After the Scorpio New Moon in October we celebrated Halloween and now in November we enter the darkest time of the year. Soon we can begin looking forward to the winter solstice and lengthening of days again.
With Mars the ‘action’ planet opposite ‘mysterious’ Neptune during the first week this month, it can feel like we are groping in the dark and things may not be what they seem so beware of deception and false information. The truth about events that have occurred in recent weeks may become clearer over time as Neptune returns to its forward motion on the 9th after four months in retrograde.
The Neptunian theme of illusions also characterises the partial Solar Eclipse on the 25th. Visible only from the extreme southern hemisphere this is the last of four Solar eclipses this year and will affect global events over the following several months. Traditional Astrology, which puts a strong emphasis on an eclipse chart for predicting the nature of world events, gives us many indications that this November event will be particularly significant.
As the Sun Moon conjunction moves into a challenging square angle to ‘passionate’ Mars whilst in a comfortable trine to ‘unpredictable’ Uranus, we can expect some kind of conflict to be triggered and a great deception is likely to be attempted by those who want to take advantage of the unfolding circumstances. Expect a lot of confusion to follow during the next few months. Peculiar or unusual events may happen but don’t believe everything you are being told or even what you think you are seeing. This lack of clarity and uncertainty could potentially bring despair if the personal disruption is particularly hard to cope with.
Meanwhile, ‘Freedom loving’ Uranus is positioned at zero degrees of Aries which is a critical point of the Zodiac and suggests a strong drive towards independence from restriction with many radical initiatives and new directions sparking conflicts of interest. The current unrest and dissatisfaction with financial inequality that’s being demonstrated around the world isn’t likely to go away for some time yet and may reach a new peak towards the months end.
The possibility of a stabilising influence comes from a grand trine in ‘reliable’ Earth signs involving Mars in Virgo, Pluto in Capricorn and Jupiter in Taurus. This could see a religious or faith based organisation combine with financial interests to propose a practical solution in an attempt to resolve current difficulties. At the same time there could be the emergence of a new spiritually motivated attitude towards both our personal resources and our social organisations that is actually grounded in reality rather than idealism.
It’s likely that another deal or treaty of some kind will be forced forward but with ‘slippery’ Mercury who rules over those affairs going into its retrograde motion on 24th there will be many more setbacks and attempts at deception before any agreement is reached and settled satisfactorily.