NEW MOON IN SCORPIO ASTROLOGY - NOV 2024

Hello friends and welcome to another edition of Transformational Astrology. I'm Henry Seltzer and we want to talk about this upcoming new moon and also the general tenor of things, especially in this country, in the U.S. There's an article in one of the leading papers, I forget if it was the Times or the Wall Street Journal, that country was panicking because of the election being so close and the election being so consequential. So that's the situation that we find ourselves in politically. Of course, we're also in the midst of our own lives and that's very important. That's maybe the most important, but it's all part of the same big picture, isn't it? So let me go ahead and transition to looking at the chart. You should be able to see the chart here now. So I really wanted to talk about this chart in particular because it is very important and very consequential, just because of the strength of the outer planet connections that it makes. So we're looking, as usual, at the chart with Aries sort of artificially on the horizon line. We don't want to be particular to any part of the country, so we won't use the actual ascendant. Here on the West Coast or in Washington, D.C., we could, but we'll just use the natural houses. And one thing that really stands out, and it's kind of the most consequential in a way, is Mars at 29 degrees. Now that's a special degree, the last degree of a sign. The next degree would be zero of Leo. Mars sitting here at 29 degrees of Cancer opposed to Pluto, you see, at 29 degrees of Capricorn. So a partile or same degree opposition between Mars and Pluto is significant. It does bring out the Pluto. It does bring out the Mars. They say that outbursts of anger would be possible. Outbursts of angst would be possible. There's a passion involved. It might be just the joy of life, you know, being emphasized, having Mars like that, but having Mars with Pluto, it brings out the dark side of it. What's under the covers, the unconscious, you know, Pluto rules what is deep within us. So it is, you know, the prescription is to avoid anger. The prescription is to, you can't avoid it, but if you do get triggered, recognize where that comes from. I have a friend that says, a psychologist who says we're never angry for the reason that we think we are. Something triggers us. It could be a close family member. It could be a partner. It could be a parent-child situation. And, you know, once that happens, we tend to lose our cool. We tend to lose our reason, reasoning ability. And I don't know what the alarm bell is that goes off for you, but it is important to try to recognize that bubbling up and to just say, I might be about to say or do something I will later regret. So what we say about that is, it's time to take stock. It's time to step, take a step backward, they say. Don't step towards the triggering influence. Step back from it. Count to 10. That's famous, you know, famous old saying, count to 10. You could, you know, another thing that's very possible to do and very practical to do is just to say, you know what, I need to take a little break. It's always good to say when you'll be back. If something's getting hot between people, there's an abandonment that can seem to take place if you just say, I'm leaving now. So it's good if you could say, I'm leaving now, but I'll be back in five minutes, or I'm just going to take a little walk and talk about this when I get back. I just, I can't talk about this right now. I need to think about it. Let's take a break or let's reflect or let's count to 10 or, you know, you could, you could even say, you know, can I call you back? If it's on the phone, you can even say, can I call you back? Something just came up. So, you know, anyway, whatever technique you use, it is really recommended in this timing. This is the new moon right at the beginning of the month at almost 6 a.m. on the West Coast, 9 a.m. on the East Coast, November 1st. And it will be the configuration for the next 30 days. That's what we will have this month. And so it's very important the whole month that we recognize this and just try to be aware of it. And the other thing being transformation. So when transformation comes, when Pluto comes calling, and if you have something at zero degrees of a fixed sign right next door here, if you have something at 29 degrees of a sign, it's likely that Pluto will be influencing that factor in your chart. You might want to be aware of that. Whatever place that you're in transformation, you may want to pause and reflect. Is this in my best interest? The change that seems to be coming down? Because sometimes we don't recognize it at the moment. You know, I mean, the cliche there is somebody gets fired from a job that they really couldn't stand or that they were having a lot of problems with. And maybe that's contributing to how they got fired. But they might say, this is the worst day of my life. I just got fired. 10 years later, looking back, they may say, it was the best day of my life when I got fired. So anyway, just to just to say, don't be too eager to take full responsibility for everything all by yourself. Remember, the universe has its part to play. And it's a co creator, isn't it with us? So there's, you know, you're not the only one driving this bus. And you can, taking a philosophical attitude is wonderful. If you can do it, you can just say, well, I don't know what this is about, but it happened, didn't it? And so maybe there's a bright side to it or silver lining, you know, to the clouds. And just try to be philosophical, try to say, well, we'll make the best of it. And just try to not let it get to you. Because sometimes the worst effect can be as it hits you psychologically. So that's a long description of this Mars Pluto opposition, but it is very strong, very powerful. And I did want to make sure to mention it. And to go into a little bit of what we can do in our own self defense. Now, the other thing that's quite interesting is this, that Mars participates not only in this opposition to Pluto, but there's a grand trine at 29 degrees, 28 degrees and 27 degrees between Mars, Mercury, and Neptune. So this brings Neptune into the picture very clearly. And you can see in this chart, we're putting Neptune in the first house, even though it's at 27 degrees. We're putting Mercury, of course, too, in the Sagittarius house, two degrees away from zero degrees Sag. So close enough to the cusp of this house, even though they're whole sign houses. And in the time passages software, those are all optional. So let me just show you that you can take the preference for display options. And you can set it as I have to a three degree house margin, saying that, you know, if it's conjunct the house, it's going to be affecting the next house because the house cusp itself is a sensitive point, really governing that house in the beginning of that house. And you can apply it to whole sign houses if you choose. If you don't, see, they'll line up where they belong in the zodiac, which is before this point in time. And people do get confused about this sometimes because we're representing the position as being in the next house. But I think it's very important to recognize that it can be thought of as not so much part of this would be the eighth house of this chart, but really the ninth house is involved. And of course, in a couple of days, Mercury will transit into Sagittarius anyway, but just being on the cusp in this new moon, we do consider it to be also a ninth house item here. And you can look at it as both, but don't forget that it really can apply to the ninth house that Neptune in this chart could apply to the Aries house, wherever the Aries house is for yourself. You know, if you are an Aries, Neptune could be affecting you as very close to the nodal axis as well, which is in the Aries, of course, the north node. So I think Aries are going to be feeling. Now, what do they feel when they feel a little Neptune going on? They might feel a spiritual inclination, they might feel an inclination to not so much be concerned about the physical 3D world of events and schedules and chores and all that. But there is a beyond to it, you know, there is a spiritual side, a mystical side to things. We have a soul as well as a body. Our soul can go traveling, can it not? So we do have to recognize that there is more to happening than we can see and feel and hear with our senses. And it's all around us. And it's very true. And there's synchronicity, and there's psychic connection, and there's telepathy between people, and all that is happening at the same time. So tuning into that part of the world is something that's part of this whole cycle, especially with Aries, perhaps because of being also in a grand trine with the ruler of Aries, which is Mars. But you know, and Mercury, see, so it's our thought process can also get a little confused, it can be deception. Because Neptune goes beyond the physical, beyond the 3D world, it's not very comfortable when you're trying to deal with the affairs of the 3D world. So one thing we say with Neptune also, is we do say could be illusions, could be over idealization, could be just being kind of adrift and not knowing how to put your one foot ahead of the other in what you're trying to accomplish. So all of that is more than possible with these outer planet connections that we have in this new moon, which also includes Uranus, by the way. So Pluto is very triggered by, or very prominent in the fact that it is opposite Mars. It's also, by the way, square to this new planet, Haumea, which is having to do with internal moral principle and also connection to nature. So connection to nature could be something that comes up now as far as maybe your life is transforming in some way that that's related to it. You're feeling the connection to nature, to creatures, other creatures on the planet, to everybody else, a sense of fairness. That's the internal moral principle of just telling the truth and being kind of aware that that's important. And that is a powerful T-square that we've been seeing active in our culture right now, because a lot of it is about, are you telling the truth? Can you get away with not telling the truth or is there some consequence? So that's a big deal. It's a very big deal right now in what's going on in the political place also, the political agendas and in this big election cycle, where it's so close that we don't know who's going to win really. And we don't know also how it'll play out after the election. We know that if the electoral college goes to Trump, he will be sworn in as president. But if the electrical college goes to Kamala Harris, there will be great objections on the Republican side. They're already talking about how they won't really certify an election that Trump doesn't win because that wouldn't make any sense. So they're looking again for the evidence, which they didn't find last time, but they sure, you know, it was said that the last election in 2020 was fraudulent, but there was never any evidence presented. And certainly some people say that there really is none. It was just like a notion on the part of the Republicans that maybe they didn't lose. Maybe they could just win, even though the count didn't go their way. So that could be happening again, as we all, I think, know and are prepared for. And that gets back to this issue of lying. It gets back to this issue of trying to tell the truth, trying to be fair-minded, try not to cheat people, try to be doing to others as you would like to be treated yourself. You know, that's kind of the golden rule. And that comes up in this particular interaction. But we also have, as I say, Neptune, very prominent, being part of this grand shrine. Now, how is Uranus part of it, too? Well, Uranus is, it turns out, 25 degrees of Taurus is a very close sesquiquadrate to the 10 degree Libra mark, which is the other of these new nature planets, which is called Makemake. So this is the symbol I use for Haumea. This is the symbol I use for Makemake. And that is connected very closely to Uranus, which is also, by the way, in a quintile with Saturn. If you put the mouse on, in the time passage of software, you can read it off at the bottom there. You probably can't see it's very small, but it says Saturn in quintile, one degree with Uranus. So a one degree quintile is more, you know, a closer aspect is more powerful, more of a connection, sings louder. And we do have this happening with those two. And then also, if you think about it, this opposition from Taurus to Scorpio, 25, 53, almost 26 degrees to the 28 degree mark, that's a pretty close opposition to also Mercury. So we do have two oppositions active, one same degree, one couple of degrees off. Uranus is definitely part of this whole picture, outer planet being activated, and we can see it in the headlines. We can feel it in our lives. These are very dicey times, very kind of difficult times. We also have the Scorpio new moon, which I haven't mentioned, being at nine degrees of Scorpio, doesn't connect to too much of these things, but it does connect, it's a trine to Saturn at 12 degrees of Pisces. So Saturn comes into, just to put a little icing on the cake, if you could imagine that kind of a icing. And, you know, we can also think about the fact that Chiron and Eris are also in conjunction, they're going to stay in these relatively similar places. The midpoint is 22 and a half right now, and this new moon will be 22 later in the month when Mercury retrogrades, and Mercury is getting ready to retrograde. On the 25th of November, it'll be at 22 degrees of Sag at that point, all the way over here, but that's where it stands still in the sky, goes back until mid-December, and then there's the post-retrograde shadow till the end of the year. So Mercury is going to be slowing down, getting to this 22 degree mark on the 25th, and at that point it will be exactly trine to this midpoint of Chiron and Eris, which just speaks of knowing that there's such a thing as inner wounding, knowing that we may recognize that it affects us, that it is, you know, our early conditioning sometimes creates that pattern of a wound with a particular area of life. It could be with parental authority, it could be peer-to-peer, and therefore affect relationships. Depending on where Chiron is in your natal chart, you can see how it connects to the personal planet, so that gives you a clue about that. So that really what I'm saying is that this Mercury retrograde is going to be particularly significant when it comes to 22 degrees for the last part, last half of November, and then the first, well, the first half of December it's moving backwards, the last half of December it's recovering. So it's a pretty strong Mercury retrograde, and while we're on the subject of retrogrades, Mars is also getting ready to station very soon in December, on December 6th it will station apparently at exactly six degrees of Leo, and so it's slowing down right now. Normally Mars moves about a half a degree a day, it takes about two days for Mars to move one degree, it takes about one day for the Sun or Venus to move one degree. Well, now it's moving at about a quarter of a degree, slows down, slows down, slows down, so toward the end of the month it's moving very slowly. And then it gets to the zero degree mark, you know, here it is at 29 already, but by the election day on the 5th it's only at zero. So it gets to zero degrees of Leo on the election day, the 5th of November, and it will be at that point opposite Pluto, not yet in zero degrees Aquarius, which doesn't happen until the 19th, it crosses into zero degrees Aquarius, but it will be that opposition even stronger in the sense that at that point it'll be squaring this Haumea position at one degree or two degrees of Scorpio. So it's a pretty powerful time, including the fact that having slowed down as much as it has, it becomes one of these stronger planets because it's moving slowly, so that's a very powerful t-square on election day with Mercury about to retrograde, and the whole period between November 5th and January 6th I think will be quite a zoo with claims and counterclaims of who's the winner. So we will be seeing that and the struggle for certification of the vote is what I see happening and coming up, because when Pluto retrogrades on December 6th, that's when it starts moving backwards and it gets to one degree of Leo, which will be right across from one degree of Aquarius, where Pluto will be, and that's making this t-square even more perfect on about January 3rd as we come into the January 6th date, which is again this year, as it were, this next year in 2025, as it was in 2021, the key date for when the Electoral College vote becomes official, becomes certified, becomes the law of the land, you could say, becomes the victory of whichever candidate, and so that's going to be a struggle on the part of the Republicans. Let's just say if they lose the Electoral College, that will be quite a struggling time, and that's what I see coming. So there you have it as far as election predictions, and I think that's about all I wanted to say. Quite a strong new moon that we have going. We don't want to forget how strong these energies are and how much we have to try to do our bit, try to do our part in staying as calm as possible. It's important to realize that the universe has our back. That's so important right now. So let's transition back to where we were before and close by saying good luck with it all. I'm hoping everything will be as good as it can be. It's a dicey time these next couple months, and so we'll all just do the best we can, try to deal with our highest intentions for ourselves, our higher angels, and keep on keeping on. Good luck with all that. Take care.