This is a week of intense release. The world is doing a collective exhale as some huge planetary cycles are coming to a culmination. Now that’s not to say that everything is going to be resolved this week, but rather, it could be a huge marking moment in this 2020 timeline as we approach the end of this year.

To start the week off...

☯ The feminine and masculine planets Venus and Mars are making an opposition to one another from their respective home signs.

This week, we are being called to be our own leader. To be our own guru. Our own mentor. We know the answers we seek can always be found through our intuition, through getting quiet and listening to ourselves, instead of giving our free will and choice away to other sources of authority. We must be our own authority.

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Throughout this first full week of November we are going to be contending with a lot of ups and downs; I’m choosing to remain hopeful that the amount of ups will balance out the downs. 🤞

There's a lot happening with Mercury as he stations direct to start the week off, after being retrograde for the last 3 weeks or so. This brings in a huge shift in energy in of itself; we should be feeling  more clear in terms of the direction things could go in, but might not necessarily go. This theme of gaining clarity - gaining emotional clarity - will be prominent.

This entire week has a heavy, tense undertone to it, unfortunately. This is because Mars is stopping this week in preparation to move forward again, ending his retrograde period which first began when he went into his shadow back in the beginning of September. Mars is the last planet that enjoys a retrograde, so there’s a heaviness to this week that will be hard to ignore. The emotional outbursts we’ve been witnessing/experiencing since Mars first went retrograde are probably only going to continue until Mars stations direct on the 13th this month.

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☪ How have my communication skills been lately? Have I been actively working towards becoming a better communicator, and if not, what's been holding me back from doing so?

☪ How have I been managing my emotions lately? In what ways have I been spending my energy and attention, and how conducive are these outlets beneficial (or not) for me?

☪ What is my general overall belief of life itself? Do I have a positive or a negative outlook on life?

☪ How do I react when faced with difficult truths? What is my emotional resiliency like?

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Romantic energy. Decision making. Communication skills. Dreamy, psychic, vibes. These are some of the themes we are entering into this week as we finish off the month of October.

The week starts off rather light, but the energy starts to intensify as we approach the Full Super Moon at the end of the week on Halloween. This week can go one of two ways, and ultimately I think it will be dependent on how these aspects are influencing your individual chart. This is one of those weeks where a lot of things that we’ve been dealing with throughout the year are coming to a boiling point. We could see a lot of unexpected events occur towards the end of the week.

With Taurus, Scorpio and Libra being highlighted this week, it could be a week of foundational breakthroughs or breakdowns. And this is a bit of a check-in point for us to see how we’ve been chugging along this year, how we’ve been handling things and dealing with our own individual drama whilst navigating the craziness of the events going on in the world around us, and the changes that are coming as a result.

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⚖ What are the relationships we value most that I need to prioritize, and how can I best go about doing so?

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We’ve got a lighter week ahead of us - thankfully! - in comparison to the past couple weeks, where we’ve been dealing with quite a bit of heaviness and tension from all the action with Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Mercury. But this week Venus makes some fortuitous aspects that should bring in some light and harmonious energy throughout the week. We also are entering Scorpio season this week! This is a season of passion, intensity, transformation and truths being revealed.

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The constant themes we’ve been dealing with throughout 2020, and what I think are really being highlighted here with these three lunations this month, is this concept of structure, order, governance, and authority, with the Jupiter-Saturn-Pluto business happening in Capricorn all month, and the contrast of asserting ourselves against this authority, breaking down the structures and rebuilding the foundations in a way that works for us. Taking back our power against these forces that we feel have been working against us or challenging us all year. Taking back our power from the situations where we’ve given our power away.

October is said to be the most action-packed months out of all of 2020. The Sun enters Scorpio on the 22nd, Mercury sits in Scorpio for the majority of the month, while also going retrograde from the 14th until Nov. 1st. Scorpio is a sign of intensity and extremes, dealing with anything underworldly and completely uninterested in anything but the cold, hard truth. With both the Sun and Mercury in this untamed and sometimes frightening sign, we also have Mars, one of the rulers of Scorpio, sitting retrograde in his other home sign of Aries. And Pluto, the other ruler of Scorpio, recently stationing and returning to a direct motion after being retrograde since the spring. This is putting a huge emphasis on Scorpio energy this month, making it an extremely fitting month for Halloween and all things… surprising and spooky.

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“Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and place.”

We’re still very much riding the same waves from the past few days, with both Pluto and Saturn stationing last week in preparation to resume their apparent forward journeys in the sky after being retrograde since April and May, respectively. This week brings in quite a bit more tension as Mars makes his second square to Saturn for the year, and the Moon transiting through also making some aspects to the heavyweight planets, we’ll all likely be feeling rather emotionally driven this week. That's why I've decided to take a line from the 90's classic "Drive" by Incubus and title this week's episode "Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there." Cause really, what else can we do but ride the waves of life?!  All in all, this is the kind of week where we will want to remain driven and focused, yet still open to all the unexpected changes that life inevitably always delivers.

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Overall this is a predominantly tense week, with the square between Mars and Saturn and the Aries Full Moon, but we do have a few nicer aspects going on that should hopefully help alleviate some of the heaviness that all of us are likely going to be feeling. This energy is going to be thematically the same across the board - dealing with themes of transforming structural foundations in our life. On a more personal level, we're all going through our own unique situations and learning to deal with them in our own way.

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We have quite a heavy week ahead of us! Communication barriers and confrontation are the dominant subject matter of this week. Conflicts within our relationships could easily arise, so we will want to be particularly mindful of the way we use our words. Words can kill if we’re not careful!

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New Moon in Virgo - September 17, 2020  

If there are any areas of our life that need meticulous revision, now is the time to make those changes and adjustments.  Virgo is typified as the “perfectionist” for it's keen eye for detail, natural inclination for continuous analysis and goal-oriented nature. Virgos are often stereotyped as a “type-A” personality -  competitive, ambitious, impatient, aggressive, fast talking.   

But underneath the “Monica Geller” hard outer shell is an incredible amount of humility. Virgos are passionate about “process” and therefore are always in constant evaluation-mode, inwardly and outwardly.  So with this Virgo season, we can find ourselves self-analyzing a little too much to the point that we end up feeling overly-anxious, or questioning our sense of worth based on our progress, in whatever it is we are “competing” in.  

This New Moon in Virgo is making a trine to Saturn in Capricorn, so that will really benefit us in getting more disciplined with ourselves, getting more driven and focused. This will allow us to cultivate the personal austerity that will help us to make any foundational changes to our lives.   

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