WANING SQUARE MOON OCTOBER 24 TO NOVEMBER 1
Whew! The last week of November is the last week of this moon cycle and we are far from done with powerful aspects that seem to be one after another lately. This week we have MARS, the action hero intermixing energies with a bunch of archetypal dramatis personae. It is moving towards its dramatic opposition to PLUTO Rx while also squaring JUNO and trine to NEPTUNE Rx and exiting its sextile to URANUS Rx. JUPITER Rx continues to sextile CHIRON and VENUS whips through a square to SATURN Rx. MERCURY gets a big boost at the end of the month.
The MOON squares the SUN on the 24th on its way to the NEW MOON on November 1st. If this week doesn’t bring some of the dramas we have been experiencing in our relational entanglements to a close it will certainly set us up for the next phase of the play. The SUN is now out of relational and justice seeking LIBRA and into more intense and determined SCORPIO. MARS and PLUTO’s vibe will be more prominent in our daily experiences because they share rulership of SCORPIO and are coming into a tense connection with each other. MARS the planet of the warrior is lining up opposite PLUTO Rx, the (“dwarf”) planet that represents the elemental forces and the cathartic, transformative aspects of reality exactly on November 3rd. Its already starting to cook. This. BTW, is only the first of three oppositions over the next 7 months due to MARS going retrograde in early December. This could augur some unwanted crisis or crises of some kind in our lives and world, yet perhaps also bring a powerful movement for transforming corrupt or flawed paradigms we have projected on the world. No, its not likely WW3, but things will get shook up over the next years and whatever happens and this opposition will be a part of the agitation. This week MARS will also be forming a long slow T-square with partnership asteroid JUNO and PLUTO Rx for 3 or 4 weeks making this all about crux points in our committed relationships, personal and planetary. Confusing the action is MARS also trine to visionary and deceptive NEPTUNE RX (Which is sextile PLUTO) exactly on the 27th and separating from a recent sextile to that harbinger-of-disruption URANUS Rx (Which is nominally trine PLUTO). Yeah, its complicated with all these moving components. Rather than getting in a twist about one aspect or another, recognize it’s a long-term time of dynamic transformation and all we can do is lean into the growth potential present as best we can and keep swimming.
Having JUPITER Rx sextile to CHIRON Rx until December is certainly helping us to find some optimism and healing in all this complexity. It’s a through-line that can we can utilise to keep our head above water even as we seem to be overwhelmed by all the crazy, unexpected and challenging events that are just whack-a-moleing through this time.
By the weekend we have VENUS coming square to SATURN Rx for a few days . There is a choice point regarding practical application of what we have been navigating in our relations and things we desire. This could be breakups or feeling inhibited, or since VENUS is in Sagittarius, it may augur some deliberate, yet optimistic loyalty and faithfulness to what we treasure. Squares compel us to do something to relieve the tension and it can go either way depending on attitudes principals and circumstances. As we move into November VENUS exchanges this square aspect for a collaborative trine with the wise healer CHIRON Rx and starts an opposition to auspicious JUPITER Rx so the healing game is still afoot.
Interestingly in the last few days of October MERCURY moves into Grand Trine with MARS and NEPTUNE Rx while at the same time coming into an opposition with URANUS Rx. This will enliven and inspire our mind, speech and thoughts to a significant degree. Be aware it can show up as brilliant insights and genius moments, high scoring scrabble games or vehement arguments over imaginary depending on how your nervous system handles stimulants.
By the time we get to Halloween/Sawain the MOON will be within hours of being NEW and MERCURY, still in that GRAND TRINE/opposition to URANUS Rx begins to feel a growing sextile with the lord of the dead PLUTO Rx. Dark of the MOON and the kids will be amped on sugar and MERCURY vibes until the likely evening meltdown. For the adults it might be a good night for a good ol’ fashioned talk-to-the-dead séance.