Virgo & Virgo Rising
There could be a money issue that you need to make friends with. There may be a friend that you need to resolve a money issue with. There may be a social issue that involves cold, hard cash, but take it deeper than that.
There is some important lesson to learn here. It’s deep. It’s about your self worth. It’s about your ability to see the value in what you do. It’s about your awareness of these issues and your care of them. Watch how you might want to gloss over injustices about how you get paid. Watch how you might give way to being manipulated into parting with funds you can’t afford to let go of. Watch how you relate to your creativity and your capital. Does one have to equal the other? Are you trying to figure out how to bridge the gap between them?
If so, ask. Ask all those in your world that have done what you want to do. Interview them. How did they get there? How do they like it? What have they learned in the process? Do they have any advice for you? Do this especially on Tuesday, when your ruling planet, Mercury, conjoins the sun. It’s a day to garner insight. It’s a day to gather information. It’s a day to say this is what I want, this is what I need and I am ready to hear what I need to hear in order to get me going in the right direction.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Libra & Libra Rising
There might be a test that you are given this week. A test of your patience. A test of your consideration. A test from your family or your housemates. A test of your ability to parse out old, foundational, family relationship issues from present day realities.
You might be tempted to get things twisted. You might feel threatened by the heated emotions that come at you or boil up within you. You might be temporarily tempted to blow up and be done with the whole thing.
You might also feel so unbelievably ready to renew your contract to you. You might be willing to confront paradigms that have kept you from being fully you. You might feel like #fuckit, I either choose myself now or never.
You might just surprise yourself. You might just discover and uncover assets and hidden strengths you never knew you had. You might just get to know the power of your rage and that if you direct it towards your art, your creations and your work in the world you can not only release a lot of otherwise difficult emotions but inspire more beauty, art and creativity in the world.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
This week Scorpio is host to a very important event, Mercury’s superior conjunction to the sun. Mercury’s superior conjunction to the sun marks the moment that the Messenger is the furthest out in space that it goes during its orbit.
There is something of a double condition that Mercury has at this point in its cycle. On one hand it is way out in space, communicating with goddess knows what, and, on the other hand, Mercury is known as being cazimi here or in the heart of the sun. In this cazimi condition, Mercury is thought to have access to the power of the solar principle, the divine mind, the spirit. In the inner chamber, in the sun’s heart, we are free to ask anything we wish to know. We are privy to the secrets that lay here.
So at once Mercury goes way out and way in.
I suggest that you do the same. Meditate. Drop in. Check in. Check your insides out. See what information awaits you there. Get to know your needs this week. Interview yourself at regular intervals and ask, “How am I feeling? What do I need? How can I give that to myself?”
Then go out. What do you need to learn from others? What would you like to ask? Seek the wisdom of those around you. Seek the answers that will help unlock another layer of your self-awareness. Seek the wisdom that will help you lead an insight-full life.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
You are privy to some pretty deep insight this week. You’d be well served to steady yourself in meditative practices or any other practice that helps you to pick up on the subconscious activity that is brewing behind the scenes. There are some very important imprints that could be revealed to you, ones that you’ll want to take note of, one’s that can help you to decode some tightly woven issue. This would be a perfect time to do practices that retrain your subconscious mind, especially as they relate to authority issues. Especially as they relate to being the boss of your own life.
It’s time to put on your grown up pants.
By the end of the week the sun will be back in Sagittarius, helping you to feel more bolstered and in the driver’s seat of your life.
This week is an opportunity to see the ways in which you might limit yourself and your capacities by overemphasizing your weaknesses and downfalls and how you might get distracted from the hard work of taking back the power that you have unknowingly given away.
The good news is that grown up pants are put on one leg at a time. All you have to do is what is right in front of you to do. And then repeat. Becoming an adult never ends. There is always a new level of savoring our maturation process. There is always something interesting to discover about our selves. There is always a new depth of self to dig into. We are each unending containers of coolness. We just have to be ok enough with our own company to get there.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
What is the issue that you need to deal with in your career? Who do you need to address? What relationship do you need to make peace with, put in its place or be proactive about?
What’s your relationship to your career, like your Career, career? The thing you’d do if money no longer existed and we could all do what we want? What is your relationship to getting to know that desire?
What are you wrestling with in terms of what you want to accomplish and what you might feel is in your way? And is there a third way of dealing with this struggle? Is there some option you have forgotten or have yet to conjure?
Get out your cauldron. Get out your herbs. Get your coven. Get cooking on invoking a solution from the greatest creative source that you can contact. Think beyond your borders. Ask those that have gone their own way and made it work. This is a week that can help you to reformulate your pathway to your future goals. Just make sure that you aren’t thinking in terms of past paradigms when you are trying to break new ground.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Tuesday brings with it a little sprinkle of magic and pixie dust in terms of your career and ways in which you can innovate, communicate and formulate your end goals. But you might want to get clear on them first. Or ask for clarity around them. Or ask for the help that you need from those that you know see you and see the work that you really do in the world.
Surround yourself with those that can give you honest reflections. And ask for them.
Let honesty be your beat this week. Let your consciousness roam free from stories made by those that would like to keep you small and afraid. Unwrap yourself from dogma that does you harm. Demand to know the truth. Demand of yourself that you take off your own rose colored glasses. Demand a more honest worldview through and through.
Pay special attention to the dreams you have about the money you’d like to make or the ways in which you’d like to give it away. Pay special attention to those that can help you achieve those goals. There is a connection between creating/accessing finances and/or resources through collective means that is brewing in your chart right now. I’d be skeptical of anything that sounds too good to be true and instead stay close to ideas that help you connect to a great many with your message.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.
Pisces & Pisces Rising
From Wednesday to Saturday you’ve got some pretty special astrology brewing. The moon will be in your sign joining forces with and emphasizing the fact that Neptune is stationing direct there. It looks like it’s a pretty big week for you.
You must be ready for another realm of healing.
This astrology might lift you up and out of everyday experiences. It might untether you from reality. It might cause a little anxiety, like any good flood of an experience would. Remember to rely on your instincts and go with the flow. Go the way that healing wants to go. Go the way your dreams tell you to go.
Spiritual experiences will more than likely envelope you this week. So will emotional experiences. Sensitizing experiences. Psychic experiences. Make sure that you protect yourself, cleanse yourself and call in the kind of energies that you wish to work with.
*This month’s Aligning Your Power and Purpose: The New Moon in Scorpio And the Astrology From November 11th – December 11th is still available. This month’s offering includes personalized recordings for each sign as well as a guided meditation, writing exercises, a ritual to help you clear and prepare for this lunar cycle and a detailed guided journey through the key astrological transits from now until the next new moon.