Micro-Forecasts

With all these Mars and Venus aspects this week, relationships or relationship dynamics are highlighted. Some days are great for communicating needs and the others — like those square dates may be days to say, “I’ll call you tomorrow!” With the First Quarter Moon encouraging objectivity, this is a very good strategy. The Sun in Sagittarius always heralds a few weeks of major activity and energy and the need for having some sort of long leash while doing what you need to do to make life work. Hopefully, your partners understand.

Venus entering Scorpio begins with a trine to Neptune, bringing with it fantasies and a strong desire to lose oneself in another. Scorpio energy can be passionate and obsessive. This is the stuff romance novels are made of.

This week affords you the opportunity to unearth some of your wonderful skills or gifts and share with others a way to solve challenges. A Total Solar Eclipse (New Moon) is often associated with outer life events, world leaders, and global changes that affect all of us. Many times we see the changes surrounding this sort of an eclipse within about 80 to 90 days after the eclipse. Since it is in Scorpio, it suggests major purging in peoples’ lives. Endings and decisions to move away from one circumstance that is no longer viable and let go. Lifestyles either change or end as Chiron goes direct and Mars enters Capricorn. If you’ve thought about changing jobs, going back to school, this is appropriate. Close the books on the past.

Fire and water create steam. Mars (fire) and Neptune (water) could have you mystified and feeling inhibited. If possible, take part in mindless activities like watching a movie or taking a bubble bath. Things should feel less foggy in a day or two. Dream boards work, too, or just sitting quietly without televisions, radios, music or any sound interfering with your mind and its need to simply settle in and relax.

It is always a good week when planets go direct. This week has its mixed bag, however, because though Neptune, the planet of vision and imagination, is finally turning direct, helping all our psyches get back on track, there is that Mercury retrograde again for the next few weeks. As has been noted before, Mercury retrogrades are NOT bad. They are a terrific time to catch-up, finish projects, answer calls you’ve put off and just do a general catch-up. If you’ve some new projects cooking, then jot down the ideas, but don’t officially start them until Mercury is direct on November 26. The holidays are coming, start taking down the flashy holiday items! It’s fun!

Neptune direct in its home sign of Pisces heightens sensitivity and intuition. The quality of empathy is enhanced so be sure what you are feeling is yours and not you absorbing the emotions of others. Staying grounded in the midst of these mystic forces is key. Meditate, keep a dream journal, walk in nature, especially by the water, and maintain positive thoughts. What you can see in your mind you create in your life.

Once in a while it makes sense to take a time-out. If you put your pedal to the metal last week, which many of you did, then with this week’s Mercury square Neptune, it is time to take a break — get a massage, go to a movie, take the day off and just hang out with friends or loved ones, read a favorite book, even eat something that you normally don’t eat — nurture yourself in whatever way works for you this week as the Full Moon releases a lot of old junk — you decide on the junk. It comes in different forms!

Venus and Pluto form a tense aspect sending us deeper into a relationship issue than we expected. Opportunities to grow are hidden in the discomfort. Who likes discomfort? No one…but discomfort is the territory where all the undiscovered land is found. Saturn in Scorpio requires all of us to mix it up for deep and meaningful experiences — this means, that at times, we have to get our hands dirty. Nothing comes without a price.

The next weeks beg some serious moments and also require you spending more time on things that may not be as fun, but must be made functional in order for fun to occur down the road. Anytime we see the Sun lining up with serious Saturn, as it does once per year, it is a great time to start an organization or re-organization project. Because there is less emotion attached to ‘things’ during this time, this might be the ideal time to clean out files, cabinets, closets and the past, providing space for your future wishes, which you’ve been compiling over the course of the last few weeks.

Venus enters her home sign of Libra and all relationships have an opportunity to benefit. If you are having difficulties with someone this is the best time to make an overture for resolution. However, the overture does require a bit of boundary setting as Saturn and Sun are together — everyone really needs to know the rules before anyone moves forward with new jobs, new responsibilities and new relationships.

Remember last week’s theme — believing is seeing? This week’s positive aspects between optimistic Mars (motivation) and innovative Uranus (the people you know who know how to do things) helps move your plans forwards. The New Moon at 22° Libra is no slouch either as it is conjunct the very fortunate fixed star, Spica. Even though it feels as though things are coming at you from the right and the left, there is a pony at the bottom of that pile. Focus on the pony and not the pile!!

Mercury, about to leave Scorpio, and Venus, about to leave Virgo, form a nice aspect that has the potential to bring harmonious communications. This is a great combination for making really heart to heart phone calls — forget the texts, the emails — just talk to someone. Do that and doors open where doors didn’t open before.

This is a week full of trines. Trines are triangular aspects in astrology, 120°. 120° adds up to the number 3, which represents communication and information. This is a wonderful week in which to communicate your needs, your desires, write down your goals on either a word list, a mind map or draw it in a treasure map. There is an old saying- visualizing is realizing. Suspend judgment when working on your biggest and, seemingly, impossible goals…just see them. If you believe, you will see. This is the set up for the next two years

By the end of the week, Mars forming a square to Chiron may have you hiding behind constant activity in order to avoid self-awareness. The good news is that your personal experience and wisdom is the key to teaching and helping others. Patience is required for those who seem ‘less’ evolved and determined to remain ‘unconscious’. If this continues, you may have to walk away for their own good — really.

As you can see from this long list of aspects, this is a very busy week. Jupiter retrograde helps everyone put on the brakes if things have been going too fast. Saturn is finishing its run in Libra, where it has been since 2010, and begins its two and a half year run in Scorpio. Whereas the issues of the last few years were clarifying relationships and what works and what doesn’t work. Now, with Saturn in Scorpio, it is time to build something new with people you trust. Trust of others could be an issue for everyone in these next two and a half years. The only way one develops trust is to ask the right questions, observe and not rush into judgment. Each of us has to open up in some area in order for things to flow both ways.

The last aspect to Saturn before it leaves Libra is a conjunction from Mercury. In relationships, those difficult communications that need expressing are often necessary in order to move forward. The last time Saturn traveled through Scorpio was 30 years ago. What was happening in your life that mirrors current circumstances? The stock market and other world markets begin a tense dance of volatility. Taxes are on the agenda for the next two and a half years — both yours and the government’s need for more.

This is an intense time when emotional attachments and unresolved security issues are being challenged in all walks of life. It is a time when many things with which you anchor your current existence seem to be (although may not be) threatened. The sense of vulnerability is endemic. Isn’t just you, but everyone! Reaching out requires courage and heart in order to engage others helping both of you move through the process. Therapy with people who know what they are doing is a great resource during this Uranus square Pluto aspect. Solutions are found in the most invisible places. Or the invisible places need to surface to figure out solutions.

As we leave one season and begin the next, take stock of what this period has brought you, or brought up for you. In the Northern hemisphere we enter autumn, which is the time of harvest. In the Southern hemisphere it is the spring, the time for planting. This exercise is meant to bring awareness to your accomplishments. It is also the time of year when the cooler weather begins and we enter a more introspective cycle — separating ourselves from nature’s determination to die and our determination to stay alive as individuals sustaining their intellectual awareness. Time seems to pass quickly and we tend to get caught up in the next task before we recognize our successes.

Lots of movement forward this week as the New Moon arrives on the 15^th and Mercury enters action sign, Libra. Markets begin shifting, decisions are getting made, and circumstances approach where one can no longer put off what needs deciding. This continues through next week as Pluto the planet of choice and risk taking begins its direct motion. Remember — procrastination, literally, gets you no where!

Utilize the opportunities this New Moon in Virgo brings by implementing healthier habits that benefit your systems — physically, in your home and business. If this requires outside assistance set the intention that help is available and take the initial steps toward achieving your goals. Projects needing editing get an extra boost at this time — the mind is clear and it is time to act.