WANING SQUARE FORECAST WEEK OF NOVEMBER 22 TO NOVEMBER 30

This week’s highlights include MARS hanging out in synergistic aspects to the MOONS NODES and the SUN with MARS and the NORTH NODE dancing through a Grand Trine. MERCURY goes retrograde and the SUN starts its journey through Sagittarius.

The MOONS NODES are significant in a birth chart because they represent one’s developmental direction, Karmic path, lessons to learn and aspects of our past. In the Hindu traditions it represents the Karmic trap of existence as a journey to get somewhere. In the West we love to game our quests, the arc of our story, the Hero’s Journey. Traditions each with very opposite values and goals. One wants to escape the Wheel and the other wants to win the game. Strategies to eliminate or at least mitigate the intrinsic suffering of existence.

CAVEAT: Mundane astrology is a really just a general delineation of the background weather we all collectively experience, it doesn’t include houses (The arena of life affected) and one’s personal aspects, points and planets (like the MOON’S NODES). For example, it is certainly helpful to know that this week the SUN transits trine to the NORTH NODE, indicating some flowing energy regarding our collective direction and Karma, but it is also vital to know where your birth SUN (and everything else’s) placement is and how they are aspecting the current astrological positions in your houses based on your birth-time to get a more personally relevant read on the energies. The SUN moves through that trine all week and simultaneously is trine to MARS, which is trine to The NORTH NODE as well; a Grand Trine in Fire signs. This denotes even more of a get-er-done moment to make some progress on where we collectively are destined; To integrate the wisdom we are here to learn or face the natural consequences of our ignorance and hubris.

On the 22^nd the SUN moves into Happy-go-lucky Sagittarius for the month. This will perhaps lighten things up a bit after it’s trip through Scorpio which brought so much drama and turmoil to our lives. The SUN is separating from its recent sextile with PLUTO which has been bringing some additional intensity to our lives lately. Heavy shit has been coming up and needed to be experienced, processed and managed. Its been kinda like cleaning house in a hurricane lately (literally, in some places) while PLUTO was finishing its trip through Capricorn with lots of planetary aspects stirring it up and now getting stated on its Aquarius sojourn. Happily, we get a little break from all that potent PLUTO aspecting for a week or so until PLUTO gets back in to it with semisquares to the SUN and MERCURY and conjuncting VENUS around Dec 5-7.

Also, this weekend we have VENUS in a harmonious trine with SATURN for a few days. Good sense combined with our deeply held values. E.g.: Working within a budget, making plans for beautiful things, win-win practical decisions. Or if it lands poorly, we all will be old men shouting at clouds Friday and Saturday. This is going to be modified by a concurrent square between VENUS and Lilith which means some repressed conflicts may come up between what you really want and what society expects when it comes to love and harmony. This can be good if handled well, bring a little fresh air to stuck relationships, though it will likely not be a smooth or easy process. This peaks around Friday and tapers off by Sunday.

The 26^th may feel particularly fateful as the SUN perfects its conducive Grand Trine in Fire connecting MARS and the NORTH NODE and with synergistic sextiles to the SOUTH NODE (i.e., a Kite). Complicating that will be MERCURY stationing retrograde that day. This will give us 3 weeks and more to finalize whatever decisions we make concerning our collective course at that time. MERCURY Rx = slow down; review, rethink, re-do time, and we have plenty from November to apply that to.
VENUS trips through a brief but awkward feeling quincunx to JUPITER and then the next day, on the 27^th , forms a contentious square with CHIRON. Expect that whatever comes up in your relationships then will eventually be healing but also expect it to start out as glitchy and confronting process.

At the NEW MOON on the 30^th , the SUN, still, and MOON briefly, will be involved in that fateful Kite with the NODES. VENUS will be approaching a trine with disruptive and agitating URANUS Rx. As always try to act and not just react. It may be a little hard to settle down at this NEW MOON even though the dark of the moon is traditionally a time to go inward and gather for the next cycle. More of course on that next week.