Written and Narrated by Pam Younghans.

Astrologer Pam Younghans writes this weekly astrological journal based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.

Aspects of Note this Week:

All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time. (For Eastern Time, add 3 hours; For Greenwich Mean Time, add 7 hours.)

WE NOW BEGIN another stage of our "final ascent" through these last months of 2021. The new leg of our journey is christened this week by an especially enlightening New Moon, which leads us to a partial Lunar Eclipse on November 19 and then to an auspicious Total Solar Eclipse on December 3.

This next phase of our trek will take us into higher elevations, so we'll need to take special care of our physical, mental, and emotional states. It will be vital to be aware of when we need to rest along the way. In anticipation of the trail ahead, we may also want to lighten the load we are carrying, so that we are as unencumbered as possible. That means attending to any unfinished business now, anything that could distract us or unnecessarily tax our energy.

DO YOU REMEMBER the beginning of October? Can you recall what issues you were grappling with at that time? On the first day of that month, retrograde Mercury was square Pluto and opposite Eris, forming a cardinal T-square. It's likely that we were dealing with stressful situations and perhaps conflicts or confrontations as October got underway.

This week, there's a sense of déjà vu, since the exact same aspects are in effect on Monday and Tuesday as were in effect on October 1. We may face challenges that are similar to those we were dealing with a month ago, or perhaps we will be working to finally wrap up the issues we were dealing with then.

The good news is that...