What’s Happening in November (and through 2026!)

This New Moon Solar Eclipse will shut down old memories in the light of newer, deeper relationships. There are unique interactive gifts and blessings promised by this Eclipse, showing the truth of the old phrase “sometimes one is enriched through unfortunate events.” Whatever we need to let go of promises better feelings in the future.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 2 Scorpio, which is an energy of our actional-material self confronting the ending of many old connections demanding we surrender the past and open to more mature and appropriate relationships. This eclipse will help us release some things, people, and memories from our early Scorpio sector, so adopt a “live and let live” attitude and return to simple joys for rest and recharging.

Because Venus conjunct the Lunation AND the ruler of Uranus and the North Node conjunct the South Node, it plays an extraordinarily important part in what’s leaving and what’s coming. Since it portends the loss of relationships as prelude to new ones, at this juncture I’ll recommend that you get your copy of my newest book, The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. If you want to know more about Venus and why we like or don’t like the people and things we do, this is the book for you! It explains why we attract who we do, why things take the turns they do, and how to create better relationships in the future. You will understand what it takes to create long lasting personal relationships and friendships, why Soul Mates come into our lives, and how to know the difference between a Soul Mate and our Twin Flame.

It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 3 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This stabilizing, intensifying, transformational, concentrative and intense New Moon Solar eclipse at 2 Scorpio occurs at 3:49 am PDT, 11:49 am BST on October 25. We’re now in a time of the year when we have many oppositions to Uranus, finishing our run of oppositions to the outer planets and preparing for coming conjunctions in Capricorn with Pluto. All the inner planets are again concentrated in a narrow span between late Libra and early Scorpio, that’ll be the focus of the next month AND the 4 years this eclipse will be in play.

The Aries energies set into motion in May when Mars conjuncted Jupiter in Aries has brought us to a more “here and now” action-oriented frame of expansion. When in doubt, have courage to take the initiative to get things in motion, since in the NOW there is no past or future to distract us. We’ve now stabilized those new beginnings, and have begun a time of discovery of new ideas and new ways of viewing how to enjoy ourselves within a new energy field dominated by Libra and Scorpio transits these next few weeks.

We’re still directly dealing with the recent Taurus eclipses which are removing everything in our “garden of life and mind” past its expiration date while giving us ample opportunities to show we are qualified to occupy our “spiritual office.” We’re now in several months of learning how to utilize spiritual power effectively as a result of recent tests in managing our mind. This is a month of mobilizing to clean out our mind and interpretations, letting in some “fresh air and sunlight” in the unexamined corners of our mind. If you feel dissatisfaction, track it back to its source, and release it. You’ll immediately attract closer companions.

The Spring of 2022 ended a long wave cycle, bringing inspiration, depth, connectedness, and loss all at the same time. Things have opened which will catch fire in 2023. We’re in a time of learning how to manage our actions to evaluate our strength and ingenuity, and if we are called to “extraordinary effort,” then be cooperative and you’ll find yourself at a peak, where we can “turn misfortune to a successful adventure in broad social responsibility.”

This New Moon will jumpstart Scorpio energy wherever it falls in our chart. Where we have Scorpio will be a focus of activity, along with late Libra, so open to the “joyous life renewal” promised by Mercury as the planet leading the Sun. As Mercury is trine Mars from air signs, there is a need for broader communications with an eye to the big picture.

A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

We’re all still reorienting toward a major new focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.” All that was promised by these cycles was renewed in late February and early March 2022 as Venus and Mars transited all the conjunction points.

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means no more of the materialism of the past 200 years, with more of a focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200! All of this began a new expression when Venus and Mars made their conjunction on that point in early March.

Saturn in Aquarius is leading us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. What is your purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do you need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose? We began work on those structures in 2020 which led us to a greater vision in 2021. As Mars continues to trine Saturn in Gemini with the next one coming in November, we’re still in a period of understanding and stabilizing our responses to the new Aquarian structures already in motion in our live.

Occupied Signs and Oppositions

This year’s inner planet transits have all made oppositions to Saturn, Neptune, and Jupiter these past few weeks, with only oppositions to Uranus left which will take place over the next few weeks. Mars is now on its stationary retrograde degree, preparing to go retrograde on October 30. As mentioned, this lunation has very few aspects, showing it’s not a dynamic New Moon when it comes to interacting with the other planets. The only oppositions are in sign but out of orb, with very few dynamic aspects between the planets, which we’ll discuss in the next article on this Lunation.

Of course, those with planets in late Cancer, mid- Leo, late Virgo, or mid-Scorpio are going through some VERY long wave outer planet oppositions, with potential for very high awareness of how to ground new ideals, new public expression, and new ways to related to your larger spiritual group. The various types of the “Tension of Opposites” involved in those signs will come to the fore as the recent Eclipses take away old Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Sagittarius, Capricorn and now Scorpio patterns, allowing newer ones to take shape.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs.

Thirteen months ago we began a new pattern of the New Moon Sun being in the same sign as the following Full Moon Sun. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and now we no longer “bridge the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle. This month’s Solar Eclipse New Moon is at 2 Scorpio, and the coming Total Lunar Eclipse Full Moon will be at 17 Scorpio/Taurus, indicating the Light of the seed forms of the New Moon will be illuminated in the same sign energy two weeks from now.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Jupiter and Saturn

This is the twenty-third New Moon of the Saturn in Aquarius era which will last until the New Moon of February 2023. We are now at the back end of the third year of the cycle set into motion at its rare and very powerful conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn in January 2020, with a current Aquarian influence due to Saturn.

Taking a look back, 2020 brought us a “cosmic visitation” which “galvanized us into action” to “escape from adverse conditions.” That year Nature challenged us to listen, look, and learn that we are not separate from Her, and evaluate what parts of our Self-disciplines and duties work and which ones didn’t.

The lesson of 2021 involved learning a technique of spiritual acceleration by getting a vision, a plan, and a time to begin whatever will short cut the time needed for expanded awareness and effectiveness. Saturn has been teaching us “the way within to outer success,” with a promise of “direct accomplishment.” These began to be realized in January 2022. Its direct station in October 2021 indicated last Autumn, Winter, and Spring we were in a period of “new mutations based in Cosmos” coming forth, unrelated to past or local conditions. In other words, it’s safe to say we have had a lot showing up since last October which is a fresh “emanation” from Spirit.

One of Saturn’s divine qualities is understanding as a prelude to wisdom. With Jupiter’s transit through Aquarius leading the Saturn transit, Saturn is tracking what Jupiter opened. As Saturn traverses the span where Jupiter has danced, it will crystallize its understanding of what that span of experience is about, and how we can use it wisely if we find the right structure and discipline.

Having finished our experience of the Jupiter in Aquarius era, we took a deep dive into the vast Piscean ocean which Jupiter calls home. In late May it entered Aries, where it will stay until it slips back to the last two degrees of Pisces in November and December. Jupiter in Aquarius gave us a new level of awareness, which we learned to feel more deeply in Pisces so that the new initiatives we’ve launched the past dozen weeks will take off like rocket ships in 2023! We’re definitely on a 20 year journey into Aquarius experiences based in the two 2020 conjunctions of Mars/Saturn and Jupiter/Saturn at 1 Aquarius.

Also remember Jupiter conjuncted Pluto three times in 2020, setting long wave transformational energies into motion at 23 and 25 Capricorn which will be in play through 2033. These conjunction themes have been renewed by the transit of Venus and Mars over these degrees, and now that Venus and Mars conjuncted at 1 Aquarius and conjunct Saturn in late Aquarius, we’ve begun yet another set of global Aquarian energies which will come forth over the next year.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Scorpio has Mars as its ruler. As Scorpio is in the axis of the Warrior/Guardian, it puts the focus on knowing boundaries, knowing when to advance or retreat, when to hold the line or give way, and guarding resources so they are used wisely. With Mars, ruler of the Lunation, in Gemini, it is ruled by Mercury in Libra, itself ruled by Venus in Scorpio. This creates a “chain of dispositors” involving Mars, Mercury, and Venus, which split the backdrop energies between them.

So the Sun, Moon, Venus and Jupiter are all ruled by Mars, which is ruled by Mercury which is ruled by Venus. Saturn continues to occupy its home sign of Aquarius, making it the ruler of Pluto in Capricorn. Uranus is in Taurus, making Venus its ruler, and as usual, Neptune is still in its home sign, continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness.

So this month we have two planets in their home signs, or “final dispositors,” with most of the planets ruled by the chain of dispositors involving Mercury, Venus, and Mars. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn is still a major force to be reckoned with this year and next, bringing “cosmic mutations” which now challenge our skill at managing and utilizing spiritual power, it plays a large part in ruling the social and cultural cycles in our lives. It will continue to dominate the stage of Life for many months and even years to come, so if you haven’t already gotten a copy, please give yourself the timeless gift of my book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. We all need to make friends with our inner Saturn if we would claim our power to fulfill our higher purpose for being alive as Spirits in the material world.

This book shows you the way to take command of your power to steer your life in a conscious way, using Saturn’s strengths and skills to be led to mastering life on our own terms. As Saturn is such a dominant energy at this time, by owning our ability to manifest the best of Saturn's virtues in our world, we take command of our destiny and become the living purpose we were born to make manifest!

It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will assist your understanding of how your life experiences assisted your Soul growth and power to turn away from unhelpful karmic cause and effect patterns. Each time you re-read any part of it you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight helping you throw off attitudes which frustrate your ability to live your higher Purpose on your own terms.

Is the Grand Irrationality A Factor in this New Moon?

Because this section is so long, I created an article which explains what it is, how long it’s been in effect, and which signs have been most impacted and when. You can find all you need to know about this configuration associated with widespread irrationality and hard-edged “forks in the road of destiny” we’ve all confronted at various times by going to The Grand Irrationality. (I’ll be updating it soon, since we’re rapidly moving out of that configuration which has dominated the past 29 years.)

In this Lunation, the Grand Irrationality is in the background, as only Mercury makes a triseptile to Uranus but a quincunx to Neptune. At this point, the next activation will happen when the inner planets move through 10-14 Sagittarius.

The configuration is also activated when the Moon transits any of the 7 “hot zones,” as well as when planets make 7th harmonic angles to Uranus and Neptune. This configuration is associated with the 7-pointed “Star of Destiny” active at this hard edge in history. Because at this time the off-again, on-again Uranus septile Neptune is a constant factor in the configuration, it keeps non-rational energies in play for those with a planet or point in any of the 7 affected “hot zones” near 2-6 Aquarius, 24-28 Pisces, 16-20 Taurus, 7-11 Cancer, 28 Leo-2 Virgo, 20-24 Libra, and 11-15 Sagittarius.

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

I have offered this segment each month for years to give you a broader perspective on the collective atmosphere, and the long wave changes humanity is going through. Because this section has gotten so large over the years, I’ve decided it deserves its own article, which I’ll update as needed.

If you’re wondering about why we’re all navigating the fogs and confusions in the collective atmosphere, or why we’re healing into our Higher Self in a different way that we used to, when you’re done here please check out Neptune and Chiron in 2022 – Long Wave Collective Healing and Mentoring.

In that article I go into detail about the Chiron-Neptune conjunction in late Aquarius, and how each of those planets have manifested in Pisces. Because Chiron is in Aries, we are mentoring and being mentored in a much different way than we were when Chiron was in Pisces. Please check out the article to know more.

In this chart, Chiron is at 14 Aries, retrograding back through the middle of that sign until it goes direct at 12 Aries in December. Then it moves forward again, finally hitting 20 Aries by next July. You can see how the dance Jupiter will do with Chiron this year and next will radically expand our healing and mentoring wherever we have mid- Aries.

Because it went SRX at 17 Aries, that means the themes of 17 Aries are extremely important at this time through next Spring. This means Chiron is mentoring and teaching us how to heal into our Higher Self through knowing when to withdraw from people and situations with dignity. At this Lunation, Chiron again shows us the eternal dance between the inner and outer male and female, as well as the dance between Spirit and matter, Soul and personality. We are told to “let the transpersonal operate through the personal,” allowing Cosmic Love to express itself through our personal and interpersonal forms of love. We now get a new look at the dance of the visible world with the invisible world, the “relationships between (the) conscious and unconscious sides of life,” and the individual and spiritual level of “Is-Be-Ness.”

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the second decan of Aries. For the past 2 years, we’ve gotten a new understanding about how we’ve “reinterpreted old images in a new light of understanding” since the 2020 Mars/Chiron conjunction at 10 Aries. You can find out more about the themes of 10 Aries at Astrology Healing Cycles - Mars Conjunct Chiron Stationary Retrograde at 10 Aries. So Aries dominated the past Mars/Chiron cycle, and we just began a new one with the recent Mars Conjunct Chiron at 16 Aries which takes us into the future.

Neptune continues to take us deeper into Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

Having heard our inner voice, “taken a walk with our wisdom,” and received our promised nourishment “at the end of our day of labor,” we’ve now learned entirely new ways to “touch and be touched,” whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. Since last Summer, we’ve all been awakened to an expanded tactile awareness, giving us more of a kinesthetic experience of learning. You can learn more about the primary and secondary methods of how we learn all we learn by going to The Seven Different Types of Learning Styles – Pt. 1 and The Seven Different Types of Learning and Teaching Styles – Pt. 2

This New Moon Eclipse shows Neptune at 24 Pisces, the same degree it originally went stationary retrograde on in late June 2021. This is a degree of understanding our interrelatedness with others in our spiritual field, and was amplified by the Jupiter conjunction with Neptune on this degree in April. This set a long wave cycle of expanded “non-local knowing” into motion which will be a focus for the next 13 years.

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then as we continue to use those structures to fulfill the emergent Aquarian energies. Jupiter has raced through Pisces after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials which will be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn will crystallize in 2022 and 2023, with major transfigurations to come in 2023.

We are in a time of learning to spot “seed forms” to make our expression more precise and efficient. Having opened to a wider experience of life’s Oneness, concentrate to see the whole picture while continuing your spiritual transformation created by the spiritual energy pouring out into the world since the Full Moon of Gemini/Sagittarius. Be efficient in your adaptations, and keep eliminating all in your “garden of life and mind” which you don’t want to deal with.

All of us are learning to listen to the inner voice, do our own thing, and embrace a new spontaneity by cleaning out our mind’s attachments to perceptions and interpretations. We continue our training to be more effective in utilizing forms of spiritual power during the second half of this year. The learning began at Jupiter’s direct station last September, and now Saturn is bringing structure and form to that training.

Since Jupiter is again at the first degree of Aries and it began a two year cycle with Mars when they conjuncted at 4 Aries, embrace the new with enthusiasm and courage! This is the time to jump into action with an eye to core principles and goals. It’s a great time to do our own thing in our own way as we demonstrate our capacity to use spiritual power effectively. Be willing to rise to some occasion, since the challenges and “exaggerations of our life problems” will expand us.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

This Lunation brings the Light of a new view of the past and lost relationships as prelude to a life renewal after we surrender the intensity of the memories. The coming weeks (and years) will help us “peel the onion” and release whatever we don’t like, want, or need any more. This one helps us get to “the bare trees” of past and present relationships, the truth of many things, with a need for indirect or roundabout communications given Mars is going retrograde very soon.

The coming weeks will be a combination of moving forward into the unknown with a radically different pace than we’ve known all year. Now that we face a new day, it’s natural to take a look back to see any internal blockages with an eye to removing them. This eclipse is dynamic but not strong, and reminds us that we need to continue eliminating all which is hindering our enjoyment of our lives and the freedom we have. Life can be a delight when we're living our truth, so release all within which blocks your experience of happiness. We’ve all contacted a “seed knowledge” which will serve us in 2023 once the review of methods and approaches is complete by January 2023. Scorpio seeks to venture into the unknown, but as the North Node is in Taurus, remember to enjoy the journey!

Many of us have turned away from old values and relationships and have seen unique ways to express our inner knowing. Those who have been shown the next phase of unfoldment have parted the veil and moved into the unknown. Just remember to go slow and be a bit more cautious than usual since things could turn weird in unexpected ways due to the erratic volatility of the separating Saturn square Uranus coupled with the confusion indicated by Mars square Neptune. Demonstrate good Scorpio and Leo skills to deal with fixed conflicts, and pay attention to details as you find a new dedication to deal with the uncertainties of Mars/Neptune.

We can still get a lot done thanks to Mercury trine Mars. Just remember that Mars slowing to go retrograde will slow everything down. Continue to consolidate the new beginnings started by the Mars/Jupiter conjunction in Aries, knowing some things will have to be pruned back in November to make the effort “lighter and brighter.” There is still dynamic potential in this period, with an eye to the coming Mars retrograde between October and December.

Final Thoughts

We’ve already hit a turning point in our tests of using spiritual power and/or magnetism wisely, with new heart strengths coming forth in Summer and Autumn via “spiritual linkage through emotional stress” and “the blessings which come forth after the death of useless things.” Accept the new roles, new realizations, and new duties which may seem like you’ve done them before, and be obedient to the higher law of your Being. Continue to ride the waves of a gigantic future opening to you wherever you have Aquarius and Aries in your chart, welcoming the new, the promise, the protection, and the adventure. Remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Even though the long term conflict between the old and the new is not yet completed, take heart, show good humor, get focused, and continue to eliminate all you no longer need or which would block your happiness. Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 20 months we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and the next few weeks give opportunities to demonstrate our skill and mastery of process.

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

See you soon with part 3, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

Previous articles in this series:

The Partial Solar Eclipse of October 2022 at 2 Scorpio Pt. 1 - Who Does It Affect and for How Long?

The Solar Eclipse at 2 Scorpio in October 2022 - Why Are Solar Eclipses Thought To Be Bad?

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