I’m writing to you a few days into November, after one of the most significant astrological transits of the month (The New Moon in Scorpio) has already happened. And so this newsletter will be like a retrospective weather report… a massaging of memories?
Perhaps that is all the better for my writing because examining the future from the future of the past made me confront the energy of my imagination as it collided with my everyday, and now I know where I am.
I’m back in New York for a little bit. Daylight savings time is making me sad and tired. I’m here for less than 4 weeks at this point. Life keeps moving on, so the meaningfulness of my time here gets swallowed up in the noise of the all other movements. I’m sending out messages that I’ll be in your city, while you send me messages that you’re in my city. We lay around the park all day, and I didn’t think about what I had to do at all, not even one moment.
The New Moon was ruled by a Mars in Cancer, and Mars in Cancer was about defending the home. It’s the bonds of patriotism as well as the feelings of neighborhood, and it’s how we define against, within, these terms. I didn’t even realize it but I had attached a sense of home to a place that I had left long ago, and returning back to it, I found my own pincers coming out. You don’t understand, you wouldn’t know, you’re not part of this history, movements of winds and walls that buffet personal history against histories of places, migrations, settlings. The New Moon was also trine Saturn, and maybe the realization of what you want to defend can redefine where you show up longterm.
This period of Mars in Cancer from early September has been a slow boil in the examination of home and belonging. There are spaces where our bodies can rest easy, and it’s unproductive to try to fit people, spaces, geographies into a rewiring of the parasympathetic nervous system. Now Mars enters Leo (Nov 4), and for a brief period, we will be working through ideas of self-assertion, speaking desire into being, stable or unstable forms of identity, mutations of ego, showing off the goods, and daddy figures. Mars will then turn retrograde on December 6 and reenter Cancer in January.
One other note about November is the Taurus Full Moon on the 15th. It’s conjoined Uranus which means it will be bumpy, chaotic, and hard to get a hold of. The ruler of the full moon is Venus in Capricorn, which seems to be a bit distanced, lofty, eye on the prize. In this moment, we are receiving a jolt of inspiration around a certain project, moving towards completion but still taking a last minute quick turn.
Pluto enters Aquarius for good on November 18.
Mercury goes retrograde in Sagittarius on the 25th.
No individual horoscopes this month, purely because I didn’t have time.
No worries, November will be packed with life and world events, that you will navigate smoothly and to the best of your ability as they come.
I’m unfortunately not available for readings in November as I finish up the preparations towards my first solo show in the US.
It will open at Romance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
See you in December, <3