The week begins on Monday with the Moon in Shravana, right in the middle of Capricorn. Shravana is a nakshatra that teaches us to listen, particularly beneath the surface or beyond the obvious. Both this star and the following, Dhanistha, are excellent placements for mantra and music (Dhanistha is symbolized by a drum and is the “steady sound”). The Moon is moving into the space that Saturn is occupying here and will be exact by Monday evening (8pm HT, 10 pm PDT). This can bring extra stress, tension and pressure as well the accompanying sadness and loneliness these feelings can bring. As we move through the week, expect the energy to lighten and even to feel inspired and aligned with grace by December 1st (Thursday) as the Moon joins Jupiter, direct in Pisces on Jupiter’s own day:) December 2nd, Mercury will move into Sagittarius, offering us a more philosophical rather than emotional way of communicating. Enjoy this peace, inspiration and expansion over the weekend as when we start next week, we may feel some agitation with the Moon joining Rahu in Aries and then Mars in Taurus!

Aries
For you Aries the week is beginning with your heart in your work and the pressure you feel here to achieve your highest ambitions. With your ruler retrograde in the 2nd, you are internally focused on money and your personal value but externally trying to manage the chaos in relationships has been taxing you. The weekend will bring you a desire to escape reality… keep it wise!

Taurus
Taurus the week is beginning with your heart connected to your highest truth and teachings. This is a great time to utilize any resources or teachers you have, as your ruling planet (Venus) in the 7th house of relationships and the 7th lord retrograde (Mars) in your 1st house has certainly been putting the focus on you and others! Allow wisdom to guide you here. Work and responsibilities will take center stage much of the week and on the weekend, connect with your community! Remember your blessings as the beginning of next week, may get intense!

Gemini
Gemini, for you the period from the New Moon until Monday has been a bit tumultuous as the Moon has traversed two difficult houses, the 6th house of hard work and service (which is the cycle you have entered for this Moon) and the 7th house of relationships and now starting out your 8th house of sudden unexpected events. You might feel like you are mitigating disaster, but Tuesday into the weekend will be much stronger focus on your impact in the outer world through teachings and career. Enjoy the blessings particularly how your relationships flourish through career this weekend. Next week things may get a bit more dramatic!

Cancer
For you Cancer, you have just set off a new cycle on children, creativity and what you love. The week begins with focus on your relationships to others, and how committed you feel to them right now, and then moves into your 8th house, where those relationships keep you on your toes!  By the weekend, you will be feeling the truth of things and a lot of grace and inspiration in how you serve. Next week, you will likely be making bold moves in the outer world; really soaking up the wisdom surrounding you over the weekend will greatly benefit anything you do going forward.

Leo
Leo, this New Moon really set off a cycle of home, vehicles and peace in the heart for you. As the week moves forward you will find you have to deal with some of the hard work of compromising with others. When Mercury moves into your 5th house on December 2, you will find that connecting to what you love (and any children if you have them) will help bring you both community and value. While you may find yourself disappointed by others, imagine that they also have a different set of needs, ideals and agenda for life than you and you have to respect that. With Mars long transit in your 10th you are going back over old ground with your responsibilities and re-learning how working can bring you closer to both your purpose and your peace.

Virgo
This is the cycle of effort, Virgo, and having to learn new skills. The week begins with you committed to what you love, but also feeling the pressure from it. As you move through the week, you will find yourself in service to that, but the weekend will bring big relief and quite a lot of grace in your relationships! Enjoy your well-deserved blessings!  As your ruling planet is moving into the 4th on Tuesday, you will also really find your energy focus on home, and finding peace in the next few weeks.

Libra
Libra for you the Moon is beginning the week in your house of home, joined Saturn. You might find yourself home alone, or wishing you were! This is the cycle of value for you, so much of your energy is focused on your finances and also your values. Expect some disappointment through your efforts when Mercury transits into Sagittarius on the 2nd, but also know it is bringing you closer to your dharma. While for most the Weekend is the blessing as the Moon joins Jupiter, for you it may be a time to amp up your hard work, particularly as it relates to your actual work (career).

Scorpio
Oh Scorpio, this is a period where it can feel like a lot on the front end, and as the Moon moves into your 4th house on Tuesday, you may just want to stay home. The 2nd will also mark Mercury, your 8th and 11th lord that brings sudden unexpected changes and community moving into your house of money and values. The weekend will be blissful with what you love (your children if you have them). Honor what you need and soak up the blessings while you feel them, as you are going to be facing a lot of perceived hard work and stress with others next week!

Sagittarius
For you, this week week begins with a focus on your values and money…expect the unexpected! As the cycle set off on the New Moon is one of confusion and escape, it can be hard to keep your focus but Mercury moving into your 1st house on the 2nd will be a huge awakening for both your relationships and your career as they move out of the zone of delusion and become very much present and accounted for in your life again! This weekend will be a great time to cozy up at home and enjoy your blessings.

Capricorn
Capricorn, the weeks begins with the Moon in the first house and your relationships right on your identity, joined, your ruling planet! You and others is definitely the beginning theme, but as we move into Tuesday, you will focus a bit more on your value and values and how you experience your relationships through that lens. When Mercury moves into your 12th house on Dec 2nd, you may find that you are experiencing your truth through your confusion but it can also be the thing that negates a lot of the hard work you have! The weekend you may feel like you are the one pushing your relationships through, which is true, but there will also be some divine grace as Jupiter joins the Moon here. The key is to surrender the outcome, if not, you will find yourself disappointed.

Aquarius
The week begins with you a little checked out and avoiding responsibility. As the Moon moves into your 1st house on Tuesday, you will suddenly “wake up” to all the work you have to do! This weekend will be a focus on your value and money and blessings through community and service can really abound. The overall cycle beginning for you on this past New Moon was one of Career, and Mars, the ruler of this is retrograde in your 4th house of home, so perhaps you are revisiting the ways what you do does or does not feel good in your heart? Perhaps you are revisiting working from home?

Pisces
Pisces, for you the Moon is transiting through your houses of community, into your house of escape and disappointment, into your 1st house this week, so expect quite a span of experience! The Moon is the ruler of what you love and children and so it may begin with feeling of connection through groups of people and end with having what you love right in front of you, but there is also a period of letting go. This cycle is one of dharma and purpose for you, so allow your deep well of wisdom to help you find that fine line between loss and surrender and like true fish, swim it!

To Find out how all these transits affect your full natal chart:

The Moon and Sun are coming together in sidereal Scorpio on Wednesday, November 23rd, at 12:57 pm HT (2:57 pm PDT), and they are joined a tightly conjunct Venus and Mercury, all in the nakshatra of Anuradha, or “After Radha”. Anuradha is ruled by Mitra, the god of friendship and is inherently connected to the goddess Radha, the devoted one. She who is the lover of the Beloved. It is through her that we are able to reach God. In Vedic teachings there are many faces of the One, each one offering us a familiar relationship that is accessible to us. For some it is the way we might feel towards a child that connects us to the Divine, for some it may be a good friend, for others a Mother or a Father….Radha connects us to what is said to be the highest relationship, that of a Lover. She shows us the ultimate love, the ultimate bhakti, the ultimate union. She is the ultimate vulnerability, where we have not protection around our hearts at all, and there is nothing we will not do to merge with what we love. The symbol is a lotus flower. That which is growing from the mud and is yet the symbol of perfection and completion.

The Moon is just moving past its point of debility here, where we have the hardest time managing our emotions. Anuradha is like a breath of fresh air, where we remember it is not all about us. If we can call ourselves out of the murky waters where we drown in our own emotions, perhaps we can set our sights like a flower towards the Sun. As this is the dark Moon and therefore the time when our energy is the most low, we might find that it is through meditation and solitude through which we are able to rise above the mud. After a month of over-giving our energy to others, it is certainly worth a look at where and what we choose to do with our time, and whether or not it is a distraction from facing our deepest fears, or whether it is actually serving us. The Sun is shining in the shadows, showing us what is real and what is imagined, and helping us to crawl out of the corners and into the light.

Mercury and Venus, our two relational planets, can really struggle here, as they are mired in the illusions and delusions of Scorpio too, and might lash out before getting the full story. The most important part of the story to understand is that we wrote it. No matter what we believe others have done to us, we have played a primary part in helping them. Are we choosing our friends wisely? How about our lovers? If the answer is yes, than a good chance is that there is confusion that needs to be cleared up. If the answer is no, well, what are you going to do about it? Are you more afraid of being alone than turning your back on your own soul? The path of the victim is one that can only end if you allow it to. Here is a chance to be a courageous emotional warrior and battle your own demons, instead of continuing to pretend they exist outside of you!

Jupiter, moving direct this same day, is sending his one-way wisdom from Pisces to this stellium in Scorpio. He is giving us the opportunity to use our teachings and beliefs to pull out of the mud and towards the light, particularly the ones that are beyond dogma and have been building up internally for us during this retrograde cycle. There is a FREE report on Jupiter for all 12 Signs, available on my website, if you want to know what area of your life he is activating for you.


With Mars, Retrograde right across the way from his own sign in Taurus, and Jupiter, going direct later this day, sending his one-way wisdom from Pisces, the question looms, “would you rather be comfortable or truly happy?” A good many will choose comfort over the unknown, but all of us will be blessed with the inner knowing of what’s really right and true.

May you have a blessed and bold New Moon!

To Find out how these transits will affect you and your personal Natal Chart

This week starts off on Friday morning with a  one-way dristhi (energetic gaze) from Mars retrograde right on our Moon at the end of Leo. The Moon is in the star of Uttara Phalguni, here, where contracts and agreements are being made. Watch out for any anger or resentments  lurking beneath the surface, or perhaps hidden passions, as Mars’ fiery gaze is coming from sensual Taurus. We may not be in complete integrity with ourselves and our actions in our efforts to experience connection and feel good.
As the Moon transits into the Virgo part of this nakshatra by evening, we may become more reticent and critical of both ourselves and others, but a generous two-way gaze with Jupiter, still Retrograde in Pisces, will help show us a path through our beliefs and ideals. This is a great time to use what inspires you to organize your priorities. That may not sound like a romantic Friday night, but it is certainly sexier than letting things continue to slide and building up resentment. The weekend will have this Virgo vibe, so all the partying you may have planned, might be less fun than you planned, LOL. It is, however, a great time to take care of yourself, and be in soothing and natural environments!
By Monday, you will be feeling the social vibes, when the Moon enters Libra, but the critical quality may become more precise, as the Moon joins Ketu, the South Node, and becomes exact on Tuesday.   On Wed, November 23rd, the Moon is transiting into Scorpio where it is debilitated due to too much emotional turmoil. This will be our New Moon with the Sun and Moon joined Venus and Mercury and the ruler of Scorpio, Mars, retrograde and giving mutual dristhi across the way in Taurus. Thanksgiving will be a gathering for sure, LOL! Avoid emotional and heated discussions at all costs and particularly on Thursday, find physical activities that can help diminish the pent-up Mars energy. Read on to find out how these transits will affect all 12 Signs!

 Here’s the breakdown for all 12 Rising Signs! These are specific to your Vedic Rising Sign. If you do not know your Vedic Rising Sign, download the app above and look it up! This will not work with Western/tropical placements.

Aries
Expect the unexpected when it comes to partners and lovers. You will be moving your feet but it may not be in harmony with your other. As your ruling planet tracks back into the house of values, you may be questioning your own self-worth. Money may feel like its out of your control too; take precautions and you can avoid long-term debts and enemies.

Taurus
Taurus the theme is relationships for you right now! With your ruling planet in the house of others and the ruler of your 7th house (partners) in your own first house, your identity is very wrapped up in that of your partner or your lack of partner if you don’t have one. Remember the lessons you just learned! You will be running back over old themes with others in the coming months. Slow down and listen so you don’t have to repeat your past mistakes!

Gemini
Mars is moving from your first house to your 12th house this week, so by surrendering/escaping/letting go you can undo some of the inimical energy you may have been experiencing with society this past month. Your ruling planet, and the lord of your 4th house of home and inner peace (as well as your planet of creativity and your skill) is moving into the 6th house of hard work, enemies, and debts, so this is a good time to show up for the details and take care of what needs to be done.

Cancer
Your ruling planet is the Moon, and it is always moving through the signs so fast that you hardly have time to ground before you move to the next area of life. This week you are traversing from the 12th house to your 2nd house, so your weekend may start off with you feeling a bit lost and confused and then when everyone else is feeling all the feels, as the Moon moves into its home base, your rising sign, you will feel more in-tune with and focused on your natural *emotional* self. Mid-week, you will feel your value and your power when the Moon transits Leo, your 2nd house. You will also be remembering your responsibilities, creativity and love of children as Mars moves back into Taurus, your house of community.

Leo
For you Leo this week is big, because your ruling planet, the Sun, is changing signs on the 15th! The shift is one from your least powerful state, where you give away your authority to others to a very potent placement where you are able to shine your bright light on what shadows lurk in your heart space. Expect to bring the party with you (it actually moved in before you to set the stage, but you’ll never know the difference) as both Venus and Mercury will be joining here too! Your career, community and your value are joining you in your home, can you find room for them? When in doubt, remember who is King of your Castle.

Virgo
Virgo, Your willful nature is about to come out, as you move from a place of focusing on your personal value, as well as your finances and possessions. Expect to learn new skills and be focused on what you can make happen in the world, and perhaps even find some challenges around your ideals, beliefs and teachings.  Don’t be surprised if you have some sudden upsets with teachers or counselors. A good practice right now is determining what is actually of “you” and what is coming through you. 

Libra
This week is huge for you, Libra, as there has been quite a lot of energy on your rising sign, aka yourself and it is moving on out one by one! First, you are shifting your own attention to your values and money, particularly how you can attract other people’s money. Second, you are bringing your wisdom and higher purpose along for the ride. Finally, the blazing Sun of society that has been burning up your ability to make things pleasant is also taking the heat into your house of finances, values and possessions. You may find your tribe through what you value! Your personal relationships however, may go through some sudden unexpected shifts, at least on an internal level.

Scorpio
This shift will feel momentous to you, Scorpio, as the planets one by one shift from your 12th house of escape, loss and confusion into your 1st house of your identity. There is a mutual exchange between your ruling planet Mars, who is Retrograde, and your 7th lord, Venus in your 1st making relationships one of the most prominent factors right now. Where you have been sleeping, you will have no choice but to wake up. With your 8th, 10th and 11th lords joining expect your fears, careers and community to all also feel prominent to your identity right now. If it feels like a lot is suddenly happening right on your person, its because it is!

Sagittarius
You are feeling the shift of your attentions from what is wrong with the collective community to wanting to hide out at home and escape with your partner, if you have one, or your fantasies of one if you don’t. Even your creative energy or children are feeling like a lot of work right now, but it is well-worth your efforts to put some time into what you love. Your inner compass is moving from compromising with others, to facing your fears to your highest beliefs and teachings, so by mid-week you will likely feel some inspiration!

Capricorn
This has been a tough month for you, as Mars, your 4th lord of home, motherhood and inner peace and 11th lord of community has been sticking his foot into your 6th house of hard work, health challenges and service. He’ll be back into your 5th house of children and anything you love like a child on November 13th, so  your focus can move back to your creativity, even if is a bit of rewind and inner review. Your 7th lord of partners is moving from the hard work you must do to compromise, to highlighting the relationship itself to being forced to face your own lack of control over others in the course of this next 7 days, so take it one day at a time and stay slow.

Aquarius
Expect to feel a big leap from your 9th house of teachings and beliefs to your 10th house of career and external responsibility. You will bring your inspiration with you, as well as your inner peace, creativity, and partners. Expect to also have to show up for the details and hard work necessary to serve what you love. It is possible you may bring your work home with you, or at least think about it again, as Mars Retrograde is moving back into the 10th, asking you to review what felt good in the past.

Pisces
Pisces, this is a time where your creativity can blossom as the Moon, your 5th lord moves from the 4th house of a seed planted in your heart, to the 5th house where creation begins, to the 6th house where you need to show up for some actual work. You will also feel a shift from things being largely out of control and chaotic for the past month, to in line with your dharma and beliefs. Stay true to yourself and you will find peace with others regardless of what happens. There is going to be some potential power struggles, unexpected events and the need to learn new skills. Shed the light on what the sources of ill-will with others, health problems or money issues are. Be willing to face your fears and transform. Positive relations, particularly with your partner are what will help you stay in a peaceful place right now.

Whew! Things have certainly been intense in this two week window since our partial solar eclipse! This is because while the Sun was being eclipsed at that time, it was still pretty far from the South node doing the eclipsing. It has been moving ever closer to Ketu, and passing right over it this past weekend, with its serpentine tail stabbing right into the heart of our power. This can look like power shortages, or resets, phones, computers and other electronics shorting, powerful entities and establishments being eclipsed, and certainly we are each being given very old lessons on how we hold our own innate sense of power, particularly in the context of relationships with others. This can also feel a lot like being powerless, which can actually be a beautiful surrender if we allow it to be.

The Moon will be directly across from our Sun at 1:02 am HT (3:02 am PST) but the eclipse itself will last from 10:02 pm HT November 7th until -1:56 am HT November 8th (12:02 am-3:56 am Nov 8th PDT), so we will definitely be seeing it here in Hawaii! It is called a Blood Moon because of the red color it takes on at the height of the eclipse, which is at 12:59 am HT. How fitting that this Moon is in Bharani, the star that is ruled by the god of death, Yama, who brings souls out of this life, and symbolized by the yoni, the portal through which life passes into this world. It can get bloody indeed! This star requires the utmost control as here we must bear the consequences of anything we create. This is problematic, as Rahu the North Node doing the eclipsing has an airy and dispersive quality that sprays our energy out into many different directions. Since the Moon is our mind and emotions, and therefore the creator of our very reality, we can imagine how this might look! Pranayama, breath control practices can be helpful here, as well as safe outlets for creativity like art, dance and music.

While Ketu is finding exactly the malfunctioning source of our power in Libra, Rahu is obsessing over our emotions in Aries. The South node implodes where we have not been looking, the North node explodes the place we have been fixating on. The magnification can cause quite a lot of delusion, particularly if you haven’t been doing the work to really see what are the ways in which you compromise with others. Some of us over-compromise and have trouble getting our own needs met. Some of us do whatever we want to and have trouble seeing how it affects others. If you are prone to selfish or self-centered behavior, then this entire eclipse portal is a wake up call that others are not going to take it anymore. If you give in too much and sacrifice your true feelings and needs to be liked, well, you may recognize that this is not the answer either as your needs continue to not get met.

Full Moons take us on a swing of the pendulum in any given New Moon cycle, shining light on the opposite of what we have been doing in that cycle. In this case, with the nodes involved, we have activated an area of life that we were actively trying to avoid since March 2022. The Full Moon is highlighting where we have been choosing to put our energy instead this whole time. The close proximity to Rahu is going to cause us to see things very different from how they actually are. The nodes are illusory, Chaya Graha (shadow planets) that can be very powerful messengers from the past and future if we maintain a clear state of consciousness but regardless, they are never completely at home in this reality. Be mindful of your emotions and allowing them to carry you to conclusions. The focus on Self here can really undermine your relationships with others. If you do not know what area of your life Rahu and Ketu are transiting right now, please sign up for my email list in the top right corner (or in the pop-up window) and receive your FREE report: “Rahu in Aries, Ketu in Libra for all 12 Signs”. This will tell you exactly what houses are “up” for you in this eclipse, so you can better navigate the energies. You will also receive 3 other helpful transit reports, specific to YOU and your sign!

We have Mercury in almost exact degrees with the Sun right now, so we may be experiencing communication difficulties; feeling unheard, lapses in communication and forms of technology malfunctioning. It is also near Ketu, so if we focus on the heart of what we are trying to communicate it can be quite precise, even if we do not feel that those in positions of power over us are hearing us. Venus is also here, in her own sign and helping our debilitated Sun use friendliness and grace to naviagate our feelings of powerlessness, instead of getting triggered. We really have an opportunity to bring an internal drishti (gaze) to our patterns and habits around how we use communication in relationships, especially in regards to our perceived lack of power. Saturn is giving his one way dristhi to this stellium in Libra, also in close degrees, particularly to Venus and he is also in his own sign, so we are being reminded to stay the course in our relationships, be committed, humble and willing to do the hard work. We are also being reminded of the ways in which our relationships help us with our status and recognition and holding appropriate fear that our harsh words or disgust with others can cause real damage in our lives. This is important, because otherwise, we may get so obsessed with our own feelings that we burn bridges we may still need to cross.

With Mars Retrograde still barely in Gemini until Nov 13th, and joined the Moon exactly on November 11th, we need to be careful that past anger doesn’t agitate our mental state too much. Between Ketu on Mercury, and the Sun and this Mars, there is a lot of past resentment and disgust that can surface in our communication if we are not mindful. It is important to take deep breaths before you speak…and learn to take ownership and apologize if you lose control and go too far. Singing is one of the best ways to bridge the heart and the throat chakras and may be the best remedy for this particular alignment. Prayer and mantra too. This can be a great learning moment for us all, if we allow it to be.

May peace be with you and around you and especially within you!
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