This Week’s sky - 10/28/24
Managing Mortality
Oct 28 through Nov 3
You can enhance your understanding by applying the Houses these signs and Planets are falling into in your Natal Chart. I am happy to help you with figuring that out, at no cost to you— just shoot me an email!!
Mars Opposition Pluto: This aspect will peak November 3rd. You might review October 23rd when the Moon was with Mars. We experience a face to face conflict about those Plutonian experiences. Plutonian matters are often hard to recognize. The point is that they are swept under the rug or taboo. How do you make long-term decisions that preserve your identity and sense of safety? What events have happened to you that altered your psychology and genetics? How do you play mind games or be manipulative? Where does sexuality and other deeper hidden desires direct you? In Cancer and Capricorn you may see your needs have to contend with your preservation of long-term stability in home or emotional relationships. Parental themes may come into play. More distinct for Cardinal placements [Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn], especially those with late degrees from 20˚-29˚ They are still experiencing more distinct transformative events.
Neptune Trine Mars: This aspect peaks the morning of October 28th and continues strong through the week. Neptune continues to import some illusory or highly empathetic energy toward action. So be sure not to get blinded in your actions and to take action with the intuition strongly considered. There is a secret potency about. We feel the subtle presence of our emotional world feeding our willpower. Effecting our energy levels for better or worse.
Venus Squares Saturn: This aspect peaks early this week. Our arousal, desire for connection and pleasure-seeking, with Venus in Sagittarius, is more excitable and more open-minded. We seek to gain something from this Sagittarius House; more power, influence, control, credit, and overall autonomy. Manifesting/Planning a novel experience may be stifled this week. An extra ounce of responsibility will help us achieve our desires. Once Mars enters Leo at about 11PM EST on November 3rd, taking action will become easier. Venus and Mars will be in compatible signs and enact their respective process of arousal and action more effectively.
Mercury Opposition Uranus: This aspect peaks this week, Oct 30, and the awareness to its effect will wear off soon when Mercury enters Sagittarius, Nov 2. Unexpected messages or communication. Nervous energy becomes more volatile. The sudden movement of resources. The sudden stirring of our security. Somatic shifts from deep within. Rebellious speech on behalf of the marginalized or the parts of us which feel marginalized.
Mercury Enters Sagittarius: Following a stirring turn of life’s logistics with the Uranus Opposition Mercury enters the sign of its detriment. Mercury is a planet of logic & analysis entering a sign ruled by Jupiter, a planet overseeing instinctual/emotional reactions & perspectives. Objectivity in the jurisdiction of subjectivity. Simultaneously, Jupiter is in Gemini; Jupiter in a sign ruled by Mercury. We will work through some very surprising turns of logic, epiphanies, realizations, understandings. We may really test our perspective and conception of reality. Mercury will leave Sagittarius January 8, 2025 taking extra time with a retrograde on November 25—stationing Direct on December 15th.
Mars Trine Mercury: This aspect will be peaking at 29˚ on November 2nd. Trines create a flowing energy which does not offer tension, but is constant. Mars offers assertion for mental acuity and communication. There should be energy coming from the emotional/watery body. The liquid in the body may move faster. So body language and energetic communication can really come into play here. This aspect should help us have conversations, particularly with ourselves, that should happen. It’s like some hot sauce to wake up your palate—pray it’s the right amount for you.
Grand Water Trine: With Mercury late, in the 3rd decan, of Scorpio we get this more powerful aspect pattern this week. Neptune applies intuitive awareness to our willpower, our willpower applies willpower to our mental processing, our mental processing offers logical analysis to our intuitive awareness. A meeting which could range from experiences in spiritual elevation, addiction/escapism, creative flourishing; maneuvering and/or managing water and/or emotions. This vibe will greatly color the Scorpio New Moon—the Moon’s presence helping to activate the Grand Trine.
Venus Opposition Jupiter: This aspect peaks on November 3rd. Venus and Jupiter are the benefics, they offer positivity, pleasure, and increase. This can happen in excess creating problems. With these planets in opposition we can see interpersonal situations which are decidedly positive. One party must represent each planet, and in the dreamscape of life, our roles constantly shift in an abstracting manner. As this aspect grows in strength there is more compulsion to follow our desires. They seem to offer us pleasure and fortune, though more likely we exchange one for the other or represent one for the other. Dreamscape. In the signs of Gemini and Sagittarius there are themes of learning, traveling, exploring, or spiritual elevation. The positions of the other relevant planets will not support a very good version of this aspect.
In one conception, we are taking an experiential exploration of some House Axis in a manner where we need to be highly objective of a situation we are highly subjective toward. Get all the way outside of your feelings, read a professional book on the subject, get some good advice, and be willing to reflect only in the name of goodness, truth, and integrity.
Something about the feminine quality of our public image gets wrapped up into this story. Also, once Mercury Enters Sagittarius on November 2nd, we get more clarity in this situation while it remains quite challenging.
Sun Trine Saturn: This aspect will peak right after this week ends, but effectively peaks at the end of the week. The Sun gracefully beams its light on Saturn and they share in their energies. There is a chance for some vulnerability with responsibility. There is a fatherly signature alluded to here which offers some realness. This week we are more aware of our responsibility and how to meet these expectations with less wear on our confidence.
*The date ranges reflect the Moon being a majority in the given sign during a 5am-11:59pm EST range. Moon Signs naturally set each other up for a successful procession through life's subtle developments. The Moon functions as a catalyst and distributor of the energies from the other Celestial bodies.
Moon in Virgo - Oct 28: This Moon can be uptight and it’s good to plan to get the energy out. These Moons are always good for a tedious project. This Moon may offer an awkward tension within a good situation.
Moon in Libra - Oct 29-31: This Moon draws emotional attention toward energetic harmony. This can engage our desire to connect with others or connect with ourselves creatively.
New Moon in Scorpio - Oct 31-Nov 3: Scorpio Moons are generally considered difficult because of the intensity of the emotional world under this sign. These Moons are good for purging, cleansing, connecting with spirit, and other rituals. However, there can be a brashness or emotional impulsiveness leading to regret. In terms of ritual, ensure you know what you’re doing if you’d like to use this energy.
The New Moon perfects at 8:47 AM EST November 1st. We will experience a reset in our Scorpio House with new intention. Scorpio process deals with the transformations we make when breaking or beginning major/deeper connections. There begins something new in this intense place of Scorpio.
With Mars at 29˚ or Cancer as the ruling planet of Scorpio, this New Moon intention has a connection to a noteworthy shift in our Cancer House. As well, our nurturing instincts come into play. What is it you care for? How is it that you care/nurture? Why? Reflect on the subject of exchange in your life.
Moon in Sagittarius - Nov 3: This Moon provides an emotional backdrop which seeks experience and stimulation. This Moon will join Mercury and Venus creating a strong environment for enjoyment. We may feel more daring or excitable.
This week looks jarring. Some quick and subtle changes that may feel anti-climatic and unrewarding. Gratitude and open-mindedness prescribed in order to support optimism and morale. The Scorpio New Moon will see a deep reset to subtle mechanisms of fear and control. We ultimately can control our psyche with enough discipline. This is a discipline in controlling your energy and willpower. Controlling reactions, funneling energy, mastering reality.
Manifesting is a spiritual word with intangible implications—the definition being a process for making some vision come to fruition. Planning is essentially the same word with the opposite connotation. You must feed good instincts to arrive in good habits to arrive in pureness of spirit—the goal being these beneficial behaviors beget themselves to transform your more self-destructive behaviors.
